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Friday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 28, 2019 at 11:18am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

SCOTUS and Fouled-Up Free Speech

John J. Bastiat

What “Yes” With Iran Looks Like

By Mark Dubowitz, Reuel Marc Gerecht and Behnam Ben Talebl

{ fdd.org } ~ Even amidst a flurry of press reporting about U.S. military deployments to the Persian Gulf, President Donald Trump appears to remain committed to negotiations for a new deal with Iran... But what should the contours of such an agreement be, and how should the U.S. conduct diplomacy with the Islamic Republic? This memorandum aims to provide a crash course in such diplomacy, focusing on how to address Iranian intentions, strategies, and capabilities. Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Tehran has attacked the United States directly and indirectly, created and generously funded radical Islamic groups, developed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) into an expeditionary military force, and, in a multitude of other ways, undercut U.S. interests and allied security in the Middle East. The clerical regime has persevered in its ambitions even when Washington has marshaled considerable political, economic, and military resources against it. The impact of sanctions must be massive to force the regime into a comprehensive agreement that rolls back Tehran’s nuclear and missile programs, as well their foreign interventions. Such an agreement would have to release pressure slowly or risk Iranian recidivism. Washington should avoid at all costs any immediate sanctions relief early in negotiations – the scumbag/liar-nObama administration released $7 billion with the interim nuclear deal in November 2013 – since the White House must retain maximum leverage against the Islamic Republic throughout the talks. Furthermore, any negotiations that split the nuclear question from the regime’s regional ambitions would repeat an even larger mistake made by the previous administration. As it did under scumbag/liar-nObama, a nuclear-only agreement would give a green light to the Islamic Republic’s hegemonic aspirations, encourage the clerical regime to continue its mission to radicalize and dominate Arab Shiites, and suggest to Sunni Arab states that the United States has no real intention to counter Tehran. The more ardent supporters of the nuclear deal have understandably tried to recast the Islamic Republic as a tolerable, not particularly threatening “bad actor” in the Middle East – one certainly less troublesome than Saudi Arabia. The Islamic Republic’s revolutionary ideology and intentions – including its extraordinary success in organizing foreign Shiite militias under its command – are inevitably downplayed. Revisionist powers, let alone those motivated by a revolutionary religious ideology, do not pull back the limes of empire and influence unless troubles at home or a countervailing force abroad oblige them to do so. Any American administration attempting to negotiate with Iran would therefore have to push the clerical regime to the edge of collapse before the ruling clergy and the IRGC, who have overseen the nuclear advance, would contemplate abandoning a program backed consistently and ardently by all the factions of the ruling elite. A historical parallel: Only when Iran’s military forces were cracking and fleeing, and when the revolutionary clergy realized that a collapse on the front lines might topple the Islamic Republic, did the first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, seek to end the Iran-Iraq War. The importance of the nuclear program to the Islamic Republic is probably similar to the importance that the ruling clergy attached to the campaign against Saddam Hussein...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/memos/2019/06/26/what-yes-with-iran-looks-like/

SCOTUS Loses Its Census over Citizenship

By Daniel John Sobieski

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Supreme Court Justice John Roberts may go down in judicial history as the worst Republican SCOTUS pick ever... The man who found scumbag/liar-nObamaCare constitutional by inventing the fiction that it was a tax has joined the court’s four liberals to block a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, not because it is unconstitutional, but rather because he didn’t like the Trump administration’s reasons for asking for it. The man who supervises the FISA Court, which blindly accepted every lie and fake document the scumbag/liar-nObama FBI and DoJ put before it to justify the deep state coup against the Trump presidency, says the reasons Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross presented for requesting its inclusion, well, didn’t smell right. As the New York Times reported: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, said the explanation offered by the Trump administration for adding the question “appears to have been contrived.”… “The secretary,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote, “was determined to reinstate a citizenship question from the time he entered office; instructed his staff to make it happen; waited while commerce officials explored whether another agency would request census-based citizenship data; subsequently contacted the attorney general himself to ask if D.O.J. would make the request; and adopted the Voting Rights Act rationale late in the process.” “Altogether,” the chief justice wrote, “the evidence tells a story that does not match the explanation the secretary gave for his decision.” So bleepin’ what? The question before the Court is whether adding the question to the Census form was constitutional or not and certainly whatever reason Ross gave made more sense than your reason, Justice Roberts, for calling scumbag/liar-nObamaCare a tax. How about the reason that the federal government has asked its, dare we use the word, citizens the question before. The Supreme Court is a great admirer of precedent, is it not, As Breitbart News notes... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/scotus_loses_its_census_over_citizenship.html

Every Dem Says Illegal Immigrants

Should Get Health Insurance

By Amber Athey

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Every single Democratic presidential candidate on stage Thursday night during the second round of debates said... that illegal immigrants should get government health insurance. The collective group of ten candidates was asked if “undocumented immigrants” deserve health coverage paid for by the American taxpayer. “A lot of you have been talking about government health care plans you proposed in one form or another. This is a show of hands question and hold them up so people can see. Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants,” moderator Savannah Guthrie asked. All ten candidates raised their hands in support of the proposal. Vermont Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders previously said that his “Medicare for All” plan would cover the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States. commie-Sanders’s health care plan would reportedly cost trillions of dollars over the course of a decade. The first three Democratic candidates who spoke at the second night of the Democratic debates on Thursday night admitted that they would raise taxes on Americans to pay for their government proposals. President Donald Trump reacted to the moment on Twitter, writing, “All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare. How about taking care of American Citizens first!? That’s the end of that race!” They are all idiots and fools to think we all agree on this issue.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/27/democratic-debate-health-insurance-illegal/?utm_medium=email

scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler Represents A District Gerrymandered To Capture White Voters

By David Marcus

{thefederalist.com} ~ In a strong blow for freedom, yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that the judicial branch of government does not have authority to curtail partisan districting, otherwise known as gerrymandering... From the progressive position, or so they claim, this decision is a conservative affront to democracy itself. But what if one of the most prominent liberal Democrats in House of Representatives is the beneficiary of a serpentine, racially motivated case of gerrymandering First, let’s have a word about gerrymandering in general. How political districts are formed is clearly a political decision. We should have far more trust in the person who admits this than in the person who claims to have some nonpartisan “fair” way to create districts. These well-intentioned souls never seem to notice that they too are political creatures. They too, are advocating a kind of ideology. In a strong blow for freedom, yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that the judicial branch of government does not have authority to curtail partisan districting, otherwise known as gerrymandering. From the progressive position, or so they claim, this decision is a conservative affront to democracy itself. But what if one of the most prominent liberal Democrats in House of Representatives is the beneficiary of a serpentine, racially motivated case of gerrymandering? First, let’s have a word about gerrymandering in general. How political districts are formed is clearly a political decision. We should have far more trust in the person who admits this than in the person who claims to have some nonpartisan “fair” way to create districts. These well-intentioned souls never seem to notice that they too are political creatures. They too, are advocating a kind of ideology. It starts in Southern Brooklyn, in a mostly white Democratic neighborhood called Bensonhurst, then dances a slender line through more conservative Bay Ridge, then up the mostly white Democrat Brooklyn coast of the East River, skips Chinatown to capture the Financial District, Chelsea, and the Upper West Side — all enclaves of, you guessed it, mostly white Democrats. To pretend that something other than “Let’s give scumbag liar-Nadler a district full of white Democrats” is going on strains credulity. Even scumbag liar-Nadler would be hard pressed to explain how this coincidence happened. So let’s stop playing games. Politics is politics; it’s hard-nosed and scruffy. Both sides have always used this tool, and there’s only been one civil war. In cases where it can be proven that bias played a part in districting, we need to take a long, hard look at it. But again, no reasonable person can conclude that scumbag liar-Nadler’s district is composed of anything but a racial preference, assuming whites have a bias towards a white candidate. And what other groups might be harmed by giving scumbag liar-Nadler such a white district — if the white vote were more diffuse, would it help non-white candidates, even if it harmed scumbag liar-Nadler?... https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/28/jerry-nadler-represents-a-district-gerrymandered-to-capture-white-voters/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=90116c23cc-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-90116c23cc-83771801

Amash splits with Republicans, votes to

authorize subpoena for Kellyanne Conway

By Olivia Beavers

{ thehill.com } ~ GOP Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) broke with House Republicans on Wednesday by voting to authorize a subpoena for Kellyanne Conway... saying lawmakers should hear from the White House counselor about her response to allegations that she repeatedly violated the Hatch Act. The House Oversight and Reform Committee voted 25-16 to compel Conway's testimony after she did not appear voluntarily at a hearing focused on her repeated alleged violations of the law, which bars federal officials from using their position to influence elections. Amash was the only Republican to join Democrats in voting to approve the subpoena. The Michigan Republican, a vocal critic of President Trump, had drawn the ire of the White House last month after calling for the president's impeachment. "With respect to the vote, the point is not whether she is violating the Hatch Act or not, it is whether she should comply with the subpoena," Amash told reporters leaving the committee room. "But we should have brought her in and had an opportunity to ask her about the Hatch Act and to make her case for why she thinks she is complying with it," he added. Earlier this month, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) sent a report to President Trump that said Conway repeatedly violated the Hatch Act by discussing Democratic presidential candidates while appearing as a White House official for television interviews. And when Democrats sought to hear from the top staffer, the White House intervened, blocking Conway from appearing for public testimony on Wednesday and citing a "long-standing precedent" in which presidential administrations decline requests to have presidential advisers give congressional testimony... https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/450440-amash-splits-with-republicans-votes-to-authorize-subpoena-for

SCOTUS and Fouled-Up Free Speech

John J. Bastiat: This week the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rendered yet another smackdown to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), ruling it cannot censor trademarks it views as “immoral or scandalous” — whatever that is. Joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Elena Kagan delivered the Court’s opinion, stating, “The First Amendment does not allow the government to penalize views just because many people, whether rightly or wrongly, see them as offensive.” This, after rendering a related opinion two years ago striking down a similar USPTO ban on “disparaging” trademarks — whatever those are. And therein lies the problem.

“Free speech”, by definition is, well, free. Our Constitution has been gerrymandered no small amount by carve-outs to “free” speech, each of which permit a license to the government to censor certain speech by calling it, effectively, “not ‘free speech.’” In legal jargon, such utterances and expressions are said to be “unprotected” — unprotected, that is, by the U.S. Constitution. Of course, the Constitution itself is utterly silent on the issue of “unprotected” speech, simply stating, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech…” But the courts have certainly not been so silent.

Thus, “obscenity,” “fighting words,” “fraudulent misrepresentation,” “advocacy of imminent lawless behavior,” and “defamation” over the years have been judicially morphed into “unprotected” speech. Perhaps there’s a place for such “aardvark” speech categories. Perhaps. The real problem manifests itself, though, when government agencies hold the hammer on what-is-and-what-is-not “free speech.” That’s when human-in-the-loop problems — biases, errors in judgment, and outright maliciousness — arise. Fortunately, the Court is now attempting to put the genie at least partially back in the bottle, holding that it is not the role of the USTPO to “deem” which images or words are “immoral” or “scandalous.” In the instant case the USPTO had refused registration of the acronym formed from the words, “Friends U Can’t Trust.” Yes, we know what it spells and sounds like — puhleaze: Tack on “Up” after it and you’re left with our opinion of the acronym itself. That said, as to the right to such a trademark, that’s a different story.

Though all nine justices agreed on striking down the USPTO’s ban on “immoral” trademarks, three — Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor — disagreed with the decision as to “scandalous” trademarks, believing such a designation could serve a “legitimate purpose” in barring “vulgarity and profanity.” Again: “Maybe.” But is it really the USPTO’s job to parse through the muck of what is and isn’t “scandalous”? Isn’t this the same kind of reasoning that attempted to ban the Washington Redskins’ trademark as well as the Asian-American band called the “Slants”? Where does such reasoning stop?

Attempts to define any of those terms — “scandalous,” “vulgarity,” and “profanity” — are a lot easier said than done, by the way: Over half a century of all-over-the-map jurisprudence in the gooey mess that is “free speech” amply bears this fact out, and can be found through a simple Internet search on the topic.

Notwithstanding our own opinion of the asinine trademark sought in this landmark case, we wholeheartedly agree with the Court’s nine-zip opinion, which effectively evicts the USPTO from its increasingly censorious “Morality Police” throne. In a free society, being occasionally offended is the price we all pay for being able to say what we want — through words, expressions, or even trademarks — without fear of “groupthink” censoring on the part of the anointed-few holding positions of government power. With this week’s decision, SCOTUS echoes that sentiment and gets the USPTO out of the censor business. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63889?mailing_id=4361&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4361&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Fri/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 28, 2019 at 9:26am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Tax Withholding Allows Politicians'

Theft to Go Unnoticed

Louis DeBroux

Friday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: loose lips liar-BIDEN BUSHWHACKED: “A swath of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, with lowlife-Kamala Harris leading the way, tore into a stunned loose lips liar-Joe Biden with jabs at his nearly five decades in office and his record on race. In what may well turn out to the biggest moment of the first two Democratic debates, the senator from California, 54, took the former vice president to task for opposing busing (designed to end racial segregation in schools) and declared that she had been a victim at age 6, saying ‘I was that little girl.’” (Washington Examiner)

CENSUS DELAY? “President Trump on Thursday said that he is asking his administration to temporarily delay the 2020 census in light of the Supreme Court ruling blocking the question for the time being,” reports The Hill. In a nutshell, SCOTUS wrongly suggests “purity” transcends constitutionality.

ON THE DOCKET: “The Supreme Court finally agreed Friday to referee a two-year-old dispute between President Trump and Democrats in Congress over the fate of nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. The high court showdown, which could be decided in the midst of the 2020 presidential election, will determine whether Trump has the power to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program known as DACA that President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama created in 2012.” (USA Today)

TROLL MASTER: “With a smirk and a finger point, President Donald Trump dryly told Russia’s Vladimir Putin ‘Don’t meddle in the election’ in their first meeting since the special counsel concluded that Moscow extensively interfered with the 2016 campaign.” (The Associated Press)

TWITTER SPEECH PATROL: “Twitter said Thursday it will start labeling tweets from influential government officials who break its rules against bullying and abusive behavior.” (CNBC)

BORDER FUNDING APPROVED: “After a brief showdown over competing emergency humanitarian aid measures to alleviate the crisis at the southern border, the House voted 305-102 on Thursday to pass the Senate’s less restrictive version of the bill. … The vote marked a serious setback for Democratic House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi, who had vowed not to accept the Republican-led Senate’s legislation.” (NPR)

BANK OF … WHAT? “Bank of America announced they will no longer do business with companies who are involved in the operation of migrant detention centers.” (Washington Examiner)

ELECTION MEDDLING: “Russia isn’t the only threat to election security going into 2020, as Trump administration officials say they are preparing for meddling from Iran, China, and North Korea.” (The Daily Signal)

NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION: “Last-ditch talks to persuade Tehran not to exceed nuclear limits within days were on course for failure on Friday, as Iranian officials said their demands had not been met and Washington rebuffed European calls to ease sanctions to allow negotiations.” (Reuters)

CLIMATE RACKET: “The New York City Council on Wednesday approved a resolution declaring a climate emergency, calling a sweeping transition to clean energy systems ‘vital to our future.’ … It’s the only U.S. city with more than 1 million people to declare a climate emergency.” (USA Today)

STRAIGHT-PRIDE GREEN LIGHT: “After initially being turned down by the city, Boston’s first ever ‘Straight Pride’ parade has been granted an official date: August 31,” The Daily Wire reports. Interestingly, “A new Harris Poll commissioned by the pro-LGBT media group GLAAD shows that the percentage of non-gay Americans aged 18-34, who are considered allies of the LGBT community, fell from 63% in 2016 to 45% in 2018,” according to CNSNews.com.

Policy

Right on gerrymandering, wrong on the census (National Review)

Don’t laugh at Democrats on health care. Private insurance is a catastrophe (Washington Examiner)

Humor

Major cave-in as Democrat candidates rush to far left side of debate stage (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63954?mailing_id=4374&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4374&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Details Emerging of Coordinated Mueller

Testimony With Congressional Democrats

By sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Details are beginning to emerge about the agreement between Democrats and Robert Muller surrounding his closely constructed upcoming testimony... The baseline here is very important. As we have outlined throughout, and especially since the Democrats won the mid-term election, the Mueller “team” is closely coordinating with the liar-Pulosi, scumbag-Schiff, scumbag liar-Nadler and scumbag-Cummings group about how best to continue the efforts of the Weissmann and Mueller small group within the DOJ and FBI. The connective tissue between House Democrats and the “Small Group” within the FBI Weissmann and Mueller lead, is the Lawfare group. As noted in the text message between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok; and as noted in the hiring of former FBI legal counsel James Baker; and as noted in the scumbag liar-Nadler and scumbag-Schiff hiring of Lawfare members for their staff; the coordination between the seditious group (DOJ/FBI) and the politicians is crystal clear. CTH advised everyone to pay close attention to the details in the agreements between liar-Pulosi, scumbag-Schiff, scumbag liar-Nadler and the corrupt team led by Robert Mueller. Everything they are doing is based on a coordinated plan between ideologues. The effort to remove President Trump is one long continuum…it has not stopped. The Mueller testimony is just another part of this process. Here’s some of the transparently sketchy details as outlined by staff leaks to NBC. Remember, these legislative “staff members” are part of the Lawfare group I cannot emphasize this enough... Need to read the rest of article.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/27/details-emerging-of-coordinated-mueller-testimony-with-congressional-democrats/

Democrats Push Immigration Policies That

Amount To Open Borders In Second Debate

By Rachel Stolitzfoos

{ dailycaller.com } ~ There’s one clear policy takeaway from the second Democratic debate in Miami on Thursday night... the Democratic candidates are pushing for de facto open borders. In a stunning moment, every single candidate on stage, including the leaders of the pack — former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and Independent Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders — raised their hands to signal their support for government-run health care that covers illegal immigrants. The move was particularly notable for loose lips liar-Biden, since former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama made a point of assuring voters his healthcare plan would not cover illegal immigrants.“You cannot let people who are sick, no matter where they come from, no matter what their status, go uncovered,” loose lips liar-Biden said, when asked to explain the change in policy. “You can’t do that. It’s just going to be taken care of, period. You have to. It’s the humane thing to do.” South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg expressed similar reasoning, then pivoted to saying that the illegal immigrants already in the country should have a pathway to citizenship — a policy no one on stage opposed. “This is not about a handout,” he said of covering illegal immigrants with state-funded health care. “This is an insurance program. And we do ourselves no favors by having 11 million undocumented people in our country be unable to access health care. But, of course, the real problem is we shouldn’t have 11 million undocumented people with no pathway to citizenship.” Later in the debate, all but one of the candidates again raised their hands, this time to signal they would decriminalize border crossings... No one has mention anything about the people who are on the waiting list for years to enter America. https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/28/democrats-immigration-open-borders-second-debate/?utm_medium=email

House Dem zealots ignore facts to wrongly

cite Trump Cabinet members for contempt

By Hans A. von Spakovsky

{ foxnews.com } ~ A House committee vote Wednesday holding the attorney general and commerce secretary in contempt for failing to turn over confidential documents... dealing with a lawsuit involving the U.S. census was political gamesmanship of the worst kind by Democrats. In a 24-15 vote, all Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to the committee’s subpoena. Republican Justin Amash of Michigan – who has called for the House to hold hearings on impeaching President Trump – voted with the Democrats. The other 15 Republicans on the committee voted against the baseless contempt citation. The vote by Democrats and Amash was itself contemptible – an example of out-of-control zeal to attack the Trump administration as often and as hard as possible, regardless of the facts. The documents deal with a decision by the Commerce Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. “Why don’t the Democrats want to know how many citizens are in the country?” asked Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. Democrats have said they fear that asking people in the census if they are U.S. citizens will reduce participation in the census by immigrants, resulting in an undercount of the U.S. population in areas with large immigrant populations. However, there is no empirical data to support that claim. President Trump quite properly asserted executive privilege over the subpoenaed documents Wednesday morning. The president took the action because Congress has no right to demand or receive the documents, since they are part of a lawsuit now before the Supreme Court... https://www. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dem-contempt-vote-against-barr-and-mcghan /opinion/dem-contempt-vote-against-barr-and-mcghan

Naval Test Pilot School Adds

New Focus on Unmanned Aircraft

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ The Navy just graduated its first class of unmanned aerial vehicle test pilots from a new course designed to apply the lessons of manned test pilot programs to UAVs... For decades, the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School trained aviators how to evaluate new aircraft and the same concepts were applied all aircraft, Marine Lt. Col. Rory Feely, the school’s executive officer, told USNI News. But until now, the school hadn’t created a curriculum focused on training the unmanned aerial systems test pilots. “Here’s my analogy, there was no test pilot school when the Wright brothers flew,” Feely said. “In an industry space, we need a certain amount of momentum behind the industry before the higher learning levels or institutional levels can come into place. Naval test pilot school is one of those institutions.” By design, test pilot training isn’t as focused on the nuts and bolts of flying an aircraft – unmanned or manned – as it is on training the test pilots on what to look for when operating a system, Feely said. The school’s standard 11-month long test pilot course teaches aviators how to convey information about an aircraft’s operation to the rest of the aviation community and the Navy leadership involved with buying the system. The recently completed supplemental course trained test pilots who complete the 11-month course and are heading to work with unmanned aerial systems, Navy Lt. Chris Wright, a systems instructor at the school, told USNI News. The UAS-focused short course involved a combination of academic study and hands-on experience with some unmanned systems currently used by the Navy, such as the unmanned Fire Scout and Triton systems. Eventually, the supplemental course will be incorporated into the full 11-month course. The Navy is moving toward incorporating unmanned aerial systems into its daily operations. At sea, for instance, unmanned tankers that are part of the MQ-25A Stingray program will refuel fighters during carrier operations. The Marine Corps is evaluating how to use unmanned systems to resupply Marines in the field. Six pilots previously selected for the Navy’s unmanned program, participated in the supplemental course. Other pilots attended the academic portion of the short course. Naval Test Pilot School graduates are the personnel who train to provide the Navy and Marine Corps leadership with feedback about how new and developing systems operate, Feely said. In general, test pilots are asked to evaluate aircraft they’ve never seen before. With unmanned systems, the same concept is at work – the test pilots are going to evaluate systems very few people are familiar with operating. “What they need to have is a good idea of how these aircraft are operated or will be operated as well as they also need a very sound working knowledge about how the Navy deploys these capabilities anyway because no system operates by itself these days. These systems are integrated across various platforms,” Feely said.

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/27/naval-test-pilot-school-adds-new-focus-on-unmanned-aircraft?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=31ae363290-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-31ae363290-231491269&mc_cid=31ae363290&mc_eid=3999f18767

UN Global Compact: What Happens Next?

By Judith Bergman

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In December, world leaders of 165 countries adopted an ostensibly non-binding agreement that propagates a radical idea... that migration -- for any reason -- is something that needs to be promoted, enabled and protected. The agreement is named the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), and now comes its implementation. The UN has not wasted any time in setting this "non-binding" Compact in motion. Already at the Marrakesh Conference in December, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres launched the Migration Network Network, a new addition to the UN bureaucracy, and seemingly intended to "ensure effective and coherent system‑wide support to the implementation of the Global Compact". The International Organization for Migration (IOM) will serve as the coordinator and secretariat of all constituent parts of the Network in implementing the Global Compact. The UN, in other words, has set its enormous bureaucratic infrastructure into full motion to see to it that the Compact will have maximum impact across the globe. IOM director-general Antonio Vitorino has already sent a warning to critics of the UN migration agenda. "If we want to succeed in having a more humane and better world, we should resist the temptation of negative narratives that some want to spread about migration," Vitorino said recently. His spokesman, Leonard Doyle, recently threatened that unless integrating migrants is taken seriously, terrorism will supposedly occur: "Populism is certainly a toxic issue that is down to a misunderstanding of the issues... When you don't have integration then you have serious problems like terrorism... It is in everybody's interests that we work towards a better integration of migrants and refugees, not to do so is to store up problems for the future." The Global Compact contains a provision, clearly signaling that any disagreement with its agenda will not be accepted and that the signatory states will work to dispel "misleading narratives that generate negative perceptions of migrants." According to Objective 17 of the Global Compact, member states are obligated to... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14391/un-global-compact-next

Tax Withholding Allows Politicians' Theft to Go Unnoticed

Louis DeBroux: If the income tax is not the most insidious mechanism for enslaving a free people, it must certainly be a close second.

America’s Founding Fathers explicitly and adamantly rejected a direct tax on its citizens, choosing instead to fund the legitimate operations of government through “duties, imposts (tariffs), and excises,” assessed uniformly throughout the states. That was why a constitutional amendment was required to tax the very act of working.

On the other hand, the Father of Communism, Karl Marx, listed “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax” as the second of 10 planks in his Communist Manifesto.

The income tax was first implemented in America during the War Between the States, with a maximum confiscatory tax rate of 10%. It was repealed just a few years after the war ended, in 1872.

Another income tax was passed in 1894, but was struck down by the Supreme Court. Then, in 1913, with class-warfare-based promises to the American people that only the very wealthy would be punished, Congress passed the 16th Amendment, giving constitutional authority to enact an income tax.

At its inception, the top tax rate was a mere 7%, and only on incomes over $4,000 (or $103,500 in 2019 inflation adjusted dollars). During the tax debate, William Shelton of Georgia expressed his support for the income tax as a way to hammer the rich, declaring, “None of us here have $4,000 incomes, and somebody else will have to pay the tax.”

As is often the case with actions rooted in envy, it backfired. The “somebody else” turned out to be us.

The income tax rates rose stratospherically. Under President Herbert Hoover, the tax rate was raised from 24% to 63%, and then Franklin Roosevelt, not to be outdone, raised rates to 79% and then 90%. He then issued an executive order setting a draconian tax rate of 100% for all income above $100,000, which was later repealed by Congress.

Over time, Americans were lulled into a casual acceptance of such tyrannical theft by politicians who used the revenue to enact vote-buying schemes. After all, having a mere 35% of your earnings taken by force seems downright generous when the alternative is 79%, or 90%, or 100%.

FDR also used the machinery of the Bureau of Internal Revenue as a weapon against his political enemies, a despicable habit perpetuated by Presidents Richard Nixon and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama.

Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, Americans came to tolerate, accept, or even demand (for others, at least) tax rates orders of magnitude higher than the original promised maximum tax rate. And one way of keeping Americans lulled in complacency was the implementation of withholding taxes from paychecks.

During WWII, seeking a way to fund the war effort without having to wait for revenue at the end of each year, Congress passed tax withholding, in which taxes were taken from each paycheck based on each citizen’s estimated tax liability over the course of the year.

Surprisingly, Nobel Prize-winning libertarian economist Milton Friedman, then a young Treasury Department employee working in a small technical group, first proposed withholding. Friedman later declared it “a very interesting and very challenging intellectual task.” He explained, “I think it’s a great mistake for peacetime, but in 1941-43, all of us were concentrating on the war. … I really wish we hadn’t found it necessary and I wish there were some way of abolishing withholding now.”

Withholding has been as much a boon for greedy politicians as it has been an intellectual sedative for the American people.

It allows government to take ever more of our earnings without raising our suspicion or ire, for how can we miss what we never see? If the American people had to write a check each month for their portion of the nation’s debt and governmental operating expenses, there would be outrage at the reckless nature of federal spending, which has placed us $22 trillion in debt.

Yet countless millions of Americans now get excited at their annual tax refund, treating it as a bonus rather than what it is; government paying back a mandatory interest-free loan.

Democrats’ lies have been so successful that, following the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act passed by the Republicans, which slashed personal and corporate income taxes and kick-started the economy, deceitful Democrats convinced Americans they’d suffered a tax increase.

How is it possible for Americans to get a double-digit tax rate cut and still think their taxes were increased?

Because with tax rates slashed, less money was taken out of each paycheck, and therefore tax refunds were smaller than the previous year. Americans kept more of their earnings but felt they were robbed.

And we can all thank withholding for that inverted view.

Now, with the 2020 presidential campaign in full swing, the clown car of Democrat candidates are all promising to repeal the Trump/GOP tax cuts, while simultaneously promising to pass budget-busting programs like “free” Medicare for All, “free” college, and “free” health care, as well as the Green New Deal, “affordable” housing, “free” child care, reparations for slavery, and a guaranteed basic income.

With the Green New Deal alone costing an estimated $93 trillion, spending-addicted Democrats absolutely must have high income-tax rates, and withholding allows them to take more and more of our earnings largely unnoticed.

That is a victory for progressive Democrats … for now. Because we all know what happened the last time the American people woke up and realized how heavily they were being taxed. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63890?mailing_id=4361&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4361&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 28, 2019 at 7:10am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Mueller Subpoena Reeks of Political Theater

Jordan Candler

liar-Pulosi To Cave On Border Funding Battle,

Will Allow Senate Bill On The Floor

By Jason Hopkins

{dailycaller.com} ~ Faced with immense pressure from members of her own party, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi will allow the Senate’s bipartisan border funding bill to be put on the floor for a vote... Instead of demanding more negotiations with the upper chamber of Congress and the White House, liar-Pulosi will agree to let the Senate’s version of the border funding bill be voted on in the House, according to sources close to the negotiations who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. liar-Pulosi’s decision comes after the Senate rejected the House’s version Wednesday and instead passed its own legislation that provides emergency funding to help address the immigration crisis. The $4.59 billion Senate bill provides funds to the various agencies that manage illegal immigrants, such as Customs and Border Protection, Health and Human Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and others. The House bill was criticized for its lack of bipartisan support — it garnered only three Republican votes when it passed the lower chamber of Congress on Tuesday night. GOP support for the bill fell after liar-Pulosi caved to far-left members in her caucus who wanted extra restrictions regarding Customs and Border Protection detainment of illegal immigrants. The Senate bill, on the other hand, passed by an overwhelming 84-8 vote Wednesday. Lawmakers are in a bind to reach a deal before Congress breaks for July 4 recess. Initially, liar-Pulosi said the two chambers would need to work together to come up with legislation palatable for both chambers. However, a number of moderate Democrats on Thursday began to pressure liar-Pulosi into allowing the Senate bill to go up for a vote. “Democrats kept up the charade there was no border crisis until the tragic photo of a father and daughter shamed them. liar-Pulosi should be embarrassed for refusing to stand up to her open borders caucus for so long,” an administration official said to the DCNF. Sources who spoke with the DCNF said liar-Pulosi, who spoke with Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday night, will allow the Senate version to be voted on in exchange for including two bits of language: a mandate that unaccompanied migrant deaths be reported to Congress within 24 hours and that unaccompanied migrants not be detained longer than 90 days.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/27/pelosi-to-cave-on-border-funding-bill/

The interesting John Hickenlooper

By Nic Rowan

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ It’s been nearly four months since former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper declared he is running for president, and he’s still right where he started: hardly anyone cares... For most voters, Hick is difficult to pick out in a crowd of white, mostly male candidates. And when he does shine, it’s often because he possesses an uncanny ability to say exactly the things his audiences do not want to hear. During a CNN town hall meeting three weeks after he announced his candidacy, moderator Dana Bash asked him, if nominated, would he consider choosing a woman as his vice presidential candidate? “Of course,” he replied, before continuing, “But I’ll ask you another question: How come we’re not asking, more often, the women, ‘Would you be willing to put a man on the ticket?’ ”Hick chuckled, but to many watching, the joke didn't quite land. In early June, he told a crowd gathered at the California Democratic Party’s convention that “socialism is not the answer” if the question is about how to defeat President Trump. That time he got booed: another middle-aged white man resisting his party’s leftward lurch. But Hick is, in fact, not just another boring white man in a sea of them. He's more interesting. He just needs to embrace what makes him so. He lost his father when he was 8. He ditched his dream of becoming a geologist when he got laid off from a Denver-based petroleum company in the mid-1980s. He tried and failed at marriage. He captured two terms as Denver mayor and then as governor of Colorado, running as a pro-business Democrat and on the success of his business, Wynkoop Brewing Company... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-interesting-john-hickenlooper?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_06/27/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

commie-Ocasio-Cortez is Wrong

About the Minimum Wage

By Andy Puzder

{frontpagemag.com} ~Economists everywhere agree... commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is wrong about raising the minimum wage. Looks like commie-AOC should study up a bit. Check out this short new video from Prager University, presented by CKE Restaurant CEO Andy Puzder. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274109/prager-u-video-ocasio-cortez-wrong-about-minimum-prager-university

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYjfunBsk94

Bar Owner: Worker Who Spit

on Eric Trump Placed on Leave

By Roger Williams

{ thepatriothill.com } ~ The Alinea Group, owners of the high-end Chicago cocktail lounge where President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, was spat on by an employee, has been put on leave... Trump confirmed to Breitbart News that the U.S. Secret Service took an employee of The Aviary into custody following the incident. In a telephone interview with Washington editor Matthew Boyle, Trump said the ordeal was “purely a disgusting act by somebody who clearly has emotional problems.” “For a party that preaches tolerance, this once again demonstrates they have very little civility,” the president’s son continued. “When somebody is sick enough to resort to spitting on someone, it just emphasizes a sickness and desperation and the fact that we’re winning.” His comments came after reports of the alleged spitting incident Tuesday night at the trendy West Loop area bar. According to sources familiar with the matter, Eric Trump had, with a group of people, come into Aviary, an upscale lounge in Chicago, and the young woman–an employee of the establishment –came right up to him and spit in his face. Per an eyewitness, she murmured inaudibly something that sounded like it was anti-Trump. Then Secret Service agents who were there protecting Eric Trump jumped into action and took the woman into custody. She was put in handcuffs and placed in a police paddy wagon, a source with knowledge said. Eric Trump decided not to press charges against the woman in the end, and she was released from police custody... https://thepatriothill.com/left-news/2019/06/27/bar-owner-worker-who-spit-on-eric-trump-placed-on-leave/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=patriothill-owner-6_27-mid

Expert Says Democrats Will Soon Try

to Expand Voting Rights for Illegals

By patriotnewsdaily.com : According to Government Accountability Institute Director of Research Eric Eggers, Democrats already have plans in motion to expand voting rights for the millions of illegal aliens currently living in blue state America... In an interview with Breitbart News this week, Eggers noted the recent legislation in New York that opened up driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. He said that this scheme – already adopted by California and other blue states – is a prelude to an unprecedented expansion of “rights” for migrants, including giving them access to the voting booth. “This is the first step towards the expansion of a number of things that normalize the rights of illegal aliens,” Eggers told Breitbart. “It’s only a matter of time before we see the expansion of illegal alien voting in state elections and eventually the Left pushing for illegal alien voting in federal elections.” It’s worth remembering that in March, House Democrats had an opportunity to go on the record to condemn illegal immigrant voting. Dismayed by recent moves in San Francisco to allow aliens the vote in school board election, Republicans proposed an addendum to an election reform bill that would have stated: “Allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.”All but six House Democrats voted down the resolution. It’s also worth noting that in April of last year, California implemented a scheme in which everyone obtaining or renewing a driver’s license would be automatically registered to vote. This, of course, includes huge numbers of noncitizens. And while immigration activists and state Democrats have promised that the rules are very clear about the “undocumented” and how they are not allowed to vote, some Republicans have scoffed at the invisible barrier. “Yes, illegal aliens are big rules followers,” said Ann Coulter upon hearing this news. Besides, Coulter argued, it wasn’t as if illegal immigrants actually needed to go to the polls themselves. With the majority of California ballots being sent out by mail, the potential for fraud is massive. “It’s not even the illegal aliens who need to go and vote. Don’t worry, they’ll be voted for. You just need them registered to vote,” Coulter said. Automatic voter registration is a big thing for Democrats. Surely, they will soon roll it out in New York, where we will face the same situation. Combine these initiatives with the left’s zeal to abolish the Electoral College, and their plan for electoral dominance starts to become extremely clear. Maybe we should, uh, do something about it before it’s too late?

http://patriotnewsdaily.com/expert-says-democrats-will-soon-try-to-expand-voting-rights-for-illegals/

Mueller Subpoena Reeks of Political Theater

Jordan Candler: Robert Mueller, who spearheaded the special-counsel investigation of Donald Trump and his fictitious collusion with Russia, was inevitably subpoenaed yesterday by Democrat lawmakers. Mueller will publicly converse with the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17, during which time Democrats will engage in an all-out effort to leverage the situation to their advantage. It may very well be their final opportunity to orchestrate more make-believe collusion fodder — straight from the horse’s mouth, no less — before the 2020 election.

But Democrats may be remiss if they think Mueller’s testimony will implicate Trump. According to The Washington Post, “Even Mueller repeating aspects of his report in a public setting could be politically damaging for Trump — exposing the findings to sections of the country that may not be aware of them, and creating a televised spectacle.” It will be a spectacle alright — but perhaps not in the way Democrats think.

Sen. Lindsey Graham hypothetically asks, “Bottom line is, after all of your looking and all the time you had and all the money you spent, did Trump collude with the Russians? ‘No.’ Do you stand by your report? ‘Yes.’” He added, “It is ‘case-closed’ for me. [Democrats] can do anything they want to in the House, and I think it will blow up in their face. … The conclusions can’t change. There is no collusion. That’s what the whole thing was about to begin with.” Moreover, Graham added, “There’s nobody on Earth who could bring an obstruction case based on these facts.”

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz echoes these sentiments. He stated, “[Mueller] can’t refuse to answer questions about the FISA application [for surveilling Trump’s campaign]. Those are the kind of questions that I think Republicans will be very well prepared to ask. Those are the kind of questions which are currently under investigation by the inspector general whose report we are waiting for. But those are not in any way precluded. So I think that [Democrats] will regret having called him.”

Time will tell. But if the Democrats’ history of overplaying their witch-hunt cards is any indication, Graham and Dershowitz are probably right. Or as Rep. Mark Meadows sums it up: “Mr. Mueller better be prepared. I mean, there’s a lot more questions that Republicans have than Democrats. This is the Democrats trying to resurrect a Russia collusion narrative that the American people are tired of. And yet, Mr. Mueller has not been subject to cross examination. He will be now.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63899?mailing_id=4361&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4361&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 27, 2019 at 4:47pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Dems' 'Fake Border Crisis'

Turns Out to Be Real

Nate Jackson

Russia reportedly interfered

with air navigation in Israel

By jpost.com: Senior Israeli officials believe that Russia has been disrupting civilian aircraft navigation systems for the past three week... according to reports released Thursday morning. Army Radio called the move a "hostile attack." The Israel Airports Authority announced on Wednesday that pilots were having difficulty landing, experiencing mysterious disruptions. To resolve the issue, Israel has sent a defense official to Russia to discuss the disruption, Army Radio reported. Russia has denied the report. Despite the interference, the airport authority was able to ensure safe landings for its incoming planes. "As a result of the disturbances, changes were made in some of the entry procedures for landing to ensure safety; these are procedures used daily in airports around the world," the authority said in a statement. "At no stage was there a safety incident related to GPS interference in connection with the accuracy of navigation and flight routes. From the first day that the disturbance appeared, all of the elements in Israel have been working to solve the problem and find the source of the problem." The military explained that the incident was purely civilian and did not affect any of its activities. However, the army has been assisting with the disturbance "to allow freedom of action" in Israeli airspace. "The IDF is constantly working to preserve the freedom of action and operational supremacy in the spectrum," it said in a statement. The report on the disturbance comes only days after Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev was in Jerusalem for a historic trilateral meeting with US and Israeli national security advisers John Bolton and Meir Ben-Shabbat.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Russia-interferes-with-Israeli-air-navigation-amid-historic-trilateral-Army-Radio-593849

Family tells NY Times that father and child in heartbreaking photo were not fleeing violence

By Frieda Powers

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Contrary to the left’s narrative about the father and child who tragically drowned trying to illegally cross the U.S. border... the family from El Salvador was reportedly not escaping violence in their home country. Relatives of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, have indicated that although the family, which included wife and mother Tania Vanessa Ávalos, were hoping to request asylum in the United States, they were not victims of violence in their homeland, according to a report by The New York TimesWednesday. Liberals have been unashamedly blaming President Trump and his administration for the tragic deaths, though even former President scumbag/liar-nObama’s administration would also likely have denied asylum to the family since immediate danger was not a factor in their decision to leave El Salvador. Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren spoke about the image of the father and child lying face down on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande where they had died while attempting to swim across and enter the U.S. illegally. An Associated Pressreport cited journalist Julia Le Duc’s story and photo which were published by Mexican newspaper La Jornada: According to Le Duc’s reporting for La Jornada, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, frustrated because the family from El Salvador was unable to present themselves to U.S. authorities and request asylum, swam across the river on Sunday with his daughter, Valeria. He set her on the U.S. bank of the river and started back for his wife, Tania Vanessa Ávalos, but seeing him move away the girl threw herself into the waters. Martínez returned and was able to grab Valeria, but the current swept them both away. Democratic presidential candidates socialist-Beto O’Rourke and Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker of New Jersey blamed the president for the deaths... These dems should be ashame of themselves for blaming the President. https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/06/26/family-tells-ny-times-that-father-and-child-in-heartbreaking-photo-were-not-fleeing-violence-768936?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

Dershowitz: “Democrats Will

Regret Calling Mueller to Testify”

By sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Alan Dershowitz appears with two panel members of the ‘Tick-Tock-Boom club’ to discuss the potential of Robert Mueller’s testimony... On the issue of the May 16th, 2017, Mueller trip to the White House raised by ‘tick-tock’ chairman Greg Jarrett, his emphasis is on the wrong syllable. If Mueller does appear before congress the substance of Mueller’s White House visit should be ignored, and his status within the visit should be the focus. Not to beat a dead horse, but the purpose of Rosenstein taking Mueller to the White House had nothing to do with Mueller as a candidate for FBI Director. Congress needs to skip the BS, and get right to the heart of the issue. Here is five Minutes of rapid fire questions for Mueller on this subject...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/26/dershowitz-democrats-will-regret-calling-mueller-to-testify/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXCwgFrleyc

Supreme Court blocks citizenship

question in 2020 census for now

By Ronn Blitzer and Adam Shaw

{ foxnews.com } ~ The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked, for now, the Trump administration's plan to include a question on the 2020 census... that inquires about a person’s citizenship status. The court said the administration's explanation for adding such a question is insufficient, and sent it back to the lower courts for further consideration. The ruling marks a setback for the administration, but the issue is not yet resolved. The ruling said that the court was presented "with an explanation for agency action that is incongruent with what the record reveals about the agency’s priorities and decision making process." This case was one of the most closely watched cases of the Court’s term, Department of Commerce v. New York, and explored exactly what led to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross deciding to include the question in the first place. The ruling comes after a ruling by the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, which said the question was improper. At issue was whether Ross acted within his authority when he added the question. More specifically, there were questions as to whether he violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which sets standards for how federal agencies make changes, or the Enumeration Clause of the Constitution, which says that congressional representatives are apportioned to states based on their populations’ “numbers” and “persons.” Opponents of the question feared that by asking people about their citizenship status, immigrants may not want to respond and be counted in the census. This would result in official population numbers that are lower than they truly are, which in turn could yield less federal funding and fewer congressional seats in districts with high immigrant populations. Those districts tend to favor Democrats...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-blocks-citizenship-question-in-2020-census-for-now

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6052994190001/#sp=show-clips

Pennsylvania Officials Join Bigoted

CAIR for "Islamophobia" Events

By Steven Emerson

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ Last week, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) identified charitable organizations that recently showcased radical Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) activists with a history of bigoted and anti-Semitic views... Philanthropic organizations and foundations should be held accountable for failing to do their due diligence and looking into the backgrounds of the members they promote publicly. U.S. politicians, however, must be held to an even higher standard while representing their constituencies. Unfortunately, state and local officials participated in several events co-hosted by CAIR's Philadelphia chapter (CAIR-PA) earlier this month. On June 6, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., organized a town hall meeting at Dickinson College and invited CAIR-PA Advisory Board member Aaysha Noor to moderate, according to a CAIR-PA update. Another town hall, taking place June 13 in Devon, Pa., "was co-sponsored by the offices of state Rep. Joe Webster and Rep. Melissa Shusterman." On June 19, CAIR-PA co-hosted a second town hall meeting in Carlisle, Pa. including state representatives Movita Johnson-Harrell and Patty Kim. Both meetings focused on "Islamophobia" and condemning anti-Muslim bigotry. Either these politicians support CAIR's radical agenda, or their staff failed to do their homework on the organization. Like other U.S.-based Islamists, CAIR-PA's leaders have a long history of making bigoted allegations. In a 2010 op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Moein Khawaja, then executive director of CAIR-Philadelphia, leveled dual allegiance accusations at a pro-Israel lobby group. Khawaja argued that "CAIR is concerned about America, not Palestine, Pakistan, or any other foreign land – unlike the Emergency Committee for Israel and its supporters, who place Israel first and America a distant second." This view is similar to recent comments by U.S. Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who leveled dual loyalty allegations against American supporters of Israel. Accusing Jews of holding more allegiance to the Jewish state than to their home nation is a form of anti-Semitism. In addition, Khawaja's claim about CAIR's focus is false. CAIR and its officials routinely insert the organization into the debate over Israel and Palestine. After angrily rejecting a question about Hamas in 2013 as a bigoted effort to drag CAIR "into the Middle East affairs," CAIR-Los Angeles leader Hussam Ayloush attacked Mayor Eric Garcetti for endorsing the U.S. decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The move was offensive "not only to the 12 million Palestinian Christians and Muslims, but also to the 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide," Ayloush said last month... https://www.investigativeproject.org/7961/pennsylvania-officials-join-bigoted-cair-for

Dems' 'Fake Border Crisis' Turns Out to Be Real

Nate Jackson: House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi dismissed the “fake crisis at the border.” Senate Minority Leader Charles scumbag-Schumer called it “a crisis that does not exist.” House Majority Leader scumbag-Steny Hoyer said, “There is no crisis at the border.”

Byron York highlights those and many other Democrats (and a few Republicans) utterly denying the crisis at our southern border. But many of those same people are now decrying that crisis, particularly so they can blame President Donald Trump, who just happens to be the only one trying to stop the crisis.

Kevin Williamson explains the foundation of it all: “The problem of illegal immigration is itself the result of massive administrative failure in the United States. By systematically failing — and refusing — to enforce our own immigration laws, we have created the international equivalent of what the tort lawyers call an ‘attractive nuisance.’ There are jobs, homes, support, and (in spite of the law) benefits to be had in the United States, with relatively little prospect of serious consequences for those who are caught. If you are a poor Guatemalan without much in the way of economic and social prospects, illegal immigration to the United States is a perfectly rational choice. Guatemala has its own deficiencies, to be sure, but the situation here is Washington’s creation, not Guatemala City’s.”

With that, we come to the latest news on the immigration front.

First, Trump has named Mark Morgan, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s former Border Patrol chief, acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection after its current acting commissioner, John Sanders, announced his resignation effective July 5. Morgan had just taken over at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this month. Here’s how The Washington Post “reports” the move:

A week after beginning his reelection campaign with promises of mass deportations, President Trump sent the agencies responsible for immigration enforcement deeper into disarray on Tuesday, replacing his interim border chief with a figure he plucked from cable news punditry last month.

You know where the Post mentions that Morgan was scumbag/liar-nObama’s guy? The 25th paragraph.

In any case, Trump’s move does come amid continued bad Leftmedia publicity for his border policies, particularly regarding detention of illegal border crossers. Perhaps his strategy with personnel changes is to keep moving the lightning rod.

Beyond the kerfuffle over “concentration camps” at detention facilities, the latest bad publicity is the horrific photo of the Salvadoran father and toddler daughter who drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. “This photo of a dead father and daughter shows the true nature of Trump’s immigration policy,” reads the headline at Vox. No it doesn’t. Why was this Salvadoran man and his family allowed to get through Mexico and then escape a holding facility? Poor enforcement there, for one thing, but also because Democrats invited a border invasion.

Don’t believe us? Take Elizabeth dinky-Warren’s word for it. She backs the proposal of fellow Democrat presidential candidate Julian Castro to repeal the federal law criminalizing illegal border crossing. “We should not be criminalizing mamas and babies trying to flee violence at home or trying to build a better future,” dinky-Warren says. Well, they’re dying on the way here trying to follow her advice, all while leftists are standing on the caskets of the dead to politically attack Trump.

Meanwhile, before tonight’s presidential debate, several candidates attempted to gain access to detention facilities for political photo ops — like the pathetically embarrassing one staged by commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

What happened to this father and daughter shouldn’t happen to anyone. The question is what are government officials going to do to stop it? The Trump administration, despite being utterly overwhelmed with illegal crossings and managing detention centers well over capacity, wants to close the border to such crossings. Democrats want to fling wide the gates.

As for legislation, the House passed a $4.5 million emergency border bill Tuesday, but it includes so many mandates to provide free stuff for border crossers while lacking key enforcement provisions that Trump has threatened a veto. To be clear, there should be money allocated for true humanitarian relief, and detained migrants should be treated humanely. But a U.S. detention center is not the Ritz-Carlton, and people who cross the border illegally have no “right” to be here.

This humanitarian crisis is largely the result of Democrats, who advertise “free” stuff and sanctuary policies if only migrants can reach American soil. That’s a cynical ploy for votes and it’s having serious and deadly consequences. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63898?mailing_id=4361&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4361&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 27, 2019 at 11:49am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

What a Border Crisis Looks Like
Rich Lowry

Senate Passes $4.6 Billion Border-Funding

Bill after Rejecting liar-Pulosi’s Version

By Jack Crowe

{ nationalreview.com } ~ The Senate on Wednesday passed a $4.6 billion spending package to alleviate the ongoing crisis at the southern border... just moments after rejecting a similar emergency-funding bill advanced by House Democrats that included restrictions on the funding of certain border-enforcement measures. Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi, who shepherded the more restrictive spending bill through the House on Tuesday, announced her caucus’s opposition to the Senate bill before it was voted on, ensuring a contentious reconciliation process between the two chambers before a final bill can be sent to President Trump’s desk. “They pass their bill, we respect that,” liar-Pulosi said Wednesday. “We passed our bill, we hope they would respect that. And there are some improvements that we think can be reconciled.” Republican lawmakers have emphasized the urgency of the border crisis in asking their Democratic colleagues to avoid a protracted reconciliation process by passing the Senate spending bill immediately, before lawmakers leave town for the one-week July 4 recess. Addressing his colleagues on the Senate floor before the vote on Wednesday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell emphasized the bipartisan support behind the upper chamber’s spending bill, which ultimately passed 84–8. “The House has not made much progress toward actually making a law, just more resistance theater,” McConnell said. “The Senate has a better and more bipartisan way forward.” “It’s a productive compromise that would go a long way to begin to address the border crisis: no poison pills, just a clean bill,” he added, referencing the restrictions placed on the use of funds in the House spending bill. The House bill, which fell 19 votes short of passage in the Senate, includes numerous humanitarian provisions related to the detention of migrants and restricts the amount of funding that can be allocated to enforcement mechanisms. The Senate bill, meanwhile, allocates $1.3 billion to improve the Border Patrol and HHS detention facilities, which have been overwhelmed by the 144,000 asylum-seekers that arrived at the border last month, as well as $2.9 billion to improve the medical care and supervision of migrant children, many of whom, according to multiple recent reports, have been deprived of basic hygiene products and proper beds due to lack of resources...

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/senate-passes-4-6-billion-border-funding-bill-after-rejecting-pelosis-version/

All 2020 Senate Dems Absent for Vote

to Send Humanitarian Relief to Border

By Cameron Cawthorne

{ freebeacon.com } ~ All seven Democrats in the Senate running for president were absent Wednesday for a vote to send $4.6 billion in emergency humanitarian relief to the southern border... to help thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children. Less than 24 hours after House Democrats passed a measure Tuesday night, the Republican-controlled Senate rejected it with a 55-37 vote and approved their own measure with overwhelming bipartisan support with a 84-8 vote, according to the Washington Post. Republicans and the White House far prefer the Senate measure but House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi is pressing for quick negotiations to merge the bills — promising that Democrats won’t knuckle under to demands to send the Senate bill directly to President Donald Trump without changes. The Senate vote sent the must-pass legislation measure back the Democratic-controlled House. Next steps are unclear, but liar-Pulosi quickly dismissed speculation that the Democratic-controlled House will simply accept the Senate measure, which cleared a key committee last week with just one dissenting vote. Asked if the House would pass the Senate bill and send it to Trump, liar-Pulosi said, "No." "They passed their bill, we respect that. We passed our bill, we hope they will respect that. And if there’s some improvements that we think can be reconciled," liar-Pulosi said. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) slammed House Democrats on the floor Wednesday, saying their priorities revolved around "Resistance theater," adding that the Senate "has a better and more bipartisan way forward." The 2020 Democratic candidates, which include Sens. scumbag-Cory Booker (N.J), lowlife-Kamala Harris (Calif.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Michael Bennet (Colo.), Elizabeth dinky-Warren (Mass.) Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), and commie-Bernie Sanders (Vt.), were all out of town campaigning and preparing for the primary debates happening this week. All three of the 2020 House Democrats, who will be participating in this week's debates, were also absent for Tuesday's border vote, according to Politico reporter Sarah Ferris...

https://freebeacon.com/politics/all-2020-senate-dems-absent-for-vote-to-send-humanitarian-relief-to-border/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6362db3ac6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6362db3ac6-45611665

Samantha Power Slammed Trump In Private

Email Exchanges With Media

During 2016 Election

By Sara Carter

{ saraacarter.com } ~ The American Center for Law and Justice recently obtained new documents revealing former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power exchanged anti-Trump emails... with top media officials and was communicating with former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page. Strzok and Page were investigated by the FBI and the Department of Justice after anti-Trump text messages were found on their government cell phones. The pair were also on the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team early in his investigation into President Trump. Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team after the discovery of the text messages and was later fired from the bureau. Page, who worked directly with former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, left the Mueller investigation and later resigned from her work at the bureau. McCabe was also fired from the bureau by former Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Strzok and Page led the now debunked FBI investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. John Solomon with The Hill first posted the email exchanges obtained by the ACLJ. The organization was founded by Jay Sekulow, who is also serving as Trump’s defense attorney. Power had unmasked nearly 300 names in her final days as United Nations Ambassador during 2016 and early 2017. The information was discovered by then congressman Trey Gowdy, who questioned both Power and former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan about the unmasking of American names. It is almost unheard of for a U.N. official to unmask American names in highly classified communications obtained by the National Security Administration, as previously reported by SaraACarter.com ...

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Another Hard-Left DA Wins Queens!

Dems Embrace Communism

By S.Noble

{ independentsentinel.com } ~ The Communist Party USA retweeted the glorious news that another hard-left candidate was elected to office in Queens... It’s not just any office, it’s Queen’s district attorney, and according to the communist/socialist Jacobin magazine, she knows who the bad guys are. We don’t know if she considers herself a communist, but her agenda sure is that. She plans to arrest ICE agents in courthouses. Red diaper baby commie-Bernie is overjoyed. Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sens. commie-Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth dinky-Warren all backed this leftist. Some of DA-elect Tiffany Caban’s funding came from a scumbag-Soros PAC. She plans to end the incarceration of poor people, and she will hold landlords and bosses accountable for their crimes. Caban was endorsed by communist/ Democratic Socialist commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She is of the same mind as Larry Krasner in Philly who decides what is a crime and who gets charged. The only problem is the scumbag-Soros-funded civil rights attorney is lawless. scumbag-Soros is funding other communist DA’s to destroy the criminal justice system from within. Caban described herself to Jacobin as a “queer Latina from a low-income community.” She said she will favor the poor and minorities in the interest of her idea of “fairness.” She promises “not to prosecute low-level offenses” and she will “prosecute bad landlords and construction bosses.” She will define “low-level” and “bad” since she is lawless. Her plan is to allow turnstile jumpers and shoplifters free reign...

https://www.independentsentinel.com/another-hard-left-da-wins-queens-dems-embrace-communism/

commie-AOC: loose lips liar-Biden Nomination

Would ‘Depress Turnout,’ ‘Not a

Pragmatic Choice’

By Graham Piro

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) criticized a potential loose lips liar-Joe Biden presidential nomination in an extensive interview with Vogue... saying that loose lips liar-Biden is not a pragmatic choice and his nomination would repeat the Democratic Party's mistakes of 2016. On the precipice of the first Democratic presidential debate, commie-Ocasio-Cortez addressed the 2020 Democratic primary. She outright rejected loose lips liar-Biden's appeal as a centrist candidate. She took issue with the idea of a loose lips liar-Biden nomination, saying that the nomination would "depress turnout." "I think that he's not a pragmatic choice," she told Vogue. She compared a loose lips liar-Biden nomination to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's candidacy in 2016. "We picked the logically fitting candidate, but that candidate did not inspire the turnout that we needed," she said. She also criticized reaching out to Trump voters. "That's my frustration with politics today, that they're willing to give up every single person in America just for that dude in a diner," she told the magazine. "Just so that you can get this very specific slice of Trump voters?" she continued later.The Bronx representative is reaching her one-year anniversary of besting longtime Democratic mainstay Joe Crowley in her district's Democratic primary. Since her election, commie-Ocasio-Cortez has become one of the most outspoken young leaders in the Democratic Party. Despite the strong criticism of loose lips liar-Biden, commie-Ocasio-Cortez declined to make a specific endorsement of a Democratic candidate so early in the primary. https://freebeacon.com/politics/aoc-biden-nomination-would-depress-turnout-not-a-pragmatic-choice/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6362db3ac6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6362db3ac6-45611665

What a Border Crisis Looks Like

Rich Lowry

News flash: There’s a crisis at the border.

This was discovered again over the past few days when immigration attorneys talked to reporters about appalling conditions at a Border Patrol facility detaining migrant minors in Clint, Texas.

According to the lawyers, many of the kids had to sleep on the concrete floor, failed to get proper adult supervision and didn’t routinely take showers or brush their teeth. The details were hard to read.

Assuming the account was accurate, one wonders how we could treat anyone this way, let alone children? But a lawyer who talked to The New Yorker mentioned a telling fact: The facility previously had a capacity of 104 and had never held children before. Yet it held roughly 350 children, apparently accommodated by placement of a new warehouse at the site.

All this is consistent with vast numbers of migrants, many of them families and children, flooding the border and overtaxing facilities never meant for these kinds of numbers or this demographic of migrant.

Indeed, the immigration lawyer mentioned to The New Yorker that the personnel at the Border Patrol facility were constantly receiving children and constantly transferring them over to a Health and Human Services site, and stipulated that the guards believed the children don’t belong there and should go someplace more appropriate. (Under the glare of publicity, they did.)

The broader problem is that HHS, which is supposed to get custody of migrant children from Border Patrol in short order, is itself overburdened and backed up.

Since it’s 2019, what should be properly attributed to dire circumstances and limited capacity is instead taken as evidence of President Donald Trump’s malice.

If what’s happening at the border is a product of Trump policy, it would have to involve an intricate and well-executed plan. The White House would have to convince the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan — who served as deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection under President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama — to send word down through the bureaucracy to treat children as callously as possible and not to leak word of this explosive guidance.

In the real world, a migrant influx will test even an administration more favorably inclined toward immigration. The reason that the left can’t keep their viral images straight — often misattributing to Trump photos of kids in steel-cage holding pens during the scumbag/liar-nObama years — is that this is a similar crisis to the one scumbag/liar-nObama faced in his second term, with similar challenges.

A viral video of a Justice Department lawyer arguing before a panel of judges last week that kids don’t need toothbrushes and soap to meet the standard for “safe and sanitary” detention under the so-called Flores settlement has caused outrage. But few have stopped to note that the underlying case had to do with a district court finding that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration in 2015 was in material breach of the Flores standard (or that the DOJ lawyer was offering a technical legal argument — not a defense of mistreating kids).

All that said, once these migrants are under our care, it is our responsibility to make sure they are treated as humanely as possible. The border needs more resources. The Trump administration has been asking Congress to pass a funding package, and it should do so forthwith. To address the root cause of the crisis, it should also change the bizarre asylum rules that have forced us to release family units from Central America into the country, creating an incentive for more to come.

As long as that’s the case, we aren’t going to be able to control the border or process people coming across it in an orderly fashion. What we’re seeing is what a border crisis looks like. If we don’t like it — and we shouldn’t — it’s time for Congress to act to begin to bring it to an end. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/63851?mailing_id=4358&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4358&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 27, 2019 at 9:10am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

No, loose lips liar-Joe, Half

of Americans Aren't Poor

Robin Smith

Thursday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ANNULLED: “The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration’s explanation for asking about citizenship on the 2020 census didn’t hold water, sending the matter back to the Commerce Department to try again. But the timing of the ruling — just days before the department must finalize the questionnaire for the 2020 count — likely means the administration won’t be able to ask.” (The Washington Times)

GERRYMANDERING VERDICT: “The Supreme Court’s conservatives decided Thursday that federal courts do not have a role to play in deciding whether partisan gerrymandering goes too far. The 5 to 4 decision was written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and joined by the court’s other conservatives.” (The Washington Post)

‘AUER DEFERENCE’ UPHELD: “The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to overturn a precedent that strengthens the power of government regulators in a closely watched case that could have broad ramifications for federal agencies. The precedent is known as ‘Auer deference,’ after the 1997 case Auer v. Robbins. Since Auer, the Supreme Court has held that courts should defer to agencies’ interpretations of their own rules if those rules are ambiguous. Though the top court retained the precedent, it did so while imposing limitations.” (CNBC)

THE ~~GREATEST~~ MOST BORING SHOW ON EARTH: “At the first debate of the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren and the other nine candidates on stage Wednesday charged that the ‘rigged’ economy under President Donald Trump is benefiting only the rich, while they disagreed over the border crisis, military power and how to improve the nation’s health care system,” NBC News reports. President Donald Trump summed up the debate succinctly: “Boring!”

liar-PULOSI’S PARTISAN PLOY: “House Democrats cannot accept the bipartisan border crisis compromise bill the Senate passed Wednesday, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi said, and will demand changes to limit how long children can be held in some facilities.” (The Washington Times)

TERRORISTS EYE THE BORDER: “Law enforcement officials in Nicaragua have arrested four ISIS terror suspects — two from Iraq and two from Egypt — who reportedly entered the country with Costa Rican travel documents as part of a migrant group that U.S. officials say was headed north to the U.S.-Mexico border.” (The Daily Wire)

FRAUDULENT FAMILIES: “The Department of Homeland Security revealed just how common ‘fraudulent families’ are among the thousands of illegal immigrants reaching the U.S.-Mexico border every month. … [Homeland Security Investigations] agents have uncovered a massive amount of fraud in the short time they’ve been deployed. To date … agents have uncovered 316 fraudulent families, 599 bogus documents, and [DSI] has presented 629 different people to the Justice Department for various criminal violations.” (The Daily Caller) 

G-20 UNDERWAY: “Trade and geopolitical tensions, and the looming threat of climate change, are on the agenda as the presidents of the United States and China and other world leaders gather in Osaka, Japan, for a summit of the Group of 20 major economies.” (The Associated Press)

NOKO SUMMIT #3: “North Korean and U.S. officials are holding ‘behind-the-scenes talks’ to arrange a third summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the fate of the North’s expanding nuclear arsenal, South Korea’s president said, four months after a second meeting between the leaders in Vietnam collapsed without any agreement.” (ABC News)

CHRIS COX OUT: According to ABC News, “Chris Cox has stepped down from his post as the NRA’s chief lobbyist and principal political strategist for the Institute for Legislative Action — the lobbying arm for the NRA, according to Andrew Arulanandum, the NRA’s managing director for public affairs.” Be sure to read Mark Alexander’s warning concerning the NRA’s fratricidal fire.

MORE PARKLAND FALLOUT: “Over a year after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., two more Broward County sheriff’s deputies have been fired for failing to act to stop the massacre. Deputies Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh were terminated Tuesday after an internal investigation of the department’s response to the shooting showed they’d failed to act, Broward County sheriff Gregory Tony said.” (National Review)

POLICY: Sure, cancel student debt. Then cancel college. Higher education has been massively devalued over the past decade. (Spectator)

POLICY: Why college costs are out of control (The Heritage Foundation)

HUMOR: In emergency bill, House dems vote to send more fake tears to address border crisis (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post

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White House Threatens To Veto Border Bill

Due to Provisions Thrown In by Democrats

By Jack Davis

{ westernjournal.com } ~ President Donald Trump will veto a spending bill providing the humanitarian aid he has been seeking for America’s beleaguered southern border if it includes Democratic proposals... “that would make our country less safe,” according to a White House statement released Monday. Trump has been seeking $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid to address conditions on the border, where the sheer magnitude of the flood of illegal immigrants has overwhelmed detention facilities, including those the Department of Health and Human Services operates to serve children. Although the Senate has been addressing Trump’s request in a bipartisan fashion, the Democrat-controlled House has erupted in protest against the bill. The New York Times said that more than 30 members of the Progressive Caucus and more than 15 members of the Hispanic Caucus held conference calls Sunday night, with most attacking the bill as supporting an immigration system they oppose. To address those concerns, the Democratic majority is seeking to adapt the spending bill to address progressive priorities. The White House has said those changes, which would de-fund detention centers in some cases, are unacceptable. “After ignoring the Administration’s request for desperately needed funding to address the humanitarian crisis at the border for over a month, and despite the efforts of the House minority, the House majority has put forward a partisan bill that underfunds necessary accounts and seeks to take advantage of the current crisis by inserting policy provisions that would make our country less safe,” the statement read, according to Fox News.The depth of the need was illustrated last week by Customs and Border Protection Chief Operating Officer John Sanders, who said Border Patrol stations are holding 15,000 people. Their capacity is 4,000 people, he said. House Democrats are divided about the bill, The Washington Post reported. New York Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among those opposed to the funding. “I will not fund another dime to allow ICE to continue its manipulative tactics,” she said Monday, referring to U.S. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement. comie-Ocasio-Cortez said the issues at the border are “not due to a lack of resources; that’s due to a desire — an active desire by this administration to hurt kids. We need to stop funding the detention of children under any and all circumstances.”... commie-AOC is full of you know what. https://www.westernjournal.com/white-house-threatens-veto-border-bill-due-provisions-thrown-democrats/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativebyte&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

Russia Warns of New Cuban Missile Crisis

as Most Powerful Warship Docks in Cuba

By Steven Beyer

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned that the United States and Russia could be on the verge of another “Cuban Missile Crisis”... just as a Russian warship entered Cuba’s Havana Harbor on Monday. The Deputy Foreign Minister said on Monday that the United States’ deployment of land-based missile systems near Russia’s borders could lead to the 1962 style of conflict, Reuters reports. Russia has largely been critical of the plans the United States has of deploying missile systems in Eastern Europe. The country has also been cautious about the withdrawal by the United States from the INF arms control treaty. Meanwhile, the Admiral Gorshkov, arguably Russia‘s most powerful vessel, docked in Havana while being watched by an American warship, the Express reports. The warship is considered the nation’s most advanced and is armed with missiles and air defense systems, as well as other weapons, PBS Newshour reports. As the warship made its way into the harbor, it was greeted warmly by Cuban forces with a 21-gun salute.The Admiral Gorshkov responded in favor with its own salute. Many see the move to dock the warship in Cuba as a show of strength from Russia as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. “If things get as far as an actual deployment on the ground of these sorts of systems, then the situation won’t just get more complicated, it will escalate right to the limit,” Ryabkov said. “We could find ourselves in a situation where we have a rocket crisis close not just to the crisis of the 1980s but close to the Caribbean crisis,” he added. The docking of the warship is reminiscent of the 1960s Cuban Missile Crisis as the U.S. blocked Soviet ships from heading to Cuba... https://www.westernjournal.com/russia-warns-new-cuban-missile-crisis-powerful-warship-docks-cuba/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

Fearful of dinky-Warren, commie-Sanders

Backs Disastrous College Debt Policies

By John Jiang

{ spectator.org } ~ You have to feel a bit sorry for comie-Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator came within seven points of capturing the Democratic nomination in 2016... He’s spent the intervening three years working on his brand and building toward his 2020 run, confident that greater name recognition and preparedness would make him the comfortable frontrunner. Now, with Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren nipping at his heels, commie-Sanders is about to fall to third place. No wonder he seems increasingly desperate to prevent his rival from outflanking him from the left. commie-Sanders’s latest proposal to eliminate all student loan debt in the country — no exceptions — is a clear attempt to one-up dinky-Warren’s own debt cancellation proposal, which contains some exceptions and limits for wealthier debt holders. commie-Sanders’s full-throated advocacy of economic illiteracy was backed by the usual suspects, including representatives worthless-Ilhan Omar and commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, also a candidate for the Democratic nomination, tweeted his support. There are no doubt more endorsements to come, given the intense jockeying for the favor of left-wing voters during the primary race. Morally, student debt cancellation as proposed by the senator is unjustifiable. The mildest criticism, but still one worth mentioning, is that the majority of student debt is held by wealthier borrowers, who stand to benefit the most from debt forgiveness. dinky-Warren’s plan attempts to mitigate this by restricting forgiveness to lower-earning borrowers, while commie-Sanders’s plan does not. It would, in effect, be a handout to the rich. More egregious is the plan’s disregard for personal responsibility. Taking on debt, even when ill advised, ought to be done with the expectation that the borrower will repay it in full. The progressive counterargument is that college applicants are sold a false bill of goods by colleges. Even if that were the case, what about those high school graduates with enough sense to avoid college altogether and go straight into work because they are unwilling to go into debt? The government surely owes them compensation for their lost earning potential. What about borrowers who have paid off their debt on their own? Many of them spent their post-college years living with a reduced quality of life due to money lost to debt repayments. The government must owe them, too. What about students who, wishing to be financially responsible, matriculated at cheaper and less prestigious colleges over costlier ones? Rather than helping these people, commie-Sanders seeks to reward irresponsible borrowers and the parents who encourage them. Economically, debt cancellation would be a counterproductive disaster... https://spectator.org/fearful-of-warren-sanders-backs-disastrous-college-debt-policies/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=918580a542-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_26_12_51&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-918580a542-104608113

The Merger of MSNBC and the Democrats

By Daniel Greenfield

{frontpagemag.com} ~ In March, DNC boss Tom Perez claimed that FOX News could not be trusted to host a “fair and neutral debate” because of the “inappropriate relationship”... between President Trump and the news network. In a FOX News interview, Perez accused it of having “put the thumb on the scale”. And then the DNC awarded the first Democrat debate to MSNBC and NBC News. Scale meet thumb. Perez had claimed that FOX News had “pierced that line between editorial and your Sean Hannity shows.” The DNC had decided to pierce the line between editorial and conspiracy theories by accepting MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow as one of the NBC/MSNBC moderators alongside its news anchors. Maddow had briefly become the public face of MSNBC, remaking it with disastrous results. In the Trump era, the formerly lightweight leftist pundit was reinvented as an obsessive conspiracy theorist. Maddow had barely paid attention to Russia before. Now, her show was built around finding a nexus between Trump and Russia while postulating that everything Trump did was done on Vladimir Putin’s orders. On one show, she suggested that it may be that “the American presidency right now is the product of collusion between the Russian intelligence services and an American campaign.” During the Democrat shutdown, she implied that Trump was trying to destroy the country on Putin’s orders. "If Russia did get a US president to act on their behalf against the United States. If you were Russia, what else would you want that president to do at this point?" she breathlessly fulminated. "The government is not just a vehicle that has sputtered to a halt, each passing day pours more sugar into the gas tank, making it harder and harder for this thing to ever get running again." This was the unhinged conspiracy theorist whom the DNC thought should be moderating a debate. The DNC’s Perez had justified his FOX News ban based on a hit piece by Jane Mayer that appeared in the New Yorker. Mayer was a regular on MSNBC and appeared on the lefty news network to promote the very hit piece that had been cited by Perez. Mayer had also appeared on Maddow’s show even though the New York Times had banned its reporters from the conspiracy show... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274095/msdnc-%E2%80%93-merger-msnbc-and-democrats-daniel-greenfield

This Chart Explains How Democrats

Will Kill Your Current Health Coverage

By Christopher Jacobs

{ thefederalist.com } ~ This week, Democratic presidential candidates will gather in Miami for their first debates of the 2020 campaign cycle... Health care, including Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders’ single-payer scheme, will surely serve as a prime point of contention. More candidates who want to appear more moderate, such as former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden, might try to contrast themselves with Vermont’s socialist senator. Because loose lips liar-Biden and others instead want to allow people to buy into the Medicare program—the so-called “public option”—they will claim that individuals who like their current health coverage need not fear losing it. Don’t you believe it. A chart by the Lewin Group demonstrates the damage that even this “moderate” option would have on private health insurance. In an April 2009 study, Lewin concluded that within one short year, a government-run health plan would eliminate the private coverage of 119.1 million individuals—two-thirds of those with employer-provided insurance: Democrats’ proposals for a government-run health plan have slightly different details, but they share several characteristics that explain this massive erosion of private health coverage. First, most of the plans receive dollars from the Treasury—seed funding, funding for reserves, or both. These billions of taxpayer dollars, to say nothing of the possibility of additional bailout funds should it into financial distress, would give a government-run plan an inherent advantage over private insurers. Second, the government plan would not have to undertake the hard work of forming physician networks. Most of the plans would commandeer doctors already participating in the existing Medicare and Medicaid programs. Some bills, like one introduced by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), would require all physicians participating in Medicare and Medicaid to also participate in the government-run plan—leverage that private insurers do not have. Third, and most importantly, the government-run plan would pay doctors and hospitals at or near Medicare payment levels. These payment levels fall far short of what private health plans pay medical providers, and in most cases fall short of the actual cost of care... https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/26/chart-explains-democrats-will-kill-current-health-coverage/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=eddec9c34a-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-eddec9c34a-83771801

No, loose lips liar-Joe, Half of Americans Aren't Poor

Robin Smith: Former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden recently declared to the attendees of the Poor People’s Campaign Candidate Forum, “We have … almost half of the people in the United States living in poverty.”

Huh? The population of the U.S. in 2018 was estimated to be just over 327 million. So, according to the leading Democrat presidential candidate, about 163 million individuals in this nation are living in poverty — in what may be one of the best economic windows of time in modern history. The U.S. currently enjoys essentially full employment, wage growth is on the upward swing, GDP growth is around 3%, and investors are loving a stock market flirting with a historic 27,000 points.

Poverty is calculated in different ways, as reported by The Washington Post’s Fact Checker that gave a bit of analysis on Uncle Joe’s tall tale. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 12.3% of the population, not almost 50%, were below the federal poverty line back in 2017. Individuals in that slice of the demographic pie were making less than $12,060 in 2017, with families of four earning just $24,600. Even applying the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) of the Census Bureau that employs a more generous definition as to the unit of family measured, as well as lowers the reported income by removing expenses such as childcare and any medical costs, those falling below the poverty level at most totaled 13.9%.

So, Joe, where are you getting that “almost half”?

The loose lips liar-Biden campaign responded to the WaPo Fact Checker that they were using the SPM and looking at all whose incomes fell below 200% of poverty level. That does move the figure to 43.3% — which Biden then embellished even further — but it’s really not about the numbers. Focus on the tactic and message.

“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant,” President Ronald Reagan once said. “It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”

Nowhere near half of America’s population is poor. But, in 2019, the Left’s only effective message involves the contagion of envy, not empowerment or even equality. The best way to ensure that there’s a great pandemic of resentment and discontent is to preach the hateful spew of victimhood — to half of the population.

(Conversely, remember how savagely rino-Mitt Romney was attacked for rightly noting that “47% of Americans pay no income tax” and thus would be less inclined to vote for him.)

The Poor People’s Forum was the perfect place for loose lips liar-Biden to read from the holy screed of covetousness and ill will. It makes Democrats the saviors of the malcontents who look at another’s success not with hope or inspiration but hatred and resentment. Nevertheless, Joe and the other Democrats were faithful to proselytize to their prospective campaign congregants with the prejudicial posits that the evil Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, are the real cause of their supposed victimhood status.

The “War on Poverty” through the “Great Society” began in the 1960s. Here we are 55 years later and, using 2014 figures, having spent more than $22 trillion (What was that pesky national debt figure?), we’re still hearing that government is the solution to those in need. The fire of Freedom is being snuffed out with every single entitlement, program, and agency created to stifle self-reliance and the will to be independent of a growing population.

What else did loose lips liar-Biden say at the Poor People’s Forum? He promised, “First thing I would do as president is eliminate the president’s tax cut.” Yes, your math is accurate — that means tax increases all around. This is right in line with an interview the champion of socialism held last week. commie-Bernie Sanders proclaimed, “I suspect that a lot of people in this country would be delighted to pay more in taxes if they had comprehensive health care as a human right.”

Let’s correct that, commie-Bernie. There are a lot of people who’d like other peoples’ taxes to go up to pay for health insurance that they currently may not have, along with any other goodie from the list of freebies coming from the Democrats. commie-Sanders himself pays only “the taxes I owe” — not what he demands of others.

If loose lips liar-Biden and commie-Bernie, along with the rest of the field of Democratic Socialists, get their way, the elimination of Republican tax reform will mean that a single parent will “be delighted” to pay $1,300 more in taxes and a family of four having a combined income of $73,000 will boost their patriotism, as loose lips liar-Biden declared in 2008, by paying $2,000 more to Uncle Sam.

loose lips liar-Joe, it just ain’t so that almost half of Americans are living in poverty. Even an article at the leftist rag Vox challenges the premise that millions of Americans are destitute. The writer, Ryan Briggs of Virginia Tech, flatly noted, “Don’t believe it.” Citing the measurements for the poor globally reflect consumption as compared to the U.S. metric of income and a study establishing that “very few Americans are deprived of their most basic material needs,” the Vox analysis contradicts loose lips liar-Joe, commie-Bernie, and the gang attempting to win the hearts and minds of the disgruntled.

There is poverty. There are inequities. But the correction is not to take from those who are productive in some faux philanthropy to boost voter rolls. The playbook of the Democrats for this election cycle is exactly the same: lie, preach victimhood, and grow the government to plunder from those who are law-abiding and productive to sustain the malcontents, not just those in true need.

Don’t be ignorant; see through the things that just aren’t so.

~The Patriot Post

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Thursday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 27, 2019 at 7:10am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Demo Debt Bill Doubles Down on Insanity

Lewis Morris

Dossier 2.0 -- Mueller's 'Black Cash' Ledger

By Daniel John Sobieski

{ americanthinker.com } ~ We are familiar with the pattern. Leak details about fake documents like the Steele dossier to the media, then use the media reports as a second source “corroborating” the unverified report when using it to justify your illegal actions... More evidence of the deceitful and arguably illegal actions by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller has popped up, this time regarding Paul Manafort’s “black cash ledger” allegedly documenting criminal financial moves on his part and it parallels the criminality of the use of the Steele Dossier by the FBI to lie to the FISA court to authorize the surveillance of Team Trump and help launch Mueller’s failed Russia collusion probe. Robert Mueller has not been honest with the American people either about the alleged Manafort ledger, mentioned in his final report, and used to justify military-style pre-dawn raid on Manafort’s home and offices with more force than was used at Benghazi. The Hill’s John Solomon reports that Mueller knew the ledger was a fake yet after its existence was leaked to the media used those media reports to justify his actions; The ledger, which was reported in 2016 and resulted in Manafort's resignation from the Trump campaign, purported to show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Manafort from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's political party between 2007 and 2012. The FBI relied on this ledger to obtain search warrant affidavits "months after the feds were warned repeatedly that the document couldn't be trusted and was likely a fake," according to Solomon, who cites documents and over a dozen interviews... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/dossier_20__muellers_black_cash_ledger.html

Meet Rev. Andy Bales — The Man Who Lost A

Leg Serving The Victims Of LA’s Homeless Crisis

By Audrey Conklin

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Rev. Andrew Bales lost part of his leg to a flesh-eating disease he was exposed to in 2014 while handing out 2,000 cold water bottles to the homeless in Los Angeles in 85-degree heat... Bales, 60, is the CEO of a faith-based, nonprofit homeless shelter and recovery program called Union Rescue Mission (URM) who has dedicated his life to offering support to people affected by homelessness — particularly those who live on the trash-covered streets of Skid Row in downtown LA. URM Vice President of Emergency Services LaTonja Lindsey has been with the mission for 11.5 years and told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the mission is unlike other shelters in LA because they don’t accept government money and “never turn away a woman or a family.” They are also open “24 hours a day, 365 days a year.” “Andy’s heart for precious human beings and his leadership always steps up to meet the needs of people devastated by homelessness, especially women and families,” Kitty Davis-Walker, URM’s vice president of public affairs, told the DCNF. “He makes it clear to all who will listen that URM will not turn away a woman, child or family.” The reverend told the DCNF: “I do what I do because I am haunted by the number of people on the streets, and I know we’re making a difference.” Before losing his leg about five years ago, Bales competed in a triathlon five weeks after having a kidney transplant. When he finished the race, he developed a blister that festered into a wound he thought would heal on its own over time. The next week, he was back on the streets of Skid Row handing out water bottles... Do you hear that governor and mayor of LA but who are willing to help illegals.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/25/rev-lost-leg-la-homeless-crisis/?utm_medium=email

Africa: Alarming Rise of Christian Persecution

By Uzay Bulut

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ According to a recent interim report published in the U.K., "it is estimated that one third of the world's population suffers from religious persecution in some form... with Christians being the most persecuted group." Although the full report -- commissioned by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and conducted by the Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen -- was due to be released by Easter this year, "the scale and nature of the phenomenon of Christian persecution simply required more time," according to the report. As a result, Mounstephen explained, the "interim" findings released in April are incomplete, and the final report will be published at the end of June. According to the "overview" section of the interim "Independent Review of FCO support for Persecuted Christians": "In some regions, the level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN." Africa -- now home to the greatest number of Christians in the world -- is one such region. On June 16, for instance, a Christian elementary school in a Muslim village in Uganda was destroyed, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported. On June 15, "a mob of Muslim protestors set a church ablaze in Maradi, the third largest city in Niger. The incident was a response to the arrest of a very prominent Imam who was arrested after he claimed the country's proposed legislation on worship was 'anti-Islamic.'"... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14448/africa-christians-persecution

'Dog the Bounty Hunter' star

Beth Chapman dead at 51

By Jessica Sager

{ foxnews.com } ~ Beth Chapman, wife of Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman, died Wednesday. She was 51... Duane, 66, announced her passing on Twitter, writing, "It’s 5:32 in Hawaii, this is the time she would wake up to go hike Koko Head mountain. Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven. We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side." Beth was first diagnosed with stage 2 throat cancer in November 2017. She underwent successful surgery, but doctors months later told her the cancer had returned. Although she began chemotherapy in December 2018, Duane told Us Weekly at the time that she wanted to explore alternative therapies instead. "Beth will not take anything the doctors want to give her. Even the doctor told me he doesn't want her to have seizures if the pain is that bad, but she won't do it," he said. "She takes over-the-counter pain meds. She will not take anything prescription." Beth wrote on Instagram in February that she was testing out CBD and THC-based therapies and alleged that chemotherapy was "poison." In April 2019 she was admitted to a hospital in Hawaii with "serious breathing issues," but recovered. Then, this last weekend she was rushed again to the ER and placed in a medically induced coma. Sources told TMZ that Beth was having trouble breathing due to her throat cancer and described the incident as a "choking emergency." Her family, including daughter Bonnie, reportedly traveled to Hawaii to be by her side. On Monday, Duane posted a photo of Beth's hand in a hospital bed, noting her signature manicure was intact. In January, Beth celebrated becoming a great-grandmother after her grandson, Dakota, welcomed his first child. She began chemotherapy the same month...

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dog-the-bounty-hunter-star-beth-chapman-dead-at-51

Islamic Subversion in America

By Amil Imani

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Never in my wildest dreams did I envision that our modern and beautiful country, Iran, would fall into the hands of Muslim extremists who did not possess one iota of humanity... Never in my wildest dream did I envision that I would likely never see the country of my birth again. During my teenage years in Iran, life was full of joy, excitement, and happiness. Iran was a developing country. Despite its rapid growth and the obstacles it faced, almost all Iranians lived in a fairy tale. Life was beautiful, and dreams were real. Many of us were living in a real Iranian dream — until the resurrection of the evil ideology of Islam by vile men of Allah. In 1979, the Iranian dream turned to four decades of Islamic nightmares. From that young age, I deeply despised Islam and everything that came with it. I never saw it as a divine religion or a spiritual path. I had enough sense in me to do my own research. I found more than I was looking for. The first thing I learned was that Islam is an invader and the enemy of humanity. Violence and blood are at the core of this ideology of hate. I made myself a promise that once I grew up, I would do everything within my power to expose this fraud of a religion. When the revolution began, I was one of the lucky ones who was accepted and moved to the United States to continue my education, far away from Islam. Little did I know that Islam would follow me here! The American dream has always been a staple of American culture simply because everyone can have the American dream with a little hard work. Nowadays, when people speak of it, they often refer to the first half of the 20th century. Despite this, the American dream is just as relevant to American culture today as it was in the last century. Politicians are notorious for overusing this phrase during their campaigns. Realistically, both countries' dreams are just a distant memory. American people have always been kind and generous to foreigners. They haven't a clue that they opened the gate to the greatest enemy into their land. Islam is on the march, and it aims to destroy anything and anyone who stands in its way. Sounding the clarion call is not Islamophobia, as many Muslims and their apologists claim. A phobia is a baseless irrational fear. Warning of the danger of Islam is based on irrefutable facts, and it is not only rational, but ethically imperative...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/islamic_subversion_in_america.html

Demo Debt Bill Doubles Down on Insanity

Lewis Morris: The national debt — currently totaling about $22 trillion and rising — is a major issue of concern for most Americans. Federally elected officials and those who work for the federal government don’t seem to lose sleep over it, though. For all the cheap talk they give us about reducing the debt and controlling spending, no bipartisan plan ever develops to prevent this slow-moving train wreck.

After decades of warnings about impending disaster over the national debt, you’d expect the political parties to have coalesced around a plan by now. There are several reasons why this has not happened.

For one thing, conservative versus leftist views of the country and what it should be are so diametrically opposed that there is little room for agreement on anything.

Additionally, in tough economic times, politicians don’t like to cut spending because it seems hard-hearted to the needs of the poor. In good economic times, nobody ever thinks that the party will end, so no emphasis is put on setting aside something for tomorrow. And in the swamp, there is no such thing as a tomorrow beyond the next election.

It would be foolish to think that our current economic position will guard against the hazards of enormous debt. The national debt erodes public confidence in the economy and hampers the government’s ability to respond in times of economic crisis. The trouble is, we cannot predict with much certainty when that fateful moment will come when the national debt finally pushes us over the fiscal cliff.

Annual trillion-dollar deficits are not helping the case. Neither are the approaching twin calamities of Social Security and Medicare [bankruptcy](https://patriotpost.us/articles/56448-crying-wolf-on-entitlements. A spike in interest rates could shock the bond market, creating a major crisis worse than the Great Recession, sending investors worldwide running for cover.

For their part, Democrats don’t seem concerned. True to their belief that the Swamp has a revenue problem, not a spending problem, House Dems issued a $1 trillion spending bill to partially fund the government for the next fiscal year.

The bill is essentially an anti-Trump wish list, seeking ways to reverse the president’s decision on a number of items, including eliminating the Mexico City policy, the withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, the transgender military service ban, and actions taken to combat illegal immigration. The package passed 226-203, with seven Democrats joining every House Republican in voting against the measure.

Separately, the House Ways and Means Committee approved bills to extend expired and expiring tax credits for workers and families, and some corporate sweeteners like those earmarked for the renewable-energy industry. How will they make us pay for it? Roll back estate-tax cuts for one quarter of the cost, with the rest “covered” by deficit spending.

The spending bill is mostly political theater, and it doesn’t have much chance of making it through the Senate. But it positions Democrats for a fight over spending in the fall just when a debt-ceiling hike must be considered.

There is no answer as to how far Democrats will go to defeat Trump, but they are not above tanking the economy to make it happen just as they did in 2008. And a healthy dose of fiscal chaos would give them the cover they need to push us even closer toward their socialist worker paradise where we can all enjoy equality … of misery. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63847?mailing_id=4358&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4358&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 26, 2019 at 5:00pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Iran Pressured Onto a Precipice

Jordan Candler

Moscow Sends Warships to

Havana in Message to US

By Bill Gertz

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Russia has dispatched several warships, including one of its newer missile frigates, to Cuba in a bid to bolster the floundering regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro... according to a senior administration official. "Anytime any Russian military platform arrives in the Western Hemisphere, we're taking a very close look at it," the official told the Washington Free Beacon. U.S. intelligence agencies first identified the small Russian naval task force headed by the guided missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov in the eastern Pacific around June 11 and followed the warships through the Panama Canal. The ships showed up in Havana harbor Monday and the official said it may conduct a passage near Venezuela, or make port there after it leaves Cuban waters. Support vessels included the logistics vessel Elbrus, medium sea tanker Kama, and rescue tug Nikolai Chiker, according to the Russian Navy. The official said the Gorshkov is one of the newer Russian warships but noted that "it's probably lucky it made it all the way across the Pacific Ocean." The dispatch of the naval group is "sending a signal by pulling into Havana at the same time that everything is going on in Venezuela." "There's no surprise that they would do that intentionally to kind of remind us they perceive they have some sort of leverage in the region," he said. Additionally, a Russian Air Force Il-62 transport brought in technicians to work on Russian military equipment used by the Venezuelans. "That sends a signal in its own right," the official said. "You've got millions of people starving in Venezuela. You've got no medicine, you've got no electricity, you've got gas shortages, lines for miles, and you're paying the Russians to come in and fix really old hardware, money that certainly should be used for humanitarian aid." The Il-62 brought both military personnel and equipment but no humanitarian aid. By contrast, the USS Comfort, a hospital ship, recently crossed through the Panama Canal on the way to Ecuador to provide medical relief...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/moscow-sends-warships-to-havana-in-message-to-us/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=ee109d6c25-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_25_09_29_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-ee109d6c25-45611665

U.S. Warship Shadowing

High-End Russian Frigate Near Cuba

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ A U.S. destroyer is off the coast of Havana, Cuba, shadowing a detachment of Russian naval ships that includes one of the country’s most advanced surface ships... USNI News has verified. As of Tuesday morning, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) was roughly 50 nautical miles north of Havana and about 72 miles from Key West, Fla., operating in the Straits of Florida, according to publicly available ship location data reviewed by USNI News. A day earlier, Russia’s first-in-class frigate Admiral Gorshkov arrived in Havana. Admiral Gorshkov was joined by support vessel Elbrus and salvage tug Nikolay Chiker, according to several media reports. Navy officials told USNI News they were aware of the Russian detachment’s arrival in Cuba and were monitoring its activities. The same officials referred USNI News to U.S. Northern Command for more information on Dunham. A request for additional information left with NORTHCOM on Tuesday was acknowledged, but a statement not immediately returned. The first-in-class Admiral Gorshkov departed its homeport of Severomorsk, on the Barents Sea, on Feb. 26. This around-the-world cruise is the ship’s first significant deployment, according to a Russian Navy statement. Admiral Gorshkov made port calls to Djibouti, Sri Lanka and China. The frigate also visited Ecuador before passing through the Panama Canal, according to the Russian Navy. The Russian Navy did not release information about Admiral Gorshkov’s visit to Cuba, only stating that “the Russian ships will continue to perform tasks in accordance with the long-range cruise plan and make business calls to the ports of some island states in the region.” During the past decade, Russian naval ships have periodically visited Cuba, according to several media accounts, including a post from PBS News Hour. In the last several years, the Russian signals intelligence ship Viktor Leonov also has visited Cuba...

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/25/u-s-warship-shadowing-high-end-russian-frigate-near-cuba?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=bc0c798631-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-bc0c798631-231491269&mc_cid=bc0c798631&mc_eid=3999f18767

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73FWDvwwDE

New High-End Amphibious Warfare

Tactics Tested at BALTOPS 2019

By Megan Eckstein

{ news.usni.org } ~ Amphibious forces in BALTOPS 2019 tested out new, high-end tactics for the first time in a live exercise... working in a less-rigid structure that allows enablers like air-defense or anti-submarine ships, mine clearance teams and artillery units to flow through the operating area to where they can do the most good. Dozens of NATO flag officers over three years worked together to craft these new tactics through the NATO Amphibious Leaders Expeditionary Symposium (NALES) series. BALTOPS 2019, with the amphibious forces under the command of U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Brad Skillman and U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Stephen Neary, was the first opportunity to test out these tactics that deliver more combat power but take a lot more work to execute. Skillman, whose day job is commanding Expeditionary Strike Group 2, told USNI News during the exercise that a major exercise would typically have one amphibious task force, but BALTOPS fielded two full-sized amphibious task forces to try out the new tactics, which involve flowing forces between task forces as needed. “The power of it is, it’s designed to integrate forces,” Skillman said. “When I form an amphibious operating area and I bring in these separate multinational groups … historically they’ve all operated independently. We gave them their own beaches; we gave them their own land mass; we said, these are your objectives and these are all your escorts, don’t mix and match. Well, we’ve kind of broken barriers in the alliance to say, let’s mix and match.”“I have a force protection requirement to be able to enable the general to put his Marines ashore,” he continued. “There may be one location of all those landings that are going on that require more – I have submarine threats on this group, but they don’t have submarine ships assigned from the U.S. side. The French have great anti-submarine frigates, so I’ll put those over and apply them here. One group needs more mine warfare; I’ll move the mine warfare group that may be owned by the British over to do that beach. So I’ll distributed our relatively limited forces to be better than the sum of the parts. There’s a lot of power in that.” The BALTOPS command structure included two amphibious task forces. One was the British-led Joint Expeditionary Force Maritime unit, which was stood up last year and used BALTOPS 2019 as part of its inaugural deployment, along with a British landing force. Second was a task group formed for the exercise that included U.S. dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43); Spanish flagship ESPS Juan Carlos I (L-61) and air defense frigate ESPS Cristobol Colon (F-105); Polish landing ship ORP Gniezno (822); and others, along with a multinational landing force... https://news.usni.org/2019/06/25/new-high-end-amphibious-warfare-tactics-tested-at-baltops-2019?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=bc0c798631-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-bc0c798631-231491269&mc_cid=bc0c798631&mc_eid=3999f18767

Navy Tests New Mine Hunting

Kit With European Allies

By Megan Eckstein

{ news.usni.org } ~ ABOARD USS MOUNT WHITNEY, IN THE BALTIC SEA – As the U.S. Navy undergoes a major transition in how it conducts mine warfare... it had the chance to test out its newest tools during BALTOPS 2019 alongside European partners who are mine warfare experts. The excitement over new mine countermeasures (MCM) and offensive mining tools, as well as the expertise gained during this international exercise, comes as the U.S. Navy’s mine warfare (MIW) leaders are trying to further professionalize the community through the creation of MIW subject matter experts at the Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) and the incorporation of realistic MIW events in training exercises at home, SMWDC commanding officer Rear Adm. Scott Robertson told USNI News during the BALTOPS exercise. “Mine warfare is incredibly important. Historically, mine warfare directly determines whether you’re able to achieve sea control – and the absence of having the ability to deal with that can have significant impacts on our overall objectives,” he said during an interview aboard command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20). Noting the transition from manned helicopters and ships to unmanned systems operating off a Littoral Combat Ship, Robertson said, “what better playground to be able to demonstrate that in than here during BALTOPS, where we are working with the allies and partners we will anticipate actually working with in a real-world event, in a very realistic environment, and having shapes in the water, in some challenging waters? There’s no better proving ground than here.” Robertson led the mine warfare task group in BALTOPS 2019, which was the largest task group in the exercise and included two existing task units – the Baltic Naval Squadron (BALTRON) and Standing NATO MCM Group 1 – as well as a third unit formed for the exercise. In total, Robertson led a force of more than 15 MCM ships, 15 unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), five drone ships and more than 70 divers, the Navy stated. Eleven countries contributed to this force, including many that have deep expertise in hunting and neutralizing mines due to the large number of World War II-era mines still in the Baltic Sea and other European waters...

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/25/baltops-19-navy-tests-new-mine-hunting-kit-with-european-allies?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=bc0c798631-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-bc0c798631-231491269&mc_cid=bc0c798631&mc_eid=3999f18767

New U.S. Curbs on China Target Supercomputers

By Bill Gertz

{ freebeacon.com } ~ As President Donald Trump prepares to talk trade with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Commerce Department blacklisted five Chinese entities linked to Beijing's large-scale nuclear arms buildup... Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added five Chinese companies and institutes to its "entities list," which is used to block sales of U.S. products to the firms based on threats to American security. The action was announced June 18 and follows similar punitive action in May against Huawei Technologies, the telecommunications conglomerate facing federal charges for economic espionage and illegal financial dealings. National Security Adviser John Bolton told the Free Beacon earlier this month that Trump would be meeting Xi in Osaka, Japan, at the upcoming G-20 summit set to begin Friday. "Obviously the impasse in the trade talks will be a big issue," Bolton said of the meeting in Japan. "The president believes that China is under pressure and that Xi Jinping will want to make a deal. They need to do a lot in terms of structural reform in the economy. They need to stop pursuing mercantilist policies like stealing our intellectual property and forced technology transfer." The first action taken by Trump was to issue a presidential order last month blocking American companies from buying telecommunications gear from foreign adversaries. The order did not name Huawei, but the company was added to the entities list, a move that has caused severe problems for the company. Huawei is expected to lose $30 billion in revenue from the U.S. sanctions, CNBC reported. Another Chinese telecom, ZTE, was placed on the entities list last year and nearly went bankrupt but was rescued after an appeal to Trump by Xi to take ZTE off the list. The company was fined instead $1 billion for doing business with Iran...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/new-u-s-curbs-on-china-target-supercomputers/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=ee109d6c25-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_25_09_29_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-ee109d6c25-45611665

Iran Pressured Onto a Precipice

Jordan Candler: Iran was (narrowly) spared an airstrike last week in the aftermath of its recent oil-tanker and drone attacks, but retaliation is still happening in the form of beefed-up sanctions. According to the White House website, “President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order [Monday] morning that imposes tough sanctions to deprive the Supreme Leader of Iran and some of his closest associates of key financial resources.”

In the president’s words: “[Yesterday’s] action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian regime in recent weeks. The Supreme Leader of Iran is [the] one who ultimately is responsible for the hostile conduct of the regime. … His office oversees the regime’s most brutal instruments, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi bellowed in rebuttal, “Imposing useless sanctions … is the permanent closure of the path of diplomacy.” He added, “Trump’s desperate administration is destroying the established international mechanisms for maintaining world peace and security.”

Some hardcore interventionists disagree, but the leveling of additional sanctions is a balanced countermeasure. National Review’s David French explains one critical reason why that’s the case: “A small attack on three targets is a pinprick strike. The mullahs don’t care about [150] casualties, and a small attack does not materially impair Iranian striking power. Pinprick strikes are often seen as displays of weakness, not strength. A small attack would, however, grant the pretext for yet another Iranian escalation — perhaps one that would claim American lives, thus generating a much larger American response.”

Iran is no Libya or even Syria — its technology and military capabilities are far more sophisticated. So airstrikes should be reserved for extreme cases. Sanctions, on the other hand, are demonstrably effective. CNBC reports that the pressure placed on Iran’s oil exports from previous sanctions has pushed that nation’s economy onto a precipice. Any further reduction in this revenue source would likely result in a complete economic meltdown.

Columnist Ken Blackwell also suggests engaging the Iranian resistance. “The Iranian regime itself is clearly well aware of the potential for its own overthrow and is reacting with the expected sense of panic,” writes Blackwell, who concludes, “There is perhaps no greater threat to the Iranian regime’s hold on power than policies which make it clear that pressure from the international community and from Iran’s democratic resistance are one and the same.”

On that note, The Wall Street Journal observes, “Now would be a good moment for Europe to get off the fence and join the U.S. pressure campaign. … The same goes for the many Democratic presidential candidates who keep saying they’ll return without conditions to the 2015 nuclear deal.” Iran will continue to provoke, but its ability to do so without shooting itself in the foot is getting harder by the day — and will get even harder if global powers coalesce around the right pressure tactics.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63864?mailing_id=4358&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4358&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wed/Med PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 26, 2019 at 3:07pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

SEAL Murder Case Takes

Another Strange Turn

Harold Hutchison

‘Time Is Running Out’: scumbag-Schiff Hopes

To Decide On Mueller Subpoena Soon

By Chuck Ross

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The chairmen of the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees hope to decide this week whether to subpoena... former special counsel Robert Mueller, California Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff said on Tuesday. “We need to resolve this this week, and I hope we will. One way or another, he needs to come in and testify, and time is running out,” scumbag-Schiff told reporters, according to The Hill. scumbag-Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence committee, also said that he and New York Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the Judiciary panel, are “linking arms” in their request for Mueller to testify. Both scumbag-Schiff and scumbag liar-Nadler have said that they are considering issuing subpoenas to force Mueller to testify about the Russia probe. Mueller said at a May 29 press conference that he had no plans to appear before Congress to discuss his investigation. But lawmakers have reportedly been in negotiations with him about testifying. Democrats want Mueller to appear before Congress breaks for recess in August. “We want him before the August recess, so we hope to reach a decision this week,” scumbag-Schiff said Tuesday, according to Politico. Mueller’s team concluded its 22-month investigation of President Trump and his associates on March 22. A report of the investigation said that prosecutors were unable to establish that Trump or his campaign conspired with the Russia government. Prosecutors were less definitive on the question of whether Trump attempted to obstruct the investigation. Mueller neither cleared Trump nor exonerated him on the obstruction question.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/25/schiff-mueller-subpoena-testify/?utm_medium=email

House Democrats Add Changes To Border Bill

In Hopes More Will Jump On Board

By Henry Rodgers

{ dailycaller.com } ~ House Democrats on Tuesday released a number of changes to a $4.5 billion immigration bill... reportedly in hopes that more far-left Democrats will sign on. After a meeting led by House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi Monday night, Democrats reportedly came up with a list of changes, such as requiring Customs and Border Protection to create health standards for children and adults in custody, including nutrition and hygiene standards, The Hill reported. The Department of Homeland Security would also be required to provide translation services to migrants in shelters.The new changes would also make it so that migrant children would spend less time at a shelter unless the Department of Health and Human Services contacts Congress saying there is not enough space, in which the migrant could not be transferred to another shelter until there is enough room. This all comes as apprehensions of immigrants have increased every month since January. There have also been over 100,000 encounters at the southern border in both March and April, making it so the border crisis is on track to be the highest it has been in a decade. House Minority Whip scumbag-Steny Hoyer’s deputy communications director Mariel Saez told TheDC that “Democrats are working hard to reach an agreement before the end of the June work period,” adding “If Republicans work with us in good faith to do so and an agreement is reached, Mr. scumbag-Hoyer intends to put it on the Floor.” However, Republicans are skeptical it will not include President Donald Trump’s request for an extra $4.5 billion to address the mass influx of migrants at the southern border... scumbag-Hoyer is lying, dems have not worked in good faith at all.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/25/house-democrats-add-changes-to-border-bill-in-hopes-more-will-jump-on-board/?utm_medium=email

House Passes $383 Billion Spending Package

By Henry Rodgers

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The House passed a $383 billion spending package on Tuesday, which includes funding for a number of different government agencies... The package included five funding bills and passed the House in a vote of 227-194. It includes funds for Commerce and Justice; Agriculture, Interior, Environment; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; and Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development, according to The Hill. The passage makes it so that now 9 of 12 appropriations bills have been completed before the July 4 recess. The house was hoping to have all 12 bills passed by the end of June. However, that will no longer happen. Democrats in the House are also planning on passing a 10th bill, which would fund financial services and general government services, later this week. The House will still need to complete the task of funding homeland security, over which Democrats and Republicans have constantly clashed due to certain policies proposed by President Donald Trump, such as the border wall. https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/25/house-passes-spending-package/?utm_medium=email

CNN’s John King: Problems At

The Border Didn’t Start With Trump

By William Davis

{ dailycaller.com } ~ CNN’s John King took time Tuesday to note that problems at the U.S. border did not start with President Donald Trump... Democrats have criticized Trump and his administration for its immigration policies, as well as the treatment of migrants at the border. King said the U.S. faced many of the same problems under the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. “This particular issue is not new,” King said. “This has been a problem the U.S. government has had to figure out a solution to for a long time.” King then replayed an interview that former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama did with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, where scumbag/liar-nObama issued a warning to migrant families not to send their children “unaccompanied” to the U.S. “That is five years ago this very week. That’s five years ago this very week, in the sense that, again, there’s a current divide. The current president evokes emotions among Democrats.” King said. “A lot of progressives weren’t happy with that president, President scumbag/liar-nObama. They called him the ‘deporter-in-chief.’ But this issue has been unresolved, different pieces of it, for 20 plus years about unaccompanied children. That’s a clip from five years ago this week. When? How?”

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/25/cnn-john-king-border-trump-obama/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8paMxqjjyYA

What now, for those who

denied a 'crisis' at the border?

By Byron York

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Congress is debating emergency humanitarian aid to care for migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. The need is obvious. With virtually no barrier to stop them... thousands of migrants are crossing illegally into the United States every day. More than a million will come this year. U.S. law prevents border officials from quickly returning them. While they are being processed, some of the migrants, including children, are being kept temporarily in terrible conditions. American officials have an obligation to take care of them before those with no valid claim to be in the United States are returned to their home countries. Capitol Hill Democrats are reportedly torn about an emergency aid measure. On one hand, they want to care for the migrants. On the other hand, they fear approving aid would empower President Trump to carry out a plan to deport illegal immigrants whose cases have received full legal due process and who have been ordered deported. Such deportations used to be relatively uncontroversial but are now, apparently, unacceptable to some Democrats. This moment might be a time for introspection for those who have consistently downplayed the urgency of the situation on the border. Earlier this year, with the number of illegal crossings rising; with the nature of the crossers changing — more families and more children than in earlier years; with the testimony of border officials that they were unable to handle the situation — with all that happening, many Democrats and their supporters in the media forcefully denied that there was a crisis on the southern border. Here are a few — actually, more than a few — examples: House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi called the situation "a fake crisis at the border." Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer called it "a crisis that does not exist." House Majority Leader scumbag-Steny Hoyer said, "There is no crisis at the border."House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries said, "There is no crisis at the border." House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Eliot Engel called the situation "a fake crisis at the border." House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler said, "There is no crisis at the border." Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said, "We don't have a border crisis." Rep. Lloyd Doggett called the situation "a phony border crisis." Rep. Earl Blumenauer called it "a fake crisis at the border." Rep. Sanford Bishop called it "a crisis that does not exist." Reps. Jesus Garcia, Jose Serrano, Suzanne Bonamici, Donald Beyer, Pramila Jayapal, and Adriano Espaillat called it a "nonexistent border crisis." Former congressman and current California Attorney General scumbag-Xavier Becerra said, "There is no border crisis." All are in public office and all have a say in determining policy. In the media, "Never Trump" Republicans, former Republicans, and other commentators have joined in... I wonder will these dems be re-elected to represent you and this country.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-what-now-for-those-who-denied-a-crisis-at-the-border?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_06/25/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

SEAL Murder Case Takes Another

Strange Turn

Harold Hutchison: Prior to Memorial Day, we covered the case of Eddie Gallagher — one of several cases in which there was a potential for President Donald Trump to issue a pardon. According to Fox News, that case took a shocking turn this past week when a different SEAL claimed he was responsible for the death of an ISIS terrorist, largely because he feared the dying terrorist would be tortured by Iraqi government troops. This is the latest development in a case that has been marred by prosecutorial misconduct.

Despite Special Operator 1st Class Corey Scott’s admission during his bombshell testimony that he essentially euthanized the terrorist, Navy prosecutors won’t drop the murder case against Gallagher.

As we noted back in May, Gallagher faces serious charges. If it’s proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he did commit the acts he is accused of carrying out, then he should be imprisoned for a long time. The problem is that while he needs to be held accountable, the same must be true for those guilty of prosecutorial misconduct.

The allegations of misconduct by the prosecution, including the sending of malware-laced emails to the Navy Times and Gallagher’s attorneys, already cast a cloud over this prosecution. Even though new prosecutors were assigned, there seems to have been little accountability beyond that. Nor has there been any real outrage from the folks who usually get up in arms about a fair trial.

Now, after this revelation by a fellow SEAL, it’s beyond doubt that this case has gone haywire. Can we trust that a conviction of Gallagher was really obtained fairly? We already have valid reasons to doubt if that is the case. If we can’t be certain that the conviction was obtained fairly, then a pardon may be called for.

The case was already controversial before the misconduct allegations, largely due to some past incidents where troops faced either investigation or prosecution. Now, the admission of another SEAL will only add to it. Corey Scott was given immunity in exchange for his testimony, and so that can’t be used as a basis to prosecute him, at least not without the Navy Judge Advocate General Corps going back on its word to Scott. Then again, given that they tried spying on defense lawyers and journalists … could charges against Scott for an act of mercy (however misguided) be ruled out?

It wouldn’t be as difficult to give some benefit of the doubt in this matter if we hadn’t seen SEAL Team Six and the CIA smeared over their operations in the Global War on Terror. We also have to keep in mind that captured al-Qaida manuals (ISIS is an al-Qaida spinoff) instruct members to claim mistreatment and cry “torture” if captured.

So, where do we go from here? While all of the evidence is not public, at this point, it’s almost unimaginable that a member of the panel in Gallagher’s court-martial could vote for conviction. With all that uncertainty, it may be time to end the prosecution, either with the Navy dismissing the charges, or, if all else fails, President Trump issuing pardons to Gallagher and Scott. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63826?mailing_id=4354&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4354&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 26, 2019 at 11:40am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump: Make Medical Costs Transparent

Nate Jackson

The Border Crisis Is Getting Worse

Why Are Democrats AWOL?

By Jessica Anderson

{ dailysignal.com } ~ America is facing an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration, but it seems House Democrats would rather block every proposed solution than act to fix the border. It’s time for them to do their jobs... Our southern border is facing a massive wave of immigration, mostly comprised of migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras seeking asylum in the United States. Yet Washington has refused for months to act in a sufficient way to help our law enforcement or provide reforms to the asylum process. Contrary to Democratic claims of a “manufactured crisis,” the current wave of migration is unprecedented. Our law enforcement agents at the border made 132,887 border apprehensions in May 2019—330% higher than the same month in 2018, and 915% higher than in 2017. We are on track for 1 million border apprehensions this year. That would be the largest year-over-year increase of illegal immigration in our nation’s history. The alarm is sounding across the country. A Customs and Border Protection official recently stated: “When we have 4,000 people in custody, we consider that high. When we have 6,000, we consider it a crisis. Right now, we have 19,000 people in custody. It’s just off the charts.” Former Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson admitted we were in a crisis nearly three months ago. Even the liberal New York Times editorial board called for an emergency border funding package. So why haven’t Democratic leaders acknowledged the emergency, even when four-fifths of Americans say the border is a crisis or serious problem? It seems lawmakers on the left don’t feel an urgent need to help our hard-working law enforcement, keep our border secure, or provide humanitarian aid for immigrants caught in the morass at our border. Early reports now indicate that a congressional deal for the White House’s $4.5 billion humanitarian request could be found within the week... These dems need to removed from office.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/24/the-border-crisis-is-getting-worse-why-are-democrats-awol/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-border-crisis-is-getting-worse-why-are-democrats-awol?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1Rd05tUTBZVGhtTldKaCIsInQiOiJJMzVZVFRWNHl2OUtIWGVPK1c5MVI3M3Z5TGxkTjZrM082emd0bHltUERMXC9ON0dGKzNqN3pSeHljMmFOXC9uSHVIUkRHcGUwTFhPYzFVdHRIcHBiWWt6dGZaNGc3TlNZQ2xzTGVwTHJPdmZlMmUrR051amdwcFVPRXRCcmJHSXZJIn0%3D

First lady spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham

named new White House press secretary

By Alex Pappas

{foxnews.com} ~ Stephanie Grisham, a top aide to first lady Melania Trump, has been picked to replace Sarah Sanders as White House press secretary... the first lady announced Tuesday. Grisham, who developed a reputation as a fierce defender of the first lady during her tenure as spokeswoman, will also become the White House communications director. “I am pleased to announce @StephGrisham45 will be the next @PressSec & Comms Director!” the first lady tweeted. “She has been with us since 2015 - @potus & I can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country. Excited to have Stephanie working for both sides of the @WhiteHouse.” During a recent “Fox & Friends” interview, President Trump said “a lot of people” were angling for the gig. Asked about the possibility of choosing Grisham, the president said, “Stephanie is terrific.”Sanders announced her plans to step down as White House press secretary earlier this month. On Tuesday, Sanders tweeted that Grisham "will be an incredible asset to the president and the country." Grisham joined the Trump campaign in 2015. "I’m sad to leave the WH, but so happy to leave our team in such great hands," Sanders said. "Stephanie will do a phenomenal job. Proud to have another mom and a great friend in this role."...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stephanie-grisham-to-become-new-white-house-press-secretary-flotus-announces

Will Trump Rescue China's Communism?

By Gordon G. Chang

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Three times — in 1972, 1989, and 1999 — American presidents rescued Chinese communism. Now, Xi Jinping's China, plagued by problems of his own making... desperately needs a lifeline. A trade deal with President Donald Trump looks as if it is the only thing that can revive the Chinese economy and thereby save Xi's brand of communism. Many, in fact, are urging Trump to drop his Section 301 tariffs and sign such a pact. Will the American president do so? At the moment, Xi is besieged, blamed for multiple policy mistakes. First, his relentlessly pursued back-to-Mao policies have helped push the Chinese economy downward, perhaps to the point of contraction, as May's depressing numbers suggest. Perhaps the most indicative statistic is that of imports, which during the month fell 8.5%, a clear sign of softening domestic demand. Economists say consumption now drives the Chinese economy. Retail sales for the month, according to Beijing, increased a strong 8.6%. That figure is suspiciously high because it is based on this figure: retail sales of cars rising 2.1% year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Commerce. However. the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers reported that car sales suffered their worst monthly drop ever in May, down a stunning 16.4% from the same month a year earlier, the 11th-straight month of decline. There are other symptoms of distress. In a country where the money supply is far too large for the size of the economy, banks are running low on cash for lending. China's stock market regulators, in a highly unusual maneuver, are now urging brokerages to extend loans to keep companies afloat. Most worrying, there is evidence of persistent capital flight, which seems to be picking up in recent months. Second, this economic downturn is occurring as relations with the United States are deteriorating across-the-board. Xi is being blamed for pushing Trump to start the "trade war." More important, Xi's generally belligerent policies are thought to be responsible for China "losing America."...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14443/trump-rescue-china-communism

U.S. school lets Muslims interrupt

classes to 'convert' students

By wnd.com: A U.S. school that allowed Muslim students to interrupt classes to “convert” students to Islam now faces a grilling from a constitutional legal team... As part of its Project for Constitutional Rights in Education, the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund monitors school districts to ensure that officials are educated about the “threat of Islamic indoctrination and religiously preferential ‘anti-Islamophobia’ bullying programs.” FCDF said it sent the West New York School District in New Jersey a public records request to see documents “that could show whether the district is unlawfully promoting religion.” The concern centered on a decision to hang a large banner at the school “beseeching ‘Allah’ to ‘shower’ students with ‘love and wisdom.'” FCDF said it also is seeking documents related to two Muslim students who were given permission to interrupt classes during the school day to convert students to Islam “under the guise of teaching them about Ramadan,” the group said.It was the same school that drew a “cease and desist” letter from FCDF only a few weeks ago regarding the banner. “The district removed the poster but left intact massive bulletin boards designed by Muslim students to teach students about Ramadan,” the organization said. The school bulletin boards send students to a website run by the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center’s “Dawah Committee,” which explains its mission is to convert public school students to Islam. On the website, the committee praised the two Muslim students involved “for their outstanding dawah educational awareness in the public schools. We pray that other students and parents will follow suit in the near future. May Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala reward them manifold.” “FCDF will not tolerate this intentional effort to propagandize to schoolchildren. We will continue to warn all school districts to reconsider any policy or action that tramples on our children’s constitutional rights.”...

https://www.wnd.com/2019/06/u-s-school-lets-muslims-interrupt-classes-to-convert-students/

Traitor scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters

Just Publicly Sided with Iran

By Joe Saunders

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters has gone from treating Trump supporters like the enemy to taking a real enemy’s side... The California Democrat has previously been best known for incessantly chanting “impeachment” when it comes to President Donald Trump and urging her supporters to confront Trump’s officials wherever possible. But in a Twitter post Sunday night, she openly took the side of the Islamic Republic of Iran in its dispute with the United States, and Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas didn’t let her get away with it. scumbag/mad-Waters was commenting on last week’s downing of an American military drone by Iranian forces. Iran maintains the drone was in its airspace when it was shot down. American military officials and the Trump administration say the drone was in international airspace. Naturally, we know who scumbag/mad-Waters is going to believe. ”Trump, you get no credit for so-called stopping the strike against Iran,” she wrote. “Why was the unmanned drone in Iran’s airspace? Why the surveillance? Don’t provoke and then pretend innocence.”It’s worth noting that scumbag/mad-Waters didn’t say how or why she believes Tehran’s version of the story. It’s a good chance she doesn’t know herself — beyond her Pavlovian distaste for anything to do with the current commander in chief. The fact that such a woman actually chairs the House Financial Services Committee is a sad indication of just how low the Democratic Party has dragged itself during the Trump years...

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/bombshell-traitor-maxine-waters-just-publicly-sided-iran/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-CT&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=conservative-tribune

Trump: Make Medical Costs Transparent

Nate Jackson: For the last several decades, insurance companies and hospitals have colluded to make the cost of health care as opaque as possible. Have you ever tried to ask a provider — even the person who works the billing desk — how much a service will cost before obtaining that service? The response ranges from being politely told to wait for the insurance filing to personal offense for having the temerity to ask such a question.

And then there’s finding out after filing an insurance claim that the service would have been significantly cheaper without insurance if you’d only known to ask for the cash price. (True story for this author.)

Economist Stephen Moore observes, “Health care is one of the most expensive items we buy each year, and yet most Americans haven’t a clue what all of this costs.” Even worse, as our Louis DeBroux noted last week, “Pricing [can be] significantly higher for the same service depending on the insurer, group plan, geographical location, etc.” When patients can’t see that pricing, they have no idea when they’re being fleeced.

President Donald Trump took a step to address this huge problem with an executive order he signed Monday. The order — which won’t take effect until after a period of public comment and rule finalization — will require hospitals to clearly disclose the cost of care for both the insurer and the patient. “This is a truly big action,” Trump said. “Some people say bigger than health care itself.” He added, “No Americans should be blindsided by bills they never agreed to.”

As is his wont, Trump is overselling his action a bit. As Moore put it, “This action by the White House treats symptoms — not the disease of third-party payers for health care.” Moreover, given that there are almost no specifics in the order, The New York Times is correct to note, “Hospitals and insurance companies are likely to lobby to make any disclosures as general as possible.”

Former Republican Rep. Ernest Istook, who now runs Americans for Less Regulation, argues that Trump’s order is the wrong prescription because “the infrastructure and paperwork to implement this will become a new Washington swamp.” Given the 1,000 health insurance companies nationwide and the millions of providers and pricing agreements, Istook says the resulting “nightmare of red tape could put scumbag/liar-nObamacare to shame.”

Concerns about the federal government “fixing” what it broke in the first place are valid. After all, scumbag/liar-nObamaCare merely forced everyone to participate in the broken system.

Yet we can only hope to fix a horribly broken health system by introducing free-market transparency — consumers of health services must know how much those service will cost. Choice and competition will better serve everyone, and, concerns notwithstanding, Trump’s order is a step in the right direction. Some regulation is necessary if consumers have no recourse but to be swindled by the colluding providers and insurers who offer outlandishly overpriced “care.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63863?mailing_id=4358&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4358&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 26, 2019 at 9:34am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Blexit — No #BlackLove for Conservatives?

Patrick Hampton

Wednesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: MUELLER TO TESTIFY: “Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17 after they subpoenaed the special counsel Tuesday,” Fox News reports. Sen. Lindsey Graham says it could “blow up in their face.”

CBP CHIEF RESIGNS: “John Sanders, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, will resign in the coming weeks as the public outcry over the treatment of detained migrants at the southern border continues to escalate. … Mark Morgan, acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement, will replace John Sanders as Border Patrol chief.” (National Review)

BORDER VETO? “The White House threatened late Monday to veto a $4.5 billion House bill that would provide emergency funding at the border over concerns that legislation in its current form lacks certain funding and includes provisions thrown in by Democratic lawmakers ‘that would make our country less safe.’” (Fox News)

UNPRECEDENTED DEBT: Reason reports, “The national debt will hit ‘unprecedented levels’ in the coming decades, soaring well above the record highs set during World War II and reaching nearly one-and-a-half times the size of the entire U.S. economy by 2049, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected in a report released Tuesday. And that’s the optimistic view.” Just imagine the projections if (or, God forbid, when) socialist Democrats get their way.

PRESS SECRETARY NAMED: “Stephanie Grisham, a top aide to first lady Melania Trump, was named Tuesday to replace Sarah Sanders as White House press secretary after a brief but competitive search for the president’s next spokesperson. Grisham, who developed a reputation as a fierce defender of the first lady during her tenure as spokeswoman, will also become the White House communications director.” (Fox News)

RUSSIA POKES THE BEAR: “Russia has dispatched several warships, including one of its newer missile frigates, to Cuba in a bid to bolster the floundering regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a senior administration official.” (The Washington Free Beacon)

COLLEGE REGRETS — AND A WRONG PRESCRIPTION: “Two-thirds of employees report having regrets when it comes to their advanced degrees,” reports CBS News, adding, “Student loan debt … was the No. 1 regret among workers with college degrees.” On a related note, the Washington Examiner says, “The senior policy adviser for 2020 Democratic presidential candidate commie-Bernie Sanders has a Ph.D. from Fordham University and $180,000 in student loan debt.” commie-Sanders wants to enact a massive student-loan giveaway. Ben Shapiro writes, “College for all became the mantra; the government stepped into the breach; costs rose. Now government once more steps into the breach.”

VACCINE SUSPICION: “A new survey delving into feelings over immunizations finds the country may be more split on the issue than believed, with 45% of adults admitting to harboring some doubt about the safety of vaccines.” (StudyFinds)

COERCED ABORTION IN IRELAND: “Female pilots in Ireland are being told by their employers to ‘terminate’ their pregnancies or their employment.” (LifeSiteNews)

POLICY: New data show risk to Democrats of fully repealing Trump tax cuts (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: Busting the college-industrial complex (National Affairs)

HUMOR: Modern-day good Samaritan sees injured man on side of road, angrily tweets about Republicans (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63892?mailing_id=4361&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4361&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Robert Mueller agrees to testify before House lawmakers July 17 after subpoena, scumbag

liar-Nadler and scumbag-Schiff announce

By Louis Casian

{ foxnews.com } ~ Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17... after they subpoenaed the special counsel Tuesday, according to the committees' chairmen, Reps. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif. Congressional Democrats have fought to get access to Mueller and his unredacted report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether President Trump obstructed justice. Weeks of negotiations between House Democrats and the Justice Department ultimately ended with the subpoena. Fox News has learned Mueller would appear only under a subpoena, which has been described as a "friendly" subpoena, one that in essence had been planned. Mueller is expected to stick to the "four corners" of his report. Fox News also was told the Democrats did not tell Republicans about the Mueller subpoena, and most Republican lawmakers found out on the House floor or from reporters. "Americans have demanded to hear directly from the Special Counsel so they can understand what he and his team examined, uncovered, and determined about Russia’s attack on our democracy, the Trump campaign’s acceptance and use of that help, and President Trump and his associates' obstruction of the investigation into that attack," scumbag liar-Nadler and scumbag-Schiff said in a joint statement. House Republicans likely will try to press Mueller on anti-Trump text messages between former FBI Agent Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page and on an anti-Trump dossier authored by British ex-spy Christopher Steele. Democrats likely will ask about how Mueller reached his conclusion not to charge Trump and if there was pressure by Attorney General Bill Barr not to go after Trump more forcefully. Barr said previously that he had no problem with Mueller testifying and would not stand in the way... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/robert-mueller-agrees-to-testify-before-joint-house-panel-july-17-after-subpoena-nadler-and-schiff-announce

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6052288021001/#sp=show-clips

How Trump’s Palestinian Proposal Could

Reshape The Middle East’s Future

By Daniel Pomerantz

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Yesterday, the White House released the long awaited “Peace to Prosperity” plan, the economic aspects of its Israel-Palestinian peace deal... Most media are already portraying a tired and misleading narrative of “Israel versus Palestinians” as well as the essentially unrelated question of whether one supports or opposes President Trump. Yet the reality offers far greater potential to shape our world. The plan consists of a 95-page document and $50 billion offer of detailed economic proposals in private-sector and infrastructure development, development of human capital, including education and the workforce, and professionalization of government economic standards to a level that can attract private international investment and World Bank lending. But that’s not what’s shocking. It is the reaction of Israelis, Palestinians, and Arab states that stands to fundamentally change the world. Although Israel’s government was not invited to the Bahrain conference, representatives of Israel’s private sector will be attending, including tech entrepreneur Marius Nacht (Check Point, a Moon Partners), Yitshak Kreiss, (Sheba Medical Center), and others. This indicates Israelis’ desire to engage in economic activity with Palestinians under the structure of this plan. Israel has been burned on attempted peace deals in the past. The Oslo process that began in the 1990s led not to peace, but to a horrific slew of deadly Palestinian terror called the “Second Intifada.” Israel’s total disengagement from Gaza in 2005 resulted in three wars and tens of thousands of Palestinian rockets against Israelis communities. The result is that Israelis have generally turned more politically conservative with an emphasis on security. Israelis, as a consensus opinion, support the goal of peace via a two-state solution, yet they are generally hesitant to take security risks to achieve it. For example, Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s minister for regional cooperation, said the U.S. proposal for a land link between the West Bank and Gaza Strip is “irrelevant” as long as the Hamas terror group controls Gaza, as it would cause security risks to Israelis. On the other hand, Hanegbi also described the Palestinian rejection as “tragic,” reflecting the Israeli desire to explore the potential of the deal, despite the risks. Given how the Arab world’s traditional blanket support for the “Palestinian Cause,” this week’s reaction from Saudi Arabia is highly surprising. On Friday, a top-ranking Saudi official said, “History and Allah brought a real opportunity…the blood conflict had lasted too long. Us Saudis and all Gulf States plus Egypt and Jordan realize that the age of going to war with Israel is over.” He argued that the deal, “leads to full Palestinian statehood” and that “the whole Arab world could benefit from it,” and slammed Palestinian leadership as “irresponsible” for not even considering it...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/25/trumps-palestinian-aid-proposal-reshape-middle-easts-future/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=ea472d3932-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-ea472d3932-83771801

The Myth and Fraud That There Ever Was an

Arab Country or People Called ‘Palestine’

By Dov Fischer

{ spectator.org } ~ In a recent Nazi outrage, worthless-Rashida Tlaib, Democrat Liar of Michigan... stated that the Holocaust has had a “calming” effect on her because the “Palestinians” “welcomed” the Jews into “their” land as a haven from Hitler. The Big Lie — in so many dimensions. New to the fray, South Bend Mayor Buttigieg — an expert on world affairs though still unable to maintain civil equanimity in his own city where African Americans are furious over a recent police shooting -has announced that, if Israel ever extends sovereignty into any part of Judea or Samaria, he will cut off aid to Israel accordingly if he is elected President. Others on the same bandwagon: socialist-Robert O’Rourke, a Scottish-Irish skateboarder best known for break-ins, drunk driving, computer hacking, faking Hispanic heritage, and having his ear hairs cut. commie-Bernie Sanders, an American Communist. What these and their ilk all have in common is that they each see nothing anti-Semitic in anything that worthless-Ilhan Abdullahi Omar or worthless-Rashida Tlaib has written or spoken, but they are unable to tolerate Jewish life in Judea and Samaria. Even true friends of Israel in Washington, D.C. like Sen. Lindsey Graham have succumbed to decades of the Biggest Mideast Lie: that there ever was an Arab political entity of “Palestine” or that there ever was a “Palestinian Arab nation.” The dizzying repetition of that Big Lie for so many decades causes even United States Senators and House Representatives who should — and who privately do — know better to speak of “The Two-State Solution.” But that very notion is illogical, absurd, nonsensical. People say it without thinking about it: “The Two-State Solution.” What are they talking about? Given what America intermittently but never-endingly faces in purgatory-hole countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Lebanon — does it really advance American interests to create yet another Muslimarabstan that will be yet another center for international terror and that ultimately will bog thousands more American troops and billions more in defense spending in yet another Middle East purgatory? Does America really benefit by giving Hamas and Fatah terrorists new countries of their own? Notice that the danger is so perilous that no one admits that they are speaking of giving the terrorists a “country,” not a “state.” Delaware is a state. North Dakota is a state. But Muslimarabstanpalestine would be a country. That is a solution? And have you ever looked at the map of the region? Gaza is on one side, and Judea-Samaria the “West Bank is utterly separate. Those two regions are not one entity. Even now, Gaza is ruled by Hamas terrorists, and the “Palestine Authority” is run by Abu Mazen (aka Mahmoud Abbas) and Fatah terrorists. And they regularly hate and kill each other. So it is not about a “Two State Solution” but a “Three Country Quagmire.”...

https://spectator.org/the-myth-and-fraud-that-there-ever-was-an-arab-country-or-people-called-palestine/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=134c4ea617-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_25_12_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-134c4ea617-104608113

Dems Are Planning to Steal the 2020 Election

By William L. Gensert

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Democrats have an insurance policy for the 2020 Presidential election, and it has nothing to do with the eventual Democratic Party nominee... The original policy was initiated by scumbag/liar-nObama, scumbag-Comey, scumbag/commie-Brennan, McCabe, scumbag/liar-Hillary, and their ilk, bragged about by Strzok to his paramour, and paid for by the Democrat/media cabal. The mephitic Mueller tried to cash it in, but the hero Marine got slapped down by Barr. It’s a plan to “win” the election by any means necessary, even by cheating if necessary. Of its components, the “failsafe,” is most intriguing, if for no other reason than it is so devious, underhanded, clever, and inventive, that it’s surprising it comes from the same left which gave us the ridiculously ludicrous Steele dossier and Smollett hoax. Notice how quickly E. Jean Carroll disappeared from the headlines? Or, how the same media, which has a conniption fit when Trump asks for an extra scoop of ice cream, scarcely publicized her rape accusation, and then let the matter drop with nary a peep? Perhaps a sealed indictment of Donald Trump New York has no statute of limitations for first-degree rape is being processed as we speak, with the purpose of it being leaked just in time for the election. Or a sealed indictment of Trump for campaign finance violations with respect to the Stormy Daniel payments will be leaked by the Office of the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York -- remember, Cohen and others are still “cooperating.” And it’s no secret they’ve been investigating Trump. In any case, expect a leak of a “sealed indictment” for something; the something is immaterial. They’ve been shown the man; they’ll find the crime. It’s common knowledge a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, right? Well, there’s no bigger ham than Trump -- all they need do is make the sandwich. Mueller made a big deal about not being able to prosecute a sitting president, so much so, one is reminded of a Stephanopoulos’ setup question. Get it out there so when it comes up again and they run with it, it seems fair because, heck, they gave him the benefit of the consideration and if not for the unfortunate leak, the indictments would have remained sealed and secret until Trump was no longer president. In the fashion of scumbag/liar-nObama with every scandal, “no one is madder” than they about the leaks, and darn it, they’re putting their best team of men on it…

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/dems_are_planning_to_steal_the_2020_election.html

ISIS Planned to Enter US,

Create Economic Chaos

By Todd Bensman

{ meforum.org } ~ On June 3, Homeland Security Today carried a story that pinched a raw nerve at the vortex of America's culture wars about mass illegal migration, a border wall, and President Donald Trump... A captured ISIS operative still in Rojava, Syria, told American researchers with the nonpartisan International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) that ISIS recruited him and others to penetrate the U.S. southern border by infiltrating migration routes through Latin America and Mexico. ICSVE Director and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine Anne Speckhard and ICSVE Research Director Ardian Shajkovci interviewed the operative on May 12 in Syria as part of a four-year ongoing project for which ICSVE has already recorded conversations with 169 ISIS defectors, returnees, and imprisoned cadres. They paused long enough from their work to write the article.The "now-repentant" operative was identified as Abu Henricki, a Canadian with dual Trinidadian citizenship detained by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The captive provided researchers with a 90-minute videotaped interview of his time with ISIS, during which he described how its intelligence division, known as emni, approached several other Trinidadian ISIS operatives in 2016. In turn, they approached him with an infiltration plan hatched by a sympathizer in New Jersey. This sympathizer would help smuggle the group, each of whom Abu Henricki named during his ICSVE interview, over the southern border on false passports for eventual attacks on unspecified financial system targets inside the United States to create economic chaos. Abu Henricki said he refused the assignment and was tortured for refusing, but had no idea whether others had been sent in his stead. He said he thought some of the other Trinidadian plotters had been killed in action before they could leave...

https://www.meforum.org/58778/isis-plans-to-breach-the-us-mexico-border?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=82ad8b08e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_25_02_32&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-82ad8b08e0-33703665&mc_cid=82ad8b08e0&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12

Newly Released Documents Shine Brighter Light

on Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar’s Alleged

Immigration, Tax Fraud

By Stacey Matthews

{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ Earlier this month, Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D-MN) found herself in hot water with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board... after an investigation into alleged campaign finance irregularities found multiple instances of violations. Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., repeatedly violated state rules when she used campaign funds to pay for personal out-of-state travel as well as help on her tax returns and must reimburse her former campaign committee nearly $3,500, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled Thursday. The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 civil penalty for using campaign money to travel to Florida, where she accepted an honorarium. The report also revealed information far more damaging to Rep. worthless-Omar than campaign finance violations. Again per Fox News: Additionally, conservative commentators pointed out that the Board’s report revealed worthless-Omar and her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015, when worthless-Omar was reportedly married to another man. worthless-Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, and the couple apparently separated in 2011 without formally petitioning for divorce until 2017. PJ Media’s David Steinberg, who has been reporting on this case for three years now, wrote a lengthy thread on the board’s findings when they came out, noting the report may have confirmed worthless-Omar is guilty of multiple felonies... https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/newly-released-documents-shine-brighter-light-on-rep-ilhan-omars-alleged-immigration-tax-fraud/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=43910211-5b1d-4899-b9e7-64fbcd993ddc

Blexit — No #BlackLove for Conservatives?

Patrick Hampton: Many Americans watched in shock and dismay as Fox News contributor Lawrence Jones was subjected to racial taunts and slurs during the “Impeach Trump” rally in New York City. For Jones, honest, straightforward questions only resulted in leftists telling him how they truly feel about him as a black man.

Sadly, this type of experience is all too familiar to me and to other black conservatives who have walked away from the Democrat Party. Jones’s experience echoes the plight of many black Americans who believe in upholding America’s constitutional values, support President Trump, and desire a better way of life for their own communities that have been stuck in a dismal cycle of left-wing policies for far too long.

Whether online or on site at a rally or protest, black conservatives are hardly met with intelligent debate and a hearty exchange of facts. Instead, we part ways with protesters, carrying with us a litany of racial slurs — ironically from individuals who claim to love “people of color.”

Leftists will proudly wave the “Black Lives Matter” banner and at the same time tell a black conservative that our president will “send him back to Kenya,” as Jones was told at the NYC rally. These people don’t hesitate to call us coons and Uncle Toms, making us feel like strangers in our own country, yet conservatives embrace us as Patriots, friends, and Americans. Tell me which of these gestures is more unifying and welcoming?

Unfortunately, this hatred from the Left doesn’t stop when the rally is over. Each night I (and many, many others as I have witnessed) come home to an inbox filled with hate mail — much of it from people who look like me. Not a day goes by without attacks from other black Democrats and even so-called “moderates” who cowardly lob their hatred for me from behind their computer screens. Witnessing the vitriol on my screen, I stop to read these messages anyway, with two thoughts in my mind: 1.) What will it take to set my own people free from the Democrat plantation? And 2.) Will I have prepared my four sons well enough for this war of ideas once they start using social media someday?

Still, despite the hostility, we conservatives continue our walk in the right direction, leaving behind us the angry, pitchfork-carrying Democrat supporters to shout their slurs in the distance. Because no amount of vile, racist retorts will cause the #BLEXIT movement to abandon its course. My hope is that as we walk on, we remain generous enough to leave behind breadcrumbs so others will follow us to a place where people of all backgrounds have a seat at the dinner table, as equals and as Americans. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63819?mailing_id=4354&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4354&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 26, 2019 at 6:53am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Moving The Electoral Goal Posts

Tom McLaughlin

More U.S. Navy Personnel Deployed

to Middle East Than Anywhere Else

by Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ At a time of increased tensions between Washington and Tehran, the U.S. Navy has more personnel deployed to the Middle East than anywhere else in the world... USNI News has learned. On Sunday, the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group with embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit entered the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility, joining the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group already on station in 5th Fleet. As a result, the Navy now has 28,000 personnel deployed to the region. In comparison, the Navy currently has 24,000 personnel deployed to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, according to Navy data reviewed by USNI News. “All of our training and our transit to 5th Fleet have made us prepared to respond to any crises across the range of military operations,” Capt. Brad Arthur, commander of Amphibious Squadron 5 and the Boxer ARG/11th MEU team, said in a statement. The ARG includes amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD-4), San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD-26) and Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49), according to the USNI News Fleet Tracker. As the Boxer ARG and 11th MEU entered the region, President Donald Trump unveiled a new set of sanctions he’s imposing on the leadership of Iran, following last week’s downing of a U.S. Navy drone and the recent mine attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The sanctions represent a strong and proportional response to Iran’s recent actions, Trump said when signing the executive order imposing the sanctions, according to a transcript released by the White House. “Today’s action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian regime in recent weeks, including shooting down of U.S. drones,” Trump said, according to the White House transcript. “Sanctions imposed through the executive order that I’m about to sign will deny the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader’s Office, and those closely affiliated with him and the office, access to key financial resources and support. The assets of Ayatollah Khamenei and his office will not be spared from the sanctions.”...

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/24/more-u-s-navy-personnel-deployed-to-middle-east-than-anywhere-else?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=b203cce1e1-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-b203cce1e1-231491269&mc_cid=b203cce1e1&mc_eid=3999f18767

Iran-Orchestrated Attack on Saudi

Airport Threatens Americans

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ An Iran-orchestrated attack conducted Sunday against Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport directly threatens Americans living in the country and marks the second time in less than two weeks... that Tehran’s terror forces have used drones to attack American allies, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. At least one person was killed and more than 20 wounded in the strike, which the United States has determined was carried out by Iranian-armed Houthi rebel forces operating from Yemen. The strike is just another flashpoint in an increasingly violent standoff between the Trump administration and Iran, which announced on Monday that it would sue the United States in international court in response to a series of cyber attacks carried out by the Trump administration as payback for the recent downing of an unmanned American drone. The situation in Yemen, where Iran has armed and trained Houthi rebels, represents just another front in the proxy war between the Islamic Republic and U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia. Top U.S officials, including Pompeo, said the Trump administration would not hesitate to defend its interests and American citizens stationed abroad." These Iranian-backed attacks are unacceptable, and all the more reprehensible given that they targeted innocent civilians," Pompeo said on Monday. "They also put Americans living, working, and transiting through Saudi Arabia at risk." "We call on the Iran-backed Houthis to end these reckless and provocative attacks on behalf of the Iranian regime," Pompeo said. "The Houthis should engage constructively in the U.N.-led political process to end the conflict and adhere to the commitments they made in Sweden." Pompeo emphasized that these attacks are directly authorized by Iran and are being conducted as part of the Islamic Republic’s campaign to foment unrest in the region... This standoff between the Trump administration and Iran would still happen.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/pompeo-iran-orchestrated-attack-on-saudi-airport-threatens-americans/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=348fbaca1d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_24_09_10_COPY_206&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-348fbaca1d-45611665

Iran says latest US sanctions ends

‘channel of diplomacy forever’

by Edmund DeMarche

{ foxnews.com } ~ A spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a tweet Tuesday that the new U.S. sanctions that target Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other Iranian officials permanently end any chance of diplomacy between countries... The comment was followed by Iranian President Rouhani, who mocked the White House and said it is "afflicted by mental retardation." Rouhani spoke live in a televised address on Tuesday. The U.S. and Iran have seen tensions increase exponentially in the past few weeks after an initial U.S. sanctions squeeze that Washington said led to the attacks on two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. The situation became increasingly dire last week after Tehran admitted to downing a $100 million U.S. Navy drone. Abbas Mousavi took to Twitter to call out President Trump’s latest decision to impose additional sanctions and said the sanctions means “closing channel of diplomacy forever,” according to Reuters. “Trump’s desperate administration is destroying the established international mechanisms for maintaining world peace and security,” the tweet read. John Bolton, Trump's national security adviser, later said the U.S. is open to negotiations, all Iran needs to do is "walk through that open door." It was unclear if his response was in connection to Mousavi's tweet...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iran-says-latest-us-sanctions-ends-channel-of-diplomacy-forever

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6051782192001/#sp=show-clips

Iran, Russia, China Continuing Operations

to Disrupt 2020 Elections

by Adam Kredo

{freebeacon.com} ~ Foreign governments including Iran, China, and Russia are expanding their covert operations to influence the 2020 U.S. elections... according to multiple senior intelligence and Trump administration officials who disclosed Monday that these countries are using a series of networks to foment unrest in America. In the lead-up to the 2020 elections, the United States is already laying the groundwork to boost its own counter-operations and detection methods in order to thwart a possible attack on the nationwide election systems, as well as social media efforts by rogue nations to influence any results, these officials said. Top U.S. intelligence, law enforcement, and military officials have already begun to meet with the 2020 political contenders as well as the respective political parties in a bid to unify data collection and help pinpoint the source of any foreign cyberstrike. While Russia has been the primary focus since its well-documented efforts to sway the contentious 2016 presidential election and later the 2018 congressional midterms, intelligence officials disclosed that they have expanded their efforts to also monitor Iran, China, and North Korea. "We're focused on both infrastructure security as well as foreign influence operations," a senior intelligence official said during a Monday afternoon press call that was held only on background. "From our perspective, … we do believe the 2020 elections are a potential target for state and nonstate actors." "Foreign influence operations remain a considerable area of concern," the official said, noting that Russia’s plan "is to pit Americans against each other" in order to foment discord and undermine the U.S. political system. China, too, has attempted to sway the public discourse through its use of propaganda outlets, and "Iran is increasing their use of social media" toward this end, the official said. The United States is undertaking what it calls a "whole of government" approach to the problem that includes uniting intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-russia-china-continuing-operations-to-disrupt-2020-elections/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=348fbaca1d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_24_09_10_COPY_206&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-348fbaca1d-45611665

Will Radicalization Work for the Democrats?

by Veronika Kyrylenko

{ americanthinker.com } ~ With the political struggle slowly but surely heating up heading into the 2020 presidential campaign, the Democrats find themselves in search of a campaign strategy that will bring them victory... While some observers believe that a successful campaign would appeal to moderate and undecided voters, others urge giving the Republican opponents a fierce fight. The proponents of the moderate approach argue that admonitions from the Democratic camp such as those of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton who dismissed any civility in a dialogue with the Republicans, or scumbag-Eric Holder, who said that “when they Republicans go low, we kick them,” or scumbag-Cory Booker, who urged protesters of President Trump to confront administration officials just like scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters before him -- are turning off moderates while unifying and agitating the Trump base against the “liberal mob.” Distorted with rage and hatred, the faces of the “Resistance” movement with its many marches, seething hostility at town halls and anti-Trump placards shouting at passersby from bungalow windows add some nasty colors to the picture. Many other commentators, however, call for even more offensive and energetic approach against the Republicans, and President Trump most of all, and blast those “bridge-building” moderates like loose lips liar-Joe Biden -- as they portray him -- as cowards who have nothing else to offer but consensus-seeking. Trapped in a black-and-white, all-or-nothing categorical thinking, those Democrats are ready to fight against Trump with whatever means necessary. For if Donald Trump is a pure evil, then everything he stands for is evil, and cannot be accepted, period. For instance, both liar-Nancy Pulosi and Chuck scumbag-Schumer were harshly criticized for supporting Trump’s infrastructure plan – even though it’s impossible to imagine a more nonpartisan project that would benefit all Americans regardless of their political views! Or the rejected DACA deal proposed by Trump which would include not just the roughly 700,000 Dreamer immigrants who have applied for DACA protection since 2012, but an additional 1.1 million illegal immigrants who could have qualified but have not yet applied? “Democrats would be crazy to reject it,” – ran CNBC. Apparently, they were. Then there is the ideological aspect to consider. The Democratic camp is rapidly leaning further to the left. This tendency is personified in the dramatic ascent of politicians such as commie-Bernie Sanders of Vermont, against whom scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton had to play dirty to win the nomination in 2016. The most prominent socialist in America, commie-Bernie, 77, could energize the voters in the way no other Democrat could, drawing far more votes in the primaries from those under the age of 30 than did scumbag/liar-Clinton and Trump combined. The purely socialist ideas that he’s been voicing way before they become mainstream -- Medicare for all, higher top marginal taxes, ultra-liberal immigration legislation and abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, free college tuition and many others, are now being echoed and promoted by other Democratic candidates participating in the race. “The future of the Democratic Party, and by extension the country, may well depend on whether the party is finally willing to ditch its fretful posture of peacemaking and give war a chance,” -- beats the war drum of the New Republic. So what are the chances that further radicalization and unwillingness to negotiate will help Democrats in 2020? The first thing to consider would be an economic reality that the people are actually experiencing themselves. Trump’s economic policies resulted in a growth of the real gross domestic product (GDP) that exceeded 3 percent over the last four quarters of 2018 and 4.2 percent in the second quarter. More than five million jobs have been created since President Trump’s election and the unemployment rate remains below 4 percent, with the record-low unemployment among African Americans and Hispanics. Now, how can you possibly wage war against a booming economy? Freshman congresswoman commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did, and her “victory over Amazon” cost New Yorkers “at least 25,000-40,000 good paying jobs and nearly $30 billion dollars in new revenue to fund transit improvements, new housing, schools and countless other quality-of-life improvements,” as NY Governor scumbag-Andrew Cuomo wailed... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/will_radicalization_work_for_the_democrats.html

Moving The Electoral Goal Posts

Tom McLaughlin

{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ Democrats have been bitterly disappointed by some election results over the past two decades — both nationally and in Maine, so now they want to move the goal posts. Maine Democrats were burned when they nominated a weak gubernatorial candidate in 2010 in the person of Libby Mitchell. She got only 18.8% (108,387) of the vote, while the winner, Governor Paul LePage got 37.6% (218,065). He might not have won if there weren’t a spoiler candidate named Elliot Cutler in the race who obtained 35.9% (208,270) of total votes cast.

Mitchell, Cutler, and LePage

Cutler was an Independent but ran on a platform far to the left of Republican LePage. He supported public funding for abortion, opposed education vouchers, favored same-sex marriage, affirmative action, and amnesty for illegal aliens. If either he or Mitchell were running head-to-head against LePage, the outcome would likely have been different.

LePage, Cutler, Michaud

In 2014, Maine Democrats nominated former congressman Mike Michaud, but again Elliot Cutler ran as an independent liberal — and again he was the spoiler drawing 8.43% ((51,405) of the vote that, if it were added to fellow liberal Mike Michaud’s 43.34% (264,369), would have put him over the top against LePage who won reelection. Democrats were furious. They hated LePage who was a fighter much like President Trump whom he endorsed for President in 2016.

Democrats nationally never got over losing the 2000 election to George W. Bush after their candidate, Al Gore, had won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote. That’s only happened five times in US History but the last two occurred in the past two decades and both times it was the Democrat candidate who was burned. The second one, as I’m sure you know, was scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton in 2016.

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After the hated Maine Governor Paul LePage’s reelection with a plurality of the vote, Democrats circulated a referendum petition for something called “Ranked Choice Voting” which passed in 2016. It was employed against Republican Congressman Bruce Poliquin who won a plurality of the 2018 popular vote and thought himself the winner — but the goal posts had been moved. Voters were urged to vote for all candidates on the ballot for a particular office. They could vote for just one candidate as they always had, or they can rank their choices first, second, third, etc.

If no candidate gets a majority of first choices, the candidate with the lowest vote total is eliminated and counting starts over. If there still isn’t a candidate with a majority of first choices, the process is repeated until there is. That’s how Democrat candidate Jared Golden was declared the winner. If balloting were done as it always had been, Republican Bruce Poliquin would have won reelection.

Supporters call ranked-choice balloting an “instant run-off.” Republicans call it an instant rip-off and consider the election flawed. A real run-off, the way other states like Louisiana do it, would mean the top two vote-getters then go head-to-head in another election. That way, the candidate with the most votes would win — a process voters can support because they understand it. If Poloquin and Golden were to have gone head-to-head, the result might well have been different.

Most Mainers who hated Governor LePage also hate President Trump and would like to eliminate the electoral college process that elected him. To do that, however, requires a constitutional amendment and that’s a very difficult process. I remember former Maine US Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, a Democrat, came to Fryeburg years ago and said the amendment process is intentionally difficult because our plan of government — which is what our constitution is — should never be changed without a broad, public consensus.

Article Five declares that to eliminate the electoral college, two-thirds of both houses of Congress would have to propose an amendment. Then it would have to be ratified by three-quarters of state legislatures. Democrats know there isn’t enough support for all that so, rather than follow the Constitutional process, they’re trying to circumvent it by forming something called “The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,” or NPV. According to last month’sImprimis:

Until this year, every state that had joined NPV was heavily Democratic: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The NPV campaign has struggled to win other Democratic states: Delaware only adopted it this year and it still has not passed in Oregon though it may soon. Following the 2018 election, Democrats came into control of both the legislatures and the governorships in the purple states of Colorado and New Mexico, which have subsequently joined NPV.

Maine Democrats almost passed a bill to join NPV but it lost narrowly last month. Had it passed, Maine would have forfeited power over its four electoral votes. They would instead have been awarded to whatever candidate won the most popular votes nationally.

https://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/06/moving-electoral-goal-posts.html

Tuesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 25, 2019 at 4:07pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

commie-Sanders, dinky-Warren Vie for

'King of the Free-Stuff Mountain'

Jordan Candler

Michael Flynn Was Not “Unmasked” – Evidence Flynn Was Under Active, FISC Authorized, Surveillance

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The official media account of how the intelligence community gained the transcript of incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn talking to Ambassador Sergey Kisliyak on December 29th, 2016... surrounds “incidental collection” as a result of contact with an agent of a foreign power. Meaning the Flynn call was picked up as the U.S. intelligence apparatus was conducting surveillance on Russian Ambassador Kisliyak. If this version of events were accurate (it’s not), it would fall under FISA-702 collection: the lawful monitoring of a foreign agent (Kislyak) who has contact with a U.S. person (Flynn). In order to review the identity of the U.S. person, a process called ‘unmasking’, a 702 submission must be made. That submission, the unmasking, leaves a paper/electronic trail. In a 2017 congressional hearing, Senator Lindsey Graham asks Deputy Attorney General backstabber-Sally Yates and former DNI scumbag-James Clapper about this process.However, in the two years following this testimony, there was nothing that would deliver the answer as to: who unmasked General Michael Flynn? The reason is simple, Flynn wasn’t unmasked – because he was under FISC authorized active surveillance. Here’s how we know... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/24/michael-flynn-was-not-unmasked-evidence-flynn-was-under-active-fisc-authorized-surveillance/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzIPRmIj-lU

Whose Side is Germany On?

by Joseph Puder

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Since WWII, the U.S. has protected West Germany with American troops and its nuclear umbrella against the Soviet Union’s expansionist ambitions... Germany was considered a western ally that would side with its U.S. protector when facing an Iranian radical terrorist regime with nuclear ambitions. In recent years however, the German government seems to prefer dealing with Iran, rather than join with the U.S. Currently, many in the Berlin government believe that the U.S., not Iran, is escalating the current tension between Washington and Tehran. Germany’s obstructionism vis-a-vis U.S. efforts to restrain the leading state sponsor of global terrorism – Iran, had prompted U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cancel a visit to Germany last month. According to the German weekly Der Spiegel, “The Americans are currently escalating their conflict with Tehran - with unpredictable consequences for their allies in Europe.” To some in the German government it appears that Iran’s deliberate direct or indirect hand in attacking oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman is of no consequence. Similarly, Iran’s pushing Hamas to fire rockets at Israel’s southern towns to kill Israeli civilians last month, is not a problem for the Germans. Jurgen Tritten, a Green Party member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the German Parliament, commented that “The U.S. appears to be looking for a pretext to escalate the conflict with Iran.” He added, “The claim that Iran is planning an attack against the U.S. smacks of a Tonkin incident.” A reference to the Gulf of Tonkin Congressional Resolution, enacted on August 10, 1964, which gave President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization without a formal declaration of war, to use military force in Southeast Asia, and Vietnam in particular. Unlike the Iran appeasement mode displayed by the German government and Jurgen Tritten, the U.S. is sending an aircraft carrier strike force and Air Force bombers to the Middle East, not to threaten war with Iran but rather the opposite, to deter the radical Iranian regime from continuing its provocative actions against U.S interests that might lead to a war, including attempts to seize U.S. naval vessels. In January 2016, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) captured two U.S. naval vessels and held 10 U.S. sailors hostage. John Bolton, U.S. national security adviser pointed out that sending the carrier task force is “a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on U.S. interests or those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.” The Iranian regime has made a mockery out of the Iran Nuclear Deal or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), by preventing intrusive inspections in Iranian Military facilities, and the development of long-range ballistic missiles that can reach Israel, and Europe, and ultimately the U.S. It is no longer hard to gauge the extent of Iran’s nuclear development. In April 2018, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that Israeli intelligence had acquired tens of thousands of files which proved that Iran had lied about its nuclear weapons program. The files proved that Iran is secretly continuing its nuclear program under the nose of international inspectors. Netanyahu said, “We have known for years that Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program called Project Amad. We can now prove that Project Amad was a comprehensive program to design, build, and test nuclear weapons. We can also prove that Iran is secretly storing Project Amad materials to use at a time of its choice to develop nuclear weapons.” It is interesting that Germany, and German officials such as Jurgen Tritten are concerned about the U.S. deterrent actions but have expressed little concern about Iran’s cheating on the nuclear deal... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274086/whose-side-germany-joseph-puder

Iran's Asymmetric Order of Battle

by Seth Frantzman

{ meforum.org } ~ Iran showcased its impressive military capabilities on Thursday by downing a sophisticated US drone... It says it used its "3rd Khordad" system, which is supposed to replicate the S-300's capabilities. Iran has also been highlighting other defense capabilities recently, including precision ballistic missiles, rockets, drones, submarines, limpet mines and cruise missiles. Tehran's defense technology is impressive. Most of its neighbors have not developed their own indigenous weapons systems, nor are they particularly innovative when it comes to using the technologies they do have, which are supplied by the US and Western powers. This leads to the question, if war breaks out between the US and Iran, and their respective allies, how will Iran and its proxies stack up? When we look at how Iran and its allies have waged war in the past, it is clear Iran doesn't wage massive wars. Iran has a regular army and navy, called Artesh and navy. These armed forces are potentially quite large in a country of 80 million. It has 530,000 men under arms, but according to the Middle East Institute, they are poorly equipped. Since Iran's last land war was its 1980-1988 conflict with Iraq, it is "hard to provide an accurate assessment of their real fighting capabilities." The war with Iraq saw Iran use human wave attacks on a battlefield that sometimes resembled more World War I than a war of maneuver and technology. Even though Saddam Hussein's army fought the Iranians to a standstill, it was no match for the US military in the 1991 Gulf War and it was easily destroyed. Iran doesn't spend much on its army. Around $16 billion in 2017, compared to an Israeli defense budget of up to $19b. Saudi Arabia plows through $76b., and the Americans spend $600b. This then tells us Iran's conventional army is no match for the US in a real war. But Iran doesn't fight large conventional wars. Its strategy is based on its alliance system involving the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its affiliates, allies and proxies, including Houthi rebels in Yemen, Iraqi paramilitaries, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza... https://www.meforum.org/58802/how-us-and-allies-stack-up-to-iran-in-war?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=f67be78293-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_24_08_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-f67be78293-33703665&mc_cid=f67be78293&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12

House Democrats Spread ‘Lies’ About

Climate Change And Hurricanes, Scientist Says

by Michael Bastasch

{ dailycaller.com } ~ House Democrats’ climate change hearing is based on “inaccurate” information that’s “not in accord with current science or consensus,” according to a scientist... A Committee on Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee will hold a hearing Tuesday on natural disaster policy “in the wake of climate change.” However, Democrats are under fire for making claims on the hearing’s webpage that don’t line up with the facts. Atmospheric scientist Ryan Maue, a hurricane expert, tweeted that the Democrats’ hearing “spreads lies” about the scientific consensus on climate change and hurricanes. The House subcommittee is chaired by California Rep. Harley Rouda and includes Green New Deal champion New York Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a member. Maue pointed out that major scientific assessments cast doubt on claims global warming is increasing hurricane frequency or intensity. “This is not in accord with current science or consensus anywhere = fraud,” Maue said of House Democrats’ climate claims, which relies on information on information posted online by environmental activists. Maue took issue with Democrats’ claim that “due to climate change, ‘the number of hurricanes that reach Categories 4 and 5 in strength has roughly doubled’ since the 1970s” — a claim that doesn’t line up with scientific assessments from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other organizations. NOAA, for example, says the rising trend in Category 4 and 5 hurricanes in the North Atlantic is based on data that’s “not reliable for trend calculations, until they have been further assessed for data homogeneity problems, such as those due to changing observing practices.”...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/24/house-democrats-climate-change/?utm_medium=email
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Presidents of War

by Michael Beschloss

{ independent.org } ~ The American constitutional project was an attempt to deal with the fundamental paradox of government—any government strong enough to protect the rights of citizens is also strong enough to undermine those rights... War poses an especially unique challenge to constraining Leviathan since war making tends to increase the scope and scale of state power over almost all aspects of citizens’ lives. To check the state’s warmaking powers, the American Founders designed a set of checks and balances through a separation of powers. The legislative branch was empowered to declare war, and the executive branch was empowered to serve as the commander in chief once war is declared. As Michael Beschloss’s new book Presidents of War clearly demonstrates, this system has failed. As he notes in the opening pages, “[D]uring the past two centuries, Presidents, step by step, have disrupted the Founders’ design,” with the result that “the life and death of much of the human race has now come to depend on the character of a single person who happens to be the President of the United States”. To provide insight into this process of constitutional erosion, Beschloss examines eight presidents and the wars they oversaw. His sample includes James Madison and the War of 1812, James Polk and the Mexican-American War, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, William McKinley and the Spanish-American War, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, Franklin Roosevelt and World War II, Harry Truman and the Korean War, and Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War. These cases offer insight into three general correlates of war in societies with mature, constitutionally constrained governments. First, war making is associated with expansions in the scope of state power and the trampling of civil liberties. Beschloss provides numerous examples of this correlate across instances of war. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and authorized the use of military tribunals to try citizens. Wilson implemented loyalty tests and lobbied Congress for an espionage bill, resulting in the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, to punish disloyalty and language that demonstrated contempt for America. Roosevelt authorized the internment of Japanese Americans, secretly gave J. Edgar Hoover the power to engage in illegal wiretapping of domestic “enemies,” and ordered military tribunals for eight German prisoners, two of whom were naturalized Americans. In his constant search for domestic Communists, Johnson authorized the CIA to violate its charter by engaging in illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens and infiltrating targeted groups. As this nonexhaustive list illustrates, war making has consistently been a means for the state to ignore constitutional constraints and trample on the civil liberties of the domestic populace. Second, war making is correlated with executive deception. Historically, this deception has taken on various forms and occurred to varying degrees. As Beschloss documents, presidents have repeatedly lied to Congress and to the American public about the pretext for war, the costs of war, and the status of ongoing wars. He traces war-related deception back to James Madison and the War of 1812, noting that “if later Americans loathed a lack of candor and forthrightness in their wartime Presidents, they would be justified to point an accusing finger at Madison for setting expectations too low”. Various forms of deception played a key role in initiating and perpetuating wars in several other cases. In at least one instance—World War I—deception was formally institutionalized through a dedicated propaganda apparatus when President Woodrow Wilson authorized the Committee on Public Information to proactively influence public opinion in support of the war effort. In general, war making has historically been correlated with half-truths, outright lies, and systematic secrecy by those in power to advance their goals... http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1405
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commie-Sanders, dinky-Warren Vie for 'King of the Free-Stuff Mountain'

Jordan Candler: According to a national polling average from RealClearPolitics, loose lips liar-Joe Biden is currently in first place among Democrat presidential candidates, with 31.9% approval. Directly beneath him sits Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, who has mustered 15% support. But closing in is Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren, whose 11.9% backing is up from 7.5% on June 5. Meanwhile, the first Democrat presidential debate is this coming Wednesday. So what better time is there for commie-Sanders to reassure voters of his “free stuff” bona fides?

commie-Sanders is conjuring up a scheme “that would eliminate all $1.6 trillion of American student debt,” according to Fox News, which adds, “The proposal package also includes making public universities, community colleges and trade schools tuition-free.” Recall that Warren recently outlined her own scheme. As the Associated Press explains, “The key difference is that Warren’s plan considers the income of the borrowers, canceling $50,000 in debt for those earning less than $100,000 per year and affecting an estimated 42 million people in the U.S.” In other words, Sanders is attempting to one-up his colleague, who is a legitimate threat, if polling is to be believed.

This is clearly frustrating Sanders, who still believes the Democrat Party overlords are conspiring against him. Last week, Politico ran a headline titled, “Centrists are coming around to Elizabeth dinky-Warren as an alternative to commie-Bernie Sanders,” to which commie-Sanders responded, “The cat is out of the bag. The corporate wing of the Democratic Party is publicly ‘anybody but commie-Bernie.’”

Of course, “commie-Sanders reportedly plans to pay for the lofty proposal with a tax on Wall Street, which his campaign says will generate more than $2 trillion over 10 years,” Fox News notes. Right. Just like students loans were predicted to be “profitable.”

As we reported last month, “In 2017, the CBO … stated that the government-managed student-loan program would garner a respectable $114 billion in revenue over the ensuing 10 years. Then, in 2018, that revenue estimate nosedived to just $8.7 billion. … Now, the CBO is calculating a $31 billion deficit over the next 10 years. A Bloomberg Government report parsed this development as ‘a shift from past CBO forecasts that the government would profit from the program.’ That’s not merely a shift. That’s a deviation of epic proportions.”

This is par for the course when it comes to government-funded programs. Regardless of whether commie-Sanders’s or Warren’s plans prevail, the fact of the matter is that student-loan forgiveness is a nonstarter. As Frank J. Fleming aptly notes, “The problem is that college costs have skyrocketed versus inflation due to government interference in loans, and the solution people are proposing is to have the government pay off those loans, giving colleges even less incentive to cut costs. There would be no student debt crisis if colleges hadn’t been fueled into an inflation of costs. If you’re talking about loans and nothing about making colleges reduce costs, despite all you posturing about caring about students, you are … making things worse.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63841?mailing_id=4354&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4354&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 25, 2019 at 11:39am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Deportation Raids Delayed 'At the

Request of Democrats'

Nate Jackson

scumbaqg-Clapper Hears Barr's '

Chilling' Footsteps

by Daniel John Sobieski

{ americanthinker.com } ~ They really counted on scumbag/liar-Hillary winning, didn't they? Former director of National Intelligence scumbag-James Clapper is in panic mode... realizing that the so-called "intelligence community" he supervised under President scumbag/liar-nObama is about to be revealed by Atty. Gen. William Barr and U.S. atty. John Durham as a weaponized arm of the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign, with indictments to follow. The man who lied to Congress about spying on the American people was shocked back in April to hear Barr testify before Congress that yes, he thought the Trump campaign had been spied upon by his political opponents. As Breitbart reported: Well, I thought it was most stunning and scary. I was amazed at that and rather disappointed that the attorney general would say such a thing. The term "spying" has all kinds of negative connotations, and I have to believe he chose that term deliberately. And I think it's incredible that if he has concerns, he would have easily on his first day on the job, after his confirmation, asked his own IG, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, for a briefing on his preliminary, in the course of his investigation, that is, the IG's investigation, whether there was any wrongdoing by the FBI. I think it would have been far more appropriate for him to just defer to that investigation rather than postulating, apparently with no evidence. He just has a feeling that there was spying against the campaign. Barr has more than that, it would seem, and has sent chills up scumbag-Clapper's spine that he and Durham are dead serious about checking out the real reasons for the Intelligence Community's "assessment" that Russia wanted Trump to win and was meddling in the election to achieve that result. According to a Wall Street Journal report: Former Director of National Intelligence scumbag-James Clapper says The Wall Street Journal report that Attorney General William Barr appears to be investigating a high-confidence finding of the US intelligence community assessment of the 2016 election sends a "chilling message to the intelligence community." Close scrutiny of the Intelligence Community's actions should send chills up scumbag-Clapper's spine. In the search for the answer as to how the whole Mueller collusion probe and spying on Team Trump originated, one does not have to look far. One needs only to revisit the interview Deep State conspirator and perjurer scumbag-James Clapper gave with CNN's Anderson Cooper. He points his finger directly at Barack Hussein scumbag/liar-nObama as leader of the coup against Donald Trump... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/clapper_hears_barrs_chilling_footsteps.html

Trump Announces ‘Hard Hitting’

New Sanctions on Iran

by Jack Crowe

{ nationalreview.com } ~ President Trump announced Monday that he will impose additional economic sanctions on Iran in response to recent acts of aggression... that have sharply escalated tensions between the two nations in recent weeks. “We will continue to increase pressure on Tehran,” Trump said in the Oval Office before signing an executive order imposing the new sanctions. “Never can Iran have a nuclear weapon.” The executive order, which expands upon existing sanctions that have effectively deprived Iran of oil-export revenue, freezes the assets of officials serving at the highest levels of the Iranian government, including those assets held by the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. Addressing reporters from the White House briefing room after the executive order was signed, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin dismissed the suggestion that the latest round of sanctions was “symbolic,” pointing out that order will effectively “lock up tens of billions of dollars” previously held by the most influential people in Iranian government. The latest round of sanctions come after the Pentagon announced Thursday that an Iranian surface-to-air missile had downed a U.S. military-surveillance drone flying above the Strait of Hormuz, a major waterway through which one-third of the world’s oil supply flows. In response, Trump ordered a missile strike against a number of Iranian radar facilities, but reversed himself Thursday evening minutes before the strike was to be carried out after concluding that the resulting 150 casualties would represent a “disproportionate response” to the downing of an unmanned drone. During the Monday Oval Office signing ceremony, Trump touted the “restraint” displayed by his administration but warned that he may not show such restraint going forward if Iran continues to behave aggressively...

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/donald-trump-announces-hard-hitting-new-sanctions-on-iran/

Roll Out Those Lazy, Hazy,

SNOWY Days of Summer

by Brian C. Joondeph

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Nat King Cole recorded “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer” way back in 1963. In “Those days of soda and pretzels and beer,” summers were hot, and the only thing frosty was the beer. Not so much this summer... The summer solstice passed a few days ago, the longest day of the year with the most sunshine. Only a couple of weeks before July 4th, thoughts are on hitting the beach or pool, with the only worry being about whether sunscreen is going to save your life or kill you. But not this year. Portions of Colorado are under “a winter weather advisory this weekend” as reported by the Denver Post, with “snowfall expected in the mountains.” Wait a minute, it’s officially summer, isn’t it? This is not just a few snow flurries. “Snowfall of 2-6 inches is expected this weekend for altitudes about 9,000 feet, and slush could accumulate along mountain passes. Some road closures have been issued due to adverse weather conditions.” Such a forecast is common in January, but not in late June. Steamboat had almost two feet of snow, as reported by CBS News. CNN chimed in, noting, “The last time the city saw snow this late was on June 17, 1928.” Almost a century ago. In Estes Park, Colorado, “Snow forced officials to briefly close Trail Ridge Road on the first day of summer.” This was after a late opening, “Crews try to open the popular road by Memorial Day weekend, but late spring snow kept the road closed until June 5 this year.”...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/roll_out_those_lazy_hazy_snowy_days_of_summer.html

Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor isn’t

Chernobyl, but does have vulnerabilities

by Judah Ari Gross

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ The hit television miniseries “Chernobyl” has reminded the world of the ever-present specter of a nuclear catastrophe made possible by the deadly combination of negligence, ignorance and incompetence... On April 26, 1986, one of the four nuclear reactors at Chernobyl suffered a catastrophic power surge during a spectacularly mismanaged safety test. The resulting explosion and fire sent plumes of radioactive isotopes throughout the area, since the power plant lacked a containment structure. Contamination spread through large parts of the Soviet Union and Europe. Estimates put the long-term death toll at anywhere from 4,000 to over 93,000; the 1,000 sq. mile exclusion zone around the reactor remains one of the world’s most radioactively contaminated areas. The Chernobyl disaster is one of two nuclear incidents to receive a level 7 designation on the International Nuclear Event Scale, indicating a major accident with widespread ramifications. The second was the earthquake-sparked 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan. The effects of the reactor explosion are still seen and felt today, inside the exclusion zone and far beyond, with a still unfolding impact on people, wildlife and plants. Notably, hundreds of thousands of so-called liquidators risked their lives and long-term health to contain the radiation after the explosion, including some 1,500 who live in Israel and are woefully neglected by the government. Could such a catastrophe occur in Israel’s own nuclear reactor, the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center outside Dimona, in the south of the country? In a rocket strike on the facility — which Iran, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Syria have each threatened or attempted to carry out — would large swaths of the Jewish state become contaminated with radioactive material? Or what about in a large earthquake along the Syrian-African rift, which is expected at some point in the coming years?...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-dimona-nuclear-reactor-isnt-chernobyl-but-does-have-vulnerabilities/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-06-24&utm_medium=email

Muslims Try To Practice Sharia Law In Alabama, Instantly Get Leveled By Angry Locals!

by Tori McNabb

{ redrightvideos.com } ~ I truly do not think any American cares about legal immigration in the country. After all, we all came from somewhere, right?... When a person immigrants to this country it is because they want to be here. They want to be an American and they are assimilating to our culture and way of life. However, a lot of these Mulsim refugees come into this country want to change what we are and implement Sharia Law. These misguided individuals just received a smackdown like no other and they are pissed. One Alabama lawyer has drafted an amendment that would protect its citizens from Muslims using Sharia Law as a defense in court. Jews News has more on this story. “I put in about three years of work on it,” claims Eric Johnston, the Birmingham attorney who drafted the amendment. “We were just trying to do something legal, not political.” The amendment passed by 72 percent to 28 percent, after being sponsored by State Senator Gerald Allen. Johnston claims that the amendment has a wider application than banning Sharia law. He also maintains that the bill does not undermine the religious rights of Muslims, but simply prevents lawyers from using the religious law as a selling point in court cases... https://redrightvideos.com/8705-2/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VilZGEWuhI

Deportation Raids Delayed 'At the

Request of Democrats'

Nate Jackson: “At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border. If not, Deportations start!” President Donald Trump announced via his favorite platform over the weekend.

Last week, Trump declared he would ramp up ICE raids to catch and deport illegal aliens. Predictably, Democrats went apoplectic, ranging from decrying border “concentration camps” to House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi declaring deportation “an act of utter malice and bigotry.”

So what’s the real reason for Trump’s delay? Two possibilities have been suggested: First, Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan says the leaked raid details may have endangered the lives of Border Patrol agents. Second, liar-Pulosi reportedly telephoned the president to beg for a delay. More likely, she offered him emergency border funding.

We’d also offer a third option: Democrats have not only stubbornly refused to offer any plan for addressing the border crisis, they have actively invited the invasion and blocked Trump’s every effort to address it. Trump is calling their bluff, and he’s doing so just in time for the gaggle of 382 Democrat presidential candidates to take the debate stage later this week. Trump has promised to live tweet the debates, and we don’t doubt he’ll enjoy highlighting their lack of an immigration plan. He knows all too well that the Democrats’ only agenda is to obstruct him, so he’s letting them sweat for two weeks while he waits. Every time he can demonstrate that Democrats are blocking needed action at the border, it will help him politically.

In the meantime, regular deportations will continue, as will the flood of illegals crossing the southern border. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63840?mailing_id=4354&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4354&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tues/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 25, 2019 at 8:56am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

England Needs a Slap, and So Does China

Peggy Noonan

Tuesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: MEXICO GETS THE MEMO: “Mexico has deployed almost 15,000 soldiers and National Guard in the north of the country to stem the flow of illegal immigration across the border into the United States, the head of the Mexican Army said on Monday.” (Reuters)

IRAN SANCTIONED: Iran was leveled additional sanctions yesterday, the Washington Examiner reports. “Trump called the sanctions, which will target the financial resources of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, ‘hard-hitting.’” CNBC notes that “Iran is already in a ‘very dangerous’ economic position as US prepares major new sanctions.” Is this the straw that finally breaks the camel’s back?

SCOTUS DEFERS: “The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to rule on a case challenging President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on steel imports into the U.S. that was imposed last year. The decision … will leave in place the U.S. Court of International Trade’s ruling from March that allowed the president’s tariffs.” (Fox Business)

GUN-CONVICTION LAW ANNULLED: “The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 that a federal law allowing for gun convictions relating to ‘a crime of violence’ was too vague. The case involved a pair of men who were convicted on several felony robbery charges, but were also convicted under another federal statute that required significant mandatory minimum sentences for a ‘crime of violence.’” (The Hill)

CONWAY’S PRECEDENT: “The White House intends to block Kellyanne Conway from testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Committee later this week about alleged Hatch Act violations. The administration said … that Conway would not testify, citing ‘long-standing precedent.’” (The Hill)

‘A HIGHLY BIASED POLITICAL MACHINE’: “On Monday, Project Veritas released a video report featuring testimony from a Google whistleblower, along with leaked documents and undercover footage, that suggests that the most influential search engine in the world is actively promoting an agenda when it comes to news and politically and ideologically charged information.” (The Daily Wire)

NBA’S AIR BALL: “NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says the league no longer has any team ‘owners.’ Instead, it will refer to owners as ‘governor’ or ‘alternate governor’ for a part-owner.” (Washington Examiner)

COOLER HEADS PREVAIL: “A British appeals court on Monday reversed a previous ruling that would have forced a mentally disabled woman to abort her child against both her wishes and those of her mother.” (National Review)

POLICY: South Dakota’s efforts to protect speech on campus could be a model for the nation (National Review)

POLICY: commie-Bernie Sanders’s plan to cancel student debt shows bolder isn’t always better (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: Democrat candidates announce plan to dangle stacks of cash in front of potential voters (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63862?mailing_id=4358&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4358&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Devin Nunes Threatens Criminal Referrals

for Chris Wray and Dana Boente

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Those who haven’t followed the backstory might not catch what Nunes is saying. However, if you followed closely, and accept that Rosenstein was part of the problem... then you see how FBI Director Christopher Wray came into office; and, more importantly how/why Wray selected former DOJ-NSD head Dana Boente to shift from main justice to be legal counsel for the FBI. Boente took over for former chief legal counsel James Baker, after the discoveries around Baker and McCabe could no longer be hidden. After being removed from responsibility eventually Baker resigned and went to work with the Lawfare group. Boente’s job at FBI was/is to bury information, block congressional inquiry, and protect the crew. Boente, along with Christopher Wray, is still there. In a Fox News interview on Sunday, Nunes said “someone at the FBI” appears to have been “determined to hide” then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec’s notes from both the FISA court and Congress. Our research identified that “someone” as Dana Boente and crew more than a year ago...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/23/devin-nunes-threatens-criminal-referrals-for-chris-wray-and-dana-boente/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEf8_YALVs

Kushner to Unveil ‘Economic

Vision’ for Palestinian Territories

by Reuters

{ freebeacon.com } ~ White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is to formally unveil the first part of his Middle East peace plan during a Bahrain conference next week... outlining a path for development of the fragile economies of the Palestinian territories and three neighboring Arab countries. The following are some facts about the "economic vision," drawn from White House documents reviewed by Reuters and described exclusively by Kushner and his aides, who are hoping to gain traction for their proposals during the June 25-26 gathering: – Donor nations and investors would contribute about $50 billion, with $28 billion going to the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza, $7.5 billion to Jordan, $9 billion to Egypt and $6 billion for Lebanon. The White House hopes wealthy Gulf states will be among the biggest donors. Kushner told Reuters the United States would also consider contributing. – Money raised through this international effort would be placed in a newly created fund to boost the economies of the Palestinian areas and those three countries. It would be administered by a multinational development bank. The funds would be managed by an appointed board of governors who would determine allocation based on project proposals.– $15 billion of the total would come from grants, $25 billion in subsidized loans, and about $11 billion would come in through private capital. – 179 economic development projects would be funded, including 147 for the West Bank and Gaza, 15 for Jordan, 12 for Egypt, and 5 for Lebanon. – The projects include infrastructure, water, power, telecommunications, tourism and medical facilities, among others...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/kushner-to-unveil-economic-vision-for-palestinian-territories/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=80bb7b41f3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_23_06_49_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-80bb7b41f3-45611665

Istanbul: 'Everything Is Coming Up Roses'

by Burak Bekdil

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ An Islamist political party that comes to power by popular vote would never leave power by popular vote. That suggestion is overwhelmingly accurate... But not always. Any Turks younger than 18 have never seen an election defeat for President and former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. On June 23, a little-known small district mayor won Istanbul for the first time since Islamists first won Istanbul's mayoralty in 1994 -- a good quarter of a century. In fact, that was the second time Ekrem Imamoğlu was elected mayor of Istanbul in less than two months. Commenting in a May 27 article on the re-run of the Istanbul election, under the headline "Erdoğan's Istanbul Nightmare," this author wrote: "Since his Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, Erdoğan has not lost a single election. Everything was coming up roses all the time. Not anymore. "'Who wins Istanbul wins Turkey,' has been Erdoğan's dictum since 1994, when he won mayoral elections in Turkey's biggest city home to nearly 15% of Turkey's 57 million voters and accounting for 31% of its GDP." In the tally of votes on March 31, Imamoğlu and his pro-Erdoğan rival, Binali Yıldırım, were in an unseen cutthroat rivalry: The opposition's Imamoğlu finished on top merely by a margin of 13,000 or so votes, in a city where there are more than 10 million registered voters. Upon appeal from Erdogan's ruling AKP over alleged irregularities, the Supreme Electoral Board, consisting of judges apparently under government pressure, cancelled the election result for Istanbul, thereby suspending Imamoğlu's mandate. The Board also set the date for a re-run on June 23. The Board cancelled the election result on the pretext that some officials serving at the polling stations were not civil servants, as required by the law... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14442/istanbul-everything-is-coming-up-roses

Shifty scumbag-Schiff Outlines Coordinated

Plan With Mueller For “Testimony”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ scumbag-Shifty appears with for an interview with Furrowed Brow to push the impeachment narrative etc... Within the interview scumbag-Shifty talks about lengthy coordination and careful planning with Robert Mueller for a scripted July appearance. scumbag-Shifty, liar-Pulosi and scumbag liar-Nadler have to be very careful with Mueller to avoid exposing the coordinated enterprise behind the two-year Rosenstein, Weissmann and Mueller scheme. It will be interesting to see how they plan it out. If Ever. Likely they will only bring Mueller under VERY carefully control; and they’d probably prefer a panel approach where scripted Mueller confidants can bookend him during any questioning. It’s highly unlikely scumbag-Schiff would attempt to use Robert Mueller as a stand alone witness in a public hearing. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/23/sunday-talks-shifty-schiff-outlines-coordinated-plan-with-mueller-for-testimony/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y120T08Y-08

What We Talk About When We

Talk About Deaths of Despair

by Charles Fain Lehman

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Since the turn of the millennium, the number of Americans dying from nonmedical, self-inflicted causes—drug overdose, suicide, and alcohol-related illness—has exploded... Per capita rates of death from drug poisoning, suicide, and alcoholic liver disease a proxy for the long-run effects of heavy drinking* have roughly doubled over the past 20 years. Drug overdose and suicide in particular are responsible for a nearly unprecedented multiyear decline in life expectancy in the United States. Drugs are the leading cause of death for Americans under 50. This explosion has prompted endless speculation on underlying causes. Because each of these causes of death is "self-inflicted" i.e., not caused by a disease or the direct fault of another as in homicide or vehicular manslaughter, they have been grouped together. And because each tends to be associated with depressive behavior and poor social circumstances, the media have adopted a single descriptor for them: "deaths of despair. "This term has its origin in a particular academic context, naming rising death rates among middle-age, low-status whites. But while the term means something empirical and precise to researchers, the media have adopted "deaths of despair" as a causal, rather than descriptive, label, with deaths being linked to some ill-defined "despair" allegedly permeating American society. Commentators inevitably tie this "despair" to some other large scale trend—inequality, fatherlessness, loneliness, a lack of "meaning," the decline of religion—which they argue must be addressed if we want to stop the dying. Each of these trends is concerning in its own right, and all may indeed increase a person's risk for suicide, drug overdose, or alcohol death. But it does not follow that these kinds of deaths can be grouped together by cause, or that the cure for one is the cure for another. In reality, the causes that make up the monolith "deaths of despair" exhibit deep heterogeneity. A set of crises initially concentrated among poorly educated, older whites has spread. As of 2017, they each predominate in different states and exhibit different trends over time...

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England Needs a Slap, and So Does China

Peggy Noonan

{ peggynoonan.com } ~ Now and then a country needs to get slapped. England does, or rather the United Kingdom, but I say England because I really mean London. Its entire leadership class has been undone since Brexit passed, three years ago this month. They’ve been overwhelmed, not equal to the moment.

They are like the hysterical blonde in 1940s and ’50s movies. Something scary would happen, the monster was coming, and she’d start to scream and sob. Then another character, usually a man, would slap her hard across the face. In the shock of it she’d take hold of herself. I’m fairly certain this trope had to do with how directors saw their wives.

Anyway, London since Brexit has been the hysterical blonde. The British people passed Brexit in a national referendum many had requested for decades. It wasn’t close—it won by a 3.8-point margin. Turnout was huge, 72% of eligible voters. Then-Prime Minister David Cameron, who opposed Brexit but called the referendum in a stupendous and foolish bet that his people saw things as he did, was forced to step down. Theresa May, who’d opposed Brexit but with less focus and commitment, rose from the debris and had a good start. “Brexit means Brexit,” she said. And then she too misread the situation, on the ground and in Parliament. The argument didn’t end. The European Union did what everyone knew it would do and tried to stop the jailbreak. Everything got drawn out and dragged down. The whole political class floundered under the strain.

If leaving the EU was a radical decision, it was deliberately and consciously so: For six weeks the question consumed the nation, and a decision was made.

Is it not obvious what must be done? This matter has to be resolved. A great nation can’t function cut in two, with half the nation at the other half’s throats. It can’t go forward in history that way; it must be one thing or the other, as Lincoln said.

The people asked for Brexit. The government has to deliver it. You can’t insult the very idea of democracy and say, Oh, well, this is hard, so we’ll have a do-over on the vote and hope the people will deliver a different outcome. You have to accept the result and forge ahead.

Make Brexit happen, make the break. Move forward as the people instructed. If you can get EU cooperation, get it. If not, stop pleading and dragging it out. Settle this. If it works it will be apparent within a few years, so hold a parade. If it doesn’t, public opinion on a second referendum will be different.

But stop whingeing. You were hired to lead the people. If you’re not talented enough to do that, you can at least follow them.

In connection to this, the Conservative Party leadership race to replace Mrs. May began this week. Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary and London mayor, made the case for his candidacy. “After three years and two missed deadlines,” he said, “we must leave the EU on Oct. 31.” He hopes for a deal, but the next government should prepare “vigorously and seriously for no deal.” “Brexit delay means defeat,” Mr. Johnson contends. “The paradox is that we have not allayed the divisions in our society by failing to deliver the outcome. . . . We made them worse.”

He’s right. He is also probably going to win. The problem is that he is famously slippery and no one ever knows if they can trust his word. Ken Clark, the Conservative former chancellor of the Exchequer, told the Guardian that Mr. Johnson “doesn’t have any policies, certainly none that are consistent from day to day,” and added: “I don’t actually think he knows what he would do to get us out of the Brexit crisis.”

Mr. Johnson is not an especially good man. His greatest fans admit he is dishonest, even for a politician. But he has wit, verve and intellectual quickness. He has a showman’s love of comedy. A friend who’s a historian of the royal family mentioned as a reason to support him that Queen Elizabeth II has been holding weekly audiences with her prime ministers since 1952: “After all these years she deserves a laugh.” She does.

But the reason Mr. Johnson will likely win is that he is the only serious candidate who understands the politics of the situation—that Brexit simply must be put through, finally and soon. On top of that he’s a compelling figure, with an appreciation of and talent for the show businesses of politics.

He’s never seemed to believe in much beyond his right to rise to the top; he is a born cynic. When Brexit, whose cause he led, surprisingly passed, he suddenly was responsible for a difficult situation. In response he fled for the hills and was incommunicado for days. But his cynicism, perversely, might make him a good match for the EU, which doesn’t seem to believe in much beyond its right to run things whether its constituent nations like it or not. Mrs. May is a very decent person, and she was outmatched. The great thing about cynics is that they tend to do the practical and obvious thing, and the obvious thing to do now is push the EU hard, then stop.

Mr. Johnson’s admirers have the grating habit of comparing him to Winston Churchill, a flawed outsider with imperfect judgment but the right man for 1939. But Churchill was an authentic genius who wrote a masterpiece of the English language while drunk and went to war hung over. He was a gigantic character. Boris Johnson is merely a big one, and a showman. No one knows what he will achieve, but he surely knows he must deliver. My friend the historian believes Mr. Johnson can reinvigorate Britain, “which has lost confidence in itself after spending the last three years on bended knee.”

* * *

The second country that needs a slap this week is China. It needs to be told no—colorfully, vividly, and in a great chorus. It needs to know the upset it is causing in trying to muscle the people of Hong Kong with extradition moves is not worth the gain—that it will ruffle things in a way that is not good for China. The world admires Hong Kong’s freedoms, bustle and success. China needs to be made to understand it damages its standing and stature by bullying that little city. It would be good if it saw it is causing a great clamor.

World, be roused. Push back through word, opinion and argument. Let Beijing know there’s a price for its moves.

Chinese rulers the past few years have seemed quite full of themselves. They pride themselves on taking the long view of history, and on their heavy competence, their ability to hold their balance amid domestic pressures and internal contradictions. They are willing to sacrifice in the day-to-day to achieve long-term objectives. They’ve enjoyed three decades of economic growth, moved forward in telecom, mining, energy, manufacturing. High military spending, military modernization, Huawei, 5G. They’ve been rising for decades, all the while giving the impression that they see the West as being composed of distracted materialists with their faces in screens.

This would be a good time to make a mighty roar, and surprise them with some energy and feeling.

http://www.peggynoonan.com/england-needs-a-slap-and-so-does-china/

Tuesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 25, 2019 at 6:52am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Jews and Jewish Anti-Semites

Collide in California

by Daniel Greenfield

Chris Wallace on Trump's Iran strike reversal:

There are 'costs to inaction,' just like

scumbag/liar-nObama's Syria red line

by David Montanaro

{ foxnews.com } ~ "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace said Friday that there are "costs to inaction" after President Trump confirmed he called off retaliatory strikes against Iran... Trump made the last-minute decision Thursday night after the downing of a Navy drone that Washington said was flying within international airspace. The mission would have reportedly targeted Iranian missile batteries and radars. Trump took to Twitter Friday morning to confirm he called off the strikes and said he based his decision on the number of potential casualties. A source had confirmed to Fox News earlier Friday morning that the administration made a last-minute decision to call off the retaliatory strikes against Iran. But until Trump's tweets, few details about the aborted mission and the circumstances that led to the reversal were publicly available. And it remained unclear Friday whether strike plans have been definitively shelved. Responding on "America's Newsroom," Wallace questioned Trump's explanation that potential casualties were the reason for his decision. Wallace said such discussions about "collateral damage" would normally occur far in advance of the president ordering the strike to go forward earlier on Thursday. "A war with Iran would be a very ugly and prolonged conflict so it does raise the question: Does the president really have the stomach to launch this kind of attack and get more deeply involved, perhaps, in a confrontation with Iran?" Wallace said. He stated Iran bears the responsibility for provoking the confrontation, but there are costs to both action and inaction...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chris-wallace-trump-iran-strike-reversal-obama-syria-red-line

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6050831053001/#sp=show-clips

President Trump on Meet The Press – Full

Unedited Interview and Broadcast Transcript

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com } ~ President Trump sat down last Friday for a lengthy one-on-one interview with Chuck Todd on Meet The Press. In credit to NBC they provide the full unedited interview. https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/trump-meet-the-press-2.jpg?w=640&h=316

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBglxa6K8gc

Top Republican on Armed Services

Committee says Iran story 'not over'

by Ellie Bufkin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, the ranking Republican member of the House Armed Services Committee, said during a Sunday interview with George Stephanopoulos that the story of Iran "is not over."... Thornberry, who was with President Trump in the Situation Room on Thursday following the Iranian attack on an unarmed U.S. Navy drone, described the scene as, "The president, after laying out the intelligence situation, was really listening to everyone's views ... my takeaway was that there was no one around the table who said we should do nothing. Everyone agreed that shooting down an unarmed American aircraft deserved a response." He continued, "Now, there was some variation of views about whether it should be kinetic or whether sanctions, cyber, you know, the level of response, but most everybody thought it should be on the lower end of the range of possibilities that the president was provided."After Thornberry and committee members left the White House, Trump made the decision not to bomb specific radar and missile battery targets in Iran, a choice he made after military aircraft were in the air. He reportedly backed down from the attack after he learned that 150 Iranians could be killed. When asked about how he felt about Trump's decision not to strike, Thronberry said, "Well, I think it's a hard judgment call. The president is clearly trying to navigate a fine line to show that you cannot attack Americans and American military equipment without having a response. At the same time, he's very conscious of not getting on an escalatory ladder that leads to a military conflict that neither side wants." After being further questioned as to whether he felt the president's actions were proportional to the shoot down of the U.S. drone, and whether Iran would back down from increasing violence, Thornberry said, "Well, that's going to really depend on the Iranians. This story is not over. And the question is how do they respond to this relatively restrained response by President Trump ... I think it's hard to criticize the president for giving them every opportunity. But there's obviously a limit to that. And that's why I say if Iran goes back to mining tankers, the sorts of things they've been doing here lately, then we have a whole range of military and other responses which we can employ."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-republican-on-armed-services-committee-says-iran-story-not-over?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_06/23/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Trump Approved Cyberattacks Against Iran

After He Backed Off A Military Assault

by Chris White

{dailycaller.com} ~ President Donald Trump approved a series of cyberattacks targeting the systems Iran uses to launch missiles, Yahoo reported... Personnel with U.S. Cyber Command launched the attacks Thursday, the Friday report notes, citing sources within the administration. The sources told reporters that the Pentagon proposed launching them after Iran’s alleged attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. “This operation imposes costs on the growing Iranian cyber threat, but also serves to defend the United States Navy and shipping operations in the Strait of Hormuz,” Thomas Bossert, a former senior White House cyber official in the Trump administration, told The Washington Post Saturday. The White House has not responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment about the nature of the attack. The Pentagon also declined to comment, citing policies preventing the Department of Defense from discussing ongoing cyberspace operations. Thursday’s strikes targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps represents the first use of force since Cyber Command first stepped up its actions ahead of a belligerent Iran. Cyber Command used new actions the president granted it that allow the agency to streamline approval for such measures. The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning Saturday that Iran has stepped up its cyber targeting of the U.S. oil and gas industry. “There’s no question that there’s been an increase in Iranian cyber activity,” Christopher Krebs, director of DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters. “Iranian actors and their proxies are not just your garden variety run-of-the-mill data thieves. These are the guys that come in and they burn the house down.” Iran issued a dire warning to Trump Saturday. The warning and cyberattacks come after a U.S. Navy drone was shot down Thursday by the IRGC and a week after two oil tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz. Reports surfaced Friday that Trump was considering an assault on Iran, which he ultimately decided against.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/22/iran-trump-attacks/?utm_medium=email

FBI gave 'two different kinds of defensive

briefings' to Trump and scumbag/liar-Clinton

in 2016

by Daniel Chaitin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy suggested that the FBI gave preferential treatment to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016 when advising the presidential candidates on how to deal with the threat posed by foreign actors... During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Gowdy referenced how the campaigns of both scumbag/liar-Clinton and then-candidate Donald Trump received counterintelligence "defensive" briefings, but claimed they were not the same. Gowdy said the FBI provided "two different kinds of defensive briefings to candidates depending on who you like and who you don't," and coupled with how the FBI withheld transcript material from the FISA court, "then your bias begins to impact the investigation." Prior to Gowdy's assertion Sunday, there had not been any indication that Trump's briefing was different than scumbag/liar-Clinton's. Gregory Brower, assistant director of the FBI's Office of Congressional Affairs, wrote Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in October 2017 to confirm "an experienced FBI counterintelligence agent" provided a defensive briefing to Trump in August 2016 "focused on the broad range of threats posed by foreign intelligence entities." The letter said "similar briefings" were also provided to scumbag/liar-Clinton and the two vice presidential candidates prior to the November election, and that campaign staff additionally were briefed. Republicans, including Gowdy, have long expressed concern about the possibility of politically motivated federal officials working to undermine Trump's campaign, which was under investigation by the FBI as early as the summer of 2016 for suspected coordination with the Russian government. Giving rise to those fears, for instance, was the revelation that former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page exchanged text messages that harbored a starkly negative opinion of Trump... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trey-gowdy-fbi-gave-two-different-kinds-of-defensive-briefings-to-trump-and-clinton-in-2016?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_06/23/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNDYQFmiRJs

Jews and Jewish Anti-Semites

Collide in California

by Daniel Greenfield

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ On the last weekend of May, two very different responses to anti-Semitism came out of California.

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, whose courageous response to a Neo-Nazi shooting at his synagogue in Poway won the hearts of a nation, headed off to appear at a Jerusalem Day event. Jerusalem Day or Yom Yerushalayim is a popular celebration in Israel commemorating the liberation of Jerusalem from its Islamic conquerors. “In the face of hatred and terror by our enemies in east Jerusalem, we continue to grow and thrive, despite the physical threat of violence and psychological danger that face our families every day, “Ateret Cohanim, the Jerusalem development organization, said in a statement.

In a very different response, California Democrats struggled with a hateful resolution put forward by David Mandel, a convention delegate, and a chapter leader in the hate group Jewish Voice for Peace. The hateful resolution falsely shifted blame to Israel and Jews for the synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh. It also defended Muslim anti-Semitism and condemned attempts to reject terrorism against Jews.

Jewish Voice for Peace is neither Jewish nor peaceful. This is its latest episode of promoting blood libels, dating back to its association with an anti-Semitic bigot who claimed that Jews drank blood. Mandel, a chapter leader in a hate group that promoted an anti-Israel activist who appeared on white supremacist radio, cynically accuses Israel and Jews of collaborating with white supremacists.

Mandel is a contributor to Mondoweiss: a hate site which claimed that a previous anti-Semitic attack by a white supremacist was really an Israeli plot.

The work of another Mondoweiss contributor had been cited by that same anti-Semitic shooter.

One Mondoweiss editor has said, "I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, but I can understand why some are."

The vast chasm between Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein and David Mandel, between Jews who stand up to hate and radical activists with Jewish last names who collaborate with hate, also appeared in the AJC survey.

The American Jewish Congress, a liberal group that, despite its name, represents Jews no more than any of the other alphabet soup non-profits with a ‘J’ thrown in there do, has released its annual survey. The AJC’s survey of American Jews and Israeli Jews features its own profound chasm between two peoples.

43% of American Jews answered that being Jewish was very important in their lives. 35% allowed how it might be somewhat important. The other 24% deemed it unimportant.

Meanwhile 51% of Israelis believed that being Jewish was most important, 29% thought that it was very important, and 11% downgraded it to somewhat important.

Only 8% of Israeli Jews thought that being Jewish wasn't a significant part of their lives.

35% of American Jews disagreed and 62% agreed that caring about Israel was very important. 25% did not think that Israel is important to the future of the Jewish people. 49% identified as Democrats.

Only 18% identified as Republicans.

91% of Israeli Jews believed that Israel was vital to the future of the Jewish people. 79% of Israeli Jews supported President Trump’s handling of the relationship between America and Israel.

45% of American Jews strongly disapproved of President Trump's handling of relations with Israel. 36% listed Russia as the greatest threat to America. Only 14% put down Iran.

50% backed Trump's recognition of the Golan Heights. 39% opposed the move.

88% of Israeli Jews were in favor of recognition.

Since last year, the number of American Jews caring about Jews dropped from 70% to 62%. Among 18-29 year old American Jews, the number stands at 44%.

Less than half.

These numbers are consistent with a previous Pew survey in which 42% of American Jews complained that President Trump was favoring Israel too much. To put those numbers into perspective, historically black churches were less likely to complain that Trump was too pro-Israel than American Jews.

Pew’s mistake was contrasting members of religious groups with a dissipating ethnic identity.

The AJC’s numbers show that support for Israel is linked to a strong Jewish identity. When respondents were asked about the importance of being Jewish, the responses, ranging from 100% among the Orthodox to 63% among Conservative Jews to 35% among Reform Jews to 15% among secular Jews, reflected the overlap between traditionalism, religiosity and support for Israel.

That’s also what the split between Rabbi Goldstein and David Mandel reflects.

A Gallup poll in 2015 found that among Jews who attended synagogue services at least once a week, 60% disapproved of scumbag/liar-nObama. Among those who didn’t, 58% supported scumbag/liar-nObama.

The split was equally obvious in New York City where the left-wing Forward tabloid noted that, “Nearly every election district that Trump won in Brooklyn was in a Jewish neighborhood.”

Some of the most left-wing and right-wing neighborhoods in the Big Apple in 2016 were Jewish areas.

Like the rest of America, Jews are coming apart into two very different groups.

At the end of May, California faced the same split, with Rabbi Goldstein celebrating the liberation of Jerusalem, while David Mandel tried to find a way to blame murdered Jews for their own deaths.

Rabbi Goldstein and Mandel are both perfect examples of a particular type. The Chabad Rabbi who lost several fingers in the Poway attack, embodies the Jewish tradition of faith. Mandel, a JVP leader who is active with the National Lawyers Guild, a radical group with historical ties to the Communist Party, represents the traditional animus of leftists for everything Jewish. Israel is just one example.

Mandel and Rabbi Goldstein believe in two very different sets of ideas.

At the White House, Rabbi Goldstein, in a quote, urged introducing a moment of silence in public schools, “So that children, from early childhood on, could recognize that there’s more good to the world, that they are valuable, that there is accountability, and every human being is created in God’s image.”

While Rabbi Goldstein quoted the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a key religious leader in his movement, Mandel quoted commie-Bernie Sanders in his hateful resolution. commie-Bernie is also the avatar that the anti-Israel activist uses. While the leaders of Rabbi Goldstein’s Lubavitch Chassidic movement faced persecution by Communists, Mandel boasts of a “Progressive-Labor Alliance comrades” and a “post-capitalist world”.

And, while all this was going on, I was burying my mother, who had spent her life fighting Communism, in a dusty grave in the hills of Jerusalem.

Thousands of miles and a century later, the struggle between Jews and the anti-Jewish Left goes on.

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Monday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 24, 2019 at 4:50pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Please Don't Shut Up, commie-AOC

David Limbaugh

Corn at the Pump

by Geoffrey Norman

{ spectator.org } ~ There was a time — and not so long ago — when America’s leaders would say that we were “addicted to oil,” and warn us that we could not “drill our way out of this.”... This turned out to be a) simpleminded, b) patronizing, and c) wrong. Pretty much par for the course, then. So of course the solutions for meeting the crisis, as prescribed by our political class, were either ineffectual or just wrong as both science and economics. The politics, though, were another thing. One proposed remedy that we were promised would help us avoid an energy crisis severe enough to crush the economy was… burn corn, not oil. American farmers have no trouble growing things. Never have. They are famously hardworking, resourceful, and innovative. We don’t have food scarcity in America. We have surpluses. American agriculture inspired an industry of farm equipment and machinery that is supreme in the world. John Deere. New Holland. Massey Ferguson. So it seemed simple enough to replace the oil we couldn’t extract from the ground with a bi-product of the things we could make grow out of it. That would be ethanol. And Americans surely did know how to make that. They had been doing it right from the nation’s beginning, turning American corn into American bourbon. Mostly legal. Sometimes not. In which case it was called moonshine, the scientific and boring name for which is “ethanol.” It also works with the internal combustion engine. The car you drive burns the stuff. So do your lawnmower, chainsaw, and outboard. With less satisfactory results. Ethanol is not generally kind to two stroke engines. A small engine mechanic I know says the stuff doesn’t just keep him in business. It pays for his vacations. Still, during the “peak oil” panic, the government began mandating viz: forcing refiners of petroleum to add a certain percentage of ethanol to the gasoline they produced. Gasoline cut with ethanol would go further and ease the inevitable transition to electric vehicles and the more immediate, and dire effects of the looming scarcity and the global warming crisis. Authorities like scumbag-Al Gore promised that producing enough ethanol and blending it with gasoline in the right proportions might help us avoid prices of four dollars a gallon, and more, at the pump. If it caused problems with small engines… well, small price... https://spectator.org/corn-at-the-pump/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=6689b3ac40-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_24_12_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-6689b3ac40-104608113

Is The Media Using Data About Americans

Migrating Into Mexico Misleadingly?

by Shelby Talcott

{ dailycaller.com } ~ News outlets are reporting that more Americans are migrating to Mexico than vice versa based on government data... but the data they are citing is being used misleadingly, one expert said. There are over 1.5 million U.S.-born citizens in Mexico, according to estimates from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico. This includes about 600,000 U.S.-born children of Mexican parents, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico said the real numbers may be higher because many Americans overstay their visas. “The U.S. Department of State estimates 1.5 million Americans reside in Mexico,” a Department of State official told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Because U.S. citizens are not required to register their travel to a foreign country with us, it is difficult to track how many U.S. citizens have gone to a specific country.” Outlets such as the Tribune and The Washington Post have reported on an increase of Americans crossing the border into Mexico, saying the data show more migrants from the U.S. are probably going to Mexico than Mexicans going to America. The number of Americans residing in Mexico has increased more than four times since 1990, according to data from Mexico’s statistics institute, WaPo reported. “The finding is used very misleadingly, usually to suggest that immigration from Mexico is dying out, so we don’t need any more money for border enforcement and we shouldn’t reduce legal immigration limits,” Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, said to the DCNF. “Not true, we still get many illegal and legal immigrants from Mexico.”... https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/23/americans-mexico-illegal/?utm_medium=email

Palestinians and the Bahrain Conference: Condemning Arabs While Asking for Arab Money

by Khaled Abu Toameh

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In 2009, the late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz announced his country's decision to donate $1 billion to contribute to the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip... The monarch made his announcement during an Arab economic conference in Kuwait. The Saudi pledge never materialized, mainly because of the continued dispute between the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip and Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank. The king undoubtedly had good intentions and sought to help his Palestinian brothers, especially the two million residents of the Gaza Strip who remain in dire need of financial and economic assistance. When King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz died six years later, the Palestinians did not hesitate to show their contempt for the Arab leader who had offered to help improve their living conditions and ensure a better future for Palestinian children. The contempt was so intense that Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem booed down a preacher, Ismail Nawahdeh, who mourned the death of the Saudi king. As Nawahdeh read the statement, hundreds of Palestinians began shouting slogans denouncing the late monarch. A decade has passed since King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz offered the $1 billion donation to the Gaza Strip, but it seems that nothing has changed in the world of the Palestinians. The Palestinians are now incensed with Saudi Arabia and some other Arab states for agreeing to attend a US-led conference in Bahrain. The main purpose of the conference, held under the banner "Peace to Prosperity," is to help the Palestinians build a prosperous and vibrant society. "With the potential to facilitate more than $50 billion in new investment over 10 years, the plan presents the most ambitious and comprehensive international effort for the Palestinian people to date," according to the plan, which was released on June 22 and will be presented to participants of the Bahrain economic conference. As expected, the Palestinians, who are boycotting the Bahrain conference, have rejected the plan, dubbing it a "bribe" to entice the Palestinians to relinquish their "national rights." While the Palestinian rejection of the plan did not come as a surprise, their strong condemnations of the Arab states that have agreed to attend the Bahrain conference are an indication of the disdain in which the Palestinians hold Arab leaders and governments... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14431/palestinians-money-bahrain-conference

Why the Dems Will Never Win Back Trump Voters

by David Catron

{ spectator.org } ~ It’s an article of faith among Democrats that the President’s base consists primarily of white working class voters without college degrees... and that they must be won back in order to beat Trump in 2020. This is why Elizabeth dinky-Warren inflicted that cringe-making, “I’m gonna get me a beer,” video on a long-suffering electorate. It is why loose lips liar-Joe Biden, who reputedly enjoys a special rapport with blue collar voters, is the frontrunner for his party’s presidential nomination despite his penchant for gaffes and plagiarism. Thus, during this week’s Democratic debates, the candidates will devote considerable effort to courting the “deplorables.” This will, however, be an exercise in futility because everything they believe about Trump’s base is false. Their view of this large and growing segment of the electorate is distorted by a myth concocted primarily by the media to explain away a deeply uncomfortable reality — that Trump possessed a better understanding of the public mood than did the professional political class. They were unable to abandon their preconceived notions about Trump and his supporters, despite easily accessible contrary data. The belief that his message was resonating only among the working class was debunked by Nate Silver as early as May of 2016: It’s been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump’s candidacy as a “working-class” rebellion against Republican elites.… But the definition of “working class” and similar terms is fuzzy, and narratives like these risk obscuring an important and perhaps counter intuitive fact about Trump’s voters: As compared with most Americans, Trump’s voters are better off. The median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000. That figure wasn’t merely above the national median household income, it was higher than the median income for scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s supporters. Silver went on to point out that the general portrayal of Trump’s voters as uneducated also failed to conform to the facts: “About 44 percent of Trump supporters have college degrees… higher than the 33 percent of non-Hispanic white adults, or the 29 percent of American adults overall, who have at least a bachelor’s degree.” Blue collar workers were a real and valuable cohort of the President’s supporters, but the financial and educational make up of his base was more complex than most acknowledged. Yet, even a guy as smart as National Review’s Kevin Williamson succumbed to the Never Trump delusion that Trump’s supporters were a bunch of white trash losers. In an essay published in the spring of 2016, he snarled, “Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin.” Even after Trump won the Republican nomination, the legacy media, the Never Trumpers, and the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign clung desperately to their belief that his supporters were a contemptible collection of irredeemable, uneducated homophobes, xenophobes, and racists. They were, as scumbag/liar-Clinton famously phrased it, “a basket of deplorables.”...

https://spectator.org/why-the-dems-will-never-win-back-trump-voters/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=6689b3ac40-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_24_12_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-6689b3ac40-104608113

Suspected Hezbollah Financier

Extradited to the U.S.

by Emanuele Ottolenghi

{ fdd.org } ~ Paraguayan authorities extradited Nader Mohamad Farhat yesterday to Miami, where he faces criminal charges of money laundering... Farhat’s case promises to reveal the intricacies and magnitude of trade-based money laundering in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, including the role played by Lebanese Hezbollah. A Miami federal court will decide whether Farhat will be tried there or in New York, where he faces similar charges. In the case before the New York court, Farhat is an alleged co-conspirator in a case involving another Paraguayan national of Lebanese origin, Mahmoud Ali Barakat, and three other defendants who are accused of assisting in the laundering of drug monies from inside the U.S. Court documents refer to Farhat as a “known money launderer for narcotics organizations and other illicit organizations,” while media reports allege a possible connection to Hezbollah. According to a Department of Justice press release announcing the indictment of his co-conspirators, Farhat participated in “an international money laundering scheme relying on the complexities of global trade, and the use of … businesses here in New York and in Florida, to launder millions of dollars for transnational drug traffickers and other bad actors.” The cases have since been merged. These cases highlight how Latin American drug cartels and other organized crime groups continue to exploit complex, trade-based schemes to launder their ill-gotten gains. Critically, many of the companies involved are in the United States, exposing the U.S. financial system to considerable reputational risk. The case also reveals the growing importance of the TBA to this type of financial crime. Almost a decade ago, a large Drug Enforcement Administration investigation exposed the connection between Latin American drug cartels and Hezbollah financiers. The investigation focused on the Lebanese Canadian Bank and revealed Hezbollah’s use of extensive trade-based money laundering networks in Colombia and Venezuela, which laundered cartel drug money through West Africa and used car businesses in the United States before repatriating the funds to the cartels through Lebanese-based financial institutions...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/06/21/suspected-hezbollah-financier-extradited-to-the-u-s/

Please Don't Shut Up, AOC

David Limbaugh

{ townhall.com } ~ Congresswoman commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem harmless, but she's a virtue signaler on steroids and a nonstop headline-manufacturing machine.

The left adores her, and for conservatives, she's a gift that keeps on giving — because she is either too naive or arrogant to rein herself in. Don't listen to those who advise not to be roped into her spotlight-seeking trap. Give her all the attention she craves — and more rope.

commie-AOC conspicuously put her foot in her mouth again, but she clearly likes the taste of it because she refuses to remove it. "This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying," she tweeted. "This is not hyperbole. It is the conclusion of expert analysis." What?

On Instagram, she said: "The United States is running concentration camps on the southern border. And that is exactly what they are. They are concentration camps. And if that doesn't bother you, I don't — I like — we can have — OK, whatever. I wanna talk to people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that ... 'Never Again' means something. And that the fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing. And we need to do something about it. ... This is not even about a crisis for — this is not just about the immigrant communities being held in concentration camps being a crisis. This is a crisis for ourselves. This is a crisis on if America will remain America ... or if we are losing to an authoritarian and fascist presidency."

commie-AOC immediately came under fire. On Twitter, Rep. Liz Cheney told her that she demeaned the memory of the 6 million Jews who were exterminated in the Holocaust and disgraces herself with her remarks.

commie-AOC took umbrage, tweeting: "And for the shrieking Republicans who don't know the difference: concentration camps are not the same as death camps. Concentration camps are considered by experts as 'the mass detention of civilians without trial.' And that's exactly what this administration is doing." commie-AOC's shameless denial that she was referring to Nazi concentration camps was disingenuous in view of her Instagram reference to "Never Again," which is singularly associated with the Holocaust.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw tweeted back to her: "in concentration camps, people are unjustly sought out and confined. This isn't what is happening at the border. Migrants are illegally crossing our border. Most are asylum seekers, thus pending trial, so your expert definition doesn't apply. ... Your comments reveal total disregard for our sovereignty & a deep ignorance that belittles the horrors of the Holocaust."

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Mark Morgan called commie-AOC's comments "completely inappropriate," "reckless," "irresponsible," "misinformed" and "flat-out wrong." He said, "there is so much oversight in these facilities. ... I feel very satisfied that if you go to these facilities, whether it's a Border Patrol facility, an HHS facility or an ICE facility, that there will be safe and adequate conditions to detain individuals."

If you think commie-AOC is merely some innocent ignoramus in a powerful position, think again. She intentionally and maliciously misrepresents the facts. She knows these immigrants are not being brutalized and dying, and that the authorities are doing the best they can, being understaffed and underfunded — because demagogues like her refuse to acknowledge the crisis and address it. As Rep. Crenshaw told her, "If you're worried about conditions at the border, why don't you do something about it & support @RepMikeRogersAL's bill securing billions in humanitarian aid?"

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called on commie-AOC to apologize "not only to the nation but to the world," but instead she doubled down. "DHS ripped 1000s of children from their parents & put them in cages w inhumane conditions," she tweeted. "I will never apologize for calling these camps what they are. If that makes you uncomfortable, fight the camps -- not the nomenclature."

commie-AOC's colleague, the reliably obnoxious House Judiciary Chairman, scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, undercut her lame denial that she invoked the Holocaust. "One of the lessons from the Holocaust is 'Never Again' — not only to mass murder, but also to the dehumanization of people, violations of basic rights, and assaults on our common morality."

It's no secret that today's leftist extremists are no friend of the Jews, but where are the famous liberal fact-checkers — the watchdogs so dedicated to truth? Let them explain to commie-AOC that migrants detained for breaking the law are not being placed in concentration camps. If she persists, she also condemns former President scumbag/liar-nObama for the same sin.

But here's the good news. commie-AOC is unteachable, because she is unwilling to be taught. Full of hubris, she already knows everything and is the champion of every leftist cause. She leads with her unbridled emotions, happily ignorant of the facts. House Majority Leader liar- Nancy Pulosi would love to corral her but would not dare even hint at that, shrewdly recognizing the mob attraction commie-AOC enjoys with the Party's shrieking base. liar-Pulosi knows better than to chastise commie-AOC and so ducked the question when asked why commie-AOC never shuts up.

Well, I'm with liar-Pulosi, for different reasons. Please don't shut up, commie-AOC. We appreciate your drawing a sharp contrast every day between the noxious views of your party, which now dutifully embodies your extremism, and those representing responsible governance. Thank you for liberally exercising your First Amendment freedoms.

https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2019/06/21/please-dont-shut-up-aoc-n2548708?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=06/21/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 24, 2019 at 3:13pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Thriving Glaciers and Doomed Environmentalists

by Daniel Greenfield

U.S. SAYS NO TO BDS

by Steve Linde

{ jpost.com } ~ No country has taken a stronger stand and action against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement than the United States, both in Congress and in the 50 states... 27 states, from Rhode Island to California, have already passed regulations using their own finances to block BDS activists from accomplishing their goals. The battle against BDS is being led by the pro-Israel community in the US, and it is important to note that it remains a bipartisan issue bringing together Republicans and Democrats. Two of its most powerful warriors are Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas who ran for president in 2016, and Ted Deutch, a Democrat from Florida in the House of Representatives. In exclusive interviews, Cruz and Deutch were clear that they both consider the BDS movement not just anti-Israel, but antisemitic too. “Boycotts and other attacks on the livelihood of Jews have been part of antisemitism for centuries, and BDS is one of the latest manifestations,” Cruz said. “It is an antisemitic movement that seeks to delegitimize and destroy the Jewish state, and deserves to be condemned. The United States and our allies, meanwhile, should stand with Israel and ensure that it has what it needs to defend itself diplomatically and militarily.” Deutch agreed. “The BDS movement is rooted in the antisemitic belief that the only Jewish state in the world doesn’t have a right to exist,” he said. “There is a clear difference between political speech critical of any government’s policies, and advocacy for a policy that results in the end of the Jewish state. Efforts to delegitimize Israel or treat Israel differently than every other country in the world cross that line into antisemitism.” Cruz expressed hope that an anti-BDS resolution that he drafted with Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, would soon be passed by the Senate. “I recently introduced a resolution with Senator Kaine that condemns all antisemitism, including boycotts targeting Jewish businesses,” said Cruz. “It has over 50 cosponsors in the Senate, and I hope that the Senate will soon pass it and condemn these manifestations of antisemitism in one voice.”...

https://www.jpost.com/BDS-THREAT/US-says-NO-to-BDS-592877

Politically Exploiting Islamophobia

by Len Getz

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Tucked away in a tranquil suburb of Philadelphia sits the Islamic Society of Greater Valley Forge where, at a recent town hall the hundred or so attendees, most of whom appeared to be white Christians, were fed a fistful of lies... Entitled “Islamophobia: Confronting Hate, Celebrating Diversity,” the town hall meeting was co-sponsored by Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Philadelphia chapter and Emgage, a political action group which supports Muslim American candidates running for office. The event featured Pennsylvania State Representatives Joe Webster (D), Melissa Shusterman (D), and Movita Johnson-Harrell (D). Others on the panel were CAIR-Philadelphia civil rights attorney Timothy Welbeck, Deputy Attorney General Robert Reed and community leader Marwan Kreidie, representing the Al Aqsa Mosque in Philadelphia which made local and national news recently when Imam Abdelmohsen Abouhatab was caught on camera delivering three anti-Semitic sermons there from Nov 2018 through January 2019. Kreidie painted a terrifying, and dishonest picture for the unsuspecting attendees claiming that “Islamophobia is an organized attempt to denigrate Muslims in America. It is not a conspiracy theory. It’s real.” To support his assertion he referred to “Fear Inc.,” a study by the Center for American Progress which promotes the falsehood that there is a “network financed by Richard Mellon with $42 million” whose mission is to disseminate misinformation about Islam. To demonstrate this, Kreidie dropped a lot of names, ranging from former Reagan national security official Frank Gaffney, to Middle East historian Dr. Daniel Pipes, counterterrorism researchers like Steve Emerson, Robert Spencer, and Bridgette Gabriel. Even pastors like John Hagee and Pat Robertson and the entire Fox News network are in on the conspiracy, if Kreidie is to be believed. Kreidie spent a good deal of time discussing a pig’s head that was thrown at the Al Aqsa mosque back in December 2015. When the incident occurred he was quoted in the Washington Post: “They want America to appear to be anti-Muslim. This will help them in their recruiting; this will help them in their propaganda. We can’t let the extremists win.”... He is so full of it that he should be banned also CAIR from the USA.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/politically_exploiting_islamophobia.html

Iran Responds to Trump: We ‘Will Firmly

Confront Any Aggression or Threat by America’

by Steven Beyer

{westernjournal.com} ~ A day after President Trump pulled back from a military strike on Iran, the country responded Saturday by saying it... “will firmly confront any aggression or threat by America.” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi warned the U.S. against any threats. “Regardless of any decision they U.S. officials make … we will not allow any of Iran’s borders to be violated. Iran will firmly confront any aggression or threat by America,” he said, Reuters reported. Mousavi’s comment comes as intense pressure between the two countries continues to mount.On Friday, President Trump called off a military strike in Iran after the country is thought to have shot down a military drone flying in the Strait of Hormuz. While the U.S. maintains the drone was shot down in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran continues to claim the drone was shot down because it was flying over the country. Trump said he called off the strike just 10 minutes before, due to the casualty rate that would ensue after the strike.“We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General,” Trump tweeted. “10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone,” he added.The president also said that the military is “rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world” and confirmed his stance that “Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons.” While the U.S. may have called off a military strike, the Pentagon “secretly struck” an Iranian spy group through digital attacks, Yahoo! News reported. The Pentagon didn’t release any details of the response, but Pentagon spokeswoman Heather Babb told Yahoo! News, “as a matter of policy and for operational security, we do not discuss cyberspace operations, intelligence or planning.” However, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus dismissed the reports calling them “pure Iranian propaganda.” On Friday there were reports that Trump warned had warned Iran that an attack was coming. https://www.westernjournal.com/iran-responds-trump-will-firmly-confront-aggression-threat-america/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

The Suicide of France

by Giulio Meotti

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ "Regarding France in 2019, it can no longer be denied that a momentous and hazardous transformation, a 'Great Switch', is in the making"... observed the founder and president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, Michel Gurfinkiel. He was mourning "the passing of France as a distinct country, or at least as the Western, Judeo-Christian nation it had hitherto been presumed to be". A recent cover story in the weekly Le Point called it "the great upheaval". Switch or upheaval, the days of France as we knew it are numbered: the society has lost its cultural center of gravity: the old way of life is fading and close to "extinction". "Frenchness" is disappearing and being replaced by a kind balkanization of enclaves not communicating with one another. For the country most affected by Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, this is not a good recipe. The French switch is also becoming geographical. France now appears split between "ghettos for the rich" and "ghettos for the poor", according to an analysis of the electoral map by France's largest newspaper, Le Monde. "In the poorest sector, 6 out of 10 newly settled households have a person born abroad", notes Le Monde. A kind of abyss now separates peripheral France -- small towns, suburbs and rural areas – from the globalized metropolis of the "bourgeois Bohemians", or "bobos". The more the French élites with their disposable incomes and cultural leisure cloister themselves in their enclaves, the less likely it is that they will understand the everyday impact of failed mass immigration and multiculturalism. A recent European poll reflected these "two Frances that do not cross or speak to each other", observed Sylvain Crepon of the University of Tours, in analyzing the success of Marine Le Pen's National Rally party in the recent European Parliament election. Le Pen and President Emmanuel Macron, the two winners in the election, speak to completely different sociological groups. In the Paris suburbs -- Aulnay-sous-Bois, Sevran, Villepinte and Seine-Saint-Denis -- the far-right National Rally has been experiencing a boom. In the cities, Le Pen is largely behind: she came fifth in Paris, third in Lille, fourth in Lyon. According to Crepon... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14406/suicide-of-france

Democrats are Attaching “Radical”

Riders to House Immigration Bill

by restoreamericanglory.com: Proving yet again that they have absolutely no interest whatsoever in solving the humanitarian crisis at the border, House Democrats are bogging down immigration bill negotiations by attaching “very extreme and very radical” riders to the legislation... Republican sources told Fox News on Wednesday. According to one such source, these riders would “functionally nullify federal immigration law.” President Trump requested $4.5 billion in May to help fund agencies combating the escalating humanitarian crisis at the southern border, but the request has been bogged down by negotiations. But amid negotiations over the latest border bill, a source familiar with the talks told Fox News that riders, submitted in writing by House Democrats, include one that would stop border agents from conducting any asylum interviews. Another controversial rider, according to two GOP sources, would prevent the funds from being used by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to share information on sponsors of child migrants, potential sponsors or their households with DHS. Republicans say the effect would be to prevent HHS from sharing information about child smugglers and traffickers present in the U.S. with the department responsible for enforcing immigration law. That’s only the tip of the iceberg. The worst of these riders is a clause that would force the federal government to tell illegal aliens that they can bring an unaccompanied minor into the U.S., sponsor them, and escape any repercussions for their own illegal status. Indeed, the rider would also demand that the child be delivered back to them without delay. “So we’d not only be protecting the child smuggling loop, we’d be advertising the child smuggling loop to illegal aliens throughout the United States who would in turn then be able to have confidence they could pay a smuggler in a transnational criminal organization to smuggle a child into the country that we would then tell them we would deliver to them regardless of the law breaking involved,” the source told Fox News. It is clear at this point that it is a fruitless, hopeless effort to include Democrats in any reasonable effort to pass immigration legislation. They are much more interested in using this crisis as a political weapon than they are in fixing the border. We’ll go as far as to say they don’t WANT to fix the border. They want these immigrants streaming in, and they want them released into the wilds of America where they can then be counted in the next Census. Knowing they will flock to hard-blue strongholds that have sanctuary laws in place, Democrats are counting on those immigrants to boost their congressional representation and max out their federal assistance dollars. In a country with a responsible news media, the Democrats’ anti-American ploy would be obvious to everyone. Unfortunately, that’s the one thing we don’t have.

http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/democrats-are-attaching-radical-riders-to-house-immigration-bill/

Thriving Glaciers and Doomed Environmentalists

by Daniel Greenfield

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ "This August I visited Glacier National Park in Montana," Gianna Kelly, the founder of Climb for Conservation, wrote in the Huffington Post. "I am still stunned to have learned the following fact: by 2020, no glaciers will exist in Glacier National Park."

Kelly, who had worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, wrote that back in the first year of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. It might stun her more to learn that scumbag/liar-Obama is out of the White House and that the glaciers of Glacier National Park are still there and waiting to be visited.

Throughout the scumbag/liar-nObama era, visitors to Glacier National Park were frequently harangued with false claims that the glaciers would all be gone in a decade. These warnings decorated dioramas and trash cans even as the hysterical propaganda become more ridiculous with every passing year.

The snow lay heavy on Logan Pass, when I arrived in July 2017. Visitors stomped through thick snow to reach the Hidden Lake Overlook. The alpine meadows of the Hanging Gardens didn’t live up to their name. Instead of the wildflowers that most visitors expected, there were nearly endless fields of white. Mountain goats, unaware that they were threatened by the supposed rising temperatures that were warming Glacier’s glaciers into extinction, eyed us suspiciously as we tried not to slip on the ice.

Sperry Glacier, a frequent target for environmentalist doommongers, was still there in the distance.

Next year, there was a 30-year snow record at Glacier. Snow removal crews in late April were struggling with drifts of between 10 to 20 feet. East Glacier Park Village measured 284 inches of snow.

Glacier National Park recorded “one of the coldest winters on record” this year. And across Montana, record wind chill temperatures hit 68 below zero in Bozeman and 59 below zero in Helena. In Great Falls, the temperature stayed below freezing for 32 days until the beginning of March.

In time for the 2019 summer season at Glacier National Park, the embarrassing signs claiming that the glaciers won’t be there next year have begun coming down. But the doomsday predictions won’t leave.

The melting glaciers of Glacier have been the subject of countless media stories and at least one book, The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers, from St. Martin’s Press, which excitingly promised to chronicle the “the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.”

Melting World followed Daniel Fagre, who heads the Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems Project for the United States Geological Survey, and is the figure most associated with the 2020 number.

Fagre had told the book’s author back in 2008 that all the glaciers would be gone in 10 to 12 years.

The USGS global warming expert has been quoted in media outlets every year predicting the death of the glaciers. He is largely responsible for the comparison photos claiming that the glaciers are vanishing, which he traces back to a visit by former Vice President scumbag-Al Gore during the scumbag/liar-Clinton administration.

Fagre has a BA in Environmental Science, an MS in Animal Ecology and a PhD in Animal Ecology. In 1990, the Global Change Research Act was passed. The disastrous law created a massive infrastructure of chicken little “experts” tasked with finding evidence that the sky was falling.

In 1991, Fagre was hired to start to "climate change research program" and wrote a proposal to use the glaciers of Glacier to monitor the impact of global warming.

Somewhere along the way, despite no geology degree, he was deemed a glacier expert.

"One of the first things that we did was we went up and looked at Grinnell Glacier," he recalled.

Grinnell Glacier is the environmentalist's special nemesis.

In 2010, he told CNN that Grinnell Glacier was "this little dirty glacier that seems to be obviously falling apart, that has become very tiny and decrepit".

"This one is on its last legs," he insisted.

But Grinnell Glacier refuses to die. Instead it appears to have been growing.

The photos warning that the glaciers are shrinking are the work of Fagre and Lisa McKeon, who has a BA in Zoology. Neither of the two glacier experts, so often quoted in the media, have geology degrees.

But Fagre is the doomsayer most likely to predict the end of all the glaciers in Glacier. That’s why he and the media were outraged that the “area’s top climate scientist” wasn’t able to “share his expertise on global warming’s role in the retreating ice sheets” with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.

Fagre, who, according to one profile, doesn’t like “deskwork”, loves sharing his “expertise”. And that means predicting that the glaciers will be gone in a decade or two or who knows when.

And the government employee is open about his motives. “My role as a scientist is to make sure that everybody understands the pace at which they’re disappearing, and the reasons for that, so that, again, better decisions could be made societally.”

That’s not the role of a scientist. It’s the agenda of an advocate. The signs and photos warning of a glacier apocalypse at Glacier National Park are political advocacy.

"We get a lot of information visually," Fagre said. "And we tend to trust that even more than what we hear.”

That’s sensible enough because listening to Fagre speak can get a little bit confusing. Over the years, his doomsday date for the great glacier apocalypse has continued to fluctuate.

In 1999, he claimed that “all of Glacier's glaciers will be gone in 30 years”.

In a 2004, National Geographic article, he predicted that “within 30 years most if not all of the park's namesake glaciers will disappear”.

By either 2029 or 2034, some or all of the glaciers are set to disappear. Or something.

In 2009, Fagre downgraded a previous claim that all the glaciers would be gone by 2030, down to 2020. That 2020 date was featured in numerous media pieces warning that the glaciers would be gone in a decade. They also popped up in the park signage that is now being taken down in time for 2020.

In an official Glacier video, Fagre claimed in 2010 that, "they’ll melt by about 2020".

In a 2010 NBC News piece, the 2020 claim was cited, but Fagre hedged that some of the largest glaciers might make it to 2030.

The glaciers of Glacier National Park are always disappearing. But they never quite do.

Six years later, Fagre claimed that most of the glaciers would be “small insignificant lumps of ice on the landscape", but these lumps might survive another 10 or 15 years.

Three years after a 2011 chat with Fagre, in which the 2020 figure was cited, the New York Times did yet another piece claiming against that the glaciers are still vanishing.

"What will they call this place once the glaciers are gone?" the 2014 article began. This time it claimed that in 30 years, "there may be none". That postponed the date of glacier doomsday to 2044.

Fagre was quoted as saying, “I think we’re on the cusp of bigger changes.” Five years later, the biggest change is that the 2020 signs are being replaced.

In a 2017 USA Today piece, Fagre warned that the glaciers would be gone in our lifetime.

"Their fate is sealed," he insisted.

Sealed, indeed.

“What is important," Fagre emphasized, "is that it will happen in our lifetime.”

According to his conversation with a PBS reporter, "estimates on when the glaciers will disappear completely vary widely, from 2030 to 2080, depending on winter weather."

2030 to 2080 is quite a range.

“We are going to go toward a virtually glacierless state in the next few decades. Fagre had told Audubon in 2010. “We don’t care whether it is 2033 or 2029 or 2035. It’s just what’s happening.”

Scientists generally care about dates and predictions. The prophets of inevitable doom are cranks.

In a Guardian article in 2017, he claimed that all the glaciers in the country would vanish in the next few decades. “It’s inevitable,” Fagre insisted.

"They will certainly be gone before the end of the century," Fagre told a CBS affiliate in 2017.

"It's not just going to happen in my lifetime,” he had insisted in 2002 "It's going to happen during my career."

Back then, Fagre had been 49-years-old. He’s now approaching retirement age.

The glaciers of Glacier seem likely to outlive the environmentalist who had spent the bulk of his career predicting their doom. And, if the Department of the Interior cleans house, they will outlive his career.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/06/thriving-glaciers-and-doomed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+Behind+the+News%29

Monday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 24, 2019 at 11:44am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Gaffe Machine loose lips liar-Biden

Contends With Racism Fallout

Thomas Gallatin

Arsenic found in water bottle brands sold at

Walmart, Target and Whole Foods;

company pulls product

by Zachary Leeman

{bizpacreview.com} ~ California nonprofit Center for Environmental Health has revealed that water bottle brands Peñafiel and Starkey contain levels of arsenic that are above the legal limit... Peñafiel is owned by Keurig Dr. Pepper and Starkey is owned by Whole Foods. Peñafiel is sold at Target, Walmart and other major retailers. Starkey is sold at Whole Foods locations.“Customers typically purchase bottled water at exorbitantly high costs with the assumption that it is safer and healthier to drink than tap water, unaware that they are ingesting an extremely toxic metal linked to birth defects and cancer,” Center for Environmental Health CEO Michael Green said in a public statement about the report. CEH announced that they have sent “legal notices” to the bottled water brands they exposed through their report. “CEH has sent legal notices to these bottled water manufacturers and retailers because the amount of arsenic in the water is above the level requiring a health warning under California’s consumer protection law Proposition 65,” their press release states. “Prop 65 identifies arsenic as a metal that causes reproductive harm and cancer.”...

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POTUS Gets Rare Praise for Iran Handling

From Frequent Critic scumbag/commie-

John Brennan: ‘I Do Applaud’ Him

by Sydney Monduy

{ ijr.com } ~ Former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan gave President Donald Trump rare praise for his handling of the rising tensions with Iran... during an interview on MSNBC on Friday. scumbag/commie-Brennan commended Trump for avoiding an attack that would have harmed over a hundred people, claiming that it would have created more problems. He also pointed out that while he has been an outspoken critic of the president, he still thought that it was impressive that Trump stopped the attack. “And again, I give him credit, and I rarely do that, but I give him credit for being almost the adult in the room because of the war hawks like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo who are pushing toward this confrontation that is not in anyone’s interest, especially the United States,” scumbag/commie-Brennan said. As IJR Red previously noted, Trump tweeted out his explanation for stopping the attack, claiming he couldn’t justify the action. However, he claimed that there will be consequences on the country for shooting down the American drone. “I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world,” Trump wrote. “Sanctions are biting & more added last night. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the USA, and not against the WORLD!”

https://ijr.com/potus-praise-brennan/

As ICE Readies for Nationwide Raids, Chicago’s

New Mayor Throws a Major Wrench in the Works

by C. Douglas Golden

{westernjournal.com} ~ Meet the new boss in the Windy City; she’s the same as the old boss... As Immigration and Customs Enforcement prepares for a series of raids on illegal immigrants across the United States, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted that her city “will not cooperate with or facilitate any ICE enforcement actions” and that she had taken “concrete steps” to throw a wrench in the works, including ensuring the city’s police superintendent had terminated ICE’s access to the city’s immigration database. “We are all aware of the threat from President Trump regarding raids by ICE, and in response, Chicago has taken concrete steps to support our immigrant communities,” Mayor Lightfoot said Friday in what — if she was not a Democrat– would be described as a “tweetstorm.”“I have directed — and Superintendent Eddie Johnson has confirmed — that CPD has terminated ICE’s access to CPD’s databases related to federal immigration enforcement activities,” she continued. “I have also personally spoken with ICE leadership in Chicago and voiced my strong objection to any such raids. Further, I reiterated that CPD will not cooperate with or facilitate any ICE enforcement actions.” Lightfoot said that “Chicago will always be a welcoming city and a champion for the rights of our immigrant and refugee communities” and directed anyone who was concerned to a link about the raids from the National Immigrant Justice Center. How “concrete” these “concrete steps” are — at least in terms of foiling the raids — is probably a matter of some debate. The 2,000 families reportedly being targeted in the weekend raids that will be conducted across 10 major cities including Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and Miami and New York, are subject to deportation orders. Furthermore, given the sensitivity of the matter, one assumes that ICE wasn’t expecting these cities to be welcoming places for law enforcement. In fact, most of the mayors of these locales have made similar statements...These mayors are idiots who put their feeling before their citizens and the rule of law. https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/ice-readies-nationwide-raids-chicagos-new-mayor-throws-major-wrench-works/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune

Over 3 Decades After 11-Year-Old Girl’s

Murder, Suspect Finally Arrested

by Loren Eaton

{ westernjournal.com } ~In Philip K. Dick’s 1956 short story “Minority Report,” he imagines a future where psychic monitors prevent all crime by foreseeing it before it happens... The story shows more than a few downsides of such a fictional arrangement. But in days where we read about horrific crimes each and every day in the paper, erasing them before they appear has its appeal. Of course, we don’t have such magical powers, and police have instead resorted to patience, perseverance and the wonders of DNA testing. That’s how Connecticut police tracked down an alleged offender who reportedly murdered a girl in 1986. According to People, Kathleen Flynn was only 11 years old when she disappeared. She was last seen alive on September 23, 1986. She had decided to walk home from her middle school through a wooded area. Kathleen had traveled the path on her own numerous times, so it didn’t raise any alarms. But when she failed to return home, a search ensued. Authorities eventually found her about 150 feet from said path. She’d been bound about her wrists, raped and strangled, and her body had been piled with leaves and a rock to conceal her location. The Washington Post reported that suspicion soon centered on a young man named Marc Karun. For one thing, he lived close to Kathleen’s school. When interviewed by police, he also admitted that he had visited it in the days prior to her murder. He said that he went there to meet with several librarians — but none of them could remember him. Authorities had also arrested him eight months prior on sexual assault and kidnapping charges, although they largely fell apart in court. Eventually, the trail went cold. “The kids in school were all terrified, as was everyone in the neighborhood. We were all on high alert,” said Enes Drake, a substitute teacher, according to the Connecticut Post. “The guy was never caught, so we were always looking over their shoulders.” However, he may have been caught now...

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Gaffe Machine loose lips liar-Biden Contends With

Racism Fallout

Thomas Gallatin: Current Democrat presidential frontrunner and former Vice President loosew lips liar-Joe Biden finds himself the target of “friendly” fire. But the truth of the matter is, he lit this bomb himself. In a clearly misguided attempt to tout his own history of bipartisan compromise, loose lips liar-Biden noted his past working relationship with former Sen. James O. Eastland.

Referencing Eastland, a racist southern Democrat well known for his promotion of segregation against the “inferior race” of blacks, was a move loose lips liar-Biden’s own advisers warned him against.

So why did loose lips liar-Biden go ahead anyway? Well, it appears it was loose lips liar-Biden’s bumbling attempting to push back on criticism over his flip-flop on the Hyde Amendment. As The Atlantic reports, “loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s aides knew that the 2020 front-runner was going to get ripped apart over his support of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion procedures. They were frustrated that the former vice president wouldn’t change his stance, and that he wasn’t initially receptive to their concerns. Now that loose lips liar-Biden has come out against Hyde, his aides are trying to prevent him from being labeled a flip-flopper.”

Following loose lips liar-Biden’s remarks on Eastland it didn’t take long for his Democrat presidential opponents to see blood in the water. Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris (D-CA) opined that loosev lips liar-Biden “doesn’t understand the history of our country and the dark history of our country.” Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker (D-NJ) demanded an apology, and both Senators Elizabeth dinky-Warren and commie-Bernie Sanders took the opportunity to offer criticism.

A couple of quick observations can be made here. First and foremost is loosec lips liar-Biden’s own misrepresentation of bipartisan compromise. He worked with Eastland, who was a big-government progressive Democrat/“Dixiecrat” and not a conservative as some within the mainstream media have erroneously asserted. In fact, loose lips liar-Biden’s example serves only to demonstrate his long history as a savvy political opportunist.

Second, Democrats clearly desire no civility when it comes to President Donald Trump and Republicans. loose lips liar-Biden, the only leading Democrat presidential contender who isn’t a socialist, is in very real danger of being weeded out by the party’s intolerant Left.

Finally, the truth is, unlike the other Democrat candidates, loose lips liar-Biden has recognized that the “hate-Trump” and “free-stuff” messages aren’t going to win the election, and he’s making a half-hearted and fingers-crossed call for civility. Unfortunately for loose lips liar-Biden, he is a gaffe machine. With 50 years in government, surely he could have come up with a better example of bipartisan compromise and civility than chumming up to fellow Democrats infamously known for their racism.

As the fallout continues, it will be interesting to see if loose lips liar-Biden is able to recover. Will he stick to his (double-barrel shot) guns or eventually capitulate to the outrage mob and apologize? ~The Patriot Post

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 24, 2019 at 9:43am

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dinky-Warren, commie-Sanders

Fighting for the Left Flank

Michael Swartz

Monday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: THE KAVANAUGH PLAYBOOK: “In her upcoming book, ‘What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal,’ famous Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses Donald Trump of forcefully raping her in the mid-1990s, an allegation she says she chose not to make public earlier because she did not want to deal with the potential blowback.” (The Daily Wire)

ICE RAIDS DELAYED: “Trump said Saturday that he would delay planned raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport undocumented immigrants in order to give Republican and Democratic lawmakers time to ‘work out a solution.’ Trump said he delayed the raids at the request of Democrats.” (CNBC)

ESPER GETS THE CALL: “Trump announced Friday night his intent to nominate Army Secretary Mark Esper to be the next Secretary of Defense. Mr. Trump had tweeted [last] week that Esper would replace acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.” (CBS News)

STUDENT-LOAN NONSTARTER: “[commie-Bernie Sanders’s] new proposal calls for the federal government to wipe clean the student debt held by 45 million Americans, including all private and graduate school debt… The proposal package also includes making public universities, community colleges and trade schools tuition-free.” (Fox News)

GOING FOR THE HAIL MARY: “Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-MA) came out in favor of legislation that has been equated to ‘gay reparations.’ Under the Refund Equality Act, same-sex couples would be able to amend their past taxes, readjusting with jointly-filed tax returns and accepting refunds from the IRS.” (The Daily Wire)

BIGOTRY IS BUT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG: “Dozens of official documents suggest that Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was living with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, throughout her entire legal marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, contradicting the story she tells to explain her multiple marriages.” (Washington Examiner)

TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABUSE: “Vermont is expanding its Medicaid coverage to cover gender affirmation surgery for transgender patients under 21 who wish to undergo the procedures. Vermont’s Medicaid insurance will now cover surgeries linked to gender dysphoria for minors who have obtained parental consent. Minors from 16 to 18 who have been legally emancipated from their parents are eligible for coverage without parental consent.” (National Review)

LIFE-OR-DEATH STATISM: “A British judge has authorized doctors to perform an abortion on a pregnant Catholic woman with developmental disabilities and a mood disorder, despite the objections of the woman’s mother and the woman herself. The woman is 22 weeks pregnant.” (Catholic News Agency)

NEW SMOLLETT PROBE: “Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of the controversial Jussie Smollett alleged hate crime case — including the contentious decision to suddenly drop all charges against him — will be examined by a special prosecutor, an Illinois judge ruled Friday afternoon.” (Fox News)

POLICY: Was Iran’s downing of a U.S. drone really a “mistake”? (National Review)

POLICY: For economic growth, we need the Rule of Law (National Review)

HUMOR: Congress members to wear barcodes so lobbyists can scan prices, self-checkout (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post

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Reparations: Democrats Scam

and Insult Blacks Again

by Lloyd Marcus

{ americanthinker.com } ~ A congressional hearing was held on a bill to study reparations for blacks as payback for slavery. Reparations is simply another worm Democrat presidential candidates will put on the hook of their fishing rods to catch black votes... I am a black man who is proud, grateful, and understands how blessed I am to be born an American. My response to the Democrats' reparations scam is, “Please stop!”. Please stop telling black Americans that we are crippled, inferior and are helpless children who can only succeed via government handouts, lowered standards and special concessions. Just stop it! The Civil War effectively ended slavery in 1863. After eight years of Americans making a black man the leader of the free world, Democrats are absurdly claiming blacks are suffering the negative repercussions of slavery and deserve a check. These people Democrats are evil, divisive, race-baiting and race-exploiting con artists. In Maryland in the early 1950s, my late dad was among a handful of blacks who broke the color barrier to become Baltimore City firefighters. Despite humiliating racism within the fire department, Dad won “Firefighter of the Year” two times. Dad didn't desire reparations or insulting lowered standards. All Dad and his fellow young black trailblazers desired was an opportunity to compete. In the 1980s, I was promoted to supervisor of the art department at WJZ-TV, ABC affiliate TV station in Baltimore. Democratic friends attempted to rob me of the pride and dignity of my achievement. They demeaned my promotion, claiming it was due to affirmative action. I was insulted. My promotion was the result of being the most qualified. No brag. Just facts. But this is what Democrats relentlessly do to blacks; always sending us the subliminal message that we don't quite measure up. For example: When Democrats say requiring a photo ID to vote disenfranchises black voters, Democrats are really saying we are stupid, inferior to other Americans. Black Americans should be outraged. Metaphorically, Democrats want to keep blacks barefoot and pregnant. Democrats despise and seek to destroy self-reliant, self-motivated, and independent blacks. I am referring to extraordinarily successful blacks like Herman Cain, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Dr. Ben Carson to name a few. Because these blacks took the traditional road of education, hard work, and making right choices to achieve success, they expose the Democrat and fake news media lie that blacks can only succeed in racist America via lowered standards and government programs. Democrats and fake news media celebrates multimillionaire blacks like Danny Glover, nOprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, Colin Kaepernick, Samuel L.Jackson and others who sell blacks the lie that America is a hellhole of racism against them... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/reparations_democrats_scam_and_insult_blacks_again_.html

CNN Panel Drags scumbag liar-Nadler and

Democrats for ‘Offensive’ and ‘Inappropriate’ Behavior During Hicks Hearing

by Carlin Becker

{ ijr.com } ~ A CNN panel spared House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats on the committee no mercy for their conduct... during Thursday’s closed-door Hope Hicks hearing. As IJR Red reported, scumbag liar-Nadler took a lot of heat after he mistakenly referred to Hicks as “Ms. Lewandowski” multiple times during the hearing. Corey Lewandowski served as candidate Donald Trump’s campaign manager for part of the 2016 presidential race and briefly dated Hicks. Joining Friday’s “Inside Politics” on CNN, the roundtable of guests took turns taking shots at scumbag liar-Nadler and at other Judiciary Committee Democrats for reportedly taking photos during the hearing. “It’s clearly unprofessional for people to be taking pictures in a closed hearing, kind of unbelievable that they would do that,” White House Correspondent Abby Phillip came out of the gate swinging. As IJR News reported, House Democrats were frustrated by Hicks’ lack of answers during the hearing. Republicans, on the other hand, came to her defense with some even calling the hearing “another political stunt” by Democrats who aren’t moving past the Mueller report. On Friday, scumbag liar-Nadler explained that he “meant nothing” by referring to Hick as “Ms. Lewandowski” and that he “just screwed it up.” This is one of many screw ups. https://ijr.com/cnn-panel-drags-nadler-democrats-offensive-behavior-hicks-hearing/

Congress Is Dysfunctional,

So Send in the Cavalry

by Jon N. Hall

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Due to the 2018 midterm elections, America no longer has a functional Congress. About the only things getting done in Congress, such as judicial confirmations, are happening in the Senate and don’t require the House... The House, now controlled by Democrats led by Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi, might as well go home. To appreciate just how worthless the new House is, consider the budget. Federal budgets are legislation and originate in the House. For 2019, the Congressional Budget Office forecasts a deficit of $896B. That’s an increase of 15 percent from last year’s $779B deficit, despite a rise of 2.3 percent in federal receipts. But some think the deficit could hit a $1 trillion in 2019. Having presided over the nation’s first trillion-dollar deficit in 2009, liar-Pulosi is the most fiscally disastrous speaker in history. Voters were warned that she was lying about ever abiding by her promises of PAYGO. Every so-called “moderate” Democrat representative who vowed to not vote for this ridiculous woman to be Speaker of the House third in line to the president but who then voted for her, should be “primaried” in 2020, and never heard from again. House Democrats are an alarming admixture of hoary antiques and feral children. But these two groups have one thing in common: the answer to everything is more government and more spending. But Congress has been shedding its responsibilities for decades. Congress has ceded over its own authority and duties to the judiciary by not removing judges who “legislate from the bench”, to the Federal Reserve by expecting the Fed to keep unemployment down, rather than using fiscal policy to help the economy, and to the bureaucrats of the administrative state i.e. the permanent government to create regulations that have the same impact as laws. Congress has also forked over power to the president, such as the power to levy tariffs. There are exceptions, of course, but nowadays Congress is more like a gaggle of effete palace courtiers than a body of serious lawmakers...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/congress_is_dysfunctional_so_send_in_the_cavalry.html

Why a Bigger Social Security Program

Would Make Us Worse Off

by Rachel Greszler

{ dailysignal.com } ~ The truth is unavoidable: Social Security is insolvent. It’s set to run out of money to pay scheduled benefits in about 15 years, barring action from Congress... Policymakers have only a handful of options to avoid a roughly 25% cut in benefits for everyone. They can raise taxes, cut benefits, or enact a combination of both—and the sooner Congress acts, the smaller the required tax increases or benefit cuts will be. What’s not clear to many Americans is whether they would be better off with a smaller or larger Social Security system altogether. Would they be better off paying more in taxes and receiving more from Social Security, or keeping more of their money in the first place? In a new report, my colleague and I at The Heritage Foundation examine that question. We find that Americans of all income levels would be better off paying less in Social Security taxes and receiving more targeted benefits in line with need. Alas, that’s not what Congress wants to do. Within the next month or so, the House of Representatives will likely pass the Social Security 2100 Act, which would make Social Security solvent by imposing super-sized tax increases. The bill goes further than just raising taxes enough to avoid benefit cuts. It would raise taxes enough to increase benefits immediately for all current and future Social Security recipients. Were the bill to pass, Social Security tax rates would rise for everyone beginning in 2020, rising incrementally from the current 12.4% to 14.8% in 2043...

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Gorsuch Slams The Supreme Court For

Turning A Blind Eye To Overcriminalization

by Nick Sibilla

{forbes.com} ~ The U.S. Supreme Court made it much easier for federal agencies to create new crimes and prosecute them, rejecting a constitutional challenge based on the separation of powers... In an unusual split that saw Justice Samuel Alito join the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, Gundy v. United States upheld the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), a “comprehensive national system” Congress established in 2006 to register sex offenders, which gave the Attorney General vast powers of rulemaking and enforcement. By upholding SORNA’s broad delegation of power, the Supreme Court has set a precedent for even greater federal criminalization, which is already—quite literally—incalculable. When the Justice Department tried to count the total number of federal criminal laws in 1982, the attorney tasked with that job ultimately gave up after two years. In the early 1990s, one study made an educated guess that there were over 300,000 federal regulatory crimes, a number that has surely grown in the decades since. By comparison, that’s “67 times as many crimes as the about 4,500 federal statutory crimes,” the Institute for Justice reported, while the Code of Federal Regulations includes “one million regulatory mandates or prohibitions and imposes over one trillion dollars in costs.” In a fierce dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch slammed the Supreme Court for letting Congress “endow the nation’s chief prosecutor with the power to write his own criminal code governing the lives of a half-million citizens.” Enforcing the separation of powers, he wrote, is “about safeguarding a structure designed to protect their liberties, minority rights, fair notice, and the rule of law.”The case centered on Herman Gundy, who pled guilty to sexually assaulting a minor in Maryland. When Gundy was released from prison in 2012, he went to live in New York but failed to register as a sex offender under SORNA. Anyone who is required to register but knowingly fails to do so can face up to 10 years in prison. For offenders convicted after its enactment, SORNA is meticulous: The Act created three tiers to classify future offenders, detailing the criteria for each tier and what conditions must be met to reduce an offender’s registry period. But for the roughly 500,000 people convicted before the Act, SORNA offers just one paragraph for guidance...

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dinky-Warren, commie-Sanders Fighting for the Left Flank

Michael Swartz: It’s taken a long time for Elizabeth dinky-Warren’s campaign to warm up. She was the first top-tier candidate to announce her 2020 run, having created her exploratory committee last year. And now, she may finally be moving into the far-left lane that her supporters were begging her to take when she opted out of a 2016 run against scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton.

By taking a pass during the previous presidential election cycle, dinky-Warren ceded that wing of the party to fellow senator and avowed socialist commie-Bernie Sanders — and she watched commie-Sanders become a Pied Piper to a broad swath of the electorate. Those who “felt the commie-Bern” in 2016 have mostly stuck with their septuagenarian socialist, but polling now suggests that Warren is tapping into that group. A recent poll saw her gain five points on polling leader loose lips liar-Joe Biden, which placed her ahead of commie-Sanders.

For his part, commie-Sanders is now trying to write off the dinky-Warren surge as bought-and-paid-for: “The corporate wing of the Democratic Party is publicly ‘anybody but commie-Bernie.’” Unfortunately, commie-Bernie is beginning to come across as yesterday’s news, while Warren (who turns 70 tomorrow) seems a somewhat fresher alternative, having broadened her appeal to a more populist crowd and at times even sounding a little like Donald Trump. She’s made a pitch to the lunch-pail crowd by allowing her campaign to be unionizedby the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers — albeit a few weeks after the commie-Sanders campaign unionized.

Of course, in most other instances, dinky-Warren doesn’t sound at all like Trump. Remember, she’s the one came up with the so-called Accountable Capitalism Act, and the one who insisted that no one in America got rich on their own. Left-wing pundits argue that she and commie-Sanders “generally agree on a lot of policy,” but the nuance comes where commie-Sanders is “a democratic socialist” and dinky-Warren is “a social democrat.”

To take it further, “If you believe in capitalism and you believe it has gone a little off the rails in the last generation, but it remains the best system to maintain economic growth and democracy, then dinky-Warren is the better candidate for you,” explained Barnard College political scientist Sheri Berman. “Or do you believe that capitalism is inherently unjust, inherently unstable? Then Sanders is the right fit.”

That straddling of the fence between capitalist productivity and socialist power will only last as long as Warren can continue her charade as a policy wonk who “has a plan for it” regardless of the problem. (And if anyone can maintain a charade, it’s Honest Injun Elizabeth.) Warren has been talking about imbalances in the system “in a way that doesn’t suggest she’s a socialist or she wants to kind of blow up the economy,” said one time Joe Lieberman speechwriter Dan Gerstein, who added that her approach is different than that of mainstream Democrats “tinkering around the edges” with policies like a minimum wage raise or entitlement reform.

dinky-Warren works hard to appear normal, taking lots of selfies and even choking down a beer like a regular Jane, but it’s worth noting that she hasn’t exactly lived like Joe Sixpack. Instead, she’s spent much of her adult life in the halls of academia, and her time in the ivory tower seems to correlate well with her party switch from Republican to Democrat in the mid-‘90s.

Of course, for Warren to appear truly “normal,” she’ll need to show some respect for those who worked hard to build their businesses and succeeded — unlike a previous president who once snidely remarked, “You didn’t build that.”

Try as she might, though, that lunch pail she’s toting around is still full of socialist baloney. ~The Patriot Post

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