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   Graffiti A Sign of Cultural Decay
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Tom McLaughlin 
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As Predicted – Mueller Will Not Testify Alone – Handler Aaron Zebley Now Added
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 by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The schemes of liar-Nancy Pulosi, scumbag-Adam Schiff and scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler are predictable. As we said three months ago, Robert Mueller would not be allowed to testify without a handler... Small group participant Aaron Zebly will now join Mueller for his testimony.  This has always been the plan, but strategically announced today. Remember, Mueller’s team is working closely with scumbag liar-Nadler’s team; they are part of the same purpose. They are all part of the same network. The impeachment objective is a group effort from inside government & outside Lawfare. These are not separate groups. The pre-planning was why Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler hired Lawfare Group members to become committee staff. Chairman scumbag-Schiff hired former SDNY U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman, and Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler hired scumbag/liar -nObama administration lawyer Norm Eisen and criminal defense attorney Barry Berke.  All these participants are within the Lawfare network. Aaron Zebly is just another key player in the coordinated group. Former special counsel Robert Mueller has made a last-minute request to have one of his longtime aides appear as a witness during his highly-anticipated testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, one congressional source told NBC News on Tuesday. Mueller has requested that Aaron Zebley appear with him when he testifies on Wednesday about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and collusion and obstruction by President Donald Trump...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/23/as-predicted-mueller-will-not-testify-alone-handler-aaron-zebley-now-added/   
Mueller asked Barr for Letter 
Outlining Testimony Restrictions
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by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The media has been apoplectic in selling outrage over the U.S. Department of Justice sending a letter to Robert Mueller with guidelines for his testimony... House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler appeared on morning TV shows today to decry the hubris of the letter calling it “incredibly arrogant” of Bill Barr to send such instructions. However, in the background, for those who watch these manufactured events, you can see that everything around this “letter” was staged.  Everything around this letter was intentionally designed by the Lawfare group; which includes scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler’s staff.  Yes, it is revealed today…. the Lawfare staff of Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler -who are coordinating with Mueller’s staff- requested the letter to set-up a manufactured narrative before the testimony. Essentially, team scumbag liar-Nadler and team Mueller requested the letter, so that swcumbag liar-Nadler could decry it. That’s the textbook definition of manufacturing outrage: House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler said Mueller did not need to follow the instructions contained in the letter. “He does not have to comply with that letter. He doesn’t work for them. And that letter asks things that are beyond the power of the agency to ask even if he still worked for them,” scumbag liar-Nadler said in a CNN interview. “I think it’s incredibly arrogant of the department to try to instruct him in what to say,” scumbag liar-Nadler added. “It’s part of the ongoing cover-up by the administration to keep information away from the American people.”...scumbag liar-Nadler is full of you know what is a big fat liar.
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Ramifications of Social Security 2100 Act for 
Program Participants Would Be Substantial
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By Charles Blahous
cnsnews.com } ~ Advocates of Social Security expansion have declared their intention to move the “Social Security 2100 Act” through the House of Representatives before August recess... The bill, introduced by Rep. John Larson (D., Conn.), has more than 200 co-sponsors. Its sponsors deserve credit for putting forth a comprehensive Social Security plan that is specific, scored by the Social Security Administration Chief Actuary and, though it contains elements clearly designed to appeal to certain ideological and special interests, also doesn’t shy away from difficult policy and political choices. But even granting this credit to the legislation’s sponsors, the bill nevertheless reflects highly controversial positions with respect to a number of serious policy challenges facing Social Security. Rather than debate the subjective value judgments made in the legislation, this article presents key facts and figures that highlight some of its problematic features. #1: Low-income workers’ payroll tax burdens would rise 19 percent. In order to fund its significant benefit expansion, the Social Security 2100 Act would increase payroll taxes on all U.S. workers, including the poorest ones. While many low-income American workers pay no federal income taxes, they nevertheless do pay payroll taxes. The Social Security tax rate would gradually rise over several years from 12.4 percent to 14.8 percent, which when fully phased in would represent a 19% increase in low-income workers’ payroll tax burdens. #2: Real (inflation-adjusted) benefits for high-income workers would be 66 percent higher by mid-century. Much of the bill’s tax increase on low-income workers would be spent on higher benefits for richer ones. Initial Social Security benefit levels already grow faster than price inflation because of an indexing mechanism in current law. The legislation would accelerate this benefit growth, doing so especially rapidly for the highest-income beneficiaries. This can be illustrated via the example of a high-income worker with earnings consistently at twice the Social Security taxable maximum an annual earnings level of about $266,000 today. Under current-law, benefits for a retiree in 2050 with earnings of twice the current-law taxable maximum are scheduled to be a full 51 percent higher than what’s paid to today’s high-income retiree, adjusted for inflation. Most mainstream analysts believe that this benefit growth needs to be moderated, at least for higher-income workers, to protect Social Security’s finances. But the bill would actually increase this growth still further, to 66 percent by 2050. #3: Total Social Security payroll tax burdens would rise by over 40 percent. Under current law, one substantial cost of employment is the 12.4 percent Social Security payroll tax assessed up to a maximum of $132,900 of a worker’s earnings. This cap is statutorily indexed to grow in most years. The bill would gradually increase the Social Security payroll tax rate to 14.8 percent as well as eventually eliminate the cap. These two effects together would increase total Social Security payroll tax burdens nationally by over 40 percent. This would also increase the total Social Security plus Medicare payroll tax rate from its current 15.3 percent to 17.7 percent. #4: Retirement benefits for the lowest-income quintile of workers would exceed 95 percent of their prior earnings. #5: Social Security payroll tax burdens for high-income workers would be multiplied 2.4 times. #6: Errors under the bill’s proposed method for measuring price inflation would cause benefit overpayments of over 10 percent relative to accurate calculations, mostly benefiting higher-income people who live longer. #7: Typical beneficiaries in mid-century would spend over 37 percent of their adult lives collecting Social Security benefits. #8: Young workers’ lifetime income would be reduced by more than 2 percent of their career earnings because of Social Security...
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Congress to Vote On Anti-BDS Resolution
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By ZACHARY LESHIN
jewishjournal.com } ~ The House of Representatives will hold a vote this week on a resolution to combat the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement... The resolution, H.R.246, unanimously passed the House Committee on Foreign Affairs by voice vote on July 18 as part of an en bloc package with several other pieces of legislation. Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was present during the markup hearing and stated she will not support the en bloc package the resolution was a part of, and left the committee room before the vote was held. The resolution states that the House of Representatives opposes the BDS movement; affirms that the BDS movement undermines the possibility for a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; urges Israelis and Palestinians to return to direct negotiations; supports the full implementation of the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014; and reaffirms support for the two-state solution. The resolution has been formally endorsed by the Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan caucus co-chaired by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Rep. Tom Reid (R-N.Y.). “BDS is anti-Israel, anti-peace and harmful to America’s interests,” Gottheimer said. “I’m proud that all members of the Problem Solvers Caucus are committed to opposing BDS and standing up for the U.S.-Israel relationship because these should not be partisan political issues. Thanks to the leadership of Congressmen Brad Schneider and Steve Watkins, this bipartisan resolution has even more momentum for a vote on the House floor.” “Israel is an unwavering ally of the United States and one of our most important strategic partners around the globe,” Reid said. “I am proud of our Problem Solvers Caucus members who have to stood up to ensure Jewish people are treated fairly and spoken out to show we care about this great nation.” Schneider is an Illinois Democrat and Watkins is a Kansas Republican. Other members of the Problem Solvers Caucus spoke about their support for the resolution as well. “This resolution makes clear that Congress continues to support preserving a path to a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with two peoples living side by side in peace, security and prosperity,” said Schneider, who introduced the resolution. “Towards that end, we also oppose the global BDS movement, which seeks to delegitimize the state of Israel by denying the Jewish people’s claim to a homeland. I appreciate the support of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus for this resolution and stand with my colleagues against efforts to push further out of reach a two-state solution and peace for both Israel and the Palestinians.”...
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CAIR Leader's Consequence-Free Anti-Semitism
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by Steven Emerson
investigativeproject.org } ~ He's a public figure who repeatedly preaches about the evil done by Jews. They're accursed, he said last month, justifying the claim with scripture. They incurred God's justifiable wrath, he said in 2012, also citing scripture... And today, he argues that the Jewish state is partly to blame when American police officers kill unarmed black people. It might sound like Louis Farrakhan, but it's not. It's not even someone generally regarded as a fringe character. These blatantly anti-Semitic statements come from Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Michigan office. He's also an assistant imam at Detroit's Masjid Wali Muhammad. In a June 21 khutbah, or sermon, Walid rails against sexual immorality, particularly adultery, sodomy, and lesbianism, saying that "even us here in this society that is majority non-Muslim, if we want to protect the society, to help the society be healthy, then we have to be involved in promoting that which is just and wholesome and forbid that which is unjust and not wholesome." That sounds like a call to prohibit homosexuality. Societies which "openly promote sin" lose Allah's favor, he said. "Allah will not change a condition of a people until they change what is inside of themselves." Jews provided his historical examples. "Beni Israel" – the children of Israel – "invoked a punishment upon themselves for giving this up," he said. He quoted Quran 5:78: "Cursed were those who disbelieved among the Children of Israel by the tongue of David and of Jesus, the son of Mary." "So they were specifically cursed, meaning Allah's mercy was withheld from them because they saw the injustice, they saw the anti-social behavior, they saw the lewdness, and they just were complacent," Walid said. "They were cool with it. They didn't speak out against it. They allowed it to become part of the status quo."...
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City of Champaign Appoints Notorious
Anti-Semitic Islamist to Anti-Discrimination Commission
by Sam Westrop
meforum.org } ~ When Deb Feinen, Mayor of Champaign, Illinois, suddenly and unexpectedly decided to replace one of the members of her city's Human Relations Commission... she cited the importance of "diversity" as the reason. Out went Kenton Elmore, an unquestionably white Commission member; and in came Ahmed Taha, an Egyptian immigrant and a prominent figure in the city's Muslim community. Elmore appeared to have been a popular member of the Human Relations Commission, and his abrupt removal left other members of the Commission a little unsettled. But the mayor said she felt the city was "underrepresenting the Muslim-American community." At a cursory glance, the decision to appoint Ahmed Taha made sense. Champaign has a significant Muslim community, and Ahmed Taha is a significant figure in that community. But just a slightly closer look would have found that he is significant for one thing more than anything else: his hatred of Jews. Taha's anti-Semitism is no secret, and has been written about before – mostly because of his involvement with two prominent Islamist organizations – the Muslim American Society, for which he runs the Champaign branch; and the Islamic Circle of North America, which is a proxy for Jamaat-e-Islami, a violent South Asian extremist movement. In 2013, Taha republished a photo on his Facebook page, ostensibly of a brutally killed Egyptian teenage boy, which was accompanied by the text: "O Muslim, O servant of God. There is a Jew behind me, come kill him." In March 2014, Taha shared a conspiracy theory by a far-Right website claiming that the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, was secretly Jewish. "Is that true?" Taha asked, "If yes, this is a castastroph [sic]." In October that year, he then posted a video supposedly exposing loose lips liar-Joe Biden as a "Zionist" and revealing the "Rothschild Zionism Secret Regime in America."...  https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/58999/city-of-champaign-appoints-anti-jewish-extremist?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=fda275a0e6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_23_05_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-fda275a0e6-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-fda275a0e6-33703665  
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Graffiti A Sign of Cultural Decay
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Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ It was a bad sign and disheartening to see. While strolling along the new, upper-cliff walk at Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth, Maine — one of my favorite places — I saw the graffiti. Park officials had cleared brush from a small level area and put in a picnic table surrounded by a semicircle of ten or twelve boulders rolled into place. Then some selfish, depraved individual came along with a can of red spray paint and defaced them.
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It’s an otherwise lovely spot in a stunningly beautiful park with views of Portland Head Light, the shipping channel to Portland Harbor, islands in Casco Bay, and the open Atlantic beyond. Now, however, anyone enjoying a picnic there is forced to look at undecipherable symbols on most of the boulders and a good old, “F*** You” on one of them. If I were a judge and the apprehended vandal came before me, I would force him it’s most likely a young male to sand off every bit of that red paint by hand, however long that takes, or go to jail for the maximum sentence.  
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Graffiti signals a deteriorating society, the cultural equivalent of a canary in a coal mine. It should be eradicated as soon as it is detected. To leave it is to invite more. I’d liken it to the “broken window theory” first put forth by George Kelling and James Wilson in a 1982 Atlantic article: “if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken.” It’s the same with graffiti. Leave it up and it will spread.  
 
I’ve witnessed the phenomenon over the past seven years driving up and down Portland, Maine’s Forest Avenue every week. Stuck in traffic, I’d stare at graffiti on buildings and rooftops. At first, property owners would hastily remove it either by sandblasting it off brick walls or painting over it on other surfaces. After a year or two, however, those efforts slowed down. Now it appears proprietors have given up and the contagion is getting out of control.  
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"Graffiti is Art, Not Vandalism" claims an article in the Temple University newspaper Temple News. The argument is ridiculous at best. Graffiti spoils someone else’s property. I’d liken it to a dog lifting his leg on a building to mark his territory. How would a genuine artist feel if he or she purchased a large canvas and a graffiti “artist” sprayed on it in the dark of night? If vandal “artists” won’t rent billboards, how about they walk around wearing a sandwich board to display their “art”? One commenter wrote: “Graffiti is filth, period. That is like saying I took an artistic dump on the sidewalk.”  
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In Rome four years ago I hired a guide to show us around the Eternal City. He pointed out endless fountains — repetitive, stone-carved, muscular nudes laying around displaying genitalia. We, especially my grandson and I, were more interested in historical sites like the Colosseum and the Vatican, but each day I would ask him his opinion of the graffiti we were seeing everywhere. “Oh, that’s art too,” he insisted. On the third day, we encountered old paintings under an archway defaced by someone with a spray can. Finally, he admitted, “That is sh*t!”  
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Guides are licensed by Italy’s government to comment only in certain ways, but our guide got so exasperated he finally ignored those constraints. Rome was bad, but Athens, Greece is by far the worst graffiti-ridden European city I’ve seen so far. It’s a rather ugly city anyway, apart from the Acropolis and a few other sites, and graffiti is epidemic. On that trip, I was part of a larger family group and didn’t want to rain on the parade by asking our guide about it — a lovely older woman named Dora. There was much less in the rest of Greece outside Athens which was amazingly beautiful.  
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The graffiti I saw at Fort Williams was fresh. Park officials there are very diligent and I hope they will have either painted the stones or replaced them by the time I return next weekend. The City of Portland is attempting to alleviate their problem by advising property owners, but I’m sad to report that it seems to be losing the battle.  
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Border Crisis Brings More Drugs Into U.S.
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Senate confirms Esper as new 
Secretary of Defense in 90-8 vote
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By Ronn Blitzer 
foxnews.com } ~ The Senate confirmed former Army Lt. Col. Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense Tuesday... making him the first permanent Pentagon boss since James Mattis resigned last December. Esper, who served 10 years on active duty and 11 years in the National Guard and Army Reserve, was Acting Secretary before his nomination, and Patrick Shanahan had been Acting Secretary prior to that. The vote was not close, with the Senate confirming Esper by a vote of 90-8. The no votes included 2020 Democratic presidential candidates scumbag-Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, lowlife-Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth dinky-Warren. dinky-Warren and Esper had a tense exchange during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, when she challenged his refusal to completely recuse himself from any and all matters related to Raytheon, the defense contractor for which he served as a lobbyist before joining the government. Esper said that ethics personnel told him not to fully recuse himself. Earlier in the hearing, he said he was "fully committed to living up to my ethics commitments” and would employ a “robust screening process” and “remain in constant contact with our ethics personnel.” On the day of that hearing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., lauded Esper, calling him "a man of honor and integrity, dedicated to our nation and committed to the men and women who serve in uniform."   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-confirms-esper-as-new-secretary-of-defense-in-90-8-vote  
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Giuliani shreds scumbag-de Blasio over videos 
of NYPD officers doused with water:
 ‘He’s a disgrace’
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By Ronn Blitzer 
foxnews.com } ~ Rudy Giuliani pointed the finger squarely at New York City Mayor scumbag-Bill de Blasio after videos surfaced Monday of people attacking NYPD officers by dousing them with water... saying this “would never happen in a million years when I was mayor of New York City.” Footage shows separate incidents of people in Harlem and Brooklyn using buckets to splash and dump water over uniformed officers, as the cops calmly walk away. scumbag-De Blasio condemned the acts as “Completely unacceptable,” and said, “We won’t tolerate this kind of disrespect.” Still, former mayor Giuliani believes the 2020 presidential candidate is part of the problem. “This is what happens with knee-jerk disrespect for police. It will only get worse until these Left wing idiots are defeated," Giuliani tweeted Tuesday morning, saying the current "disrespect for the uniform" is the "result of a Democrat-Progressive Retrogressive-Socialist Mayor." The former mayor had even stronger words Monday night on “The Ingraham Angle,” saying scumbag-de Blasio was “absolutely destroying the quality of life in this city.” Giuliani has criticized the mayor in the past over the increase in homelessness in New York City under scumbag-de Blasio’s administration. Giuliani was known for reducing the number of people living on the streets. “He’s a disgrace, and even Democrats don’t support him and are embarrassed of him,” Giuliani added, perhaps a reference to scumbag-de Blasio’s low poll numbers as he campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination...
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3 Things You Need To Know 
About ‘Surprise’ Medical Bills 
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By Christopher Jacobs
thefederalist.com } ~ In recent months, lawmakers in Washington have focused on “surprise” medical bills. In large part, this term refers to two types of incidents... 1) individuals who received pre-arranged treatment at an in-network hospital, but saw an out-of-network physician e.g., anesthesiologist during their stay, or 2) individuals who had to seek care at an out-of-network hospital during a medical emergency. In both cases, the out-of-network providers can “balance bill” patients—that is, send them an invoice for the difference between an insurer’s in-network payment and what the physician actually charged. Because these bills can become quite substantial, and because patients do not have a meaningful opportunity to consent to the higher charges—many patients never meet their anesthesiologist until the day of surgery, and few people can investigate hospital networks during an ambulance ride to the ER—policy-makers see reason to intervene. However, the knee-jerk solutions currently under consideration in Congress seem ill-suited to the scope of the problem and could lead to unintended consequences, as many government interventions in health care do. Herewith three important factors to bear in mind during this debate. 1. Few Hospitals Comprise Most of the ‘Surprise’ Incidents. As a chart from The New York Times demonstrates, most hospitals had zero, or close to zero, out-of-network emergency room bills in 2015, according to a study by three Yale University professors: Surprise” bills applied in 22 percent of ER visits, but as a Times reporter noted, they are “not happening to some random set of patients in every hospital. They’re happening to a large percentage of patients in certain hospitals.” The problem of “surprise” bills largely occurs when hospitals decide to outsource their emergency room physicians or anesthesiologists to physician staffing services. Those staffing services see no reason to contract with insurer networks. Because their patients are largely a captive audience and have little ability to decline treatment at the time of service, the staffing services can obtain higher payments by remaining out-of-network and billing patients for the difference after-the-fact. As noted above, most hospitals don’t have this problem, because they keep their ER physicians and other doctors in-network. Unfortunately, however, the one-quarter or so of hospitals that have not forced their physicians in-network have made life difficult for the rest of the hospital sector. The hospital industry should have done a much better job of policing itself and weeded out these “bad actors” years ago. Had they done so, the number of “surprise” bills likely would not have risen to a level where federal lawmakers demand action. However, the fact that these incidents still only occur in a minority of hospitals suggests reason for continued caution—because why should Congress impose a far-reaching solution to a “problem” that doesn’t affect most hospitals? 2. The Federal Government Has Little Reason to Intervene 3. Some Republicans Support Socialistic Price Controls A Spoonful of Socialism, Anyone?
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European Union: A Massive Expansion 
of Top-down Powers
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by Soeren Kern
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Former German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has been narrowly confirmed as the next President of the European Commission... the powerful administrative arm of the European Union. In a secret ballot in the European Parliament on July 16, von der Leyen, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, received 383 votes, only nine more than the 374 required — the lowest margin since the position of President was established in 1958. She will take over from Jean-Claude Junker in November 2019 for a five-year term. Before the vote, von der Leyen promised an ambitious left-leaning policy program on climate change, taxes, migration and the rule of law. Many of her pledges — which would require transferring yet more national sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels — appeared aimed at enticing support for her candidacy from Greens and Socialists in the European Parliament. In the final vote, however, the Socialists were  divided in their support for von der Leyen and the Greens formally opposed her. Interestingly, von der Leyen won with the support of eurosceptics in Central and Eastern Europe after she publicly criticized the way the EU has treated them due to their opposition to mass migration. In the past, von der Leyen has called for the creation of a European superstate: "My aim is the United States of Europe on the model of federal states such as Switzerland, Germany or the United States," she said in an August 2011 interview with the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. More recently, however, she appeared to scale back her ambitions: she said  that her dream of a federalized EU had become "more mature and more realistic." In comments apparently aimed at appeasing Central and Eastern Europe, she added: "In the European Union, there is unity in diversity. That is different from federalism. I think that is the right way."...
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Stupid Politically Correct Decisions 
from Our Public Schools
By John Kinsellagh
americanthinker.com } ~ There has been a concerted attempt over the past several years by progressive teachers and school administrators to unilaterally make decisions about eradicating vestiges of our culture, because they alone have determined that these symbols or icons of the past may be offensive to others...This disconcerting practice by progressive vanguards has become more prevalent and absurd, the latest example manifested in sicko-Colin Kaepernick's suddenly taking offense at Nike's use of a Betsy Ross colonial flag emblem on one of its shoe models. Recently, the San Francisco School Board voted to remove a mural of George Washington at one of its public schools because they divined it racist and degrading for its depiction of black Americans and American Indians. The rationale offered for the mural's removal is instructive, as it reveals not only the pernicious nature of the identity politics underpinnings of modern-day progressivism, but also the inevitable censorship practices that logically flow from a philosophy that views America as an irredeemably racist country. Here is the justification offered by vice president of the school board and third-grade teacher Mark Sanchez for ridding the school of the image of the nation's founding father, without consulting the student body, parents, or other members of the community. Sanchez claimed that students who must walk past the mural during the school day don't have a choice about seeing the harmful images. "Painting it over represents not only a symbolic fresh start, but a real fresh start," he said. A question arises: how many students told Sanchez the image of George Washington that has adorned the school for 83 years was harmful? In a progressive world, the question answers itself: there is no need to demonstrate any actual harm sustained by any students. For identity-politics progressives, all that is needed for the whimsical exercise of their notion of social justice is the mere likelihood — however remote — that the historical image could cause harm, if not in the present, then in the indeterminate future or, perhaps, for students not yet born. For Sanchez, "the starting point has to be from those who feel they are harmed and how that is unacceptable, especially given the history of this country.  When we don't listen, we don't learn." If only one student is offended by the image, for progressives, that is a sufficient reason to spend $600,000 of the taxpayers' money to remedy the injury by extirpating the historical image of George Washington.  Other instances of this type of monumental progressive silliness abound...
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Border Crisis Brings More Drugs Into U.S.
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Political Editors:  One of the consequences of the political fight over the border crisis has been a significant increase of illicit drugs pouring into the country. With Border Patrol agents swamped in their efforts to contain and process the massive numbers of migrants illegally crossing the U.S. southern border, the drug cartels have taken advantage.

The Washington Examiner reports, “Border Patrol highway checkpoints in the southern New Mexico region that normally seize seven figures worth of drugs annually have not seized a dollar in nearly four months after being shuttered in late March, allowing drugs to flood into the country. Meantime, with the added supply, prices for illicit drugs are dropping precipitously.”

The Examiner further reports, “Officials have also noted upticks in methamphetamine and fentanyl seizures since March. [Otero County, New Mexico, Sheriff David] Black said the cost of a pound of meth has been slashed in half since then, from $4,700 when the checkpoints first closed to $2,500 by late June. The price dropped because the market is saturated.”

Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin explained, “With our checkpoints being closed down, there’s no secondary measure of defense, and [drug traffickers] got a green light to take drugs right into the heart of America.” Police officials noted that fewer seizures generally mean that more drugs are coming in. And the impact of increasing amounts of illicit drugs in the U.S. leads to increased rates of crime, drug addiction, and homelessness.

But hey, open borders — what could go wrong?  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64371?mailing_id=4430&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4430&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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America: Love It or Leave It (Again)
Cal Thomas  

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Trump: Iran Did Not Capture
American CIA Agents
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by Adam Kredo 
freebeacon.com } ~ President Donald Trump on Monday categorically denied reports that Iran had captured 17 supposed CIA agents... whom the Islamic Republic accused of spying on the country. Iranian leaders claimed they had captured the CIA agents last year and had been holding them in detention. Iran says that it is poised to execute the alleged spies, who also were accused of exhibiting techniques meant to resist interrogation. Trump quickly dismissed the reports, telling reporters this is yet another attempt by Iran to disseminate propaganda aimed at distracting from the country's ongoing support of regional terror operations. The claim comes as the U.S. and Iran exchange salvos in a proxy battle in the Persian Gulf that threatens to ignite a full-blown war between the two countries. "They lie a lot," Trump said at the White House. The president pointed to the recent downing of an Iranian drone by U.S. forces, which Iran denied had even taken place. "We took down one of their drones. They say that doesn't happen. There's a lot of proof," Trump said. "It's called take a look at it on the ocean floor. Take your scuba gear and go down."  Addressing the reports of imprisoned CIA agents, Trump said, "that's a totally false story." "That's another lie. They put out propaganda. They put out lies," Trump said. "Let's see what happens with Iran. We are ready for the absolute worst and we are ready for sense, too. … They are really the number one state of terror in the world. I have to say they pulled back because their money is running really low." The CIA declined to comment on the reports when asked Monday by the Washington Free Beacon. The reports have been denied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-iran-did-not-capture-american-cia-agents/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7dc25ac9ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_22_08_30_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7dc25ac9ef-45611665  
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John Solomon Outlines More Documented 
DOJ Corruption by Special Counsel 
Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann
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by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ John Solomon has an interesting report at The Hill documenting the special counsel attempting to leverage a Russian oligarch to deliver false testimony for their fabricated case against Donald Trump...  What Solomon outlines is gross prosecutor misconduct.The basic elements of the construct are described in the first two minutes of this radio interview video.
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Trump announces 'real compromise' on budget 
deal, as fiscal hawks and some Dems cry foul
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By Gregg Re 
foxnews.com } ~ The Trump administration and congressional leaders, including Democrats, have reached a critical debt and budget agreement that all but eliminates the risk of another government shut down this fall... but that has already drawn fierce blowback from fiscal conservatives worried about overspending, as well as progressives unhappy with where the money could go. The deal announced Monday evening, which requires congressional approval, would increase spending caps by $320 billion relative to the limits prescribed in the 2011 Budget Control Act, whose spending-control provisions have been repeatedly waived since 2014. It also would suspend the debt ceiling and permit more government borrowing until July 31, 2021 -- after the next presidential election. The compromise reportedly outraged Democrat Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who noted the bill would not block Trump from spending money on his proposed border wall. "I'm worried the House is willing to give him far too much discretion to take money and move it anywhere he wants including a wall," Leahy, D-Vt., told The Washington Post. "So the way it is now I will not vote for it. . . . The other 99 can vote for it, I won’t." However, in a statement, Leahy later said he would "support the bill" because it "will raise the debt limit for the next two years and stave off economic catastrophe" and reverse "unsustainable cuts in non-defense discretionary spending." Leahy added, "I understand there is a statement of principles between congressional leaders and the White House, and I have many concerns with its content." In the end, domestic programs would on average receive 4-percent increases in the first year of the pact, with much of those gains eaten up by veterans increases and an unavoidable surge for the U.S. Census. Defense would jump to $738 billion next year, a 3-percent hike...
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Justice Department tells Mueller his House 
testimony 'must remain within the 
boundaries' of public report
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By Liam Quinn and Jake Gibson  
foxnews.com } ~ A Justice Department official told former Special Counsel Robert Mueller that his upcoming testimony to House lawmakers "must remain within the boundaries" of the public, redacted version of his report... in a letter obtained by Fox News on Monday evening. The letter, obtained exclusively by Fox News, signed by Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer, states: “Dear Mr. Mueller: I write in response to your July 10, 2019 letter concerning the testimonial subpoenas you received from the House Judiciary Committee (HJC) and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). “Your letter requests that the Department provide you with guidance concerning privilege or other legal bars applicable to potential testimony in connection with those subpoenas." After stating the decision to testify is Mueller's to make, the letter continues: "But the Department agrees with your stated position that your testimony should be unnecessary under the circumstances. The Department generally does not permit prosecutors such as you to appear and testify before Congress regarding their investigative and prosecutorial activity. "In addition, the Department already has taken the extraordinary steps to make almost your entire report, as well as a substantial volume of your underlying investigative material, available to the committees. "Should you testify, the Department understands that testimony regarding the work of the Special Counsel's Office will be governed by the terms you outlined on May 29 -- specifically, that the information you discuss during your testimony appears in, and does "not go beyond," the public version of your March 22, 2019 report to the Attorney General or your May 29 public statement." It continued: "Finally, any testimony must remain within the boundaries of your public report because matters within the scope of your investigation were covered by the executive privilege, including information protected by law enforcement, deliberative process, attorney work product, and presidential communications privileges...
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Green Activists With Ties to China Advised scumbag/liar-nObama State Department
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by Kevin Mooney 
freebeacon.com } ~ The Natural Resources Defense Council held close ties to the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, providing advice on joining the Paris Agreement while simultaneously maintaining ties to China... according to attorneys and policy analysts who have reviewed email records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. While many of the emails are heavily redacted, they provide insight into how the NRDC, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, and its close associates in Beijing, sought to maneuver the United States into an international climate change accord that has all the "hallmarks of a treaty" without the "advice and consent" of the Senate, Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, explained in an interview. The United Nations' Paris Agreement, which took shape in December 2015, figures prominently in emails between Jake Schmidt, the NRDC’s director of international programs, and several State Department officials including Todd Stern, who was a special envoy for climate change at the time of his correspondence with Schmidt in 2014 and 2015. Cohen calls the agreement "an instrument to redistribute wealth, through higher energy prices, from middle- and lower-income people to well-heeled renewable-energy providers and investors in developed countries, while spreading some largesse to elites in poorer countries via the U.N.'s Green Climate Fund." President scumbag/liar-nObama took executive action to have the United States become part of the international agreement in September 2016, which requires participating countries to establish their own "nationally determined contributions" toward what the U.N. describes as a "global response to the threat of climate change." The nationally determined contributions (NDCs) detail how much each country plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. In June 2017, President Trump announced during a White House ceremony that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The president said the treaty was unfair to American workers and taxpayers... People who believed on this green deal have been fooled and mislead and scumbag/liar-nObama knew it.
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America: Love It or Leave It (Again)

Cal Thomas
 

The phrase “America, Love It or Leave It” has a pedigree dating back at least to the McCarthy Era. In the ‘70s, the phrase was employed again against those protesting America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The left has its own version, vowing to leave the country if a Republican is elected president. They rarely do.

On Monday, President Trump resurrected the phrase as he again publicly slammed four freshman congresswomen for their criticism of the United States and his policies. He suggested they “go back where you came from,” though they are all American citizens.

Whatever one thinks of the president’s remarks — the predictable “racist” charge was leveled at him because the four are women of color and two are Muslim — the president is setting Democrats up for what could be a major defeat in the 2020 election by forcing them to embrace (probably) these people and their statements, thus causing further fallout within the party, or denounce them (unlikely) and risk electoral harm. It’s a lose-lose for Democrats.

AXIOS, a nonpartisan news and information company, shared the results of a small, exclusive poll taken in May of a “crucial group of swing voters.” Respondents, “1,003 likely general-election voters who are white and have two years or less of college education” put their approval of commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, worthless-Ilhan Omar, worthless-Rashida Tlaib and worthless-Ayanna Pressley in low double or single digits.

Only last week did Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi, discussing the congresswomen’s opposition to the emergency border aid bill — a bill the leadership supported — seem to dismiss them in an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, “They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.” After the president’s comments Monday, liar-Pulosi felt obligated to defend the four congresswomen, but that may come at a cost.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) took things a step too far when he called the four “anti-America” communists on “Fox and Friends,” another throwback to the McCarthy Era, which Graham has previously denounced.

Still, this is likely to play well with people who believe too many politicians spend most of their time criticizing America instead of defending it.

The four congresswomen have been critical of the nation they were elected to serve and some have even made anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements.

The left swims in a deep sea of hypocrisy when it uses buzzwords like “diversity” and “racism.” A recent example was in Monday’s Washington Times. The newspaper reported that congressional Democrats are opposing four “people of color” nominated to federal courts by President Trump. If a Democratic president had nominated these people and Republicans opposed them, is there any doubt the “racist” slur would be hurled at them?

Still, Sen. Graham was right when he also said it would be helpful if the president would “aim higher” and speak of their policies, rather than engaging in personal attacks. But their hatred for Israel and anti-America statements ARE their policies. Graham is correct in this sense: President Trump has the issues on his side. He is winning on things most people care about, especially the economy. Yes, he frequently touts successes, but they are often overshadowed by his personal attacks.

Winning an argument is better than winning a fight. Winning the argument proves your policies are correct. Winning a fight proves nothing, except who is able to beat up another person. It does not advance an agenda.

There is no excuse for calling detention centers “concentration camps” and likening the Border Patrol to Nazi prison guards, especially since the four freshmen and other Democrats have the power to fix the migrant crisis, but won’t because it appears they prefer having the issue to batter Republicans.

If this keeps up, House Democrats who defend such outrageous statements are likely to find themselves in the minority again. Many Americans are fed-up with hearing this stuff and are likely to take revenge at the polls.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64351?mailing_id=4428&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4428&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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Defund Lutherans for Open Borders Now!
Michelle Malkin  
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Tuesday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  News From the Swamp


POLITICS AND MONEY: “The Trump administration and congressional leaders, including Democrats, have reached a critical debt and budget agreement that all but eliminates the risk of another government shut down this fall — but that has already drawn fierce blowback from fiscal conservatives worried about overspending, as well as progressives unhappy with where the money could go,” Fox News reports. Assuming Congress passes the budget agreement, spending caps will climb by $320 billion and the debt ceiling will be shelved through July 31, 2021. From Sen. Rand Paul’s point of view, “It scraps the sequester, which is a huge mistake. It would be a huge mistake if the Republican leadership agrees to this.”

MASSIVE DEREGULATION: Conversely, there’s an interesting juxtaposition between the budget agreement and the Trump administration’s deregulation enterprise. According to the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard, “When Donald Trump in 2016 pledged to kill two scumbag/liar-nObama-era regulations for every new one, crowds went wild. … And now as he opens his reelection campaign, Russ Vought, acting budget office director, has delivered the results sure to win even more rally cheers. ‘We’ve hit 13 to 1,’ he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion.” John Hinderaker observes, “Lower taxes are good, definitely, but over-regulation is just as important a problem. … Cutting regulations is one area where the Trump administration has succeeded beyond any reasonable expectation.”

scumbag-COMEY’S COVERT OPERATION: “According to RealClearInvestigations, a soon-to-be-filed report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz alleges that former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey ‘was secretly trying to build a conspiracy case against the president, while at times acting as an investigative agent.’ … [Paul] Sperry cites two U.S. officials briefed on the IG’s investigation into possible FBI misconduct who say the former director was effectively ‘running a covert operation against’ Trump, which started with a ‘defenseive briefing’ he privately gave Trump a few weeks before his inauguration.” (The Daily Wire)

FOOD-STAMP REFORM: “The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed a rule to tighten food stamp eligibility that would cut about 3.1 million people from the program, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials said.” (Reuters)

On the Immigration Front


THE GOOD… “Homeland Security announced an aggressive new policy Monday to fast-track deportations of recent immigrants caught in the living in the U.S. illegally, looking to expand a tool that’s been used successfully at the border for years. Expedited removal allows immigration officers to order a deportation without the extensive immigration court proceedings and appeals that accompany other removals.” (The Washington Times)

THE BAD… “The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled against the Trump administration’s policy allowing for the indefinite detention of certain asylum-seekers, saying a lower court ruling temporarily blocking it can remain in place.” (The Hill)

AND THE UGLY: “As of April 16, 2019, nine states including California, Illinois, and New Jersey claim to be Sanctuary States, while numerous counties and cities in other states also say they will protect illegal immigrants by refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Monday, Montgomery County, Maryland’s largest county, officially joins the list. County Executive Marc Elrich will sign an executive order … that will keep the area from cooperating with ICE, even though the policy has been unofficially on the books for some time.” (The Daily Wire)

Polling


TRUMP APPROVAL IMPROVES: “Trump’s approval rating hit 44 percent in the new NPR/NewsHour/Marist poll, the highest level at which it’s been recorded in any mainstream opinion poll with the exception of a July 7 Washington Post poll that recorded 47 percent approval.” (National Review)

OPEN-BORDERS BUZZKILL: Even most Democrats don’t support decriminalizing border crossings, poll finds (The Week)

Other Notables


JOHNSON WINS: “Britain’s next Prime Minister will be Boris Johnson after he won a ballot vote of Conservative Party members against Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, it was announced Tuesday. … He will replace outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May Wednesday after she announced her resignation last month amid failure to lead the nation out of the European Union.” (Fox News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: New budget deal puts final nail in the Tea Party coffin (National Review)

POLICY: Contrary to the popular narrative, most American prisoners belong behind bars (City Journal)

SATIRE: New York Times praises Soviet Union for unprecedented gender equality in labor camps (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64460?mailing_id=4436&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4436&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
There’s A Full-Fledged Fight Over The 
Wall Going On In The Supreme Court
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dailycaller.com } ~ Environmental groups and House Democrats urged the Supreme Court not to disturb a lower court order blocking the reallocation of military funds for border wall projects...  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to put that ruling on hold while litigation continues July 12. Granting that request — called a stay — would give the government an irreversible victory, a coalition of environmentalists led by the Sierra Club warned. “If a stay is granted and wall construction begins, there will be no turning back,” the green groups told the justices in court papers. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam barred the administration from using $2.5 billion in military funds for border wall construction. The trial court’s injunctions stalled border barrier construction projects in Arizona and New Mexico. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the administration’s request to stay Gilliam’s ruling while litigation continued by a 2-1 vote July 3. The government filed a stay application with the Supreme Court on July 12. Stays are supposed to preserve the status quo among litigants while a lawsuit proceeds through court. If the justices grant the administration’s request, the government can begin construction on several border wall projects the courts may never be able to undo. That is exactly the sort of outcome stays mean to prevent, the Sierra Club said. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) represents the Sierra Club before the high court. “By essentially handing defendants an irrevocable victory, a stay would accomplish the opposite of a stay’s proper purpose: providing interim relief to allow for considered review,” the green groups wrote...
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Maine and Nevada Show Why the Electoral
College Helps Small States, Not Red States
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by Hans von Spakovsky
dailysignal.com } ~ Last month, both Maine and Nevada did what was in the best interests of their states... They rejected bills that would have enrolled their states in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an unwise effort to override the Electoral College.  In Maine, it was killed by legislators in the state House after it passed Maine’s Senate. In Nevada, Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak vetoed the bill that had been passed by members of his own party in the Legislature. The National Popular Vote compact, which is an agreement between states, requires a participating state to award all of its electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes across the nation, not to the candidate who actually won the vote in that state. In other words, states are agreeing to ignore what the majority of voters in their state decides when it comes to who they believe should be president. This interstate compact has been sold to state governments as a means to abolish what supporters wrongly claim is the “outmoded, undemocratic Electoral College.”  What is “undemocratic” is an agreement that means that even if every single voter in a state voted against a presidential candidate who won the national popular vote, the state would still have to give all its electoral votes to that candidate...
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The Hamas-Iran Plan to Eliminate Israel
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by Bassam Tawil
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Has Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that rules the Gaza Strip, finally accepted the two-state solution and abandoned its objective to destroy Israel?.. The headlines in some Arab media outlets on July 20 created the impression that Hamas has changed its policy and is no longer seeking the annihilation of Israel. More remarkably, the headlines made it seem as if Hamas were presenting a new plan for peace with Israel. Quoting statements by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, several Arab media organizations ran headlines implying that the terror group now favors the two-state solution. "Hamas does not oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders," the headlines shouted. Haniyeh reportedly made his statements during a video conference interview with Turkish journalists in Istanbul. The interview was organized by a group called the Palestinian Forum for Communication and Media, which describes itself as an "independent media organization aiming to enhance coordination between Arab and international media organizations to support the Palestinian cause." Although the initial impression created by Haniyeh's statements suggest a dramatic shift in Hamas's policy – from seeking the destruction of Israel to accepting the two-state solution – it quickly becomes clear from reading the rest of his remarks that there is no change in the terror group's strategy or ideology. Haniyeh carefully clarified that accepting a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 "borders" does not mean that Hamas would recognize Israel's right to exist. "Hamas is not opposed to the establishment of a state on the 1967 borders, but insists on not recognizing the Israeli occupation of the rest of the Palestinian territories," the Hamas leader is quoted as telling the Turkish journalists. Haniyeh, to his credit, was more honest that the editors who chose the misleading headlines suggesting that Hamas has accepted the two-state solution...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14575/hamas-iran-eliminate-israel   
Socialism 101: Myths and Realities
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by Rob Bluey
dailysignal.com } ~ Young people across America are increasingly embracing socialism. A cloud of misinformation has led many Americans to think socialism is something it is not—a good system of government... The Daily Signal recently interviewed Chris Wright, founder and president of the Anticommunism Action Team, to debunk the myths about socialism. The full audio is below along with a lightly edited transcript. Rob Bluey: Chris, you joined us a few weeks ago, along with Jennifer Zeng and Darian Diachok, and we discussed their personal stories about growing up under communist and socialist regimes and their own experiences. It was truly captivating to hear their personal stories. But we wanted to have you back to talk more about the work that you’re doing, specifically the Anticommunism Action Team. Can you tell us about the organization, why you founded it and what it is you do? Chris Wright: In 2013, my Alexandria Tea Party had a big program and we had survivors of communism from various countries, along with Dr. Lee Edwards from The Heritage Foundation. We had a couple hundred people in attendance and from there, I went on to found the Anticommunism Action Team in 2014 to formalize the activity. In 2016, we added the speakers bureau, which Jennifer and Darian are part of. We have other speakers from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, other countries, Vietnam. And this year I’ve added a conference call. I’ve gathered together the best fighters against socialism in the country I could find, so I now have subject matter experts who are joining me in some of our presentations...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/22/socialism-101-myths-and-realities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=socialism-101-myths-and-realities&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpVNFpHWXhabVUwTURrMyIsInQiOiJVMDZjdlRIbDZqSW1XNmI4RXF0N2ljQzdWQTNacmJNSzFic29WK3JTM3BySHdxMWZHNk41THZRVzR3YnJWQjVHWUZHWHpMQVl6OGpFc2JVc2tSdXg0TjIzTVRWV0RueDVaNmh6MUxEWld1TnA0OW1yeXYzTlhhXC9wOUFJbEFvbHgifQ%3D%3D  
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Mueller investigation witness George Nader 
indicted on sex trafficking charges
By JESSICA CAMPISI
thehill.com } ~ George Nader, a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation with links to associates of President Trump... has been indicted on sex trafficking charges, according to multiple reports. The three-count indictment, unsealed on Friday in the Eastern District of Virginia, accuses the Lebanese American businessman of transporting a 14-year-old boy from Europe for sexual activity, The Washington Post reports. Nader, 60, has pleaded not guilty and is set to stand trial Sept. 30, the Post reported. Prosecutors allege that Nader brought the boy to the U.S. through Dulles International Airport and to his Washington home for sexual activity, the Post reported. He was denied bail by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who cited “the nature of the charges and his extensive overseas connections,” according to the newspaper. In initial charges filed earlier this year, authorities accused Nader of possessing child pornography when he arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport from Dubai in January 2018. The Justice Department said at the time that Nader pleaded guilty in 1991 to the same charge of transporting explicit images of minors...
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Defund Lutherans for Open Borders Now!

Michelle Malkin
 

If you were shocked by the images of the Mexican flag flying over an Aurora, Colorado, immigration detention center this weekend, you’ll be appalled at an even more disgusting spectacle:

One of the top promoters of the so-called Lights for Liberty nationwide protests by Trump-hating, ICE-bashing radicals was a nonprofit religious organization known as the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. As a designated “host,” LIRS played a key role in publicizing, organizing and participating in demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s deportation enforcement actions targeting some 2,000 illegal immigrants and their families who have ignored removal orders or skipped out on court hearings.

Brazen hatred of cops, Border Patrol and ICE agents were on full display at the open borders protests fronted by LIRS and other left-wing groups, including Code Pink, CASA and CAIR. Marchers echoed the “Close the Concentration Camps” rhetoric of Congressional Brat Pack Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). They carried signs declaring “ICE=Gestapo” and “Free the People, Burn the Camps.” It’s not just idle rhetoric. Antifa thug Willem Van Spronsen, armed with a rifle and incendiary devices, attempted to set a Tacoma ICE facility on fire on Saturday before being shot dead. He has been hailed as a “hero” and a “martyr” by fellow “progressive” travelers, while sympathetic mainstream reporters and activists look the other way.

The president and CEO of LIRS, Krishanti Vignarajah, is a Sri Lankan refugee and former Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama policy director who led the Lights for Liberty event in Washington, D.C. She argues that Americans are obligated to open the floodgates at the southern border (since she turned out so great) and vehemently opposes what she calls “militant border enforcement.” To these border-sabotaging radicals, of course, any border enforcement is “militant.”

LIRS sounds like just the kind of extremist group you’d expect to be kept afloat by billionaire scumbag-George Soros’ big bucks. But hold on to your wallets and your American flags, folks: In 2016, LIRS relied on $64.7 million in government subsidies from taxpayers — that’s you and me — to fund a whopping 96.2% of its budget.

LIRS is one of nine agencies that receives tens of millions of dollars to resettle refugees from around the world. The organization brags that it is “a vital arm of the United States refugee admissions program” that has worked with the State Department to import “over 500,000 refugees” to our country. One of LIRS’ most famous clients? Somalian-born Minnesota Democratic Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar, whose immigration, marriage and tax fraud problems I reported on in my column last month.

If only a fraction of LIRS clients share worthless-Omar’s contempt for our security and self-governance, you can see the trouble we’re in. And that’s just the caseload of one of the nine resettlement giants that together rake in an estimated $1 billion a year.

In addition, the Lutheran nonprofit is one of two specially designated groups (the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is the other) that is contracted by the government to provide social services and benefits (including “psycho-educational support” and “low-cost or pro bono immigration legal assistance”) to sponsor families hosting illegal immigrant children.

Disguised as compassion and Christian morality, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service’s activism is a profit-seeking machine — even as the agency has been plagued by allegations of mismanagement that prompted an external probe two years ago. Last week, the group unveiled yet another initiative: “United Sanctuaries of America.” You should know, especially if you are a citizen of faith who believes in the sovereignty of our country, that the following organizations are partnering with LIRS, possibly to erase our borders:

–New Sanctuary Coalition

–Hispanic Heritage Foundation

–League of United Latin American Citizens

–Washington Office on Latin America

–Mary’s Center and Hispanic Federation

–Gethsemane Lutheran Church

–Good Shepherd Lutheran

–Church of the Reformation

–Christ Lutheran

–Christ the Servant Lutheran

–Our Savior Lutheran

Bottom line: Open borders equals cash flow: more aliens, more grants, bigger paychecks.

Exit question: Will a single American elected official please stand up and challenge the continued public funding of this subversive religious racket bent on hoisting foreign flags and alien interests above our own?  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64318?mailing_id=4425&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4425&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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Democrats Say No One Is Above the Law —
Except Illegal Immigrants
Marc A. Thiessen  
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'This is our chance' to question Mueller’s 
'one-sided report,' says top GOP lawmaker
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by Jerry Dunleavy
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee said today that special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony this Wednesday will be the GOP’s first, and perhaps final... opportunity to question Mueller about the way he conducted his nearly two-year probe, the conclusions he reached or didn’t reach on collusion and obstruction, and the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. Republican Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia spoke with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures about the strategy that Republicans have for questioning Mueller, which includes framing the Wednesday hearing as the end of the Trump-Russia saga, saying he hoped that Mueller’s testimony would be “the final episode of the Mueller report and a final episode to, hopefully, put this behind so that the president … can actually get to governing.” The ranking GOP Judiciary member also said this was their first opening to actually grill Mueller on specifics about his investigation. “The Mueller report is a one-sided report that has not been questioned from the other side,” Collins said. “This is our chance to do that.” Mueller will testify in front of two committees back-to-back on Wednesday, beginning with House Judiciary and concluding with House Intelligence. Collins said the Judiciary Committee hearing would begin with an opening statement from Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler of New York, followed by an opening statement from Collins himself. After this, there will be an opportunity for Mueller to make an opening statement, and then an opportunity for scumbag liar-Nadler, Collins, and other members to begin asking questions...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/this-is-our-chance-to-question-muellers-one-sided-report-says-top-gop-lawmaker?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_07/21/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261  
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Venezuelan Fighter ‘Aggressively Shadowed’ 
U.S. EP-3E Over Caribbean
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By Megan Eckstein
news.usni.org } ~ U.S. Southern Command announced that a Venezuelan fighter harassed a U.S. Navy surveillance plane in the Caribbean Sea on Friday over international waters... In a pair of tweets, SOUTHCOM wrote that a “Venezuela SU-30 Flanker ‘aggressively shadowed’ a U.S. EP-3E aircraft at an unsafe distance July 19, jeopardizing the crew & aircraft.” Noting the ongoing relationship between Nicolás Maduro’s government in Caracas and Russia – in contrast to the U.S.-backed Juan Guaidó regime that claimed power in January after an election that Maduro says he won but Guaidó called illegitimate – SOUTHCOM added that “This action demonstrates #Russia’s irresponsible military support to Maduro’s illegitimate regime & underscores Maduro’s recklessness & irresponsible behavior, which undermines int’l rule of law & efforts to counter illicit trafficking.”The Russian-made Flanker took off from an airfield 200 miles east of Caracas, according to caption information on photos SOUTHCOM released. “The U.S. routinely conducts multi-nationally recognized and approved detection and monitoring missions in the region to ensure the safety and security of our citizens and those of our partners,” the caption continues. The U.S. has a range of forces in the SOUTHCOM area of operations, including USNS Comfort (T-AH-20), which is heading to Costa Rica now after operating off Peru earlier this month to treat patients and maneuver at sea with Peruvian warships. Marines with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SP-MAGTF) SOUTHCOM are operating in Honduras on training and engineering projects.
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Iran announces arrest of ’17 CIA spies’, 
reportedly sentences some to death
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by Victor Rantala
bizpacreview.com } ~ Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced on Monday that they have arrested 17 Iranian nationals, charging them with being part of a CIA spy ring... A separate Fars news agency report quoted an Iranian intelligence official saying that some of them were sentenced to death. An official identified as the director of the counterespionage department in the Intelligence Ministry stated in a Tehran press conference that the arrests took place over the last several months. “The identified spies were employed in sensitive and vital private sector centers in the economic, nuclear, infrastructural, military and cyber areas … where they collected classified information,” according to a ministry statement as read on Iran state television. According to PressTV, the official in the press conference indicated the suspects were largely recruited via the internet by the CIA. Other methods included “issuing or renewing US visas, hiring Iranian specialists, and providing necessary equipment and access to certain participants in scientific events abroad.” Last month, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced it had “penetrated the US safe system in cyberspace,” purporting to have been a system the American spy agency used to communicate with the spies. The discovery of the communication system was first announced in June by Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council. He said that the “cyber-espionage” network had been operating in countries other than Iran and that it had been discovered “a while ago.”...
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Cruz: Build Kate's Wall with El Chapo's Money
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By Daniel John Sobieski
americanthinker.com } ~ It is an idea whose time has come. It would be poetic justice, fulfill a Trump campaign pledge, and wouldn’t cost the taxpayers a dime. It doesn’t make Mexico pay for the wall exactly...  just one particular Mexican who has done great injury to the people of the United States and who is responsible for a major part of drugs flooding into the U.S. Upon news that Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, more commonly known as El Chapo, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday and ordered to fork over billions, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz resurrected his idea of using any and all assets to be seized from El Chapo’s massive stash be used to build Trump’s border wall. As the Daily Mail reported: Cruz, a senator from Texas, told TMZ in a short interview on Capitol Hill that the $12.6 billion seized from El Chapo after he was convicted for drug trafficking should be used build President Donald Trump's border wall. 'I think it's great that he's sentenced,' Cruz said. 'I think the next step is to criminally forfeit his entire global criminal enterprise. It's worth billions. And we should use every penny of that money to build the wall and secure the border.' …'Finding those assets, getting those assets, won't be easy. But we should and the Department of Justice will do it's very best to do that,' he continued…Cruz says there should be no question or debate over where the funds go when they are eventually obtained -- and in 2017 even introduced the EL CHAPO Act, which didn't go very far. He reintroduced in January the legislation that would allocate El Chapo's money for the border wall. 'He made that money trafficking narcotics illegally into this country,' Cruz said, 'it's only fitting that that money goes to secure the border and stop other traffickers like he was.'...
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Here’s Where Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib 
Should Go When They Visit Israel 
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By Roger Simon
thefederalist.com } ~ It’s been all over the news that “Squad” stalwarts worthless-Ilhan Omar and worthless-Rashida Tliab are planning a trip to Israel... Whether this will be at U.S. taxpayers’ expense is unclear. The two women have shown their affinity for anti-Semitism, so it’s a virtual certainty their visit will be a staged opportunity to accuse Israel of being Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa rolled into one, or possibly something even more monstrous if they can figure out what that is. Doubtless, an international press crew will traipse after them to record their every calumny. Israel—a country where there is press freedom unlike, say, Somalia—has already made clear they will admit this pair. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t supervise their itinerary to make it more, shall we say, educational. Since I’ve visited Israel several times, mostly for longer stays than the usual brief congressional junket, allow me to make some suggestions for their itinerary. Israel has been in a war zone since its founding, most recently near its Syrian border where a non-stop civil war has been going on for years. An estimated half-million are dead and even more innocent civilians wounded by Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s forces, plus various Islamic terror groups, Russians, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah, etc. So a visit to the Zvi Medical Center in Safed in northern Israel would be in order. There they could learn just which country is caring for the wounded of the Syrian civil war. Thousands of Syrians, many of them injured children, have been treated by Israeli doctors and then returned to Syria in secret so the despotic Syrian government and jihadists do not punish them for seeking treatment from the “enemy.” Israelis, of course, risk their own lives bringing in the wounded Syrians in the first place. They also treat Syrians—mostly women—with emotional trauma from war. Since the congresswomen are up by the border, it’s only a short drive to one of the high points overlooking Lebanon. It’s an astonishing sight. You look one way—toward Israel—and see nothing but blooming farms. You turn toward Lebanon and see nothing but barren hills with a sprinkling of Hezbollah flags and gun emplacements. Why the disparity, since the land is basically the same? The congresswomen would probably explain it as due to Israel’s supposed oppression of the Palestinian refugees who live by the border or something like that...
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Democrats Say No One Is Above the Law — Except Illegal Immigrants

Marc A. Thiessen
 

We have heard a lot about the importance of the rule of law from Democrats lately. During special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation of President Trump, Democrats in Congress delivered a clear and unified message.

“No one is above the law, especially the president of the United States,” declared House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif. “Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our lifetime. … No one is above the law. Not even the president,” said Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren, D-Mass. “Everyone should be held accountable. And the president is not above the law,” said Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris, D-Calif. Republicans “are basically saying that in America one man is above the law and that’s not a fact,” said Senate Minority Whip scumbag-Richard Durbin, D-Ill. “No one is above the law [and] everybody ought to be held accountable,” said South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

No one, that is, except illegal immigrants.

Fast-forward to this past weekend, when the Trump administration announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers would soon begin enforcement actions to remove illegal immigrants who have been issued final deportation orders by a federal judge. Those same Democrats and the rest of their party delivered a clear and unified message.

“It’s so appalling, it’s outside the circle of civilized human behavior,” said liar-Pulosi. “The Trump administration’s cruelty runs bone-deep. A dinky-Warren administration will not rip families apart to try and score political points,” said dinky-Warren. “The aim is to scare immigrant communities. … And so, he’s going to … do these raids which is a crime against humanity,” said lowlife-Harris. “We are on your side, we stand with you together,” scumbag-Durbin told activists protesting ICE enforcement. “It’s really designed to strike fear into people at a moment when fear is something we’ve got way too much of in this country,” said Buttigieg.

So, Democrats were for rule of law when it comes to the Mueller probe, which did not find that the president broke the law. But they are against rule of law when it comes to illegal immigrants who have been found by a federal judge to be in violation of U.S. immigration law.

Illegal immigrants subject to ICE enforcement have been given their constitutional right to due process, with the right to a hearing in a federal immigration court and the right to be represented by counsel. If they show up at their hearing and are not granted relief by an immigration judge, they have the right to appeal. If they lose that appeal, they are issued a final order of removal. Once such an order is issued, they must either voluntarily depart the country or turn themselves in to an ICE facility for deportation. If they fail to depart or turn themselves in, then their case is referred to the ICE fugitive unit, which is tasked with finding them.

It is a long process to get to the point where ICE is knocking on someone’s door to enforce a final order of removal. Those now subject to a final deportation order either failed to show up to immigration court; showed up and lost their case; waived their right to appeal; lost their appeal; did not show up for their appeal hearing; were granted voluntary departure but did not leave; or failed to turn themselves in to ICE for court-ordered removal. In each case, a federal judge has ruled that they do not have the right to be in the United States and must leave. But Democratic leaders are now saying they should be allowed to stay, in contravention of our immigration laws.

Then again, Democrats didn’t think this way when they held the White House. President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama deported far more illegal immigrants than Trump. Axios reports that “under the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, total ICE deportations were above 385,000 each year in fiscal years 2009-2011, and hit a high of 409,849 in fiscal 2012.” I don’t recall Democrats in Congress accusing scumbag/liar-nObama of a “crime against humanity” or actions “outside the circle of civilized human behavior.”

Back then, Democrats agreed, as Sen. Charles scumbag-Schumer, D-N.Y., put it in a 2009 speech, that “illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple.” Since Trump took office, Democrats have become the party of illegal immigration. The want to decriminalize illegal border crossings, cut ICE detention beds to force the agency to release illegal immigrants and then refuse to enforce lawful deportation orders. So, it’s a little hard to take Democrats seriously when, in investigating Trump, they claim to be fighting for the principle that no one is above the law.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64324?mailing_id=4425&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4425&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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commie-Sanders Says 'Medicare for All' 
Would Top $40T
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Thomas Gallatin
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Justice Dept. Watchdog Has Evidence 
scumbag-Comey Probed Trump, on the Sly
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By Paul Sperry  
realclearinvestigations.com } ~ It is one of the most enduring and consequential mysteries of the Trump-Russia investigation: Why did former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey refuse to say publicly what he was telling President Trump in private... that Trump was not the target of an ongoing probe. That refusal ignited a chain of events that has consumed Washington for more than two years – including scumbag-Comey’s firing by Trump, the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and ongoing claims that Trump obstructed justice. Now an answer is emerging. Sources tell RealClearInvestigations that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon file a report with evidence indicating that scumbag-Comey was misleading the president. Even as he repeatedly assured Trump that he was not a target, the former director was secretly trying to build a conspiracy case against the president, while at times acting as an investigative agent. Two U.S. officials briefed on the inspector general’s investigation of possible FBI misconduct said scumbag-Comey was essentially “running a covert operation against” the president, starting with a private “defensive briefing” he gave Trump just weeks before his inauguration. They said Horowitz has examined high-level FBI text messages and other communications indicating scumbag-Comey was actually conducting a “counterintelligence assessment” of Trump during that January 2017 meeting in New York. In addition to adding notes of his meetings and phone calls with Trump to the official FBI case file, scumbag-Comey had an agent inside the White House who reported back to FBI headquarters about Trump and his aides, according to other officials familiar with the matter. Although scumbag-Comey took many actions on his own, he was not working in isolation. One focus of Horowitz’s inquiry is the private Jan. 6, 2017, briefing scumbag-Comey gave the president-elect in New York about material in the Democratic-commissioned dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Reports of that meeting were used days later by BuzzFeed, CNN and other outlets as a news hook for reporting on the dossier’s lascivious and unsubstantiated claims. scumbag-Comey’s meeting with Trump took place one day after the FBI director met in the Oval Office with President scumbag/liar-nObama and Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden to discuss how to brief Trump — a meeting attended by National Security Adviser liar-Susan Rice, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Deputy Attorney General liar-Sally Yates and National Intelligence Director scumbag-James Clapper, who would soon go to work for CNN...
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scumbag-Adam Schiff says DOJ inspector 
general's work is 'tainted' ahead 
of FISA abuse report
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by Daniel Chaitin
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff said Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz got roped into a politically-motivated scheme to protect President Trump... laying the groundwork to discredit the government watchdog's work as he nears completion of a report on alleged surveillance abuses by the DOJ and FBI. At the Aspen Security Forum this weekend, scumbag-Schiff accused top Justice Department officials of pandering to Trump by instigating a "fast track" report last year about former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. His comments came as part of a broader answer to a question about whether he has concerns about Attorney General William Barr's review of the origins of the Russia investigation. scumbag-Schiff claimed the president wanted McCabe, who briefly took over as acting FBI director after Trump fired scumbag-James Comey in May 2017, investigated and his pension taken away and suggested someone such as former Attorney General Rod Rosenstein obliged the president by making a referral. "The inspector general found that McCabe was untruthful. He may very well have been untruthful," the California Democrat said, but noted that is not where main his concern lies. "I have no reason to question the inspector general's conclusion, but that investigation was put on a fast track. It was separated from a broader inspector general investigation, which is still ongoing," he said. "Why was that done? It was done so he could be fired to not get a pension. It was done to please the president when the initiation investigation is tainted. So are the results of that investigation." McCabe was fired from the FBI on March 16, 2018, less than two days before he planned to retire on his 50th birthday and collect a full pension, after the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General determined he misled investigators about the role he had in leaking information to the Wall Street Journal in October 2016 about the investigation into the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation... scumbag-Schiff is a complete, you know what and a complete liar.
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Left primaries the Democrat who 
refuses to turn over Trump’s taxes
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by bizpacreview.com ~ Alex Morse, the mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, announced plans to challenge House Ways & Means Chairman Richard Neal in 2020 Monday... Morse, 30, is being encouraged to run by progressive Democrats who are frustrated by Neal’s delay in obtaining Trump’s state tax returns under the law passed by Democratic New York Gov. scumbag-Andrew Cuomo, NBC News reported. “There’s an urgency to this moment in Massachusetts’ 1st District and our country, and that urgency is not matched by our current representative in Congress,” Morse said in a video to announce his challenge. Democrats have been frustrated with Neal, a Massachusetts representative, because he has not pushed for Trump‘s New York state tax returns despite the law. Liberal magazine The American Prospect wrote Neal’s committee “has shown none of the zeal for oversight exhibited by its counterparts.” “We respect his focus on moving rapidly on health care, tax policy, and pensions but at the same time many of us have tried to express the sense of urgency which we and our constituents feel about enforcing the law and obtaining Trump’s tax returns,” an aide to a Democratic member of the Ways & Means told NBC. scumbag-Cuomo signed a bill into law July 8 giving access to Trump’s New York state tax returns to “congressional tax-related committees” if they can cite a “legitimate task” of Congress in seeking them, according to NBC. scumbag liar-Neal said he did not request Trump’s state returns under the law because he doesn’t want to hamper efforts to get Trump’s federal filings, which he is suing the Treasury and IRS to obtain, a process scumbag liar-Neal didn’t begin for several months after the new Congress was sworn in. scumbag liar-Neal has also said requesting Trump’s state returns only served to legitimize complaints that Congress sought them for political purposes only, he told Bloomberg News...
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Democrats and Republicans 
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by Michael Cutler
frontpagemag.com } ~ It has been my contention, for many years, that contrary to the lies spewed in the mainstream media that the immigration system is broken while, in reality, the immigration system is not broken... but has become the most efficient delivery system in the United States rivaling Fed-Ex and UPS combined. What the immigration system delivers is a virtually unlimited supply of cheap and exploitable labor, an unlimited supply of foreign tourists, of foreign students and, for the immigration lawyers, an unlimited supply of clients for immigration law firms. This past month, most of the coverage about the Congress focused on the war of words between President Trump and the Democrats, particularly the venomous and frequently Anti-Semitic statements spewed by “The Squad” that consists of four first-term female members of Congress, commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, worthless-Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, worthless-Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and worthless-Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. A virtual mantra has been created that the reason we have an immigration crisis is because the Democrats will not work with the Republicans or visa versa. You would think that if there was any movement to create immigration legislation that the media would jump all over it and put the story on page one in the newspapers and the “A Block” on television programs. After all, the mythology goes, the Democrats and Republicans have steadfastly taken diametrically opposed positions on immigration. Of course while the Republicans insist that a wall needs to be constructed on the U.S./Mexican border to secure that dangerous and highly porous border against the un-inspected entry of aliens and cargo including such contraband as narcotics, it is worth noting that when they controlled both houses of Congress for the first two years of the Trump administration, money was never provided for the construction of that wall. As my mom taught me when I was growing up, “Actions speak louder than words.”...
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Watch worthless-Rashida Tlaib 
forcibly removed from Trump event
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by wnd.com ~ U.S. Rep. worthless-Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a member of the congressional freshman “Squad” that has been attacking President Trump and advocating impeachment for him... has been revealed to have been, well, objectionably disruptive, not too far into her history. It was 2016 when she had to be restrained and forcibly removed from a Trump campaign event. The Washington Examiner reported the event was Aug. 8, 2016, when Trump was visiting Detroit. As she was being forced out of the event, she shrieked, “You guys are crazy!” The Examiner reported, “Footage showed two security officials holding worthless-Tlaib by her arms and guiding her toward the exit while she screamed at the crowd gathered for Trump’s speech. worthless-Tlaib was reportedly among at least 14 protesters removed from the event that evening.” The video shows the crowd’s response to worthless-Tlaib’s attack on them was a yell, “You’re an animal.”...
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commie-Sanders Says 'Medicare for All' 
Would Top $40T
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Thomas Gallatin:  Go big or go home — that seems to be the adage on which socialist presidential candidate commie-Bernie Sanders has decided to stake his campaign. On Wednesday, commie-Sanders unveiled his latest version of “Medicare for All,” his scheme for single-payer health care. He estimated it could cost up to $40 trillion over 10 years, which blows past the $32 trillion estimate outsiders calculated after commie-Sanders first began peddling his plan. Previously, commie-Sanders admitted that he would raise taxes across the board to pay for this government power grab, but now that he’s upped the price he’s downplaying that broad tax increase and focusing on the rich paying more.
 

This massive sum of $40 trillion only exposes Sanders’s apparent ignorance of basic economics. As Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw observes, “Forty trillion over ten years is an average of four trillion per year. Does anyone recall what the entire budget of the United States federal government was for 2018? It was 4.094 trillion dollars. So commie-Sanders is casually talking about expending the equivalent of our entire budget on his health care plan. (While simultaneously outlawing private health insurance and wiping out an entire industry.)” Well, he is a socialist.

Nevertheless, commie-Sanders insists that his plan is not “absurd,” asserting, “What the most serious economists tell us [is] that if we do nothing to fundamentally change the health care system, which is what loose lips liar-Joe [Biden] was talking about, keeping it as it is, we’ll be spending something like $50 trillion over a 10-year period.” loose lips liar-Biden has released a planre commending an expansion of scumbag/liar-nObamaCare, which he claims would cost an additional $750 billion over 10 years.

The fact of the matter is, this is exactly what conservatives warned against when liar-Nancy Pulosi and company were forcing scumbag/liar-nObamaCare onto the backs of the American people. We warned that ObamaCare was merely setting up an excuse to push for a single-payer, government takeover of America’s health system. And here we are, facing that very prospect.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64361?mailing_id=4428&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4428&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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loose lips liar-Biden Promises '
You Can Keep Your Plan'
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Trump quietly working to replace 
director of national intelligence
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By Bill Gertz 
washingtontimes.com } ~ President Trump is continuing to plan to replace his senior intelligence adviser, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats... and has considered at least one candidate, according to people close to the White House.  Fred Fleitz, an intelligence veteran who until recently was chief of staff to National Security Adviser John R. Bolton, is being considered for the DNI post by Mr. Trump. Mr. Fleitz is a no-nonsense advocate of intelligence reform with a wealth of experience, having worked as an analyst for the CIA, professional staff member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and as a senior State Department nonproliferation specialist during the George W. Bush administration. Recent reports that Mr. Fleitz, a conservative advocate of U.S. intelligence reform, is in the running for DNI sent shock waves through the intelligence bureaucracy. As outlined in a recent journal essay by former CIA officer John Gentry, U.S. intelligence agencies have been politicized to the liberal left in recent years, especially during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. Under President scumbag/liar-nObama, a group of liberal intelligence leaders left their mark on the agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, including outspoken anti-Trump partisans such as former DNI scumbag-James Clapper, former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan who admitted he once voted for the pro-Moscow Communist Party USA presidential candidate, and FBI Director scumbag-James B. Comey, who was fired by Mr. Trump for mishandling bureau investigations.  Mr. Trump is still upset with Mr. Coats over his Senate testimony in February when, under questioning from Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, he appeared to undercut sensitive negotiations with North Korea on its nuclear program at the time. Mr. Coats testified that U.S. intelligence agencies assessed North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons through talks with the United States...   https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/17/inside-the-ring-trump-quietly-working-to-replace-d/   
Dr. Ben Carson Discusses Ridiculous Racist Accusations and Media Complicity
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by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the ridiculous accusations of racism against President Trump... In one of the reference points, Dr Carson reminds everyone about the February 2016 ABC debate when all the other candidates left him hanging, but not Donald Trump. Funnily enough CTH wrote about that specific moment at the time; and it’s interesting how that moment stayed with Dr. Carson and he references it well over three years later. FLASHBACK February 6th, 2016 – Few people will talk about this, and fewer will even want to acknowledge it, but what Donald Trump did before the ABC debate began shows the measure of a real man’s worth. At the beginning of the ABC debate, each of the candidates were being introduced in a specific order. The first name called to the stage was Chris Christie. The applause was loud and lingered through the time when Martha Raddatz called the second candidate Ben Carson. Dr. Carson did not hear his name called easy to understand why when you listen to the video and stood in the entry-way. The moderators, with their backs to the candidates, didn’t notice his absence and called the third name on the list, Ted Cruz...
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Judge Jeanine says “We are close 
to losing this country”
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independentsentinel.com } ~ In her opening segment of Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” former Judge Pirro declared... “We are close to losing this country. There is a plot to remake America by those who hate America, while everyone on the sidelines is freaking out over political correctness.” Under the guise of “evolving,” Pirro charged that this cabal is seeking “to destroy the very foundations upon which this country was built.” “They know how to weaponize their hate and don’t you dare criticize them,” she said. “If you do they will do everything in their power to destroy you. Or, if you happen to be the president, impeach you if you don’t share their radical leftist socialist hate America agenda. And if you don’t you’re a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, a xenophobe or just plain deplorable. The Judge says the Squad of four radicals is motivated by hatred of America and for President Trump. We would add two things — hatred of Jews, and Christians. “In their plot to remake America, they impose socialism on all of us,” Pirro said of the four radicals. “Forget capitalism, free markets, individual liberty, and free speech.” “Say goodbye to law and order, ICE will be eliminated as well as the Department of Homeland Security,” she said. “And we need those open borders so anyone can come in, no vetting, just let them all in and you Americans pay for them.” commie-AOC, worthless-Omar, and worthless-Rashida are card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialist Party which has a worse agenda than that of the Communist Party USA. There is no doubt Ayanna Pressley is of the same ideology...
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Stephen Miller -vs- Chris Wallace
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by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ White House advisor Stephen Miller appears on Faux-News Sunday to debate swamp gatekeeper Chris Wallace... on the topic of the “send her back” manufactured outrage. Wallace is apoplectic with the thought of patriotism, pride and America as an exceptional nation, and does his earnest best to conflate racism. When Wallace lets his slip show in defense of his BFF democrats, he becomes a caricature of himself.  It’s annoyingly funny.
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The seamless garment comes to Wall Street
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by Ryan Ellis
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The rise of the Catholic Left is in many ways the overarching story of the Church Crisis Era. Despite his statement early on that the Church should not become a “pitiful NGO,”... Pope Francis has reigned over an era where “Immanentize the Eschaton” to quote the late William F. Buckley might as well be on most episcopal crests. The desire to virtue-signal on issues like immigration is now often equated to fighting intrinsic evils like abortion or even the basic mandate to save souls. One manifestation of this “seamless garment” cultural Marxism can be found in so-called “shareholder activist” groups: bodies which often have financial or fraternal ties to scumbag-George Soros and sometimes use community organizer techniques perfected at the feet of Saul Alinsky. For Catholics, the one to keep an eye on is the “Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.” Led by Rev. Seamus Finn, a priest of the rapidly shrinking Missionary Oblates of Mary, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility is a collection of left-wing religious activists who harass companies into adopting woke positions in contravention to both the company’s fiduciary responsibilities and to common sense. Of course, this community activism is bathed in the soft, bourgeois heresy of the social gospel: an old tactic used by increasingly old activists...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-seamless-garment-comes-to-wall-street?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_07/21/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261  
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loose lips liar-Biden Promises 'You Can 
Keep Your Plan'
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Political Editors:  loose lips liar-Joe Biden has so far largely been content to coast as the Democrat presidential frontrunner. This week, however, he released his plan for health care while singing a tune you may recall: “If you like your health care plan … you can keep it.” Yes, he actually said that.
 

Seeking a contrast with commie-Bernie “$32 trillion Medicare for All” commie-Sanders and other Democrats pushing variations on that single-payer plan to kill private health insurance, Biden wants to bring back the “glory” days of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s administration and scumbag/liar-nObamaCare. He wants voters skittish about socialism to choose an unrecognizably cronyist Frankenstein version of capitalism.

How far left have Democrats gone when a $750 billion expansion of scumbag/liar-nObamaCare’s estimated $1.6 trillion cost over the next decade is now the “centrist” position?

“You get a choice,” declared loose lips liar-Biden. “You get full coverage, and you can stay with your plan if you like it,” loose lips liar-Biden said. “You can stay with your employer-based plan, or you can move on. I think it’s the quickest, most reasonable, rational and best way to get to universal coverage.”

Of course, scumbag/liar-nObama promised dozens of times that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” only for millions of Americans to be kicked off those plans once scumbag/liar-nObamaCare wrecked the insurance market. In fact, scumbag/liar-nObama’s oft-repeated promise was named PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” in 2013 — fitting, given that scumbag/liar-nObamaCare was built on a foundation of lies.

So it’s curious to see loose lips liar-Biden repeat that promise, but then again, maybe he’s just that desperate for scumbag/liar-nObama’s endorsement. And he’s hoping voters are desperate for a third scumbag/liar-nObama term.

His plan is also scumbag/liar-nObamaCare “on steroids,” says the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein:

He wants to increase the subsidies to purchase insurance on scumbag/liar-nObamacare’s exchanges. Instead of limiting subsidies to those who earn above about $50,000 for individuals, loose lips liar-Biden would set a cap that would limit the cost of premiums to 8.5% of a person’s income, so people earning above the current scumbag/liar-nObamacare cutoff could now qualify for assistance.

Additionally, under scumbag/liar-nObamacare, the subsidies are pegged to the cost of a midlevel “silver” plan. This was done in an effort to contain costs by asking people to pay more if they wanted more generous coverage. Steering individuals toward plans with relatively higher deductibles and co-payments was also a way of discouraging overuse of the system. But loose lips liar-Biden’s plan would peg subsidies to “gold” coverage with lower deductibles. This will both increase the cost of subsidies to the government and the use of healthcare.

Exit question and answer: Asked Tuesday what his  estimate for Medicare for All would be, commie-Sanders replied, “Somewhere between $30 and $40 trillion over a 10 year period.” But, he says that’s a way better deal than loose lips liar-Biden’s plan: “What the most serious economists tell us, that if we do nothing to fundamentally change the health care system, which is what Joe was talking about … we’ll be spending something like $50 trillion over a 10 year period.” Sanders will give a speech Wednesday defending Medicare for All.

How far left have Democrats gone when socialism is supposed to be the better deal?  ~The Patriot Post

VIDEO 1:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpa-5JdCnmo
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Planned Parenthood Ousts 
Insufficiently 'Woke' CEO
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Monday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  News From the Swamp


MUELLER SHAKEDOWN: “All eyes will be on special counsel Robert Mueller this week as he delivers his first public testimony since wrapping up his two-year investigation into 2016 Russian election meddling and the Trump campaign. Anticipation over Mueller’s Wednesday testimony comes as Congress is facing a jam-packed week as lawmakers wind down their work ahead of the August recess.” (The Hill)

THE STATUS QUO: “White House and congressional negotiators rushing to hammer out the final details of a sweeping budget and debt deal are unlikely to include many — if any — actual spending cuts, even as the debt limit is lifted for two years,” The Washington Post reports. Unsurprisingly, “Speaker of the House liar-Nancy Pulosi (D–Calif.) rejected a White House offer on Friday to cut $150 billion in federal spending over 10 years as a part of a possible deal to raise the debt ceiling,” according to Reason. Rush Limbaugh is rhetorically right: “Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it’s been around.”

SELF-DESTRUCTION: “Democrat presidential candidate commie-Bernie Sanders announced this weekend he will cut staffers’ hours so that they can effectively be paid a $15-an-hour minimum wage, prompting mockery from critics who say the move is more evidence that commie-Sanders’ plan to raise the national minimum wage is hypocritical and would only lead to less work and more unemployment.” (Fox News)

ENFORCEMENT DELAY: “The Trump administration is giving taxpayer-funded family planning clinics more time to comply with its new rule that says they no longer can refer women for abortions. … A notice sent Saturday night to representatives of the clinics by the Department of Health and Human Services said the government ‘does not intend to bring enforcement actions’ against clinics that are making ‘good-faith efforts to comply.’ … The department had said last Monday that it would require immediate compliance.” (CBS News)

Culture & Heartland


AND NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON: “Given the radical, left-wing Antifa group’s well-documented history of violence, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) introduced a resolution on July 18 that condemns Antifa’s ‘violent acts’ and calls for the designation of the group as a ‘domestic terrorist organization.’” (CNSNews.com)

HATE HOAX: “Georgia State Rep. and Minority Leader Erica Thomas (D) took to Twitter on Saturday, saying a white man called her ‘a lazy SOB’ and that she needed to go back to where she came from because she had too many items in the express lane at the local Publix. … ‘Her words stating on Twitter and her Facebook video saying I told she needs to go back to where she came from are untrue,’ [Eric Sparkes] said. ‘I’m Cuban. I’m not white.’ But here’s where things get even more interesting. Sparkes said he’s a Democrat and the only reason Thomas is doing this is for political gains.” (Townhall)

PUERTO RICO UNREST: “Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced Sunday he will not seek re-election but refused to resign, as corruption allegations have sparked widespread protests in San Juan,” according to Fox News. Meanwhile, CBS News reports, “Up to a million protesters are expected in the streets of Puerto Rico Monday to protest … Rosselló.”

Other Notables


POLITICAL THEATER: “The Trump administration disputed a claim by Iran’s state media on Monday that authorities in the Middle East country arrested 17 secret agents recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on its nuclear and military sites. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency said some of them have been sentenced to death. It was not clear if all the alleged spies were Iranian nationals.” (USA Today)

EQUIFAX SETTLES: “Equifax has agreed to pay as much as $700 million to settle a series of state and federal investigations into a massive 2017 data breach that left more than 147 million Americans’ Social Security numbers, credit-card details and other sensitive information exposed.” (The Washington Post)

NEW ZEALAND GUN CONTROL: “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand on Monday announced plans for sweeping new restrictions on gun ownership, the second such wave of changes since a deadly shooting at two mosques in Christchurch earlier this year. The changes, which include a mandatory gun registry and a ban on gun purchases by foreign visitors, will ‘enshrine in law that owning a firearm is a privilege’ rather than a right, Ms. Ardern said.” (The New York Times)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: commie-Bernie Sanders just destroyed the case for a $15 minimum wage (Issues & Insights)

POLICY: Socialism 101: Myths and realities (The Daily Signal)

HUMOR: President Trump announces his support for reparations for socialism (IMAO)  

~The Patriot Post
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“Our Sisters”: House Democrats Rally 
to the Side of the Anti-American Squad
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conservativefreepress.com } ~ Let there be no doubt about it: The Democratic Party is now whatever commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Squad say that it is... Because of all the anti-American, anti-Semitic, racist statements they’ve made since taking office in January, it was only when President Trump told them to “go back” to their countries of origin and fix those places before criticizing this one that liar-Nancy Pulosi and her caucus got their dander up. worthless-Ilhan Omar can downplay the significance of 9/11 all she wants, no Democrat makes a peep. commie-AOC can compare migrant detention facilities to Nazi concentration camps, it’s fine. worthless-Rashida Tlaib can make extraordinary slurs against our ally, Israel, and Democrats are silent. But oh boy, tell these Commies to hit the road, and it’s time for an official House resolution! “Our sisters,” liar-Pulosi called the Squad. “Now,” Trump correctly noted on Tuesday, “they are forever wedded to the Democratic Party.” The official resolution was an exercise in abject partisan politics, of course. Instead of being honest about Trump’s tweets, party leaders attempted to make it sound as though Trump, through his words and actions, was telling every foreign-born American to “go home.” Nowhere was it mentioned in the text that Trump was speaking only of the four progressives. Nowhere was it mentioned in the resolution that Trump invited all four to “come back” and show the U.S. what they had learned. No, none of that is relevant, because this had nothing to do with the truth. It was just showboating for MSNBC and the radical mob on Twitter...  http://www.conservativefreepress.com/politics/our-sisters-house-democrats-rally-to-the-side-of-the-anti-american-squad/   
No Compromise: Dems To Ax Minimum Wage 
Bill Should Republicans Add Anything
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By Steven Beyer  
westernjournal.com } ~ Far-left Democratic lawmakers issued a warning to their more moderate Democratic counterparts on Wednesday... and said they would ax a minimum wage bill if Republicans tried to amend it ahead of the vote. Reps. Pramila Jayapal from Washington state and Mark Pocan from Wisconsin said that progressive Democrats are ready to vote against the legislation en masse to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour if the Republicans’ procedural motion is adopted beforehand, The Hill reported. The warning appears to be directed at more moderate Democrats who previously joined with Republicans in a motion to recommit. Such a motion allows the minority party to alter the legislation at the midnight hour before the final vote is cast. “We have no doubt that Congressional Republicans will try to divide the Democratic Caucus with a disingenuous Motion to Recommit. It’s up to all of us to stand unified and reject their bad faith effort to undermine this bill,” Pocan and Jayapal said in their statement. “After consulting with our Members this week, we are confident that any bill that includes a poison pill Republican  Motion to Recommit will lack the votes to pass on the House Floor,” they added. While the content of the Republicans’ motion to recommit was not known, according to progressives, it doesn’t matter... $15 would be nice but it will cut alot of jobs and young peoples hours.
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Trump suggests Google could be
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By Ronn Blitzer 
foxnews.com } ~ Billionaire tech industry icon Peter Thiel wants Google investigated for "seemingly treasonous" work with China -- and President Trump is listening... The PayPal co-founder appeared on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Monday and called out Google for working with the Chinese government on a major artificial intelligence project instead of the U.S. Thiel had recently discussed the issue at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. “The question is ... what in the world is going on there?” Thiel asked. Trump cited Thiel's comments in a Tuesday morning tweet and said: “The Trump Administration will take a look!” What exactly that means is unclear. The Justice Department declined to comment on the apparent suggestion the company could be investigated. Asked for a response, a Google representative said: "As we have said before, we do not work with the Chinese military."...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-suggests-google-could-be-investigated-for-treason  
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Refugee Risks Life to Convert 
Muslims To Christianity In Sweden
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by 1776christian.com ~ The stories of Muslim women who have escaped the war-torn Middle East and ISIS caliphate can only be likened to Hollywood’s most graphic horror films... After enduring second-class status, surviving domestic abuse and escaping Iran only to suffer in a Turkish prison, Annahita Parsan has staked her claim in Sweden, converted to Christianity and now shepherds other to Jesus. The mother of two had virtually no personal or religious freedom under Iran’s hard-line Muslim regime. But now in Sweden, she has embraced the Gospel of Jesus Christ and emerged as a prominent person of faith. Her spiritual, emotional and geographic journey read like the trials of Job. She risked her very life by making the pilgrimage away from religious and gender oppression to the European country. Many would be grateful for a new life in a free society and live out their days quietly. Not so with Parsan. She continues to put her self in harm’s way by reaching out to disenfranchised Muslims and leading them to the peaceful and loving teachings of Jesus. She has even published a memoir called “Stranger No More: A Muslim Refugee Story of Harrowing Escape, Miraculous Rescue and the Quiet Call of Jesus.” “My life is completely different since coming to Jesus,” the 47-year-old reportedly said. Raised in the Isfahan region of Iran, she was married off at 16 years old. She brought her first child into the world soon after Ayatollah Khomeini seized power following Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979. At 18, her husband was tragically killed and the authoritarian Islamic state forced her to hand her young son over to her deceased husband’s father under Iranian law. She stood her ground, regaining custody and later remarrying in hopes of a loving relationship. “After two years, I decided to marry again. His situation was like mine. His wife had died,” Parsan said. “But soon, he began beating my son very badly. I was pregnant again, and it was impossible for me to divorce.” As the Iran-Iraq war broke out, her violent husband forced her and her two children to trek across the mountains into Turkey during winter. As illegal immigrants, Turkish authorities imprisoned the entire family. After being released into Istanbul, it took nine months to garner enough money to travel to Denmark. In Scandinavia, the roots of Parsan’s spiritual rebirth took hold. “In about the first or second month there, a woman came to the door to speak about God. But it was not in my interest,” Parsan recalled. “I was so angry. I was so unhappy. But she came back the next day with a small Bible, so this time I asked Jesus to help me.” She hid the Bible from her husband. Unfortunately, after a brutal assault by her spouse during Christmas, she tried to commit suicide. As she miraculously recovered from the sleeping pill overdose, her spiritual awakening became complete...
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Mogadishu Mon Amour
By Clarice Feldman
americanthinker.com } ~ The French movie Hiroshima Mon Amour is based on human memory and forgetfulness as recounted by two lovers... The tale of the congresswoman who calls herself worthless-Ilhan Omar is a tale of an anti-Semite bred-in-the-bone corruptocrat whose rise in political power rests very largely on complicity by the media’s airbrushing of her history because they thought this physically attractive African Moslem “refugee” was just the ticket to defeat Donald Trump. The media counts on our forgetfulness and ignorance. Hard work by independent media, however, has exposed her and her media apologists and the Democrats have little choice: Condemn her and remove her from her committee assignments or suffer the consequences. Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi’s repeated defense of her, doubtless for fear of being targeted by the leftist nutjobs in her ranks has placed her party’s continued majority in serious jeopardy. The President’s remarks and the media’s distortion of them have only occasioned new and more critical gaze on worthless-Omar and it isn’t pretty. On July 14, the president tweeted the following:  @RealDonaldTrump: So interesting to see “Progressive”  Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world if they even have a functioning government at all, now loudly...... ....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how.... ....it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that liar-Nancy Pulosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements! The AP and most major media leaped on this as racist, but as S B Waters, editor of the Rome Sentinel, notes “It is obviously not racist to suggest critics 1) go show how their plan works and 2) Come back and teach us how...
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Planned Parenthood Ousts Insufficiently 'Woke' CEO
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Nate Jackson:  Just eight months into her tenure, Leana Wen was fired as Planned Parenthood’s president Tuesday. She succeeded Cecile Richards last November, but Wen, a woman of color and a committed leftist, wasn’t radical enough for the nation’s largest abortion mill. Given that Planned Parenthood rakes in more than $500 million every year from American taxpayers, many of whom view abortion as a tragedy to be ended, this is significant news.

The specifics are even more galling. Wen last year insisted, “People aren’t coming to Planned Parenthood to make a political statement. They’re coming because they need their vaccinations. They need their well-woman exams. They’re getting HIV tests.” (Definitely not mammograms, though.) She also said in her departure statement, “I believe the best way to protect abortion care is to be clear that it is not a political issue but a health care one.”

Planned Parenthood’s board members, however, clearly view abortion as their mission (PP averages 320,000 abortions each year), and Wen was not sufficiently on message. (That mission was always clear to most Americans, but the board explicitly declared it by removing Wen.) Board members also see abortion as primarily a political issue and wanted a social-justice warrior, not a physician like Wen, to lead the charge, especially when so many states are directly challenging  Roe v. Wade with restrictions on abortion and the Trump administration implemented a new rule cutting $60 millionin funding from Planned Parenthood.

In a sense, the board is right. The Hippocratic Oath historically taken by physicians says, “I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm.” (The phrase “first, to do no harm,” is a later development along the same lines.) An abortion by definition harms (i.e., terminates the life of) a preborn human. Ergo, abortion is arguably better understood as a political and cultural issue.

Furthermore, there was the whole issue of Wen not submitting to the transgender movement’s increasing power. She reportedly refused to use “trans-inclusive” language and would not agree that men can have babies. Apparently, in today’s “woke” radical-leftist climate, Planned Parenthood couldn’t be effectively led by someone who believes in that science.

Wen will be replaced temporarily by board member Alexis McGill Johnson during the search for a permanent replacement. Of course, no leader of this massive taxpayer-funded abortion mill is going to be palatable to those who value the sanctity of life, and as long as Planned Parenthood is violating the very right to life given each human by his or her Creator, there will continue to be a political and cultural fight.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64334?mailing_id=4425&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4425&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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The Real Strategy for Trump and Democrats
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Iran Caught Smuggling Nuke
Materials Out of U.S.
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By Adam Kredo
freebeacon.com } ~ An Iranian national was caught by the Trump administration attempting to smuggle materials that can be used to enrich uranium, the key component in a nuclear weapon, out of the U.S... according to the Justice Department. Behzad Pourghannad allegedly attempted to smuggle carbon fiber out of America and ship it to Tehran. Pourghannad was arrested in May 2017 in Germany and later extradited to the U.S. He arrived in America on Monday. On Tuesday, the Justice Department unsealed a three-count indictment charging Pourghannad and two others in the plot to export the sensitive nuclear materials. Ali Reza Shokri and Farzin Faridmanesh, the two alleged conspirators, remain at large. "Pourghannad is alleged to have sought to procure for Iran large amounts of carbon fiber—a commodity that can be used in the enrichment of uranium," Assistant Attorney General Demers said in a statement. "U.S. sanctions exist to prevent behavior, like this, which endangers our country, and the Department is committed to vigorously enforcing them. Pourghannad and others who would attempt to thwart these laws need to know that their actions, which benefit Iran’s destabilizing efforts and make Americans less safe, will not go unpunished." The carbon fiber material could be used by Iran to fuel its ongoing enrichment of uranium, which has emerged as a flashpoint in the latest standoff between the Trump administration and Iran. Following a bevy of new sanctions by the U.S., Iran publicly breached restrictions on the amount of enriched uranium it can stockpile inside the country...  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-caught-smuggling-nuke-materials-out-of-u-s/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=fc6e2f462d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_07_04_03_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-fc6e2f462d-45611665   
Republicans Introduce Resolution to 
Designate Antifa Domestic Terrorist Organization
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by RT
gellerreport.com } ~ Two Republican senators have introduced a resolution to “properly identify” Antifa as “domestic terrorists” who use violence against their opponents while being protected by “liberal privilege.”... The resolution, introduced on Thursday by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), cites numerous instances of intimidation and outright violence by left-wing radicals as the basis for their formal designation as domestic terrorists. In particular, it mentions recent clashes in Portland, Oregon, that saw far-left Rose City Antifa facing off with far-right Proud Boys and police. The highlight of the late June skirmish was the assault on journalist Andy Ngo by Antifa protesters. The Quillette reporter was beaten and doused with milkshakes that, according to some accounts, contained quick-drying cement. Ngo also said his camera equipment was stolen. Also on rt.com GoFundMe for Andy Ngo, journalist assaulted by Antifa, raises $100k in less than 24 hours The attack sparked a Twitter moment in support of the journalist and spawned a ‘Protect Andy Ngo Fund’ GoFundMe campaign that topped its stated goal of $50,000 four-fold. Commenting on the proposed legislation, Cassidy described Antifa as “violent masked bullies who ‘fight fascism’ with actual fascism, protected by liberal privilege.” Apart from the incident with Ngo, the two senators cite reports of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers being doxxed and intimidated by left-wing protesters, including a reported incident with an ICE officer who “had his name and photo plastered on flyers outside his home accusing him of being part of the ‘Gestapo’,” the notorious Nazi secret police. ‘Antifa fighter’ indicted for assault over Portland violence that savaged man’s scalp. While the resolution appears to refer to the Antifa movement in general, it specifically takes aim at the Oregon-based Rose City Antifa, which the authors state “explicitly rejects the authority of law enforcement officers in the United States, and Federal, State, and local governments.” Any use of violence, including, against  “individuals that the group labels as fascist” is inadmissible, the resolution argues. While denouncing the left-wing terrorism, Cruz and Cassidy also note the need to fight far-right violence, urging the federal government “to redouble its efforts, using all available and appropriate tools, to combat the spread of all forms of domestic terrorism, including White supremacist terrorism.”...
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Foreigners Storm the Border, Assault Agents
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By S.Noble
independentsentinel.com } ~ Emboldened foreigners stormed the border and were tear-gassed back into Mexico. Fox News called them undocumented migrants but they are illegal aliens... to use the correct legal term. ‘Migrants’ is definitely a bad word to use to describe who they are and what they are up to. ‘Migrants’ suggests illegal aliens are acting in a customary and acceptable fashion. The incident at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge took place at around 4 a.m. The foreigners stormed the border in three waves and were sent back. The crossing ended up closed after the incident. “Ignoring commands to stop, the group suddenly rushed the temporary barricades, bent metal poles and disabled the concertina wire affixed to the barrier,” the official said. CBP officers, Border Patrol agents, Pharr police and members of the Texas Department of Public Safety were called upon to prevent the group’s entry, according to the official. “Several males in the group disregarded commands to stop and physically pushed through the barriers,” the official said. “When confronted by CBP officers, the combative individuals began assaulting the officers by punching, kicking, and attempting to grab the officers’ protective devices.”...
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Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar Introduces 
Anti-Israel Boycott Resolution
By Shawn
fixthisnation.com } ~ Unrepentant after numerous anti-Semitic remarks she’s made about Israel, its supporters in Congress, and the role of Jewish money in American politics... Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D-MN) announced this week that she will introduce a resolution in support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement on the floor of the House. In an interview with Al-Monitor, worthless-Omar said Tuesday: “We are introducing a resolution to really speak about the American values that support and believe in our ability to exercise our first amendment rights in regard to boycotting. And it is an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS movement.” The bill would push back against U.S. laws prohibiting the use of boycotts against the state of Israel. To promote it, worthless-Omar compared Israel to some of the worst nation-states of the 20th century. “Americans of conscience have a proud history of participating in boycotts to advocate for human rights abroad including boycotting Nazi Germany from March 1933 to October 1941 in response to the dehumanization of the Jewish people in the lead-up to the Holocaust,” worthless-Omar said. worthless-Omar also brought up the former Soviet Union and apartheid-era South Africa as examples to be compared to modern-day Israel. You’ll not be surprised to see that worthless-Omar’s bill is co-sponsored by none other than Palestinian congresswoman worthless-Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)...  http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/rep-ilhan-omar-introduces-anti-israel-boycott-resolution/  
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The Real Strategy for Trump and Democrats
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Thomas Gallatin:  As the firestorm ignited by President Donald Trump’s social-media comments against four extreme leftist Democrat congresswomen known as “The Squad” entered its third day, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) sought to add fuel to the fire by holding a vote on a resolution to rebuke and condemn Trump’s comments as “racist.” Ironically, what unfolded on the floor of the House became yet another embarrassing example of Democrat hypocrisy, as liar-Pulosi proceeded to unapologetically break a Democrat-created parliamentarian rule in her effort to label Trump a racist. The rule in question, as House Majority Leader scumbag-Steny Hoyer (D-MD) explained, forbids “characterizing an action as racist,” but it did nothing to either prompt liar-Pulosi to back off her remarks or prevent every single Democrat siding with the speaker. Once again, for the Left, the rules only apply to the opposition.
 

The clear goal for liar-Pulosi and the Democrats was to officially label Trump a racist. And like clockwork, the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, The Washington Post, reported it with these two headlines: “A divided House votes for resolution condemning Trump’s racist remarks,” and then, “Trump’s racist comments can be used against him in court as judges cite them to block policies.” When you can’t win the argument on its merits (or lack thereof), charge your opponent with “racism.”  Democrats have been playing this slanderous game a long time.

Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) weighed in on Tuesday, rebuking leftist “Squad” member Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for her repeated statements of “bitterness and anger toward the country.” Paul added, “She says this is terrible, a place without justice and all this.” He then set the record straight, noting, “She’s a congresswoman. She got here as a refugee 20 years ago. She’s elected to Congress. I can’t imagine a better country that elected her to Congress and she badmouths our country.”

A final observation: While it is clear what the intent of Democrats and the Leftmedia is, what seems to be less obvious to many is what Trump is doing. As we noted Monday, he has successfully induced Democrats to circle the wagons around the most radical (and unpopular) members of their party, which Tuesday’s House vote demonstrates. However, what many may not appreciate is the fact that he has steered the conversation toward the question of what constitutes true American values. In so doing, his goal is to set himself up as the only unapologetically pro-American presidential candidate in 2020. His aim is to pressure the Democrat presidential candidates into appearing to campaign against not just him but against America. And thus far Democrats have failed to avoid his trap.  ~The Patriot Post

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Church Pays Off Millions in Medical 
Debt for 6,500 Families
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Culture Beat  
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The First Amendment Shouldn’t Be An Empty Promise To American Jews 
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By Melissa Langsam Braunstein
thefederalist.com } ~ The First Amendment’s promise of freedom of religion is an empty one if all Americans, including American Jews, don’t feel safe in their houses of worship or welcome in their communities... With FBI data showing that 58 percent of religiously-motivated hate crimes targeted American Jews in 2017, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been making an increased effort to support and engage with the Jewish community, including by convening a summit on domestic anti-Semitism this week. The day-long event included speakers from the Departments of Justice, State, Treasury, and Education, including the secretaries of Treasury and Education. Panels addressed how to combat anti-Semitism while respecting the First Amendment, anti-Semitism on college campuses, the prosecution of hate crimes, and federal efforts to combat anti-Semitism. In his introductory remarks, Attorney General William Barr compared various forms of anti-Semitism to different forms of cancer, observing that the body politic needs a strong immune system that rejects both anti-Semitism and racial hatred. Speakers throughout the day acknowledged the patient is sick. However, Barr told American Jews that he sees rising anti-Semitism, not only in the widely discussed attacks in Pittsburgh and Poway, but also on the streets of Crown Heights, in desecrated cemeteries, and in zoning decisions intended to exclude growing Jewish communities. Barr told the audience, those experiences “form the daily background of concerns about safety and security that many Jews feel. I want to assure you that the Department of Justice and the whole federal government stands with you and will not tolerate these attacks.” That solidarity is appreciated during a week that’s seen the introduction of Congress’ first-ever resolution in support of boycotting Israel. The boycott movement arose repeatedly as one powerful example of excluding and marginalizing Jews—92 percent of American Jews support Israel—as speakers addressed how contemporary anti-Semitism manifests on college campuses, as well as in our cities and towns. During a panel about anti-Semitism and free speech, Jason Isaacson, chief policy and political affairs officer for the American Jewish Committee, said that this “discussion shouldn’t be framed as choosing between protecting Jews and the First Amendment. The best antidote to bad speech is good speech.” He also urged Americans to criticize their own political allies and insist that anti-Semitism is unacceptable, calling this “a battle for ideas” and a “fight for the soul of our nation.”...
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CAIR’s Obstruction of Trump’s ICE Raids
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By Anne-Christine Hoff
americanthinker.com } ~ The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the self-described “Muslim civil rights organization” with a history of undermining law enforcement... has put the migrant crisis front and center of its newest efforts. Last week the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of CAIR reissued a community advisory aimed at undermining law enforcement efforts to conduct raids on illegal migrants who face a court removal order. The Trump administration has said it is focusing its efforts on carrying out removal orders on migrants involved in criminal activity. Among the rights CAIR-DFW and the national chapter advises these undocumented immigrants to exercise in their “Know Your Rights” pamphlet are: The right to not open the door; The right to not answer questions; The right to refuse to sign papers; The legal right to have a lawyer present; Of course, none of what CAIR says is untrue. Migrants do have such rights in our country, even though they have broken our laws by entering the country illegally. However, the scale of the problem is unprecedented. As stated by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the Associated Press, in May alone, 137,887 migrants were taken into custody at the Mexican border, the highest number since 2007. CBP’s executive director of operations Randy Howe stated on June 5, “We are bursting at the seams. This can’t continue.”...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/cairs_obstruction_of_trumps_ice_raids.html  
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Latest Development In Flynn Case Proves
Special Counsel Was A Cover
For Taking Down Trump 
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By Margot Cleveland
thefederalist.com } ~ The special counsel’s investigation was a sham controlled by the intelligence community. Evidence has long suggested as much, but testimony earlier this week from Michael Flynn’s ex-lawyer... that Flynn’s former legal team had not seen recently revealed information purporting to implicate Flynn in a conspiracy with a Turkish agent—confirms it. This testimony came on Tuesday when Flynn’s former Covington and Burling lawyer, Robert Kelner, took the stand at the trial of Flynn’s former partner at Flynn Intel Group (FIG), Bijan Rafiekian. Rafiekian, who co-founded FIG with Flynn, is on trial for conspiring with his co-defendant Kamil Ekim Alptekin and others unnamed in the indictment to act as an unregistered agent of the Turkish government and conspiring to file a material false Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) statement. Alptekin is a fugitive believed to be in Turkey. The government had planned to call Flynn as a witness at Rafiekian’s trial, but at the last minute prosecutors informed the court that Flynn would not testify. Instead, prosecutors notified the court that they viewed Flynn as an unindicted co-conspirator and that they intended to present hearsay evidence against Rafiekian—something allowed if Flynn had conspired with Rafiekian and Alptekin to file the false FARA statements. Last week, presiding Judge Anthony J. Trenga held that the government had not yet presented sufficient evidence of a conspiracy to admit prior statements made by Flynn and Alptekin. Until prosecutors made a preliminary showing of a conspiracy at trial, Trenga ruled, the hearsay evidence would not be admitted, and even then the government may be bound by its prior admission that Flynn was not a co-conspirator. Then last Friday came the revelation that the government possessed previously undisclosed information supposedly implicating Flynn in a separate conspiracy with Alptekin. Rafiekian’s attorney disclosed this shocker at the close of a pre-trial hearing, telling the court that before the start of the proceedings, the government had handed him a one-sentence statement. “If I may read it for purposes of the record,” Rafiekian’s lawyer continued: The United States government is in possession of multiple independent pieces of information relating to the Turkish government’s efforts to influence United States policy on Turkey and Fethullah Gulen, including information relating to communications, interactions, and a relationship between Ekim Alptekin and Michael Flynn and Ekim Alptekin’s engagement of Michael Flynn because of Michael Flynn’s relationship with an ongoing presidential campaign without any reference to the defendant or FIG...
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Hope Hicks’ Attorney Responds to 
scumbag liar-Nadler’s Demands
She Testify Again
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By S.Noble
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Early Thursday, Judge William Pauley III, a scumbag/liar-Clinton appointee, unsealed documents in the Trump ‘hush money’ probe as federal prosecutors concluded the investigation... The unsealed documents show Donald Trump discussing the “the need to prevent” porn star Stormy Daniels from going public with her story of an alleged extramarital affair with Trump. This was just days after the “Access Hollywood” tape was released. In October of 2016, a series of phone calls were made between Donald Trump, Michael Cohen and Hope Hicks, Trump’s then-campaign press secretary although the content of their conversations was not described by the FBI agent. Federal prosecutors said Hope Hicks will not be charged nor will anyone else be charged in this case brought by the Southern District of New York, but scumbag liar-Nadler decided to continue to harass Hicks. According to creepy scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, the chair of the House Judiciary and a proven liar, last month in her testimony, Hope Hicks denied being present during conversations with Michael Cohen and Donald Trump about porn star Stormy. She allegedly said she did not have direct knowledge of the ‘hush payment’ to Stormy. Creepy scumbag liar-Nadler said in a letter addressed to Hope Hicks on Thursday that her testimony last month “appears to be inconsistent with evidence unsealed this morning.” He is demanding she come back to “clarify” her testimony. “We write regarding your testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on June 19, 2019, which appears to be inconsistent with evidence unsealed this morning by a federal judge in New York. As I reminded you at the outset of your interview, anything other than complete candor can have very serious consequences,” scumbag liar-Nadler said in his letter. “Accordingly, I would expect you to clarify this matter before the Committee in very short order — but no later than August 15, 2019,” he said. If he can destroy the beautiful former model, he will. He won’t leave her alone. Her crime is that she worked for President Trump...
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Time for Europe to Get Over
The "Worst Deal Ever"
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by Con Coughlin
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ With tensions rising in the Gulf by the day as a result of Iran's increasingly provocative conduct... the refusal of the major European powers to back the Trump administration's determination to confront Iran is looking increasingly untenable. In the past few months Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks on oil tankers operating in the Gulf, and forced a British Royal Navy warship to intervene when a number of fast patrol boats operated by the naval division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attempted to harass a British-owned tanker sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, the main shipping route into the oil-rich Gulf. Additionally, US military officials at Central Command (CentCom) are currently investigating claims that Iran was behind the mysterious disappearance of the oil tanker Riah while sailing in Iranian waters at the weekend. Also, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have been blamed for carrying out a number of attacks against targets in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, including a missile attack on a Saudi civilian airport and a drone attack on a key Saudi pipeline. Iran's most audacious act so far has been to shoot down an American naval drone conducting a reconnaissance mission in the Strait of Hormuz last month. The strike came within hours of provoking a military response from the Trump administration. Meanwhile, as all this has been going on, the ayatollahs have announced that they have resumed work on enriching uranium, a blatant breach of the controversial nuclear accord Tehran signed with the world's leading powers in 2015. Yet, while Iran shows no sign of scaling down its aggressive stance towards the US and its allies in the region, Europe continues to cling to the wreckage of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to give the nuclear deal its proper name, in the misguided belief that the deal remains the best means of preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Europe's insistence on adopting a different approach to the White House in its dealings with Iran dates back to US President Donald Trump's original decision last year to withdraw from the JCPOA, after arguing it was the "worst deal ever."...
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Trump’s ‘Accidental’ Win on 
the Citizenship Question
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By Jon N. Hall
americanthinker.com } ~ Whether by accident or by design, President Trump has alighted upon the exact right solution for ascertaining the truest enumeration of American citizens. Not only that... but his workaround solution should have been done regardless of the recent opinion by the Supreme Court. That is, even if the Court had found that the administration could include the citizenship question in the census, Trump should still have directed his agencies, especially the Social Security Administration, to have their computer programmers write simple little programs to count up the people on their databases by citizen and all other categories. Americans who care about citizenship or just the corruption of our data should rejoice over Pres. Trump’s announcement on July 11. And here’s what’s nifty about the president’s directive -- we don’t need to wait for 2020 to get a much better idea of how many citizens are in the country, we should be able to get that data very soon. One datum I’m anxious to learn is the number of U.S. citizens still residing in California, the state with the largest number of illegal aliens. Americans are a highly mobile lot, and for quite some time now they’ve been fleeing California and New York for other states because of high taxes, cost of living, and undesirableness. Wouldn’t it be a kicker if Trump’s computer reports showed that those states are overrepresented in Congress? But here’s the real question for America: Should we be counting noncitizens to determine the number of congressional districts in the states? This citizen thinks not. The number of illegal aliens in the country can only be an estimate. The number that gets bandied about is 11 million, but some think it could be twice that. Getting an exact count of those in our midst who shouldn’t be here isn’t likely to be provided by the census. Foreigners who have repeatedly snuck into our country and have been repeatedly deported aren’t likely to cooperate with the census. And if they do cooperate, they might tell census takers that they have a lot more children than they do, just so more federal money will come their way...
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Church Pays Off Millions in Medical Debt for 6,500 Families
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Culture Beat:  “The senior pastor of Stetson Baptist Church in DeLand, Florida revealed to the congregation how many lives will be impacted by their generous giving. Over the course of a single week, the church, which has only about 350 members, managed to raise enough money to pay off all of the medical debt of financially struggling families in five counties — some 6,500 families who were being crushed by a total of $7.2 million in debt — and fund three foster care facilities for a year.”

“‘In the coming weeks, some 6,500 people in five Central Florida counties will get a letter in the mail telling them the crippling medical debt they owe has been paid off, no strings attached,’ the Orlando Sentinel reported Wednesday. ‘It’s not a scam. It’s an act of faith worth $7.2 million to the struggling families.’”

“The idea for the special offering was prompted by the church having already met the financial needs of its annual operating budget this fiscal year, and the year containing 53 Sundays rather than 52, as is more common, the outlet reports.”

Read more at The Daily Wire.  https://www.dailywire.com/news/49365/watch-church-pays-millions-medical-debt-6500-james-barrett

~The Patriot Post

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Iran's Belligerence Shows 
Need for Saudi Alliance
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Harold Hutchison
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard seizes two 
UK-operated tankers in Strait of Hormuz
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By Greg Norman 
foxnews.com } ~ Iran seized two British-operated oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz Friday, marking a fresh escalation of tensions between Tehran and the West... The U.K.-flagged Stena Impero, which has a crew of 23 aboard, “was approached by unidentified small crafts and a helicopter during transit of the Strait of Hormuz while the vessel was in international waters,” Stena Bulk, the shipping company that owns the vessel, said in a statement. "We are presently unable to contact the vessel which is now heading north towards Iran."Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces, in a statement on their website, say the ship was seized for "non-compliance with international maritime laws and regulations" and is being brought to an unnamed Iranian port, according to the Associated Press. Websites  tracking the ship's path showed it turning sharply in the direction of Iran's Qeshm Island, instead of its intended destination of Saudi Arabia. “We are urgently seeking further information and assessing the situation following reports of an incident in the Gulf," a U.K. government spokesperson told Fox News. Approximately an hour later, a Liberian-flagged tanker operated by a British company was also seized by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and was seen on maritime tracking services making a turn toward Iran. "I'm extremely concerned by the seizure of two naval vessels by Iranian authorities in the Strait of Hormuz," UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said in a statement on Friday adding that the crew on board both ships "comprise of a range of nationalities, but we understand there are no British citizens on board either ship." "Our Ambassador in Tehran is in contact with the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to resolve the situation and we are working closely with international partners," Hunt said. "These seizures are unacceptable. It is essential that freedom of navigation is maintained and that all ships can move safely and freely in the region." President Trump said Friday that Iran is "nothing but trouble" and that "we heard one, we heard two," tankers were seized...
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Trump to nominate Gene Scalia, son of late 
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 
for secretary of labor
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By Gregg Re 
foxnews.com } ~ President Trump on Thursday night announced he's nominating attorney Gene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia... to replace Alex Acosta as secretary of labor. The surprise move -- which top Republicans privately supported -- was a visible manifestation of the close personal bond Trump has forged with the Scalia family in recent years. The  confirmation process for Justice Neil Gorsuch, who ultimately filled Justice Scalia's seat, sparked the connection. Acosta stepped down as head of the Labor Department last Friday over his past involvement in a cushy 2008 plea deal for financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is now facing federal sex trafficking charges. Acosta's resignation is to become official on Friday, when his deputy, Patrick Pizzella, will take over as acting Labor secretary pending Scalia's confirmation, officials said.Scalia, 55, has been a partner in the Washington office of the international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He's expected to face headwinds from Democrats in his Senate confirmation hearings, in part because he routinely has represented major corporations in key cases involving workers' rights. Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, D-N.Y., condemned Scalia in a statement late Thursday. "President Trump is missing an opportunity to nominate a fighter for workers, like a union member, to be America’s next Labor Secretary," scumbag-Schumer said. "Instead, President Trump has again chosen someone who has proven to put corporate interests over those of worker rights. Workers and union members who believed candidate Trump when he campaigned as pro-worker should feel betrayed.” In 2005, Walmart hired Scalia to defend against whistleblower lawsuits by employees who alleged wrongdoing in the company. Scalia also helped overturn a Maryland law in 2006 that would have required big companies such as Walmart to spend more on employee health care in the state. That law ran afoul of a federal statute aimed at reducing red tape for certain national employers, who otherwise would have had to afford significantly different benefits to employees depending on their state of employment. The Wall Street Journal wrote in 2012 that Scalia "has emerged as one of the industry's go-to guys for challenging financial regulations."...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-to-nominate-gene-scalia-son-of-late-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-for-secretary-of-labor   
House takes wrong turn on 
Cadillac health insurance tax
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by Alan D. Viard
aei.org } ~ I noted last month that the Cadillac health insurance tax, a valuable tool to control health care costs, was again under attack... A bill to repeal the tax before it takes effect in 2022 had drawn more than 300 sponsors in the House. Yesterday evening, the attack on the Cadillac tax advanced to the next stage, as the House  passed the repeal bill on an overwhelming 419-6 vote. The six lawmakers who found the courage to resist the juggernaut were Justin Amash (I-Michigan), Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee), Andy Harris (R-Maryland), Ron Kind (D-Wisconsin), Scott Peters (D-California), and Chip Roy (R-Texas).The repeal bill would worsen the budget imbalance. Because the bill does not include spending cuts or tax increases to offset the revenue loss from repeal, the Joint Tax Committee estimates that it would add $197 billion to deficits over the next decade. The revenue loss would rise sharply in later years. The repeal bill now moves to the Senate. When the House passed a bill last year to delay the Cadillac tax, the Senate did not act on it. However, a Senate bill to repeal the tax has drawn 43 sponsors 22 Democrats and 21 Republicans. As I have previously explained, the Cadillac tax helps correct the unlimited tax break that employer-provided health insurance receives under the income and payroll tax systems. On the positive side, the tax break has encouraged employers to provide health benefits, helping more Americans get insurance. The problem is that, because the tax break is unlimited, it has encouraged some employers to provide high-cost “Cadillac” health plans that cover routine care and feature low deductibles and copayments. Those plans increase the demand for medical services and drive up costs for other patients. When the Affordable Care Act was adopted in 2010, it called for a 40% “Cadillac tax” on high-cost employer health plans to take effect in 2018. The tax was intended to provide a crude offset to the unlimited income and payroll tax break...
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PACOM: China Anti-Ship Ballistic 
Missile Tests a Signal to US, World
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By Bill Gertz
freebeacon.com } ~ China recently conducted the first test of a new anti-ship ballistic missile, firing a salvo of six missiles into the South China Sea in a threatening message to the United States... the commander of the Indo-Pacific Command said Thursday. Admiral Philip Davidson, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions, also revealed that China earlier conducted a test of a new nuclear ballistic missile that took place after a threatening speech last month by Chinese defense minister Wei Fenghe. Davidson, speaking at a security conference in Aspen, Colorado, bluntly outlined what he termed the "long-term strategic threat" posed by China, which is engaged in a range of pernicious activities in Asia and around the world. The four-star admiral noted that Wei, the Chinese defense minister, spoke at a security conference in Singapore in early June in remarks he described as "quite chilling." "Not only did Wei make it clear that he didn't think Asia and the Western Pacific was any place for America, he said Asia wasn't even for Asians—it was for the Chinese," Davidson said. "Within 24 hours of that they tested a new nuclear ballistic missile, not in nuclear mode necessarily." The admiral was referring to China's test of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile known as the JL-3. Then on July 8, Wei spoke to a forum of defense ministers from Latin America and Pacific island nations in China and admitted that China's global development program known as Belt and Road Initiative was indeed a basis for future military expansion. Chinese officials previously insisted there was no military component to the multitrillion-dollar initiative...  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/pacom-china-anti-ship-ballistic-missile-tests-a-signal-to-us-world/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=1f547a9bc0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_18_08_37_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-1f547a9bc0-45611665   
The 'Slow Death' of Palestinians in Lebanon
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~More than 100,000 Palestinians from the West Bank have permits to work in Israel, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources... In addition, the sources said, thousands of Palestinians enter Israel every day without permits. On July 15, the number of Palestinian workers who entered Israel, according to the Israeli Defense Ministry, was estimated at more than 80,000. Last week, as part of efforts to reach a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas, Israel was reported to have agreed to increase the number of Palestinian merchants and businessmen allowed to go from the Gaza Strip to Israel from 3,500 to 5,000. Reports said that the latest Israeli gesture were the outcome of attempts by Egypt and the United Nations to prevent an all-out military confrontation between Israel and Hamas. While Israel is constantly increasing the number of work permits for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Lebanon, on the contrary, has launched an unprecedented crackdown on illegal foreign workers, including Palestinians, thereby triggering a wave of protests among Palestinians living there. The Lebanese authorities say the crackdown on illegal foreign workers is directed mostly against Syrians who fled to Lebanon after the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011. As part of this campaign against illegal workers, several businesses have been closed and many Palestinian and Syrian workers have been suspended from their jobs. Lebanese Minister of Labor Kamil Abu Sulieman denied allegations that the campaign was organized as a "conspiracy" targeting the 450,000 Palestinians in his country. "The plan to combat illegal labor was prepared several months ago and does not target the Palestinians," Abu Sulieman said. "There is a labor law in Lebanon, and we have decided to implement it. We gave a six-month warning to all the illegal workers and businesses to seek proper permits." The Lebanese minister admitted, however, that as a result of the campaign against illegal workers, some Palestinian businesses have been shut...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14553/slow-death-palestinians-lebanon  
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Iran's Belligerence Shows Need 
for Saudi Alliance
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Harold Hutchison:   He did launch cyberattacks on Iran, though. The hope was that the close call would deter Iran.
 

Given recent events, that hope is apparently a false one. It also shows why the United States would be very foolish to turn its back on the Saudis.

As the Patriot Post team has discussed before, the Saudis are no angels. Their human-rights record, despite the modern outlook of crown prince Mohammed bin Sultan and a trend toward improvement by inches, is atrocious.

But let’s take a look at Iran. Its Houthi stooges fired missiles at one of our ships. Their leaders routinely call for the elimination of Israel — a 2019 reboot of the Holocaust. Their human-rights record stinks, too, especially toward women who refuse to wear the hijab.

That’s in addition to placing limpet mines on tankers in international waters, shooting down UAVs over international waters, sponsoring terrorist groups, and providing IED components to insurgents fighting American troops in Iraq. Letting this country go about its plans unimpeded ranks up there in the pantheon of classic blunders, on par with going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

In all seriousness, this is why a close relationship with Saudi Arabia matters. Israel is rightly America’s closest ally in the Middle East, but Israel cannot do things alone — it is rightly focused primarily on its own survival. If you think Turkey is a better answer… well, look at Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s record and think again. Buying the S-400/SA-21 is the least of the problematic things he has done, and it has its potential upsides as well. The real concern vis-à-vis Erdogan is that a friend of Hamas is not a reliable ally against the major state sponsor of terrorism.

The fact of the matter is that Iran is not likely to be a responsible country any time soon. Erdogan is not going to change his tune any time soon. So, as awful as the situation in Yemen is, as awful as the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi was, America needs to stick by Saudi Arabia, not just to counterbalance Iran, but to encourage its steps toward modernization.

When it comes to protecting America’s vital national and geopolitical interests — not to mention Americans — we often do not get to choose between paragons of virtue and statesmanship who value Liberty. When it comes down to it, securing America is often about the hard choices. Today’s hard choices reflect the hard ones made by John Adams to stand up to France during the XYZ Affair, those made by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, and even those made in World War II.

The hard choices are often difficult ones that come down to determining which of the options is the least bad option. That can be very distasteful, whether it’s using  enhanced interrogation or supporting an ally’s involvement in a civil war with lots of civilian casualties. But those necessary choices today, like those from our history, help keep us free and safe.  ~The Patriot Post

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Dems Pull Trump Card With 
Climate 'Emergency,' But...
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Political Editors  
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US downs Iranian drone for 
'threatening' Navy ship
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by Tim Pearce
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The U.S. military shot down an Iranian drone threatening U.S. ships in the Strait of Hormuz... The United States took action on Thursday amid escalating tensions with the Middle East country. President Trump announced the event at a press conference soon after it happened. Iran has not yet responded. "The USS Boxer took defensive action against an Iranian drone," Trump said. "It was threatening the ship and the ship's crew. The drone was immediately destroyed." "This is the latest in many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in international waters," Trump added. "The United States reserves the right to defend our personnel, our facilities, and interests and calls upon all nations to Iran's attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation and global commerce." "At approximately 10 a.m. local time, the amphibious ship USS Boxer was in international waters conducting a planned inbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz. A fixed wing unmanned aerial system (UAS) approached Boxer and closed within a threatening range. The ship took defensive action against the UAS to ensure the safety of the ship and its crew," chief Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have steadily risen since Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear agreement in May 2018, throwing sanctions back on Tehran and squeezing the country's economy. On Thursday, Iran  announced it had seized United Arab Emirates-based ship and was holding it and its crew captive. The U.S. has demanded Iran release the ship. The ship's capture is the latest in a series of provocations by Tehran. It downed a U.S. drone over the strait on June 20, days after attacking Japanese oil tankers that were sailing through the strait...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-downs-iranian-drone-for-threatening-navy-ship?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_07/18/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261  
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Leader McCarthy: House Democrats 
Dead Set on Erasing Economic Gains
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy
dailysignal.com } ~ Over the last 18 months, the American economy has grown at a record-breaking rate, and the results have had a far-reaching positive impact on communities nationwide... Since January 2017, 5.6 million jobs have been created with the help of Republican-led tax reform, deregulation, and other pro-growth reforms. The unemployment rate is near a 50-year low with 224,000 jobs added to the economy last month, surpassing economists’ expectations. At the same time, wages have risen over 3% for an astounding 11 consecutive months. Even The New York Times has admitted that wage growth is in a “higher gear” and is “going to those who need it most.” Our nation is in the midst of enjoying the best economy we have seen in a generation. These results did not occur by accident. They transpired because policymakers made an intentional choice to allow free enterprise to flourish and remove unnecessary burdens on families and businesses. But our economic progress can, and will, be overturned if Congress tries to control the economy from within its bubble in Washington, D.C., as Democrats are attempting to do today. Their latest Washington-centric proposal is the Raise the Wage Act, legislation that would artificially raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour—over twice its current amount. This bill is another misguided attempt by Democrats to impose one-size-fits-all policy on the American people. It is backward-looking and proves that Democrats are dead set on erasing the progress our economy has made since President Donald Trump took office. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently released a study that indicates a $15 minimum wage could result in jobs lost and hurt the very people Democrats claim to want to help... The House did pass the $15 wage.
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Wall Street Liberals: dinky-Warren ‘Better 
Form of Poison’ Than commie-Sanders
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By David Rutz 
freebeacon.com } ~ Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D., Mass.) was called a "better form of poison" than Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) by an ex-Wall Street executive resigned to her winning the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination... The executive anonymously told Politico to expect dinky-Warren to get the nomination and Wall Street to adapt to a potential dinky-Warren presidency. "Wall Street is very good at accommodating itself to reality and if the reality is the party is going to be super-progressive, they may not like dinky-Warren but she's a better form of poison than commie-Bernie," the executive said. Robert Wolf, a venture investor and former adviser to President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, told Politico she's "preferable for many reasons" to commie-Sanders, if it comes down to one of the two in the crowded 2020 field. "She's been very clear that she believes in fair capitalism. And the idea of promoting socialism I don't think is a winning strategy if the goal is to beat President Trump," he said.Warren released a plan Thursday to "end Wall Street's stranglehold on our economy," which included sharper regulation of private equity firms, re-enacting the Glass-Steagal Act to wall off commercial and investment banks, and undoing Trump-era policies relaxing restrictions on the financial industry.  "Financial firms have helped push our economy badly off track," she wrote. "I want wages to go up, small businesses to thrive, and the economy to grow faster. To do that, I will stop the looting and make sure Wall Street serves the rest of the economy, rather than the other way around."...  https://freebeacon.com/politics/wall-street-liberals-warren-better-form-of-poison-than-sanders/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7142c21bf7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7142c21bf7-45611665  
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worthless-Ilhan Omar's plan 
to end 'capitalist system'
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by wnd.com  
U.S. Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, and her colleagues in the “squad” of four far-left freshman House members have captured attention of late by emphasizing the fact they are “women of color.”... But the real issue for the Trump administration and the nation is that the powerful lawmakers are espousing a radical transformation of the nation’s economy and system of government. In worthless-Omar’s case, she’s spelled out on her campaign website her “vision” for America, which is to abandon the “capitalist system” in favor of a “fair and just economy” in which the federal government guarantees everyone jobs, housing, health care and free abortions, points out CNS News Editor Terrence P. Jeffrey. In a section called “Ilhan’s Vision,” she presents an agenda that conflicts with the rights to life and property spelled out in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. “The capitalist system has led to a concentration of wealth in a small handful of elites while working people suffer,” says worthless-Omar’s vision statement. “We must stop the exploitation of working people to create a fair and just economy.” At a press conference Tuesday of House Republican leaders addressing the recent war on words between Trump and the “squad,” Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming explained that Republican opposition to the four “socialist” lawmakers’ “beliefs has nothing to do with race or gender or religion.” Joined by Reps. Steve Scalise and Kevin McCarthy, she said, “We oppose them and their policies because their policies are dangerous and wrong and would destroy America.” worthless-Omar — along with a guarantee of a wage of at least $15 an hour, healthcare coverage and benefits — proposes a program called “Homes for All.” It would move the nation from a “free market” in residential real estate toward “publicly- and cooperatively-owned models of housing.”...
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Why Have Democrats Suddenly Become 
The Anti-Citizenship Party? 
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By Auguste Meyrat
thefederalist.com } ~ To most Americans, asking a person’s citizenship status on the census makes perfect sense. The purpose of the census is to gather information on the population... and perhaps the most important piece of information is whether a person is an American citizen. Due to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court in Department of Commerce v. New York, however, this question will not be included in the 2020 census. Opponents of this question celebrate the decision, seeing it as a triumph of justice. From their perspective, the question of citizenship is racist, xenophobic, undemocratic, and a cynical ploy to seize power. As their “proof,” they cite the letter of sleazy political strategist Thomas Hofeller, who wrote that “Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites” would benefit from the inclusion of this question. Somehow, it does not occur to any progressives why or how exactly Hofeller came to this conclusion. Why should Democrats be hurt by the question of citizenship, and not Republicans? Citizenship isn’t supposed to be partisan, so how does it benefit one side over the other? In answering this question, even leftists concede that Democrats enjoy greater representation in all levels of government because they come from states and cities that have large non-American, often illegally present, populations. If the people from these constituencies decided not to respond to the census out of fear of being deported or harassed, Democrat-run states would lose representatives after the next reapportionment in 2020. Generally, claiming that asking a person’s citizenship status is immoral and unjust is, in the words of Chief Justice John Roberts, “pretextual” and covers up the fact that Democrats seriously fear the truth coming out about their inflated constituencies. Nevertheless, it’s worth exploring whether the given reasons against the citizenship question have any merit. Even if political strategists and politicians have their reasons for including it, the main controversy of the issue stems from the much bigger points of what it means to be American and how a representative republic in the 21st century is supposed to work...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/18/democrats-suddenly-become-anti-citizenship-party/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=06ab445bc2-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-06ab445bc2-83771801   
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Dems Pull Trump Card With Climate 'Emergency,' But...
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Political Editors:  Earlier this year, when President Donald Trump was in a face-off with Democrats over a partial government shutdown due to providing funding for a border wall, he warned that he would issue an executive order declaring a national “emergency” in order to collect the resources necessary to build the wall. Media pundits on both Right and Left warned that, should Trump go through with this emergency declaration, it would set a precedent for a future Democrat president to declare a national emergency over, for example, climate change. Trump subsequently issued that executive order, which is currently tied up in the courts.

Well, that warning is arguably a reality as Democrat presidential candidate and Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (VT) has teamed up with Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to introduce a joint resolution essentially saying that climate change is a national emergency requiring “a national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization of the resources and labor of the United States at a massive-scale.” At the same time, the resolution attempts to avoid claiming that it is a declaration of a national emergency: “Nothing in the concurrent resolution constitutes a declaration of a national emergency for purposes of … any special or extraordinary power.” What exactly constitutes an emergency to these two socialists is still unclear.

What is clear is that leftists are determined to use climate change as a convenient cudgel to force socialism onto the backs of Americans. The Wall Street Journal warns, “Conservatives who applaud Mr. Trump’s run around Congress should think again. Progressives will exploit the precedent for their own purposes.” True, but then again, “progressives” have a way of doing whatever they want without such niceties as precedent or legitimate authority. And most importantly, Trump’s EOs are almost all about removing statist extraconstitutional limitations and restrictions on the rights of the people, whereas, again, the Demo climate agenda is a massive charade to force adoption of their socialist agenda.  ~The Patriot Post

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Apollo 11 at 50
Cal Thomas
  

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Top Dem scumbag liar-Nadler Openly Defies 
liar-Pulosi on Impeachment… News Indicates 
She May Have Lost Control
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westernjournal.com } ~ The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to table a resolution brought forward by Democratic Rep. scumbag-Al Green of Texas... that would essentially start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. The vote was not close — 332 members of Congress voted in favor of tabling the resolution, compared to 95 members who voted “no.” Had the vote to table failed, the articles of impeachment would have been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. No Republicans voted against the motion to table, though 95 Democrats did so. Just one member voted “present.” Notably, House Judiciary Chairman Rep. scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler of New York was among the Democrats to vote against the motion to table. A spokesperson for scumbag liar-Nadler told CNN’s Jeremy Herb that the congressman supports referring scumbag-Green’s resolution to the Judiciary Committee. scumbag liar-Nadler has previously voted on two separate occasions to kill impeachment resolutions, according to CNN’s Manu Raju. scumbag liar-Nadler’s vote came despite the fact that House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi had earlier in the day expressed her opposition to scumbag-Green’s articles of impeachment, as NBC News noted. “We have six committees working on following the facts in terms of any abuse of power, obstruction of justice and the rest that the president may have engaged in,” liar-Pulosi said at a news conference...
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In escalating battle with Trump, House votes 
to hold Barr and Ross in contempt
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by Susan Ferrechio
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The House voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for failing to provide information and testimony... related to a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. The vote was 230 to 198. No Republicans voted for the contempt citation, and four Democrats voted against it. Wednesday's contempt citation will be referred to the Justice Department, where it is highly unlikely a criminal case against the two men will be pursued. The contempt vote serves as a serious rebuke of two top Trump administration officials and further escalates the discord between House Democrats and the Republican-controlled White House. House Democrats have issued dozens of subpoenas to current and former Trump administration officials as part of a sweeping investigation into his presidency, and personal business and lawmakers are pursuing the information in court. Later Wednesday, the House is expected to vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump that were introduced by Rep. scumbag-Al Green, D-Texas. House Republicans voted against the Ross and Barr contempt resolutions. They accused Democrats of wasting valuable floor time on attacking the president for partisan reasons at the expense of addressing more important legislative matters. The House has already voted on a civil contempt charge against Barr earlier this year, and lawmakers spent hours Tuesday debating a resolution condemning recent Trump tweets. The House, meanwhile, has yet to reach a deal on lifting spending caps in order to pass legislation to fund the budget in October, Republicans said...The House dems are refusing to do their duties and address the issue, they rather go after the Trump admin.
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Watch Cheney’s Bold Defense of Trump: 
This Isn’t About Race, It’s About 
Socialists Destroying America
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By Joe Setyon  
westernjournal.com } ~ Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney blasted a group of freshman progressive lawmakers on Tuesday... arguing that conservatives oppose them not due to their race or gender, but rather because of their socialist policies that “would destroy America.” Cheney’s comments came two days after President Donald Trump became the subject of criticism for a series of tweets Sunday that appeared to take aim at Reps. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, worthless-Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, worthless-Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and worthless-Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world if they even have a functioning government at all, now loudly and and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” the president tweeted Sunday. “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that liar-Nancy Pulosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!” he added. Trump has been roundly criticized by both the lawmakers in question and the establishment media, and many people have referred to his comments as “racist.” Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Cheney — who serves as chairwoman of the House Republican Caucus — addressed the controversy. While she didn’t appear to mention Trump by name, the content of her remarks made it clear she was defending him — and other conservatives too — from accusations of racism.“I want to talk about what’s gone on over the last few days. I want to make absolutely clear our opposition to our socialist colleagues has absolutely nothing to do with their gender, with their religion or with their race,” she said. “It has to do with the content of their policies.” Cheney went on to cite examples...
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Prager U Video: Feminist Books 
For Brainwashing Kids
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by Will Witt  
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib
Blame Speaker liar-Pulosi for
Attacks and Death Threats
By Tommy Christopher
mediaite.com } ~ Progressive Democratic “Squad” members Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. worthless-Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) laid varying degrees of blame for attacks and death threats at Speaker of the House liar-Nancy Pulosi‘s feet... during the group’s first interview since Trump’s racist tweets. On Wednesday morning, CBS aired Gayle King’s extensive interview with commie-Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Rep.  worthless-Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rep. worthless-Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) — KAK “The Squad” — that was the congresswomen’s first four-on-one since  Trump’s attacks on the group. Toward the end of the interview, King asked the group if there existed a “fracture” between the Squad and Speaker liar-Pulosi. “I don’t feel a fracture,” Rep. worthless-Omar said, and commie-AOC agreed, saying, “I don’t, I don’t, I think that just as there are members of Congress that did not vote for the speaker on the house floor on the day of our swearing-in, just as there are members who challenge her conclusions, who disagree with her, so do we from time to time.” “But that does not mean that there is a fundamental fracture or a dehumanizing going on within our caucus,” commie-Ocasio-Cortez added. “When you say things like the speaker of the House is being disrespectful to women of the color, is she, according to you, being disrespectful to women of color because of your color, or because she doesn’t like your policies or the tactics that you all are taking to make your point?” King asked. “Right, and I’ll clarify. I did not say that she was disrespectful of women of color,” commie-Ocasio-Cortez said, but added “I found some of the comments disrespectful, and that was my personal opinion. And I did feel that singling out on the basis of one vote was creating an opening.”...  https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-rashida-tlaib-blame-speaker-pelosi-for-attacks-and-death-threats/  
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Apollo 11 at 50

Cal Thomas
 

You had to be there 50 years ago, and I was. As a young reporter for a local TV station in Houston, I frequently visited NASA (“the space base,” we dubbed it), met many of the astronauts and reported on their exploits.

Along with people from around the world, I watched the lunar landing on television, July 20, 1969, fulfilling President Kennedy’s goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of that decade.

A new, three-part PBS documentary, “Chasing the Moon,” recalls the American space program, which followed the Russian launch of the first satellite in 1957. It is a brilliant film, created and directed by Robert Stone, and a useful reminder for the two generations born since then of what a united America can achieve.

CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite makes that point when he says, “It shows what the richest nation in history can do when it puts its mind to it.” If you missed the broadcast, you can find the series at pbs.org.

About Apollo 11, a reporter says, “It is like seeing Columbus sail out of port.”

Jack Lousma, one of the astronauts who followed the original seven, later became a close friend. Lousma was the CAPCOM recipient of the “Houston, we’ve had a problem here” message from Apollo 13 and the pilot for Skylab 3 in 1973. He also commanded the third space shuttle mission in 1982.

I asked for his remembrances of that time and about the legacy of America’s most famous spaceflight.

Lousma said: “Apollo was a bright light, a ray of hope, a force for ‘good’ during the Vietnam War controversy with its riots, civil unrest, demonstrations, violence, turmoil, burning draft cards…

"Unpredictably, Apollo unified the world for a short time. I recall photographs of people in many nations watching TV during the landing … a worldwide sense of ‘oneness’. They were not just ‘watching;’ they seemed part of our team, as if this were a victory for all earthlings, not just for the U.S. We were vicariously representing each one of them. There was a similar response to the drama of Apollo 13.

"It made us proud to be Americans; it set a standard for excellence; it established a baseline for advanced exploration and discovery.”

It wasn’t all ‘The Right Stuff,“ as Tom Wolfe wrote. NASA covered up the extramarital affairs and excessive drinking by many of the earlier astronauts for fear of hurting public confidence in the program.

In her review of Lily Koppel’s book, "The Astronaut Wives Club,” Susannah Cahalan writes in The New York Post: “Out of the 30 astro-marriages – spanning from the first American launched into space in 1961 to the moon landing in 1969 — only seven couples would stay married. … To the outside world, they were perfectly coiffed, apple pie baking housewives. But with their sisters — the AWC — they allowed their armor to fall, the tears to drop, and the truth to come out.”

The debate then, as it has been with other flawed humans who achieved great things, is whether the goal — beating the Russians to the moon — eclipsed those personal flaws. Probably not to the wives, but to the nation, ignorant of their frailties, it did.

One story adds to the many illustrations of the power of fame the astronauts had. On a commercial flight, I sat across the aisle from Annie and John Glenn, he the first American to orbit the Earth and at the time a Democratic senator from Ohio. “Apollo 13” was shown. At the end of the film, passengers approached Glenn for his autograph. I said, “John, you know they don’t want your signature because you’re a senator, right?” He laughed and said, “Don’t I know it?”

In today’s divided nation, it should be more than an exercise in nostalgia to revisit those exciting years when space really was “the final frontier” and America came to lead the way in exploring it.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64290?mailing_id=4423&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4423&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Call 'Em Racist
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Nate Jackson  
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Thursday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  From the “Loony Left” Files


IMPEACHMENT FLOP: “The House has voted to table Rep. scumbag-Al Green’s impeachment resolution, with a majority of Democrats voting with Republicans to kill the impeachment push, which was based on President Donald Trump’s attacks against four Democratic congresswomen. The vote was 332-95, with 137 Democrats siding with 194 Republicans and independent Rep. Justin Amash, to end consideration of impeachment.” (ABC News)

HOUSE JESTERS: “The House voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt on Wednesday, escalating a battle between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats. The measure holds the Trump Cabinet members in contempt for defying subpoenas for documents on their since-abandoned efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.” (The Hill)

Immigration


DRUG IMPACTS: The Washington Examiner reports that “Border Patrol highway checkpoints in the southern New Mexico region that normally seize seven figures worth of drugs annually have not seized a dollar in nearly four months” because “Border Patrol closed them to move all personnel to the border to assist with apprehending, processing, and caring for the high number of migrant families arriving.” However, TIME says, “Preliminary federal data suggest the number of Americans who died from drug overdoses finally fell in 2018, after years of significant increases. Provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics predicted that 68,500 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2018, compared to about 72,000 the year before.”

BORDER BACKUP: “The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would send an additional 1,000 Texas National Guard and 1,100 active duty troops to the border with Mexico, the latest deployment in support of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. … There are currently about 4,500 active duty and National Guard troops on the border with Mexico.” (Reuters)

KEEN SENSE OF THE OBVIOUS: “Mexicans are deeply frustrated with immigrants after a year of heightened migration from Central America through the country, according to a survey conducted by The Washington Post and Mexico’s Reforma newspaper. More than 6 in 10 Mexicans say migrants are a burden on their country because they take jobs and benefits that should belong to Mexicans. A 55 percent majority supports deporting migrants who travel through Mexico to reach the United States.” (The Washington Post)

National Security


TURKEY EMBARGO: “The Trump administration on Wednesday officially banned Turkey from purchasing American-made F-35 fighter jets, citing the NATO member’s purchases of Russian-made anti-aircraft systems,” National Review reports. “‘Turkey’s decision to purchase Russian S-400 air defense systems renders its continued involvement with the F-35 impossible,’ a statement from the White House said. ‘The F-35 cannot coexist with a Russian intelligence collection platform that will be used to learn about its advanced capabilities.’” This this clearly more evidence of Russian collusion…

IRANIAN GOADING: “Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces seized a foreign oil tanker accused of smuggling oil, Iran’s state TV reported Thursday,” the Associated Press reports. “The vessel appears to be a United Arab Emirates-based tanker that had disappeared off trackers in Iranian territorial waters over the weekend.” Meanwhile, The Daily Beast says the U.S. “is preparing to send 500 troops to Saudi Arabia as part of its 1,000 troop deployment to the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran.”

OOPS: “A recently released — and subsequently deleted — document published by a NATO-affiliated body has sparked headlines in Europe with an apparent confirmation of a long-held open secret: U.S. nuclear weapons are being stored in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. … A passing reference … appeared to reveal the location of roughly 150 U.S. nuclear weapons being stored in Europe.” (The Washington Post)

GUZMAN SENTENCED: “Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a federal judge in Brooklyn decided Wednesday. … In addition to the life term, the judge ordered a $12.6 billion forfeiture, which prosecutors said was a conservative estimate of the proceeds of El Chapo’s drug trafficking.” (ABC News)

Other Notables


9/11 VICTIM FUND BLOCKED: “Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to pass an extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. … ‘It has long been my feeling that we need to address our massive debt in the country,’ he said. ‘And therefore any new spending … should be offset by cutting spending that’s less valuable. We need to, at the very least, have this debate.’” (The Hill)

DUMB AND DUMBER: “Berkeley has become the first city in the nation to ban the installation of natural gas lines in new homes,” according to SFGate. “The City Council on Tuesday night unanimously voted to ban gas from new low-rise residential buildings starting Jan. 1.” But it gets worse. The San Francisco Chronicle adds, “In an effort to be more inclusive, the Berkeley City Council adopted an ordinance Tuesday to replace gendered language in the city’s municipal code with neutral terms.”

Closing Arguments


POLICY: We need a national citizenship drive (New York Daily News)

POLICY: ICE raids will force long-needed national immigration debate (Issues & Insights)

HUMOR: commie-AOC proposes radical new green-energy program: shoveling money directly into a furnace (IMAO)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64364?mailing_id=4428&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4428&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Census Citizenship Question Is Constitutional
 and Should Be Approved
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thehill.com } ~ The census-form question about citizenship is constitutional and will likely be found so by the U.S. Supreme Court... I base this thesis on five premises. Premise 1 All federal judges are political — all. Constitutional scholar Jeffrey Toobin has observed: “When it comes to the core of the Court’s work, determining the contemporary meaning of the Constitution, it is ideology, not craft or skill, that controls the outcome of cases.... When it comes to the incendiary political issues that end up in the Supreme Court, what matters is not the quality of the arguments, but the identity of the justices.” What separates justices “is judicial philosophy — ideology — and that means everything on the Supreme Court.” Similarly, Richard A. Posner, the great conservative judge and law professor, has written: “It is rarely possible to say with a straight face of a Supreme Court decision that it was decided correctly or incorrectly.” Constitutional cases, he added, “can be decided only a basis of a political judgment, and a political judgment cannot be called right or wrong by reference to legal norms.” Some judges, after previewing this piece told me that Judge Posner’s comment about judges always being political is too categorical, that sometimes judges and judicial philosophies are not political. Roy Cohn once accurately  observed: “Don’t tell me what the law is; tell me who the judge is.” Premise 2 The claim that the census should seek only the number of residents, legal and illegal, in a state is not accurate. Section 2 of the 14th Amendment mandates the counting of citizens in each state. Legal scholars David B. Rivkin and Gibson B. Gray explain  the necessity of this: “Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that if a state denies the franchise to anyone eligible to vote, its allotment of House seats shall be ‘reduced in the proportion which the number of such ... citizens shall bear to the whole number of ... citizens … in such state.’ This language is absolute and mandatory. Compliance is impossible without counting how many citizens live in each state.”  Some 11 million residents are in the United States illegally. Their count is external to Section 2...Premise 3 - Premise 4 - Premise 5
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Murder, Rape, Assault, Burglary: 6 Examples 
of California’s Sanctuary Policies 
Leading to More Crimes
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by Fred Lucas
dailysignal.com } ~ Illegal immigrants released by local police in California after their arrests for minor offenses go on to be charged with more serious crimes such as murder, rape, and assault, according to a new government report... Those crimes could have been prevented if these sanctuary jurisdictions had turned over those accused to federal immigration officials for deportation, the report suggests. In one case, police in San Francisco arrested an illegal immigrant from Honduras again and again over nine months as he repeatedly was released and then booked again for more offenses rather than turned over to federal officials. The cases are documented in the newly published quarterly Declined Detainer Report from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement covering January, February, and March 2018. The report focuses solely on California jurisdictions, although most large municipalities across the country adopted “sanctuary” policies that prohibit local law enforcement from assisting federal immigration authorities. California is a sanctuary state. When ICE determines an illegal immigrant accused of a criminal offense is in police custody, the agency issues a detainer. The paperwork is supposed to ensure the alleged offender will be transferred to federal authorities at the conclusion of his or her time in the local jail, instead of being released. But sanctuary jurisdictions—as a matter of policy—ignore the detainers, which in some cases means the criminal illegal immigrants are released and able to commit new crimes rather than be deported...  These sanctuary states are ran by dems.
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Explosive Testimony From Inside US Jihadi Cult
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By Ryan Mauro
clarionproject.org } ~The Clarion Intelligence Network has obtained an explosive testimony from a former member of Jammat ul-Fuqra–now known as Muslims of the Americas (MOA)... an Islamist  apocalyptic cult that claims to have 22 “Islamic villages” in the U.S. including its 70-acre “Islamberg” headquarters in upstate New York. This member even went on a MOA trip to Pakistan to meet with their radical cleric, Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, and join with other terrorist groups for training arranged by the Pakistani government’s intelligence agency (ISI). The testimony gives an unprecedented look inside the MOA cult and how terrorists groups backed by Pakistan are overseen and coordinated by the ISI intelligence service. That testimony, published as “Exclusive: I Was Raised by an Islamist Terror Cult in America,” is a jaw-dropping account of life inside the MOA cult in the 1980s and early 1990s. This new testimony is from a member who belonged to MOA from around 1993 to 2002. It is the only public testimony by a member who went on one of their secretive trips to Pakistan. MOA has continually been the subject of counter-terrorism and criminal investigations since its formation. Its 101-acre terrorist training camp in Colorado was raided in 1992 and found to have weaponry, including material for explosives, hidden in tunnels. FBI documents from 2003 state that MOA operates a large network of front businesses, especially security companies, and has links to Al-Qaeda affiliates overseas. FBI documents from 2003-2007 said: “The MOA Fuqra is now an autonomous organization which possesses an infrastructure capable of planning and mounting terrorist campaigns overseas and within the U.S.” FBI documents from as late as December 2016, obtained by the Clarion Project, confirm that MOA engages in paramilitary training inside and outside of its “Islamic villages.” The FBI documents refer to MOA as being a “terrorist organization” that is “armed and dangerous.” The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed in 2017 that its investigation into MOA’s weapons trafficking and arming of felons is ongoing...
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Democratic socialism Newspeak
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By Benjamin Powell
americanthinker.com } ~ Democratic presidential candidate commie-Bernie Sanders unveiled his vision of "democratic socialism" during a recent speech at George Washington University... Unfortunately, he did more to confuse the meaning of democratic socialism than to clarify it. The words capitalism and socialism have meanings, so let's get things clear up front. Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of property coordinated through voluntary exchange in markets. Socialism is an economic system that abolishes private property in the means of production — the land, capital, and labor used to make everything — and replaces it with some form of collective ownership. Whenever socialism has been implemented at a national level, collective ownership in practice has meant state ownership, and government plans have replaced markets as the primary mechanism to coordinate economic activity. Capitalism and socialism can be thought of as two poles of a spectrum. Some countries are more capitalistic, and some are more socialistic, but all fall somewhere between these two poles. This is where commie-Sanders starts mucking things up. He claims that "unfettered capitalism" is causing economic problems in United States. The reality is that capitalism in the United States is far from "unfettered." The Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report is the best measure of where on the socialism-capitalism spectrum a country lies. In the most recent rankings, the United States scored an 8.03 out of a possible 10 points, and even a 10-point score would fall short of "unfettered."...
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Wind power sources remain 
more fantasy than reality
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By WILLIAM F. SHUGHART II
thehill.com } ~ At first glance, wind power seems to be the path to a carbon-free energy future. Once harnessed, it’s clean and abundant. Larger turbines have enhanced wind’s power-generating capacity... But contrary to its supporters, wind energy has grown thanks largely to production tax credits 2.3 cents per kilowatt hour totaling billions of dollars. However, those credits are being phased out, and without such generous subsidies, wind energy will not make much of a dent in power production or carbon mitigation for at least a decade. The amount of wind energy has tripled in the past 10 years, growing to 97,223 megawatts in 41 states. Half of that generating capacity is located in five of them: Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, California and Kansas. Because seasonal wind patterns vary considerably across the country, wind’s contribution to the grid represents just 8 percent of power Despite all the hoopla over wind energy, the nation’s only offshore wind turbines are located in coastal waters near Rhode Island. The Block Island Wind Farm, which went into operation in late 2016, cost $2 billion, plus $16.7 million to compensate companies that lost access to fishing grounds. Operating and maintenance expenses for wind farms currently add about $48,000 per megawatt generated. Massachusetts likewise is preparing to obtain power from more than a score of huge wind turbines off its coast, carried to the mainland by underwater cables, with the cost passed through to households and businesses. According to the Institute for Energy Research, offshore wind energy is “very, very expensive,” costing 2.6 times more than onshore wind power and 3.4 times more than power produced by a natural gas combined-cycle plant. Of course, the cost of wind farms surely will fall as more are built, and perhaps ways will be found to reduce the dangers wind turbines pose to birds, bats, and other wildlife. production nationwide...
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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Call 'Em Racist
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Nate Jackson:  Veteran journalist Brit Hume weighed in on the uproar over President Donald Trump’s latest bomb-throwing: “Trump’s ‘go back’ comments were nativist, xenophobic, counterfactual and politically stupid. But they simply do not meet the standard definition of racist, a word so recklessly flung around these days that its actual meaning is being lost.”

Many grassroots Americans would vehemently disagree with Hume’s first sentence, and we’ll come back to that. It was his second sentence that resonated. Hume even cited the Merriam-Webster’s definition of racism to show that Trump’s comments had nothing to do with race. Hilariously — and pathetically, in a sign of the times — Merriam-Webster replied with a lengthy explanation about how “the lexicographer’s role” isn’t to define “how some may feel [words] should be used,” while warning that “it is prudent to recognize that quoting from a dictionary is unlikely to either mollify or persuade the person with whom one is arguing.”

In other words, words have no meaning if facts conflict with your triggered feelings.

Now, to the first of Hume’s assertions. Again, as we noted yesterday, Trump said what he said poorly, leaving himself wide open for the very assault he’s facing. He said what we think he meant far better in defending himself later. “These are people that hate our country,” he said. “If you’re not happy in the U.S., if you’re complaining all the time, very simply, you can leave.”

Oddly enough, leaving wasn’t his idea. Are we the only ones who remember the scads of leftists pledging to flee America altogether if Trump were elected president? Instead, they’re all still here, still hating our country, still undermining the “democracy” they claim to be defending, and still trying to impeach its president.

That brings us to the press conference Monday involving the four radical leftist congresswomen who are members of what has been dubbed “The Squad” — Alexandria commie-Ocasio-Cortez, worthless-Ilhan Omar, worthless-Rashida Tlaib, and worthless-Ayanna Pressley.

worthless-Omar, the anti-American, anti-Semitic refugee from Somalia — and thus the only one of the four women resembling Trump’s original description — was the worst, calling Trump “blatantly racist” and decrying his “agenda of white nationalists.” She rehearsed a slew of false charges against Trump. Among them:

  • Trump was “credibly accused of … colluding with a foreign government to interfere with our election.” (A team of Democrat lawyers spent two years and $35 million to determine that it was NOT a credible accusation.)

  • He has “pursued an agenda to allow millions of Americans to die from a lack of health care while he transfers millions of dollars in tax cuts to corporations.” (Both charges are BIG Lies and/or tinfoil-hat conspiracies. Millions have not died for lack of health care. And no money was “transferred” to corporations because it wasn’t taken via taxes in the first place. Democrats are the ones bent on transferring wealth and basing their platform on envy.)

  • “This is a president who has called black athletes ‘sons of b—es.’ This is a president that called people who come from black and brown countries ‘s—tholes.’ This is a president who has equated neo-Nazis with those who protest them.” (No, he didn’tNo, he didn’t. And no, he didn’t.)

  • She falsely blamed Trump “for the deaths of children on our border,” and she accused him of “committing human-rights abuses” like “keeping children in cages and having human beings drinking out of toilets.” (Children and the traffickers who bring them might not be trying to illegally cross the border without Democrats’ open invitation. And while no one is drinking from toilets, Border Patrol detention facilities wouldn’t be overwhelmed without, again, Democrats’ open invitation.)

  • worthless-Omar accused Trump of making a “mockery out of our Constitution,” something Democrats do all day every day, while concluding, “It’s time for us to impeach this president.”

There was plenty more, but that should suffice.

The Democrats’ clear agenda with the “racist” charge is a craven political calculation to send Republicans scrambling for cover. It’s working, too, as elected Republicans distance themselves from the president while much of the conservative commentariat piles on Trump. But they’re succumbing to the relentless drumbeat of the Democrats’ Leftmedia super PAC. For example, a Washington Post story today is titled, “White identity politics drives Trump, and the Republican Party under him.”

How to put this politely…? That’s horse pucky. Buried under Trump’s garbled prose is a legitimate point, and it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with loving or hating America and the political party guilty of the latter.

Finally, as we observed yesterday, Trump’s strategy is to unite Democrats behind these four radical socialist faces. “Trump doesn’t play tic-tac-toe. He plays chess,” said Newt Gingrich. “He wants the Democratic Party to identify with” these four women. “liar-Pulosi in a sense was trying to draw a line and say, ‘We are not them.’ After Trump’s tweet, she said, ‘Oh, we really are them.’” liar-Pulosi is indeed standing with the four to push a new resolution to condemn Trump.

Likewise, Rush Limbaugh said, “Trump obviously is attempting to have these people become the face of the Democrat Party. It’s a brilliant political move.” No less than DNC Chief Tom Perez said that of commie-Ocasio-Cortez last year. And a new poll says swing voters do indeed consider commie-AOC to be the “definitional face” of Democrats.

So, we’ll see if Trump’s strategy really is brilliant.  ~The Patriot Post

VIDEO:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nQ6I9R--ys
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Reminder: Economic 
Expansion Helps Everyone
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Robin Smith  
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A Different Take on Trump’s Tweet Storm About ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen
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By William Sullivan
americanthinker.com } ~ President Trump was raked over the coals by both the left and right for his tweet storm on Sunday, suggesting... “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world if they have a functioning government at all, now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run.  Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.  Then come back and show us how it is done.  These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that liar-Nancy Pulosi would be very happy to work out free travel arrangements! I’ve wracked my brain trying to find the racism that many are arguing is so obviously inherent in that series of tweets. But it’s simply not there.  He never once mentions race or ethnicity. And more to the point, it seems only too obvious that he is referring to ideas about governance. But here’s something you may not have considered, given that everyone and I mean everyone, as I’ve yet to see a pundit suggest anything to the contrary seems to be assuming that the tweets are meant to call out worthless-Ilhan Omar, commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, worthless-Rashida Tlaib, and worthless-Ayanna Pressley – or “the Squad,” as this quartet of freshman Congresswomen has been so stupidly dubbed  by Maureen Dowd. But why? If you still doubt me, try reading that sequence of tweets, above, again. Now, it couldn’t be clearer that Trump is referring to worthless-Ilhan Omar and her native country of Somalia, which is a nation exactly as he describes. But he doesn’t say “four Congresswomen” or invoke any others among them at all. In fact, the only reason one might think it’s specifically referencing those four women at all is Trump’s use of plural words -- “Congresswomen,” “countries,” “governments,” or the pronoun “they.” But there is evidence that this series of tweets was specifically about worthless-Ilhan Omar, and not meant to specifically invoke the others it’s assumed to reference.  First of all, let’s presume, as the media has, that Trump meant to include commie-Ocasio-Cortez in his blanket statement about “Congresswomen who originally came from other countries.” Trump is well-known to voraciously imbibe cable news, and few who know anything about commie-Ocasio-Cortez don’t know that she’s of Puerto Rican descent. Did Trump just miss that in the copious hours of watching news reports about the most prominent upstart in the Democrat Party and the leftist media’s new favorite darling?...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/a_different_take_on_trumps_tweet_storm_about_progressive_democrat_congresswomen.html  
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Hiring Pro-Hamas Aide Completes Elizabeth 
dinky-Warren’s Anti-Israel Pivot
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By Erielle Davidson
thefederalist.com } ~ Last week, Democrat 2020 hopeful Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren tweeted triumphantly about her role in pressing the Department of Justice to investigate a prominent Donald Trump donor and longtime supporter of pro-Israel causes in America... dinky-Warren’s targeting of GOP fundraiser Elliot Broidy is just the latest episode in the senator’s move to embrace the anti-Israel left, to help establish and cement her bona fides with far-left progressives who’ve come to see the destruction of the Jewish state as a non-negotiable cause. dinky-Warren’s move tolls warning bells of what we might come to expect from other 2020 candidates eager to appeal to their far-left base. dinky-Warren has been itching to prove her anti-Israel chops among the progressives, and it would appear Broidy offers a convenient vehicle for just that. But harassing prominent Republican donors isn’t the only ingredient needed for completing dinky-Warren’s anti-Israel pivot. As Jordan Schactel of The Daily Wire pointed out, dinky-Warren’s recent moves follow a linear trend that the 2020 hopeful has been following since she first boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in 2015. She was a vocal critic of the embassy move and recognition of Israel’s capital in 2017 and joined commie-Bernie Sanders in chastising Israel during the March 2018 Gaza protests without one critique of Hamas, despite Hamas’ role in orchestrating the protests. Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon reported that dinky-Warren recently hired anti-Israel radical Max Berger, who helped to found the IfNotNow organization, a group that has devoted itself to damaging Israel’s reputation in America under the guise of seeking an end to Israel’s “occupation” of Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem. In doing so, IfNotNow routinely ignores Palestinian terrorism against Jews, promotes the “scholarship” of noted terrorist spokespersons, and even harasses young Jews attending Birthright trips. Berger’s co-founder, Simone Zimmerman, previously served as the Jewish outreach coordinator for commie-Bernie Sanders, until she was fired for writing a profanity-filled Facebook post directed at Benjamin Netanyahu...
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CAIR Joins Anti-Semitic Palestinian Advocacy Groups to Protest NJ BDS Bill
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by John Rossomando
investigativeproject.org } ~ A pending New Jersey bill banning anti-Israel rhetoric and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activities on college campuses and in public schools in the state unfairly links such activities with anti-Semitism... officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) say. CAIR's partners protesting the legislation include American Muslims for Palestine of New Jersey (AMP), Jewish Voice for Peace of Northern NJ; and the Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, among others. "The falsely-titled Prohibits anti-Semitism in public schools and institutions of higher education legislation would only create confusion between what are real and punishable anti-Semitic hate crimes and the protected free speech rights of American students and faculty members," CAIR-NJ Executive Director Jim Sues said last week in a statement. But evidence from college campuses across the country shows that anti-Zionist activities against Israel lead to anti-Semitic actions against pro-Israel Jews. According to the bill's text, anti-Semitism includes: · Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jewish people or the power of Jewish people as a collective; · Accusing Jewish people as a whole or the State of Israel of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust; · Accusing Jewish people of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jewish people worldwide, than to the interest of their own nations...
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Far Left Prepares To Throw scumbag/liar-
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By Warren Henry 
thefederalist.com } ~ The mood of left-wing Democrats might be neatly summarized by the media coverage of last weekend’s Netroots Nation conference... The progressive left seems poised to consign former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama to the dustbin of history. Moreover, supposedly woke agitators do not seem to care how their exercise might affect black voters who comprise a crucial part of their 2020 electoral strategy. According to Vox, “Progressive activists know their enemy in the 2020 Democratic primary: loose lips liar-Joe Biden.” As Vox notes, “Some activists at Netroots conceded they would support loose lips liar-Biden in a general election if they had no other choice.” Dean Obeidallah of CNN and The Daily Beast finds this concession a sign of a pragmatism that should make President Donald Trump quake with fear, as opposed to the rock-bottom minimum expectation for a group that claims to believe the president is an existential threat to the republic. Not unlike the Hollywood types who take private jets to climate change conferences, the gap between rhetoric and action is considerable. The left’s antipathy is not limited to loose lips liar-Biden. At the Washington Post, David Weigel profiles “The Democrats who don’t miss scumbag/liar-nObama or loose lips liar-Biden.” In his day, Weigel covered any number of Tea Party conferences often unfairly; if he noticed that Netroots is the left-wing, hall-of-funhouse-mirrors version of those events, he failed to include it in his news “analysis.” Rather, Weigel provided a deadpan account of how “the largest annual gathering of liberal activists, which pulls everyone from electoral data gurus to disability rights activists into one loud space, had no nostalgia at all for a two-term president who, for a while, seemed to redefine the Democratic Party.” In this telling, scumbag/liar-nObama — and by extension, loose lips liar-Biden — “left activists demoralized, reducing Democratic Party power to its lowest levels in 90 years.” That scumbag/liar-nObama redefined his party as further to the left and that it is in tatters because he pandered to the activist left too much is a possibility simply too terrible for them to contemplate...
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9 killed, 32 injured in weekend 
shootings across Chicago
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by chicago.suntimes.com ~ At least 41 people were shot, including the nine fatalities, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The weekend’s violence did not break a grim pattern that has lasted all summer... despite pledges from the city’s new Democrat mayor to get the crisis under control. The first killing occurred in the early evening Friday. Raymond A. Hicks, 31, was shot dead just before 6 p.m. with bullets to the head and chest. He was found dead in a Chatham alley. Early Saturday morning, George Bingham, 57, was shot dead around 2:20 a.m. outside the New Parie hotel in Garfield Park on the West Side. A witness said they saw the victim lying on the ground next to a 2008 Chrysler minivan. A drive-by shooting attack on a group of five people around 3 a.m. claimed the life of 24-year-old Daquan Cathary. The Gresham shooting wounded four other people, one of whom was left in critical condition. Half an hour later, Byron Ruiz, 36, was found dead on the porch of a home in Pilsen with several gunshot wounds. Later Saturday, two men were killed in a double shooting around 11 p.m. in South Chicago. Matthew Mason, 26, and Maurice Jackson, 31, were shot dead in a vehicle around 11 p.m. A man was killed on the West Side in Lawndale around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Jermaine King, 26, was killed with a shot to the chest. Hours later, 22-year-old Jessie L. Curry was shot dead in the West Side neighborhood of Austin around 6 a.m. All told, at least 26 other people were wounded from early Friday evening to dawn on Monday. The weekend’s violence continued a trend of deadly shootings in the city that has not stopped all summer...
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Reminder: Economic Expansion Helps Everyone
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Robin Smith:  A few weeks ago, Dr. Arthur Laffer was recognized by President Donald Trump at the White House with the presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And why was the father of supply-side economics, the top economic adviser to former President Ronald Reagan and coauthor of the book Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy, awarded the highest civilian honor? It’s presented to those who have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

As most conservatives who love America know, authentic freedom is characteristic of individual self-reliance. That self-reliance comes when work, wealth, and worth are valued. Currently, America is in the midst of the longest economic expansion in our nation’s history thanks to policies that have reversed the failed beliefs that government has its own money, that jobs are created by the votes of politicians, and that Americans are best when beholden to and kept by the bureaucracies of the state.

During the presentation ceremony of this “supreme civilian decoration in precedence in the United States,” Dr. Laffer, whose policies are rooted in the soil of true freedom, was praised by Trump: “Few people in history have revolutionized economic thought and policy like Dr. Art Laffer. He developed a brilliant theory, shaped unprecedented economic reforms, and helped turn a severe recession into a remarkable boom. He proved that the most powerful way to grow the economy and raise government revenue was not to increase tax rates but to adopt strong incentives that unleash the power of human freedom and innovate, create jobs, and deliver greater opportunity to all Americans. And he’s proved it over and over again.”

In years past, the Left has scoffed at the “Laffer Curve,” a doctrine holding that if individuals keep more of their own money, along with businesses, through lower taxes and minimal regulation, economic growth would be the result and government revenue would actually increase.

In 2018, there was economic (GDP) growth of 3% after the tax cuts of 2017. Over the ensuing decade, that will leave $1.5 trillion to individuals and companies that otherwise would have been sent to Washington for the insatiable spending appetite of the incumbent class that is without partisan differentiation. For 10 straight months, average wages have grown about 3%; however, for the poorest fourth of the labor force, highs of 4.4% wage growth have been measured and reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. As conveyed by the Daily Signal, “The highest-income workers’ wages are growing at a more modest rate, more than a percentage point lower than those of low-wage workers.”

Americans’ wages are rising while unemployment is at a near-50-year low of 3.7%. Dealing with the illegal cash-paid workforce that undermines the particularly undereducated and lower-skilled workers has been part of “Trumponomics.” Synonymous with supply-side theories that open markets coupled with, as Trump has shown, fair trade (which also includes free trade) is the winning formula. And, not too surprising, those who need the most help are getting it, says The Daily Signal in reporting that the unemployment rate for blacks is just 6%, right at the historic low of 5.9%. Moreover, “women, Hispanics and workers without a college degree are seeing similar trends.”

There are three threats to this good news and effective policy: The failure to secure our borders to the influx and invasion of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants that require massive entitlement spending and feed the unlawful job market; the idiocy seen on the political Left that demands freedom be substituted with socialism; and the unbridled and excessive spending of all of DC.

Once again, leftists are likely stewing in their realization that a political novice, Donald Trump, has taken tried-and-true-conservative principles, applied them, and voila… We’ve found the “magic wand” that supposedly would be needed by Trump to bring back certain jobs and boost America’s world-leading economy.

The facts are that, when markets are free and fair and taxes are lower with fewer regulations, so-called “trickle-down” economics works. Let’s all enjoy and keep “Laffing.”  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64266?mailing_id=4421&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4421&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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The Bipartisan Sanctuary City Shell Game
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Arnold Ahlert  
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‘Four Horsewomen Of The Apocalypse’ — Sen. 
John Kennedy Rips Squad ‘Whack Jobs’
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by SCOTT MOREFIELD
dailycaller.com } ~ Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy defended President Donald Trump from accusations of racism stemming from a series of tweets... then blasted the four members of the “so-called ‘Squad'” as “whack jobs” who are “destroying the Democratic Party.” On Tuesday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Louisiana Senator expressed his belief that the president is not a “racist” while acknowledging that the tweet was “a poor choice of words” which “he clarified.” “What he has said now in clarification is that this is not China,” Kennedy said. “This is America, and in America, if you hate our country, you are free to leave. Now he said that in response to the behavior of the four congresswomen that you are talking about, the so-called ‘squad.'” Kennedy did question the wisdom of exchanging “playground insults” with the far left congresswomen, because “when you try to argue with a fool, that proves there’s two.” “The simple fact of the matter is that the four congresswomen think that America was wicked in its origins,” said Kennedy. “They think that America and its people are even more wicked now, that we are all racist and misogynistic, and evil. Now they’re entitled to their opinion, they are Americans, but I’m entitled to my opinion, and I just think they’re left-wing cranks, and they’re the reason that there are directions on a shampoo bottle. I think we should ignore them.”...
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Jim Jordan Responds to 
the Hot Mess Today in Congress
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theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Obviously Fox News needs to present two-and-a-half minutes of negative spin prior to getting to the nub of the representative interview (happens at 2:45 below), but eventually MacCallum gets around to discussing the Moonbat legislative fiasco with Jim Jordan:  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/16/jim-jordan-responds-to-the-hot-mess-today-in-congress/  
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Germany: Nest of Middle Eastern Spies
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by Soeren Kern
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Foreign intelligence services, especially those from Turkey, Syria and Iran, have increased their activities in Germany during the past 12 months... according to Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency. The foreign intelligence services are not only pursuing dissidents among the large diasporas in Germany, they are also targeting Jewish and Israeli interests in the country. At the same time, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood appear to be operating with impunity in Germany, while, according to the BfV, the number of Salafists in the country has tripled in recent years and now exceeds 11,000. Overall, the BfV estimates that Germany is home to more than 26,000 Islamists, an unknown number of whom pose an immediate threat of attack. The new figures are included the latest annual report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV), and were presented by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and BfV President Thomas Haldenwang in Berlin on June 27. The report, considered the most important indicator of internal security in Germany, draws a bleak picture and raises questions about the government's apparent passivity in face of mounting threats. Iran - Turkey - Syria - Salafists and other Islamists - Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas - Weapons Proliferation   The BfV noted a "high number" of attempts by "covert Pakistani procurement structures" illegally to obtain technology for use in Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. The BfV also observed a "significant increase" in attempts by Iran to obtain technology for its missile program, which was not part of the Iran nuclear deal. The BfV reported that Syrian intermediaries were also continuing efforts to obtain products for weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons...
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22 MS-13 Members Charged In Murders 
Of Seven People Hacked With Machetes
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by CHUCK ROSS
dailycaller.com } ~ The Justice Department charged 22 alleged members of MS-13 in connection with seven murders in the Los Angeles area... including one in which a rival gang member was dismembered with a machete. The indictment, which was unsealed Monday, focused on members of a Los Angeles-area subset of MS-13 known as the Fulton clique. Prosecutors called the San Fernando Valley-based gang a “particularly violent subset” of MS-13 that “has recently seen an influx of young immigrants from Central America.” The Trump administration has made MS-13 a major focus of his crackdown on illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The notoriously violent gang originated in El Salvador, but has strongholds in numerous American cities. Nick Hanna, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, said that the Fulton clique was responsible for 24 murders overall in the Los Angeles area over the past two years. Thirty-four members of the gang were indicted in 2017 in connection with three slayings. The latest indictment charges the 22 alleged gang members under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. In addition to seven murders, they are accused of attempted murder and trafficking more than $1.2 million in drugs. The indictment alleges gang leaders authorized and coordinated the murders of rival gang members, people who were believed to be working with law enforcement, and one homeless man who lived in a park in Hollywood controlled by the gang...
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Congress Owes Troops Timely Funding
by Bradley Bowman and Mikhael Smits
fdd.org } ~ General Mark Milley, the president’s nominee to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged Congress  on Thursday to pass defense appropriations on time... The October 1 deadline for a new budget may seem far away, yet the summer recess means Congress only has a few weeks in session before then. Milley agreed with the bipartisan  National Defense Strategy Commission that failing to act before then would be “reckless.” When Congress fails to provide timely defense appropriations, it resorts to continuing resolutions (CRs), essentially copying and pasting the previous year’s defense budget, rather than revising it to address evolving and urgent needs. CRs create cascading problems for the Defense Department and American national security—stalling modernization, increasing costs, undermining readiness, and neglecting service members. A CR ignores the Pentagon’s budget request for the new fiscal year and locks in place old funding levels disconnected from new realities. A CR also deprives the department of the authority it needs to start new and essential programs. Consider the Navy and Marine Corps, for example. Depending on the duration, a CR would create a cumulative shortfall of $20.4 billion. It would also delay eighteen planned research and development programs, including ones related to unmanned vessels and artificial intelligence. The CR would also block thirty-three construction projects and force the delay or cancellation of scheduled fourth-quarter maintenance for ten vessels. CRs also waste taxpayer dollars due to supplier and contractor uncertainty. As General Milley noted, CRs represent an “inefficient use of the taxpayers’ dollars” and a “poor way to do business.” Senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee Rep. Mac Thornberry  explained in May that stable funding “makes a tremendous difference. Everybody from the secretary to a plant manager of a subcontractor will tell you that having 12 months of funding that you knew was there enables them to be tremendously more efficient, get much more productivity and more value for the taxpayer dollars.” Until last year, Congress had failed to provide on-time annual defense funding for roughly a decade. Congress rightly demands that the Defense Department spend carefully and keep its programs on budget. If it falls back on another CR, however, Congress will own the blame for billions of dollars lost. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has estimated that CRs cost the Navy $4 billion from 2011 to 2017. “We have put $4 billion in a trash can, poured lighter fluid on it, and burned it,” he said. He noted that “Four billion is enough to buy a squadron of F-35s, two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, 3,000 Harpoon missiles.” The Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan noted the “powerful combined impact of predictable shipbuilding profiles and stable, on-time funding absent a continuing resolution.” Without an on-time defense appropriation, those benefits dissipate...
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The Bipartisan Sanctuary City Shell Game
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Arnold Ahlert:  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is trying to do Americans disgusted with rampant lawlessness a big favor. He is introducing a bill called “The Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act.” “The legislation creates a private right of civil action for the victims of sanctuary jurisdictions, allowing them to bring an action for compensatory damages against the sanctuary jurisdiction as a result of a violent crime committed by an illegal immigrant,” a press release explains. “Any sanctuary city or jurisdiction that refuses to waive its immunity as it relates to sanctuary-related civil action would be subject to the withholding of certain Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding.”

Sanctuary jurisdictions epitomize the Democrat Party’s odious belief that they can ignore any law that doesn’t comport with their worldview. Thus we have hundreds of locales around the nation that knowingly obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE), using a variety of methods to do.

Tillis was motivated by the machinations of several sanctuary jurisdictions in his home state, and he supplied an anecdote revealing what it’s like going against a bankrupt ideology that supports anarchism to sustain itself:

Earlier this month, the Mecklenburg County (NC) Sheriff’s Office refused to notify ICE and comply with a lawful detainer request when it released a dangerous illegal immigrant from county jail who was charged with multiple domestic violence charges for strangling a woman and threatening to kill her. This was only one of more than 20 troubling instances this year of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office releasing potentially dangerous individuals after refusing to comply with detainer requests. The reckless sanctuary policy prompted criticism from the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

Criticism is not enough, and Tillis makes it clear why his bill is desperately needed. “If politicians want to prioritize reckless sanctuary policies over public safety, they should also be willing to provide just compensation for the victims,” he said in a statement.

Tillis’s bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Ted Cruz (R-TX). “If state and local public officials jeopardize the safety and security of the American people by refusing to comply with federal immigration law, they should be held to account by our citizens when such reckless endangerment leads to more violent crime,” Grassley asserts. “We are a nation of laws.”

Are we? In Maryland’s Prince George’s County, Police Chief Henry Stawinski and FOP president John Teletchea have released an instructional video that teaches police how not to cooperate with federal warrants, if those warrants are for “civil” matters related to illegal aliens. “Let’s be clear,” Chief Stawinski asserts, “the intent of this policy is to keep both you, and our community, safe.”

Pure nonsense. What these ideologically compromised hacks are saying is that illegals must commit a criminal  act before they will deign to follow federal law.

National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) President Brandon Judd notes the infuriating double-standard. “If you, as an American citizen, don’t pay your taxes or don’t pay a civil traffic fine do you think you’re going to be given a free pass?” he asks. “Not likely. Since traffic infractions are mostly ‘civil’ offenses, does this mean that residents of Prince George’s County don’t have to pay the fines and can ignore court appearances? And if not, why not?”

Because illegals have garnered special privilege, among Democrats determined to “fundamentally transform” the United States — or eliminate the nation state altogether. That project requires millions of illegals who can be used as canon fodder for the wholesale and purposeful breakdown of law and order, and the precipitation of a demographic shift aimed at entrenching progressives in permanent positions of power. Pathetically, Democrats are aided in their efforts by Chamber of Commerce-beholden Republicans, more than willing to provide their campaign donors with cheap labor.

Nothing speaks to this bipartisan sellout more forcefully than the reality that each party had control of the House, the Senate and the presidency for two years — Democrats from 2008-2010 and Republicans from 2016-2018 — and neither did anything to address what is now a nonexistent border, nor the most blatant form of selective law enforcement that sanctuary cities represent.

In short, the members of our Ruling Class are shameless shills for the globalist agenda. The one where America is just another nation (or no nation at all) and its workers — and citizens — are no more worthy of consideration than any other group of people, anywhere else in the world.

It is also why five equally disingenuous Supreme Court justices somehow determined that the “intent” of putting a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census transcended the legal ability to do so, even though the question has been included in the past with no problem — and despite the fact that a substantial majority of Americans support including it.

Unfortunately, in a rather uncharacteristic display of weakness, Trump has let SCOTUS get away with it.

Moreover, despite Tillis’s efforts, it is apparent that both parties remain steadfast in one overriding effort: They are desperate to prevent the public from knowing how many illegals reside in America. For decades we’ve been told it’s 11 million — and virtually everyone who uses that figure gets it from the Pew Research Center, which gets it from the Department of Homeland Security — the same DHS that has neverconducted a census.

The other government entity charged with determining the number of illegals in the United States? The U.S. Census Bureau, which hasn’t posed the question to all U.S. households since 1950. And since 1970, when the agency began sending out long- and short-form questionnaires, the question was included solely on the long form that was only sent to a sample of one-in-six households.

Since neither the DHS or the Census Bureau have done anything remotely resembling a genuine effort to determine how many illegals are here, the notion that it’s 11 million, and has remained on or near that total for over a decade — even as the most dedicated leftists now admit the border is “in chaos” — is utterly absurd.

Why the subterfuge? Because 20 million or 30 million illegals would wholly alter the parameters of the “comprehensive immigration reform” debate that inevitably ends with a “pathway to citizenship.” Even “worse,” real numbers would seriously jeopardize the entire sanctuary-supporting apparatus and the complete debasement of citizenship it represents.

In a better nation, Tillis’s bill would be a no-brainer. In fact, it would also include criminal liability for politicians and law-enforcement officials willing to allow Americans to be raped, murdered, and otherwise victimized to preserve a wholly corrupt status quo.

In this nation? Once can expect this bill to quietly die, courtesy of Democrats who care more about illegals than Americans, and Republicans who always promise to do the right thing but never follow through when they can actually do it. Thus, while Democrats control the House, Tillis, et al, will take a “tough” stand against sanctuary cities.

It’s what “business as usual” — better known as ruling-class-orchestrated anarchy — is all about.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64267?mailing_id=4421&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4421&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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How Trump Is Uniting Democrats
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Kellyanne Conway defies congressional 
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By MORGAN CHALFANT
thehill.com } ~ White House counselor Kellyanne Conway defied a congressional subpoena demanding her testimony Monday on instructions from President Trump... raising the likelihood the House Oversight and Reform Committee will soon vote to hold her in contempt. White House counsel Pat Cipollone notified the committee in a letter Monday that Trump had directed Conway to evade the appearance, arguing that she is immune from mandated congressional testimony about her work in the West Wing. “The long-standing principle of immunity for senior advisers to the President is firmly rooted in the Constitution's separation of powers and protects the core functions of the Presidency,” Cipollone wrote to Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman scumbag-Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Monday. “We are adhering to this well-established precedent in order to ensure that future Presidents can effectively execute the responsibilities of the Office of the President,” Cipollone wrote. The committee convened briefly for the hearing Monday afternoon without Conway. scumbag-Cummings said he would schedule a business meeting on July 25 to vote to hold Conway in contempt if she does not appear for testimony. “We hope Ms. Conway will reconsider,” scumbag-Cummings said in opening remarks. “Our goal is to hear from Ms. Conway. If she does not change course, we have no choice but to hold her accountable.” Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), the committee’s top Republican, called the hearing “pure politics” and part of an effort “to silence one of the president’s top advisers.”...
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Trump’s Tweets Against The ‘Squad’ Unify Democrats After liar-Pulosi, Progressives Feud
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by AUDREY CONKLIN
dailycaller.com } ~ President Donald Trump’s tweets from Sunday suggesting freshman Democratic congresswomen “go back” to their home countries appears to have unified the Democratic Party after a week of feuding... Some pundits are saying this unification, however, may not be as positive for moderate Democrats as it is for progressive Democrats. The joining forces of Democratic Reps. worthless-Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, worthless-Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and worthless-Ilhan Omar of Minnesota — the self-proclaimed “squad” whom Trump was likely referring to in his tweets over the weekend — might further solidify the party’s progressive base ahead of the 2020 elections. Rush Limbaugh, host of “The Rush Limbaugh Show” said Monday that he believes Trump’s actions to bring the four congresswomen together is purposeful. “I think Trump sees this rift developing between liar-Pulosi and the Democrat leadership and these new communists on the left led by commie-Cortez, and I think he wants them back together again,” Limbaugh said. “I think Trump wants the Democrat Party to become known as the commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Green New Deal socialism party. I think he wants to hang that label around all of them, and for that to happen they have to be unified,” he continued. All four congresswomen have received harsh criticism for their progressive policy ideas and rhetoric regarding everything from immigration to the Israel-Palestine conflict to House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi’s record on race...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/16/trump-squad-unifies-democrats/?utm_medium=email  
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Floor fight erupts as liar-Pulosi speaks ahead 
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foxnews.com } ~ Escalating tensions on Capitol Hill erupted into a contentious floor fight in the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon... as House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi spoke in favor of a proposed resolution condemning "racist" comments by President Trump -- even as Republican leaders stood steadfast behind the president. When liar-Pulosi's remarks turned personal,  Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins rose to challenge her and demand that her words be "taken down." The extraordinary rebuke, the first of its kind involving a member of Congress and a speaker of the House in decades, theoretically could result in liar-Pulosi being barred from speaking on the floor for the remainder of the day. "There is no place anywhere for the president's words, which are not only divisive, but dangerous -- and have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color," liar-Pulosi, D-Calif., said. "It's so sad because you would think that there would be a given that we would universally, in this body, just say, 'Of course. Of course.' "liar-Pulosi continued, her voice rising: "There's no excuse for any response to those words but a swift and strong unified condemnation. Every single member of this institution, Democratic and Republican, should join us in condemning the president's racist tweets. To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values, and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people. I urge a unanimous vote, and yield back the balance of my time." Collins then stood and asked if liar-Pulosi wanted to "rephrase that comment.""I have cleared my remarks with the parliamentarian before I read them," liar-Pulosi said, before walking away to applause. "Can I ask the words be taken down? I make a point of order that the gentlewoman's words are unparliamentary and be taken down," Collins said. "The chair will remind all members, please, please, do not make personality-based comments," the chair, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., said. As the consultation dragged on, Pelosi then appeared to leave the House floor, which itself constitutes a violation of House Rules when someone’s words are taken down... "why progressives from countries that are more or less failed states with barely if any functioning government tell the people of the United States how their own government should be run", “go back” and fix the countries “they originally came from.” is not a racist comment.   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-floor-fight-pelosi-collins-condemn-trump-tweets  
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Mark Levin Blasts the Four Radical House Dems: ‘This Is Not Garden-Variety Liberalism’
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By Wayne Dupree
lifezette.com } ~ Conservative radio host Mark Levin didn’t hold back when he called out the #RadicalFour for their vicious attacks on President Donald Trump... Reps. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)), worthless-Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), worthless-Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and worthless-Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) are all gunning for attaching the racist label to Trump — just as they did to House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi (D-Calif.) last week. The media, rather conveniently, turned their heads away from that, however. Levin, who was lit up for his radio segment early this week, told his audience many Americans are sick and tired of these individuals and the evil things they say about the Jews and our country. “Their ideology is not garden-variety liberalism; they’re the burn-down-the-country crowd,” the host said, among other things, as Conservative Review pointed out. “Nobody’s talking about their race. They keep talking about their race. The president didn’t mention their race.” “And it is worth noting that they do hate the very country they live in,” Levin added, in reference to both worthless-Omar and worthless-Tlaib. “It’s not a matter of debate on policy and so forth, which is how they try to make it.”Levin also said the president didn’t start this fight. “He’s obviously frustrated by this, as president of the United States, as are many of us,” he said. “I suspect, as a man who loves his country … I suspect he’s had enough of this, that he’s not sitting there analyzing this politically.” “These are backbenchers who said hateful, outrageous things about their own country,” Levin concluded. “Nobody’s mentioning their color; people are outraged by what they’re saying.”...
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Mitch McConnell Responds 
To Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Comments
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dailycaller.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell responded Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s tweets against Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other freshman congresswomen... saying both parties need to watch their rhetoric. “From the President to the Speaker to freshmen members of the House, all of us have a responsibility to elevate the public discourse. Our words do matter,” McConnell said at a press conference in the Capitol. “We all know politics is a contact sport, but it’s about time we lowered the temperature all across the board.” This comes as Speaker of the House liar-Nancy Pulosi announced Monday that House Democrats are drafting a resolution to condemn Trump’s tweets directed at the freshman congresswomen. However, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy defended Trump’s comments, saying they were not racist. Trump defended himself Sunday night as Democrats and others have continued to accuse him of racism after he tweeted that freshman Democratic Reps. commie-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez of New York, worthless-Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, worthless-Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts, and wprthless-Ilhan Omar of Minnesota should “go back” and fix the countries “they originally came from.” “So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion,” Trump tweeted. “Whenever confronted, they call their adversaries, including liar-Nancy Pulosi, ‘RACIST.’ Their disgusting language and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged. If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior, then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020!” Trump’s tweets have caused major pushback from many, including some of those on both sides of the aisle.
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How Trump Is Uniting Democrats
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Thomas Gallatin:  President Donald Trump ignited an outrage firestorm on Sunday with a series of social-media messages in which he called out “Progressive Democrat Congresswomen” for their “viciously telling the people of the United States … how our government is to be run.” Trump then asked, “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came[?] Then come back and show us how it is done.” While Trump named no names, it was clear that his message was directed at four radical-leftist congresswomen — commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), worthless-Ilhan Omar (MN), worthless-Ayanna Pressley (MA), and worthless-Rashida Tlaib (MI) — who have been engaged in a growing feud with House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi. Tellingly, he concluded his message, “I’m sure that liar-Nancy Pulosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements.”

Cue the outrage that quickly cropped up from all sides.  Predictably, the Left responded in typical hysterics, yelling “racist!” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries called Trump a “racial arsonist.” Democrat presidential candidate commie-Bernie Sanders bloviated, “When I call the president a racist, this is what I’m talking about.” And of course commie-AOC chimed in, “Mr. President, the country I ‘come from,’ & the country we all swear to, is the United States. But given how you’ve destroyed our border with inhumane camps, all at a benefit to you & the corps who profit off them, you are absolutely right about the corruption laid at your feet.”

But by no means were Democrats alone in pulling out the race canard — some on the Right were too quick to see racism in Trump’s words. Matt Walsh wrote, “What absolute idiocy. This is a gift to commieAOC, worthless-Omar, and all Democrats. Anyone who thinks Trump is deploying some brilliant strategy, rather than just mouthing off like a child constantly, needs to have their head examined. … What’s worse is that he compels his sycophants to echo whatever dumb crap he says. So now we’ll be treated to three days of Trump fans explaining in all sincerity why non-white Democrats should indeed go back to where they came from. What a disaster. Again. Thanks, Trump!” David French bemoaned, “I can think of few worse things for the soul of the GOP or the health and unity of our republic than adopting a strategy of ‘be racist to own the libs.’”

To be fair, Trump’s wording was indeed (and intentionally) crass and provocative. However, to accept the Left’s narrative that Trump’s motivation was simply an expression of some deep-seated racist instinct is to miss the actual calculation. This is another classic case of Trump being Trump, by which we mean his uninhibited political bomb-throwing. As we have argued before, Trump plays politics like a Democrat, lobbing accusations against opponents that hit upon some grain of truth but primarily spark outrage.

Stepping back from the immediate emotion of the moment, Trump has now forced liar-Pulosi into defending the very congresswomen who had just last week called  her a racist. Has Trump now successfully ended the “civil war” within the Democrat Party? Such is the worry expressed by conservative media pundits. But what if Trump’s move was strategically aimed at hanging the hard-Left albatross of commie-AOC and her “Squad” around the Democrats’ necks? Was he seeking to force Democrats to circle the wagons around these leftist congresswomen so that the party en masse is viewed as the party of the extreme Left? It certainly is a possibility.

Furthermore, the sentiment expressed by Trump is only seen as “racist” when viewed through the leftist lens of intersectionality. How many Americans have become sick and tired of hearing from the Left that the U.S. is a terrible country because it is racist, capitalist, or because it is strong and successful? How many Americans are tired of being declared “deplorable” for believing in Liberty and defending the Constitution?

While much of the mainstream media will declare that Trump’s words were racist, the fact of the matter is they express the resentment many Americans feel for being labeled by the elites in this country as “wrong” or “backwards” for being proud of our country, its founding, its history, and its laws. It is not racist to demand that America’s borders are secured and our laws are respected. It is not racist to declare that someone who enters this country illegally is by definition an illegal alien, or that anyone who enters should first love this country. Now, a majority of Democrats are once again seen actively defending those extreme leftists whose aim is to fundamentally change America into a socialist nation.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64281?mailing_id=4421&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4421&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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Media Editors:  Political Theater


DEMOCRATS CONDEMN: “The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday night condemning President Donald Trump for his ‘racist comments’ about four Democratic congresswomen of color,” reports NBC News. The Democrats’ condemnation notwithstanding, Trump’s post-remark approval rating improved among Republicans.

DEMOCRATS EXPLOIT: “Rep. scumbag-Al Green (D-Texas) filed articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday under a process that will force a House floor vote by the end of this week.” (The Hill)

scumbag-SCHUMER JOINS REPARATIONS BANDWAGON: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer told a small group of reporters Tuesday that he will support legislation proposed by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to establish a commission to study reparations for slavery.” (Axios)

Government


CITIZENSHIP QUESTION OFFICIALLY JETTISONED:  “A federal judge in New York on Tuesday signed an order permanently blocking the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, days after President Trump gave up on his efforts to get such a question on next year’s census.” (The Hill)

DRAINING THE SWAMP: “The Trump administration is shifting most of the Bureau of Land Management’s personnel in its Washington, D.C. headquarters out west by the end of next year. … Over 80% of the agency’s D.C. staff will be relocated further west to states such as Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.” (Washington Examiner)

The BIG Lies


10% SUBSTANCE, 90% FRAGRANCE: “Over months of work, FBI agents painstakingly researched every claim [Christopher] Steele made about Trump’s possible collusion with Russia, and assembled their findings into a spreadsheet-like document. … One source estimated the spreadsheet found upward of 90 percent of the dossier’s claims to be either wrong, nonverifiable or open-source intelligence found with a Google search.” (John Solomon)

worthless-OMAR’S QUESTIONABLE HISTORY: “New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.” (Star Tribune)

Other Notables


NOT RADICAL ENOUGH: “A woman whose mission in life is to literally sell abortion was apparently not radical enough for Planned Parenthood. … The country’s largest abortion provider abruptly kicked president Leana Wen to the curb after just 10 months at the helm reportedly because Wen refused to say men can get pregnant and wasn’t aggressive enough pushing the life-ending procedure.” (The Daily Wire)

AMAZON PROBED: “The European Union will launch an antitrust investigation into whether Amazon is misusing its dual role as both a marketplace for independent sellers and a retailer of its own products. In particular, the E.U. said its probe will look at the agreements between Amazon and its sellers, which allow Amazon’s retail business to analyze and use third-party seller data. The probe will also examine how Amazon uses its data to pick which sellers win the ‘Buy Box’ — which is prominently displayed on Amazon’s site and allows customers to add items directly to their shopping carts.” (The Washington Post)

JOHN PAUL STEVENS DIES: “Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who was appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975 as a moderate but later became a leading liberal voice, has died, the Supreme Court said Tuesday. He was 99. The cause of death was complications from a stroke he suffered on Monday.” (CBS News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Trump’s immigration deal with Mexico is working (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: Saturday night’s Manhattan blackout could be a harbinger of things to come (City Journal)

HUMOR: Trump 2020 campaign to simply air unedited footage of Democrats talking (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64335?mailing_id=4425&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4425&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Immigration Facility Volunteer: ‘Prison-Like’ And ‘Concentration Camp’ Claims Are Flat-Out False
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By Tristan Justice
thefederalist.com } ~ Several Democratic 2020 White House hopefuls took turns standing outside of the Homestead migrant shelter in southern Florida last month to criticize the current administration’s immigration practices... The 2020 contenders ranged from Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-Mass.) to former U.S. Rep. socialist-Beto O’Rourke (D-T.X.), who blasted Homestead’s “prison-like” conditions. “There weren’t children playing. There weren’t children laughing the way children usually do when they’re moving from one place to another,” dinky-Warren said to reporters following her visit to the facility. “These were children who were being marched like little soldiers – like little prisoners – from one place to another. This is not what we should be doing as a country.” Those accusations dumbfounded volunteers and employees who work at the migrant facility, who described just the opposite. Local pastor Russell Black has been volunteering at the shelter about once a week since its opening in 2015, he said. Black told The Federalist he has been impressed by the conditions and care at the facility and said the children were well-cared for by trained staff and management while being given ample recreation. “From day one, I was amazed at the care and expense given to the children,” Black said. One employee at the facility, Melissa, who declined to provide a last name out of concerns of harassment, noted that the children are provided three full meals a day and two snacks. In addition, each child who enters the facility is given a full medical exam to assess his or her mental and physical needs. If a child’s physical needs were too extreme for the facility to handle, he or she was transported to a nearby hospital, all at U.S. taxpayers’ expense. The Homestead shelter is one of the largest and most controversial migrant detention facilities in the country. Contracted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it is the only facility for illegally entering non-citizen children run by a for-profit company and not directly overseen by the state...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/16/immigration-facility-volunteer-prison-like-concentration-camp-claims-flat-false/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=e522ad10c3-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-e522ad10c3-83771801  
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American Health Care 
Treats Canadians Who Cannot Wait
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by Kevin Pham 
dailysignal.com } ~ Canadian Medicare, our northern neighbor’s universal health care system, generally receives rave reviews from proponents of nationalized or socialized health care... but the Fraser Institute found that more than 63,000 Canadians left their country to have surgery in 2016. As Americans contemplate overturning our health system in favor of one similar to Canada’s, we must ask why so many leave. The Canadian system consistently ranks low or lowest across numerous metrics in the Commonwealth Fund’s extensive survey on health care. With regards to specialists and surgeries, the United States ranked best or nearly best. The Fraser Institute study did not examine where Canadians traveled for surgery, but given proximity and our much better metrics, most probably came here. Surgeries are scheduled after patients are seen by the surgeon, and most people see surgeons only after a referral by either their primary care physician in America, or their general practitioner in Canada. In the United States, 70% of patients are able to be seen by specialists less than four weeks after a referral. In Canada, less than 40% were seen inside of four weeks. After being advised that they need a procedure done, only about 35% of Canadians had their surgery within a month, whereas in the United States, 61% did. After four months, about 97% of Americans were able to have their surgery, whereas Canada struggled to achieve 80%. America is significantly outperforming Canada in surgery wait times even as it’s likely that tens of thousands of Canadians come here to use the American system...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/15/american-health-care-treats-canadians-who-cannot-wait/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRWaFl6WTFaVE13TWpJNSIsInQiOiJlOWdVYU1LU1hWcktHU3BvQlpjY3hMT2xlREs0a1BIZnB5b3RZeEdJMWk2alpOYnd4YW9YUkl1b2I2ME4weWxUZU1URGU1QjZlVjJZQmh4djdyK0cwKzlDZGVXdndndGx5QzRrcTFEbE9uNWZLS1d0aHZLTjZYbTVVdXdxcThzKyJ9  
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In Face Of Massive Border Crisis, Democrats 
Tell Americans Citizenship Means Nothing 
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By John Daniel Davidson
thefederalist.com } ~ A series of remarkable things happened over the weekend—all of them overshadowed by unfortunate tweets from President Trump and the hysterical overreactions they provoked... But these overshadowed events tell us much more about the state of the country than the controversy over Trump’s tweets, and what they reveal isn’t good. On Friday night, a mob of protestors tore down an American flag outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora, Colo., and replaced it with a Mexican flag. Local police stood by and did nothing. The next day, a gunman reportedly associated with Antifa attacked an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Wash., throwing Molotov cocktails and attempting to set fire to a propane tank. He was reportedly killed by police in a gunfight. The attack in Tacoma coincided with left-wing protests at ICE facilities all over the country, prompted by nationwide ICE raids targeting Central American families whom immigration judges have ordered to be deported after reviewing their claims. If you’re a Democrat seeking your party’s nomination for 2020, what’s your response to these events? So far, nothing. No Democrat has said anything about the mob in Colorado or the gunman in Washington, but plenty have issued statements on the ICE raids and Vice President Mike Pence’s border visit...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/16/face-massive-border-crisis-democrats-tell-americans-citizenship-means-nothing/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=e522ad10c3-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-e522ad10c3-83771801  
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Archaeologists Unearth 
Prehistoric 9,000 Year Old City Near Jerusalem
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By EMMA MCAVOY and REBECCA ARATEN 
 { jpost.com } ~ Archaeologists unearthed a 9,000-year-old city, its tools and artifacts just outside of Jerusalem... Workers discovered the site while creating a new entrance to Jerusalem. Archaeologists took interest in the site, which they eventually excavated for a year and a half to unveil streets, burial grounds and trade items.Their efforts to dig up these artifacts yielded hints as to how society operated in Neolithic times. “The materials’ culture was very, very rich, which could indicate that the settlement was well-organized by political and economic leaders,” site manager Dr. Hamoudi Khalaily told The Jerusalem Post. Large, extended families lived together in designated quarters spread throughout the city, according to site manager Dr. Jacob Vardi. The street infrastructure indicates some kind of planning before the construction of houses. According to the excavators the city existed for roughly 1,500 year as a trade center. Arrowheads and knives composed of volcanic glass came from the settlement’s commerce with Turkey. Basalt grinding tools showed contact with the North. Animal bones and stockpiles of seeds show the population’s dependence on livestock and agriculture. However, game bones suggest that the society practiced hunting and gathering at some point. Vardi infers that the settlement eventually switched between the two lifestyles.“The settlement reached its peak in the last 300 or 400 years,” Vardi said, explaining that the economy began to thrive after the adoption of domesticated animals. “When that happened, the site became extremely huge, from maybe one hectare, it grew to 30 or 40 hectares.”...  https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Scientists-unearth-Prehistoric-9000-year-old-city-near-Jerusalem-595820  
VIDEO at the link given above.
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Ex-'Fox & Friends' co-host leaves country 
amid legal scrutiny over real estate deals
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By CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO
thehill.com } ~ Former "Fox & Friends" co-host Clayton Morris fled the U.S. while facing multiple lawsuits over real estate deals, the Indianapolis Star reported Friday... Morris, who previously resided in a $1.4 million home in New Jersey, has moved with his family to a coastal resort town in Portugal, according a Facebook post from his wife. Former MSNBC anchor Natali Morris told the outlet in an email that she and her husband plan to continue fighting the lawsuits from abroad. Clayton Morris left Fox News in 2017 to become a real estate promoter with Bert Whalen of Indianapolis. The two men are alleged to have misled at least 35 buyers and renters on the conditions of distressed properties. Morris used web-based seminars and YouTube videos to lure potential investors. Natali Morris told the outlet that she and her husband are not responsible for losses, instead blaming Whalen and his business, Oceanpointe. "We have and continued to take responsibility for all of our legal challenges that came from our relationship with Oceanpointe. We have answered all of our attorney general requests in all states. We have answered all lawsuits," she said. "We have not run from anything," she added. "We continue to show up for this until the last lawsuit is dismissed and it is clear that we neither had the money from Oceanpointe investors nor did we defraud anyone." Some involved with the lawsuits against Clayton Morris have expressed concerns about the move to Portugal...
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Dealing With the Democrats' Migrant Invasion
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Nate Jackson:  While media pontificators were collectively losing their minds over another immigration-related social-media pronouncement from President Donald Trump, there was a lot of immigration stuff in the news. Here’s a brief rundown.

First, Trump won a rare court victory Friday regarding whether he can withhold certain federal funds from Democrat “sanctuary cities.” George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin explains, “In City of Los Angeles v. Barr, a divided 2-1 panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld the Justice Department’s policy of giving preferences to state and local governments that assist federal immigration enforcement efforts, when it comes to assessing applications for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) competitive law enforcement grant program.” In short, it is the *competitive" nature of these grants that resulted in a favorable ruling this time, whereas Trump’s other attempts to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions that flout federal law have been blocked.

Second, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began specific operations in major cities Sunday, targeting about 2,000 illegals who had already been ordered out of the country. These are the same raids Trump recently delayed “at the request of Democrats.” These aliens are “not undocumented,” said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli. “They’ve got a court order on a piece of paper — a federal order — that says they’ve gotten due process.”

Acting ICE Director Matthew Albence likewise explained, “These are individuals who have come into this country illegally, had the opportunity to make an asylum claim in front of an immigration judge, and most of them chose not to avail themselves at the opportunity, and didn’t even show up to their first hearing.”

Third, the Trump administration is about to implement a rule (that will be challenged in court) requiring asylum seekers to wait “in a third country through which they transited” — not Mexico and not the U.S. There would be exceptions, but not many.

Fourth, speaking of ICE, protesters at an Aurora, Colorado, detention facility removed and defaced an American flag, as well as a Blue Lives Matter flag, while raising a Mexican flag. We’d note that there’s a kindred spirit among law enforcement around the nation, and it’s astounding to see Dems vilifying these Patriots for sensibly enforcing the law.

Fifth, Vice President Mike Pence visited two detention facilities in Texas Friday. In an effort to play up Democrat talking points about these facilities being “concentration camps,” The Washington Post reports that “he saw nearly 400 men crammed behind caged fences with not enough room for them all to lie down on the concrete ground.” But Pence correctly noted, “That’s the overcrowding President Trump has been talking about. That’s the overwhelming of the system that some in Congress have said was a manufactured crisis. But now I think the American people can see this crisis is real.”

And let’s be clear about where the blame for it belongs — at the feet of the Democrats who invited this invasion.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64279?mailing_id=4421&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4421&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Tom McLaughlin
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Democrats in Freefall – 
Congress Collapses – Chaos Ensues
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by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ What an absolute hot mess today in congress. A review begins with a reminder of the manufactured OrangeManBad outrage du jour. Obviously a cartoon is needed... As typical in an era where outrage is generally promoted to the level of Moonbat crazy, the circle of stupid was fueled by the media, who fired-up the politicians…who fired-up the outrage protestations…who fueled the media…and thus the circle of stupid continued. All the way to liar-Nancy Pulosi dropping all Speaker pretense of actual legislation, and instead choosing to bring a resolution to the House floor to advance Muh “racist” OrangeManBad. The debt ceiling needs to be raised. Spending appropriations bills need to be resolved. Immigration laws need to be fixed. The border is in crisis. Infrastructure spending needs to be resolved. The USMCA needs to be ratified. Forget all those issues that matter…. what does House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi do? Why, stop everything so she can advance a resolution to prove her squad doesn’t like President Trump...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/16/democrats-in-freefall-congress-collapses-chaos-ensues/   
Jihadist Evil Unites with Leftist Evil
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By Eileen F. Toplansky
americanthinker.com } ~ The Left has historically despised Jews, Judaism, Zionism, and Israel. So it is quite ironic that commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez employs the language of the Holocaust in discussing open borders where illegals are coming in by the thousands... Not only does she besmirch the memory of those who were murdered for being Jewish, she displays an abysmal ignorance of the horror of the Holocaust. But she is emblematic of the fact that "two-thirds of American millennials surveyed in a recent poll cannot identify what Auschwitz is." Thus, "according to a study released on Holocaust  Remembrance Day... knowledge of the genocide that killed 6 million Jews during World War II is not robust among American adults." And this lack of education is not limited to America. So this historically ignorant woman bandies words like concentration camps with zero comprehension of what she is saying. The abuse of language and the distortion of historical events is standard operating practice among Leftists, who simply do not care about facts and credible sources as they clamor for illegal aliens to flood our borders to shore up their own political base. For if they are truly troubled about victims, they are strangely mute when it comes to speaking on behalf of the Yazidis and the Christians who are being slaughtered by Muslims throughout the world. But these beleaguered groups do not advance the Left's agenda of destroying America. I refuse to use the acronym commie-AOC since it elevates this woman's status. The photo-ops of commie-Ocasio-Cortez's faux anger and angst camouflage her true nature. The drama queen claims to be "the boss" as she displays her craven arrogance.  She ignores that these illegals are choosing to come to America -- whereas Jews and others deemed "unfit to live" were rounded up by the Nazis and herded into concentration/extermination camps where they were slaves and ultimately gassed and burnt. But as Kevin D. Williamson has written "the Jews can be whatever their enemies need them to be." Her declining to visit Auschwitz with an elderly Holocaust survivor proves that (a) commie-Ocasio-Cortez knows she is fabricating lies when she makes a comparison to what is going on with the illegals and the concentration camps; (b) she has no interest in ameliorating the situation since her time at the border was merely another publicity opportunity; (c) she is only too happy to create "a hostile political environment and nurture Holocaust denial and reinforce the anti-Semitic tropes freely peppered by her fellow Democratic Congresswoman worthless-Ilhan Omar."...
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Why Is AARP Sponsoring A Forum Letting 
Medicare For All Candidates Promote 
Ideas Harmful To It And Its Partners?
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by EVIE FORDHAM
dailycaller.com } ~ Every major Democratic presidential candidate is scheduled to make an appearance at an AARP-sponsored health care forums in Iowa in July... yet many of them stand for dismantling the health care insurance system that AARP and its partners rely on.  Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren and Medicare for all architect Independent Vermont Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders are a few of the names that want to make health insurance companies all but obsolete.The senior-focused health care forum comes as some 2020 Democrats are distancing themselves from their previous pro-Medicare for all stances. For example, California Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris has been  accused of backtracking after saying she does not support eliminating private health insurance following the first round of Democratic debates. She was one of Medicare for all’s original backers in 2017. lowlife-Harris is set to speak at the Tuesday afternoon forum in Davenport, Iowa. AARP is holding the forums to “help older Americans make their own decisions come Election Day,” an AARP spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an email Monday.  “AARP has a proud 33-year history of non-partisan voter engagement, providing voters with information on where the candidates stand on issues important to older voters and their families, like reducing out-of-control prescription drug prices. AARP has invited President Trump to share his views with AARP members ahead of the general election, as well,” the AARP spokesperson said in an email...
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Democrats Hold a Terrible Hand of Race Cards
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By Brian C. Joondeph
americanthinker.com } ~ Name calling is the last refuge for one losing an argument. Much like a roundhouse punch that hits nothing but air, it’s a final effort in a losing fight... But it’s also been the one reliable punch for Democrats, playing the race card against opponents. Not so much now, however. Shouting, “You’re a racist!” has been the preferred comeback for Democrats on the losing side of an argument. Alternatives to the word racist include Nazi, bigot, fascist, homophobe, sexist, and so on, but racist has the best quick jab-like sting. Sometimes name calling can fall flat, as in calling Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh a sexist or misogynist, as Democrats did in his confirmation hearings. In reality he is the first Supreme Court justice to hire an entirely female group of clerks, something even the “Notorious RBG,” hero of the left, hasn’t done. Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi is the latest Democrat finding herself holding a bad hand of race cards. Cards dealt by none other than the de facto Speaker of the House commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Here we all thought liar-Pulosi was the face of liberalism, properly progressive on everything from abortion and taxes to global warming and immigration. Yet liar-Pulosi is not woke enough for “the squad”, four freshmen representatives representing the communist wing of an already far left Democrat party. I speak of commie-AOC and her socialist sisters, worthless-Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, wprthless-Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and worthless-Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/democrats_hold_a_terrible_hand_of_race_cards.html   
Facebook: More Government Censorship
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by Judith Bergman
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ It is often argued that Facebook is a private enterprise and therefore free to censor whatever it wishes... However, Facebook and the other internet giants, such as Google, YouTube a subsidiary of Google, and Twitter, have come to control the flow of information on the internet, to such a degree – as virtual monopolies -- that they have become the 'public square' of our times. That outcome makes them far more than merely private enterprises and endows them with a special responsibility: Those who cannot publish on Facebook or Twitter, effectively no longer have full freedom of speech. Governments have always known that free speech can be controlled on social media -- there is no internet freedom in countries such as China or Russia. For years, however, Western governments have also been controlling the conduct of free speech on the internet – in the name of fighting supposed 'hate speech'. Controlling free speech has taken the form of 'cooperating' with the internet giants -- Facebook, Google, Twitter and You Tube -- on voluntary initiatives such as the EU "Code of Conduct on countering illegal online hate speech online", which requires social media giants to act as censors on behalf of the European Union and to remove within 24 hours content that is regarded as "illegal hate speech". This control of free speech has also brought about national legislation, such as Germany's censorship law, in 2018. This law requires social media platforms to delete or block any alleged online "criminal offenses", such as libel, slander, defamation or incitement, within 24 hours of receipt of a user complaint. If the platforms fail to do so, the German government can fine them up to 50 million euros for failing to comply with the law. Two new initiatives look likely to intensify government censorship on the internet. In France, a recent government report about Facebook, commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron, has called for increasing government oversight over the social media giant. This new 'oversight' includes allowing an "independent regulator" to police how Facebook deals with alleged hate speech. The report has also called for laws allowing the French government to investigate and fine social networks that "don't take responsibility" for the content published by users on their websites. As part of writing the report, French regulators who spent six months inside Facebook, monitoring its policies, concluded, "The inadequacy and lack of credibility in the self-regulatory approach adopted by the largest platforms justify public intervention to make them more responsible"...
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3 Reasons loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s Health 
Care Plan Is Merely Socialism Lite 
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By Christopher Jacobs
thefederalist.com } ~ On Monday morning, former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden released the health care plan for his 2020 presidential campaign... The plan comes ahead of a single-payer health plan speech by Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (I-VT) scheduled for Wednesday. loose lips liar-Biden’s plan includes several noteworthy omissions. For instance, it does not include any reference to health coverage for foreign citizens illegally present in the United States. That exclusion seems rather surprising, given both Democrats’ embrace of health benefits for those unlawfully present in last month’s debate, and loose lips liar-Biden’s repeated references to the issue. Campaign staff told Politico that they would allow illegal immigrants to purchase scumbag/liar-nObamacare exchange coverage without access to federal subsidies, but loose lips liar-Biden’s website contains not a word about that concept—an implicit admission that using taxpayer dollars to subsidize health care for those unlawfully present holds less popular appeal than liberal Democrats first thought. loose lips liar-Biden said later on Monday that illegally present foreign citizens should have access to “public health clinics if they’re sick,” but not health insurance. He also claimed that last month’s debate format did not give him enough time to explain his position. Overall, however, loose lips liar-Biden’s plan includes many similarities to commie-Sanders’. While both commie-Sanders and loose lips liar-Biden want to draw contrasts on health care—commie-Sanders to attack loose lips liar-Biden as beholden to corporate interests, and loose lips liar-Biden to attack commie-Sanders for wanting to demolish scumbag/liar-nObamacare—their plans contain far more similarities than differences. commie-Sanders’ bill would, as the American people have gradually learned this year, make private insurance “unlawful,” taking coverage away from approximately 300 million Americans. loose lips liar-Biden’s plan specifically attacks single payer on this count, for “starting from scratch and getting rid of private insurance.”...Losing Coverage - More Spending - Price Controls and Regulations
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Working With Words and Images
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Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ This weekly column pleases some and annoys others. One of the newspapers in which it runs editorialized years ago that people either love it or hate it. Last week’s edition featured a letter from Connecticut residents who summer in Casco, Maine and describing my columns as “filled with vitriol and hate.” The writers threatened to cancel their subscription should the columns continue to appear. This week, a letter from a local woman appeared declaring the columns to be a “breath of fresh air.” She sends them to friends in Connecticut who “enjoy my approach on state and national issues.”
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My photographs are received differently. Some people love them while others just seem indifferent. Photographs don’t generate controversy the way columns do. They either resonate with viewers or they don’t. Some people like them well enough they throw down money for enlargements to hang on their walls, but no one has yet felt compelled to express a negative opinion.  
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Thinking and feeling go into creating both a photograph and a column. When I see something beautiful or dramatic, I have to think about how to frame the scene — what angles to use and what settings to make on my camera and lens. Then come cropping and editing. Lastly, I must decide which photos to keep and which to discard. Columns and photographs each communicate my view of the world to others, yet some ideas expressed in the columns grate on people while images in the photos do not.
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Often I need a break from writing when my brain gets tired as I struggle to find words that adequately express what’s in it. I’ll get up and walk around a bit, then return to the computer and pull up photographs to edit instead of the unfinished column. I’m using my brain again, but a different part of it. Working with images can energize me after a search for words has exhausted me.  
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There’s deadline pressure when writing columns every week, but there can be time pressure when taking photographs too. Walking or driving, I’ll stop and try to capture a passing scene, but by the time I have my camera in hand with the proper settings, the light has changed and the opportunity has passed. In another case, I’d been watching a nesting loon on Kezar Lake for weeks, boating to the site several times trying to be there for a photo of her chick. Last Saturday I saw that she had left the nest. I looked all around that section of the lake for her and the chick but never saw them.  
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Some letter-writers have declared my columns are the sole reason they buy a paper. Others fulminate against them, heaping scorn on both me for writing them and the paper for publishing them. I wonder why they don’t just skip over the column. What compels them to read it? It must be something akin to attending a horror movie or reading a Stephen King novel. Why take the time to view something you know will disturb you? Is it the adrenaline rush? Maybe they’re progressives trying to expose themselves to a conservative view — and then get so incensed they must write something scathing in opposition.  
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When seeing my photographs hanging somewhere, people can either can stop and look or just walk on by. Unlike angry readers, those who see my photos don’t feel compelled to share negative impressions. I’ve never gotten an email, a letter, a phone call, a text, or a comment that my photos are incendiary, hateful, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist, or vitriolic.  
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It’s not as if all my images depict beautiful things. I have pictures of gruesome things like a hawk tearing a robin apart, an eagle ripping up a fish, an approaching thunderstorm about to snap off trees or uproot them, a gathering of angry protesters, a fight between an eagle and an osprey, and hunters looking for deer to kill. People seem to just accept these images as depictions of reality, but when I write about unsavory actions by leftist politicians or by certain protected minority groups, I’m excoriated as a hate-filled villain.  
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Every week I spend hours both writing and working with photographs. The extra income is nice but I do it because I like it, especially moving from one to the other. Photography takes me outside. It gets me up early to catch morning light. Never do I catch all the beauty in a scene that inspires me, but sometimes I can obtain a reasonable facsimile. Writing makes me sit down and reflect on things.
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I can think of worse ways to spend my remaining time on this earth, so I guess I’ll continue.  
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Tuesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

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liar-Pulosi vs. commie-AOC: 
It's a Beautiful Thing
David Limbaugh
  

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Democrats in Freefall – 
Congress Collapses – Chaos Ensues
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by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ What an absolute hot mess today in congress. A review begins with a reminder of the manufactured OrangeManBad outrage du jour. Obviously a cartoon is needed... As typical in an era where outrage is generally promoted to the level of Moonbat crazy, the circle of stupid was fueled by the media, who fired-up the politicians…who fired-up the outrage protestations…who fueled the media…and thus the circle of stupid continued. All the way to liar-Nancy Pulosi dropping all Speaker pretense of actual legislation, and instead choosing to bring a resolution to the House floor to advance Muh “racist” OrangeManBad. The debt ceiling needs to be raised. Spending appropriations bills need to be resolved. Immigration laws need to be fixed. The border is in crisis. Infrastructure spending needs to be resolved. The USMCA needs to be ratified. Forget all those issues that matter…. what does House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi do? Why, stop everything so she can advance a resolution to prove her squad doesn’t like President Trump...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/16/democrats-in-freefall-congress-collapses-chaos-ensues/   
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President Trump Modifies Asylum Rules
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foxnews.com } ~ The Trump administration on Monday announced a sweeping new policy tightening restrictions for asylum seekers... in a move that could drastically reduce the number of Central American migrants eligible to enter the United States in this way. The new rule, published in the Federal Register, would require most migrants entering through America’s southern border to first seek asylum in one of the countries they traversed – whether in Mexico, in Central America, or elsewhere on their journey. In most cases, only if that application is denied would they then be able to seek asylum in the United States. “Ultimately, today’s action will reduce the overwhelming burdens on our domestic system caused by asylum-seekers failing to seek urgent protection in the first available country, economic migrants lacking a legitimate fear of persecution, and the transnational criminal organizations, traffickers, and smugglers exploiting our system for profits,” Homeland Security Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan said in a statement, describing the “targeted changes” as critical. […] The latest change is meant to crack down on asylum seekers coming to the U.S. more for economic reasons than to escape persecution in their home countries. The new policy does include a couple other exceptions, mainly for certain victims of human trafficking.  Attorney General Bill Barr said in a statement that the change would curb “forum shopping by economic migrants and those who seek to exploit our asylum system to obtain entry to the United States—while ensuring that no one is removed from the United States who is more likely than not to be tortured or persecuted on account of a protected ground.” ...
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F-35 Program Leadership Changes 
as Turkey’s Future in Program Uncertain
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By Ben Werner
news.usni.org } ~ The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program’s civilian and military management are in the midst of a changeover just as government officials from the U.S. and partner countries are considering ejecting Turkey... from involvement in the aircraft’s manufacture and deployment. Last week, Air Force Lt. Gen. Eric Fick relieved Vice Adm. Mat Winter as the F-35 program manager. With the program manager position switching from the Navy to the Air Force, the F-35 program’s civilian service acquisition executive also switched from the Air Force to the Navy. James Geurts, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, is now overseeing the program. “I look forward to taking an active role as the service acquisition executive for the F-35 and working with Eric and his team, those in the department, international partners and Congress to deliver and sustain this lethal capability our military needs to compete and win,” Geurts said in a statement. Occurring as the Navy and Air Force swapped F-35 program leadership roles, Turkey, an F-35 program partner since its start in 1999, received its first shipments of a Russian-made air S-400 defense system. Pentagon officials and lawmakers have for months tried persuading Turkey against purchasing the Russian system, which they believe could be used to probe the stealthy F-35 aircraft for weaknesses and share this information with military planners in Moscow. The House and Senate versions of the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act both included language prohibiting the transfer of F-35 aircraft to Turkey if the S-400 sale went through. Ultimately, Turkey planned to buy 100 F-35 aircraft, according to Lockheed Martin. On Friday, acting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper briefly commented on the Turkish F-35 issue while greeting Uzbekistan’s Minister of Defense Bakhodir Kurbanov at the Pentagon Friday morning...
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New Evidence: U.N. Connected to 
World Vision Terror Finance Scandal
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by Cliff Smith and Sam Westrop
meforum.org } ~ U.S. Treasury Department documents obtained by the Middle East Forum through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request shed new light on the terror-finance scandal that first erupted last year... concerning the scumbag/liar-nObama-era United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the International evangelical aid charity, World Vision. These new documents reveal that not only was World Vision funding the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), a U.S. designated charity linked to Osama Bin Laden based in Sudan, with grants from USAID, but also from the United Nations (U.N.). The documents also disclose that once World Vision's relationship with ISRA was exposed by a whistleblower from the Swiss-based intergovernmental organization, International Organization for Migration (IOM), World Vision mounted a full-court press to strongarm the Treasury Department into allowing the relationship to continue unabated. This effort involved high-ranking members of Congress, who advocated for World Vision, as well as threats of lawsuits aimed at the scumbag/liar-nObama Administration's Treasury Department. When this scandal first broke last year, all that was known was that in 2014, World Vision had subcontracted charitable work in the hotly-contested Blue Nile region of Sudan to ISRA, which was designed as a terrorist entity in 2004 for giving millions of dollars to Osama Bin Laden and raising funds for Hamas suicide bombings in 2003. Initially, this arrangement appeared to be a one-time event. But it soon emerged that World Vision had "prior work experience" with ISRA and had used "other funding streams," to fund projects with the terror charity. Previously, the source of these revenue streams was unknown. But according to a May 2015 "Case Summary," written by U.S. Treasury officials, World Vision gave ISRA $323,928 for the controversial project paid for by USAID, Irish Aid and the U.N, with the U.N. likely paying the lion's share. Unfortunately, the U.N.'s relationship with ISRA is not entirely new. ISRA, also known as the Islamic African Relief Agency, previously enjoyed "consultative status" at the U.N. It lost this status in 2006 after the United States highlighted its links to Al Qaeda. Since then, ISRA has repeatedly attempted to regain  consultative status – a request repeatedly deferred because of unanswered U.S. government questions about ISRA's activities. The U.N. has regularly employed ISRA as a partner over the last decade. In 2013, it listed ISRA as a participant in its "Work Plan" for Sudan. And in 2014, the U.N. partnered  with ISRA and the Sudanese government on three projects in West Darfur. That the U.N, which was aware of its member-states' concerns that ISRA was a terror financing organization, also specifically partnered with World Vision to fund ISRA, was previously unknown...
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worthless-Omar Blames American Foreign Policy 
for Immigration Crisis, But Loves America 
More Than You Do
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by Cameron Cawthorne
freebeacon.com } ~ Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) on Saturday evening blamed American foreign policy for the immigration crisis... despite claiming earlier in the day she loves the United States more than American-born citizens. worthless-Omar, who has a history  of making anti-Semitic remarks, appeared on MSNBC's Politics Nation with scumbag-Al Sharpton, who also has his own history of being anti-Semitic. scumbag-Sharpton led a violent 1991 riot in Crown Heights, a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, which resulted in 183 people being injured and Australian University academic Yankel Rosenbaum being murdered. scumbag-Sharpton also negatively referred to Jews as "diamond dealers." scumbag-Sharpton asked worthless-Omar about the Democratic feud between Speaker of the House liar-Nancy Pulosi (D., Calif.) and "the squad," which includes worthless-Omar and three other freshman House Democrats who have been outspoken about their opposition to the immigration crisis at the border and have called for ICE to be abolished. "Everybody wants to make this personal. This isn't personal for me. You know, I understand my role. My colleagues understand their role. We're there to take the tough votes to make sure that our values are intact in the policies that we push for. We have a responsibility to take a vote on behalf of the constituents that send us to Washington and leadership has a responsibility to make sure they wrangle the members of Congress to push forth the policies that they're putting forth, so everybody has a role. Everybody has a lane." Later in the interview, worthless-Omar blamed U.S. foreign policy  for the immigration crisis. "This is what this administration and its ideology has produced. Also generations of not attending to a foreign policy that is just in regards to Northern Triangle has created this mass migration that we are dealing with today," worthless-Omar said... She has no knowledge of history on this issue.
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IKAR’s Safe Parking Program for the Homeless
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By ESTHER D. KUSTANOWITZ
jewishjournal.com } ~ Last December, IKAR became the first Jewish community organization to participate in Safe Parking LA (SPLA), a nonprofit initiative that provides those living in their cars with a safe place to park overnight... with access to a bathroom, water and electricity. It currently provides 10 spaces in its building’s parking lot on La Cienega Boulevard. IKAR also raised over $10,000 to fund month-to-month memberships at a local 24-hour health club for Safe Parking guests to have access to hot showers. Most nights, the spaces are used by Safe Parking “guests” who are “assigned to the IKAR lot for the period of time they need to be until they find housing or make some other decision, like leaving town,” said Brooke Wirtschafter, IKAR’s director of community organizing.  According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA) 2018 Homeless Count, 15,749 people were living in cars, vans and RVs/campers in Los Angeles County. In 2019, that number was 16,528 — a 5% increase. Safe Parking guests are often taking care of disabled or sick family members, suffering trauma from job loss, divorce, domestic violence or are experiencing “a whole range of human suffering that leads them to this space,” Wirtschafter said. “You wouldn’t know if you passed them on the street. They’re wearing clean clothes; some have jobs. They could be serving you coffee or driving your Uber. … It’s an opportunity for us to really think about why we have this crisis of homelessness and what we are called to do about it.”  Overall, homelessness numbers are up. According to this year’s count, 58,936 people were listed as homeless in L.A. County — an increase of 12% from 2018. And in the city of Los Angeles, that number is 36,300 — a rise of 16% since last year. IKAR is doing its part by funding Safe Parking LA through its own fundraising, Wirtschafter said, with a $500 per month stipend from SPLA. Students in IKAR’s after-school Hebrew school Limudim program provided shower supplies for Safe Parking guests, and IKAR holds a catered kosher vegetarian dinner for them paid for by the stipend, along with IKAR community members twice a month. Over time, Wirtschafter predicted, many IKAR members will attend dinners or otherwise connect respectfully with Safe Parking guests...
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liar-Pulosi vs. commie-AOC: It's a Beautiful Thing

David Limbaugh
 

I’ve often wondered whether the internal contradictions of leftist ideology would eventually cause leftists to turn on one another. Perhaps we’re catching a glimpse of that in the feud between liar-Nancy Pulosi and the commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quartet.

Everything about modern leftist ideology is extreme. It is extreme in substance, and its practitioners are self-absorbed, sanctimonious, uncompromising and often irrational. Intersectionality zealots are disciplining white feminists for their selfish advocacy. Biological males are dominating female athletic events courtesy of the transgender movement. Leftists of color and female gender are dissing old white men despite the men’s long records of dedication to the sacred cause of progressivism. Some women of color are being told they are not black enough to lead the cause. And what about poor PETA? Where does that hapless group fit into this kaleidoscope of insanity these days?

After Speaker liar-Pulosi led Congress in passing a border-funding bill over the opposition of Reps. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, worthless-Ilhan Omar, worthless-Rashida Tlaib and worthless-Ayanna Pressley, liar-Pulosi discussed the bill with The New York Times. “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” she said, referring to the leftist upstarts. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”

Uh-oh! That wasn’t very nice — especially not for a nice liberal.

commie-AOC is not known for her humility or obedience, and she did not take that slight sitting down. “When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,” commie-AOC said. “But the persistent singling out … it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful … the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”

There you go. To invoke a very cliched cliche, “Live by the sword. Die by the sword.” Not to defend the indefensible commie-AOC, but I wonder how liar-Pulosi feels getting some of that race baiting thrown back in her face? You will recall that not long ago, she despicably said that President Trump wanted to “make America white again.” To paraphrase Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” “Why, liar-Nancy, what an ugly thing to say. I abhor ugliness.”

But seriously, commie-AOC? Or, to put it more in your vernacular: Are you being serious right now? How dare you accuse the Snow White-ish progressive icon liar-Nancy Pulosi of racism?

liar-Nancy is getting a taste of her own medicine here. If she were capable of learning a lesson, this is what it would be: The leftist ideologies of intersectionality, critical race theory, whiteness studies and miscellaneous other faculty-lounge thought experiments will tell you that you — a white lady — no matter how dedicated you’ve been to the cause, are not capable of adequately representing it because your whiteness, and even female gender, don’t afford you the requisite life experience to fully get it.

liar-Nancy, and so many progressives, use racial smears against conservatives to neuter them — not because they believe they’re racists. They know better. It’s simply a cynical power play, and it always has been.

While it is delicious to see this tactic thrown back in liar-Pulosi’s laughing face by one with stronger intersectionality credentials, let us not allow ourselves the luxury of sanguinity over this blissful moment. In the long run, it won’t matter much in the scheme of things.

Don’t be fooled. This is not really a battle over ideology. liar-Nancy Pulosi and the establishment wing of the Democratic Party are not — let me repeat, they are not — moderates. These people all embrace varying degrees of an extreme progressive agenda including radical environmentalism; socialized medicine; socialism writ large, evisceration of gun rights; abortion on demand; health care and welfare for illegal immigrants; open borders; confiscatory personal- and corporate-income tax hikes; softness on Iran and terrorism; leftist judicial activism; wholesale end runs around the Constitution to secure their power, such as abolishing the Electoral College and allowing 16-year-olds and felons to vote; and so much more.

Yes, commie-AOC’s Four Horsemen of the Apocaleft are more radical, but if left to their own menacing devices, liar-Pulosi and Co. are plenty radical enough to complete scumbag/liar-nObama’s scheme to fundamentally transform the nation. The significant difference between the two groups is that liar-Pulosi’s has enough sense and savvy to pretend to be more moderate to make itself more electable. commie-AOC et al. are just too idealistic (though it pains me to associate their toxic views with any sort of idealism) to rein themselves in, even for pragmatic purposes.

What we’re seeing is simply a turf battle for control of the party. It’s about power. Yes, liar-Pulosi is the alpha, but commie-AOC, despite her reliable buffoonery, is a force to be reckoned with, if for no other reason than she represents the future of her insane party. She is the product of decades of cultural indoctrination, and she is but one of millions of young radical leftists eager to accelerate the end of America as founded. Pelosi is fighting back because she has to, but in the end, they will have to make peace, or at least pretend to, going into the election season.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64236?mailing_id=4417&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4417&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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