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After Trump Acquittal, What's Next?
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Coronavirus and China: Beijing’s Behavior 
Confirms How Bad the Brand Truly Is
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by James Carafano
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Long before the coronavirus made international headlines, China’s Communist Party, which rules the country with unchallenged authority, had an image problem... Image has always been a key element of Beijing’s plan to rise to global greatness. It has worked assiduously to carve a reputation as an unstoppable power wading well into the midst of world affairs. Today, however, that carefully crafted image is badly tattered. It’s worse than it was just one year ago when nations that eagerly participated in China’s Belt and Road Initiative began to realize that Chinese “aid” was a two-edged sword. No one has done more to damage China’s international reputation than Beijing itself. Hopefully, the coronavirus outbreak will help more and more governments recognize the truth behind the image: The Chinese Communist Party is not to be trusted. To be fair, the Chinese response to the coronavirus thus far has been much better than its response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Southern China in 2002. Still, that’s not saying much. The SARS response was abysmal. China moved slowly, concealing the seriousness of the disease for months. As a result, the illness spread to more than 8,000 people in more than two dozen countries. Nearly 800 died. While China has been at least somewhat more forthcoming and preemptive in its efforts to corral the coronavirus, its performance leaves much to be desired. Let’s start with how the virus began. The outbreak has been traced back to the Hunan Seafood Market in Wuhan China. It is a “wet market,” a labyrinth of ramshackle stalls hawking live fish, meat, and wild animals...
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President Trump Delivers Remarks 
Following Impeachment Acquittal 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~  President Trump announced yesterday he would be delivering remarks from the White House today discussing the conclusion of the House impeachment effort. The anticipated start time is Noon today.
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GOP Senator Introduces Constitutional 
Amendment to Require Super Majority 
in the House for Impeachment
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by Bradley Cortright
{ ijr.com } ~ Following President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate’s impeachment trial, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) announced a new Constitutional amendment to increase the vote threshold in the House of Representatives for impeachment... “I’m introducing a constitutional amendment that raises the threshold to approve articles of impeachment in the House to 3/5 Super Majority vote,” Scott wrote on Twitter. “The partisan charade liar-Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats made of this impeachment process over the last few months shows that the fears of our Founding Fathers were realized,” Scott said in a statement. “They warned that impeachment could be used as a partisan tool by partisan actors. The Democrats used the impeachment process to hurt President Trump, regardless of the outcome of the Senate trial. It’s a dangerous precedent, and the process has to change.”Currently, the Constitution requires a simple majority, or 218 votes, but Scott’s new amendment would require a supermajority, or 261 House members, to pass articles of impeachment. The House voted on December 18 to pass two articles of impeachment against Trump. Both articles were approved mostly along party lines. Democrats currently hold a 232-seat majority. If such an amendment were ratified, they would need roughly 30 Republicans to join to pass articles of impeachment. Republicans repeatedly argued that House Democrats’ impeachment effort was driven by “partisan rage,” noting that Democrats control the lower chamber and could advance articles of impeachment without any Republican support. Scott’s amendment would significantly raise the bar for impeachment and require overwhelming, bipartisan support. “An act as divisive must have bipartisan backing and overwhelming support. It should be hard — much harder — for either political party to take the process our Founders created as a last resort against a tyrannical leader and use it instead as a tool for the tyranny of a political majority,” Scott added.The Constitution already requires similarly high-bar of a two-thirds majority, or 67 senators, to convict and remove a president in an impeachment trial. Getting such an amendment ratified would be a tall order as it requires three-fourths of the states to ratify any amendment — after the amendment was proposed by either a two-thirds majority in both chambers Congress or a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of the states.   https://ijr.com/senator-introduces-amendment-super-majority-house-impeachment/   

12 soldiers wounded, 1 seriously, in suspected 
terror car-ramming in Jerusalem
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By JUDAH ARI GROSS
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ At least 12 soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, in a suspected car-ramming terror attack in Jerusalem early Thursday morning, police and medics said... The incident occurred shortly before 2 a.m. on Jerusalem’s David Remez Street near the First Station, a popular entertainment hub. Police said the driver of the vehicle fled the scene and “a large force of officers were carrying out searches.” The car was later found abandoned in the town of Beit Jala outside Bethlehem, but the driver remained at large as of Thursday morning, police said. The military initially barred publication of the fact that the victims were soldiers until the families of the wounded could be notified. IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman said the troops were members of the Golani Brigade who were at the First Station during a “heritage tour” ahead of an early morning swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall. Magen David Adom medics said one of the wounded “was in a serious condition, unconscious and suffering major trauma.” A second soldier was moderately injured with wounds to his limbs. The rest were lightly hurt and were taken to hospitals in the capital. “When we arrived at the scene we saw chaos; three youths were lying on the sidewalk, and nearby nine others were gathered who had been hurt,” said medic Oz Pollak. MDA initially said that in total 14 people were injured, but the military later updated this figure, saying that 12 had been wounded in the attack to varying degrees...  https://www.timesofisrael.com/12-wounded-1-seriously-in-suspected-car-ramming-attack-in-jerusalem/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-02-06&utm_medium=email  
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commie-Bernie Sanders declares victory 
in Iowa, the second 2020 Democrat to do so
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by Joseph Simonson & Emily Larsen
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Voters may not have a full picture of what exactly happened during the Iowa caucuses, but Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders is confident that he won the contest... At a Thursday press conference Thursday afternoon in New Hampshire, commie-Sanders attacked the Iowa Democratic Party for its oversight of its caucuses on Monday, while maintaining a triumphant tone on the results. “What I want to do today, three days late, is to thank the people of Iowa for the very strong victory they gave us in the Iowa Caucuses," commie-Sanders said. As of Thursday, 97% of precincts had reported results. Although former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is leading in the traditional way of counting a winner — known as state delegate equivalents — commie-Sanders maintains a lead in the raw vote count. “These state delegate equivalents have greatly diminished importance from past caucuses. And they should. In the past," said commie-Sanders, "a candidate with more delegates to the state and county conventions could actually change the number of national delegates — delegates that go to the national convention — from that allocated on caucus night. That is no longer the case.” When asked if the discrepancies in the vote count made him rethink the results of the previous Iowa caucus, commie-Sanders told the Washington Examiner that he didn't "want to revisit 2016," but made it clear he still had questions. "Now, I can’t give you a definitive answer as to what happened in 2016, I don’t know, I don’t think anybody knows. It turned out that in 2016, I think, Secretary scumbag/liar-Clinton got one or two more delegates than we got in the state process. There is some supposition that we actually won the popular vote, I can’t say definitively," he said. "I can say definitively that in 2020, we did win the popular — now I want to reiterate do, so we’re clear, You got 180,000 people voting, when you got eight candidates, when you win the popular vote by 6000 votes, that is a pretty good victory.”...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bernie-sanders-declares-victory-in-iowa-the-second-2020-democrat-to-do-so?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_02/06/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261  
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Levin on rino-Romney: 'A Petty, Self-Promoting, NeverTrumper' Who Voted Against
the Constitution
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By Michael W. Chapman
{ cnsnews.com } ~ In reference to Sen. rino-Mitt Romney's (R-Utah) decision to vote "guilty" in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump -- the only Republican to vote with the Democrats... conservative talk-radio icon Mark Levin said the Utah senator was "a petty, self-promoting, NeverTrumper" who joined with "radical Democrats" in their "assault on the Constitution." On the Senate floor on Feb. 5, rino-Romney said, "The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust....  A flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security, and our fundamental values. Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine." In an interview before his vote with FNC's Chris Wallace, rino-Romney said, "There is a hymn, do what is right and that the consequence follows. I know in my heart that I'm doing what's right. The worst thing that already happened to me politically was losing the presidency in 2012." Mark Levin, on Facebook and on Twitter, remarked, "rino-Romney votes against Constitution with his vote today to remove a sitting president. The media and Democrats are quick to celebrate their only Republican vote. Some outlets seem to have known in advance. Imagine that. Endless softball interviews will follow." "rino-Romney believes history will judge him as a courageous lone voice," said Levin. "It won’t. He’ll be seen for what he is: a petty, self-promoting, NeverTrumper who has contributed to the Radical Democrats’ assault on the Constitution." "While he’ll receive nonstop praise from the usual members of the unfree press, his vote is unprincipled despite his references to his faith. Shameful," said Levin.  "There will be plenty of time to further elaborate in the days and weeks ahead."
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After Trump Acquittal, What's Next?
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Just because the Senate is about to acquit President Trump of charges Republicans believed never rose to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” don’t think Democrats will raise the white flag of surrender. They (and their media allies) have only just begun.

Next is a campaign to defeat enough of the 23 Republican senators up for re-election and, if possible (it doesn’t look possible, but this is February), keep President Trump from winning re-election.

Democrats have virtually no issues on which to run, except the promise of free stuff — from Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren’s student loan forgiveness plan,which does nothing for those who struggled to pay off their student loans without assistance, to commie-Bernie Sanders’ free Medicare for All.

A new Gallup poll released last week shows how difficult it will be for Democrats.

According to Gallup, 41 percent of Americans “are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.” That’s the highest satisfaction level in 15 years. Seventy-two percent of Republicans are satisfied, a number likely to grow if the economy remains strong and there is stability in international affairs. Only 14 percent of Democrats are satisfied. That is likely, in part, because President Trump is racking up success after success without any cooperation from the other party. If Democrats had cooperated on at least some issues (other than the new trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico) they might have been able to legitimately claim some credit, but their opposition to all things Trump and their attempts to undo the results of the 2016 election leaves them out in the political cold.

What is most remarkable about this Gallup poll is that it was taken in the middle of the Senate impeachment trial and in the face of some of the most hostile media coverage any president has ever had to endure in modern times.

According to the conservative Media Research Center, which monitors the broadcast network’s evening news programs, “… evening news coverage of the opening arguments of both sides, found ABC, CBS, and NBC did not live up to the standard they demanded of Republicans. They gave Democrats double the airtime and showered their arguments with mostly praise, while expressing only criticism of the President’s legal team.”

The New York Times and Washington Post have cast aside any cloak of fairness by going anti-Trump nonstop. Their news coverage, editorials and virtually all of their columnists are constantly looking for new ways to express opposition to and hatred of the president. One advantage for readers is that it is easier to get through those papers because they have become predictable and tiresome.

Democrats may feel good about this as they keep company with their media fellow travelers, but President Trump is newly empowered to take his case for four more years of prosperity and relative peace to the public. Every Democrat running for president would raise taxes, giving more money to Washington, which cannot constrain its spending lust under either party. As taxes rise, so would unemployment because many businesses would no longer be able to afford workers they hired during the economic boom.

Look for more investigations — perhaps additional allegations and articles of impeachment — and more “leaks” from former Trump staffers between now and the election. The only way to stop this is for Republicans to regain a House majority and maintain their majority in the Senate.

Barring an unforeseeable disaster (always a possibility), Trump is positioned to win re-election, perhaps in a landslide, which will send the left and most of the media into another deep depression.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68327?mailing_id=4841&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4841&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Video: Court Backs Trump Move to
Prevent Cloward-Piven Collapse
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Media Editors  
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Some Snarky Thoughts And Questions 
About The End Of The Impeachment Farce
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by Jeff Dunetz
{ lidblog.com } ~ Thankfully this impeachment farce is over, and the President is acquitted that’s acquitted, FOREVER liar-Nancy... But there are still some critical, lingering questions that must be answered. Now that there are no longer any impeachment hearings or trial arguments every day, I am worried about losing sleep. What I can put on TV to help me fall asleep in the afternoon for my nap. On the bright side, those horrible nightmares may stop. While sleeping during the hearings  I would have the most vivid dreams that my eyes would bug out and I would start lying all the time. Where did those dreams come from?? Can President Trump write an executive order forcing liar-Nancy Pelosi and swcumbag/liar-Adam Schiff to wear dunce caps when Congress is in session? For the past three years, Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer has thought about nothing except bashing President Trump. I wonder if he can find New York State on a map? Can he find the United States on a globe? And why can’t someone teach scumbag-Schumer that glasses aren’t meant to be worn on the tip of one’s nose? He looks like an old schoolmarm and acts like America’s evil Step-Mother. Before the Trial, the Democrats respected Alan Dershowitz. They started to hate him because Dershowitz defended the President. Will they now start to like him again? Oh Great! scumbag-Schumer says that the President’s acquittal will have an asterisk next to it. Will scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff now try to impeach the President because he stole an asterisk from Roger Maris? Is anybody shocked that rino-Mitt Romney voted to convict President Trump on one count? Face it, rino-Romney began to spew hatred of Trump as soon as it looked as though he would get the GOP nomination. That didn’t stop him from begging for the Secretary of State job or accepting the President’s endorsement of his candidacy for Senate...  https://lidblog.com/impeachment-farce/  
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White House Rebukes liar-Nancy Pelosi And scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff After
Trump Is Acquitted
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by CHRISTIAN DATOC
{ dailycaller.com } ~ White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham released a scathing rebuke of House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and Congressman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff following President Trump’s full acquittal on Wednesday afternoon... Grisham opened by noting that “only the President’s political opponents — all Democrats, and one failed Republican presidential candidate,” voted to convict Trump.“In what has now become a consistent tradition for Democrats, this was yet another witch-hunt that deprived the President of his due process rights and was based on a series of lies,” she continued, turning her ire on the lead impeachment manager. “Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff lied to Congress and the American people with a totally made up statement about the President’s phone call. Will there be no retribution?”  She also criticized liar-Pelosi for “lying to the American people about the need to swiftly pass impeachment articles… only to sit on them for a month before sending over to the Senate.” “The President is pleased to put this latest chapter of shameful behavior by the Democrats in the past, and looks forward to continuing his work on behalf of the American people in 2020 and beyond,” Grisham concluded. During Wednesday afternoon’s vote, 52 senators found Trump not guilty of the first article of impeachment, abuse of power, while 48 senators voted guilty. Utah Sen. rino-Mitt Romney  was the lone Republican to vote guilty with the Democrat caucus on the first article.  https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/05/white-house-response-impeachment-acquittal-statement/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11870   

Supreme Court To Weigh Democrats’ Last-Ditch 
Bid To Resolve scumbag/liar-nObamacare 
Challenge By Summer
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by KEVIN DALEY
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Supreme Court will discuss a challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate in private conference on Feb. 21... as Democrats urge the justices to settle the ACA’s fate once and for all by the summer. The high court generally finalizes its docket for a particular term in January. House Democrats and a coalition of blue states defending the ACA asked the justices to process the case on an expedited basis given the questions at stake, with arguments in April or May and a decision in June.“A schedule that aggressive is extremely unlikely,” Case Western Reserve University School of Law professor Jonathan Adler told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “If they take the case now, it’s likely to be heard in the fall.”  The case arose after passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which set the financial penalty for failing to purchase health insurance at zero. Shortly thereafter, a coalition of red states led by Texas challenged the mandate in court. The plaintiffs argued that the mandate cannot be justified on tax grounds if it isn’t raising revenue. The Supreme Court said the ACA’s command to purchase health insurance or pay a fee is a valid exercise of Congress’s taxing power in 2012. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the plaintiffs and struck down the mandate in December 2019. They returned the case to a trial court judge to consider the question of “severability.” That means the judge will decide whether the ACA in its entirety can survive without the mandate. The Trump administration told the Supreme Court in legal filings that it should not hear the case at this juncture. Democrats defending the law say definitive guidance from the Supreme Court is necessary to avoid disruptions in the health care markets. The administration counters that no such urgency exists, because the mandate isn’t concretely affecting anyone.“Although the court of appeals and Democrats draw different legal conclusions from the elimination of the monetary penalty, it is common ground that noncompliance with the individual mandate no longer carries any significant real-world consequence,” Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the justices in court papers...
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commie-Sanders, Bloomberg, and 
dinky/liar-Warren are Fracking Idiots
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By Daniel John Sobieski
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Vermont’s Socialist and presidential wannabe, Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, in a bill introduced last week that Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) helped craft would ban fracking nationwide by 2025, a death sentence if passed for the American economy... Like fellow political lemmings Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren and Michael Bloomberg, commie-Sanders has swallowed the lies the greenies have fed him about fracking, as shown in a statement he released  supporting his legislation shortly before the disastrous Iowa caucuses: "Fracking is a danger to our water supply. It's a danger to the air we breathe, it has resulted in more earthquakes, and it's highly explosive. To top it all off, it's contributing to climate change," commie-Sanders said in a statement. "If we are serious about clean air and drinking water, if we are serious about combating climate change, the only safe and sane way to move forward is to ban fracking nationwide," he added. Environmental expert commie-Ocasio-Cortez from the fracking-free and declining state of New York echoed his sentiments and this attempt to legislate into law a major part of her Green New Deal: In a statement, commie-Ocasio-Cortez said fracking is a contributor to "our climate emergency." "The science is clear: fracking is a leading contributor to our climate emergency. It is destroying our land. It is destroying our water and it is wreaking havoc on our communities' health." Not only is none of this nonsense true, it is actually the reverse of what is true. The American technology of fracking has helped the United States lead the world in curtailing carbon dioxide emissions and therefore is a leading contributor to climate stability and to the quality of the air we breathe. We are in more danger from the carbon dioxide released during one of commie-Bernie’s speeches as he crisscrosses the electoral map in private jets. In addition to cleaning the air we breathe of those nasty carbon emissions, like the carbon dioxide that comes out our polluting nostrils, fracking creates jobs that pay for food and shelter, improving the health of our communities on many levels. As President Trump noted in his recent speech at the Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, our booming economy is being led by a booming energy industry allowed to use the latest technology to free a seemingly endless supply of oil and natural gas from the earth under our feet. The conference was staged by some very appreciative energy groups such as the Marcellus Shale Coalition, the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, and the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association.  This energy abundance has put downward pressure on energy costs for consumers and industry, made us energy independent and immune from Middle East instability, quite possibly preventing a global oil recession or major war with the likes of a belligerent and aggressive Iran...
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Orange County Has Released Thousands Of 
Criminal Illegal Aliens Because 
Of California’s Sanctuary Law
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by JASON HOPKINS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has been forced to release thousands of criminal illegal aliens in the past two years... with both the sheriff’s department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement blaming California’s statewide sanctuary law. California’s SB 54, legislation that largely restricts cooperation between ICE and law enforcement, went into effect in January 2018. Since that time, Orange County has released over 2,100 illegal aliens back into the community despite ICE detainers placed on every single one of them, the agency announced in a Wednesday press release. The sheriff’s department released 1,106 inmates without notifying ICE in 2018 and released another 1,015 again in 2019 without notifying the agency. Local authorities are in support of the sanctuary policy, but say their hands are tied because of the statewide law. “SB 54 has made our community less safe. The law has resulted in new crimes because my deputies were unable to communicate with their federal partners about individuals who committed serious offenses and present a threat to our community if released,” Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Don Barnes said in a statement. “The two-year social science experiment with sanctuary laws must end. Rather than protect our immigrant community, the law has enabled offenders to be released, often times back into the immigrant communities they prey upon, and create new victims,” Barnes continued. Many of the illegal aliens who the county released landed right back into local custody. A total of 411 illegal aliens, all of whom had ICE detainers before being released, were re-arrested on additional charges. Many of the additional charges included rape, child sex offenses, assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence, driving under the influence and identify theft...  https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/05/orange-county-released-thousands-of-illegals/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11870  
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New U.S. Weapon Strengthens 
Nuclear Deterrence of Moscow
by Bradley Bowman & Major Liane “Trixie” Zivitski
{ fdd.org } ~ The Department of Defense announced this week that the U.S. Navy has deployed a low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) nuclear warhead... This deployment, which aims to deter Russia’s first-use of a low-yield nuclear weapon, represents an important but insufficient step to deter Russian aggression. According to the Pentagon, “there is a large and growing disparity in the nonstrategic nuclear weapons (NSNW) fielded by the United States and the Russian Federation.” In fact, Moscow  possesses a stockpile of up to 2,000 active NSNWs that it can employ using ships, planes, and ground forces. Underscoring Washington’s concerns, Moscow’s statements and military exercises demonstrate that it has developed a war-fighting doctrine that emphasizes the first-use of low-yield tactical nuclear strikes. Moscow believes the size and variety of its NSNWs “provide a coercive advantage in crises and at lower levels of conflict,” according to the 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). This perception could increase the chances that Moscow employs low-yield nuclear weapons. Correcting this perception, the NPR notes, represents a “strategic imperative” for the United States. Consequently, the Trump administration requested funding for fiscal year (FY) 2020 to deploy a low-yield SLBM, the W76-2. Despite opposition along party lines in the House of Representatives, the final FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) permitted the W76-2 deployment to proceed. Republican and Democrat senators voted to pass the final NDAA by a vote of 86-8. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood issued a statement on Tuesday announcing the deployment. The deployment “provides the United States a prompt, more survivable low-yield strategic weapon.” In publicly doing so, Rood argues that the U.S. “demonstrates to potential adversaries that there is no advantage to limited nuclear employment because the United States can credibly and decisively respond to any threat scenario.”...  https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/02/05/new-us-weapon-strengthens-nuclear-deterrence-of-moscow/   
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Video: Court Backs Trump Move to Prevent Cloward-Piven Collapse
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Video: The Market Will Set You Free
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Video: 'PETA Principle' Ad Rejected by NFL
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Video: liar-Pelosi and Her Fellow Dems Have SOTU Sadness
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Final Countdown to Acquittal
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Nate Jackson  
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Thursday News Executive Summary
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Jordan Candler:  Impeachment


NOT GUILTY: Trump acquitted of both charges in sham impeachment trial (CNBC)

GRANDSTANDING WAS REHEARSED: liar-Pelosi pre-ripped SOTU speech during Trump address (Fox News)

liar-Nancy Pelosi 'pre-ripped' pages of Trump's SOTU speech, video shows https://trib.al/buoitK3  

“HE SHREDDED THE TRUTH”: liar-Pelosi unloaded on Trump in private meeting after SOTU standoff (Politico)

REMINDER: Top rino-Romney adviser worked with Hunter Biden on board of Ukrainian energy company (The Federalist)

AWESOME: McConnell, immediately after impeachment acquittal, files cloture on more judges to remake judiciary (The Daily Wire)

Government & Politics


CLEARER PICTURE: Buttigieg, commie-Sanders nearly tied as Iowa caucus results narrow (AP)

TRADE TRUCE: China cuts tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. imports (AP)

FOR THE RECORD: scumbag/liar-ObamaCare made things worse for patients with preexisting conditions (The Daily Signal)

Culture & Heartland


RAINBOW MAFIA: “Sesame Street” to feature cross-dressing gay entertainer for impressionable preschoolers (The Federalist)

WHEN RITUAL IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN REUSE:  Baltimore County admits it hasn’t been recycling glass for seven years; it still encourages residents to recycle glass (Reason)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: The deregulatory achievements of the Trump Labor Department (National Review)

POLICY: As Trump said in State of the Union, demand for school choice is huge (Washington Examiner)

SATIRE: Democrats leave chair empty at State of the Union to honor fallen hero Qasem Soleimani (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
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Kirk Douglas, actor and Hollywood legend, 
dead at 103, family says
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By Mariah Haas 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Kirk Douglas, one of the most famous American leading men of the mid-20th century remembered for his dimpled chin, chiseled features, and virile Hollywood roles... has died at the age of 103, his family said Wednesday. “It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” Kirk's son, Michael Douglas, said in a statement obtained by People magazine. “To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to. The actor continued:  “But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad, to Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great grandchild their loving grandfather, and to his wife Anne, a wonderful husband. “Kirk’s life was well lived, and he leaves a legacy in film that will endure for generations to come, and a history as a renowned philanthropist who worked to aid the public and bring peace to the planet. Let me end with the words I told him on his last birthday and which will always remain true. Dad- I love you so much and I am so proud to be your son," he added.   https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kirk-douglas-dead-103-family   

Rep. Jim Jordan Discusses Impeachment 
Acquittal and Director Wray Testimony
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ A member of President Trump’s legislative defense team, Jim Jordan, appears with Lou Dobbs to discuss the Senate impeachment acquittal and other DC business. Additionally, Mr. Jordan also had the opportunity to question FBI Director Chris Wray earlier today, and provides his perspectives on the very serious issues with the FBI.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/05/rep-jim-jordan-discusses-impeachment-acquittal-and-director-wray-testimony/  
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Minutes After liar-Pelosi Tears Up Trump’s 
Speech – Newt Gingrich Demands 
Congress To Censure Her
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By Adam Casalino
{ gopdailybrief.com } ~ President Trump spent the SOTU address touting American excellence, celebrating everything that is great about America. In response, liar-Nancy Pelosi tore up his speech before the entire country... Such an action was hard to believe.This went beyond a partisan disagreement. Many thought liar-Pelosi openly showed disdain for what was celebrated in that speech: America’s people, success and prosperity. She called his speech a lie, a speech where Trump called for better education, opportunity, and health care for all. liar-Pelosi is already feeling the heat. Americans called in to CSPAN to let everyone know they will never be voting for Democrats again.  But Newt Gingrich, a man who was Speaker long before liar-Pelosi, had another idea. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said he was “disgusted and insulted” after seeing House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi tear up her copy of President Trump’s State of the Union speech following his remarks Tuesday evening…“She isn’t clever or cute her childishness insults our American traditions – should be censured.” Newt Gingrich is calling on Congress to censure liar-Pelosi for what she did. A censure is a formal rebuke from Congress. They can send a message to liar-Pelosi—and the rest of the country—that they condemn such actions. Just think about what she did. President Trump had the right—the duty—to give his thoughts on the state of our country. Democrats, as partisans, have the right to comment immediately afterward. They can rebut anything he says in their own speech. That’s the time for Democrats to express any disagreements.  https://gopdailybrief.com/pelosi-trump-speech-gingrich-congress/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pjnewsletter  
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Iowa Results: Democrat Party Bumbles, 
loose lipos liar-Biden Tumbles, and commie-Sanders Grumbles as Buttigieg Bounces
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by Selwyn Duke  
{ thenewamerican.com } ~ The Democrats’ much-awaited primaries began like their Trump-Russia-collusion claims and the impeachment effort ended for them: in disaster... Not only did an app created by scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign veterans fail to perform and thus delay Iowa caucus results, but Democrat establishment pick loose lips liar-Joe Biden appears to have under-performed and currently has zero delegates. With 71 percent of precincts reporting as of this writing, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-Ind.) is first, in a surprising result, with 26.8 percent of the vote; Senator commie-Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is a close second at 25.2 percent; and Senator Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren (D-Mass.) is third at 18.4 percent. Also shockingly, ex-vice president loose lips liar-Biden is fourth at 15.4 percent, not too far ahead of the 12.6 percent of Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Source: Associated Press. So as with President Trump’s surprise 2016 presidential victory, the polls weren’t exactly prophetic. Prior to the February 3 vote, the CBS News Battleground Tracker/YouGov poll showed commie-Sanders and loose lips liar-Biden tied at 25 percent, Buttigieg at 21, dinky/liar-Warren at 16, and Klobuchar at five. Interestingly, with Klobuchar gaining almost as many points relative to the poll as loose lips liar-Biden lost and with both billed as “moderates,” one could wonder if many of his voters moved toward her last minute assuming the poll’s accuracy. And some voters were switching allegiances at the 11th hour, if the video below is any indication. Amusingly, it shows a Klobuchar voter who later decided to support Buttigieg, but had no idea he was a homosexual who claimed to have a “husband.” Upon learning this, she was none too pleased and wanted to withdraw her vote. Speaking of incompetence brings us to the dilatory tech issues, which commie-Sanders unhappily called “negligent.” The problem has been attributed to the “Shadow” app, “which is affiliated with ACRONYM, a company started by veterans of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign,”  reported Fox Business. Shadow was supposed to facilitate vote-counting, and it cost the Iowa Democratic Party $63,000. Yet the pricey program’s “coding errors” caused “inconsistencies” in voter reporting that has delayed the results’ tabulation and release...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/34811-iowa-results-democrat-party-bumbles-biden-tumbles-and-sanders-grumbles-as-buttigieg-bounces?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_12_2_2019_15_37_COPY_01)&mc_cid=84965e2a06&mc_eid=8ab66f2b22  
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House Dems Give liar-Nancy Pelosi Standing 
Ovation After SOTU-Ripping Stunt
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By Joe Setyon 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ Hours after she tore apart a copy of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in front of tens of millions of TV viewers... House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday received a standing ovation from House Democrats, according to multiple reports. Trump had barely finished delivering his speech when liar-Pelosi, who was seated behind him, took the printed copy of the speech that was in front of her and ripped it up. On Wednesday morning, liar-Pelosi expanded on her decision during a closed-door House Democratic caucus meeting. “He shredded the truth, so I shredded his speech,” the House speaker told her colleagues, according to The Hill, which cited sources in the room. “What we heard last night was a disgrace,” she added, as Politico reported. The Hill, Politico and NBC News all reported House Democrats gave liar-Pelosi a standing ovation when her remarks Wednesday concluded. “You are supposed to talk about the state of the union,” she reportedly said, “not the state of your alleged mind.” According to Time reporter Alana Abramson, Florida Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel confirmed that liar-Pelosi got a standing ovation. “She said that Trump disgraced the House of Representatives by using it as a backdrop for a reality show,” Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky told Politico. In the immediate aftermath of her stunt, liar-Pelosi said she ripped up the speech “because it was a courteous thing to do considering the alternative. It was such a dirty speech,” according to ABC News... She won't know the truth if hit in the face.   https://www.westernjournal.com/house-dems-give-nancy-pelosi-standing-ovation-sotu-ripping-stunt/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal   

UK: Why Are Dangerous Jihadists
 Being Released Early from Prison?
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by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to toughen sentencing guidelines for convicted terrorists after a newly-released prisoner carried out a jihadist attack in London... On February 2, Sudesh Amman, a 20-year-old jihadist from Harrow in north-west London, stabbed two people in a knife rampage on Streatham High Road before he was shot dead by police. He had been released from prison just days earlier after serving less than half of his sentence for terrorism offenses. Amman, who was carrying a 10-inch kitchen knife, wearing a fake suicide bomber vest, and shouting "Allahu Akbar" "Allah is the Greatest", had been under active police surveillance at the time of the attack, which London police described as an "Islamist-related terrorist incident." In December 2018, Amman was sentenced to three years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to 13 counts of expressing support for Islamist terrorism and possessing and sharing Islamic State and al-Qaeda propaganda. He was 18 years old at the time. Amman was arrested in May 2018 after posting Islamist propaganda online. At the time, police said that he had expressed support for the Islamic State, sent beheading videos to his girlfriend, and asked her to kill her "kuffar" non-Muslim parents. He also wrote about carrying out a jihadist attack: If you can't make a bomb because family, friends or spies are watching or suspecting you, take a knife, Molotov cocktail, sound bombs or a car at night and attack the crusaders, police and soldiers of taghut idolatry, or western embassies in every country you are in this planet." In a search of Amman's computer, police found documents titled, "How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom", "U.S. Army Knife Fighting Manual Techniques" and "Bloody Brazilian Knife Fighting Techniques."...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15536/uk-jihadists-released-early  
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Final Countdown to Acquittal
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Nate Jackson:  With President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address set for tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time, Democrats managed to accomplish one thing: They drug out the Senate impeachment trial to delay acquittal until after his speech.

Nevertheless, acquittal is a foregone conclusion, as it has been since the House was still suffering through scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s bad acting. After insisting that their charade was both important and urgent, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi delayed sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate for weeks, making plain to all but the blindest partisans that this was a farce from the beginning. Democrats failed to make their case that Trump’s behavior — poor and ill-advised though it was — did not rise to an impeachable offense, and they were thus never going to win enough Republican votes for conviction and removal.

In fact, while rino-Mitt Romney and rino-Susan Collins are the only Republicans reportedly considering conviction, three Democrats — Joe Manchin, Doug Jones, and Krysten Sinema — are all weighing acquittal. “Never before in the history of our republic has there been a purely partisan impeachment vote [against] a president,” Manchin said. “Removing this president at this time would not only further divide our deeply divided nation but also further poison our already toxic political atmosphere.” Manchin has instead pushed for censure.

It will be amusing if the only bipartisan side in the Senate, as with the House, is Trump’s.

Monday’s closing arguments didn’t move the needle one iota. Perhaps that’s because scumbag/liar-Schiff can’t help but be so over the top. “Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election,” scumbag/liar-Schiff warned, “or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and let [son-in-law] Jared Kushner run the country.” Again, we’d laugh if this weren’t so serious an abuse of power by congressional Democrats.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone reiterated, “At the end of the day, this is an effort to overturn the results of one election and to try to interfere in the coming election that begins [Monday] in Iowa.” And continues today in Iowa because Democrats bungled that, too.

After acquittal, Democrats promise to continue investigating, probing, and obstructing the president. “Hate Trump” is all they’ve got.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68331?mailing_id=4841&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4841&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Dems' Iowa Caucus Comedy
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Thomas Gallatin  
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The Winner of 2020 Iowa Caucuses
 Revealed … Democrats Not Happy
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by Joe Setyon
{ thepatriotictimes.com } ~ For President Donald Trump and his re-election team, it doesn’t get much better than this... As the Democratic debacle from the Iowa Caucuses Monday night is still shaking out, a national embarrassment to just about every group and institution that’s been attacking President Donald Trump throughout his presidency, a couple of points were clear on Tuesday morning: Democrats hoping to kick their campaign against the incumbent into high gear coming out of Iowa were losers. The media, breathlessly waiting to anoint the Next Big Thing in American politics were losers – especially since Trump’s windmill-tilting Republican caucus opposition basically disappeared. And the one and only truly big winner was getting ready to deliver a State of the Union address to the House of Representatives — this time to a Democratic-run body that just launched an impeachment drive based on the thinnest of trumped-up charges. This presidential tweet Tuesday morning said it all: “The only person that can claim a very big victory in Iowa last night is ‘Trump,’” Trump wrote. As usual, Trump’s Twitter was greeted by a flood of liberal hatred – the kind of smart people who probably think watching a Stephen Colbert monologue is the best way to get a grip on the mood of the country. But there were plenty of responses from Trump supporters who could believe what they were seeing in Iowa with their own eyes – and it was a debacle for Democrats across the board...
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Senate acquits Trump on abuse of power, 
obstruction of Congress charges
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By Gregg Re 
{ foxnews.com } ~ The Senate overwhelmingly acquitted President Trump on both articles of impeachment against him Wednesday afternoon following a brief trial... in a historic rejection of Democrats' claims that the president's Ukraine dealings and handling of congressional subpoenas merited his immediate removal from office. All Democratic senators supported convicting the president of abuse of power and obstruction of justice, including swing-vote moderate Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Doug Jones, D-Ala. The only party defection was on the abuse of power charge from Sen. rino-Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who declared  hours before the final vote that Trump had engaged in as "destructive an attack on the oath of office and our Constitution as I can imagine." rino-Romney voted not guilty on the obstruction charge. By a final vote of 52-48 against conviction on the abuse of power charge and 53-47 on the obstruction charge, the Senate fell far short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict and remove the president. Swing-vote Republican senators -- including rino-Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, rino-Susan Collins of Maine, and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee -- voted to acquit on both counts. The separate obstruction of Congress charge concerned the White House's assertion of executive privilege and refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas. rino-Romney explained he would acquit on the obstruction count, saying House Democrats had chosen not to respond to the White House's legal arguments against the subpoenas. After Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts formally declared Trump acquitted, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., presented him with the "Golden Gavel" award as a thank-you for his service. Former Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist received the same award, which is usually presented to freshmen senators after long hours presiding over the body, for his handling of President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial. "I look forward to seeing you all again under happier circumstances," Roberts said as he concluded his remarks and prepared to depart the chamber...   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-acquits-president-trump-impeachment-vote  
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Sen. Marco Rubio: Trump SOTU address 
reminds us of what matters to America
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By Sen. Marco Rubio
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night was a much-needed and refreshing reminder that life does indeed exist outside the Washington bubble... The president spoke to the real hopes and anxieties felt by Americans who live outside of the Beltway bubble. He spoke to the hundreds of millions of Americans who do not spend each day refreshing their Twitter accounts to find out the latest “hot take.” These are Americans who are too busy with life to pass their time hooked to the ebb and flow of partisan politics. They are tired of talking heads treating our national politics as a game – a glitzy contact sport in pursuit of clickable articles and viral videos, but divorced from the actual issues our country is facing. As Americans watch the deterioration of our national unity and rapid politicization of seemingly every aspect of their lives – from sports to Hollywood to pop music – they understandably tune it out. Instead, Americans are worried about how expensive it is to raise a family, to go to the doctor and to pay for college. They are worried about threats from China, from Iran, from terrorists, from despotic regimes in our own hemisphere, and now from the Wuhan coronavirus. Americans are worried about – and impacted every day – by the decades-long collapse of stable, dignified work that has allowed generations to give back to their children, charities and places of worship. This is what people are talking about in the real world. And they’re right to be concerned. For all of our nation’s history, the American Dream has been sustained by the promise not only of individual newcomers “making it,” but by the ability of working Americans to raise families and build strong communities together. Today the ability of regular people to make sure their kids can enjoy the same opportunities they had growing up seems precarious. Outside the partisan political bubble, this is what American families from across the country and all walks of life are talking about. They are topics that seem utterly foreign to the current, 24-7 media obsession with impeachment and, before that, invalidating the results of the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the Oval Office...   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-marco-rubio-trump-sotu-address-reminds-us-of-what-matters-to-america  
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Planes carrying American coronavirus evacuees 
from China land at California military base
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By Madeline Farber
{ foxnews.com } ~ A plane carrying American coronavirus evacuees from Wuhan, China -- the epicenter of the deadly outbreak -- has landed at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego... after stopping at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, Calif., early this morning to refuel. Two planes chartered by the State Department arrived in the U.S. on Wednesday at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, Calif., with one later traveling on to Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego. An estimated 350 Americans were on the two flights. All passengers are subject to a 14-day quarantine; they remain in temporary housing units where they will be monitored by medical teams with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for possible symptoms of the coronavirus. All evacuees were screened in Wuhan for symptoms of the virus -- which have been reported to include fever, shortness of breath and cough -- before departing for the U.S. The evacuees staying in quarantine at Travis Air Force Base will be housed at a lodging facility on the base, officials with the military base said previously on Facebook. "A safety cordon will be established, away from residential housing, to ensure the Travis mission can safely continue, the privacy of the evacuees can be enforced, and to protect the health and welfare of our Team Travis community. Health and Human Services will be responsible for all care, transportation, and security of the evacuees during the quarantine period," the statement reads in part. The flights come roughly a week after the first 195 American evacuees from Wuhan also arrived in California. They are under a 14-day quarantine at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County. “Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser issued the order requiring the person to stay for the entire incubation period unless otherwise cleared,” a news release from the Riverside County Health Department said at the time. “This action was taken as a result of the unknown risk to the public should someone leave MARB early without undergoing a full health evaluation.” The first flight briefly stopping to refuel in Alaska before heading to California. The plane was initially scheduled to arrive at Ontario International Airport in San Bernardino County before it was diverted to the airbase in Riverside County for “the logistics that they have," officials said. On Tuesday, health officials announced a child who was one of the original 195 evacuees developed a fever and was taken to a hospital for additional coronavirus testing. The minor, whose age was not released, is at the Riverside University Health System-Medical Center for testing and observation “out of an abundance of caution,” and was accompanied by a parent, according to a news release...   https://www.foxnews.com/health/american-coronavirus-evacuees-china-land-california-military-base  
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Is hanoi-Kerry the Dems
Secret Weapon – Really?
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by theteapartydaily.com ~ There are some whispers among the Left surrounding a conversation involving hanoi-John Kerry that was reportedly overheard... and one very crazy scenario brewing as a result of that conversation. Well, the result of that and the sorry state of the Democratic party. While the source has gone unnamed, it was a source credible enough for mainstream media outlet NBC to report about it. According to the story and that unnamed source, the conversation involved the possibility of the former Massachusetts Senator and US Secretary of State making another Presidential run. As the story reported, “…hanoi-Kerry was heard telling an unknown confidant on the phone at a Des Moines, Iowa, hotel about the steps he would need to take in order to enter the race, including stepping down from Bank of America’s board of directors.” What added to the validity of this story were the details, such as how his deep-pocket donors would need to “raise a couple million” to even get his campaign started. Then, almost as if he were stating his motivation and reinforcing a growing concern among the Left, he expressed his fear about “the reality of commie-Bernie.” From these reports, hanoi-Kerry also said that this reality would also mean “the possibility of cpommie-Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party — down whole.” And the truth is, it may not be that far from going down as it is. Of course, hanoi-Kerry has already denied the reality of him entering the race. Our aforementioned story even cited another part of that conversation where hanoi-Kerry reportedly expressed doubt about another run himself. In a response to this rumored run, the story cites hanoi-Kerry saying, “maybe I’m f—ing deluding myself here,” and he has since claimed that he would not be entering the race. The damage and reciprocations from these seemingly factual reports, however, have already created enough damage. And it is damage that an already fractured and broken party can ill afford...
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scumbag/liar-Schiff: scumbag/liar-nObama
 Would Have Been Impeached
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by unitedvoice.com ~ Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-CA) just made a callback to scumbag/liar-nObama, which is a popular strategy among the Left... He attempted to “reveal” an unduly biased partisanship by saying that scumbag/liar-nObama would have certainly been impeached for the same things Trump is being accused of doing. Specifically, scumbag/liar-Schiff thinks scumbag/liar-Obama would have been charged with the “abuse of power” article. While scumbag/liar-nObama certainly did a lot of things that were bad for America, he only would have been impeached if he had done something worthy of impeachment. scumbag/liar-Schiff went on to try and draw a parallel between Trump’s phone call with Ukraine and scumbag/liar-nObama’s 2012 “hot mic” moment where he told former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he’d have more “flexibility” after his re-election. Of course, scumbag/liar-nObama didn’t act upon that statement or try to bribe the previous Russian president. And neither did Trump. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, Trump’s defender, said that even “if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.” Shifty scumbag/liar-Schiff is trying to get President Trump impeached by alluding to false parallels.   https://www.unitedvoice.com/schiff-obama-would-have-been-impeached/?aff_id=1262&utm_placement=reliable-news   
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Dems' Iowa Caucus Comedy
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Thomas Gallatin:  And the winner of the Iowa Democrat caucuses is… President Donald Trump. That’s right, no Democrat Iowa victor is known following Monday’s debacle. After touting their “transparency” rule changes and a new app that was supposed to deliver voting results with greater efficiency and accuracy, Democrat Party officials were left Monday night bumbling for answers amidst a sea of confusing reports, a dysfunctional app, and caucusing numbers that didn’t add up. One thing’s for certain — they’ll have a hard time blaming the Russians for this mess.

The official start to the Democrat presidential primaries couldn’t have gotten off to a worse start. The party claiming to know how best to lead the country into the future couldn’t even run its own first state caucus without things falling into disarray. After witnessing this disaster, who would trust these clowns with running a circus, let alone the country? Seeking to put the best spin on this embarrassment, Democrat Party leaders offered concerns over “quality control” and “an abundance of caution” as the excuse for delaying the results. Ironically, no matter who ends up being declared the winner, the DNC has effectively invited the very charge Chairman Tom Perez was seeking to fend off: accusations of a rigged system that erupted in 2016 after the DNC shenanigans favoring scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton over commie-Bernie Sanders came to light.

From what little information has been gleaned from precinct reporting, it appears that both commie-Sanders and Pete Buttigieg had strong showings, followed by Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren. It also appeared that support for loose lips liar-Joe Biden was weaker than expected, particularly notable given the time he had to campaign there while his rivals were stuck in a Senate impeachment trial. Could loose lips liar-Biden’s poor showing be the real reason for the delay? Perhaps the “quality control” is that commie-Sanders actually won and party officials are panicking.

The most telling statistic of the evening was the turnout. Around 172,000 Iowans showed up, which is nearly the same as the 2016 turnout and significantly less than the 2008 number of 240,000. It’s an ill omen for Democrats if voter enthusiasm isn’t as high as they need it to be to defeat Trump in November.

Meanwhile, the Republicans’ Iowa caucuses went off without a hitch. Trump easily won 97% of the vote, with the remaining 3% split between Bill Weld and Joe Walsh. Thus, as Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk quipped, “Donald Trump became the first president to win both the Democrat and Republican caucus.”   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68340?mailing_id=4841&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4841&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Confronting China
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It’s over: Divided Senate acquits 
Trump of both impeachment charges
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by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Senate voted to acquit President Trump of two articles of impeachment, ending a months long effort by Democrats to remove him from office... Democrats fell far short of winning the needed 67 votes to convict the president of either the abuse of power or the obstruction of Congress charges. The vote fell largely along party lines, reflecting poll numbers showing a sharp partisan divide on the issue. One Republican, Sen. rino-Mitt Romney, voted with Democrats on the abuse of power charge, but no Democrats voted to acquit the president. The Senate voted 52-48 to acquit the president of the abuse of power charge and 53-47 to acquit the president of the obstruction of Congress charge. The acquittal ended a historic impeachment process that began with a late September House investigation into the president’s decision to block security aid intended for Ukraine. Democrats alleged Trump used the power of his office to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democrats, including former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Democrats said Trump withheld critical security aid from Ukraine to force the government to conduct the investigations. The House on Dec. 18 voted without a single Republican to impeach Trump on the two articles, making him only the third president in history to be impeached. The Senate trial lasted nearly three weeks but ended without calling new witnesses.
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Donald Trump Shuns liar-Nancy Pelosi, Refuses 
To Shake Her Hand Before State Of The Union
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by CHRISTIAN DATOC
{ dailycaller.com  } ~ President Donald Trump declined to shake House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) hand, after she offered it... prior to delivering the 2020 State of the Union address Tuesday night. Trump’s decision to shun liar-Pelosi comes just one day ahead of his expected acquittal in Wednesday’s Senate impeachment trial and would appear to be a final parting shot on a subject multiple White House officials predicted the president would not breach during the address. Former President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, who in 1999 also delivered a State of the Union while awaiting the results of his own  impeachment trial, exchanged pleasantries and shook hands with then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, a Republican from Illinois just before launching into his speech on the House floor. Unlike liar-Pelosi, Hastert was not elected speaker until after the House had already opened its impeachment inquiry of scumbag/liar-Clinton. That position had been occupied by Georgia Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich, who had stepped down from the chair following the November 1998 elections and would ultimately resign from Congress altogether in January of 1999. Hastert served as Speaker of the House until 2007 and was succeeded by liar-Pelosi following Democrats’ retaking of the majority in the 2006 midterm elections. In 2016, he would eventually plead guilty to crimes involving the coverup of his molestation of several teenage boys back in the 1960s and 1970s for which he served 13 months in prison. He was not charged with sex crimes as the statue of limitations had expired, though he did admit to and apologize for the abuse.
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Trump takes on ‘radical left’ in defiant and 
dramatic State of the Union address; 
liar-Pelosi rips up speech
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By Gregg Re 
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump went on the offensive against socialism and left-wing policies during a defiant third State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday night... drawing groans from Democrats in attendance and prompting a furious House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to rip up her copy of Trump's speech as soon as it concluded in a remarkable scene. Asked about the moment by Fox News afterward, liar-Pelosi said she had destroyed the speech  “because it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.” She also said she was "trying to find one page with truth on it" but "couldn't." The White House responded almost immediately by referencing several of the guests of honor whom Trump had introduced during  the State of the Union address. "Speaker liar-Pelosi just ripped up: One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The survival of a child born at 21 weeks. The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller. A service member's reunion with his family," the White House said in a tweet. "That's her legacy." Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., told Fox News that Trump's speech was "rough" in parts. Responding to liar-Pelosi ripping up the speech, he added, "None of that’s good." And, speaking to Fox News' "Hannity," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called liar-Pelosi's actions "disgraceful" and "disgusting," saying they made him "angry." Some commentators accused liar-Pelosi of hypocrisy, noting that back in 2009, she had called on a Republican congressman to apologize or face formal censure for shouting during President scumbag/liar-nObama's State of the Union address, "You lie!" In an apparent attempt at reconciliation, liar-Pelosi tweeted late Tuesday that Democrats "will never stop extending the hand of friendship to get the job done #ForThePeople."  liar-Pelosi also released a statement saying Trump did not issue a positive message on health care, and calling his speech a "manifesto of mistruths." The flareup was a harsh reminder of the partisan discord pervading the halls of Congress, even as Trump in his speech all but ignored the historic impeachment drama that flanked this year's address -- a fight virtually certain to end with Trump's overwhelming acquittal on Wednesday. Trump opted in his remarks to publicly challenge Democrats on policy grounds while touting what he called the "blue-collar boom" in the country...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-in-state-of-the-union-will-tout-economic-success-slam-socialism  
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Impeachment courses silently through 
Trump State of the Union appearance
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by Rob Crilly
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The scars of the recent impeachment battle were on display in a divided Congress, even as President Trump avoided the subject and stuck to an upbeat State of the Union script... It began with the president appearing to avoid the outstretched hand of liar-Nancy Pelosi and ended with the House leader apparently ripping up a copy of the text. In between, Republicans stood for multiple ovations, while Democrats, with the women in suffragette white, stayed silent. Through it all, Trump delivered a rosy assessment of his wins so far and laid out the aspirations that he hopes will land him a second term in office. “America's enemies are on the run, America's fortunes are on the rise, and America's future is blazing bright," he said, swapping his freewheeling campaign persona out for the more conventional role of a president addressing a joint session of Congress. "In just three short years, we have shattered the mentality of American decline and we have rejected the downsizing of America's destiny. We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never going back!” Even by the unique yardstick of this presidency, the first days of February offered an extraordinary news cycle and backdrop for Trump to set out the themes he hopes will propel him to a second term. A new Gallup poll found that 49% of respondents approved of the job Trump is doing in office, beating his previous high by 3 points. In the meantime, the Democrats’ nomination race descended into a farce in Iowa, and, within 24 hours, Trump is all but certain to be acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial. It made for striking optics as Trump delivered an upbeat message of progress while the liar-speaker of the House looked over his shoulder. The tension was evident from the start, when liar-Pelosi changed the traditional wording, avoiding describing the “high honor and distinct pleasure” of introducing the 45th president...
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Impeachment Theater Could Not 
Have Gone Worse For Democrats
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By Mollie Hemingway
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Democrats’ impeachment effort was never about removing President Donald Trump from office. If it had been, it would not have been rushed through the House of Representatives without a proper predicate or investigation... No reasonable person expected the Republican-controlled Senate to remove a sitting president for anything Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff repeatedly alleged, no matter how unfairly he characterized Trump’s thoughts, words, or actions. Impeachment was about satisfying the corporate media and Democratic base that had demanded it for years. And since removal was never a realistic outcome, it was about harming Trump in an election year. By that standard, it could not have gone worse. Here are three ways that liar-Pelosi’s gambit backfired bigly. 1. Donald Trump’s Numbers Went Up, Not Down - The latest Gallup poll of registered voters shows that Trump’s approval rating is the highest it’s been since his inauguration — 49 percent. That number went up from 39 percent in October, which was during the House’s impeachment process, such as it was. During that same time, approval of the Democratic Party fell from 48 percent to 45 percent and approval of the Republican Party shot up from 43 percent to 51 percent. That’s the first time the GOP has had majority approval since 2005. The party also has a rare partisan-ID advantage. Approval for Trump’s handling of the economy and the killing of terrorists have strong majorities as well. More than half of those polled favor his acquittal, economic confidence is the highest it’s been in decades, and national confidence is at a 15-year high. The Gallup poll matches other recent surveys showing Trump with high marks. The entire point of impeachment was to push Trump’s numbers down. They went up. They went up despite media push polls trying to suggest, however implausibly, that a legitimate majority of Americans wanted Trump removed from office. Trump’s numbers went up despite overwhelmingly favorable coverage of the slipshod impeachment case. This is a huge disaster for Democrats. 2. loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s Candidacy Was Irreparably Harmed By Impeachment Facts - 3. Republicans Were Accidentally Forced Into Their Position of Maximal Strength...
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scumbag-George Soros just revealed his plan 
to bring in a new world order that 
will shock patriotic Americans
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by patriotpulse.net ~ Far-left billionaire scumbag-George Soros is trying to buy the U.S. government. He wants to implement his own globalist agenda, and will stop at nothing to do so... And scumbag-Soros just revealed his plan to bring in a new world order that will shock patriotic Americans. For his entire life, scumbag-George Soros has been fighting against everything America stands for. Throughout his life, scumbag-Soros accumulated billions of dollars in wealth and began funding operations that directly oppose the values of America. Virtually every far-left cause, including Antifa-adjacent organizations, are directly supported by scumbag-Soros’ money. And now he is trying to use his influence to go even further.In a recent New York Times titled “scumbag-George Soros: Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of Facebook,” he claims that the CEO of Facebook is not doing enough to shut down conservative, pro-Trump voices. Zuckerberg, who controls 53 percent of the social media website’s shares, has presided over massive amounts of censorship. Many pro-Trump figures, from journalist, and now congressional candidate Laura Loomer, to pro-Trump comedian Gavin McInnes and radio host Alex Jones have been completely banned from the platform. Yet, scumbag-Soros believes that he needs to do more, and actively police content he disagrees with to prevent President Trump from winning re-election in 2020. Why is he getting away with this. Didn't we learn what he tried in Europe.  https://patriotpulse.net/george-soros-just-revealed-his-plan-to-bring-in-a-new-world-order-that-will-shock-patriotic-americans/#gf_1403   
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by David Swindle
{ meforum.org } ~ Clerics of two theocratic movements - Arabia's Salafis and South Asia's Deobandis - have spent over a century denouncing each other's theologies, only pausing, occasionally, for tactical alliances... Over the past few years, however, ecumenical attitudes have begun to change among Western Islamist clerics. As an increasing number of modernist preachers from both movements have stepped forward to establish new forward-facing organizations, cautious longer-term partnerships between the clerical components of the two movements have begun to emerge – providing us with a glimpse of American Islamism in the years to come. This new-found inclusiveness was recently evident in September 2019, when a Deobandi Islamist seminary, the Institute of Knowledge (IOK) hosted its "Ilmspiration" Conference in Anaheim, California. The purpose of the day-long event was to bring together 14 Islamist scholars and imams from the IOK and two other likeminded, leading institutions: the Qalam Institute, a wildly popular Deobandi religious training organization led by Abdul Nasir Jangda; and the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, a project of Omar Suleiman, a prominent Salafi-trained cleric.What makes these schools and their leaders so dangerous? Whether Deobandi or Salafi, both movements are adherents to the broader political idea of Islamism, which seeks to impose an Islamic state run under Islamic law. These clerics provide much of the arguments, propaganda, and most importantly, the theology, to persuade Muslims into believing in the supremacy of a medieval religious legal system. This ideology sows the seeds of terrorism both at home and abroad. In their methods, the new social media-savvy generation of Deobandi and Salafi clerics in the West are very different from the insular, ascetic preachers of the previous generation; but not in their core beliefs. Qalam's Deobandi leader Abdul Nasir Jangda, who commands a social media following of hundreds of thousands, defends female sex slavery and advocates the death penalty for apostasy. Meanwhile, Yaqeen's Suleiman, a media darling for his involvement in progressives' protests against Trump administration policies, warns young women they may be killed by a "jealous dad" if they commit adultery. So what influence will these organizations exert on American Islam over the next few years? And how will these once hostile sects work together?...  https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/60370/united-islamists-of-america?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=71be2f0903-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_05_07_33&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-71be2f0903-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-71be2f0903-33703665   
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Confronting China
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While the mainstream media have obsessed over impeachment, there are a few stories out there right now that just aren’t getting the coverage they deserve. Both involve China and our national security.

As I have noted before, FBI Director Christopher Wray  has identified China as America’s biggest counterintelligence threat. Wray described the Chinese threat as “deep and diverse and wide and vexing,” adding that there are at least 1,000 investigations involving China’s efforts to steal our economic and military secrets.

China’s intense espionage efforts are not new. They have been going on for years and really picked up speed  during the scumbag/liar-nObama era. 

This week, Professor Charles Lieber, chairman of Harvard University’s Chemistry Department, was arrested for lying to the Defense Department about his participation in China's Thousand Talents program.

For at least five years, Lieber, an expert in nanotechnology, was paid $50,000 a month and provided $150,000 a year for personal expenses by the Chinese. At the same time, he was directing research projects from the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health.

But wait… There’s more!

  • Federal authorities also announced charges against Yanqing Ye, an officer in the Chinese military, who had been working at Boston University. 

  • Last month, Zaosong Zheng was arrested at Boston’s Logan Airport attempting to smuggle vials of biological materials stolen from U.S. research labs. 

  • And the state of Florida recently launched a major investigation after 10 university faculty members and other researchers were exposed as participants in China’s Thousand Talents program. 

As FBI Director Wray warned, China’s espionage efforts are “deep and diverse.” According to one estimate, there are at least 80 Confucius Institutes operating at colleges and universities around the country. Confucius Institutes have been more warmly received at American universities than conservative speakers!

These institutes are official organs of the Chinese Communist Party. But like much of U.S. policy toward China, the allure of easy money proved too tempting to resist, regardless of the strings attached. 

Thankfully, the Trump administration is cracking down, and more than 20 Confucius Institutes have closed in the past two years. But much more work clearly remains to be done.

The Wuhan Virus

We’ve seen all kinds of stories in recent days about the Wuhan virus — how fast is it spreading, its kill ratio, how many people are being quarantined, airlines canceling flights, etc. I even read a story about the potential for medicine shortages here due to global-supply-chain vulnerabilities.

Tuesday, I saw a map showing all the places where the U.S. has set up screening centers to check people coming into the country for evidence of the virus. Not surprisingly, most screening centers are at major international airports, but there are two at the El Paso and San Diego border ports of entry, also for obvious reasons.

What jumped out at me was everything else in between — you know, the vast open border area that Donald Trump has spent the last three years trying to secure. The same border that the left and its media allies have spent the last three years fighting to keep wide open and smearing Trump as a bigot for trying to secure. 

The spread of this deadly virus is proof of why the border must be secured. Is there even one “mainstream” journalist in America who thinks this is a story worth writing?

It wasn’t that long ago when our Border Patrol agents were overwhelmed with sick migrants, running more than 50 people a day to border-area hospitals.

We’re also seeing a surge of Chinese nationals illegally crossing the border. And now we have a mystery virus originating in China with a kill rate we have not yet determined. 

The president has done a lot to secure the border, but if progressive politicians, judges, and pundits had not been so desperate to resist President Trump (and common sense), much more would have been done by now. The risk of the Wuhan virus entering the country from the unsecured southern border could have been greatly diminished.

If liar-Nancy Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, and Chuck scumbag-Schumer had worked half as hard to help secure the country as they have to invalidate the votes of half the country, we’d all be a lot safer right now.

“Danger! Danger! Danger!”

Jay Sekulow, a member of the president’s defense team, reminded senators of something every American needs to understand: This hyper-partisan impeachment, based on anonymous allegations and differences of opinion, is a serious danger to our constitutional republic.

Within days of Donald Trump securing the GOP nomination, elements of our government that we entrust to keep us safe from terrorists and foreign spies diverted resources to get illegal wiretaps on the Trump campaign. They even set up sting operations to take down various campaign aides. 

Before Trump was sworn in, a well-financed campaign was launched to intimidate members of the Electoral College. The media gleefully reported that some electors were wavering but often failed to expose the intimidation taking place.

After Trump was inaugurated, Deep State operatives and their media allies launched the Russian-collusion hoax, which consumed the country for more than two years. 

A leading proponent of that hoax was Adam Schiff. He regularly appeared on Sunday talk shows and declared that the evidence that Russia and the president stole the election was “in plain sight.” He was lying the whole time, every time.

When that hoax fell apart, the left launched its sham impeachment — the biggest voter-suppression effort in the history of the country. liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff, and scumbag-Schumer are trying to suppress the votes of 63 million people who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, while depriving millions of us the right to vote for him again this November.

They know that their platform of abortion extremism, anti-religious liberty, and big-government socialism is unpopular. So they are putting the country through a scandalous election-year impeachment charade with the goal of removing Donald Trump from the ballot. 

If Vladimir Putin tried to come up with a plan to destroy a duly elected president and undermine the United States of America, he could not imagine anything better than what liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff, and scumbag-Schumer, along with their media and Deep State allies, have done over the last three years.

The Wildwood Wonder

We know the president’s policies are growing the economy. Well, in the last two days, Trump turned  Wildwood, New Jersey, into an enterprise zone of unexpected economic growth.

Wildwood is a beach community that depends heavily on summer tourism. When the temperatures fall and the days get shorter, much of the town shuts down. 

In the last two days, hotels and restaurants all over Wildwood reopened to accommodate the thousands of people who came to see the man many believe is the greatest president since Ronald Reagan. People began lining up more than a day in advance to attend Trump’s rally Tuesday night!

Remember in November

Remember scumbag/liar-nObama’s remark about “bitter clingers”? scumbag/liar-Hillary’s “basket of deplorables”? Apparently, the left still hasn’t learned how to hide its bigotry.

As I’m sure you know, CNN’s Don Lemon just couldn’t keep it together when a Never-Trumper and a liberal New York Times columnist started mocking conservative Trump voters. 

Well, I’m pleased to report that Don Lemon is starring in the latest Republican National Committee ad that urges conservative voters to have the last laugh this November.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68233?mailing_id=4832&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4832&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_con

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CNN Portrays Trump Supporters as 
Illiterate Hillbilly Rubes
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Day Three – Iowa Caucus Results Still 
Stuck in Propaganda Mode – Club 
Engineers in Holding Pattern
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Today is the third day since the Iowa caucuses took place and still the results are not announced. The current status is 71 percent reported and the Democrat narrative engineers are in a holding pattern...commie-Bernie Sanders is leading in the popular vote, but Pete Buttigieg is leading in State Delegate Equivalents (SDE’s); each has received 11 delegates so far. Obviously the DNC club wants to extend the amount of time Buttigieg can use to claim victory and simultaneously diminish support for commie-Bernie Sanders. In the only update since the original release at 62 percent, media engineered candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden has dropped below the 15 percent threshold for delegates. It is quite possible, despite the media polling prior to the caucus, that loose lips liar-Joe Biden will not get any delegates at all. If I had to guess I’d say the results will be released after the impeachment acquittal vote. Overall Democrat turnout in Iowa was terrible; the complete opposite of the preceding media narrative.
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Pretending Not to Know – Media Wonder: What 
The Heck Happened to loose lips liar-Joe Biden?
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Last week, after the Senate impeachment trial outcome became likely, we surmised that loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s candidacy would plummet fast... The reason was simple, loose lips liar-Biden was only propped up to create the Trump opponent narrative. There really was no underlying support for the DNC/Media creation; it was all a useful ruse. Today, displaying the Mamet Principle on almost every broadcast show, the TV pundits play the game of pretending to wonder what happened to loose lips liar-Joe Biden.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/04/pretending-not-to-know-media-wonder-what-the-heck-happened-to-joe-biden/  
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James Carville: Iowa Democrat Turnout Was 
Terrible and What Happened to The Polling?
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Democrat political strategist James Carville appears on MSNBC and plays the roll of Toto pulling back the curtain on a false media-constructed narrative... Carville notes this was supposed to be a year of hyped democrat voter enthusiasm, but it just isn’t there. Additionally, Carville asks what the heck happened to the polling over the past two weeks? loose lips liar-Biden was supposed to be a top-tier candidate… or something.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/04/james-carville-iowa-democrat-turnout-was-terrible-and-what-happened-to-the-polling/ 
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Impeachment Dies in Desperation
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By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham  
{ newsbusters.org } ~ As the Trump impeachment effort inevitably burns out on the ash heap of history, Democrats are left to argue that if this president is left unchecked, if he’s not removed from office, he’ll “do it again.”... He’ll pressure foreign governments to investigate the business dealings of the loose lips liar-Bidens, which is a “threat to national security." National security equals no questioning of the loose lips liar-Bidens. Democracy equals removing an elected president. A typical outburst came from CNN’s appointed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, who warned acquittal means “the country has a president who operates as an outlaw.....Acting in a demagogic way and acting in a dictatorial way, trying to smash the foreign policy establishment, diss our intelligence gatherers, operating in a whole new way of an imperial president that we couldn’t have imagined.” All this rhetoric ignores the notion that the House impeachment itself proves he’s not “unchecked.” A Democrat-majority House has been aggressively “checking” him with oversight investigations, in effect trying to do what the Mueller Report failed to do – establish that Trump is some sort of autocrat who’s emptying American democracy of all meaning. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff will insert the word “cheat” into every paragraph going forward. This is really going to sound amusing after the Iowa-caucus fiasco. Who looks like they can protect the integrity of our elections now? Who looks competent after the Democratic National Committee touted “the reforms we’ve made to make this the most transparent primary in our history”? Who will trust the outcome, especially after Wikileaks exposed the DNC’s commie-Bernie-blocking antics in 2016? But that isn’t half as shocking as the really unglued portions of scumbag/liar-Schiff’s closing argument before the Senate. Desperation overtook reason. If Trump isn't removed, the congressman from Hollywood feverishly imagined, Trump “could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election, or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and leave Jared Kushner to run the country, delegating to him the decision whether they go to war.”...   https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2020/02/05/column-impeachment-dies-desperation   
Khamenei calls for Palestinian jihad 
on Israel after Trump peace plan
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By LAHAV HARKOV
{jpost.com} ~ Palestinians start a war against Israel, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in response to the Trump administration's peace plan for Israel... and the Palestinians in a tweet on Wednesday. The "remedy" for the plan is "bold resistance by the Palestinian nation and groups in order to force out the Zionist enemy and the US through jihad," Khamenei tweeted.  The Iranian leader called on all other Muslims to support the Palestinian war on Israel. Khamenei called Arab states willing to consider the plan in a positive light - such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others - traitorous and incompetent. The ayatollah of Iran slammed the US plan, writing: "The so-called plan of the 'Deal of the Century' is #foolish, because it will definitely NOT have any result." Khamenei added that it was foolish for the US to "sit, spend money, invite, create and uproar and unveil a plan that is doomed to failure." The US will "try to further their plot with bribes, weapons and enticements," he stated. The Iranian leader also said "Palestine belongs to the Palestinians" and questioned how US could try to make decisions on the matter. He also saw a positive side in the matter, that the US plan called attention to "Palestine and the rights of its oppressed people."   https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Khamenei-calls-for-Palestinian-jihad-on-Israel-after-Trump-peace-plan-616604   
Can Muslim Terrorists be Deradicalized? - Part I
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by Denis MacEoin
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On Friday November 29, 2019, an Islamist terror attack took place in London. Two young people, both recent Cambridge University graduates, Jack Merritt (25) and Saskia Jones (23), were stabbed and killed by a single attacker... It was a terrible and unnecessary loss of life. The special irony about Jack and Saskia's deaths is that they and a colleague had been involved with Cambridge University's Learning Together prison-rehabilitation program, similar to the US version known as Inside-Out, both of which bring prison inmates together with students to learn together. The British programme is run by Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology, from which both Merritt and Jones had received M.Phils in criminology. On that Friday, the fifth anniversary of the program, they were attending a conference on offender rehabilitation. The event, dedicated to work on reintegrating prisoners after their release, took place in the stately  Fishmongers' Hall at the north end of London Bridge. It was attended by a mix of academics, students, graduates and former prisoners, some with tags. Just after lunch, at 12.58 p.m., the conference erupted into chaos when one of the participants threatened to blow it up. A man, later identified as Usman Khan, revealed that he was wearing what appeared to be a suicide vest. It is not clear what he planned to do, given that the vest was a fake and could not have served in any attack. However, he did have two knives taped to his wrists. When he left the Hall and went down to the bridge, it was indeed with these weapons that he killed Merritt and Jones and injured several others, some badly. Remarkably, instead of running for their lives, many of the conference participants, including some prisoners, tackled Khan. One was a convicted murderer on day release. Two of these heroes were Merritt and Jones, who paid for their bravery with their own lives. That Khan was there at all almost beggars belief. He was out on licence from prison, where he had served just half of a 16-year prison sentence for engaging with others in plans for what could have led to a major terrorist atrocity. He was at the conference because it was believed he was working towards his own deradicalization. Quite obviously, he had not been deradicalized...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15512/muslim-terrorists-deradicalized 
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CNN Portrays Trump Supporters as 
Illiterate Hillbilly Rubes
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CNN’s Don Lemon giggled like a schoolgirl as panelists Rick Wilson and Wajahat Ali mocked President Trump’s supporters as a bunch of illiterate hillbillies.

Lemon, who is the defendant in a scandalous sexual-assault case, was dishing about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s dustup with a NPR reporter who reportedly could not find Ukraine on a map.

“[Pompeo] also knows deep within his heart that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it,” Wilson said. “He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world. And so that’s partly him playing to the base and playing to their audience. You know, the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump.”

That “credulous boomer rube demo” would be the gun-toting, Bible-clinging deplorables who sent Donald J. Trump to Washington, DC, to irrigate the Deep State Swamp.

“‘Donald Trump’s the smart one — any y'all elitists are dumb!’” Wilson said with a fake southern accent.

“‘You elitists, with your geography and your maps and your spelling!’” Ali added.

“‘Your math and your reading!’” Wilson said. “‘All those lines on the map!’”

Lemon doubled over on the anchor desk with tears in his eyes, laughing like Anderson Cooper on New Year’s Eve. He had the look of someone who had just peed himself on national television.

President Trump, clearly disgusted by the blistering attack, responded on Twitter.

“Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television (with terrible ratings!),” the president wrote.

The president speaks the truth — not even Brian Stelter or Oliver Darcy watch Lemon’s show.

Lemon and Ali are textbook examples of socially acceptable racists. The bosses turn a blind eye to the hate spewing nightly from Lemon’s mouth.

Imagine what would have happened had a white news anchor giggled uncontrollably as his guests mocked black people. They would’ve been run out of the country.

As for Wilson — well, he’s the clinical definition of a jackass.

“Arrogant, elitist snobs w/ noses so high in the air a good rain would drown them,” Gov. Mike Huckabee wrote on Twitter. “Keep up your contempt of us deplorable ‘hillbillies.’ Laugh at us loud now. Election night when @realDonaldTrump wins in landslide reelection, I’m sure you won’t look so smug.”

It’s not the first time that the soy-milk and Mexican-man-shoes crowd has smeared the president’s base. We’ve been called worse.

President scumbag/liar-nObama infamously accused folks in the Rust Belt of clinging to their guns and their religion. He called them bitter. scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton called us a basket of deplorables. And former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden said we were the dregs of society.

Honestly, folks, I’d rather be a gun-toting, Bible-clinging, illiterate hillbilly than a perpetually offended pajama-boy snowflake.

So good luck with that lawsuit, Mr. Lemon. And to show there are no hard feelings, here’s a word of advice from all of us hillbilly rubes: It ain’t nice to put your hands on another feller’s private parts. Allegedly.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68289?mailing_id=4839&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4839&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Wednesday News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  State of the Union


NOT BACKING DOWN: Trump takes on “radical left” in defiant and dramatic State of the Union address, but petulant liar-Pelosi rips up speech (Fox News)

BRAYING JENNY: liar-Pelosi violates protocol by refusing to announce Trump properly (The Daily Wire)

WELL DESERVED: Trump surprises Rush Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom (New York Post)

WE’RE NOT CRYING, YOU’RE CRYING: Trump surprises military family with reunion (Fox News)


Politics


STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: rino-Susan Collins will vote to acquit Trump, saying he’s “learned” from impeachment (CBS News)

2020 VISION: Trump job approval at personal best 49% (Gallup)

PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA: Nevada Democrats vow not to use the same app that contributed to Iowa caucus failure (National Review)


Other Notables


WHO’D A THUNK IT? Sacramento proposes homeless shelter near school. It doesn’t go well. (Hot Air)

GOOD GUYS WIN THE SKIRMISH: Virginia Senate blocks another Northam-backed gun bill (Fox News)

CORONAVIRUS: Hong Kong and Taiwan, territories that China sees as its own, restrict travel from the mainland (The Washington Post)


Closing Arguments


POLICY: Impeachment shows the ethical difficulties of foreign assistance (The Hill)

POLICY: Brexit’s three key implications for U.S. policymakers (The Heritage Foundation)

HUMOR: Iowa caucus results delayed due to DNC using Common Core math to tally votes (Genesius Times)

BUT NOT TO WORRY — THEY GOT IT FIGURED OUT: Surprise candidate Hiltasha Clintonov declared winner of Iowa caucus (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68371?mailing_id=4845&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4845&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Touching Moment – President Trump Honors 
Rush Limbaugh With Medal of Freedom
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Rush Limbaugh is going to attempt to broadcast tomorrow (Thursday). I would strongly urge all those who have listened and learned from El Rushbo to tune in... Given the rapid nature of the cancer diagnosis our time with Rush is short. As a beacon when needed most, Rush Limbaugh has guided minds, inspired hearts and touched the lives of many. Last night President Trump honored Mr. Limbaugh for his years of excellence in broadcasting, his unwavering love of country and his numerous charitable efforts. Presenting Mr. Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom was a very special moment in recognition of a very special man.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/05/touching-moment-president-trump-honors-rush-limbaugh-with-medal-of-freedom/
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FBI Director Chris Wray Testifies 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ FBI Director Chris Wray is testifying to the House Judiciary Committee today and will likely receive questions about the FISA abuse issue. Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler scheduled the hearing today in a transparent effort to avoid publicity on the content.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/05/fbi-director-chris-wray-testifies-to-house-judiciary-committee-1000am-livestream/
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White House Officially Responds To 
liar-Pelosi Ripping Up Trump’s Speech
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By James Barrett
{ dailywire.com } ~ House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dominated the headlines following President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday after she... standing directly behind the president, ripped up his speech for all the world to see, later telling the press that she did so because it was a “dirty speech” and that shredding it was better than the “alternative.” Shortly after, the White House issued its official response to liar-Pelosi’s viral moment.  “Speaker liar-Pelosi just ripped up: One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The survival of a child born at 21 weeks. The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller. A service member’s reunion with his family,” the White House tweeted. “That’s her legacy.” Asked about her disrespectful actions, liar-Pelosi told reporters that ripping up his “dirty speech” was the “courteous” thing to do considering the “alternative,” which she chose not to specify. “It was the courteous thing to do, considering the alternative,” she said. House liar-Speaker to announce the president by noting that it is their ‘high privilege and distinct honor’ to do so.” “Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States,” the traditional introduction states. Instead, liar-Pelosi conspicuously left out the key phrase,  announcing simply, “Members of Congress, the President of the United States.” As The Daily Wire noted, as recently as 2015 then-House Speaker backstabber-John Boehner (R-OH) announced then-President scumbag/liar-nObama ahead of his SOTU address: “Members of congress, I have the high privilege and the distinct honor to present to you, the President of the United States.”...   https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-officially-responds-to-pelosi-ripping-up-trumps-speech  
Hilton presses Republicans to investigate 
loose lips liar-Biden: 'It would be injustice' not to
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By Joshua Nelson
{ foxnews.com } ~ As the House Democrats' impeachment push is coming to an end, Fox News host of “The Next Revolution” pressed Senate Republicans to conduct an investigation into the “King of the swamp”... former scumbag/liar-nOba-era Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s ties to Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings. Burisma reportedly paid Hunter Biden up to $50,000 per month to sit on its board at the same time his father was leading the scumbag/liar-nObama administration's diplomatic dealings with Kiev. A second private equity firm founded by the younger Biden also reportedly received $3.4 million from the same company. Trump and Giuliani have alleged that when Ukrainian prosecutors tried to investigate Burisma Holdings for corruption, loose lips liar-Biden pressured the government to fire the head prosecutor.  Meanwhile, the House Democratic impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team will return to the Senate chamber at 11 a.m. to make their closing arguments in the impeachment trial. “Now, finally, this impeachment fast looks like it’s coming to an end, but it would be a massive injustice if we let things lie as they are,” Hilton said. Hilton said that while investigations against Trump has been ongoing since he was elected in 2016, loose lips liar-Biden has been getting a pass. “Why does President Trump have his administration blocked probed and hounded for three years but nothing on the other side. That is not fair --that is not justice --that is not the rule of the law, but the law of the swamp and the king of the swamp is loose lips liar-Joe Biden.” Hilton said that we now need to hear from loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Hilton said that Hunter needs to answer to his expertise in “energy matters” and business experience when hired for Burisma...  https://www.foxnews.com/media/hilton-presses-republicans-to-investigate-biden-it-would-be-injustice-not-to  
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Republican rino-Susan Collins, key swing-vote senator, announces she will
vote to acquit Trump
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By Gregg Re
{ foxnews.com } ~ Maine Republican Sen. rino-Susan Collins, a key swing vote in President Trump's impeachment trial, announced Tuesday she would vote to acquit on both articles of impeachment... noting that Democrats' "abuse of power" charge "did not even attempt" to allege that Trump had committed a crime, and instead constituted a "difficult-to-define, non-criminal act." Even as she criticized Trump's behavior as "flawed," rino-Collins slammed House Democrats for delaying transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate for more than a month, saying the stalling and posturing undercut their arguments that the president was an imminent threat. Last week, rino-Collins had broken ranks with her fellow Republicans, along with Utah GOP Sen. rino-Mitt Romney, to vote in favor of additional witnesses in the Senate trial. Trump, who is now set to be overwhelmingly acquitted by the Senate on Wednesday, will deliver the annual State of the Union address before Congress Tuesday night amid record-high approval ratings. "In the trial of President scumbag/liar-Clinton, I argued that in order to convict, we must conclude from the evidence presented to us with no room for doubt that our Constitution will be injured, and our democracy suffer, should the president remain in office one moment more," rino-Collins said. "Impeachment for a president should be reserved for conduct that poses such a serious threat to our governmental institutions so as to warrant the extreme step of immediate removal for office. "I voted to acquit President scumbag/liar-Clinton, even though the House managers proved to my satisfaction that he did commit a crime," rino-Collins continued, saying that his perjury did not rise to the threshold required for removal from office. This time around, as before, the House "did little to support its assertion in Article One that the president will remain a threat to national security and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office," rino-Collins said. She argued that although a crime is not technically required to impeach and remove a president, Democrats had not come close to arguing that Trump's conduct was problematic enough to warrant his ouster by the Senate in any event. At the same time, rino-Collins remarked that it is "clear" that Trump sought an "improper" investigation into loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden, but that there is "conflicting" evidence in the record concerning Trump's motivation. Democrats, she said, plausibly argued that Trump was primarily motivated by finding dirt on a potential 2020 opponent, and Republicans plausibly argued that Trump was motivated in part by his longstanding concerns over foreign corruption and wasteful foreign aid. Nevertheless, "it was wrong for President Trump to mention former Vice President loose lips liar-Biden," on his July 25 phone call with Ukraine's leader, and it was "wrong" for him to suggest Ukraine take a look at loose lips liar-Biden's potential corruption, rino-Collins went on...   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maine-gop-sen-susan-collins-key-swing-vote-senator-announces-she-will-acquit-trump  
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Thousands Of scumbag/liar-nObama Admin 
Docs Under Review Regarding Ukraine 
White House Meetings
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{ saraacarter.com } ~ The National Archives is in the process of reviewing several thousand documents related to meetings held between senior scumbag/liar-nObama Administration and Ukrainian officials at the White House in 2016... The trove of documents was discovered after a request for documents was submitted by two top GOP Senators in November of last year, this website has learned. The documents requested by Senator’s Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are significant as they directly concern meetings that senior scumbag/liar-nObama Administration and Ukrainian officials had at the White House in 2016. The documents are expected to be reviewed for classification purposes, as well as Executive privilege by lawyers for both President scumbag/liar-nObama and President Donald Trump, officials told SaraACarter.com. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Grassley, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, sent the three page detailed request letter in November to David S. Ferriero, the head of the National Archives. The request was for “records of multiple White House meetings that took place in 2016 between and among scumbag/liar-nObama Administration officials, Ukrainian government representatives, and Democratic National Committee officials.” Sen. Johnson, who spoke to this reporter, said “we will continue our oversight. We are going to get to the bottom of what all has been happening here. Hopefully we will get access to the information to make it available to the American public so they really do understand what’s been happening.” A source familiar with the ongoing Senate investigation told SaraACarter.com that the request for documents “is still in NARA’s notification process.” The National Archives (NARA) did not immediately respond for comment. This story will be updated when and if NARA officials respond to the request. The National Archives did, however, recently notify the Senator’s offices that the expected response “to our documents request will likely be in the order of several thousand responsive pages. They cannot give us a specific date for when it will completed,” said one source familiar with the investigation. The notification process, however, will involve notifying both the current and former Trump and scumbag/liar-nObama administrations, a review that is likely to take time...   https://saraacarter.com/gop-investigationthousands-of-obama-admin-docs-under-review-regarding-ukraine-white-house-meetings/   
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liar-Nancy's Nonsense
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Someone could easily write a book about all the outrageous things said by the left during this impeachment sham. If they did, a chapter should be devoted to what liar-Nancy Pelosi said at a press conference Thursday.

Commenting on the impeachment trial, liar-Pelosi suggested the president could not be acquitted by the Senate unless it follows her rules and allows her witnesses. That’s absurd!

Then she blasted the president’s legal team, saying they were “there to dismantle the Constitution,” that “they disgraced themselves terribly” and she added, “I don’t know how they can retain their lawyer status in the comments that they are making.”

Don’t laugh. Speaker liar-Pelosi is third in line to the presidency. If anything, God forbid, should happen to President Trump and Vice President Pence, we’d be dealing with President liar-Pelosi! And her remarks show you the mindset of the left.

In this country, an accused thief, drug dealer, rapist, even a murderer, all have the right to legal representation. It is one of the hallmarks of our legal system. Liberals in the past, to their credit, pushed to make sure everyone had that right. Even the poor who can’t afford an attorney are assigned one at taxpayer expense.

But today’s so-called “progressives” are not traditional liberals. They are increasingly authoritarians who will stop at nothing to gain power. And they are signaling in various ways that if they gain power, they intend to deprive those they disagree with of their constitutional rights. That’s the danger here.

And in some ways, it’s even worse than that. You wouldn’t invite a wife-beater to be the keynote speaker at a feminist convention. There would be outrage for obvious reasons. And relying on liar-Nancy Pelosi to lecture us about threats to the Constitution should engender outrage too.

liar-Pelosi and her minions have aggressively attacked the First Amendment freedom of religion. They empower leftists on university campuses to aggressively attack the freedom of speech and assembly. They are aggressively campaigning on a promise to erase the Second Amendment.

And she says the president’s lawyers should be disbarred for defending the president in this sham impeachment? She should be expelled from Congress!

One final point. There are quite a few attorneys at the finest law firms in Washington, D.C., who routinely virtue signal. How do they do that?

Each firm encourages its attorneys to do pro bono work to help those who can’t afford it. Do any of these up and coming legal eagles provide help to the family whose son or daughter was killed by a drunk illegal immigrant? No. Do they help defend a child harassed at school for praying? No.

When these attorneys want to virtue signal, they represent radical Islamic terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, and they are praised for their efforts by people like liar-Nancy Pelosi.

To liar-Pelosi, Gitmo inmates deserve legal representation but President Trump does not.

The End Game

By all accounts, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has the votes to block additional witnesses in the impeachment trial. Once the House managers and the president’s legal team finish their closing arguments, the Senate will vote on the issue of witnesses.

After that, Republicans want to move quickly to dismiss the articles of impeachment. But Democrats are vowing to throw up as many roadblocks as possible. “We’re thinking about those options … what kind of motions we’re going to make,” one Democrat senator said. “We’re not going quietly into that good night.”

Whether the Senate stays in session over the weekend or it drags on into next week remains to be seen. Regardless of when the impeachment trial concludes, that won’t be the end of it. The radical left’s resistance will go on day after day after day.

The only thing that offers any hope of breaking the fever that now grips the left is a crushing defeat on Tuesday, November 3rd.

Stand with CWF now as we stand with President Trump!

“Created Equal”

As many of you know, Justice Clarence Thomas is a personal friend of mine. I have known him for many, many years, and was proud to lead the Citizens Committee to Confirm Clarence Thomas when he was nominated for the Supreme Court.

In addition to his solid constitutional opinions, he’s known for listening intently and rarely speaking on the high court. Well, now you have a unique opportunity to hear directly from Justice Thomas himself in a new film called “Created Equal.” Watch the trailer here.

The movie premiered Friday night in select locations around the country. If “Created Equal” is showing in a theater near you, I strongly encourage you to go see it this weekend. You won’t be disappointed!

Still Winning

  • President Trump won a big victory this week when the Supreme Court ruled 5-to-4 to allow the administration to enforce its “public charge” rule with respect to immigration while the case is argued in the federal courts. Justices Gorsuch and Thomas also used the opportunity to issue a scathing rebuke of left-wing judges who are constantly blocking Trump’s legitimate exercise of presidential powers with nationwide injunctions.

  • Earlier this month, a caravan of approximately 4,000 migrants began marching north from Central America to the U.S. border. In another victory for the president’s immigration reform agenda, Mexico intercepted the caravan and deported more than half the marchers.

  • The Trump Administration is joining local efforts to overturn some of New Jersey’s recently enacted “sanctuary policies” that shield illegal immigrants from federal law enforcement.

~The Patriot Post 
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Does Trump Impeachment Trial Need
Witnesses? Founding Fathers 
Answered Question
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DOJreveals 24 redacted emails related 
to Trump's involvement in Ukraine aid freeze
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By MARTY JOHNSON
{ thehill.com } ~ The Department of Justice reportedly said in a court filing just hours after the Senate voted against subpoenaing additional witnesses and documents in President Trump's impeachment trial... that it has two dozen emails related to his involvement in the halt of U.S. military aid to Ukraine. An Office of Management and Budget (OMB) lawyer said in the filing that the emails are protected by “presidential privilege,” The Washington Post reported. “Specifically, the documents in this category are emails that reflect communications by either the President, the Vice President, or the President’s immediate advisors regarding Presidential decision-making about the scope, duration, and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine,” the OMB lawyer said in arguing that the emails should remain redacted. The Center for Public Integrity received a heavily redacted version of the emails in December through a Freedom of Information Act request, according to the Post, which added that the judge in the case wanted an outline of what information is in the emails and why they were redacted. CNN noted that the filing is the administration's first acknowledgement that there are emails related to Trump's thinking about the aid freeze, which is central to Democrats' impeachment effort. Senate Democrats have argued that the White House has refused to hand over documentation that would shed further light on the decision making behind the aid freeze and whether it was linked to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly announcing an investigation into former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Democrats' hopes of obtaining the documents were dashed on Friday, however, when senators voted not to seek witnesses and the documentation in a 51 to 49 vote. The Senate minority needed four GOP senators to break ranks and vote in favor of the measure, but in the end, only two Republicans did: Sens. rino-Mitt Romney (Utah) and rino-Susan Collins (Maine).   https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/481056-justice-department-reveals-blocking-24-emails-in-court-filing-about  
 
Navy, Shin Bet thwart attempted 
weapons smuggling into Gaza from Sinai
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By ANNA AHRONHEIM
{ jpost.com } ~ The Israel Navy has thwarted an attempt to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip from the northern area of the Sinai Peninsula... the military cleared for publication on Tuesday. The joint operation with the Shin Bet Israel Security Agency took place three months ago. Troops from the 916th Flotilla based in Ashdod intercepted a vessel suspected to be smuggling weapons into the blockaded Palestinian coastal enclave.  The two Palestinians aboard the vessel were detained for interrogation. During the investigation, the two revealed that the weapons were intended to be used by Hamas’s naval commando unit.“The foiling of such smuggling attempts helps prevent the continued arming of the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip and directly damages the capabilities of the group’s naval commando unit,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. “The Navy works to monitor and stop terrorist activities and smuggling in early stages to prevent the strengthening of terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip by sea.” During Operation Protective Edge in 2014, five Hamas frogmen naval commandos tried to infiltrate Kibbutz Zikim before they were engaged and killed by the IDF. Since the conflict, Hamas has significantly expanded its naval commando unit with a reported 1,500 frogmen.  While weapons smuggling into the blockaded enclave from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has decreased over the years, in 2016, the Navy intercepted a Palestinian fishing vessel returning from the Sinai to the southern Gaza Strip weighed down by weapons. It was the third ship intercepted by the Navy and Shin Bet in a year and half. At the time, Ynet News reported that the Shin Bet said it had identified a pattern by Hamas to smuggle goods from the restive peninsula into the Strip to sell and finance the organization...   https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Navy-Shin-Bet-thwart-attempted-weapons-smuggling-into-Gaza-from-Sinai-616461   
'Whistleblower' Eric Ciaramella 
publicly named on Senate floor
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by wnd.com ~ Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday dropped a bombshell on the Senate floor, reading the name of the "anti-Trump CIA operative" believed to be the "whistleblower"... who filed the complaint that triggered impeachment, Eric Ciaramella.  During his remarks in the Senate impeachment trial, Paul read the question he submitted last week that was rejected by Chief Justice John Roberts. Ciaramella's name is in the question, but Paul didn't say he was the whistleblower. In any case, Paul and other colleagues have argued the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 requires only that the inspector general not disclose the whistleblower's name. It does not stop a member of Congress, the president or anyone else from identifying a whistleblower. Paul's question was: "Are you aware that House intelligence committee staffer Shawn Misko had a close relationship with Eric Ciaramella while at the National Security Council together, and are you aware and how do you respond to reports that Ciaramella and Misko may have worked together to plot impeaching the President before there were formal house impeachment proceedings?" Paul on Tuesday criticized "overzealous" protections for whistleblowers, arguing the American public needs to know of political bias that might influence the actions of intelligence agencies and secret courts, the Gateway Pundit reported. "By having such overzealous protections we don't get to the root of how with happened," he said. "This could happen again." He warned that biased employees could "game the system to go after you." Americans should be concerned, she said, that under the scumbag/liar-nObama administration federal agents listened to telephone calls and read text messages. He said intel agencies should be banned from going after political campaigns. "We need to change the rules. We cannot have secret courts trying to change the elections," he said. After Roberts refused to read Paul's question, the Kentucky senator posted it on Twitter. Investigative reporter Paul Sperry has reported it's an open secret in Washington that that the whistleblower is Ciaramella. Lawyers for the whistleblower have not made an outright denial that their client is Ciaramella...   https://www.wnd.com/2020/02/bombshell-whistleblower-eric-ciaramella-publicly-named-senate-floor/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking  
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Avoiding the Coronavirus — Or Really, Any Virus
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by MELISSA MACKENZIE
{ spectator.org } ~ To understand how an epidemic, and then a pandemic, can happen, one must understand human nature. People have selfish impulses and crude drives... It’s important to understand that even decent people will do distressingly bad things for reasons even they don’t understand. They will be stupid. They will be careless about or ignorant of how illness spreads. They will be vectors for a virus or bacteria and spread the sickness unintentionally. We know this happens because of how easily the flu spreads now. Commonsense behavior could prevent the spread of colds and influenza, yet the United States had 69,000 people die from the flu in the 2017–18 season alone. That number has been revised down from 80,000 people. Governments are made up of people with diverse motivations and people who often behave illogically. There are stories that Chinese government authorities punished doctors who warned of another SARS-like virus for “spreading rumors.” Still other rumors are rampant that the real number of sick Chinese people is far greater than the nearly 20,000 currently reported. A study in the health journal The Lancet extrapolates around 75,000 infected. No one knows for sure. If either story is true, human error or malevolence has already contributed to the spread of this new disease. Whatever the reason for the virus’ spread, it has proved itself extremely difficult to contain. This much is known: a person can be asymptomatic and pass the virus to someone before the first symptoms appear. Distressingly, after the virus passes, the person’s viral load is dramatically high, and the recovering person can spread the virus further. Now we know that the virus can live on surfaces like doorknobs. For more on that, read the CDC transcript about testing and transmission here https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 )  All coronaviruses constantly mutate a couple strains of the common cold are coronaviruses, and so any extrapolation is theoretical. Here is a good explainer: If one assumes that this new coronavirus will spread and that people are stupid about preventing it, what can one do to protect oneself? This is an important question whether the new virus spreads or not. The influenza bugs are here, and so are the incurable common cold plus myriad other sicknesses. These recommendations will be useful for all of the above...  https://spectator.org/avoiding-the-corona-virus/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=23a4dc4fb0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_04_02_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-23a4dc4fb0-104608113
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Palestinians won't halt security 
ties with Israel, US - Ramallah officials
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By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
{ jpost.com } ~ The Palestinian Authority has no intention of halting security coordination with Israel and the US or moving closer to Hamas in protest against US President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled plan for Mideast peace... according to European Union  officials and Western diplomats who talked to senior Palestinian officials in Ramallah in the past few days. On Saturday, PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced during a speech before an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo that he has informed Israel and the US that the Palestinians would cut all ties with them, including security relations.  The Palestinian Authority has no intention of halting security coordination with Israel and the US or moving closer to Hamas in protest against US President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled plan for Mideast peace, according to  European Union officials and Western diplomats who talked to senior Palestinian officials in Ramallah in the past few days. On Saturday, PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced during a speech before an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo that he has informed Israel and the US that the Palestinians would cut all ties with them, including security relations...   https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Palestinians-wont-halt-security-ties-with-Israel-US-Ramallah-officials-616503   
Why the Left Really Wants to Kill America
By John Eidson
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The century-long attempt to kill capitalism in America gained a dramatic head of steam in the 1960s with the rapid ascendency of progressivism, a Marxist movement that would quietly seize control of the Democratic Party over the last half-century... Which was something different. For most of America’s 244-year history, the dominant political parties that evolved had a common goal constantly working to improve the country they both loved. In the 1860s, a Republican president went to war to end slavery. A century later, a Democratic president launched another well-intentioned war, a war on poverty. Democrats and Republicans alike largely saw their country as a force for good, both at home and abroad. Beginning in the 1960s, that widely- shared view began to show cracks as the progressive movement began tightening its grip on the modern Democratic Party. Democrat icons of the 1960s -- Adlai Stevenson, Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Sam Nunn, Hubert Humphrey and JFK, to name a few -- were genuine patriots who loved their country, a sentiment that was shared by a large majority of that era’s rank and file Democrats. Such is no longer the case. Here are four ways Democrats are looking to end the idea of America altogether: Killing America by replacing patriotism with socialism - In October 2018, The New York Times reported that 69% of progressive Democrats  are ashamed of being American. Increasingly influenced by the progressive wing of their party, Democrats as a whole have moved sharply away from that love of country, and veered toward socialism that sounded like communism: In February 2019, Public Opinion Strategies found that an astounding 77% of Democrats who plan to vote in 2020 self-identify as socialists. Aided and abetted by the complicit mainstream media, the modern Democratic Party has been remarkably successful at driving down patriotism: Gallup  found that less than a third of Democrats are extremely proud of their country. That's less than a third, and trending sharply downward. Killing America by making citizenship meaningless - Why has the modern Democratic Party worked so diligently to erode patriotism? Because love of country is a major impediment to convincing voters to support what they really want, which is yielding their nation’s sovereignty to an international governing body, ultimately the United Nations. With patriotism marginalized, a society’s populace can more easily be led to no longer see themselves as citizens of their country, but as “citizens of the world.” In his July 2008 speech in Berlin, progressive presidential candidate Barack scumbag/liar-nObama told an adoring crowd of 200,000 cheering Europeans, “I come to you as a Citizen of the World.” In Europe, the long-standing national identity of every progressive-run nation is already being intentionally erased, and it stands as a sort of bellwether of things to come over here. Government-encouraged mass migration is its instrument, and the same thing is being attempted in America by the modern Democratic Party. This particular phenomenon is particularly associated with billionaire globalist scumbag-George Soros. The Hungarian-born "stateless statesman" is the most prolific financier of the progressive push for a world without borders...  
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Does Trump Impeachment Trial Need Witnesses?
Founding Fathers 
Answered Question
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It seems all but certain that the Senate will acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment adopted by House Democrats. First, however, senators are expected to decide Friday whether they need additional witness testimony.

Trump’s opponents claim that unless witnesses are called, the entire impeachment trial will have been a sham. This is consistent with what they’ve argued all along: any process Democrats control is fair; any process Democrats don’t control is a cover-up.

In the Democratic-controlled House, for example, Democrats said it was fair to let Democrats on the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees issue subpoenas unilaterally, while requiring Republicans to get Democrats’ permission.

The Democrats also said it was fair for House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., to deny Trump’s side the chance to call or question witnesses in the House impeachment inquiry — unless Trump first agreed to make available all witnesses Nadler demanded.

Then there was the failed attempt by House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to hold the House impeachment articles hostage until the Senate promised to run Trump’s trial the way she wanted.

Now Democrats and their liberal allies are claiming that the trial cannot be fair and the truth simply cannot be found unless the Senate hears from certain witnesses who did not testify in the House.

Do you see a pattern here? The Democrats’ impeachment strategy is simple: heads Democrats win, tails Trump loses.

In deciding whether additional witnesses are necessary, senators should consider several factors.

First, senators already have a mountain of evidence to consider. They have, for example, the entire House impeachment record, totaling nearly 30,000 pages. Additionally, the two sides have filed hundreds of pages of trial briefs, memoranda and appendices.

For the last six days, senators have heard attorneys from both sides present their cases — repeatedly making the same claims in what some might consider rhetorical waterboarding. Those attorneys have also answered many questions from senators.

Second, everyone knows what the House impeachment managers are up to with their demand for witnesses. Additional witness testimony would be only the beginning — not the end — of their gambit.

If House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and his team get to depose even one more witness, they would poke and probe every nook and cranny, looking to pry open anything that they can claim requires additional witnesses and documents.

The Democrats would demand to know every person the witness spoke to about these matters, and create inconsistencies where none exist to undermine the credibility of anyone who does not further the impeachment narrative.

Third, House Democrats have already declared that these witnesses were not necessary for their impeachment case. In the impeachment process, as in life, actions speak louder than words.

When the Trump administration prevented some House-subpoenaed witnesses from testifying, what did the House do?

If the House genuinely needed the testimony, the obvious next step would have been to seek enforcement of the subpoenas by a court. Not only did the House not do that — in one instance it did the exact opposite. When one individual asked a federal judge if he had to comply with a subpoena, the House withdrew it.

Finally, senators should remember that while an impeachment trial may resemble a criminal trial, it is profoundly different.

When it suits them, Trump’s opponents are quick to quote Alexander Hamilton from his observation that impeachable offenses violate “the public trust” and are “political.”

But now, with decisions about witnesses and other evidence to be made, the Democrats have flipped, arguing as if the Senate must obey the Federal Rules of Evidence. They claim that additional testimonial evidence must be considered and that the parties must be allowed to introduce any evidence that they claim is necessary for a fair trial.

The Democrats can’t have it both ways.

The Senate is not sitting as a committee of investigation, but as a court of impeachment. Its constitutional job is not to complete an investigation that the House now complains was incomplete due to its own rush to impeach the president.

The single task of senators is to determine if the House has proven its case and to decide whether they should remove the president from office now—or wait and let the American people make that decision when they vote in the November election.

Ours is not a parliamentary system, and impeachment cannot be used as a “no-confidence” vote to remove a president when members of Congress dislike him and his policies.

While America’s founders included the impeachment process in the Constitution, they opposed using it in a way that, as James Madison put it, would mandate that the president serve only at the pleasure of the Senate.

Senators should prevent that from happening now.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68302?mailing_id=4839&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4839&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=b

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The Myth of the Tiny Radical Muslim Minority
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Media Editors
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Godspeed, Rush Limbaugh
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By Brian C. Joondeph
{ americanthinker.com } ~ As I was about to begin writing about the sun shining on President Trump's re-election efforts, a dark cloud passed over my Twitter feed announcing that Rush Limbaugh has advanced lung cancer and will be taking time off for medical treatment... What terrible news for the 30 million–plus weekly "Ditto-heads," faithful listeners to his daily three-hour commentary on news, politics, sports, and popular culture. Rush "made the complex understandable," as he liked to say, using irreverent humor to make his points. It was effortless for Rush, doing all of this with "half his brain tied behind his back. "As a physician, hearing the words "advanced lung cancer" is frightening. There are different types of lung cancer, ranging from bad to worse to horrific, none of them a walk in the park. Advanced cancer often means that it is not removable surgically or else has spread to other parts of the body. The details are important to Rush, his family, and his physicians, but they are not important for us. For his listeners, who know Rush as a familiar voice on midday radio, all we know is that Rush has been abruptly removed from our lives, either temporarily or permanently, leaving an early afternoon void in our daily dose of the "Limbaugh Doctrine." I was introduced to Rush in the early 1990s through my staunchly conservative parents, long departed. They never experienced the lows of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration or the highs of the Trump presidency, but they faithfully listened to Rush every day, enjoying parodies of Ted Kennedy, "The Philanderer," and of Rush with his uncanny impression of Slick Willy, AKA scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton. I enjoyed watching his early-morning television show back in the '90s and purchased several of his trademark neckties. I read both of his books, The Way Things Ought to Be and See I Told You So. Both bestsellers were a conservative manifesto, explaining clearly and concisely the issues of the day. He laid out the goals of the radical environmental movement Environmental Whackos and the militant feminist movement Feminazis and, in his irreverent way, made fun of it all by saying he loves the women's movement, especially when walking behind it. Rush was a counterweight to the near monopoly of the left in mainstream media, from network and cable news networks to the once-upon-a-time prominent newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, all accurately described by Rush as the "Drive-By Media." Hopefully, "Maha Rushi," the "Mayor of Realville" and "Doctor of Democracy," will soon return to his spot, "on the cutting edge of societal evolution," showcasing his "talent on loan from God." Best wishes to Rush Limbaugh and his family, and Godspeed in his biggest challenge.  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/godspeed_rush_limbaugh.html  
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Buttigieg Leading Iowa Caucus 
with 62 Percent of Results Reported
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By MAIREAD MCARDLE
{ nationalreview.com } ~ Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg leads the Iowa caucuses. With 62 percent of precincts reporting, the former South Bend, Ind. mayor leads in state delegates at 26.9 percent... with Senator commie-Bernie Sanders in second place at 25.1 New Hampshire percent. commie-Sanders, however, leads in the popular vote. Senator Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren came in third at 18.3 percent, while former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden, the national frontrunner until recently, took fourth place at 15.6 percent. Senator Amy Klobuchar garnered 12.6 percent support, tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang 1.1 percent, and billionaire philanthropist Tom Steyer 0.3 percent. Results from 38 percent of precincts have still not been released. Buttigieg declared victory Monday night before the officials results were released. “We don’t know all the results,” Buttigieg told supporters in his speech claiming a win. “But we know, by the time it’s all said and done, Iowa, you have shocked the nation, because by all indications, we are going on to victorious.” The New Hampshire primary will take place Tuesday of next week. The Iowa caucus was plagued by “inconsistencies” in reporting from local precincts as well as a glitch in the new smartphone app the state party was using to report results. The process was thrown in to disarray after the app failed and precinct managers tied up phone lines in their attempts to call state party officials to report results, only to be placed on hold for hours. Partial results were released almost a full day later on Tuesday evening. The Iowa Democratic Party apologized for the chaotic process at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. “The reporting of the results and circumstances surrounding the 2020 Iowa Democratic Party caucuses were unacceptable. As chair of the party I apologize deeply for this,” Iowa Democrats chair Troy Price said.   https://www.nationalreview.com/news/iowa-caucuses-pete-buttigieg-leading-with-62-percent-of-results-reported/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=19354156   
The Real Reason Arabs in Israel 
Do Not Want to Live in 'Palestine'
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Arab citizens of Israel, who number nearly two million, are up in arms about US President Donald Trump's plan for Middle East peace... which proposes including some of their communities in a future Palestinian state. Since the unveiling of the plan, thousands of Arabs have been demonstrating to express their rejection of the idea of placing them under the sovereignty of a Palestinian state. Trump's "Peace to Prosperity" plan proposes land swaps that could include both populated and unpopulated areas. It suggests that the so-called Triangle area in Israel, consisting of several Arab communities "which largely self-identify as Palestinian, become part of the State of Palestine." The plan points out that the Arab communities "were originally designated to fall under Jordanian control during the negotiations of the Armistice Line of 1949, but ultimately were retained by Israel for military reasons that have since been mitigated." Why are the 250,000 Arab Israelis living in the Triangle area strongly opposed to the idea of becoming part of a Palestinian state? The main reason Arabs in Israel are afraid of becoming Palestinian citizens is because they know that the Palestinian state will be anything but democratic. Many Arab citizens of Israel see how Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip are subject to human rights violations on a daily basis. In Israel, Arab citizens participate in the general elections and have their own representatives in the Knesset. In the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinians have been deprived of free and fair elections since January 2006. The continued power struggle between the PA and Hamas has denied Palestinians the right to vote for new members of their parliament, the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). In addition, Palestinians have been denied the right to vote for a new president since January 2005, when Mahmoud Abbas was elected for a four-year term of office. Last month, Abbas entered the 16th year of the same term. In light of the ongoing dispute between the PA and Hamas, the prospects of holding new presidential or parliamentary elections remain zero...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15516/arab-israelis-peace-plan 
liar-Pelosi Says Keeping Terrorists 
Out of America is “Discrimination”
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by themadpatriots.com ~ One of our favorite things about President Trump is how easily he’s able to get Democrats to defend the most outrageous ideas. With his hardline “America First” policies, he’s convinced Democrats to support Iran... go to bat for illegal immigration, bash police, and even stand up for the practice of letting babies die on the operating table. As long as it puts them to the left of Trump, Democrats are willing to support and promote the sickest political platform in American history. It really is remarkable. This week, in the wake of Trump’s expanded travel ban, Democrats like House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi are basically telling us that they would rather let terrorists come into the country than to flirt with any policy that smacks of “discrimination.” “The Trump administration’s expansion of its outrageous, un-American travel ban threatens our security, our values and the rule of law,” liar-Pelosi said in a statement. “The sweeping rule, barring more than 350 million individuals from predominantly African nations from traveling to the United States, is discrimination disguised as policy.” Ah, we’ve shifted from “Muslim-majority” nations to “predominately African. ”The new travel ban will keep current policies in place for Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen while adding six new dangerous countries: Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Tanzania and Sudan. “With this latest callous decision, the President has doubled down on his cruelty and further undermined our global leadership, our Constitution and our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants,” loiar-Pelosi said. Really, liar-Nancy? It’s our “heritage” to be a welcoming station for hordes of permanent immigrants from Sudan? You can’t be serious. This has nothing to do with being “callous” or cruel or racist. This expanded travel ban merely targets countries who, for whatever reason, cannot provide the U.S. with enough documentation and information about their visa-seekers to allow for complete vetting. To keep letting immigrants from these countries move to the U.S. would be to throw our national security to the wind. It would be to simply cross our fingers and hope for the best. You want us to do that just so we can pat ourselves on the back for being politically correct? Hopefully voters are watching carefully, because this is exactly the kind of dangerous nonsense that Democrats will bring to the White House if they win in November. liar-Pelosi is one sick person and must be removed from Congress.  http://www.themadpatriots.com/politics/pelosi-says-keeping-terrorists-out-of-america-is-discrimination/   
Iowa Caucus vote totals delayed amid 'inconsistencies'; campaigns lash 
out at 'crazy' state party
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By Gregg Re and Allie Raffa
{ foxnews.com } ~ The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) still has not reported official vote totals in the critical Iowa Caucuses as of early Tuesday morning... in a largely unexplained and unprecedented delay that has raised questions about the legitimacy of the contest — and Democratic campaign officials are livid, Fox News has learned. The Trump campaign, meanwhile, openly suggested that the delay meant that the caucuses were being "rigged," and that the embarrassing night proved that the Democratic Party can't be trusted to run Americans' health care and implement sweeping new government programs. Even if a winner were ultimately announced, the chaos and confusion has seemingly erased any hope for the major momentum boost that would normally result. "We found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results," the IDP said in a statement at 11:30 p.m. EST. "In addition to the tech systems being used to tabulate results, we are also using photos of results and a paper trail to validate that all results match and ensure that we have confidence and accuracy in the numbers we report. This is simply a reporting issue. The app did not go down and this is not a hack or an intrusion. The underlying data and paper trail is sound and will simply take time to further report the results." Fox News is told that during an initial conference call with the campaigns, an IDP representative said the party would be "getting photos of the paper results sent over," but didn't answer any questions and then hung up on all the campaigns, even as frustrated staffers pushed for answers. A campaign staffer told Fox News the IDP's brief call was "crazy." Another campaign official told Fox News, “Yes, they did hang up.” During a second, equally contentious conference call early Tuesday morning, the IDP reportedly informed campaigns they could expect results sometime later on Tuesday, but gave no information about how the results would be verified or when precisely they would be published. The 2016 Iowa caucus tallies were provided on the same day of voting, with more than 90 percent of precincts reporting by 11:00 p.m. ET that year. Speaking on a brief call with reporters at approximately 1:10 a.m. ET on Tuesday that lasted a little over a minute, the IDP said the system to validate electoral results was taking longer than expected, but that there had been no hack or intrusion. The IDP did not specify a precise time for results to post on Tuesday...
liar-Pelosi DOUBLES DOWN  
House Passes It 228 To 175
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by Martin Walsh
{ explainlife.com } ~ Democrats continue to look for ways to restrict President Donald Trump’s role as commander-in-chief after he approved a decisive airstrike last month that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani... Soleimani played a critical role in killing thousands of American soldiers and innocent civilians over the years. Soon after the airstrike, Democrats and their allies in the media immediately sided with Iran and claimed the president didn’t have the legal authority to “approve” the airstrike. Late last week, the Democratic-controlled House approved two more resolutions — mostly along party lines —  that placed restrictions on the president’s ability to take military action against Iran without congressional approval. The legislation would prohibit Trump from using federal funds to strike Iran without prior approval, and repeal an 18-year-old law that he and his advisers have cited to justify killing a top Iranian general earlier this month. Both measures are expected to face difficult odds in the Senate, where GOP leaders can easily block them from coming to the floor for a vote.  Beyond that, this is the latest pathetic example of how far Democrats will go to obstruct the president...   https://explainlife.com/pelosi-doubles-down-house-passes-it-228-to-175-19707/?utm_source=Explainlife.com%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email   
“NUMEROUS HISTORIANS AND LEGAL
EXPERTS” ARE WRONG
ABOUT IMPEACHMENT
by Paul Mirengoff
{ powerlineblog.com } ~ Among those who write for the Washington Post’s news pages, Philip Rucker is arguably the most vicious and dishonest when it comes to President Trump... Rucker’s latest anti-Trump article is called in the paper edition “Probable acquittal of Trump will have long-term effects.” The subtitle is “Senate lowering bar for presidents’ permissible conduct, historians say.” In the body of the article, Rucker claims that this view is supported by “numerous historians and legal experts.” Who are these “historians”? Rucker’s article cites only two: Jon Meacham and Timothy Naftali, both Trump haters. Who are these “legal experts”? Rucker doesn’t cite any. This failure is probably a function of laziness by Rucker. Given the widespread hatred of Trump in academia, Rucker could have found “numerous historians and legal experts” to back his claim that the Senate, when it acquits Trump, will lower the bar on what conduct is impeachable.  The claim is nonsense, though. Trump was impeached without any allegation that he committed a crime or violated a statute. No president has ever been impeached without a crime or statutory violation in the picture. Andrew Johnson was accused of violating a statute that carried a possible prison sentence. scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton was accused of perjury. The articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon alleged conduct that could be charged as criminal in an ordinary court.  Trump stands accused, in essence, of making substantive U.S. foreign policy decisions based on his desire to be reelected president. No president has ever been impeached for this. Nor is Trump the first president to base an important aspect of his foreign policy on electoral concerns. Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, among other presidents, did it — or says he did...   https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/numerous-historians-and-legal-experts-are-wrong-about-impeachment.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29 
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Video: The Myth of the Tiny Radical Muslim Minority
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Media Editors:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L2Jil03qmI&feature=emb_title
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Video: 2020 Media vs. 1999 Media on Impeachment
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Video: We Finally Have Proof of Quid Pro Quos
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Video: Can Quirky, Prickly Bernie Get Nominated? Horace Greeley Did
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Media Editors:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMmZ-0wbkw&feature=emb_title
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Abetting Chinese Espionage
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Arnold Ahlert
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Corruption Coverup – scumbag liar-Nadler 
Schedules FBI Oversight Hearing With Chris
 Wray on Same Day as Impeachment Vote
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Good grief, could House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler be any more transparent with his intentions here? Knowing all eyes will be on the Senate impeachment vote at 4:00pm on the same day... Democrat Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler schedules the House oversight hearing on FBI (FISA Misconduct) for 10:00am Wednesday, February 5th, to bury it. FBI Director Christopher Wray has not been scheduled to face any questioning or public scrutiny by any legislative oversight body since the Inspector General report highlighted gross corruption and FBI misconduct in the December 9th, 2019, FISA report. Additionally, the DOJ/FBI response to the demands of the FISC were also extended to February 5th. The corrupt institutions, and the administrative state that surrounds them, are working overtime to avoid any exposure and national discussion about misconduct that should alarm everyone. Why? Because they targeted Donald Trump… So, bury it. Remember, the questions within this hearing are important. The DOJ/FBI has admitted they need to sequester all evidence in all cases that stemmed from the Carter Page Title-1 FISA surveillance warrant; and they are hunting for that information. A quiet oral request from the DOJ/FBI was noted in a late Friday release from FISA Court Presiding Judge James Boasberg a week ago...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/03/corruption-coverup-nadler-schedules-fbi-oversight-hearing-with-chris-wray-on-same-day-as-impeachment-vote/  
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Investigate Likelihood Six Members of 
scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff Staff and 
NSC Planned Impeachment in Advance
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Senator Rand Paul appears to know a great deal about how the impeachment fraud was constructed... In this Fox News interview Rand Paul outlines that he is aware of six members of the National Security Council and scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff staff who appear to have coordinated their efforts to create the impeachment hoax over a year ago. Additionally, Senator Paul says he will have close discussions with President Trump about the serious FISA issues, including those used to target his administration, that DC refuses to consider. A very interesting interview.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/03/rand-paul-investigate-likelihood-six-members-of-adam-schiff-staff-and-nsc-planned-impeachment-in-advance/
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Iran is increasingly using missiles 
in its military operations — that’s a problem
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by Behnam Ben Taleblu
{ thehill.com } ~ “More important than a military strike, it was a serious blow to dignity, a blow to the dignity of the U.S. as a superpower.”... That’s how Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, described recent missile strikes against bases in Iraq housing American troops during a rare Friday prayer sermon in Tehran last week. Earlier, Khamenei likened the strikes to a “slap” against America. While Iranian officials are no stranger to bombast and invective against the U.S., Iran’s broadcasting of the missile strike, and Khamenei’s repeated touting of it, does not neatly comport with Tehran’s long-established preference for proxy warfare and deniability. Driven by more than a decade of investment in projectile accuracy, there is increasing comfort in Tehran with direct, public and attributable attacks against targets in the Middle East using ballistic missiles launched from Iranian territory. As Iran’s military aptitudes evolve, the prevalence of missiles in Iranian operations will only grow. Iran’s ballistic missile salvo, which by popular accounts were spread out over the course of an hour, constituted Tehran’s long-hyped  “hard revenge” against Washington for the killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds-Force.  According to the U.S. secretary of defense, this reprisal was composed of 16 short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) fired from three locations in Iran at two bases in Iraq, with 11 striking the Al-Asad base in the west and one striking a base in Irbil, in the north. Iranian outlets reported that the regime launched two kinds of SRBMs at the bases in Iraq. The first was allegedly a Fateh-313, which is an SRBM propelled by solid compound fuel with a reported range of 500 kilometers capable of terminal-stage guidance. Experts assess the Fateh-313 to be able to carry a payload of 450-650 kilograms. The second  was the Qiam, a liquid fueled SRBM that is a finless  variant of a Scud-C. The Qiam is capable of traveling 800 kilometers while carrying a payload of up to 650 kilograms...
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SCOTUS Permits Public Charge 
Regulation to Go into Effect
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By Heather Ham-Warren
{ fairus.org } ~ The Trump administration’s decision to expand the definition of a “public charge” has been given the green light by the nation’s highest court. After mixed decisions by appellate courts throughout the country... Solicitor General Noel Francisco urged the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to lift the lower court’ injunctions while the appeals process continued. On Monday, in a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled in favor of the government, permitting the regulation to go in effect as the case worked its way through the judicial process. To recap, in August of last year, the government released their final rule on public charges. Under the new regulations, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will evaluate applicants using many factors such as: age, health, family status, financial status, educational attainment, and skills. These factors will be reviewed by a totality of the circumstances test to determine if an individual could become primarily dependent on a designated list of state and federal programs including, but not limited to, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and public housing. Some of the programs that will not be considered by the final rule include disaster relief, school lunch programs, and the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). While not ruling on the merits of the case, Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a concurring opinion criticizing the abuse of nationwide injunctions by federal judges. Gorsuch, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, stated that the "real problem" in the case is the "increasingly common practice of trial courts ordering relief that transcends the cases before them.” In those situations, he wrote, "it is hard to see how the court could still be acting in the judicial role of resolving cases and controversies." Lower courts will continue to hear lawsuits on the public charge rule in the coming months. As such, it is likely that the Supreme Court will review the issue again. The regulation is expected to go into effect on February 24.  https://www.fairus.org/legislation/federal-legislation/scotus-permits-public-charge-regulation-go-effect?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=eca4cb27-d7ec-4225-a38c-3b1e243f6f4e  
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Gaza Terror Groups Fear Israeli Retaliation 
After Rocket Attacks, Islamic Jihad 
Leaders Go Into Hiding
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by Benjamin Kerstein
{ algemeiner.com } ~ Terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip are reportedly on high alert as tensions rise in Israel’s south after a series of rocket attacks over the weekend... with Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders going into hiding for fear of targeted assassinations. Palestinian sources told leading Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot that the terror group’s leaders are changing their daily routines and moving clandestinely from place to place, fearing that the IDF will locate and kill them in retaliation for the spate of rocket attacks. Islamic Jihad, which is primarily sponsored by Iran, is particularly fearful because the group has been responsible for the majority of the rocket attacks that have taken place recently, and believes the head of their “Gaza Brigade,” Khalil al-Bahtini, is the most likely target for an assassination attempt. Bahtini belongs to a family affiliated with Islamic Jihad and has survived several Israeli assassination attempts in the past. Palestinian sources told Yediot that he has been groomed for a top post by the terror group from an early age, and was trained extensively by Iran. Three months ago, Israel killed the commander of Islamic Jihad’s “northern division,” Baha Abu al-Ata, further raising the terror group’s concerns. The sources told Yediot that Islamic Jihad is not the only terror group that fears further Israeli retaliation. Hamas, which rules the Strip, has suffered far more significant losses in recent days than is widely known. The IDF, say the sources, has struck two “strategic” underground installations used by the terror group, and the damage done to Hamas as a result was described as severe. Hamas has enforced complete silence over the extent of the damage, and Israeli officials have described the retaliatory attacks in relatively banal terms. Nonetheless, Hamas appears determined to continue allowing rocket fire by other terror factions in Gaza, as well as sponsoring the use of explosive balloons flown over the border into Israel.   https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/02/02/report-gaza-terror-groups-fear-israeli-retaliation-after-rocket-attacks-islamic-jihad-leaders-go-into-hiding/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/   
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Abetting Chinese Espionage
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Arnold Ahlert:  Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, was charged last Tuesday with lying about payments he’d taken from Communist China’s “Thousand Talents Plan,” which is an effort to recruit researchers. Two Chinese nationals were also charged. Yanqing Ye, a Boston University robotics researcher, was charged with lying about her position as a lieutenant in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, and Zaosong Zheng, a cancer researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was arrested in December for allegedly attempting to smuggle research samples out of the country. “No country poses a greater, more severe or long-term threat to our national security and economic prosperity than China,” stated  Boston FBI agent Joseph Bonavolonta. “China’s communist government’s goal, simply put, is to replace the U.S. as the world superpower, and they are breaking the law to get there.”
 

Indeed. And like so many other Americans whose concerns for personal gain apparently transcend concerns for our nation, Leiber had quite a lucrative deal going for himself. According to prosecutors, Lieber was paid $50,000 a month by the Wuhan University of Technology in China and received up to $158,000 in additional living expenses. He was also awarded more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at the Chinese university. In exchange, Lieber was expected to publish articles, apply for patents on behalf of the Chinese university, and organize international conferences, all with the intent of helping China become proficient in cutting-edge science.

When confronted, Lieber gave “false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements” to both the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding his participation in the Thousand Talents Plan, according to a charging document written by an FBI agent. That would be the same Thousand Talents Plan the U.S. government has designated as a threat to national security.

The DOD and NIH also provided Lieber with $15 million in grant funding, which required him to disclose any ties to foreign funding, and his deception caused Harvard to make false statements to the NIH about Lieber’s work with the Chinese.

Yanqing Ye, who has apparently fled to China, is wanted  for acting as an agent of a foreign government, visa fraud, making false statements, and conspiracy. In addition to being a People’s Liberation Army lieutenant (a fact she failed to disclose when applying for a U.S. visa), a search of her electronic devices allegedly revealed Ye obtained information about two U.S. residents with expertise in robotics and computer science.

Zaosong Zheng, who obtained a visa sponsored by Harvard University in 2019, was arrested at Boston’s Logan International Airport in December, while attempting to smuggle 21 vials of cancer-research material out of the country. Zheng, who stole the vials from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, allegedly hid them in a sock in his suitcase. Like Ye, the FBI alleges Zheng was also working for the Chinese government. Deemed a flight risk, he is being held without bail.

Both Harvard and Beth Israel are cooperating with authorities.

“The arrest of Charles M. Lieber, the chair of Harvard’s department of chemistry and chemical biology, signaled a new, aggressive phase in the Justice Department’s campaign to root out scientists who are stealing research from American laboratories,” The New York Times  reports.   

It also validates a bipartisan report by the Senate investigations committee revealing “how the American taxpayer has, in effect, unwittingly funded research that has contributed to China’s global rise over the past 20 years,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) stated last November.

The American taxpayer? Breitbart’s Neil Munro provides a far more accurate description: “Careless elites in government and in universities help the Chinese government steal U.S. technology and get taxpayer funding for Chinese research.”

The report’s co-chair, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), also addressed the “lax oversight of federal research grants and the ineffective and mixed messages agencies have been delivering to schools and researchers.” Yet he was as myopic as Portman, further insisting that America should not abandon international collaboration with regard to science and technology. “As China’s aggressive efforts show,” he said, “our scientists, research institutions, and universities remain the best in the world and serve as a magnet for talented people looking to do meaningful, cutting-edge work.”

Not quite, Sen. Carper. China’s efforts show it’s determined to achieve global supremacy — by any means necessary.

Yet, for the American Left, President Donald Trump’s increased vetting is tantamount to racism. “The push to stanch China’s well-documented and costly theft of U.S. innovation and know-how has also raised questions about overzealous prosecutors and racial profiling,” Bloomberg News columnists Janelle Lawrence, Chris Dolmetsch, and Malathi Nayak assert.

Would Americans prefer a more lackadaisical approach toward a nation described by Victor Davis Hanson as one well known for “its gulag-like reeducation camps, its systematic mercantile cheating, its Orwellian surveillance apparatus, its serial public-health crises, and its primitive hinterland infrastructure”?

Unfortunately, for our elitists in government and business, the answer is yes. And in a speech given on October 13, 2016, candidate Donald Trump illuminated exactly why, saying, “There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense.”

Conspiratorial? Ask the millions of Americans living in outsourcing-ravaged communities. The same ones expected to abide poverty, hopelessness, and rampant drug addiction in exchange for cheap consumer goods — while being ridiculed on national television by a trio of elitist hacks.

“Western elites often harangue about misdemeanors when they cannot address felonies — a strange sort of psychological penance that excuses their impotence,” Hanson asserts.

Can’t, or won’t? And what if that impotence — impotence that invariably elevates avarice over national security — is by design?  

~The Patriot Post

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Energy Policy That Wins
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Robin Smith:  Every president since Richard Nixon has promised energy independence to Americans as a measure of national security. Promises and pledges have come and gone from the White House since the 1970s — but now, the United States of America is an exporter of crude oil as well as natural gas and, yes, Americans can be declared energy independent.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (USEIA), “In November 2019, the United States became a net exporter of all oil products, including both refined petroleum products and crude oil.”

For the very reasons eight presidents prior to Donald Trump promised this energy autonomy, it’s now evidenced with the stability of oil prices that no longer wildly fluctuate with every world event.

Middle East policy has become more shaped by those drilling in Pennsylvania, North Dakota, and Texas. Yet leftists still declare, “We just can’t drill our way out of the problem.” Well, that’s exactly what happened.

Despite, not because of, the policies of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, exploration, drilling, and fracking for natural gas and oil expanded with no appearance of turning back as the Trump administration approved last week the Keystone Pipeline right of way for a crucial 46-mile stretch controlled by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Keystone was first proposed in 2008, but faced repeated rejections during the Obama years. This approval permits the $8 billion construction project expected to move up to 35 million gallons of crude oil every day from western Canada to terminals on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

What does this mean to average Americans?

According to economist Stephen Moore, “At least $1 trillion of U.S. economic output is related to the shale revolution,” with more than 1.5 million Americans working in the industry. A separate study by the American Petroleum Institute cites at least four million jobs connected to the shale oil and gas energy transformation that include work in construction, engineering, pipe fitting, steel production, trucking, and sales jobs.

Specifically, Michigan and Ohio together have more than 400,000 workers tied to the shale industry, with Pennsylvania home to an additional 320,000 alone. Colorado and Florida each have more than 200,000 oil and gas workers. It’s obvious that these states hold not only precious natural resources but critical voters that serve as the fuel for the engine of 2020 politics.

While these states are the heart of the shale industry, Texas has more than two million employees of gas and oil companies. Add to that the coal workers who showed up in 2016 from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio supporting Trump. He embraces an all-of-the-above approach to energy that includes fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, and renewables, but without the subsidies propping up the green industry.

It’s obvious that fossil fuels and nuclear energy are not welcomed in the Democrat Party, as evidenced by the lineup of presidential candidates whose policies would stall the American economic engine, killing millions of jobs while massively increasing prices.

As Salena Zito and Brad Todd wrote in their book, The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics, those who are red-blooded and blue-collared are now the GOP — yes, it’s a Growing Opportunity Party. As the elections inch closer, expect effective reminders that Democrats view those who cling to their God and guns as “deplorable,” as well as disdain all who see the value in America being first in energy exploration and production. That might be called #Winning for conservatives.   ~The Patriot Post

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Actual vs. Counterfeit Intolerance
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Tuesday News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


OFF TO A SUPURB START: “It’s a total meltdown”: Confusion seizes Iowa as officials struggle to report Democrat caucus results (Politico)

SOTU AT 9 p.m.: President Donald Trump will use Tuesday’s State of the Union address to tout his record on the economy and — perhaps — take an early victory lap with the Senate impeachment trial expected to wrap up this week. (USA Today)

Government & Politics


FOR THE RECORD: Race relations have improved dramatically since Trump took office (PJ Media)

IMPEACHMENT CLOSING ARGUMENTS: Democrats claim “duty demands” a conviction, as Trump team decries “rush to judgment” (Fox News)

TIME FOR ANSWERS: Senate Intelligence Committee will call Ukraine whistleblower to testify, Lindsey Graham reveals (The Daily Wire)

IF IT HELPS THE NARRATIVE… Michael Bloomberg ad uses scumbag/liar-nObama-era footage of caged migrants to criticize Trump (The Daily Caller)

GET WELL SOON: Rush Limbaugh announces he has “advanced lung cancer” (Fox News)

Culture & Heartland


EXPLOITING A VICTIM: Climate alarmists’ teenage puppet Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (The Daily Signal)

NOT JUST VIRGINIA: Hawaii gun owners face tidal wave of anti-Second Amendment bills (Bearing Arms)

THANKFULLY, MOST OF THE COUNTRY ISN’T LISTENING: Democrats who use Twitter are more ideological and less willing to compromise (National Review)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Hopefully, Iowa has failed the nation for the last time (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: How Keynesian ideas weaken economic fundamentals (Mises Institute)

HUMOR: Trump to deliver State of the Union in scuba gear to avoid drowning in liberal tears (The Babylon Bee

~The Patriot Post
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China Gut-Punched as 2nd Deadly 
Disease Breaks Out
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By Jack Davis
{ westernjournal.com } ~ The Chinese province adjacent to the one where the coronavirus first appeared is facing an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, according to news reports... What officials said was a highly pathogenic strain was reported in Hunan province, just south of Hunei province where the coronavirus-plagued city of Wuhan is located, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced Saturday, according to  Reuters. The government reported that the outbreak took place on a farm that had 7,850 chickens, 4,500 of which died due to the disease. More than 17,000 poultry were later killed to avoid the spread of the disease, the government reported. The World Health Organization said the bird flu causes severe respiratory disease in birds and is contagious to humans. “Human cases of H5N1 avian influenza occur occasionally, but it is difficult to transmit the infection from person to person. When people do become infected, the mortality rate is about 60 percent,” WHO reported on its website. Despite the high mortality rate, WHO cautioned against panic. “Almost all cases of H5N1 infection in people have been associated with close contact with infected live or dead birds, or H5N1-contaminated environments. The virus does not infect humans easily, and spread from person to person appears to be unusual. There is no evidence that the disease can be spread to people through properly prepared and thoroughly cooked food,” the WHO said. However, the organization said that if the virus were to mutate and become easily transmissible to humans, there could be a major health concern. “H5N1 infection in humans can cause severe disease and has a high mortality rate. If the H5N1 virus were to change and become easily transmissible from person to person while retaining its capacity to cause severe disease, the consequences for public health could be very serious,” it said. This is not the first report of bird flu in China. Last June, an outbreak of H5N6 flu was reported in western China, according to  Reuters, while in January another outbreak of H5N6 was reported there, according to another Reuters report. The bird flu outbreak comes as a gut-punch to a China already reeling from a coronavirus outbreak. As of Saturday, 259 Chinese had died from the virus and about 12,000 infections had been confirmed, according to The New York Times...  https://www.westernjournal.com/china-gut-punched-2nd-deadly-disease-breaks/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance   
Importing Socialism
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by ERIC PETERS
{ spectator.org } ~ One of the first things President Trump did after being elected was to take a pair of pliers to the teeth of socialized medicine — scumbag/liar-nObamacare — and rescind the “shared responsibility payment”... the massive fine applied to Americans who wanted nothing to do with socialized medicine and the costs it imposed. By getting rid of the “shared responsibility payment,” the president effectively got rid of scumbag/liar-nObamacare’s “individual mandate” to buy into socialized medicine, undermining the whole thing. So it’s ironic — and tragic — that the president who worked to get rid of homegrown medical socialism is importing socialized medicine from abroad. To be fair, it may not be the president who’s working to import medical socialism. It’s the permanent bureaucracy — aka the swamp. Which the president famously promised to drain. But it’s filling back up, courtesy of the bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services, which wants to tie the prices of drugs sold in the United States to the price-suppression of drugs in socialized countries. This is styled International Price Indexing — and it’s being presented to the public using the same superficially appealing but economically fraudulent arguments used to peddle scumbag/liar-nObamacare — which promised lower health care costs and more health care choices. But what did Americans end up with? The cost of health care coverage has increased massively since passage of the not-so-Affordable Care Act. Even the relentlessly pro-ACA New York Times admits — while trying not to — that the average cost of the lowest-tier and most meager coverage “silver” scumbag/liar-nObamacare plan for a family of four is currently $1,520 per month — more than the average family’s monthly mortgage costs and equivalent to about a third of the average family’s annual pre-tax income. Part of the reason mandated coverage costs as much as it does is precisely because it is mandated. When you can’t say no to something, the price of that something tends to be higher — and lower quality. For example, it has become almost impossible to buy just a high-deductible/low premium catastrophic coverage plan. Single men without children are required to buy maternity coverage; people who don’t drink are forced to “bundle” substance abuse counseling — and pay for it, too. Another cost takes the form of absence. Fewer — or no — choices. The things which people don’t notice they haven’t got — because they were never produced...  https://spectator.org/importing-socialism/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=841e4eeeb8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_03_02_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-841e4eeeb8-104608113   
Europe Cowers in Front of Iran and Hezbollah
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by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The British finance ministry has added the entirety of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah — Arabic for "The Party of Allah"... to its sanctions list and has ordered a freeze on any assets it may have in the United Kingdom. The move, aimed at cracking down on Hezbollah's fundraising activities in Britain, adds increased enforcement teeth to the British government's February 2019 decision no longer to distinguish between Hezbollah's military and political wings and to classify the entire organization as a terrorist group. With the exception of the Netherlands, which outlawed all of Hezbollah in 2004, the UK now has the most comprehensive set of sanctions against the terrorist group in Europe. Being a member of, or providing support for, Hezbollah is a crime in Britain punishable by up to ten years in prison. In a so-called General Notice of Final Designation dated January 17, 2020, the Office of Financial Sanctions of the British Treasury  ordered financial institutions in the UK to check whether they hold any accounts, funds or economic resources for, or provide financial services to, Hezbollah; freeze such accounts, and other funds or economic resources; suspend the provision of any financial services to Hezbollah; and report any findings to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), in compliance with the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Act 2010 (TAFA). The British Treasury noted: "Hezbollah itself has publicly denied a distinction between its military and political wings. The group in its entirety is assessed to be concerned in terrorism and was proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK in March 2019. This listing includes the Military Wing, the Jihad Council and all units reporting to it, including the External Security Organization." Britain joins the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, Israel, the 22-member Arab League, the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council as well as Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay in making no distinction between Hezbollah's military and civilian wings. In all, more than 30 countries have banned the group in its entirety...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15510/europe-iran-hezbollah  
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Millions Of People Are Still Slaves Across 
The World, Including In The United States
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By Christina Villegas and Vicki Alger
{ thefederalist.com } ~ National Freedom Day commemorates the joint resolution submitting the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery to the states, signed by President Lincoln on February 1, 1865... Today, slavery has been outlawed in every country, and we frequently treat it as a relic of the past. “Slavery is like polio,” as The Economist once noted. “Most westerners associate it with earlier, darker times in human history. Its eradication is a sign of human progress.” If only.Despite the strides made over the last 155 years, slavery is alive and well. Slavery—the subjection of human beings to absolute, uninhibited, and unaccountable power—remains, in the words of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, “the most abject, the most terrible bondage every imposed on any portion of mankind.” As in centuries past, its “grand aim…always and everywhere, is to reduce man to a level with the brute.” Over the past two decades, efforts to combat a wider array of forms of modern slavery have intensified. In October 2000 Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), which has been reauthorized several times since, most recently in January 2019. In November 2000, the United Nations adopted the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, often referred to as the Palermo Protocol, to supplement the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. While these measures are intended to promote international cooperation in combatting modern slavery, the term “trafficking” suggests that it is largely a transnational problem involving organized crime networks in far-away places. Most Americans, for example, think human trafficking requires movement across state or international borders. In reality, more than three-fourths of all modern slavery victims worldwide are exploited in their countries of residence—this is particularly true of victims of non-sexual forced labor. Still, quantifying the extent of human trafficking remains challenging and controversial. The International Labour Office and Walk Free Foundation estimate that at least 40 million individuals worldwide were believed to be victims of forced labor and forced marriage in 2016, including more than 400,000 victims in the United States. Such figures have been criticized for being too high. Estimates from various American government agencies are far lower, but those estimates are also plagued by inconsistent definitions and methodological weaknesses, raising concerns that the number of modern slavery victims in the Unites States may be under-reported...  https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/03/millions-of-people-are-still-slaves-across-the-world-including-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=577e605db4-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-577e605db4-83771801  
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Is the Coronavirus Outbreak
China's Chernobyl?
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By Dexter Wright
{ americanthinker.com } ~ To refresh our memories, it was in 1986 when the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and was burning as the solid fuel rods of Uranium melted down... The smoke and steam from the fire and firefighting spread across Northern Europe and the Russian steppes. The number of deaths attributed to this disaster could be as high as 100,000 but accepted estimates are closer to 27,000. It was the failure of the Soviet system in dealing with a coordinated response that shook the faith of the people. They began to question whether the Soviet government had abandoned the interests of the people in favor of propaganda. The conclusion was that it certainly was not the health and welfare of the people which was first and foremost in Soviet governmental policy. Gorbachev himself wrote in 2006: “The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl… was perhaps the true cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” It is clear that Gorbachev could not bring himself to admit that it was Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy which was the underlying cause. Regardless of the causes of the collapse, it seems history is about to repeat itself. The outbreak in People’s Republic of China (PRC) has led to a declaration of a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). In the 2019 WHO report of the ten most likely threats to global health, an influenza pandemic was in the top three. In light if recent events, it seems that it should have been listed as the number one threat. Just as with the Chernobyl cover-up, there are indications that the outbreak of the corona virus is much more severe than has been admitted by the communist government. There are reports that the PRC is digging mass graves and burning bodies to deal with the death toll. If true, then the actual death toll is well above the 170 officially stated by President Xi Jinping’s government. Unlike the trade war or the Hong Kong protest, Xi cannot blame this outbreak on foreign powers. This was also the case with the Chernobyl meltdown. The questions about the official statements concerning the epicenter of the outbreak being a wild game market are being raised. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) issued this statement:   "I would note that Wuhan has China's only biosafety level-four super laboratory that works with the world's most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus," Some scientists now speculate that the government of the PRC was using this lab to devise a biowarfare pathogen...
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IT’S JOHN BOLTON’S TURN
by Paul Mirengoff
{ powerlineblog.com } ~ So now it’s John Bolton who, in the name of defending President Trump, is to be demonized by conservatives. Some conservatives will find the task an easy one... Bolton is a foreign policy/national security hawk. Many conservatives have become rather dovish.  But many other conservatives have continued to admire, or at least respect, Bolton. We like his hard line stance against America’s worst enemies, especially Iran. Bolton has plenty of company under the Trump bus. Some of it is good company. Jeff Sessions was a conservative hero of longstanding. But he fell out of favor for the sin of meeting his ethical obligations as Attorney General and declining, in his capacity as AG, to act as Trump’s consigliere. After his dismissal, Sessions declined to say anything adverse to Trump’s interests. Sessions is a gracious man and he wanted to return to the Senate. Bolton, by most accounts, isn’t gracious and he has no intention of running for office. Thus, he felt no need to hold back when writing about the Trump administration. But that doesn’t mean he deserves to be demonized. He does deserve to be demonized if he has written falsely about Trump. However, there is no reason to believe that what he has written about Trump’s Ukraine policy, or what Trump told him about it, is false. Anyone who has taken the trouble to review the record with even a half-open mind should conclude that Trump’s policy was, as Bolton says Trump told him, to withhold aid to Ukraine for the purpose of inducing that country’s government to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens or at least announce that it would do so. Nor is there any reason to believe that Bolton was okay with Trump’s policy until Trump fired him — though even if this were the case, it wouldn’t show that the policy was other than what Bolton described. Fiona Hill, who worked closely with Bolton at the White House, testified that Bolton analogized the effort to induce Ukraine to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens to a “drug deal.” Obviously, he was disgusted by it before Trump sacked him. Bolton’s August statement that Trump and Ukraine’s president had cordial phone conversations is not at all inconsistent with Bolton’s account of what Trump told him about his Ukraine policy...   https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/its-john-boltons-turn.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29 
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Actual vs. Counterfeit Intolerance
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One of the most revealing things about the leftist mindset is the usual leftist’s lack of self-awareness about his own intolerance, hatefulness and inclusiveness — unless you distort all those terms to whitewash the reality.

I will never forget reading (and writing about) the unfortunate experience of Professor Janice Price, an education instructor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. The school suspended Price and cut her salary for subjecting her students to a “hostile environment.” Her sin was placing issues of Teachers in Focus magazine on the table in the back of her classroom that contained articles written from a Christian viewpoint. One of the articles offered suggestions on how teachers should approach the issue of homosexuality in public schools.

Price told the students they could read the magazines if they wanted to but were not required to and would not be given assignments on them. The article on homosexuality offended one student, who filed a complaint with the administration. The vice president of academic affairs sent Price a letter of reprimand, saying her “reprehensible” action of providing students with “intolerant” material “served to create a hostile environment” in violation of school policy. This administrator said that the university “cannot tolerate the intolerable.” Savor that!

Price’s fellow professor and friend Dr. Mary English aptly described the university’s attitude. “We have to be tolerant and politically correct in all other areas except Christianity,” said English. “So it’s okay to be intolerant of Christians as long as Christians are tolerant of everybody else.” Interestingly, DePauw was — and still is — affiliated with the United Methodist Church. And, no, I’m not kidding.

In the nearly 20 years since this unfortunate incident, the double standard and intolerance against Christians has only intensified. Leftists have grown increasingly intolerant of an expanding universe of things they find intolerable. They are just as lacking in self-awareness as they were then, and even less capable of self-reflection. Their intolerance has, in many cases, turned to hostility and, in some cases, hate.

Now turn with me, if you will, to present-day America, where Sen. Elizabeth Warren seeks the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Warren tweeted a link to a HuffPost article about a U.S. Supreme Court case involving a challenge to a Montana law that provides tax credits for donations to school scholarship organizations that use those donations to fund private schools, both religious and secular. A provision of Montana’s constitution (the Blaine Amendment) prohibits the expenditure of public funds for religious purposes, and the Montana Supreme Court struck down the tax credit program, even though the use of these funds isn’t technically an expenditure of public funds and even though secular schools benefit along with religious schools.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the Montana Supreme Court infringed on the people’s free exercise of religion under the First Amendment by invalidating the program. The court is being asked to follow its precedent that states can’t discriminate against religious organizations by allowing secular organizations to benefit and not religious ones.

dinky/liar-Warren, of course, stands with the Montana Supreme Court. She is against school choice programs and doesn’t want any private schools to benefit. But she’s especially against Christian schools benefitting, because in her view, they teach hate.

“States should focus on funding public schools, not private ones — especially not ones that maintain anti-LGBTQ+ policies,” Warren tweeted. “We must ensure every kid — especially LGBTQ+ kids — can get a high-quality education.”

How does allowing people tax credits for donations to private Christian and secular schools jeopardize LGBTQ+ kids’ education? Warren knows that’s nonsense. Her complaint is that some of the Christian schools that will benefit from the donations use a Christian-based curriculum. She’s upset that their student handbooks teach that God created each person as male or female, and that He created marriage to be between one man and one woman. She’s distressed that some of the schools require students and visitors to use restrooms and locker rooms that conform to their biological sex.

To have a snowball’s chance at the Democratic presidential nomination today, you have to push all the politically correct buttons and pander to the party’s leftist base. Sometimes this means you at least have to pretend that you believe certain scriptural passages constitute hate speech. It means you shouldn’t tolerate the opinions of those who follow these biblical teachings.

Sadly, there is a growing hostility from the left toward certain biblical teachings and those who subscribe to them — an insistence on demonizing them for their beliefs. Pretending this isn’t true won’t make it go away. Calling your attention to it should not be controversial. Pointing out intolerance and hate is not exhibiting intolerance and hate. Rolling over and surrendering one’s principles to conform to society’s ever-changing norms is not courageous. Pray for wisdom, understanding, peace and harmony.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68266?mailing_id=4835&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4835&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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DOB -- The New ID
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by Tom McLaughlin  
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Lindsey Graham: Senate Intelligence 
Committee will call Ukraine whistleblower
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by Daniel Chaitin
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Senate Intelligence Committee plans to call the whistleblower whose complaint was the impetus for impeachment proceedings against President Trump, according to a top Republican senator... With impeachment headed to a likely acquittal next week, Sen. Lindsey Graham described on Sunday how Republicans in the chamber are gearing up for investigations on three fronts. "The Senate Intel Committee under Richard Burr has told us that they will call the whistleblower," the South Carolina Republican said on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures. "I want to understand how all this crap started," he added. The impeachment effort began to take root with the emergence last year of a whistleblower complaint raising concerns about a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the American leader pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens and other Democrats. The complaint, which the intelligence community inspector general determined to be urgent and credible, was submitted by a CIA analyst whose identity has never been publicly confirmed. Republicans have accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, who is now the lead impeachment manager, of being "complicit" with the whistleblower because the person met with a House Intelligence Committee aide seeking guidance before filing the complaint and because the California Democrat recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA official some believe to be the whistleblower at the NSC in the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administrations. "If the whistleblower is a former employee of — associate of loose lips liar-Joe Biden, I think that would be important. If the whistleblower was working with people on scumbag/liar-Schiff’s staff that wanted to take Trump down a year-and-a-half ago, I think that would be important. If the scumbag/liar-Schiff staff people helped write the complaint, that would be important. We’re going to get to the bottom of all of this to make sure this never happens again," Graham said...
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US seeks normali.zation of 
ties between Israel, Arab states
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By OMRI NAHMIAS
{ jpost.com } ~ The US is actively pursuing normalization between Israel and numerous Arab countries in the Middle East... a senior White House official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday just a day after the Arab League rejected the administration’s new peace plan. “We are getting close on our work on normalization,” the official said.  The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive relations between the White House and Arab countries, said that three measures were currently on the agenda: non-belligerency agreements with Israel, direct flights between Israel and Arab countries, and allowing Israel officials to attend events in Arab countries. "We have been working behind the scenes to get it ready," he said.  Last week, ambassadors from Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates attended the unveiling of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, often referred to as the “Deal of the Century.” Their attendance was seen as a warming of ties between Israel and the Arab world. The remarks from the US official came in wake of the Palestinian decision to reject the administration's peace plan. A few media reports indicated frustration among Arab countries from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to take a call from President Donald Trump just days before the White House ceremony. However, the official noted that moving forward with normalization between Israel and Arab countries is not a step meant to replace the peace plan. "It's an initiative led by Jared Kushner, together with his work on the peace plan," the official said. "It is a separate track that the team has been working on for a while. After we released the plan, we saw that the reaction in the Arab street is very moderate and that many of the Arab leaders were ready to do it," the official continued. "When only Turkey and Iran said that they are against the plan, people in the Arab world realized that a line had been drawn."  The official wouldn't say when the first agreement would be reached. "We don't like to set timelines, but there is a ton of momentum," for official added.   https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-seeks-normalization-of-ties-between-Israel-Arab-states-616261 
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 U.S. Universities Set up Front-Line 
Defenses to Keep Coronavirus at Bay
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by ijr.com ~ On its sprawling campus in America’s heartland, thousands of miles from China, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has taken aggressive steps... to keep the fast-spreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students. The school, with one of the highest percentages of Chinese students among U.S. universities, has suspended academic programs in China for the spring semester and banned students from traveling to the country for academic-related matters. It has advised faculty and staff to follow federal travel advisories that, as of Friday, warned against going to China. “We want to take all of the precautions we can so, in the worst-case scenario, we keep our community healthy,” said Robin Kaler, associate chancellor for public affairs at the University of Illinois, 135 miles (217 km) south of Chicago, where the first human-to-human transmission of the disease in the United States was confirmed last week. More than 350,000 Chinese students are pursuing higher education in the United States and 10,000 American students are enrolled in academic programs in China. The sheer number of the students, many of whom have traveled to their home country in recent weeks, makes schools a potential incubator for a widespread outbreak in the United States, given the close proximity of dormitory life. “Colleges and universities are very much on the front line of those because of our role as global institutions,” Sarah Van Orman, chief health officer at the University of Southern California (USC) said. “The challenge is making sure that we are being prudent without overstating the risk.” In dealing with the new outbreak, officials at U.S. colleges and universities can draw from their experiences with previous public health scares, including the 2003 outbreak of the SARS coronavirus...
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Alleged Al Qaeda Leader Arrested In Arizona, 
Where He Taught Driving School
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ A man who the Iraqi government says was the leader of an Al Qaeda cell who took part in the murders of two Iraqi police officers was arrested Thursday in Phoenix... where he reportedly taught driving school.  Authorities arrested Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, following an extradition request from Iraq, federal prosecutors said Friday. An Iraqi judge issued a warrant for Al-Nouri’s arrest on May 12, 2019 on charges that he took part in the premeditated murder of two police officers in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2006.  Prosecutors said that the Iraqis believe Al-Nouri was a leader of the Al Qaeda cell in Fallujah, a stronghold for the terrorist group, which Osama bin Laden led at the time. A complaint against Al-Nouri unsealed Friday says that he led an Al Qaeda group on a mission to kill Iraqi police officers. The group allegedly ambushed and murdered officer Issam Ahmed Hussein on June 1, 2006 and officer Khalid Ibrahim Mohammad on Oct. 3, 2006. Al-Nouri will be held in federal custody until his extradition hearing, where a judge will review information the Iraqis provided. It is unclear when Al-Nouri came to the U.S. He ran A-Plus Driving School in Phoenix,  according to The Arizona Republic. Business records show that Al-Nouri formed the company on June 22, 2016. How did he ever get into the USAhttps://dailycaller.com/2020/02/02/al-qaeda-leader-arrested-phoenix/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11826  
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A Global Catastrophe: "260 Million Christians Experience High Levels of Persecution"
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The global persecution of Christians has reached unprecedented levels: "260 million Christians experience high levels of persecution" around the world... notes the recently published Open Doors World Watch List 2020, an annual report that ranks the top 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted for their faith. Additionally, "2,983 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons. On average, that's 8 Christians killed every day for their faith": "9,488 churches or Christian buildings were attacked," and "3,711 Christians were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned." Note: All quotes in this article are from the World Watch List 2020 report. Dictatorial paranoia continues to make North Korea (#1) the worst nation. "If North Korean Christians are discovered, they are deported to labor camps as political criminals or even killed on the spot." Otherwise, and as has been the case in all statistics and reports on the global persecution of Christians, not only does "Islamic oppression" remain the chief "source of persecution" faced by Christians in seven of the absolute ten worst nations, but 38 of the 50 nations composing the list are either Muslim-majority or have a sizeable Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of these Muslim nations are governed by some form of shari'a Islamic law. It is either directly enforced by government or society or, more frequently, both, though societies — family members in particular — tend to be more zealous in its application. Brief summaries of the seven Muslim nations making the top ten follow: Afghanistan (#2), In Somalia (#3), In Libya (#4), Pakistan (#5), In Sudan (#7), In Yemen (#8), In Iran (#9), Africa...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15507/christians-persecution-global-catastrophe 
Alarm sounded on brand-new 
and even scarier EMP threat
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by wnd.com ~ Triggering a devastating electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack that could kill millions is easier than many believe... according to a report by the Military Cyber Professionals Association.  But the report describes another method of generating an attack as the "poor man's EMP nuke." An "amateur or terrorist" organization could easily generate an EMP that would disable the infrastructure or the electric grid through devices such as a Tesla coil or a Marx generator. Invented in 1891 by Nikola Tesla, the coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. A Marx generator is an electrical circuit, first described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924, that generates a high-voltage pulse from a low-voltage DC supply." Another device that can be an EMP source is the camera flash. This device may be an issue if a terrorist connects it to the wiring of a fly-by-wire jet," the report said. EMP is a high energy, short duration discharge of radio frequency energy that can disable electromechanical devices. "It's particularly toxic at lower energy levels to microprocessors and computers," the report said. "It can be created by a hydrogen bomb explosion at an altitude far above the surface of the Earth. A Marx generator or Tesla coil can also generate it. Other sources of EMP can be naturally occurring phenomena: Lightning, solar flares, and coronal mass discharges from the Sun can also produce EMP," the report said. The threat from an EMP has been proven, the report noted. In 1962, the starfish hydrogen bomb test knocked out 300 street lights and telephone service in Hawaii, 890 miles away. "A potent coil can be built for about $2000 within the means of any amateur or terrorist. The ground connects the whole electrical system, and there is no remediation if you create impulses into the ground system. When you open a circuit breaker with 3-phase power, it does not disconnect the ground," the report said. That should be a worry...  https://www.wnd.com/2020/02/alarm-sounded-brand-new-even-scarier-emp-threat/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking   
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DOB -- The New ID
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by Tom McLaughlin  
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ What’s your date of birth? That’s increasingly how the world knows you. Mine is April 7, 1951. Even to get meals in the hospital they ask me for my DOB. I spent most of last week there for a chronic medical condition you never heard of: Buerger’s Disease. That’s not to be confused with Berger’s Disease which is a kidney problem. Mine, with the “U,” manifests in blood vessels. I get aneurysms and blood clots —so far all in my left leg — and I’ve had seven bypasses over the past 35 years all in the same place (so far), inside my left knee.  
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Vascular surgeons take veins from other places and make them into arteries to get around the clots but I’m running out of suitable veins. Last week, my new surgeon used plastic to firm up an aneurysm and a fabric tube to channel blood. This incision is fifteen inches long. There are scars up and down both legs from groin to ankle. Nearly all of us have something we struggle with. This is my thing.  
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My brother, Dan 
The only other person I ever knew with Buerger’s Disease was my brother and he was dead at 57 by which time he’d lost all his fingers and both legs above the knee. He couldn’t stop smoking and it’s tobacco products that accelerate the disease. I could, so I still have all my parts. For that, I’m grateful. Blood is still getting to my foot — today — so it’s still alive. I’m learning to stay in the day and today is good. I’m getting around with a walker; soon I’ll graduate to a cane; then to a limp. After that I hope to resume running — not too far. I don’t get enough blood down there to go far, but I can still go few hundred yards before cramping up. I hate doing it, but it feels good afterward.
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Between three and four million people were born in the USA during 1951. Divide 3.5 million by 365 and you get 9589 born on April 7, 1951. At my 50th high school reunion last fall, I learned that about a third of my class of 1969 are dead. That would be 3164 of the 9589 Americans born on my birthday leaving 6425 — approximately how many Americans born on 4/7/51 are alive today. Darn few of them are named McLaughlin, so, that’s how I’m known: “McLaughlin 4/7/51.” At 68, I’ve lived about 25,000 days. How many more? I don’t go there. I stay in this day.  
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I’m asked about my birthday so often I’ve started making light of the question. “You don’t have to get me anything,” I answer. “Just a card or a happy birthday on Facebook is fine.” At least dozens, maybe a hundred times lately, I’ve been asked if I’m allergic to anything. “I’m developing an allergy to Democrats,” I’ll quip. Some people chuckle at that, but most declare vehemently: “No politics! That’s off limits.” “Okay,” I say, “How about humor? Is that off limits too?”  
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Another thing I’ve been asked a lot is: “Have you had any anxiety or depression lately?” First I just look at them for a second, then say, “Only when I watch the debates.” Most let that go without getting upset.  
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My brother and I were each diagnosed with Buerger’s Disease when we were 33 years old. He was born April 1, 1955 — almost exactly four years after I was. We had identical surgeries by the same doctor at Mass General. We were even in the same room four years apart. I stopped smoking but continued going to pool tournaments at smoky pool halls and my disease progressed. My aneurysms and clots diminished only when I gave that up too. My brother couldn't quit tobacco and ultimately died after enduring 52 separate amputations. From him, I learned the power of addiction.
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 Near his end, he was contacted by one of the Florida attorneys involved in the multi-billion dollar tobacco settlement of 1998. Though Buerger’s Disease is rare, it’s very easily linked to tobacco in all forms and he wanted to represent my brother in another lawsuit. For him to appear in court minus so many of his parts would, of course, be dramatic, and the tobacco companies would likely settle long before that. He wanted me to join the suit but I refused. That caused a rift between us. I always knew smoking was bad and so did he. No one forced us to do it. The suit was thrown out, but not because of his death. The attorney could have continued on behalf of his estate. It was because of something to do with the statute of limitations between when he was diagnosed and when his suit was filed.
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I have a cemetery plot and a stone engraved with my birthdate. Someone else will arrange to engrave the next date. No hurry.  
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DOB -- The New ID
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Lindsey Graham: Senate Intelligence 
Committee will call Ukraine whistleblower
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Senate Intelligence Committee plans to call the whistleblower whose complaint was the impetus for impeachment proceedings against President Trump, according to a top Republican senator... With impeachment headed to a likely acquittal next week, Sen. Lindsey Graham described on Sunday how Republicans in the chamber are gearing up for investigations on three fronts. "The Senate Intel Committee under Richard Burr has told us that they will call the whistleblower," the South Carolina Republican said on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures. "I want to understand how all this crap started," he added. The impeachment effort began to take root with the emergence last year of a whistleblower complaint raising concerns about a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the American leader pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens and other Democrats. The complaint, which the intelligence community inspector general determined to be urgent and credible, was submitted by a CIA analyst whose identity has never been publicly confirmed. Republicans have accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, who is now the lead impeachment manager, of being "complicit" with the whistleblower because the person met with a House Intelligence Committee aide seeking guidance before filing the complaint and because the California Democrat recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA official some believe to be the whistleblower at the NSC in the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administrations. "If the whistleblower is a former employee of — associate of loose lips liar-Joe Biden, I think that would be important. If the whistleblower was working with people on scumbag/liar-Schiff’s staff that wanted to take Trump down a year-and-a-half ago, I think that would be important. If the scumbag/liar-Schiff staff people helped write the complaint, that would be important. We’re going to get to the bottom of all of this to make sure this never happens again," Graham said...
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US seeks normalization of 
ties between Israel, Arab states
By OMRI NAHMIAS
{ jpost.com } ~ The US is actively pursuing normalization between Israel and numerous Arab countries in the Middle East... a senior White House official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday just a day after the Arab League rejected the administration’s new peace plan. “We are getting close on our work on normalization,” the official said.  The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive relations between the White House and Arab countries, said that three measures were currently on the agenda: non-belligerency agreements with Israel, direct flights between Israel and Arab countries, and allowing Israel officials to attend events in Arab countries. "We have been working behind the scenes to get it ready," he said.  Last week, ambassadors from Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates attended the unveiling of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, often referred to as the “Deal of the Century.” Their attendance was seen as a warming of ties between Israel and the Arab world. The remarks from the US official came in wake of the Palestinian decision to reject the administration's peace plan. A few media reports indicated frustration among Arab countries from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to take a call from President Donald Trump just days before the White House ceremony. However, the official noted that moving forward with normalization between Israel and Arab countries is not a step meant to replace the peace plan. "It's an initiative led by Jared Kushner, together with his work on the peace plan," the official said. "It is a separate track that the team has been working on for a while. After we released the plan, we saw that the reaction in the Arab street is very moderate and that many of the Arab leaders were ready to do it," the official continued. "When only Turkey and Iran said that they are against the plan, people in the Arab world realized that a line had been drawn."  The official wouldn't say when the first agreement would be reached. "We don't like to set timelines, but there is a ton of momentum," for official added.   https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-seeks-normalization-of-ties-between-Israel-Arab-states-616261 
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 U.S. Universities Set up Front-Line 
Defenses to Keep Coronavirus at Bay
by ijr.com ~ On its sprawling campus in America’s heartland, thousands of miles from China, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has taken aggressive steps... to keep the fast-spreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students. The school, with one of the highest percentages of Chinese students among U.S. universities, has suspended academic programs in China for the spring semester and banned students from traveling to the country for academic-related matters. It has advised faculty and staff to follow federal travel advisories that, as of Friday, warned against going to China. “We want to take all of the precautions we can so, in the worst-case scenario, we keep our community healthy,” said Robin Kaler, associate chancellor for public affairs at the University of Illinois, 135 miles (217 km) south of Chicago, where the first human-to-human transmission of the disease in the United States was confirmed last week. More than 350,000 Chinese students are pursuing higher education in the United States and 10,000 American students are enrolled in academic programs in China. The sheer number of the students, many of whom have traveled to their home country in recent weeks, makes schools a potential incubator for a widespread outbreak in the United States, given the close proximity of dormitory life. “Colleges and universities are very much on the front line of those because of our role as global institutions,” Sarah Van Orman, chief health officer at the University of Southern California (USC) said. “The challenge is making sure that we are being prudent without overstating the risk.” In dealing with the new outbreak, officials at U.S. colleges and universities can draw from their experiences with previous public health scares, including the 2003 outbreak of the SARS coronavirus...
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Alleged Al Qaeda Leader Arrested In Arizona, 
Where He Taught Driving School
by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ A man who the Iraqi government says was the leader of an Al Qaeda cell who took part in the murders of two Iraqi police officers was arrested Thursday in Phoenix... where he reportedly taught driving school.  Authorities arrested Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, following an extradition request from Iraq, federal prosecutors said Friday. An Iraqi judge issued a warrant for Al-Nouri’s arrest on May 12, 2019 on charges that he took part in the premeditated murder of two police officers in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2006.  Prosecutors said that the Iraqis believe Al-Nouri was a leader of the Al Qaeda cell in Fallujah, a stronghold for the terrorist group, which Osama bin Laden led at the time. A complaint against Al-Nouri unsealed Friday says that he led an Al Qaeda group on a mission to kill Iraqi police officers. The group allegedly ambushed and murdered officer Issam Ahmed Hussein on June 1, 2006 and officer Khalid Ibrahim Mohammad on Oct. 3, 2006. Al-Nouri will be held in federal custody until his extradition hearing, where a judge will review information the Iraqis provided. It is unclear when Al-Nouri came to the U.S. He ran A-Plus Driving School in Phoenix,  according to The Arizona Republic. Business records show that Al-Nouri formed the company on June 22, 2016. How did he ever get into the USA.
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A Global Catastrophe: "260 Million Christians Experience High Levels of Persecution"
by Raymond Ibrahim
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The global persecution of Christians has reached unprecedented levels: "260 million Christians experience high levels of persecution" around the world... notes the recently published Open Doors World Watch List 2020, an annual report that ranks the top 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted for their faith. Additionally, "2,983 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons. On average, that's 8 Christians killed every day for their faith": "9,488 churches or Christian buildings were attacked," and "3,711 Christians were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned." Note: All quotes in this article are from the World Watch List 2020 report. Dictatorial paranoia continues to make North Korea (#1) the worst nation. "If North Korean Christians are discovered, they are deported to labor camps as political criminals or even killed on the spot." Otherwise, and as has been the case in all statistics and reports on the global persecution of Christians, not only does "Islamic oppression" remain the chief "source of persecution" faced by Christians in seven of the absolute ten worst nations, but 38 of the 50 nations composing the list are either Muslim-majority or have a sizeable Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of these Muslim nations are governed by some form of shari'a Islamic law. It is either directly enforced by government or society or, more frequently, both, though societies — family members in particular — tend to be more zealous in its application. Brief summaries of the seven Muslim nations making the top ten follow: Afghanistan (#2), In Somalia (#3), In Libya (#4), Pakistan (#5), In Sudan (#7), In Yemen (#8), In Iran (#9), Africa...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15507/christians-persecution-global-catastrophe 
Alarm sounded on brand-new 
and even scarier EMP threat
by wnd.com ~ Triggering a devastating electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack that could kill millions is easier than many believe... according to a report by the Military Cyber Professionals Association.  But the report describes another method of generating an attack as the "poor man's EMP nuke." An "amateur or terrorist" organization could easily generate an EMP that would disable the infrastructure or the electric grid through devices such as a Tesla coil or a Marx generator. Invented in 1891 by Nikola Tesla, the coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. A Marx generator is an electrical circuit, first described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924, that generates a high-voltage pulse from a low-voltage DC supply." Another device that can be an EMP source is the camera flash. This device may be an issue if a terrorist connects it to the wiring of a fly-by-wire jet," the report said. EMP is a high energy, short duration discharge of radio frequency energy that can disable electromechanical devices. "It's particularly toxic at lower energy levels to microprocessors and computers," the report said. "It can be created by a hydrogen bomb explosion at an altitude far above the surface of the Earth. A Marx generator or Tesla coil can also generate it. Other sources of EMP can be naturally occurring phenomena: Lightning, solar flares, and coronal mass discharges from the Sun can also produce EMP," the report said. The threat from an EMP has been proven, the report noted. In 1962, the starfish hydrogen bomb test knocked out 300 street lights and telephone service in Hawaii, 890 miles away. "A potent coil can be built for about $2000 within the means of any amateur or terrorist. The ground connects the whole electrical system, and there is no remediation if you create impulses into the ground system. When you open a circuit breaker with 3-phase power, it does not disconnect the ground," the report said. That should be a worry...  https://www.wnd.com/2020/02/alarm-sounded-brand-new-even-scarier-emp-threat/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking   
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DOB -- The New ID
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None really, except as another ID
 
by Tom McLaughlin  
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ What’s your date of birth? That’s increasingly how the world knows you. Mine is April 7, 1951. Even to get meals in the hospital they ask me for my DOB. I spent most of last week there for a chronic medical condition you never heard of: Buerger’s Disease. That’s not to be confused with Berger’s Disease which is a kidney problem. Mine, with the “U,” manifests in blood vessels. I get aneurysms and blood clots —so far all in my left leg — and I’ve had seven bypasses over the past 35 years all in the same place (so far), inside my left knee.  
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Vascular surgeons take veins from other places and make them into arteries to get around the clots but I’m running out of suitable veins. Last week, my new surgeon used plastic to firm up an aneurysm and a fabric tube to channel blood. This incision is fifteen inches long. There are scars up and down both legs from groin to ankle. Nearly all of us have something we struggle with. This is my thing.  
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My brother, Dan 
The only other person I ever knew with Buerger’s Disease was my brother and he was dead at 57 by which time he’d lost all his fingers and both legs above the knee. He couldn’t stop smoking and it’s tobacco products that accelerate the disease. I could, so I still have all my parts. For that, I’m grateful. Blood is still getting to my foot — today — so it’s still alive. I’m learning to stay in the day and today is good. I’m getting around with a walker; soon I’ll graduate to a cane; then to a limp. After that I hope to resume running — not too far. I don’t get enough blood down there to go far, but I can still go few hundred yards before cramping up. I hate doing it, but it feels good afterward.
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Between three and four million people were born in the USA during 1951. Divide 3.5 million by 365 and you get 9589 born on April 7, 1951. At my 50th high school reunion last fall, I learned that about a third of my class of 1969 are dead. That would be 3164 of the 9589 Americans born on my birthday leaving 6425 — approximately how many Americans born on 4/7/51 are alive today. Darn few of them are named McLaughlin, so, that’s how I’m known: “McLaughlin 4/7/51.” At 68, I’ve lived about 25,000 days. How many more? I don’t go there. I stay in this day.  
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I’m asked about my birthday so often I’ve started making light of the question. “You don’t have to get me anything,” I answer. “Just a card or a happy birthday on Facebook is fine.” At least dozens, maybe a hundred times lately, I’ve been asked if I’m allergic to anything. “I’m developing an allergy to Democrats,” I’ll quip. Some people chuckle at that, but most declare vehemently: “No politics! That’s off limits.” “Okay,” I say, “How about humor? Is that off limits too?”  
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Another thing I’ve been asked a lot is: “Have you had any anxiety or depression lately?” First I just look at them for a second, then say, “Only when I watch the debates.” Most let that go without getting upset.  
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My brother and I were each diagnosed with Buerger’s Disease when we were 33 years old. He was born April 1, 1955 — almost exactly four years after I was. We had identical surgeries by the same doctor at Mass General. We were even in the same room four years apart. I stopped smoking but continued going to pool tournaments at smoky pool halls and my disease progressed. My aneurysms and clots diminished only when I gave that up too. My brother couldn't quit tobacco and ultimately died after enduring 52 separate amputations. From him, I learned the power of addiction.
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Me in the middle. Dan second from right. 
 Near his end, he was contacted by one of the Florida attorneys involved in the multi-billion dollar tobacco settlement of 1998. Though Buerger’s Disease is rare, it’s very easily linked to tobacco in all forms and he wanted to represent my brother in another lawsuit. For him to appear in court minus so many of his parts would, of course, be dramatic, and the tobacco companies would likely settle long before that. He wanted me to join the suit but I refused. That caused a rift between us. I always knew smoking was bad and so did he. No one forced us to do it. The suit was thrown out, but not because of his death. The attorney could have continued on behalf of his estate. It was because of something to do with the statute of limitations between when he was diagnosed and when his suit was filed.
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I have a cemetery plot and a stone engraved with my birthdate. Someone else will arrange to engrave the next date. No hurry.  
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'Compassionate' Dems Just
Can't Solve Homelessness
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Brian Mark Weber  
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Chief Justice Roberts Is Right: An Unelected 
Official Should Not Cast Tie-Breaking Votes
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By Erielle Davidson
{ thefederalist.com } ~ On Friday evening, Chief Justice John Roberts announced that should a tie arise during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, he would not step in to break it... Given the near-even split of the Senate along party lines, Roberts’ comments put an end to the extensive speculation that had been bubbling around Washington. Senate Minority leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer prompted Chief Justice Roberts by asking the Justice if he was aware of two instances in which Chief Justice Salmon Chase made tie-breaking votes in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Johnson’s impeachment was the first in our nation’s history, resulting from frequent clashes between the Republican-controlled Congress and then-President Johnson, who repeatedly vetoed legislation designed to protect newly freed slaves. Roberts informed scumbag-Schumer that he was aware of Chief Justice Chase’s voting history, but that he would not be conducting himself in the same manner, should a tie arise. Chase’s two tie-breaking votes were with regards to a motion to adjourn and a motion to end deliberations. Roberts addressed the significance of these two scenarios by stating, “I do not regard those isolated episodes 150 years ago as sufficient to support a general authority to break ties.” “If the members of this body, elected by the people and accountable to them, divide equally on a motion, normal rule is that the motion fails. I think it would be inappropriate for me, an unelected official from a different branch of government, to assert the power to change that result so that the motion would succeed,” he explained...
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Steve Bannon Discusses “The 
Crime of the Century”, the “Soft Coup”
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Steve Bannon appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss ongoing political events. At the beginning of the interview Bannon focuses exactly on the issue that is paramount to the American population... but is being avoided by politicians like Senator Lindsey Graham and institutional leaders like AG Bill Barr. Until there is a process to bring a formal reckoning, sunlight upon the entire enterprise, there will be unending attacks by resistance operatives within the administrative state. Steve Bannon also highlights the plan of the administrative state to diminish the successful accomplishments of President Trump and weaponize the Senate floor speeches to cast a cloud on the State of the Union speech. Indeed, Mitch McConnell has set up the schedule for maximum damage before acquittal.
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Barr: The Real People Trying To ‘Impose Their Values’ On Others Are ‘Militant Secularists’
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By Joy Pullmann
{ thefederalist.com } ~ U.S. Attorney General William Barr clapped back at leftwing hysteria over his support of the First Amendment Tuesday in an interview with Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Sirius XM... “I feel today religion is being driven out of the marketplace of ideas and there’s a organized militant secular effort to drive religion out of our lives,” Barr told Dolan. “To me the problem today is not that religious people are trying to impose their views on nonreligious people, it’s the opposite — it’s that militant secularists are trying to impose their values on religious people and they’re not accommodating the freedom of religion of people of faith.”Since developing similar ideas in depth in several public talks, Barr has been the subject of a series of hit pieces in publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker. It’s not just his full-throated defense of the natural right to obey one’s conscience above one’s government that gets their goat. Barr’s concern for the rule of law, fair play, and due process especially about Russian collusion and impeachment have also brought out the knives. A particularly unhinged — and error-riddled — 10,000-word New Yorker article by David Rohde may have made one accurate assessment: “Barr is the most feared, criticized, and effective member of Trump’s Cabinet.” There is certainly some relationship between the left’s fear and the right’s effectiveness, and thus the neutering attempts. As Sohrab Amari noted, Barr has been ridiculously labeled an “extremist Catholic” associated with a “secretive, ultra-orthodox Catholic sect.” Of course, the point of flak like this is to polarize the target and thus make him ineffective through clouds of mistrust. A parallel effort has been underway much longer against the nation’s first freedom: the duty to obey God before men. Thus in her own attack article against Barr last month in The New York Times, Katherine Stewart put the words religious liberty and religious freedom in scare quotes, even though these are longstanding natural rights that enjoy U.S. legal protection for very good reasons that include staunching bigotry. The ignorant scare quotes are becoming common in even outlets that style themselves objective news sources...  https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/30/barr-the-real-people-trying-to-impose-their-values-on-others-are-militant-secularists/  
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Lindsey Graham Discusses Impeachment 
‘Next Steps’ With Maria Bartiromo
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the impeachment proceedings, the likely continuance of resistance investigative efforts... and Graham’s role in any Senate proceedings. Despite never having a single investigative hearing since he starting promising hearings at the conclusion of the Mueller probe in April 2019, Senator Graham promises hearings to get to the bottom of the loose lips liar-Biden-Burisma issue. Not likely. Bartiromo pushes the Senator on whether he will investigate the origin of the Whistleblower complaint, Graham avoids. Graham promises hearings on FISA abuse. You decide if they will ever happen. The FISA bulk metadata collection re-authorization vote is next month around March 15th.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/02/sunday-talks-lindsey-graham-discusses-impeachment-next-steps-with-maria-bartiromo/
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Who's to Blame for liar-Pelosi-
scumbag/liar-Schiff Impeachment Insanity?
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By J.L. Johnson
{ americanthinker.com } ~ It was the saddest of times, it was the happiest of times; it was the time of funerary apparel and commiserations, it was the time of festive attire and congratulations; it was, in Washington D.C.'s grand theater of the absurd, the time for impeachment... The final act of this Faustian tragedy began a week before Christmas in 2019, when, draped in black and nervous as a mortician trying to look sad at a fifty-thousand-dollar funeral, liar-Nancy Pelosi announced that the president had been impeached. In spite of the melancholy atmosphere that covered the proceedings like a shroud, the proclamation elicited a smattering of cheers and applause from among her colleagues — but an icy stare and a disapproving wave of the speaker's hand quickly silenced the unwelcome outburst. Some twenty-eight days later, with her time of mourning completed, the liar-speaker traded her black raiment for a hot pink ensemble and replaced her somber affect with a Cheshire Cat–worthy smile. Then, with great fanfare, she took thirty gold and onyx ceremonial pens in hand and signed the articles of impeachment. Three days later, and still in a jubilant mood, Ms. liar-Pelosi appeared on the Bill Maher show, where she was greeted with thunderous applause, cheers, and a standing ovation. Like any good celebrity, Speaker liar-Pelosi responded to this outpouring of affection by bowing and waving to her adoring fans. Then, after Maher thanked her for delaying the impeachment until his show was back on the air, they memorialized her accomplishment with a fist bump, while she smiled and said, "Way to go." In the euphoria of that moment, every semblance of her simulated sadness evaporated, and she enthusiastically embraced the spectacle of impeachment. Yet, in spite of her two-faced conduct, liar-Nancy Pelosi is not the problem — and neither is her unstable and two-faced sidekick, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff.Throughout the two-year Rosenstein-Weissmann investigation, Adam Schiff repeatedly claimed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were in cahoots. He could not discuss the details with any specificity, but he assured everyone that he had seen the proof with his own eyes, and  the president's treachery would be exposed when the special counsel issued his report. Yet, when that long awaited day arrived, the proof Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff promised was nowhere to be found. Instead, "The Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election" contradicted his oft-repeated assertion of Russian collusion, and concluded that "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." Much to Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff's dismay, the Russian collusion narrative had crumbled, but he simply would not let it go. During his opening remarks at the Senate impeachment trial, scumbag/liar-Schiff alluded to a Russia-Trump connection some thirty times before turning to the Trump-Zelensky telephone conversation. He then made the astonishing claim that delaying the release of security assistance to Ukraine had increased the probability of a U.S.-Russian war, fought on American soil. "The U.S. aids Ukraine and the people," scumbag/liar-Schiff declared, "so that we can fight Russia over there, and we don't have to fight Russia here."...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/whos_to_blame_for_pelosischiff_impeachment_insanity.html   
Kushner: Palestinians welcome to propose alternative to borders set out in plan
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by timesofisrael.com ~ Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Saturday that the borders envisioned by the Trump peace plan for Israel and the future state of Palestine are not set in stone... and that the Palestinian Authority is welcome to provide input that Washington will take into consideration. “If there are things they want to change, if they don’t like where we drew the lines, they should come and tell us,” Kushner told Egyptian journalist Amr Adeeb during an interview on the El-Hekaya news show. But in an apparent contradiction, the senior White House adviser also made clear that the US was moving forward with plans to recognize an Israeli annexation of West Bank settlements, which would limit the amount of land that will be up for negotiation. Moreover, he declared that if the PA did not agree to work with the Trump administration’s peace proposal, Israeli settlements would continue to expand, thereby making it impossible to establish a Palestinian state. “What’s been happening for many years is that Israel has been expanding as they’ve been negotiating and negotiating, and there has not been a resolution to the conflict,” he said. Kushner, one of the main architects of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, said the US was working on reaching an agreement with Israel to recognize Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank, thereby allowing for Jerusalem to move forward with annexing these areas. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared after the plan’s release Tuesday that he intended to seek his government’s approval for annexing the Jordan Valley along with all Israeli settlements as soon as this week, Kushner pushed back the next day, saying that he wanted Israel to coordinate the measure with the US and that it should not go ahead before Israel has a fully functioning government after its March 2 elections...
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'Compassionate' Dems Just Can't Solve Homelessness
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Brian Mark Weber:  The problem of homelessness in Los Angeles has drawn national and global attention in recent years. Some of the city’s streets are lined with makeshift dwellings and blighted by needles and human feces. The threat of disease is very real, and the city’s residents have reached the breaking point.

The Los Angeles Times reports, “As people living in tents, RVs and makeshift shelters become a fact of life in neighborhoods far and wide, homelessness is now an all-consuming issue in Los Angeles County, with 95% of voters calling it a serious or very serious problem,” according to a new poll conducted for the Times and the Los Angeles Business Council Institute.

“The courts have upheld the rights of homeless people in recent years,” adds the Times, “saying that cities cannot ban sleeping in public unless they provide enough beds for those who want them.” Along these lines, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in December 2019 not to take up a lower court’s ruling protecting the homeless from prosecution for sleeping outside.

Of course, we can neither round up and imprison the homeless nor simply ignore them. And the crisis has gotten the attention of President Trump, who threatened the city with federal intervention.

But those bold steps were stopped by Congress in December, which voted to restrict how the administration could spend federal funds designed to alleviate conditions in Los Angeles. Nonetheless, as The Washington Post reports, “Administration officials now hope to work closely with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D). They are considering whether to send hundreds of federal workers and additional money for services if a deal can be reached.”

When it comes to addressing homelessness, money appears to be the primary consideration. Phillip Molnar writes at The San Diego Union-Tribune, “San Diego, and other California cities, have spent millions of tax dollars on the homeless issue, including shelters, storage facilities and numerous programs.”

Money and new legislation clearly aren’t enough, especially when so-called leaders enact bad laws that make matters worse.

Thus, to the north in Washington state, Republicans are taking a more comprehensive approach to homelessness that goes beyond merely throwing money at the problem. As Seattle’s Ashley Archibald writes, “A group of Senate Republicans held a press conference Jan. 21 to articulate their vision of how to end homelessness in Washington, which would rely on existing funding and could strip the progressive stronghold of Seattle and King County of some authority to implement its own existing policies.”

Archibald adds, “One such proposal, the SHELTER — Serious Homelessness Engagement Leads to Effective Results — Act from Sen. Phil Fortunato (R-Auburn), would require counties of a certain size to have at least one large shelter facility, guarded by police, that would also have counseling and job services at hand.”

On the other side of the country, New York City houses the homeless in shelters and, for nearly 50 years, in commercial hotel rooms. But Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to end that practice by 2023 as part of the city’s Turning the Tide on Homelessness plan, a costly initiative that seeks to address the complexities of the problem.

These innovative ideas won’t end homelessness in America, but focusing on the root causes is a good start — and a far better alternative to allowing homeless tent villages to spring up on city streets, bringing lawlessness, violence, drug use, and disease.   ~The Patriot Post

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Trump's Middle East Peace Plan
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Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz Discuss 
the Backroom Impeachment Discussion
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Appearing on Ted Cruz podcast, Senator Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz share the backroom discussions that preceded the vote for witnesses. Interesting background information on the arguments and debates, for those who followed events closely.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/01/senators-lindsey-graham-and-ted-cruz-discuss-the-backroom-impeachment-discussion/
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Does loose lips liar-Joe Biden 
Have a Corruption Problem?  
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by theintercept.com ~ The Guardian published an op-ed by New York attorney and law professor Zephyr Teachout titled “‘Middle Class’ loose lips liar-Joe Biden has a corruption problem... it makes him a weak candidate.” In it, Teachout argues that loose lips liar-Biden’s history of taking big donations from the credit card, health care, and fossil fuel industries and then voting on their behalf makes him a poor choice against Donald Trump in the fall. “A lot of the voters we need,” she writes, “independents and people who might stay home — will look at loose loips liar-Biden and Trump and say: ‘They’re all dirty.’” Teachout is a public supporter of commie-Bernie Sanders and when the loose lips liar-Biden camp took umbrage at the piece, commie-Sanders apologized for it. “It is absolutely not my view that loose lips liar-Joe is corrupt in any way,” said the Vermont senator. “And I’m sorry that that op-ed appeared.” But was that really the right reply from a candidate who has made the fight against big money in politics one of the cornerstones of his campaign? Zephyr Teachout joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss loose lips liar-Joe Biden and the culture of corruption in Washington. Zephyr Teachout: loose lips liar-Joe Biden has a long history of taking money from big donors and doing them favors as senator. Mehdi Hasan: Welcome to Deconstructed. I’m Mehdi Hasan. On the show today, does loose lips liar-Joe Biden, long-standing friend of Wall Street, one-time surrogate for the credit card industry, and a favorite of big donors in this Democratic presidential campaign, does he have a corruption problem? And if so, is loose lips liar-Biden a symptom of a broader corrupt culture in Washington DC, dominated as it is by big money and big business? ZT: We absolutely need to change the way campaigns are funded. We need to make it so that when somebody is running for Congress the first question that is asked is not how many of the richest people in the world do you know and can you call them all up? MH: That’s my guest today, the academic, activist and corruption expert Zephyr Teachout, who caused controversy last week when she wrote a piece slamming loose lips liar-Joe Biden as a “weak candidate” to take on Donald Trump because of his own “big corruption problem.” So, is she right? Let’s be clear, Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in modern American history. He was impeached, and is now on trial, for abuse of power and for obstruction of Congress but as you’ve heard me say on this show for the past year, he should have been impeached for much, much more...  Zephyr Teachout is wrong about Trump.   https://theintercept.com/2020/01/30/does-joe-biden-have-a-corruption-problem/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=830646b9f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-830646b9f4-131896129   
The Coronavirus Is a Disease 
of Chinese Autocracy
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{ project-syndicate.org } ~ An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan has already infected over 4,000 people – mostly in China, but also in several other countries... from Thailand to France to the United States – and killed more than 100. Given China’s history of disease outbreaks – including of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and African swine fever – and officials’ apparent  awareness of the need to strengthen their capacity to address “major risks,” how could this happen? It should be no surprise that history is repeating itself in China. To maintain its authority, the Communist Party of China must keep the public convinced that everything is going according to plan. That means carrying out systemic cover-ups of scandals and deficiencies that may reflect poorly upon the CPC’s leadership, instead of doing what is necessary to respond. This pathological secrecy hobbles the authorities’ capacity to respond quickly to epidemics. The SARS epidemic of 2002-03 could have been contained much sooner had Chinese officials, including the health minister, not deliberately concealed information from the public. Once proper disease-control and prevention measures were implemented, SARS was contained within months. Yet China seems not to have learned its lesson. Although there are important differences between today’s coronavirus epidemic and the SARS outbreak – including far greater technological capacity to monitor disease – they may have the CPC’s habit of cover-ups in common. To be sure, at first glance, China’s government has appeared to be more forthcoming about the latest outbreak. But, although the first case was reported on December 8, the Wuhan municipal health commission didn’t issue an official notice until several weeks later. And, since then, Wuhan officials have downplayed the seriousness of the disease and deliberately sought to suppress news coverage. That notice maintained that there was no evidence that the new illness could be transmitted among humans, and claimed that no health-care workers had been infected. The commission repeated these claims on January 5, though 59 cases had been confirmed by then. Even after the first death was reported on January 11, the commission continued to insist that there was no evidence that it could be transmitted among humans or that health-care workers had been affected...  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/coronavirus-disease-of-communist-party-government-by-minxin-pei-2020-01?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUROallqQmhPVEprWmpFNSIsInQiOiJtbmJ2R2lmb0V6V3pSTWJGVkZGK2ptVmpNXC9yTjBjUkU0Z25mRklvUlZiNldRNVZrZlwvNnErOGNLYnZKaDBCOXI1SFBpeE4wOVpEb0ZNcVwvMU9STmtiTjd0bk9xdVBXQWFrNU5SbDZjQWM4UnhNUDRPN1VoR3lcLzJSSUZKVDh1dncifQ%3D%3D  
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The California Contagion Infecting Entrepreneurialism in America
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By Luke Wake
{ realclearpolicy.com } ~ Political gridlock in Washington, D.C. is nothing new. While it’s frustrating for those who want to see real regulatory reforms, it offers some relief to those of us worried about Congress making new laws that would further complicate our lives...That is especially true for America’s small business community and the entrepreneurs who must navigate through a dense regulatory thicket. That said, a prolonged stalemate in Washington means we should be watching individual states more closely. We must keep a special eye on California, which remains our nation’s leading exporter of bad and kooky ideas. Every year California lawmakers pile-on more regulatory burdens. For small business owners in California, the urge to flee must be especially high every January when a host of new laws go into effect. This year was no different. But there was one enactment in particular that is causing major headaches, and arousing attention across the country. To be sure, the most pernicious of all of California’s newly effective enactments is AB 5: A law that prohibits entrepreneurs from working as independent contractors, even if they have established themselves as a legitimate business enterprise through active marketing and incorporation. I’ve talked to dozens and dozens of businesses both inside California and beyond who are concerned about the impact the law has on them. For example, I’ve heard from numerous truckers who want to be allowed to continue operating as independent businesses. I’ve heard from photographers who want to continue working with beauticians and videographers who want to continue working with movie studios. And I’ve heard from businesses that refer customers to locksmiths or that work with other service providers who must now treat those workers as their own employees — even if they want to remain independent. So, it is highly concerning to see this new California contagion spreading. Already we’ve seen bills in Oregon, Washington and New Jersey. And now legislators in other states — Colorado, New Mexico and Virginia — are considering AB 5 as a potential model. There is even a bill in Congress.Under California’s law it doesn’t matter how little control the hiring entity exerts over the work performed, or what steps the entrepreneur has taken to establish him or herself as an independent business. The cold fact is that entrepreneurs are now prohibited from offering their services to another business if the work to be performed is “within the usual course of business” for the hiring entity. Even if they have established themselves as an LLC and or have numerous clients, if their work is viewed as essential to the hiring company’s business model the worker must be treated as an employee — which means a lot of red-tape for everyone involved. So, it is not surprising that some businesses are now cutting ties with entrepreneurs in California to avoid complications and major liabilities...
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Scientist Explains New Study 
Revealing Coronavirus May Have Links to HIV
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By Jim Hayek  
{ americantruthtoday.com } ~ Epidemiologist and public health scientist Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding took to Twitter to explain a new study that claims to have found a link between the novel Chinese coronavirus and HIV/AIDS... The study, which comes from Bioxriv, is titled “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag.” “We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses,” the report’s Abstract section states. “Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag.” The report also mentions that “interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site.” Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a Chinese-American epidemiologist and public health scientist, referenced the paper in a lengthy Twitter thread explaining the pathology of the virus and the possible misinformation about the epidemic provided by the Chinese government. “BOTTOMLINE: 1) Seafood market not the source,” Feigl-Ding wrote on Twitter. “2) This RNA #coronavirus mutates really fast. 3) has unusual middle segment never seen before in any coronavirus. 4) Not from recent mixing. 5) That mystery middle segment encodes protein responsible for entry into host cells.” The doctor added, “TO BE CLEAR: I am absolutely not saying it’s bioengineering, nor am I supporting any conspiracy theories with no evidence. I’m simply saying scientists need to do more research + get more data. And finding the origin of the virus is an important research priority...
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Big Trump Win! Kills Major 
Al-Qaida Terrorist in Yemen
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{ independentsentinel.com } ~ The Trump administration just killed another leading terrorist. The President okayed the killing the leader of Al-Qaida’s Yemen branch in an airstrike earlier this year... according to Yahoo News. The New York Times said three current or former U.S. officials “expressed confidence” that Qasim al-Raymi, the emir of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was killed in Yemen, although there was no official confirmation. The U.S. forces tracked Al-Raymi for months. There was a $10 million price on his head. The strike was carried out by the CIA or the military. “He’s a real bad actor,” said Mick Mulroy, who is also a retired CIA paramilitary operations officer and an ABC News analyst. “This is a big win for us.” In 2005, Al-Raymi was sentenced to five years in prison for planning to assassinate the U.S. ambassador, but he escaped the following year. Since then he has been linked to some of AQAP’s highest-profile attacks, including a September 2008 assault on the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, that killed 10 Yemeni guards and six civilians.
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Video: Trump's Middle East Peace Plan
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Video: worthless-Ilhan Omar Investigated for Allegedly Marrying Brother
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Video: Virginia Lawmaker Has Zero Understanding of Guns
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Video: How Kobe Bryant Changed My Mind
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Video: Democrats Are Huge Hypocrites on Impeachment
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loose lips liar-Joe Biden Must
Explain His Ukraine Dealings
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Monday News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


MIDWEEK VOTE: Senators will vote Wednesday to acquit Trump (USA Today)

KEEP AMERICA GREAT: Trump’s great Alice Johnson Super Bowl ad reminds us he deserves major credit for criminal-justice reform (Washington Examiner)

A BLIND SQUIRREL FINDS A NUT: NFL airs patriotic tribute to the American flag during Super Bowl (The Daily Wire)

Government & Politics


LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICS: Michael Bloomberg’s claim about “children” killed by “gun violence” is off by 73% (Reason)

INDIVIDUAL-MANDATE UPDATE: Fifth Circuit declines to rehear scumbag/liar-nObamaCare severability case en banc (Reason)

CORRUPTION: worthless-Ilhan Omar paid additional $215,000 from campaign coffers to alleged boyfriend’s firm (The Washington Free Beacon)

INTRAPARTY SQUABBLE, PART I: 2020 Democrats slam party rule change that could let Bloomberg debate (Washington Examiner)

INTRAPARTY SQUABBLE, PART II: scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton blames commie-Bernie Sanders for disunity in Democrat Party (Washington Examiner)

Other Notables


“FOREIGN NATION[S] … MUST SATISFY BASIC SECURITY CONDITIONS”: Trump expands travel ban to six new countries (The Washington Times)

DESPITE THE BAN ON “POINTY KNIVES”: Just-freed terrorist killed by cops after London stabbing spree (The Daily Beast)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: The coronavirus is a big economic deal (American Enterprise Institute)

POLICY: Why American scientists take Chinese money (National Review)

HUMOR: Time to panic? More Chinese restaurants handing out fortune cookies that just say “Death by coronavirus” (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68314?mailing_id=4839&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4839&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body      
Massachusetts man has coronavirus, 
state health officials say; US cases rise to 8
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By Paulina Dedaj 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Health officials said Saturday that a man in  Massachusetts has been infected with the coronavirus... after returning from a recent trip to China, bringing the overall reported cases in the United States to eight. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health received confirmation late Friday evening that a Boston man in his early 20s contracted the illness after returning from Wuhan, the Chinese city of more than 11 million people where the virus is believed to have originated from sometime in December. Officials said the man sought medical treatment soon after he returned to the U.S., although it was not immediately clear when this was. The patient has been isolated since and anyone who came in contact with him is also being monitored for symptoms. “We are grateful that this young man is recovering and sought medical attention immediately,’’ Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel said in a news release. "Massachusetts has been preparing for a possible case of this new coronavirus, and we were fortunate that astute clinicians took appropriate action quickly. Again, the risk to the public from the 2019 novel coronavirus remains low in Massachusetts.” News of the latest case comes just one day after the seventh case of coronavirus was confirmed in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a news release Friday that a California man was diagnosed with the illness after returning from Wuhan. The adult male, a resident of Santa Clara County, was traveling to China where he visited Wuhan and Shanghai before returning to the U.S. on Jan. 24 where he became ill, KNTV reported. According to the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, the man then visited a local clinic and hospital but was “never sick enough to require hospitalization.” Health officials say the man is in stable condition and is “self-isolating” at home where he has reportedly remained since feeling any symptoms - aside from leaving to seek medical care. “We understand that this news may be concerning, but based on what we know today, the risk to residents of our community remains low,” Dr. Sara Cody, health officer with Santa Clara County, said... How about the people on the plane?  https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-cdc-seventh-case-us  
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Why Are Liberal Cities Such a Mess?
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By Steve Feinstein
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Many major U.S. cities run by liberal Democrats are in rough shape. They are afflicted by the problems of homelessness, violent crime, gangs, and unemployment to a far greater degree than the country as a whole... Consider the following: Chicago's violence and gang-related drug problems are well-known. What’s less well-known is that the city hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1927. The city’s finances -- like most Democratically-run major cities -- are in shambles. At the end of 2015, according to a 2017 report by the Fiscal Times, Chicago had assets of just $4.7 billion against liabilities of more than $14 billion, a funded ratio of barely 33%. The homeless population in Los Angeles has risen from a staggering 33,000 in 2010 to over 55,000 in 2018. The city -- already dominated by a liberal super-majority of legislators -- has just recently pushed through massive local tax increases designed to address the homeless crisis. San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded syringes are everywhere. San Francisco’s property crime rate is the highest in the nation and “smash and grab” thefts involving broken car windows are so commonplace that repair shops have waiting lists. The DA’s office no longer prosecutes “victimless” crimes like prostitution or drug possession, resulting in a massive influx of drug dealers into the city.  Frighteningly similar situations exist is nearly every other major Democrat-run city, all around the nation: In New York City, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Hartford, CT, Newark, Philadelphia and on and on, the story follows the same pattern: Homelessness, high crime, underwater finances, soft policing, lax immigration control often sanctuary cities, high taxes, and business-averse regulations. It’s a guaranteed formula for failure...
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IDF strikes terror targets at 
Gaza Strip after rockets fired at Israel
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By ANNA AHRONHEIM
{ jpost.com } ~ IDF forces struck terror targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday night, following at least two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip that struck southern Israel... according to the IDF Spokesperson Unit. "The IAF struck several outposts of the Hamas terror group in response to rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip," the report stated. According to Palestinian reports, the IDF caused damage to Hamas outposts but no casualties were reported. The rockets were fired while tensions remain high over the release of US President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century.” Incoming rocket sirens were activated in the communities of Sufa and Nir Yizhak, and a statement by the Eshkol Regional Council said that a rocket landed in an open area, causing no damage or injuries. Two hours earlier, sirens sounded in the college town of Sderot. The IDF said that the projectile was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. According to unconfirmed reports, shrapnel from the interceptor landed on a home in Sderot; there were no injuries reported.   The rocket fire comes several hours after three mortar shells were fired from the coastal enclave, leading an IDF tank to fire a shell at a Hamas observation post in the southern Strip. One of the mortar shells was intercepted by Iron Dome; the other two landed in open areas. Also on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that 14 Palestinians were injured, including 10 by live fire, in violent clashes with IDF troops taking place along the border fence...
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A General’s View of Why US Should 
Stay in Afghanistan
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by Allison Schuster
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Despite overtures from the Taliban and declining interest among Americans, it is essential that the United States remain in Afghanistan... retired Army Gen. Jack Keane said this week at a Heritage Foundation event. Over the past 18 years, Keane said, the U.S. has made tremendous progress at preventing another attack on the U.S. from al-Qaeda originating from Afghanistan. But military withdrawal now, he said, would have extremely negative consequences. Keane also said his politically astute sources in Afghanistan say the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic military organization that used to control the country, wouldn’t win a single district in the event of an election. “The people absolutely do not want them because they’re living under their boot,” Keane said of the Taliban. “They’re living under their tyranny. They’re living under the fact that they can’t educate their children.” The U.S. first took military action in Afghanistan in response to the attacks of 9/11, when Keane became the first senior military leader to go after the Taliban, which had been in power since 1996 and provided a haven to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terror network. In the event Tuesday at Heritage, “Making the Case for America’s Mission in Afghanistan,” Keane detailed military successes and his recommendations for the future. Although Taliban leaders say they want to negotiate, the threat that  terrorist groups al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, or ISIS, would use the nation as a safe space to grow is too great to trust negotiations, he said...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/31/a-generals-view-of-why-the-us-should-stay-in-afghanistan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-generals-view-of-why-the-us-should-stay-in-afghanistan?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTjJNek1HRXdPR1V4TTJGbCIsInQiOiJEUndrVnNVSHdnK3lWQUk1ZFwvY2dWM1FSVVdMMm1qbHd2QVVqckpMaEJ6Rmpkb1RhM1dRa29rNFFTaDE0RFRESzZ2RTN1MXNEN1FtWnA1aXhiXC9WSGNWblpNQ1ZpYjQzcWdJQU5pY2htaHNQSmRUM3ZCcXFGVXVEUzdoRUNXcE41In0%3D  
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ACU Tells rino-Mitt Romney He’s Not Allowed At CPAC Because of His Vote For More Witnesses
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by Jeff Dunetz
{ lidblog.com } ~ At the end of February this year, like every year, I’ll be to our nation’s capital for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).... There I will be meeting with other conservative media personalities, and activists. We will be swamped with politicians trying to get our attention for a blog post or a radio appearance. One politician who won’t be there will be rino-Mitt Romney. Matt Schlapp, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union, the organization that runs CPAC, thanked rino-Romney for his vote to call additional witnesses to the Senate impeachment trial by inviting the Senator to stay the heck away from his conference. rino-Romney was one of two Republicans who joined 47 Democrats to smack President Trump and other conservatives supporting the motion for more unnecessary witnesses, which thankfully failed to pass on Friday.’ rino-Romney had been at CPAC before.  In 2012, he came to CPAC to beg conservatives to support him for the GOP nomination. After his loss, rino-Romney didn’t need conservatives anymore, so he returned to his liberal roots. Well.. except for when he begged Trump to be his secretary of state, and when he begged Utah conservatives for their support to run for Senate. Since he became a senator, rino-Romney has gone out of his way to be a thorn in President Trump’s side because he claims not to like the president’s rhetoric and style. But it was Trump’s rhetoric and style that prevented him from becoming a loser in 2016 like rino-Romney was in 2012. But what really made rino-Romney a loser was that he only acts like a conservative when it is politically expedient. Today he voted like a Democrat to extend the senate trial. As the president’s acquittal is all but guaranteed, the only reason for rino-Romney’s vote was to hurt President Trump and his conservative followers...  https://lidblog.com/mitt-romney-cpac/   
scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and John Profumo 
A Tale of Two Liars
By Michael Nollet
americanthinker.com } ~  I'm an over-the-road truck driver. That means I have lots of time to indulge myself in activities not given to ordinary mortals, such as listening gavel-to-gavel to the Senate's impeachment process still in progress as of this writing... Most ordinary mortals do not enjoy (?) this luxury, because they have lives of their own: things like home, family, hobbies, jobs that don't permit radio or TV listening. But me, I'm a captive audience in my truck, so if I feel like listening, then listening is what I do. It makes the miles go by. In the course of my tuning in to the feed from the impeachment hearings, I caught House manager Congressman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff telling a huge whopper: that he doesn't know who the "whistleblower" is. That is the individual whose machinations and contacts with scumbag/liar-Schiff's Intelligence Committee touched off the entire impeachment business. scumbag/liar-Schiff is asserting that he still, to this day, does not know who this individual is. This is a lie. There is no way that scumbag/liar-Schiff cannot have known exactly who the "whistleblower" is, and have known it for nearly three years now. In scumbag/liar-Schiff's case, it is only the latest in a career of lies, which is well documented. A partial litany would include the contradictory stories he has told about his office's contacts with the "whistleblower," his claims to have conclusive evidence proving that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians which were blown apart by the Muller Report, and his claim that the FBI didn't use the absurd Steele Dossier as its justification to the FISA Court to surveil Carter Page. This time, scumbag/liar-Schiff raised his lies to a whole new level, by repeating his lie inside the halls of Congress. And he did it not once, but three times: once in his own Intelligence Committee and at least twice to the Senate during the question-and-answer phase. scumbag/liar-Schiff's assertion isn't perjury, since scumbag/liar-Schiff wasn't under oath when he made these declarations. But since he repeated these lies in the halls of Congress, and in the most solemn setting possible, it is the next thing to it. It is a lie that was made at the very highest levels of state. Something similar happened in the United Kingdom in 1963: the Profumo Affair. John Profumo was secretary of state for war in the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan. In 1961, he ran afoul of a British showgirl and presumable prostitute, Christine Keeler, embarking on an affair with her lasting a few months. Keeler was also the mistress of a British osteopath and of the senior Soviet naval attaché, which compromised Profumo. When questioned about the affair in the House of Commons, Profumo disgraced himself by lying about it in that he denied the affair. Unheard of! In Britain, lying to Parliament is considered to be one of the worst crimes a person can commit. When Profumo was caught, he had to leave Her Majesty's Government in disgrace, in 1963. The blowback led to the downfall of the MacMillan government and its replacement by the Labor Government of Harold Wilson in 1964...
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loose lips liar-Joe Biden Must Explain His Ukraine Dealings
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Democrats impeached President Donald Trump for putting his own political fortunes ahead of the national interest in dealing with Ukraine. But it’s loose lips liar-Joe Biden who should be in the hot seat for that.

Trump is criticized for a July 25 phone call, when he asked the president of Ukraine for help investigating what loose lips liar-Joe Biden did, as vice president, to get a prosecutor there fired. loose lips liar-Biden’s son was on the payroll of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, targeted by authorities.

Democrats claim it was wrong to ask for the investigation. Trump’s defense lawyers say there was every reason to ask. The evidence backs them up.

It’s not just the $1 million a year that Burisma paid loose lips liar-Biden’s son Hunter, with no energy or Ukrainian expertise. That’s small potatoes.

The question is what did Burisma get in return? The scumbag/liar-nObama administration forked over $53 million in American taxpayer money to assist the Ukrainian energy industry. The public should know how much Burisma and its related ventures may have gotten.

Biden should also have to answer for the $20 million in taxpayer-funded loans that went to his Delaware pal John Hynansky to launch a luxury car dealership in Ukraine selling Porsches, Land Rovers and other high-ticket vehicles. None were made in the U.S. Hynansky had made large donations to loose lips liar-Biden’s campaigns. Later he would loan $500,000 to loose lips liar-Biden’s brother James, who was behind on mortgage payments and owed more than $590,000 in back taxes.

Democrats and media allies are adamant that loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s dealings in Ukraine are irrelevant to Trump’s impeachment. Not so, if loose lips liar-Biden used taxpayer money as his personal piggy bank to help his son and his car dealer pal.

On that July 25 call, Trump did the right thing asking about Burisma, especially when $391 million more in taxpayer-funded aid to Ukraine was about to go out the door.

The chronology of the loose lips liar-Bidens’ transactions raises serious questions:

April 15, 2014: Burisma sends Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, $112,000.

April 16, 2014: Archer visits Vice President loose lips liar-Biden at the White House.

April 21, 2014: Vice President loose lips liar-Biden arrives in Ukraine bearing millions in aid for the Ukraine energy industry.

May 12, 2014: Hunter Biden joins Burisma’s board.

February 2015: Ukrainian authorities seize the property of Burisma’s CEO and go after unpaid taxes.

March 2016: loose lips liar-Biden demands that Ukraine’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, be fired, and threatens to hold up $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees.

loose lips liar-Biden even bragged about telling the Ukrainians “if the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” That’s the kind of quid pro quo of which Trump is accused, only loose lips liar-Biden did it, and it’s on tape.

The loose lips liar-Biden campaign claims the vice president demanded Shokin’s dismissal for being soft on corruption, and the media gladly parrot that claim. It defies common sense.

Though accounts vary about how aggressively Shokin investigated Burisma, Shokin himself is clear. In an email to The Washington Post, he blamed Vice President loose lips liar-Biden for getting him axed, saying that loose lips liar-Biden’s “motives” were “the activities of Hunter Biden, and the investigators on his tail.”

Data from the United States Aid for International Development show that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration sent $1.28 billion in aid to Ukraine in 2014 to 2016. loose lips liar-Biden, the administration’s point person for Ukraine, should be held accountable for how the money was used or misused.

“Profiles in Corruption,” a new book by Peter Schweizer, documents how loose lips liar-Biden’s family and friends leveraged his position to cash in with deals in China, Iraq, Kazakhstan and Latin America. loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s suspect dealings in Ukraine were not out of character. The loose lips liar-Biden motto appears to be that a family that “takes” together stays together.

Democrats insist claims of loose lips liar-Biden wrongdoing are “discredited” and “without evidence.” That doesn’t pass the smell test.

Americans have seen the transcripts of Trump’s calls with the Ukrainians. Let’s see loose lips liar-Biden’s call records with the Ukrainians.

If the Senators decide to call witnesses, loose lips liar-Joe Biden should be on the top of the list.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68202?mailing_id=4829&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4829&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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The Deal of the Century
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Dems unveil 2020 campaign message 
Trump not acquitted
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by wnd.com ~ Democrats already are honing their message for the 2020 campaign, insisting that the Senate Republicans' decision not to allow further witnesses or documents in the impeachment trial... of Donald Trump means the president's inevitable acquittal next week won't be valid.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer of New York told reporters Friday "the acquittal will have no value, because Americans will know that this trial was not a real trial." Lead House impeachment manager Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told senators, "You cannot have a true acquittal if you've not had a fair trial." Impeachment manager Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, said "an acquittal on an incomplete record after a trial lacking witnesses and evidence will be no exoneration."At her weekly news conference Thursday, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi said Trump "cannot be acquitted" if the trial lacks witness testimony and documentation. She added that Trump's impeachment defense team "disgraced themselves" and should be disbarred. With a 51 to 49 vote Friday evening, Republicans voted down Democrats' effort to hear the testimony of witnesses such as acting White House Chief of State Mick Mulvaney and former National Security Adviser John Bolton. The White House defense team argued that Democrats had 17 witnesses during the House investigation, and video clips from that testimony were used in the Senate trial. They further contend that the articles presented by the Democrats are not impeachable offenses, meaning any further testimony is unnecessary. Trump is expected to be acquitted next week, possibly on Wednesday, after final arguments are heard and the senators are given an opportunity to speak. Several Democrats are expected to join the 53 Republicans in voting to acquit the president. Removal from office would require a supermajority of 67 votes on either of the two articles of impeachment. The trial will resume Monday... These lying dems had their chance in the House to call witness and they didn't do it. Now they are crying about acquittal.  https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/dems-unveil-2020-campaign-message-trump-not-acquitted/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking  
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China: Video Out Of Wuhan Hospital Shows 
The Truth Of The Coronavirus’ Horrifying Effects
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by Tim Brown
{ thewashingtonstandard.com } ~ As news continues to come out of China regarding the Coronavirus and whether it is a real threat to the population or not... and whether the Communist government there can actually contain it, a new video has surfaced from inside a Wuhan Hospital that shows just what is going on inside. The video was posted at Live Links just hours ago. Frankly, this looks like a tremendous amount of people are literally having seizures. Are we being told the truth about this? Is it really a virus or some sort of neurotoxin? We’ve also been providing our own reporting on this issue. The truth about the coronavirus is simply not being told the American people.   https://thewashingtonstandard.com/china-video-out-of-wuhan-hospital-shows-the-truth-of-the-coronavirus-horrifying-effects/  
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'Certainly will be a standout': John Durham 
appoints new criminal chief
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by Daniel Chaitin
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The federal prosecutor in charge of the Justice Department inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation appointed a new criminal division chief... John Durham, a U.S. attorney from Connecticut, announced on Monday that the role will be taken by Sarah Karwan, who has prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases. “I am thrilled that Sarah Karwan will lead our criminal division,” Durham said in a statement. “During her more than 12 years as an assistant U.S. attorney, Sarah has done it all, prosecuting violent criminals, drug traffickers, financial fraudsters, corrupt public officials, and a wide variety of other wrongdoers. Given the breadth of her experience and her exceptional lawyering skills, she certainly will be a standout as our new criminal chief.” Karwan replaced William Nardini, who now has a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1997 and from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2000. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2007, she spent roughly six years in the private sector specializing in securities litigation. As head of the criminal division, Karwan will oversee the violent crimes and narcotics, financial fraud and public corruption, national security and cybercrime, and major crimes program-based units. Durham has been tasked by Attorney General William Barr with conducting a review of the FBI's Russia investigation. In October, it was reported that Durham was expanding the scope of his investigation, adding agents and resources, to examine the post-election timeline up to the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel in May 2017. The "investigation into the investigators" was reported to be upgraded to a criminal inquiry later that month, which gives Durham the power to impanel a grand jury and hand down indictments. Durham's team is exploring whether a crime was committed by Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer who was found by the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to have altered a document during the FBI's efforts to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant renewal to continue wiretapping onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/certainly-will-be-a-standout-john-durham-appoints-new-criminal-chief   
How Virginia Became the Frontline
 in the Fight Over Guns
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By Stephen Gutowski
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Virginia became the center of the gun-control debate years before tens of thousands of gun-rights supporters amassed on the steps of the state capitol earlier this month... Gun-control activists targeted Virginia as a potential foothold in the American South as far back as 2013. The once-reliably conservative state has seen its population center shift to the Northern Virginia suburbs and university towns—developments that led to Mark Warner's gubernatorial victory in 2002 and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama's wins in the state in 2008 and 2012. During that time, however, Republican control of the state legislature blocked gun regulations and Virginia's state-level deliberative bodies became a focus of left-leaning gun-control groups. Starting in 2013 and ramping up two years later, Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety, with substantial funding from 2020 presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, flooded the state with millions of dollars. Democratic groups poured a record $13 million into the state's elections last year. Bloomberg-backed groups along outspent the National Rifle Association by an 8-1 margin, helping Democrats capture narrow majorities in both the House of Delegates and the General Assembly. The controversies that have erupted across the state since then come as the members of the newly ascendant Democratic majority find themselves caught between the campaign donors who helped them secure control in Richmond and local residents angered by the gun-control proposals offered by those groups and the Democrats they backed. Those proposals include an outright ban on AR-15s, which elicited an intense backlash. The outcome of the struggle will have an impact beyond the immediate struggles in the state that will determine the shape of a universal background check or "red flag" law in Virginia. It may well shape the gun debate nationwide for years to come...
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Democrats’ History Of Intimidating SCOTUS 
Justices Carries Over Into Impeachment
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By Erielle Davidson
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Chief Justice John Roberts’ expression was priceless after reading Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren’s garish question during the Senate impeachment trial Thursday night, a question which lacked any remote sense of self awareness... The inquiry facetiously read, “At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government, does the fact that the Chief Justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution?” The purpose of the question was stunningly obvious. It was to suggest that the only way Chief Justice John Roberts could remotely hold onto any semblance of legitimacy was to ensure the outcome favored by the Democrats came to fruition, an outcome which, given the increasingly likely failed motion, would require Chief Justice Roberts to interfere in a manner that is not explicitly written into the Constitution. As a seasoned lawyer, she knew precisely the type of question she was asking. One that reached to a sore spot for the Supreme Court and one over which they have continued to opine. The question of how much of a role public faith in the federal judiciary should play in judicial decision-making has been a topic hotly contested. It was scrutinized heavily when it reared its ugly head in Justice O’Connor’s opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, when it appeared alongside a menagerie of other factors that may be considered in the process of determining whether to overrule precedent. It wasn’t regarded as wholly dispositive, and it’s debatable whether it should be considered at all. With Sen. rino-Lisa Murkowski likely voting no on the Democrats’ motion to allow witnesses, there’s little risk of a tie any longer, meaning Roberts is thankfully off the hook – at least for now. But when it comes to Roberts’ role in “breaking a tie,” should there be one in the trial, the language of Article I, Section III of the Constitution does not make it clear whether the Chief Justice is permitted to vote. Yet, the undercurrent of dinky/liar-Warren’s question suggested that his involvement was somehow critical for the sanctity of SCOTUS’ reputation. It’s utter nonsense, but it is perfectly on-brand for the Democrats since President Trump’s election in 2016. She’s threatening to use the weight of the Democratic Party to conduct warfare on his reputation. We all know the playbook...
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Sweden: Hijab is 'Look of the Year'
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by Judith Bergman
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On January 20, Iran's only female Olympic medalist, Kimia Alizadeh, defected from Iran. "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran whom they've been playing for years," she wrote... Then, last month, the Islamic Republic's female chess master, Mitra Hejazipour, 27, removed her hijab during a chess tournament in Moscow and was promptly  removed from the national chess team. Hejazipour said that she had decided "not to have a share in this horrendous lie and not to play the game of 'We love the hijab and have no problem with it' anymore..." "It creates many limitations for women and deprives them of their basic rights. Is this protection? I say definitely not, it is solely and merely a limitation." For years, women in Iran have been arrested and imprisoned for refusing to wear the mandatory headscarf and even for protesting its use. Between January 2018 and August 2019, at least 12 people were given prison sentences ranging from six months to 33 years for publicly removing their headscarves and other public acts of civil disobedience against compulsory hijab and 32 people were arrested for such acts, according to Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). According to the website: "Millions of women who do not conform to the state's dictates regarding mandatory dress codes are stopped by the police each year for 'improper hijab,' and tens of thousands are referred to the judiciary in court cases each year... hijab protestors are... typically prosecuted under charges related to 'morality,' such as 'encouraging people to corruption and prostitution...'". "The Iranian authorities are employing the full machinery of the state to crush opposition to forced hijab, but with more than half the population against it, the tide is increasingly against them," said CHRI's Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi. As women in Iran protested the regime and the mandatory hijab, women in Sweden -- who are represented by "the first feminist government in the world" -- were championing the hijab on several recent occasions, illustrating the curious cultural transformations there...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15509/sweden-hijab   
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The Deal of the Century
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I just returned from a historic event in the East Room of the White House where President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new peace plan. 

The room was electric, filled with Christian and Jewish leaders, as well as key administration officials who worked on the plan, including Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Ambassador David Friedman. 

There were also several ambassadors from Arab nations in the audience, a hopeful sign that others in the region are eager to work with Israel and the United States to advance peace in the Middle East.

The president received more than a dozen standing ovations, and Prime Minister Netanyahu received nearly as many as they outlined their vision for lasting peace. This is not a “pie in the sky” deal. Nor does it force Israel to do anything that will hurt its security. Here are some of the key elements of the Trump plan:

  • Jerusalem remains the undivided capital of Israel. This is essential from Israel’s stand point, and something that Pastor John Hagee of Christians United for Israel and I worked very hard to guarantee.

  • The Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish state.

  • Hamas must be disarmed, and the Palestinians must reject terrorism.

  • The so-called “refugee problem” will be settled outside the boundaries of Israel.

  • Israel will suspend construction in disputed territories for four years to give both sides time to implement various aspects of the deal.

  • The president pledged $50 billion of investment to provide hope and economic opportunity to the Palestinian people.

Trump spoke directly to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying, “If you choose the path of peace, America will be there to help you every step of the way.”

Netanyahu praised Trump as “the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.” He hailed the Trump peace plan as “a realistic path to a durable peace,” that recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley, and other strategic areas of Judea and Samaria. 

The prime minister vowed, “If the Palestinians are genuinely prepared to make peace with the Jewish state … Israel will be prepared to negotiate peace right away." 

The Real Problem

Almost every American president and Israeli prime minister has tried and failed to negotiate a lasting peace between Israelis and the Palestinians. The problem is not Israel or the United States. 

The real obstacle to peace is the refusal of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others to recognize the right of Israel to exist at all. Their so-called "leaders” have rejected every peace deal ever offered to them. They have to want peace with Israel.

As I noted above, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed the hope that the Palestinian leadership would not be stupid and reject this deal out of hand. Unfortunately, Mahmoud Abbas has already done just that.

Another major problem is that the Palestinian people are themselves divided between Abbas and his Fatah Party in the West Bank and Hamas, which rules Gaza. It’s not at all clear who speaks for the Palestinian people. 

The 84-year-old Abbas is now in the 15th year of his four-year term of office and is expected to step down sometime this year. Polls show that Hamas, a terrorist organization funded by Iran and dedicated to Israel’s destruction, could easily prevail in a new election. 

How do you compromise with an opponent who wants you dead? Nonetheless, Prime Minister Netanyahu has once again joined with President Trump to try to find a way forward.

Dershowitz vs. the Democrats

Monday, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz  dismantled the Democrats’ impeachment arguments. He argued that the two articles of impeachment do not rest on identifiable crimes, much less impeachable offenses. I’ll spare you his historical lecture and summarize his main points.

Democrats are attempting to impeach President Trump for “obstruction of Congress” because he refused to comply with many of their demands during the course of their impeachment investigation. 

But what they see as “Obstruction of Congress,” others see as “Separation of Powers.” If defending the authority of the executive branch is a crime, then the founders were criminals. But the left probably believes that anyway. 

When disputes arise over the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches, they go to the courts to decide the issue. But if it’s a crime for a president to resist Congress when it overreaches, then every president is going to be impeached.

The president is also being impeached for “Abuse of Power.” But that charge is what critics always say about their opponents. Even George Washington, the most admired of our founders, was accused of abusing his power. 

Professor Dershowitz went on to cite 20 presidents, from Washington to Obama, who were accused of abuse of power. For example:

  • Thomas Jefferson dramatically expanded the size of the country through the Louisiana Purchase without congressional authorization.

  • Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.

  • Franklin Roosevelt interned Japanese Americans during World War II due to concerns about national security.

Ultimately, Donald Trump is being impeached because he defeated scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, which the left considers a “high crime.” He’s also being impeached because he is doing what he said he would do.

He’s putting the interests of the country first with trade deals and immigration policies that put American workers first. He’s defending the sanctity of life and religious liberty by breaking the left’s stranglehold over our courts. Those are Trump’s “crimes,” which our political elites cannot tolerate.

Sadly, there is a group of Republicans who still think The New York Times is a legitimate news outlet. They should forget about John Bolton’s book. As Professor Dershowitz made clear, there is no impeachable crime here regardless of what is or is not in Bolton’s book.

By the way, Fred Fleitz, Bolton’s former chief of staff, published an excellent opinion piece calling on Bolton to withdraw his book until after the 2020 election.

Fleitz argues, rightly in my opinion, that high-level officials should not cash-in on their service with “tell-all” books that threaten to expose the private advice and communications between presidents and their advisers. Sadly, that’s how the Swamp operates.

At yesterday’s White House announcement for the Middle East peace plan, many of John Bolton’s old friends were angry and disappointed in his conduct since he left the administration. More than once, I heard the rhetorical question, “What in the world is wrong with Bolton?!”

Speaking of the Swamp…

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi exposed the potential corruption of Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which she described as “nepotistic at best, nefarious at worst." 

She defended President Trump’s decision to raise Burisma and the loose lips liar-Bidens with Ukraine’s president because the media had raised the issue in 2014, because Chris Heinz, Hunter’s business partner, raised concerns about it and because scumbag/liar-nObama State Department officials raised concerns about it.  

Bondi’s presentation made it clear that the president was looking to address past issues of corruption rather than exploiting his office to influence the next election.    ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68205?mailing_id=4829&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4829&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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China vs. the Rapidly Spreading Coronavirus
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Devin Nunes: “The scumbag/liar-Schiff Staff 
Won’t Quit” – An Impeachment Acquittal 
“Won’t End This” – “This Really is a Hoax”
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes brings an uncomfortable dose of reality to a media discussion and he’s exactly correct... Appearing on Tucker Carlson Mr. Nunes highlights that a vote to acquit on the impeachment articles will not be the end of this fiasco. The Crossfire Hurricane hoax was constructed with an insurance policy to initiate the Mueller investigation, another hoax. This same network of political operatives, all of which know each-other and work together in various government factions, then morphed the Mueller hoax into the Ukraine hoax; it’s one long continuum and it will not stop with a Senate impeachment acquittal.
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White House Coronavirus Task Force  
Press Briefing on U.S. Response Status 
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Earlier today the federal Coronavirus Task Force established by President Trump held a press conference to explain the U.S. response status and answer media questions... The task force is being led by HHS Secretary Alex Azar and includes:  Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health; Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security; Matthew Pottinger, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor...
Transcript at the site. 
Senators Vote to Avoid Further Witness
Testimony  Now Privately Debating Next Steps
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The Senate voted 51-49 on a motion to support prior constitutional precedent and avoid further witness testimony in the Senate. Republican Senators rino-Susan Collins and rino-Mitt Romney voted with Democrats to break constitutional framework... and support witness testimony in the Senate that did not originate from House impeachment process. Senators are now recessed for dinner while holding meetings within their caucus to debate next steps. A disagreement within the republican caucus seems to be framed around Senators wishing to have debate time to present their own personal positions on the Senate floor prior to a final vote to remove or acquit President Trump. One likely scenario is a vote on a resolution tonight outlining next steps, open to amendment and voting; then recess for the evening around 9pm, and a return at 11:00am Monday. That would position a final acquittal vote for Wednesday. Friday night: A Senate vote organizing a resolution for the following:
Monday: Closing arguments by House Managers and Defense.
Tuesday: Open deliberations. Senators speak.
Wednesday: A vote on the articles of impeachment
The situation is fluid.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/31/senators-vote-to-avoid-further-witness-testimony-now-privately-debating-next-steps/ 
Savaging Trump plan, Abbas warns Palestinians 
will cut all ties with Israel, US
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by timesofisrael.com ~ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned he would cut all ties, including security coordination, with both Israel and the US on Saturday... in a lengthy speech delivered at an Arab League meeting in Egypt’s capital denouncing the new White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We’ve informed the Israeli side…that there will be no relations at all with them and the United States, including security ties,” Abbas declared. The PA leader said he’d stated as much in letters sent to both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and CIA Director Gina Haspel. The PA currently cooperates with Israeli security services and US intelligence agencies against terrorism. Abbas has threatened to cut security ties in the past on several occasions though he has not followed through with action on the ground. The Arab League in a statement rejected the Trump proposal, calling it “unfair” to Palestinians. The pan-Arab bloc said in a statement that the plan “does not meet the minimum rights and aspirations of Palestinian people.” Arab leaders also vowed “not to … cooperate with the US administration to implement this plan.” The US plan would potentially grant the Palestinians a state with restricted sovereignty in Gaza and in parts of the West Bank, while allowing Israel to annex all its settlements and keep nearly all of East Jerusalem. The summit of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo was requested by the Palestinians, who responded angrily to the American proposal. Abbas said that he told Israel and the US that “there will be no relations with them, including the security ties” following the deal that Palestinians say heavily favors Israel. He said US President Donald Trump’s peace plan was in “violation of the autonomy accords” launched in Oslo in 1993 by Israel and the Palestinians. Israel will have to “bear responsibility as an occupying power,” Abbas said. There was no immediate comment from US or Israeli officials...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-fms-meet-in-cairo-as-palestinians-seek-support-against-trump-plan/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-02-01&utm_medium=email   
Backing Abbas, Arab League rejects 
Trump’s Middle East peace plan
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by timesofisrael.com ~ The Arab League on Saturday rejected US President Donald Trump’s controversial Middle East plan, calling it “unfair” to Palestinians... The pan-Arab bloc said in a statement that it “rejects the US-Israeli ‘deal of the century’ considering that it does not meet the minimum rights and aspirations of Palestinian people.” Arab leaders also vowed “not to… cooperate with the US administration to implement this plan.”According to Channel 13 news the decision was unanimous. The US plan would grant the Palestinians a state with restricted sovereignty in Gaza and in parts of the West Bank, while allowing Israel to annex all its settlements and keep nearly all of East Jerusalem. The League warned that Israel must not act on the plan unilaterally — a reference to Israel’s stated intention to move on annexation as soon as possible. “Israel will be solely responsible for the consequences of such policies,” the bloc said. It said it would call on international powers to take steps to prevent any such action. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned at an emergency meeting of the bloc that he would cut all ties with both Israel and the US, including security coordination, over the White House plan. The summit of Arab foreign ministers in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, was requested by the Palestinians, who responded angrily to the American proposal. “We’ve informed the Israeli side…that there will be no relations at all with them and the United States, including security ties,” Abbas declared. Abbas has threatened to cut security ties in the past on several occasions though he has not followed through with action on the ground. “I will never accept this solution,” Abbas said. “I will not have it recorded in my history that I have sold Jerusalem.” He said the Palestinians remain committed to ending Israel’s control of the West Bank and establishing a state with its capital in East Jerusalem...
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Twenty-three nations embrace 
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{ gellerreport.com } ~ Nearly two dozen world leaders have signaled their openness to President Trump’s sweeping new peace plan for Israel and Palestine... ignoring claims in the U.S. media that it was dead on arrival to focus on it as a beefy starting point. A statement from Bahrain was typical of the reaction that has flooded into the White House since Trump unveiled the plan Wednesday. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs commends the United States of America for its determined efforts to advance the peace process,” Bahrain said. Qatar said in a statement that it “appreciates the endeavors of President Trump and the current U.S. administration to find solutions for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.” The plan has been three years in the making and is considered the most detailed ever by an American administration. It came on a very busy week that included the signing of the new North American free trade agreement, a major immigration victory in the Supreme Court, and the continued impeachment debate. With 23 governments applauding the peace plan, the world is “showing a willingness to receive our plan,” said an administration official. Some seven of those are in the Middle East. But the plan has also sparked violent protests in Palestinian areas such as the West Bank. Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan links diplomatic and economic policy in a bid to settle the border issue between Israel and Palestine and provide a path to economic wealth for citizens. The president announced it with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, leading officials in Palestine and Iran to dismiss it, but prompting nations in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to express openness to it...
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China vs. the Rapidly Spreading Coronavirus
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Culture Beat:  With reports of more than 6,000 people infected, 132 deaths, and 50 million people now quarantined in China, fears of the new coronavirus may be spreading faster than the contagion itself. Those fears may not be entirely unfounded, as indicated by China’s sudden and massive reaction — or at least the  appearance of a reaction. But there is also a sense that the fear is overblown. For perspective, China is home to 1.4 billion people. And for comparison, there have been 8,200 deaths from the flu here in the United States this season alone.

The coronavirus is believed to have originated from a seafood market in Wuhan known for selling wild-animal meat. Symptomatically, infected individuals suffer symptoms similar to that of influenza, though what has public-health experts worried is the apparent higher mortality rate than the flu and the unusually virulent nature of this virus. Evidently, unlike the flu, an infected individual is contagious prior to showing any symptoms of being sick. Therefore, someone can be contagious and spreading the virus before they even know they’re infected.

Are the ChiComs in a position to handle this health crisis? Well, as The Wall Street Journal reports, “[China] has about 20% fewer physicians per capita than Mexico and 70% fewer general practitioners than World Health Organization standards. About 96% of its doctors are specialists because general practitioners are poorly paid. Hospitals are overcrowded, and people in rural areas rely on medieval village clinics. Doctors at a small city near Wuhan are wearing ponchos because they lack hazmat suits. Hubei province needs 100,000 suits each day, but Chinese manufacture can produce only 30,000. Village clinics are rationing face masks.”

Meanwhile, Beijing has repeatedly rebuffed U.S. offers to send Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials to help, but U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar did observe that China’s response has been significantly better than its response to the 2002-2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak.

Thus far five out of more than a hundred people who traveled from Wuhan to the U.S. have tested positive for the virus, but CDC officials say that the current health threat to Americans remains low. In fact, the bigger impact of coronavirus to the U.S. may be to the economy, as China has stopped work for more than 50 million Chinese until mid February. Arguably the biggest problem with the story, however, is that no one can trust the information coming out of China.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68196?mailing_id=4829&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4829&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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'Deal of the Century' With Israel
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Nate Jackson  
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Coronavirus declared public 
health emergency in US
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By Alexandria Hein 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced on Friday that the coronavirus has been declared a public health emergency in the U.S. Beginning at 5 p.m. on Feb. 2... U.S. citizens returning from Hubei province will be subject to a 14-day quarantine, while other Americans who traveled elsewhere in China will be instructed to self-monitor for possible symptoms. Azar also said that President Trump is temporarily suspending entry into the U.S. for foreign nationals who pose a risk of transmitting the virus. In the same press conference, the Department of Homeland Security announced that starting on Sunday, flights coming to the U.S. from China will be funneled through seven airports that are equipped to screen passengers for symptoms of the virus. Officials continued to stress that the overall risk to the American public remains low, but that the measures being taken are to help "focus efforts as we are dealing with unknowns." The announcement comes just hours after the CDC announced that the 195 passengers who arrived in California on a flight from China on Wednesday were being kept under a 14-day quarantine as they are continually monitored for symptoms. As of Friday, there had been more than 9,600 confirmed cases of the coronavirus with over 200 deaths. Officials confirmed that the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. remains at six, with the latest being an Illinois man whose wife was diagnosed with the virus after traveling to Wuhan, which is considered the epicenter of the outbreak.
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liar-Pelosi Defies Senate's Authority, Says 
Even if Senate Votes To Acquit, Trump 
Won't Actually Be Acquitted
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By Carmine Sabia 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ The Democratic Party is so deep in its Trump Derangement Syndrome that the things its leaders say and do often defy reason... House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi stood in front of microphones on Thursday and declared that if President Donald Trump is acquitted by the Senate a likely scenario, he will not actually be acquitted. liar-Pelosi was responding to a reporter who had asked what she would do in the case of the president’s acquittal. The speaker stealthily avoided the question. “We are right now prayerful and hopeful that the Senate will have the courage to hear the truth about the President’s action, and then we’ll see what we do next,” she said, according to a transcript on her website. But when another reporter asked a similar question, liar-Pelosi had one of her famous temper tantrums.  “When this is over, do you think that President Trump will be chastened and understand that he’s got a Congress watching him? Or will he be emboldened because the Senate will have acquitted him?” the reporter asked. “Well, he will not be acquitted. You cannot be acquitted if you don’t have a trial, and you don’t have a trial if you don’t have witnesses and documentation and that,” liar-Pelosi replied. “I would hope that the Senators, if it comes to a tie, or if there’s a question of hearing testimony or receiving documents, would leave it up to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court – Republican‑appointed, in a Republican majority court. “I would think that they would have confidence in the Chief Justice of the United States. That’s really his title. And that’s interesting to me — that they’re afraid of breaking a tie with a Chief Justice of the United States. “Does the President know right from wrong? I don’t think so. That’s all I can say to you,” she said. The Constitution explicitly states that the Senate, not the Speaker of the House, has the sole authority to handle an impeachment trial of the president. liar-Pelosi’s work is done, but she is struggling to let go of the power she had when the House was conducting its impeachment inquiry...liar-Pelosi and scumbag-Schumer need to be replace. 
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'Jerry, Jerry, Jerry': scumbag/liar-Nadler steals 
last word from frustrated scumbag/liar-Schiff
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by wnd.com ~ When House impeachment managers were asked Thursday night to give a closing argument, lead manager Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff rose from his seat, but Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler beat him to the well of the Senate... as the California Democrat called out "scumbag liar-Jerry, Jerry, Jerry."  Senate staffers seated above the well covered their faces in an attempt to hide their bemusement while the Trump team also appeared to enjoy the spectacle. The question from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a Democratic presidential candidate, and several colleagues was: "Could you please respond to the question just given by the president's counsel, and provide any other comments the Senate would benefit from hearing, before we adjourn for the evening?" VIDEO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TgpicJfpc&feature=emb_title )  scumbag liar-Nadler, who opened the trial this week by berating the senators, apparently had been demoted Thursday by scumbag/liar-Schiff. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., was seated next to the lead manager and had been given more speaking time than scumbag liar-Nadler.   https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/jerry-jerry-jerry-nadler-steals-last-word-frustrated-schiff/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking   
You won’t believe which 
Supreme Court Justice is about to get fired
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by patriotpulse.net ~ The Supreme Court has a role to play in the impeachment hoax. One Justice overstepped their authority. And you won’t believe which Supreme Court Justice is about to get fired... For the second day in a row Kentucky Senator Rand Paul submitted a question to both the President’s lawyers and the House Impeachment Managers asking if they knew about scumbag/liar-nObama holdovers on the National Security Council Eric Ciaramella and Shawn Misko discussing impeaching President Trump back in 2017. Misko now works for scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff on the House Intelligence Committee and many in Washington, D.C. believe that Ciaramella is the alleged whistleblower. Senator Paul’s questions read: To the Manager scumbag/liar-Schiff and counsel for the President: Manager scumbag/liar-Schiff and Counsel for the President, are you aware that House Intelligence Committee staffer Shawn Misko had a close relationship with Eric Ciaramella when at the National Security Council together, and are you aware and how do you respond to reports that Ciaramella and Misko may have worked together to plot impeaching the President before there were formal House impeachment proceedings?” For the second day in a row Chief Justice John Roberts refused to read Paul’s question. Reading Ciaramella’s name out loud did not violate any laws. And if it is true that scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff does not know who the whistleblower is, there is no harm in Roberts reading Paul’s question. Instead Roberts refused to read Paul’s question. That led to cries from conservatives that it should Roberts who is in fact impeached and removed from his position. Roberts’ job is be a neutral judge presiding over the impeachment trial.  https://patriotpulse.net/you-wont-believe-which-supreme-court-justice-is-about-to-get-fired/#gf_1393   
“Both Sides are Wrong” in Whistleblower Fight
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By Jack Hadfield 
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Speaking to Fox News, former Representative Trey Gowdy said that “both sides are wrong” in the fight as to whether or not to call the whistleblower to testify... Senator Rand Paul recently named the alleged whistleblower in a series of tweets, as his question was rejected by Chief Justice John Roberts. Martha McCallum asked Gowdy whether it was acceptable for Senator Paul to name the alleged whistleblower. “I like Rand but I think both sides are wrong on this,” Gowdy said. “We make 4-year-olds testify in court. We make women who have been sexually assaulted testify in court. So the notion that, if you are a relevant witness, that somehow you could escape being cross-examined, we don’t do it for anyone else, why would we do it for this whistle-blower?” However, Gowdy continued, and noted that on the other hand, there is no need for the whistleblower to testify “I don’t need him,” Gowdy said. “I’ve got the transcript. Why do I care what someone who overheard the conversation felt about it or thought about it or believed about it? I can read it for myself. Yes, the whistleblower is relevant, but he’s not material. There are 20 witnesses that I think would be more probative than a whistleblower of a transcript that you and I can read for ourselves.” McCallum then asked Gowdy if he was worried with the precedent that was set with the leak of the phone call between President Trump and Zelensky in the first place. “I am, and the remedy for that is to limit the number of people who are on those calls,” he said. “There are consequences any time someone takes unprecedented acts, and if you’re going to listen to a conversation between the President and a leader of a foreign country, and then you’re going to violate that confidence and tell someone about it, the President should shrink the number of people who are on those calls!” Gowdy went on to suggest that the calls should be limited to only a select few.”...
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‘Israel’s Reaction to Trump Deal Mirrors Book 
of Ezra Right Before Temple Construction’ 
Yehuda Glick says
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By David Sidman
{ breakingisraelnews.com } ~ Rabbi Yehudah Glick, founder of the Shalom Jerusalem Foundation, reacted to U.S President Donald Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’... comparing the mixed reactions of the nation of Israel to that of the Jewish people during the days of the Prophet Ezra. The Jerusalem-based rabbi focused on one passage in the book which took place immediately following the laying of the foundation of the Second Temple. Glick began his video address by expressing his gratitude to the U.S President who: “recognizes the right of the Jewish people to implement the Israeli law on the Jewish settlements and all over Judea and Samaria.” Glick didn’t forget to thank God as well adding that Wednesday was: “another one of those days that you see the hands of the Lord guiding history and pulling the strings”. Glick then lauded Trump’s speech which recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s united capital adding that it “definitely demand us to bless him.” The Rabbi then addressed concerns regarding the Deal of the Century saying “I know that some of you and some of us and me myself are disturbed by different parts that are not yet complete.” He reminded his audience how those same mixed reactions happened right as the Jewish people bore witness to the laying of the foundation of the Second Temple by reading from the Book of Ezra which states: Many of the Kohanim and Leviim and the chiefs of the clans, the old men who had seen the first house, wept loudly at the sight of the founding of this house. Many others shouted joyously at the top of their voices. The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the people’s weeping, for the people raised a great shout, the sound of which could be heard from afar. (Ezra 3:12-13) Glick went on to explain that just as some ‘wept loudly’ while at the same time others yelled ‘shouts of joy’, the nation couldn’t “tell the difference between the voices of the shouting of happiness and the voices of the nation crying.” The rabbi, who survived a 2014 assassination attempt, reiterated that “we are in the process – yes we are in the process of redemption and in the process of redemption as we study in Psalms 126 which states: our mouths shall be filled with laughter, our tongues, with songs of joy. Then shall they say among the nations, “Hashem has done great things for them!” (Psalm 126:2) “There are tears and there’s joy but every single step in the process demands us to thank God for that step” Glick added. Glick summarized his message by reading from the Book of Hagai “who followed with prophecy these days of the building of the temple in time of Cyrus.” And Chagai, Hashem‘s messenger, fulfilling Hashem‘s mission, spoke to the people, “I am with you—declares Hashem.” (Haggai 1:13) The rabbi concluded he address by reminding his audience that we are in the process of redemption saying: “We are sure that the redemption process that we are witnessing today will continue.” He then again, expressed gratitude towards Trump and Netanyahu saying: “and yes we are praising God for the cooperation between the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and the president the United States President Donald Trump.”
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'Deal of the Century' With Israel and the Palestinians?
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Nate Jackson:  President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined together at the White House on Tuesday to unveil a new plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, including a state for the latter. The first thing to note is the dismal history of such attempts. As Gary Bauer notes, “Almost every American president and Israeli prime minister has tried and failed to negotiate a lasting peace between Israelis and the Palestinians. The problem is not Israel or the United States. The real obstacle to peace is the refusal of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hezbollah and others to recognize the right of Israel to exist at all.” Will this be any different? We’ll see.

The Trump-Netanyahu plan has a few key elements. As Bauer outlines:

  • Jerusalem remains the undivided capital of Israel. (Remember, Trump finally kept a long-standing U.S. promise to move the American embassy there.)

  • The Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish state.

  • Hamas must be disarmed, and the Palestinians must reject terrorism.

  • The so-called “refugee problem” will be settled outside the boundaries of Israel.

  • Israel will suspend construction in disputed territories for four years to give both sides time to implement various aspects of the deal.

  • The president pledged $50 billion of investment to provide hope and economic opportunity to the Palestinian people.

The offer is certainly pro-Israel, but it’s also remarkably generous to the Palestinians, who for more than half a century have terrorized Israeli and rejected every previous offer of peace. The onus is on the Palestinians, not on Israel or the U.S. As David Harsanyi rightly observes, “Israel, in fact, probably feels less external pressure than ever to enter into a deal.” That’s because it is, at the moment, quite secure.

To Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, Trump said, “If you choose the path of peace, America will be there to help you every step of the way.” Yet Abbas is reported to have already rejected the offer, and vehemently so. That’s not surprising, given that Palestinian principals like Abbas have never wanted peace — they want an endless war to delegitimize Israel in the eyes of United Nations elites. It is the Palestinian people who bear the brunt of that evil strategy.

Maybe part of the deal should be Trump shipping the Palestinians a load of those “Hate Has No Home Here” yard signs that are all the rage among chardonnay-sipping leftist elites who hate Trump.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68215?mailing_id=4829&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4829&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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The Flu and You: Perspective and Preparedness
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Mark Alexander 
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Senator rino-Lisa Murkowski Announces 
She Will Vote “No” on Witnesses
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ After taking the night to consider the issues at hand, senator rino-Lisa Murkowski announces she will not support a call for further witness testimony... It appears the primary concern for rino-Murkowski was her ‘yea’ vote creating a 50/50 split; and she anticipates Democrats attempting to manipulate further rules forcing Chief Justice Roberts to be the deciding factor. rino-Murkowski stated: “I will not stand for nor support that effort.”Posting to her Facebook Page the Alaska Senator writes: “I worked for a fair, honest, and transparent process, modeled after the scumbag/liar-Clinton trial, to provide ample time for both sides to present their cases, ask thoughtful questions, and determine whether we need more. The House chose to send articles of impeachment that are rushed and flawed. I carefully considered the need for additional witnesses and documents, to cure the shortcomings of its process, but ultimately decided that I will vote against considering motions to subpoena. Given the partisan nature of this impeachment from the very beginning and throughout, I have come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the Senate. I don’t believe the continuation of this process will change anything. It is sad for me to admit that, as an institution, the Congress has failed. It has also become clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process, and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the Chief Justice. I will not stand for nor support that effort. We have already degraded our institution for partisan political benefit, and I will not enable those who wish to pull down another. We are sadly at a low point of division in this country.”
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Impeachment Trial Day 8: Dershowitz,
scumbag/liar-Schiff, and Bolton
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Nate Jackson:  “If the president does something that he thinks will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Donald Trump’s defense team, told the Senate Wednesday. Predictably, his statement, which outlines his consistent defense of Trump, was mischaracterized by Democrats and the Leftmedia in service to the impeachment agenda.

Dershowitz certainly could have been clearer, but the Trump team’s argument is this: A lawful quid pro quo in service to U.S. interests is not illegal or impeachable, regardless of whether it benefits the president politically. Thus, even if Democrats’ allegations are true, Trump’s “offense” doesn’t rise to an impeachable one. Of course, there’s also an inconvenient truth: There was no actual quid pro quo, though one was attempted. Ukraine got its military aid and Volodymyr Zelensky got his presidential meeting, all without opening the investigations Trump requested.

In any case, Trump’s request regarding the corruption of a previous and potentially future American administration is absolutely in U.S. interests, though Trump was unwise to ask this of one of Europe’s most corrupt countries.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand exemplified the hyperventilating on the Left, arguing that Dershowitz “essentially said that if President Trump believes his election is for the good of the American people that he could do whatever he wants.” That’s a false representation of what Dershowitz actually argued, and leftists know it.

Patrick Philbin, one of the president’s lawyers, bolstered Dershowitz’s point: “If there is something that shows a possible public interest” in what Trump said, “that destroys [the Democrats’] case.”

scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, one of the leading and most dishonest of the Democrat impeachment managers, disagreed. “If any part of the president’s motivation was a corrupt motive,” he insisted, “it would be enough to convict under criminal law.”

To illustrate his preposterous contention, scumbag/liar-Schiff engaged in another bit of absurd B-movie theater, mockingly saying, “Let’s … see how you feel about this scenario:”

President [Barack] scumbag/liar-nObama, on an open mic, says to [then-Russian President Dimitri] Medvedev, “Hey, Medvedev, I know you don’t want me to send this military money to Ukraine because they are fighting and killing your people. I want you to do me a favor, though. I want you to do an investigation of rino-Mitt Romney. And I want you to announce you found dirt on rino-Mitt Romney. If you’re willing to do that, quid pro quo, I won’t give Ukraine the money they need to fight you on the front line.”

Do any of us have any question that Barack scumbag/liar-nObama would be impeached for that kind of misconduct? Are we really ready to say that that would be okay if Barack scumbag/liar-nObama asked Medvedev to investigate his opponent and withhold money from an ally that needed to defend itself to get an investigation of rino-Mitt Romney? That’s the parallel here.

The especially brazen aspect of scumbag/liar-Schiff’s latest attempt to win an Oscar is that he comes fairly close to what scumbag/liar-nObama actually did. Unknowingly on a hot mic, scumbag/liar-nObama told Medvedev in 2012 that he would have “more flexibility” after his reelection to make changes to U.S. defense policy sought by our Russian geopolitical foes and detrimental to our European allies. scumbag/liar-nObama was not impeached, of course, though Democrats — four years too late — eventually realized that Russia is in fact a threat to U.S. interests.

No, rino-Romney was not mentioned in the real conversation, but scumbag/liar-nObama had to defeat rino-Romney before he could give Medvedev’s puppet master, Vladimir Putin, what he wanted: American capitulation on missile defense. Nothing Trump said is even remotely close to being that bad for U.S. interests.

Meanwhile, as John Bolton and his leaked book allegations have dominated the news this week, there’s more misinformation and distortion coming out of even libertarian and conservative news outlets. Without getting lost in the weeds, any book written by a top administration official like Bolton must be reviewed by the National Security Council (NSC) to determine if any classified information is revealed.

In a letter to Bolton’s publisher, the NSC contended that there was indeed classified information — some of it TOP SECRET — in Bolton’s manuscript. That would need to be removed before the book could be published. This was not a ham-handed attempt at “muzzling” Bolton, and it wasn’t a “threat” to block his book entirely, either. The NSC review is standard procedure that Bolton rightly submitted to in order to honor his own nondisclosure agreements.

The NSC letter is dated January 23, three days before the New York Times blockbuster revealing that Bolton says there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine. The Times depended on a well-timed leak of Bolton’s manuscript, leaving us to wonder whether the leaker — one of the Vindman twins? — violated federal law by disclosing classified information.

Democrats still want Bolton to testify before the Senate, though that is increasingly unlikely. But we thought it would be enlightening to highlight scumbag/liar-Schiff’s long history of denigrating Bolton. In 2005, scumbag/liar-Schiff complained of Bolton’s “lack of credibility.” And all the way back in 2018, he groused about Bolton’s “love of conspiracy theories.”

Now we have to hear from Bolton? What changed, Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff?

And finally, Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the president’s trial, refused to read a question submitted by Sen. Rand Paul because Paul named the whistleblower. The worst-kept secret in the swamp is that Eric Ciaramella is likely the whistleblower. Federal law protects whistleblowers only from retribution, not from being named, so the continued charade of keeping his name a “secret” is absurd. Not only should Ciaramella’s name be spoken, he should have testified before the House.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68244?mailing_id=4832&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4832&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body    
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The Pot-Kettle-Black ImpeachmentkfyiZ2Snha8SL0zx9mGyU31Rrmew32P4IbRpbZVzU6jPJ0gcD-Sgj6yVQxHBS38P_13y_6H_j7qGkWqFFRv4zhfuGw-ykRegO2NWdyM2SC38yYw6sbMriu-zpteGT1SMm_TgsfhkYYO1DIlt_TXO4LuqYk9Q=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=?profile=RESIZE_710x
by DANIEL J. FLYNN
{ spectator.org  } ~ Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff said that if Barack scumbag/liar-nObama encouraged a foreign power to investigate a political opponent, then the last president would have committed an impeachable offense...
“Under no circumstances do you go outside of your own legitimate law enforcement process to ask a foreign power to investigate your rival, whether you think there’s cause or you don’t think there’s cause,” scumbag/liar-Schiff explained during the impeachment trial. “And you certainly don’t invite that foreign power to try to influence an election to your benefit.” scumbag/liar-Schiff strangely spoke as though addressing a hypothetical. Not only did the scumbag/liar-nObama administration link arms with foreigners to take down a political rival, but scumbag/liar-Schiff also ran interference for that propaganda effort by falsely claiming to know of “more than circumstantial evidence” that the Donald Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election, a charge invalidated by the Mueller Report and much else. Did scumbag/liar-Schiff really forget his raison d’être for the first two and a half years of the Trump administration? A joint operation of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign, and, ultimately, the scumbag/liar-nObama Justice Department, Christopher Steele’s opposition research — euphemistically rechristened an “intelligence dossier” in the press — peddled false information obtained by a bought foreign agent utilizing bought sources in a foreign country, i.e., Russia, to smear the Republican presidential nominee. The meddling former MI6 agent, unsurprisingly, found what he and his paymasters were looking for. In Steele’s so-called dossier, he describes Source A as “a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure,” Source B as “a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin,” and Source C as “a senior Russian financial official.” Did Barack scumbag/liar-nObama sic the Justice Department on those using foreigners to derail an ostensibly free and fair American presidential election? No, scumbag/liar-nObama’s Justice Department, which had paid Steele as a source in the past, actually authorized payments to Steele as a result of his opposition research gathered as a bought agent of the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign, which, like the DNC, laundered its funding to Steele in an end-around on Federal Election Commission transparency rules through a law firm and then an opposition research firm. This succeeded in misleading the public, the press, and a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court into imagining the “dossier” as the product of a legitimate investigation rather than one bought by the most interested party possible on the face of the earth...
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A Sin For Us Not To Support Trump’s Plan
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by Caroline Glick
{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ In Israel’s early years, every time the U.S. ambassador traveled to Jerusalem to meet with government leaders, he would have his chauffeur stop his car at the entrance to the city... and replace its diplomatic license plates with regular civilian plates. The State Department refused to recognize that Jerusalem was part of Israel. The license plates were for Israel. And so, in a show of contempt and rejection of Israel’s right to its capital city, he removed his diplomatic plates before entering Jerusalem, and put them back on when he left. President Harry Truman was the first world leader to recognize the State of Israel, just moments after David Ben-Gurion declared its independence on May 14, 1948. But his recognition was skin deep. Truman, like all of his successors until Donald Trump, recognized Israel’s existence but didn’t recognize the Jewishness of Israel. He saw Israel as a refuge for Holocaust survivors and other Jews fleeing persecution, but he didn’t accept that the nation of Israel in 1948 was the nation of Israel from the Bible. He didn’t accept that the Jewish refugees in European DP camps were the descendants of the prophets or that the forefathers of the kibbutzniks in the Jezreel Valley were the priests at the Temple in Jerusalem. Israel, as far as he was concerned, was a new state, a poor state of Jewish refugees. And he treated it accordingly. Truman’s anti-historical view of the Jewish state produced a two-faced American policy towards Israel. On the one hand, the American officials spoke warmly of the Jewish homeland. On the other hand, they treated Israel like a beggar that should be thankful for scraps and loose change. This patronizing American approach changed after the 1967 Six-Day War. President Lyndon Johnson realized that a nation capable of triumphing over four enemy armies in six days and tripling its size is a nation worthy of respect and better treatment. Johnson upgraded Israel militarily and supported it diplomatically in the aftermath of the war. But America’s ambivalence towards Zionism — the liberation movement of the ancient Jewish people —persevered. The U.S.’s adamant refusal to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Washington’s opposition to all Jewish settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza attested to this fact...  https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/sin-us-not-support-trumps-plan-caroline-glick  
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Today is Brexit Day – The U.K Formally 
Departs The European Union 
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by sundance
{ dailymail.co.uk } ~ I think it is fair to say: no individual has worked harder for this day than Britain’s Nigel Farage. Without his relentless work to organize voters to remove the U.K. from the European Union... and then to organize again -three years later- to break the Brexit stalemate in Parliament; this momentous day would not have arrived. Boris Johnson will deliver a plea for the country to move on from Brexit as the UK finally leaves the EU tonight. In an address to be broadcast shortly before Britain’s departure at 11pm U.K. / 6pm U.S. ET, the Prime Minister will insist that Brexit marks ‘not an end but a beginning’.And in a sign of the new Government’s changed approach, he will convene a symbolic Cabinet meeting this afternoon in Sunderland, the first city to declare for Brexit when the 2016 referendum results came out. Tonight he will stress his belief that the referendum was a vote not just to leave the EU, but also for lasting change in neglected areas of the country. Mr Johnson will describe Brexit as ‘the moment when the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act’...
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It’s About Corruption – Replacing a Failed 
and Corrupt Political Establishment
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By Brian C. Joondeph
{ americanthinker.com } ~ American presidents have their famous speeches, remembered long after they leave office. JFK said: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and told Mikhail Gorbachev to: “Tear down this wall.”... Some speeches are memorable in other ways. George W. Bush, days after 9/11, ironically announced that: “Islam is peace.” Barack scumbag/liar-nObama proclaimed himself the messiah: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” President Trump has certainly given strong speeches, such as at the recent March for Life. But he may be remembered more for his raucous rallies and hilarious tweets. Yet one speech has flown under the radar. On Oct. 13, 2016, just weeks before the election, Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Florida. Leading up to the election, he was holding several rallies each day, giving numerous speeches, but this seemingly random speech stands out. The enigmatic Q group refers to it as the speech that got Donald Trump elected. As it was one of many pre-election speeches he gave and at a Florida rally, it may have only been heard by a fraction of Trump voters before the election, but it certainly encapsulates his philosophy, both before and after the election, toward government corruption. The speech explains the resistance by the Washington, D.C. ruling class to Trump’s candidacy, election, and presidency. Trump attacked the foundation of deep state power, wealth, and corruption. Trump was indeed an “existential threat” to the cabal. Before even being elected, and years before loose lips liar-Joe Biden decided to run for president, Donald Trump was focused on corruption. Not to influence his reelection, as House Democrats accuse, since he wasn’t even president yet. But because rooting out corruption was part of his plan to make America great again. Everything that followed his election, from the Russian collusion accusations, White House leaks, special counsel investigation, and now impeachment, is a reaction to the ideas Trump explains in this 6-minute speech...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/its_about_corruption__replacing_a_failed_and_corrupt_political_establishment.html
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Whatever Happened to the Democratic Primary?
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By Matthew Continetti
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Fox News website highlights "hot topics" at the top of the page. As I write, the topics are: "Kobe Bryant dead," "Trump impeachment," and "Coronavirus." Compelling... and in the last case terrifying—stories. But something is missing: the Democratic primary. The Iowa caucus will be held in a matter of days. New Hampshire votes a week after that. Twelve Democrats are still in the race. Nobody cares. Maybe that's harsh. No doubt the candidates' mothers are paying attention. Yet in two decades of serious observation of politics I have not seen a presidential primary that exerts less of a hold on the nation's attention than this one. Why? The obvious answer is impeachment. It is all Washington cares about. The trial of President Trump hasn’t just overshadowed the campaign. It's stopped it. commie-Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, and Amy Klobuchar, who are in the game in Iowa, as well as Michael Bennet, who is not, have been strapped to their chairs. Think of all the selfies dinky/liar-Warren has missed out on. She must be despondent. Because the television camera in the Senate chamber is pointed at the rostrum, dinky/liar-Warren and commie-Sanders can't even communicate to their supporters through hand gestures. Nor have loose lips liar-Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg capitalized on the opportunity of having Iowa to themselves. They can't break through wall-to-wall coverage of senators' questions and legal maneuvers, of John Bolton's book, of Mitch McConnell's quest to end the trial as soon as possible. True, impeachment has kept loose lips liar-Biden's name in the news. But not in a way he would like. Trump's defense has drawn further attention to Hunter Biden's questionable position on the board of Ukrainian gas giant Burisma. What was Hunter being paid for? Relationship advice? His dad doesn't have a good answer. Whether he likes it or not, impeachment reinforces the impression that loose lips liar-Joe Biden is a lifelong D.C. politician whose family benefits from his connections...   https://freebeacon.com/columns/whatever-happened-to-the-democratic-primary/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email   
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The Flu and You: Perspective and Preparedness
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Mark Alexander:  Thursday, the UN’s World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concer in connection with the spread of the latest coronavirus mutations and concern about human-to-human transmission. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted, “The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries.”

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, generally far  ahead of the rest of the world regarding potential pandemic threats, is always watching this and other bugs for early warning signs of spread in the U.S. Taking additional measures, the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has empaneled a task force to ramp up preparedness and response to the spread of this contagion. Azar declared, “Americans should note this is a potentially very serious public health threat.”

Officially, the communist Chinese government claims about 220 deaths and 10,000 infections. Our sources indicate that the actual rates of infection and deaths in China are much higher, and, in fact, official reports may only represent 5-7% of the actual dead and infected. The so-called “popup hospitals” now being constructed in Hubei province where the coronavirus outbreak originated double as isolation morgues.

In the U.S., the CDC is now reporting human-transmitted cases and has confirmed five cases in Arizona, Washington state, Illinois, and California, while officials are investigating four more — two in Washington, DC, and one each in Maryland and Virginia. The CDC is waiting on test results for more than 100 other patients suspected of coronavirus infection. Accordingly, the U.S. has issued a strong travel advisory for China, but we believe the CDC should increase the isolation period for those who are suspected of being infected to 14 days.

What do you need to know — and do?

First some perspective. Global deaths from the Ebola epidemic originating in 2014 are estimated now at more than 13,200. But deaths from the the 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak, while officially put at 18,449, are now estimated by one CDC study to be as high as 284,000. The vast majority of these deaths occurred in third-world nations where containment and treatment are rudimentary. Most deaths were at both ends of the age spectrum — the young and old.

While domestic concern about the coronavirus is warranted, it is worth noting that the current influenza B/Victoria viral strain in the U.S. is deadly. There have been more than 8,000 deaths associated with influenza across the country in this flu season. “Influenza is going to cause thousands more hospitalizations and I’m afraid many, many deaths that will make the coronavirus impact on our country very tiny in comparison,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University infectious-disease specialist. He added, “The risk from influenza is real and present.” (Did you get that flu shot this year?)

What can you do?

Be prepared. As I noted in “The REAL Pandemic Threat,” “Clearly, there are significant pandemic threats posed by viral infections that mutate into much more contagious forms and can spread regionally, nationally, and internationally, causing significant loss of life. I have advised for years that the primary defense against such contagions is the capacity to shelter in place. What originates in China or Africa one week can be in your suburb the next.”

For that reason, years ago we developed a resource page on Disaster Preparedness Planning, including a Two Step Individual Readiness Plan and a section on how to shelter in place.

We encourage you to visit each of these pages, because national preparedness begins with individual preparedness.   ~The Patriot Post

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