Trump’s decision didn’t sit well with five GOP representatives from Illinois. They expressed their “disappointment” in a joint statement in which they noted that Blagojevich’s sentencing was “appropriate and fair” and represented “the low-end of the federal sentencing guidelines for the gravity of his public corruption convictions.” They further asserted, “Blegojevich is the face of public corruption in Illinois, and not once has he shown any remorse for his clear and documented record of egregious crimes. … We shouldn’t let those who breach the public trust off the hook.”

None of the other individuals Trump pardoned yesterday raised nearly the eyebrows or controversy as Blagojevich, which has most everyone wondering what was behind this decision. One thing’s for certain — this was a long-calculated move that Trump had been publicly mulling since 2018. Was it a setup by Trump to justify an eventual move to pardon those caught up in the Russia-collusion hoax — individuals like Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and Roger Stone? Possibly. It would certainly take some of the wind out of the sails of those who would claim he was acting on purely partisan instincts given that Blagojevich is a Democrat. And if that is indeed part of Trump’s thinking, would he wait until after the election to act?

Furthermore, Trump can use this to call attention to his efforts on criminal-justice reform, a policy agenda that Democrats have long touted as their own and have used effectively against Republicans, especially with minority voters. Trump has seized that political ground.

Still, that Blagojevich used his power as governor to pursue personal gain is exactly the type of corrupt swamp creature Trump campaigned on cleaning up. It’s easy to see why critics blast Trump’s decision as a clear contradiction of that commitment.   ~The Patriot Post

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“Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history,” scumbag/liar-nObama boasted on “Presidents’ Day.”

First, we’ll stipulate something that isn’t said often enough: In America’s free-market economy, presidents have less impact on the economy than they take credit or receive blame for. Presidents are not kings or central-planning despots, even if, like scumbag/liar-nObama, they try to be. It’s also true that every president claims credit for the good and blames the other guy for the bad. That’s politics.

But let’s also set the record straight — again.

The “Great Recession” of 2008-2009 was seeded in the 1990s with Democrat policies regarding mortgage lending. The bubble that created took more than a decade to burst, but when it did, the crisis of confidence  yielded the worst recession since the Great Depression.

It’s also arguable that, unpopular and controversial as it was, Bush prevented a worse catastrophe by working with the Democrat Congress to bail out major banks. That decision certainly remains open for criticism, but scumbag/liar-nObama, to coin a phrase, didn’t build that.

What scumbag/liar-nObama did build was the slowest recovery in U.S. history. When the economy is, as he said, “near the bottom,” the only place to go is up. But it took a long time to move up because scumbag/liar-nObama increased federal spending dramatically, passing out “stimulus” cash to his favored constituency groups while promising “shovel-ready jobs” that never really materialized. Where the economy did grow, such as the energy sector, it was despite scumbag/liar-nObama’s best efforts to stifle that growth with draconian regulations and higher taxes. scumbag/liar-nObama oversaw two terms without a single year exceeding 3% economic growth — the average was just 2.1%. That was unprecedented, and it was appallingly bad for a recovery.

It is true that since scumbag/liar-nObama signed the Recovery Act America has seen uninterrupted job and economic growth. Even Leftmedia “fact-checkers” would rake him over the coals if that weren’t the case.

Yet in 2016, there were persistent rumblings of another recession as the economy slowed to a crawl. The likely reason that didn’t come to pass is Trump’s election. As his campaign press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, rightly argued, “President Trump reversed every single failed scumbag/liar-nObama-era economic policy, and with it, reversed the floundering scumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden economy.”

Trump grossly overstates the case when he claims, as he did in his State of the Union Address, that “our economy is the best it has ever been.” But his policies of reducing taxes and regulation removed significant obstacles to economic growth and ensured that we are, to coin another phrase, better off today than we were four years ago.

That’s really the point of scumbag/liar-nObama’s empty boast. He knows Democrats are in trouble this year, so, without a Democrat-induced recession in sight to derail Trump’s momentum, the best scumbag/liar-nObama can do is claim credit where it isn’t due.   

~The Patriot Post

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A constant theme on the left is that Donald Trump is a racist and his supporters are racists. Pete Buttigieg tried to soften the smear by saying that conservative voters were “at best looking the other way on racism.” This obscene accusation is demonstrably false.

First, the president’s economic policies have created tremendous benefits for minority communities. Unemployment rates for blacks and Hispanics are at record lows.

His crackdown on illegal immigration has boosted minority employment, and wages are rising fastest for those at the bottom of the pay scale. Many minorities are asking themselves why the left seems to care more about illegal immigrants than it does about native-born blacks and Hispanics.

Second, President Trump accomplished a number of important achievements that Barack scumbag/liar-nObama did not. Trump pushed through record funding for historically black colleges and universities, and he met with their presidents during the first weeks of his administration. 

Even liberal activist Van Jones gives the president credit, saying, “Black colleges have been struggling for a long time. A bunch of them have gone under. He threw a lifeline to them in real life in his budget.”

Trump signed historic criminal-justice reform, giving many minorities like Alice Johnson a second chance at life. 

Not only has Donald Trump done these things, he’s proud of it. He talks about it at his rallies in front of tens of thousands of MAGA-hat-wearing conservatives. At every one of these raucous events, Trump proudly declares how blacks and Hispanics are better off.

If his supporters were all racists, they should be booing and heading for the exits. But you don’t see that. Instead, they are cheering and applauding because they are good people.

And at the end of these rallies, you don’t just see cheers and applause. You often see tears. Why? Because Donald Trump almost always closes out his rallies by declaring, “We are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God." 

While the left tries desperately to divide us with ugly lies and smears, President Trump’s policies are working for all Americans. Not surprisingly, most Americans (61%) now say that they are better off today than they were four years ago. And that sounds a lot like "Four More Years” to me!

Left-Wing Hate

Last weekend a deranged leftist tried to run down Trump supporters in Jacksonville, Florida. 

The same day, a “Bernie bro" vandalized the GOP headquarters in Eureka, California, and attempted to burn it down. Talk about "feeling the Bern!”

On Monday, a retired New York police officer celebrating his 50th birthday was punched in the face by a crazed progressive who assumed he was wearing a MAGA hat. The hat read, “Make Fifty Great Again.”

In New Hampshire Tuesday, a bitter leftist assaulted a teenaged boy in a MAGA hat and then broke the jaw of another man who intervened.

On Thursday, an angry liberal threatened Trump supporters with a cane sword, and, of course, that happened in Florida.

Sadly, such outbursts of left-wing hate and intolerance are happening all the time all over the country, like the Jewish man who was called Nazi by a loony leftist. 

Now, if there were five attacks against Democrats in the past week, I guarantee you the media would be connecting THOSE dots. There would be bold headlines on every front page and breathless reports on every nightly news broadcast. They would all be condemning the president, his supporters, Rush Limbaugh, and his listeners. 

But when the violence comes from the left, there’s none of that. The double standard is disgusting.

What Barr Said

Did you hear Attorney General William Barr diss the president? He told ABC News that Trump should tweet less about certain cases because it makes his job harder. I’m sure you heard that because the media can’t stop crowing about it. 

The White House said the president had no problems with Barr’s comments and that Trump has “full faith and confidence in Attorney General Barr.” Now here’s the rest of the story, which the media aren’t talking about.

Barr said that he met with Justice Department officials days ago to discuss the sentencing in the Roger Stone case. When they told him that prosecutors were pushing a sentence of seven to nine years, Barr said that was out of line. 

He suggested that the department should make no recommendation at all, while making the point that Stone was no threat to the public. That would argue for significantly less jail time, but the decision would be up to the judge. 

Barr left the meeting thinking everyone was on the same page, and was stunned when he heard media reports that prosecutors were asking for seven to nine years. He told his staff Monday night that the department’s position needed to be “clarified." 

The president’s tweet condemning the sentencing recommendation came Tuesday morning. Barr said he "never” discussed the Stone case with the president or the White House. You can watch the entire interview here.

This looks like another example of Deep State resistance. The holdovers from Mueller’s team wanted another Trump scalp and didn’t care what the attorney general said. They assumed that once it was done, once the recommendation of seven to nine years was filed, there was no way Barr would dare to undo it.

Well, there’s a new sheriff in town, and this president and this attorney general are determined to drain the swamp. Barr told ABC he wouldn’t be intimidated by anybody — not the president or even the Deep State bureaucrats who think they run the government.

Fighting for Life

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday scheduled votes on two key pro-life bills — a ban on late-term abortions and a bill to ensure that babies who survive abortions are provided emergency medical care.

These should be easy votes. Polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly oppose late-term abortions and infanticide. 

Unfortunately, left-wing politicians are all in on abortion on demand. Colorado Democrats voted down similar bills this week, and I expect virtually every Senate Democrat will do the same. These votes will expose the pro-abortion extremists in the Democrat Party, drawing clear distinctions for voters this November.

2020 Update

• commie-Bernie Sanders is getting a boost from winning New Hampshire — he’s now up 10 points over Joe Biden in the latest national poll.

• loose lips liar-Joe Biden is facing a new threat in South Carolina and growing calls to drop out of the presidential contest.

• In another big blow to loose lips liar-Biden, Nevada’s powerful Culinary Union declined to endorse a candidate.

• And the blows just keep coming. New polling finds that the Burisma scandal is hurting loose lips liar-Biden’s image and campaign.

• Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren is pulling her ads in South Carolina and betting it all on Nevada.

• Michael Bloomberg is facing more accusations of racism.

• The chairman of the Iowa Democrat Party is resigning.  ~The Patriot Post

On Presidents Day, we celebrate the life and accomplishments of our first president, George Washington, the father of our country, and Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president and one of our most renowned statesmen.

On that day, Feb. 17 this year, we should remember that the Framers of the Constitution wanted to ensure that an American president — such as Washington and Lincoln — would have the power to defend the country when the safety, security, and independence of its people are threatened.

And that power is exactly what they gave the president in the Constitution when they made him the commander in chief of our military forces.

This is particularly important given recent legislation passed by the House of Representatives, a so-called “war powers resolution.” It condemned President Donald Trump for ordering the lawful targeting of an Iranian general, terrorist mastermind Qassim Suleimani, and ordered Trump to stop using all military force against Iran without prior congressional approval.

Iran has been a longtime state sponsor of terrorism, according to our own State Department, and Suleimani made himself a target. He was a mass murderer responsible for thousands of deaths, including hundreds of Americans.

On a recent trip through Pennsylvania, I was reminded of what Americans have suffered at the hands of terrorists and the importance of having a commander in chief with broad constitutional authority to react immediately to threats against the nation.

On a cold, icy day, my wife and I stopped at the Flight 93 National Memorial, which honors the 33 passengers and seven crew members of United Flight 93 who died when their Boeing 757 airliner crashed into a field just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 11, 2001.

We all know what happened on 9/11. Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners. They flew two into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and flew the third into the Pentagon, murdering almost 3,000 people.

The fourth flight was United Flight 93. It took off from Newark, New Jersey, headed for San Francisco with four hijackers on board masquerading as passengers. Forty-six minutes into the flight, they attacked the captain and first officer, took over the controls of the airplane, and changed direction to head for Washington, D.C.

Half an hour later, the plane crashed upside down at 563 miles per hour into the field where the memorial is today.

We know what happened in that critical half-hour not only from the cockpit voice recorder recovered by authorities at the horrendous crash site, but from the 37 telephone calls to, and voicemail messages left with, the friends and families of the passengers on the flight.

Through those phone calls, the passengers learned of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and quickly realized why the hijackers were headed for Washington.

The passengers made a collective decision, took a vote, and decided to attempt to retake the plane. Among the passengers was Todd Beamer, an Oracle account manager who was the father of two sons, David and Andrew, and whose wife, Lisa, was pregnant with their third child.

A born leader, Beamer decided to take matters into his own hands and fight back. Before leading other passengers in a final fight against the terrorists, he called flight dispatch and spoke with Lisa Jefferson. He asked her to say the Lord’s Prayer with him.

After praying with her, Beamer uttered his famous words, “Let’s roll,” to his fellow passengers. The cockpit recorder captured the shouts, crashes, and sounds of the melee that occurred when the passengers attacked, including one who yelled, “Let’s get them!”

The 9/11 Commission concluded that the hijackers crashed the plane when they realized that the passengers were only seconds away from overcoming them and taking back control of the plane.

The Flight 93 National Memorial, just like the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York and the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, is deeply affecting. Set in a bucolic, quiet Pennsylvania field, the memorial is a solemn reminder of the ravages of terrorism and the triumph of ordinary heroes over evil incarnate.

It is impossible to view, listen to, and read the personal stories of the individual passengers on that flight without being greatly moved and greatly angered. The stories explain what has happened on the plane and what the passengers plan to do about it even as they say farewell to their loved ones.

These average, ordinary Americans took on four jihadist hijackers at the cost of their own lives. They prevented those terrorists from what would have been a devastating attack on a notable location in Washington, most likely the U.S. Capitol or the White House. The Flight 93 crash site is only 18 minutes flying time from Washington.

There is no need to rehash what happened after 9/11, including the immediate steps that President George W. Bush took to safeguard the country and to go after the terrorists who had sponsored, financed, and planned the attack on America. But Bush’s actions illustrate how important it was then, and is today, that our Constitution provides for a strong commander in chief.

As the Justice Department said in a 2001 legal opinion, no law and no congressional resolution “can place any limits on the President’s determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response or the method, timing, and nature of the response. These decisions, under our Constitution, are for the president alone to make.”

That is a good thing.

So while we are celebrating Washington, who led an eight-year fight for our liberty, and Lincoln, who fought to stop the breakup of the Union, we also should be thankful for other presidents who used the strong power of the executive to protect the nation.

That includes President Franklin Roosevelt, who led us in the largest war in our history against two brutal tyrannies, as well as Bush, who acted decisively after the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor.

Trump also should be applauded for taking out a terrorist thug who had American blood on his hands, and who would have continued to kill Americans.

Americans just like those who died on United Flight 93 when it crashed in what the National Park Service appropriately calls “a field of honor forever” in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.   ~The Patriot Post

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As National Review’s Andrew McCarthy observes, “The FBI’s former deputy director, though he undeniably misled investigators, remains a commentator at CNN. In the meantime, Papadopoulos is a felon convicted and briefly imprisoned for misleading investigators, while Flynn and Stone are awaiting sentencing on their false-statements charges. That covers both tiers of our justice system.”

So, why did the DOJ make this decision? Well, it appears to have boiled down to a question of winnability. As unsatisfying as that answer may be, the most unsatisfying answer of all may be that we may never fully know why. That said, there are some indications as to why the DOJ made this decision, and it wasn’t necessarily because of some deep-state cover-up.

First, as former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy noted, this decision was made regarding a narrow specific incident — McCabe’s lying about a press leak. Furthermore, the DOJ’s announcement does not signal that McCabe is completely out of the woods — not by a long shot. It may be that McCabe factors into prosecutor John Durham’s  ongoing criminal investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. That investigation could reveal much more serious criminal actions than lying about an unauthorized press leak.

A second reason that may have factored into this decision was the DOJ’s recognition that winning a conviction against McCabe was far from a forgone conclusion. The likelihood of getting a conviction with a Washington jury pool in the current highly partisan environment is slim. And adding to this is Trump’s careless penchant for publicly calling for the prosecution of those he believes wronged him. Even if his assessment is accurate, it only serves to bolster any claims from McCabe’s defense that the case is a politically motivated prosecution. As McCarthy states, “If you want people held accountable for their crimes, you have to ensure their fundamental right to due process. When the government poisons the well, the bad guys reap the benefits.”

On a positive note, Attorney General William Barr has installed an outside prosecutor to review Flynn’s case. This is part of a larger effort by Barr; The New York Times reports as he recently “installed a handful of outside prosecutors to broadly review the handling of other politically sensitive national-security cases.” Like a cat tasked with clearing the barn of rats, Barr has set about his work with the utmost seriousness. Trump needs to trust him, let him do his work, and avoid throwing out ammunition for Democrats to use against him.   ~The Patriot Post

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“A month before the 2016 presidential election, the FBI met Christopher Steele in Rome and apparently unlawfully shared with the foreign opposition researcher some of the bureau’s most closely held secrets, according to unpublicized disclosures in the recent Justice Department Inspector General report on abuses of federal surveillance powers.” So begins the latest revelation of deep-state corruption, courtesy of Eric Felten and RealClearInvestigations.

Felten continues, “Much of the public reporting regarding this meeting has focused on the information Steele shared with the FBI — and the many reasons agents should have doubted its credibility. But largely neglected has been the opposite side of the equation — what the FBI told Steele. The Inspector General reports that the bureau revealed to him much of the highly classified information that it had gathered regarding alleged Trump-Russia links.” That included information on Trump campaign staffers Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn — information known only by a select few FBI officials.

“The FBI had every reason to expect Steele to share information with Glenn Simpson, whose client was the Clinton campaign,” Felten adds. And, indeed, “Shortly after the Rome meeting, Steele briefed Simpson on what the FBI had disclosed to him.”

Oh, and the FBI paid Steele $15,000 to attend the three-hour meeting.

Remember, it was Steele who leaked his dossier to Yahoo News’s Michael Isikoff. While the FBI soon cut ties with Steele for that leak, it still used the dossier to obtain surveillance warrants against Page. scumbag/liar-Clinton likewise used Isikoff’s report to hit Trump on the campaign trail.

It’s like a playground game of telephone, only these are big players using each other to confirm bogus intelligence against a candidate for president. scumbag/liar-Clinton hired Steele, who made up dirt on Trump. Steele leaked it to the press, where scumbag/liar-Clinton could pick it up and use it. Steele also gave it to the FBI, which used it to surveil Trump’s campaign. The FBI gave Steele classified information regarding the investigations prompted by his dossier — and paid him to receive it.

This sordid tale is easily, in our view, the biggest corrupt endeavor in the history of presidential campaigns. And we continue learning more as time goes on.   ~The Patriot Post

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Once again, the Democrats and their media enablers are screaming “IMPEACHMENT!” This time it’s the faux controversy stemming from Roger Stone's sentencing recommendation. To be clear, neither the attorney general nor the president have done anything irregular or illegal, much less impeachable. 

The president is the chief law-enforcement official in the country. He can voice an opinion about a legal matter any time he wants. 

The attorney general is in charge of the Justice Department. It is completely within his purview to review the recommendations of U.S. attorneys, especially if he believes one is particularly out of line. 

Roger Stone is not a threat to the public. He has not committed a harm to society so egregious that he should spend the better part of a decade behind bars. 

As one commentator put it, if leftists were really serious about criminal-justice reform, they wouldn’t be so eager to throw the book at a 67-year-old, first-time, non-violent offender. Even CNN's own legal analyst thought the initial sentence was “excessive.”

So Justice Department officials recommended a lower sentence in Stone’s case. But the sentence will not be set by the attorney general or the U.S. attorney. It will be set by the judge, who is free to ignore any recommendations the government offers. 

But if you’re looking for examples of inappropriate behavior, it is being reported that several members of Roger Stone’s jury had obvious partisan biases. The jury foreman was a former Democrat congressional candidate and an avowed opponent of the president. This raises serious questions of whether Stone received a fair trial. 

And we know that individuals in the scumbag/liar-nObama Justice Department lied to the FISA court to get warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. The House Intelligence Committee, under Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, refuses to investigate this gross abuse of power. That sounds like obstruction of justice to me.

Huawei’s Hackers

As you may recall, a big part of the Trump administration’s “get tough” approach to China has been to hold the line against telecommunications giant Huawei due to concerns that it could hack communications systems and allow the Chinese government to spy on virtually everyone.

Here’s one indication of just how seriously the U.S. views this potential threat: Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration was “profoundly disappointed” by Great Britain’s decision to allow Huawei to build out part of its 5G infrastructure. 

Pence also suggested that it could even be a “deal breaker” for a future trade agreement between the U.S. and the UK. As you know, Britain is one of our main allies and trading partners.

But Huawei is not a hypothetical threat. The U.S. government knows Huawei is hacking its own communications systems. In fact, we’ve been watching it do it for the past 10 years with its 4G systems. 

Now the Trump administration is sounding the alarm, trying to get our European allies to wake up before they are further compromised by communist China. By the way, the Trump administration just filed new indictments  against Huawei, charging the company with racketeering and conspiracy.

Speaking of Compromised…

As the coronavirus continues to spread, more people are raising concerns about how previous administrations that worshipped at the altar of free trade have seriously compromised our safety and security.

Sadly, we encouraged many manufacturers and drug companies to transfer production to China because far too many politicians and corporate elites bought into the lie that “trade with China will change China." 

Some are warning that China could wage war on us without ever firing a shot. How? Key medicines and pharmaceuticals that millions of Americans depend on could be cut off because we are so dependent on Chinese medical supply lines. 

To be fair and balanced about this, what were Presidents Bush and Obama thinking? Did no one raise this issue before?

And medicines aren’t the only problem. We’re already largely dependent on China for rare earth metals that are critical to everything from iPhones to missiles.

On yet another front, the Department of Education is aggressively going after Harvard and Yale. Both institutions failed to report billions of dollars that they are legally required to disclose from foreign sources like China and Saudi Arabia. 

Not only are they turning our kids into historically ignorant socialists, they are comfortable taking money from Chinese communists and Saudi extremists. Both of these elite schools produce graduates who end up in leading positions in government, industry, and on Wall Street.

worthless-Omar Targets Israel

Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D-MN) just introduced several bills that she’s calling the "Pathway to Peace.” Among other things, her legislation aims to roll back the president’s ability to impose sanctions on nations like Iran and Venezuela, and transfers billions of dollars from the Pentagon to the State Department to establish a “peacebuilding fund." 

And, of course, she’s also targeting Israel. 

worthless-Omar’s Stop Arming Human Rights Abusers Act may sound reasonable, except that when the progressive left complains about "human-rights abuses,” it rarely refers to Iran, North Korea, or Venezuela. It’s almost always a ruse to browbeat and condemn Israel for its response to Palestinian incitement and terrorism.

And worthless-Omar is a leading advocate of the anti-Semitic BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) movement against Israel, which is targeting the Jewish state for its alleged “human-rights abuses.”

What Moderates?

A few post-New Hampshire headlines caught my attention recently. The common theme is that the “moderate” candidates in the Democrat primary are dividing the vote and allowing commie-Sanders to prevail.

This is utter nonsense. There are no “moderates” in this field. I know I have written about this before, but it cannot be stressed enough. 

As we saw in the last Democrat debate, all the candidates (save one) are comfortable with the “socialist” label. They are all pro-abortion, open-borders, big-government extremists. And, please, do not take my word for it.

One news outlet analyzed loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s platform and wrote this:

The 2020 Democratic frontrunner’s emerging policy agenda is anything but moderate… loose lips liar-Biden has proposed ideas more ambitious and liberal than policies supported by scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign.

The Washington Post editorial board recently stated, “No, socialist-Pete Buttigieg and loose lips liar-Joe Biden are not ‘centrists.’” The Post wrote that the narrative of a left/center split in the race was “false." 

It noted that socialist-Pete Buttigieg had "expressed sympathy” for commie-Bernie Sanders’s policy goals, and concluded by observing that, “Every major Democratic candidate is running on an agenda to the left of Mr. scumbag/liar-nObama’s.”

And the left-wing outlet Axios declared, “Democratic ‘Moderates’ Are Liberal As Ever,” adding:

loose lips liar-Joe Biden and socialist-Pete Buttigieg are considered the leading 2020 Democratic moderates, but even they have taken positions to the left of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama… The fact that they’re called centrists now in the media shows how much the Democratic Party has shifted.

Please share this message with all your friends and family members! Don’t let them fall for the fake news that any of the Democrat contenders are “moderates.”   ~The Patriot Post

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As we’ve said before, there are legitimate arguments about presidential and congressional war powers, which is the main reason for the votes of those eight Republicans. The problem is primarily because Congress has become content with leaving those decisions to the president. The president wants the freedom to move troops without the partisan and political squabbling inherent in going before Congress. Members of Congress want all of the political benefit from criticizing the president with none of the responsibility for the policy. No one seems to remember the Constitution’s general prescription for war.

In the case of Iran, however, this resolution is particularly interesting coming on the heels of the successful mission to terminate Gen. Qasem Soleimani, leader of Iran’s elite terrorist Corps-Quds forces and murderer of hundreds of American soldiers. It was a legitimate operation against an enemy of the United States, undertaken in an authorized theater of American military operation.

When Barack scumbag/liar-nObama ordered the mission to terminate Osama bin Laden — not in a theater of American operation, by the way — Mitch McConnell wrote letters of credit and appreciation. Democrats showed no such magnanimity after Trump’s strike against Soleimani. Yet we all know that if scumbag/liar-nObama had killed Soleimani, there would not be a Democrat on the planet complaining about it.

Speaking of scumbag/liar-nObama, most of the Democrat consternation over Trump and Iran stems from Trump keeping his campaign promise to exit the sham nuclear deal. Whereas scumbag/liar-nObama gave Tehran’s mullahs everything they wanted in terms of nuclear development and sent them pallets of cash as ransom for hostages, Trump is having none of it, exiting that deal, increasing sanctions pressure, and killing Iranian terrorists. Democrats can’t stand it and thus are left with toothless resolutions to undermine American foreign policy and national security.   ~The Patriot Post

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This week, in what amounts to unfortunate timing — but an entirely avoidable error — at 0145 Tuesday morning, Trump (or one of his social-media minions) posted the following statement about the sentencing of Roger Stone: “This is a horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!”

That statement was correct. And Trump has rightly argued about sentencing before, especially in regard to those who have been caught up in dragnets because he and his administration have clearly been the targets of unjust investigations seeded by deep-state actors.

Unfortunately, once again, after the administration’s best week on record, Trump has unwittingly derailed some of that momentum with an unforced error.

For the record, last week was the best of any for the Trump administration. On Monday, Gallup reported that Americans are very optimistic about our country. Tuesday, the president delivered an outstanding State of the Union Address to Congress. Wednesday, he was acquitted on both articles of impeachment, dispensing with the Democrats’ impeachment charade. Thursday, Democrats were in full panic mode about commie-Bernie Sanders and Trump’s increased prospects for reelection. Friday, the administration’s week ended with a stellar jobs report.

But this week, a careless social-media post has diverted attention from that great week.

As it turns out, Attorney General William Barr, the administration’s strongest right-thinking advocate for Rule of Law, had already determined that he would seek a reduction of Stone’s sentencing after his conviction for lying to investigators and obstructing Congress.  According to The Wall Street Journal, “Senior Justice officials had concluded on their own that the sentence recommendation was excessive and had decided to rescind it before Mr. Trump’s tweet.”

Then came Trump’s most egregious error: After becoming aware of Barr’s plan, he doubled down on his assertion about Stone’s sentencing. Trump has the power to pardon Stone, commute his sentence, etc. He should have let this play out and get out of Barr’s way.

In effect, Trump unintentionally set up Barr for criticism, and the latter lamented, “Once [Trump’s comment posted], the question is, now what do I do? Do you go forward with what you think is the right decision or do you pull back?”

Predictably, Democrat Party leaders and their Leftmedia publicists immediately claimed that Trump and Barr were colluding on the Stone sentencing. They demanded the resignation or (yes) impeachment of Attorney General Barr.

For his part, Barr rightly rebuked Trump for his carelessnesses: “I think it’s time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases. I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody … whether it’s Congress, a newspaper editorial board, or the president. I’m gonna do what I think is right, and you know, to have public statements … made about the department, about our people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we’re doing our work with integrity. I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me.”

Sen. Mitch McConnell backed Barr: “The attorney general has said it’s making it difficult for him to do his job. I think the president ought to listen to the attorney general. … The president made a wise selection in picking Bill Barr. I think he ought to listen to him. … I think the attorney general knows what he is talking about. … I think he’s told the president this is not helpful, making it difficult for him to do his job. I think the president ought to listen to him.”

Responding on Trump’s behalf, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham insisted Trump “wasn’t bothered by [Barr’s] comments at all and he has the right, just like any American citizen, to publicly offer his opinions.” She added, “President Trump uses social media very effectively. … The president has full faith and confidence in Attorney General Barr to do his job and uphold the law.”

Memo to Stephanie: Nobody is questioning the “right” of Trump to post comments on social media. We question the wisdom of those comments. This was not an example of “using social media very effectively.” It was an example of using social media very carelessly.

Moving forward, the real test of whether President Trump is capable of a modicum of teachability will be if he takes Barr’s advice, as indeed he should — a cease and desist regarding pointless distractions from his administration’s extraordinary successes and future agenda. Hopefully, having been challenged by Barr, he will not be so “bothered” that he insults Barr, as he has with other former administration officials who have been loyal to him and their oaths “to support and defend” our Constitution.   ~The Patriot Post

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Attorney General William Barr had a big day Monday. He began the day by announcing indictments against four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. According to the Justice Department, they are responsible for the massive Equifax hack in 2017 that compromised the personal data of nearly 150 million Americans.

In his remarks, Barr noted that China has demonstrated a “voracious appetite for the personal data of Americans.” He cited the Chinese hacking of Marriott hotels, the  Anthem health insurance company, and the Office of Personnel Management, which exposed the records of millions of U.S. government employees.

While I am glad Barr announced these indictments, it is highly unlikely that these Chinese military officials will ever be brought to justice. The real news is what the indictments say about China’s intentions. 

As we reported yesterday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the nation’s governors that there is a real effort by the communist Chinese government to compromise their administrations and to bully state and local officials. 

Now we know that the People’s Liberation Army is attempting to capture voluminous amounts of information on as many U.S. citizens as possible. Why? 

Barr indicated that the Chinese are using the information to “feed China’s development of artificial intelligence” and for “the creation of intelligence targeting.” Barr also noted that nearly 80% of the government’s economic espionage cases “have implicated the Chinese government.”

This is not how a trading partner treats its allies. America’s corporate and political elites need to wake up and confront the danger coming from Beijing. It is not just a giant marketplace eager to do business with America. 

Suing Sanctuary States

After taking on the communist Chinese, Attorney General Barr turned his attention to the left-wing sanctuary states and cities thwarting the Trump administration’s efforts to deport criminal aliens. 

Speaking to the National Sheriff’s Association, Barr announced that the Justice Department was launching “a significant escalation in the federal government’s efforts to confront the resistance of 'sanctuary cities.‘”

Barr blasted “so-called 'progressive’ politicians” for “jeopardizing the public’s safety by putting the interests of criminal aliens before those of law-abiding citizens.” He said:

When we are talking about sanctuary cities, we are talking about policies that are designed to allow criminal aliens to escape… Their express purpose is to shelter aliens whom local law enforcement has already arrested for other crimes. This is neither lawful nor sensible.

Barr announced that in addition to pending federal lawsuits against California, the Justice Department will also sue the state of New Jersey and King County, Washington, seeking to overturn illegal “sanctuary” policies. And he made it clear that these actions are just the beginning.

While some try to downplay the connection between crime and illegal immigration, this is an extremely serious issue, which the left completely ignores. 

A recent report from Texas revealed that more than 200,000 illegal immigrants were booked into local jails over the past eight years. Combined they committed nearly 500,000 offenses, including:

• 500 homicides

• 297 kidnappings

• 3,122 sexual assaults

• 23,954 assaults

• 2,026 robberies

• 8,070 burglaries

• 3,158 weapon charges.

Kudos to the Trump/Pence administration for taking on the left’s open-borders extremism and for putting the safety and security of American citizens first!

Defending Faith

Monday, I attended a day-long meeting at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Among the many issues discussed was how to adequately describe a country like Iran, whose supreme leader has repeatedly declared that one of his regime’s stated goals is a second Holocaust through the “annihilation” of the Jewish state. 

After that, I flew to San Antonio, Texas, to address the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Leadership Summit regarding growing religious persecution around the world. CUFI has devoted significant resources to fighting anti-Semitism, as well as Christian persecution overseas.

I believe every church in America should be speaking up on this issue. I know many pastors are uncomfortable addressing issues like marriage and abortion because they don’t want to “get involved in politics." 

But there is no excuse to not speak up for Christians around the world, many of them poor and people of color, who are being shot, hacked to death, burned alive, and sold into slavery. It’s not a surprise that the world looks the other way when Christians are murdered in massive numbers. But it’s inexcusable for the Church to look the other way. 

If your pastor has not addressed the persecution of Christians recently, please urge him to speak up.

Trump Revs Up Republicans

While the media are focused on the Democrat horse race, President Trump went to New Hampshire Monday and fired up Republican voters like only he can. He packed a 12,000-seat arena and even the overflow area was overflowing! 

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl noted that the Democrats held an event at the same arena over the weekend, and even with all Democrat candidates there together the crowd for Trump was "bigger by far."   

~The Patriot Post

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed the National Governors Association this weekend. It may seem odd that America’s top diplomat was addressing our governors, who are generally preoccupied with domestic issues rather than foreign policy. 

But Secretary Pompeo wanted to speak to this audience, and he had a stark warning for them: China’s Communist Party (CCP) is “working” them and their key advisors. Pompeo told the governors that the CCP has compiled a report with dossiers on all 50 governors labeling their positions toward China as “friendly,” “ambiguous,” or “hardline.”

In short, Pompeo warned the governors to be alert to the threats posed by Beijing and to do what they can at the state level to safeguard America’s interests. He cited several examples of Chinese diplomats pressuring state and local officials, including a Chicago high school, over Taiwan.

He urged governors to redirect state pension funds away from technology companies that aid Beijing’s brutal suppression of speech and religious liberty and to avoid investing in companies that support the People’s Liberation Army.

I was pleased to see that Secretary Pompeo also warned the governors about China's Thousand Talents program  and about the Confucius Institutes, funded by the Chinese Communist Party, on many of our college campuses.

While trade with China certainly can be beneficial for American companies and workers, in the past it has rarely been free or fair. In fact, it has often come at a very high price. Kudos to the Trump administration for continuing to call out the worst aspects of China’s predatory behavior.

Fighting for Faith

Last week I had the privilege of speaking at a panel discussion on religious freedom around the world. The event coincided with the National Prayer Breakfast and took place at the Museum of the Bible. 

Much of my comments focused on rising anti-Semitism and Christian persecution in China. You can watch the event here. My remarks begin around the 1:38:30 mark.

Draining the Swamp

Washington elites were horrified by the news Friday afternoon that President Trump “fired” Lt. Col. Alex Vindman from his position at the National Security Council and that he had Vindman escorted from the White House complex. Many in the media said it was retribution for his impeachment testimony.

As the head of the executive branch, the president has the authority to dismiss people who work for him. Clearly, the president had no confidence in Vindman’s abilities, and for good reason. 

It’s also worth remembering Vindman’s testimony. He never accused the president of any crime and simply seemed upset that Trump was ignoring the “consensus policy” set by the National Security Council. Well, President Trump doesn’t work for the National Security Council. It’s the other way around!

By the way, Vindman isn’t the only NSC staffer to be shown the door in recent days. The Trump White House has eliminated 70 NSC positions in an effort to reduce scumbag/liar-nObama’s bloated bureaucracy and drain the swamp, just as the president promised.

rino-Mitt’s Mess

Sen. rino-Mitt Romney returned to Utah last week to address furious voters outraged by his support for the left’s attempt to impeach President Trump. Sen. rino-Romney said he knew there would be consequences, and he was right about that.

Not only are his poll numbers down significantly, there are efforts in the state legislature to censure rino-Romney, to recall rino-Romney, and to distance the state from rino-Romney by expressing support for President Trump.

If he chooses to seek reelection, rino-Romney doesn’t have to face the voters again until 2024. That’s a long time from now and perhaps voters will forget. Then again, they will be periodically reminded about his unique status in the party. 

For example, what does rino-Romney do this November? It’s hard to see how he could endorse Trump for reelection after voting to impeach him. 

rino-Romney was praised multiple times during Friday’s Democrat debate, and he will undoubtedly be featured prominently in Democrat attack ads against vulnerable Republican senators this November.

Meanwhile, it’s worth remembering that Mike Lee is a senator today because he defeated an incumbent perceived to be out of touch by many Utah voters. 

The Socialist Party Debate

There were several revealing moments during Friday night’s Democrat presidential debate in New Hampshire. 

To his credit, George Stephanopoulos pressed the candidates about whether they had any concerns with the Democrat Party being identified by commie-Bernie Sanders and socialism. Only one candidate, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, expressed any reservation at all about the socialist stigma. The other candidates were too afraid of alienating the party’s socialist base. 

That didn’t sit well with liberal MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who slammed commie-Sanders for his past support of communist regimes and noted that socialism “isn’t free” and “doesn’t work." 

Meanwhile, there’s been talk in recent days that former Mayor Pete Buttigieg is emerging as a "moderate” alternative to commie-Sanders. Only in this leftist arena could he possibly be considered a moderate!

Buttigieg is all in on the left’s “fundamental transformation of America.” He wants to abolish the Electoral College. He has also called for a court-packing scheme that would add another six left-wing ideologues to the Supreme Court, expanding it to 15 justices, making him more radical than Ruth Bader Ginsburg! 

By the way, Buttigieg once praised commie-Bernie Sanders as “outstanding and inspiring” for having the “courage” to identify as a “socialist.”

Abortion was another big topic at Friday’s debate. loosr lips liar-Joe Biden and others promised to appoint only pro-abortion judges. All the candidates support late-term abortions performed on innocent unborn babies, and yet they all opposed taking out Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani. Think about that!

Incredibly, Buttigieg has even used his faith to suggest that life beings at first breath. Talk about unscientific! Any biology textbook will tell you that life begins at conception. What are doctors operating on in utero before birth, if not a human life? Buttigieg’s defense of third-trimester abortion is a breathtaking distortion of science and faith.

In other news, it seems like loose lips liar-Joe Biden has given up trying to win New Hampshire. He insulted another voter, this time using another of his throwback phrases. 

Not long ago, loose lips liar-Biden had Millennials rushing to Google to learn the meaning of “malarkey.” He did it again Sunday when a woman questioned his electability after his poor showing in Iowa. loose lips liar-Biden bizarrely responded by calling her “a lying dog-faced pony soldier.”

No one really knows what he meant by that. loose lips liar-Biden told reporters it was a line from a John Wayne movie, but so far no one has been able to verify that.

Final Results? Not Yet

Late Sunday, the Iowa Democrat Party announced the final results of last week’s caucuses. While commie-Bernie Sanders won the popular vote, Pete Buttigieg is being awarded 14 delegates to Sanders’s 12. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren will receive eight delegates, loose lips liar-Biden six, and Amy Klobuchar gets one delegate. 

The commie-Sanders campaign isn’t accepting the result and has demanded a recanvass. 

Meanwhile, the fallout from the caucus chaos continues. DNC Chairman Tom Perez is fighting off calls for his resignation from members of the socialist Squad.   

In fact, the situation is so bad that even the left-wing media can’t ignore the growing “despair” caused by the growing “Democrat disarray & dysfunction.”   ~The Patriot Post

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“The children, who range in age from 2 to 14, were found about 20 miles outside the village of Nunam Iqua, on Alaska’s west coast, a representative with Emmonak Search and Rescue told CNN by phone Monday night.”

“‘The kids are doing fine,’ the representative said. ‘I talked to the grandpa. They were cold and hungry.’”

“The boys reportedly huddled around the youngest boy. They dug a foot-deep hole in the snow and huddled themselves inside and positioned themselves in a way so that the 2-year-old wouldn’t be as exposed, according to Alaska Public Media.”

Read more at WGAL News 8.  ~The Patriot Post

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God knows I’d be the last person on earth who’d wish to be judged on the basis of his son. But, at least I didn’t aid and abet my son Max in his criminal activities, which included theft, illegal gambling and kiting checks, in his early 20s.

On the other hand, loose lips liar-Joe Biden has covered for his 50 year old son Hunter and done everything in his power to encourage him to be the nogootnik he clearly is and always was.

For the first 39 years of Hunter Biden’s life, he was best known as a drunk and a cocaine addict. Suddenly, in 2009, he co-founded Rosemont Seneca Partners, which, coincidentally, was the year his old man became the Vice President of the United States.

In 2014, he was given a place on the board of Burisma Holdings, which, again coincidentally, was the same year that President scumbag/liar-nObama made his Vice President his go-to guy on all things involving Ukraine. Being a board member for an energy company earned him $84,000-a-month. One can only imagine how much he would have been paid if he knew anything about energy or could speak Ukrainian.

In October, 2019, Hunter resigned from the Board of a Chinese private investment firm because, as he explained, he wanted to avoid “even the appearance of a conflict of interest” while his father was running for president.

There’s still more on the guy’s resumé. In 2013, Hunter applied for a position in the U.S. Navy Reserve and, not too surprisingly, the son of the Vice President received it even though he had a record of having been a cocaine addict. His proud father administered his commissioning oath at the White House.

The very next month, a random urinalysis found cocaine in loose lips liar-Biden’s system, and he was booted out of the Navy. With his customary inability to accept responsibility for his own actions, the schmuck blamed others for giving him cigarettes laced with coke.

And, finally, he divorced the mother of his three children in 2017 after having taken up with the widow of his late brother in 2016. He has since married a South African filmmaker but is currently involved in a paternity suit over a baby he sired with yet another woman in 2018.

Ronald Reagan once said he didn’t leave the Democratic Party, that, rather, it left him.

The reverse has been the experience of commie-Bernie Sanders. Although he now calls himself an Independent, he used to more honestly identify as a Socialist.

These days, he no longer has to because his party has joined him on the far left. That is why there’s not an iota of actual difference among those vying for the nomination.

Some believe loose lips liar-Biden will be the eventual nominee because black voters connect him to Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, even though the ex-president has refused to endorse him.

Others believe commie-Sanders will garner the nomination because he’s the most authentic candidate, meaning he’s been pushing the Communist line even long before commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born.

So far as normal, sane, people are concerned, that’s the equivalent of saying that loose lips liar-Joe Biden has over 40 years of experience in foreign relations while ignoring the fact that he’s been wrong on every foreign policy issue for over 40 years.

When one of my readers suggested that drugs are the reason that so many youngsters rally around commie-Bernie, I disagreed. “I’m sure that some of them smoke pot, but, for the most part, Sanders owes his following to the fact that they’re a bunch of pampered snowflakes who like the idea of getting free stuff without having to work. To them, the old bastard is a combination Pied Piper and Santa Claus.”

On the other hand, liar-Nancy Pelosi can’t even claim, as commie-Bernie Sanders can, that she has principles from which she refuses to waver.

Unlike commie-Sanders, who makes no secret of the fact that he would love to see America become the latter day version of the Soviet Union, all that liar-Nancy Pelosi wants is to retain the speakership of the House. If it came down to whether she remains the Speaker or Donald Trump is evicted from the Oval Office, she wouldn’t hesitate to cast her vote for him next November.

Although she opposed for strictly pragmatic reasons the move to impeach the President, she eventually caved in and made it appear she was even more eager than Maxine Waters to oust #45.

She did it for the same reason that she gave the odious freshman members of the House, including worthless-Ilhan Omar, A O-C, worthless-Rashida Tlaib and worthless-Ayanna Pressley, important committee assignments. She needed their votes to win the speakership in 2018. She will continue to need their support in 2020 if the Democrats manage to hang on to the House.

Judging by my email, I struck a nerve when I wrote about how much I hated reading Herman Melville. I’ll mention that I found Henry David Thoreau nearly as tedious. In fact, the only reason that “Moby Dick” is even more boring than “Walden” is because it’s more than twice as long (116,000 words compared to 49,000).

Thoreau was born in 1817, Melville in 1819, and although the former was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and the latter in New York City, they had a lot in common. Neither could write a decent sentence, neither had even a hint of humor and both seemed to take an unnatural interest in the cost of things. Having slogged through all 165,000 words of their two most famous works, what I remember best were entire chapters devoted to the cost of nails, boards, tarps and other materials required for building cabins or hunting whales. That sort of thing can put you to sleep even quicker than Brahms’ “Lullaby.”

It made me realize that, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the two writers knew the price of everything but not the value of moving things along.

I heard from a lot of people who shared my proofreading problems, but it also served to remind me of yet another of my typing land mines.

As if it’s not bad enough that I think faster than my fingers move, so that I often leave out entire words, my brain occasionally goes on automatic pilot and anticipates the word I intend to type. The result is that if I start out with “ev-,” my fingers will wind up typing “even” or “ever” when I actually had “event” or “everything” in mind.

The latest Gallup poll asked Americans how they feel about five major issues and compared the results to a poll taken when Trump assumed the presidency in January, 2017.

On the state of the economy, 68% have a positive response today; it was 46% three years ago.

When it comes to feeling secure from terrorism, the margin is a similar 68% to 50%.

Military preparedness: 81% to 66%; as for policies to reduce crime, 47% to 38%; and even when it comes to the state of race relations under Trump compared to Obama, the score is 36% to 22%.

The House and Senate Democrats must have looked at those numbers, gulped, and asked themselves why in the hell they ever allowed liar-Nancy Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, to lead them down the rabbit hole of impeachment.

I confess I was never in favor of making Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday, especially not when George Washington has to share his with more than 40 other guys. But doesn’t it seem odd that the man who urged us to judge others not by the color of their skin but by their character was himself a serial adulterer?

But I suppose if you’re the person saying it, you get to be the exception to the rule, sort of like the Democrats who constantly accuse Donald Trump of ignoring the U.S. Constitution.   ~The Patriot Post

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The White House announced Thursday that U.S. forces took out Qasim al-Rimi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen and a top deputy to Al-Qaeda’s “supreme leader” Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Rimi is at least the fourth major terrorist leader taken out by the Trump administration and our tremendous warriors.

The Trump economy continues to defy all expectations. Last month, 225,000 new jobs were created, greatly exceeding the 158,000 predicted by most economists. Wages also rose more than expected.

For years, the so-called “experts” told us that just 125,000 to 150,000 new jobs each month was the “new normal” and the best we could hope for. These same “experts” blasted President Trump for cracking down on illegal immigration because we supposedly needed more workers. Well, there are clearly plenty of Americans still looking for work and willing to work.

By the way, House Democrats Thursday passed a bill allowing illegal immigrants to sue their employers for damages, while also allowing labor unions to recruit illegal immigrants as members. Just another example of the left putting American workers last. Thankfully, this bill is DOA in the Senate.

In other news, a federal appeals court dismissed another frivolous case filed by House Democrats against President Trump’s businesses.

And finally, one of the president’s primary opponents  dropped out Thursday. 

Donald Trump is committed to testing his claim that we would “get tired of winning” under his presidency. Just speaking for myself, there’s a long away to go before I get tired of it! 

In the meantime, enjoy this video. It is a good reminder of what America is all about and a great ad for Donald Trump!

rino-Romney the Righteous

Ponder this: rino-Mitt Romney went to the floor of the Senate to congratulate himself for his moral superiority  because he voted to convict an innocent man. In my view, he’s not much better than “Pete the Pious.”

The Ayatollah’s “Final Solution”

As you know, President Trump recently proposed a bold peace plan that envisions a strong and secure Israel, as well as a free and economically thriving Palestinian state. While no one in the Middle East wants peace more than Israelis, sadly, there are many who do not want peace with the Jewish state or even a piece of it.

This week, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed to resist the president’s peace plan and to continue supporting terrorism against the “Zionist entity." Khamenei declared:

What is the remedy [to the Trump plan]? The remedy is bold resistance. The Palestinian nation, personages and organizations should force out the Zionists and the U.S. with their selfless Jihad. This is the only effective solution…

Of course, I believe that the Palestinian armed organizations are going to resist; they will continue the resistance. The solution is resistance…

We, the system of the Islamic Republic, consider it to be our duty to support the Palestinian resistance groups. We are going to support them, as much as we can and with all the means at our disposal.

This is the real obstacle to peace in the Middle East, not homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria. Iran, not Israel, is the source of virtually all the chaos and instability in the Middle East. 

Iran is funding Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. Iran is propping up Assad in Syria and supporting the militias that are butchering innocent Iraqis. Iran is backing the Houthi rebels in Yemen. 

While I applaud efforts to negotiate peace between Israel and the Palestinians, too often the West has misdirected its focus by asking Israel to make concessions. But Israel isn’t the problem. 

The Iranian regime is not interested in peace, and it will not allow Palestinians to make peace with Israel. The ayatollah has repeatedly called for his own "final solution” — a second Holocaust through the “annihilation” of the Jewish state. And that is why the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure campaign” against the ayatollah’s regime is so vital. 

If the Islamic Republic of Iran ends its state sponsorship of terrorism and ends its expansionist ambitions, then and only then may there be a real chance for peace in the Middle East.   ~The Patriot Post

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