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~ Featuring ~
  PETRAEUS ON SOLEIMANI  
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  by John Hinderaker 
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Monday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


SOLEIMANI FALLOUT: President Trump threatens Iraq with sanctions, says U.S. won’t leave unless “they pay us back” for air base (USA Today)

SERIAL CHEATER WITHDRAWS: Iran “abandons” limits of 2015 nuclear deal after top general killed in U.S. airstrike (Fox News)

ON ALERT: Three Americans killed in terror attack on African military base; rockets fired at U.S. embassy in Iraq (The Daily Wire)

Government & Politics


ABOUT THOSE FOREIGN-POLICY CREDENTIALS…  loose lips liar-Joe Biden sided with terror leader Qasem Soleimani in handing control of Iraq to Iran (The Washington Free Beacon)

D'OH! Democrat Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters appeared to have been tricked by Russian pranksters into thinking she was speaking on the phone with Greta Thunberg and that the teenage climate activist had dirt on President Trump (Fox News)

Business & Economy


OIL FUTURES: Why the oil market rally on elevated U.S.-Iran tensions may be short lived (MarketWatch)

SITTING ON A KNIFE’S EDGE: The $250 trillion burden weighing on the global economy in 2020 (Forbes)

Culture


“YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE REAL WORLD”:  Golden Globe Awards host Ricky Gervais tears into Hollywood elite (Fox News)

INEVITABLE RECKONING: United Methodist Church is expected to split over gay marriage, fracturing the nation’s third-largest denomination (The Washington Post)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: With a small step and a big one, Iran just escalated against America (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: Trump is quietly winning bigly at the border (Issues & Insights)

HUMOR: Democrats furious that Trump used the powers they expressly gave him (Genesius Times)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/67714?mailing_id=4783&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4783&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Iranian MP threatens to 'attack the White House'
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By Ronn Blitzer 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Iranian MP Abolfazl Abutorabi has reportedly threatened to attack the White House in response to a message from President Trump that promised severe consequences... if the Islamic nation escalates hostilities with the U.S. Abutorabi was responding to a question about how Iran should react to the death of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani during an American airstrike, The Independent reported. "We can attack the White House itself, we can respond to them on the American soil. We have the power, and God willing we will respond in an appropriate time," Abutorabi said according to the UK publication, which cited Iranian news agency ILNA. This comes as President Trump vowed to hit Iran hard should the country retaliate against the U.S. for Soleimani's death. "Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters," Trump tweeted over the weekend. The president continued: "He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years." Abutorabi called Soleimani's death "a declaration of war," and that a swift, strong response was necessary...   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iranian-mp-threatens-to-attack-the-white-house-report  
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Senate Won’t Act Until liar-Pelosi Musters 
Courage to Send Articles of Impeachment
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by HANNAH BLEAU
{ breitbart.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday said that the Senate will continue to conduct “ordinary business” until House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) musters the courage to send the articles of impeachment to the upper chamber... McConnell spoke on the Senate floor on Friday, berating Democrats for rushing through a “slapdash investigation” and warning that a trial cannot be held until House Democrats turn over the articles. The majority leader said the Senate will “continue the ordinary business of the Senate while House Democrats continue to flounder.”“Their turn is over. They have done enough damage,” McConnell said of House Democrats. “It’s the Senate’s turn now — to render sober judgment as the framers envisioned.” “But we can’t hold a trial without the articles. The Senate’s own rules don’t provide for that. So, for now, we are content to continue the ordinary business of the Senate while House Democrats continue to flounder,” he warned. “For now.” McConnell warned, however, that — in the event that they “muster the courage to stand behind their slapdash work product and transmit their articles to the Senate” — the Senate will “fulfill our founding purpose.” The majority leader also mocked liar-Pelosi, using her own words against her. “Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path,” McConnell said, quoting liar-Pelosi, who made the remarks last spring...
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Trump warns Iran: US has targeted '52 Iranian 
sites' and will 'hit very fast and
very hard' if needed
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By Victor Garcia 
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump issued a stern warning to Iran on Saturday through a series of Twitter messages intended to deter the country from retaliating... after the U.S.-ordered airstrike that killed Iran's Gen. Qassem Soleimani last week. "Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters," Trump tweeted. The president continued: "He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years." Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike Friday in Baghdad that was ordered by President Trump. "Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago, some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD," Trump wrote Saturday, explicitly laying out that the U.S. will act if Iran retaliates...  https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-trump-warns-iran-we-have-targeted-52-iranian-sites  
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Iraq’s Parliament calls for expulsion of US 
troops from the country following drone attack
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By Stephen Sorace 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Iraqi lawmakers approved a resolution Sunday calling to expel U.S. troops from the country... following an American drone attack that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Lawmakers approved a resolution asking the Iraqi government to end the agreement under which Washington sent forces to Iraq more than four years ago to help in the fight against the Islamic State terror group. The majority of about 180 legislators present in Parliament voted in favor of the resolution. It was backed by most Shiite members of parliament, who hold a majority of seats. Many Sunni and Kurdish legislators did not show up for the session, apparently because they oppose abolishing the deal.
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Dan Bongino Interviews Rudy Giuliani – Topics
New York Crime, Iran, IG FISA Report and 
loose lips liar-Biden Family Corruption
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Fox News host Dan Bongino interviews Rudy Giuliani for his podcast. The topics include increased crime in New York City; Iran, the ‘Spygate” surveillance scandal; the IG report on FISA abuses against the Trump campaign, and loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s history of corruption.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/04/dan-bongino-interviews-rudy-giuliani-topics-new-york-crime-iran-ig-fisa-report-and-biden-family-corruption/
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scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s new job could 
mean she leaves the United States forever
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by patriotpulse.net ~ Since losing to President Trump in 2016, scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s life has been in ruin. She has been desperately looking for influence, only to be ignored... And she just took a new job that could mean she leaves the United States forever. That’s why she is now leaving the United States altogether for work, with the Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdom hiring her as their new chancellor. Former US secretary of state and presidential candidate scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton was appointed Thursday as the new chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast. scumbag/liar-Clinton will serve for five years in the largely ceremonial role, the Northern Irish institution announced. “It is a great privilege to become the chancellor of Queen’s University, a place I have great fondness for and have grown a strong relationship with over the years,” scumbag/liar-Clinton said in a statement.  “The university is making waves internationally for its research and impact and I am proud to be an ambassador and help grow its reputation for excellence.”  The Democratic presidential nominee lost the 2016 US election to Republican candidate Donald Trump. scumbag/liar-Clinton received an honorary doctorate from Queen’s in October 2018. “Secretary scumbag/liar-Clinton has made a considerable contribution to Northern Ireland and as an internationally-recognised leader will be an incredible advocate for Queen’s and an inspirational role model for the Queen’s community,” said Stephen Prenter, who chairs the university’s governing body. The chancellor’s duties involve presiding at degree awarding ceremonies, representing Queen’s in an ambassadorial role and advising the university’s executive. Queen’s is one of the oldest universities in the United Kingdom. Her job is largely ceremonial, with her not having regular job duties. But it could be her opportunity to finally leave the country that made it clear doesn’t want her. Good ridden!  https://patriotpulse.net/hillary-clintons-new-job-could-mean-she-leaves-the-united-states-forever/#gf_1330   
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  PETRAEUS ON SOLEIMANI  
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  by John Hinderaker     

{ powerlineblog.com } ~ General David Petraeus gave an interview yesterday on the significance of the killing of Qasem Soleimani. It is well worth reading:

Marco Werman: How did you know Qasem Soleimani?

Gen. David Petraeus: Well, he was our most significant Iranian adversary during my four years in Iraq, [and] certainly when I was the Central Command commander, and very much so when I was the director of the CIA. He is unquestionably the most significant and important — or was the most significant and important — Iranian figure in the region, the most important architect of the effort by Iran to solidify control of the Shia crescent, and the operational commander of the various initiatives that were part of that effort.
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So why do you suppose this happened now, though?

Well, I suspect that the leaders in Washington were seeking to reestablish deterrence, which clearly had eroded to some degree, perhaps by the relatively insignificant actions in response to these strikes on the Abqaiq oil facility in Saudi Arabia, shipping in the Gulf and our $130 million dollar drone that was shot down. And we had seen increased numbers of attacks against US forces in Iraq. So I’m sure that there was a lot of discussion about what could show the Iranians most significantly that we are really serious, that they should not continue to escalate. …

Would you have recommended this course of action right now?

I’d hesitate to answer that just because I am not privy to the intelligence that was the foundation for the decision, which clearly was, as was announced, this was a defensive action, that Soleimani was going into the country to presumably approve further attacks. Without really being in the inner circle on that, I think it’s very difficult to either second-guess or to even think through what the recommendation might have been.

Again, it is impossible to overstate the significance of this action. This is much more substantial than the killing of Osama bin Laden. It’s even more substantial than the killing of Baghdadi.

Two short questions for what’s next, Gen. Petraeus — US remaining in Iraq, and war with Iran. What’s your best guess?

Well, I think one of the questions is, “What will the diplomatic ramifications of this be?” And again, there have been celebrations in some places in Iraq at the loss of Qasem Soleimani. So, again, there’s no tears being shed in certain parts of the country. And one has to ask what happens in the wake of the killing of the individual who had a veto, virtually, over the leadership of Iraq. What transpires now depends on the calculations of all these different elements. And certainly the US, I would assume, is considering diplomatic initiatives as well, reaching out and saying, “Okay. Does that send a sufficient message of our seriousness? Now, would you like to return to the table?” Or does Iran accelerate the nuclear program, which would, of course, precipitate something further from the United States? Very likely. So lots of calculations here. And I think we’re still very early in the deliberations on all the different ramifications of this very significant action.

The interviewer tries to get General Petraeus to criticize the Trump administration, but Petraeus declines to do so:

Do you have confidence in this administration to kind of navigate all those calculations?

Well, I think that this particular episode has been fairly impressively handled.
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Trump-Hating Leftists Usher 
in New Year of Trump Hatred
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by David Limbaugh
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New Drug Tunnel Found in Arizona
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by conservativeandfree.com ~ It is an unthinkable horror that is becoming a reality for an Arizona town. Tunnels are being made into the town so that drugs and people can be smuggled across the border... Nogales, Arizona is the place that people are turning their attention to this week. ICE agents protecting the country have found several tunnels that have been dug under the walls of homes with the intent of smuggling things and people. This is the third tunnel found in less than a week. The Mexican drug lords and runners know how to evade and hide from ICE. But that is all coming to an end at least for these three tunnels. ICE found these tunnels that are eight feet deep and over 82-feet long. The home the connection was found in was searched by warrant and a bunch of drugs were found including the entrance to the tunnel. Two men were arrested and charged with possession and conspiracy to distribute the drugs. These and another kind of stories need to be told to make a case for the wall to be built. President Trump is not backing down when it comes to the wall. This report is just one of many accounts of people trying to bypass security and pass into the country without being detected. So they can carry out their criminal behavior. The clueless Democrats would deny that these things happen and that illegals are here to commit crimes, but the evidence is overwhelmingly in the president’s favor. These drugs that these two people had in their possession came through the tunnel and were about to be released into the public. But they were caught by ICE. This is the organization that the Democrats want to shut down. They claim that the agents are brutal towards immigrants and forcefully detain innocent people. But this story and others like it tell a very different and very real story. The story that there are drugs and possibly people being taken under the border for illegal purposes...  https://conservativeandfree.com/2019/12/20/busted-new-drug-tunnel-found-in-arizona/   
Explosions Near Baghdad Embassy, 
Rockets Pummel Nearby Air Base
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By Jared Harris 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ Reports of rocket attacks in Baghdad and at a nearby air base seem to indicate that things are heating up in the Middle East... At least one rocket landed in the Green Zone of the Iraqi capital, near the U.S. Embassy, Reuters  reported. There do not appear to have been any American casualties. Another projectile landed near the Green Zone, The Times of Israel  reported, citing the Iraqi military. “An Iraqi security source: Two Katyusha rockets landed in the vicinity of the American embassy in Baghdad,” Al-Arabiya reported on Twitter in Arabic. Photographs from the scene show the destruction caused by the rocket artillery.  “First pictures show the aftermath after rockets fell near Iraq’s heavily-fortified Green Zone in the capital Baghdad,” Al-Arabiya English wrote on Twitter. “Sirens immediately rang out at the American compound in the area hosting both diplomats and troops, according to sources.”  Reuters reported that two Katyusha rockets also hit Balad air base, an Iraqi Air Force station that hosts U.S. forces and is located about 50 miles north of Baghdad. The rocket artillery appears to have missed any personnel at the base. Although it’s unclear at this point who launched the attacks, it’s not hard to imagine that pro-Iranian forces were behind the rockets. The rockets may have been early response to the American killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, whose convoy was the target of a Friday morning drone strike...
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'Devastating blow': Schumer says newly revealed emails show why Senate GOP needs toallow impeachment witnesses
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By Rebecca Shabad
{ nbcnews.com } ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, D-N.Y., said Thursday that documents exposed in a newly released report justify the argument by Democrats to hold a full-fledged trial in the Senate... to weigh whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office. In a statement Thursday, scumbag-Schumer pointed to the new report from the website Just Security that details documents relating to the president’s campaign to pressure Ukraine to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens as his administration froze nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine. "The newly-revealed unredacted emails are a devastating blow to Sen. McConnell’s push to have a trial without the documents and witnesses we’ve requested. These emails further expose the serious concerns raised by Trump administration officials about the propriety and legality of the president’s decision to cut off aid to Ukraine to benefit himself," scumbag-Schumer said. The new report stems from unredacted versions of documents seen by Just Security, a national security website affiliated with the New York University School of Law. The documents were originally released in heavily redacted form last month by the government, under court order, to the Center for Public Integrity. Just Security said that it had since viewed unredacted copies of those emails. NBC News has not confirmed the emails independently and Just Security declined to provide them. The documents, according to the report, reveal that on Aug. 30, after meeting with Trump, Michael Duffey, associate director of national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget, told Elaine McCusker, the acting Pentagon comptroller, in an email that there was "Clear direction from Trump to hold" the aid and he let her know that he’d soon be sending new paperwork extending the hold... Where was scumbag-Schumer when scumbag/liar-nObama held aid to Ukraine.   https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/devastating-blow-schumer-says-newly-unredacted-emails-show-why-senate-n1109641  
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Democrats Hate Trump More Than 
They Hate Terrorists Who Kill Americans 
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By Madeline Osburn
{ thefederalist.com } ~ A U.S. airstrike killed the world’s most violent and deadliest terrorist of the last 20 years on Thursday night, but in the eyes of 2020 Democratic candidates and lefty celebrities... the only important takeaway from this American victory is that President Trump is bad. Trump’s authorization of the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani is a vindication for the thousands of wounded veterans, many with missing limbs from Soleimani’s IED attacks, and the families of U.S. servicemembers Soleimani killed. Soleimani approved the Tuesday attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and was plotting to kill more Americans. He was a central connection between Iran and terrorist organizations, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas. Yet some Democrats find it difficult to celebrate his death. Despite the fact that Soleimani’s death will save American lives, Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker said on MSNBC it is Trump who is “making the world less of a safe place.” Within an hour of the news of Soleimani’s death on Thursday, scumbag-Booker appeared on CNN asserting that Trump, “has had really a failure in his Iranian policy.” Although it was President scumbag/liar-nObama who shipped $150 billion in cash to Iran, emboldening terrorists like Soleimani, scumbag-Booker is convinced that under the Trump administration, “Iran has become more influential and more dangerous.” Democratic presdiential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, released a statement bemoaning the “serious questions about how this decision was made.”. (like he knows all the answers)...   https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/03/democrats-hate-trump-more-than-they-hate-terrorists-who-kill-americans/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=f2977f5ae7-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-f2977f5ae7-83771801   
Report scumbag/liar-nObama warned 
Tehran in 2015 of an Israeli plan to kill Soleimani
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By M. Dowling
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ The scumbag/liar-nObama/looswe lips liar-Biden administration is accused of helping Soleimani achieve untold power in Iraq... loose lips liar-Joe Biden allegedly forced out Soleimani’s competition and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama reportedly warned Iran of a plan to kill Soleimani.  Free Beacon reports that former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden enabled recently assassinated Iranian terror leader Qassem Soleimani to push the United States out of Iraq and deliver the country into the hands of Iran. In 2010, as Iraq faced pivotal elections that decided the country’s direction, Soleimani went to great lengths to ensure Iranian-backed politicians won control of the government. During that time, then-vice president loose lips liar-Biden called pro-America Iraqi politician Ayad Allawi to demand that he stop trying to form a government. That paved the way for Soleimani to orchestrate an Iranian takeover of the Iraqi political system, according to Free Beacon. The deal was a heavy blow to Ayad Allawi, a pro-American secular politician whose party had won the most parliamentary seats in the elections, but who failed to put together a majority coalition. In an interview in Jordan, he said that with U.S. backing he could have built a majority. Instead, the Americans pushed him aside in favor of Maliki. He told me that Vice-President loose lips liar-Joe Biden called to tell him to abandon his bid for Prime Minister, saying, “You can’t form a government.”  Allawi said he suspected that the Americans weren’t willing to deal with the trouble the Iranians would have made if he had become Prime Minister. They wanted to stay in Iraq, he said, but only if the effort involved was minimal. “I needed American support,” he said. “But they wanted to leave, and they handed the country to the Iranians. Iraq is a failed state now, an Iranian colony.” loose lips liar-Joe Biden is always wrong when it comes to foreign affairs. This all became known thanks to a New Yorker exposé...   https://www.independentsentinel.com/report-obama-warned-tehran-in-2015-of-an-israeli-plan-to-kill-soleimani/   
Germany's Middle Eastern Criminal Clans
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by Judith Bergman
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In a recently aired documentary by German broadcaster ARD, about Germany's Middle Eastern criminal family gangs -- or clans, as they are called in Germany... the head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Agency (BKA) Holger Münch, said "In about one-third of proceedings, suspects also included immigrants — and that means that we need to keep a very close eye on this phenomenon". Münch seems to have been referring to the fact that migrants who arrived in Germany from Syria, Iraq and other countries during the migrant crisis in 2015-16 are now starting to compete with Germany's long-established criminal family gangs whose original founders arrived in Germany from Lebanon in the late 1970s during Lebanon's civil war. German authorities fear that this competition might lead to even more violence: Some of the newcomers have "combat experience" from living in war zones, as police chief of the city of Essen, Frank Richter, told ARD. "Of course," he added, "this would be a very, very different situation from what we have at the moment". Criminal Middle Eastern family clans are already a large problem in Germany. The most well-known are mainly based in Berlin, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Lower Saxony, and are named Abou-Chaker, Al-Zein, Remmo, and Miri. Several of the families are also known as Lebanese mafia clans. Their criminal activities include  robberies, protection money, drug dealing and prostitution. In May, a study presented by Interior Minister Herbert Reul of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) revealed that 104 criminal clans were active there. Some 6,500 clan-linked suspects were believed to have been responsible for 14,225 offenses between 2016 and 2018. This included two murders and 24 attempted murders, in addition to bodily harm, robbery, and blackmail, police said. Ten clans alone were said to have committed one third of the crimes...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15300/germany-middle-eastern-criminal-clans   
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Trump-Hating Leftists Usher 
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by David Limbaugh

{ townhall.com } ~ Have you ever wondered why the political left is so inconsolably angry these days? Why does it consider President Donald Trump to be such a threat and his supporters so contemptible?

This isn't my imagination. While most people expressed their New Year's greetings in positive terms, the celebrity left defaulted to its Trump-hating form. Every day is a new day to rage against Trump, so why should their New Year's Day pronouncements be any different?

Breitbart assembled a list of celebrity tweets illustrating the point. Rob Reiner tweeted, "Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and a 2020 that doesn't include an ignorant corrupt soulless liar occupying the People's House." Stephen King tweeted, "Of his lies we've had plenty ... Kick his a-- in 2020." Rose O'Donnell couldn't quite make it through a New Year's tweet without denigrating Trump. "HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL," she tweeted, adding the hashtag #2020removeHIM. Rosanna Arquette said: "Putin is not my president. happy new year." In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Linda Rondstadt likened Trump to Hitler and the Mexicans to "the New Jews." And the examples go on and on.

What is wrong with these narcissistic malcontents? It's not like things are terrible in America. Economically speaking, we couldn't be doing much better. We're certainly better off than we were during the scumbag/liar-nObama years -- by leaps and bounds.

Trump is also sticking up for America again, rebuilding our defenses; taking decisive action when our people or soldiers are in harm's way, as with his immediate response to the attack on our embassy in Iraq; pressuring other countries to contribute to our mutual defense pacts; and expressing his pride in this country -- as opposed to trotting around the globe and apologizing for it.

So what's not to like? His tweets? Fine, but do you really think that's what is driving them mad?

How about his alleged abuses of power? Please. They've been pressing for impeachment since before "Russia collusion" became their favorite mantra and long before they could identify Ukraine on a map.

They don't hate Trump for having acted outside his constitutional authority -- because he hasn't. That was scumbag/liar-nObama. They don't hate him because they believe he is extremely partisan. And if they were to believe it, they would have no credibility, for few presidents have been more partisan than Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, despite the progressive mythical narrative to the contrary.

You might recall how scumbag/liar-nObama used lawless executive orders to implement policy that Congress declined to legislate, forced scumbag/liar-nObamacare down our throats and smugly told his Republican opponents, "I won the election," and that he didn't "want them to do a lot of talking." And surely you won't forget how he bulldozed his stimulus package through Congress with less than a handful of Senate Republican votes after meeting with congressional Republicans just one day before the Democrats had drafted the 1,073-page bill.

They revile Trump because they can tolerate only one viewpoint -- their own. They resent that they can't cram down their ideas in all sectors of our society, our culture and our government. It's not enough that they have virtual monolithic control of the messages disseminating from Hollywood, academia and the mainstream media. They want total power everywhere, without any dissent. They are furious that red-state America won't roll over and surrender its sovereignty to them so they can complete the fundamental transformation of America into a socialistic, authoritarian state, and finish converting its culture into a post-Christian utopia. They are like agitated babies who've had their toys taken away and who militantly refuse to take a nap.

Trump is not just an annoying speed bump on their way to total societal and political domination but a force of nature to be reckoned with, wildly beyond their expectations. Having no respect for Trump or his ability, they wrongly assumed they could steamroll, marginalize or oust him and restore themselves to power.

 They had no idea Trump would be so formidable an opponent. More importantly, they had no inkling that he represented something far greater than himself: a seemingly silent majority of everyday Americans who had had their fill of the left's political and cultural tyranny.

Even though they've also directed their ire at Trump supporters -- kicking them out of restaurants and other public places, and trying to suppress their liberties -- they still seem to be operating under the illusion that if they can just remove Trump, they'll easily recapture power.

Little do they realize that the more they mistreat Trump, the more they alienate his supporters -- freedom-loving patriots from shore to shore. Or maybe their animus against him and us is so intense that they just can't help themselves, and they don't realistically consider the potential political fallout.

Or could it be that they are so cloistered in their elitist bubble that they still don't realize the magnitude of support Trump has from tens of millions of people who will never give up on this nation as the world's model for freedom and prosperity? The more they hate him, they more they abuse him, the greater our resolve to defend him -- and America!
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Even Leftist Historians Rebuke 1619 Project
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Brian Mark Weber  
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2020 Democrats on defensive 
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by Emily Larsen & Naomi Lim
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Democratic presidential candidates, largely running on domestic issues such as immigration and healthcare, are seeing their best-laid campaign plans upended by the killing... of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force leader Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The 14-person Democratic field is now grappling with how President Trump’s decision to order the strike on the top general for Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will change the landscape of their campaigns. Depending on how Iran responds and how Trump handles the crisis, Soleimani’s assassination could either reframe the primary and general election around foreign policy or leave Democrats on the defensive as Trump claims the attack as one of his major victories. Initial reactions to the strike from White House hopefuls have ranged from cautious rebuttals from centrists condemning Soleimani, while lamenting the lack of congressional notification and questioning the Trump administration's overall strategy, to comparing the order to a declaration of war. “Trump promised to end endless wars, but this action puts us on the path to another one,” Vermont Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders said. “I hope the administration has thought through the second- and third-order consequences of the path they have chosen,” said former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the dynamics for the 2020 contenders amount to a wait-and-see proposition. “If this goes south, if the Iranians respond by blowing up a U.S. Embassy” or other severe retaliation, “this is going to be judged to be a reckless and irresponsible act,” said Miller, a former State Department analyst and negotiator in both Republican and Democratic administrations. “If you don't have that kind of severe retaliation, it may actually redound to Trump's benefit.”...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2020-democrats-on-defensive-as-trump-capitalizes-on-soleimani-killing? 
Nikki Haley, all-American
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by Clifford D. May
{ fdd.org } ~ From 2017 to 2019, Nikki Haley served as United States ambassador to the United Nations, an institution that for decades has reeked of corruption, waste, and the decayed dreams of post-World War II idealists... She was a breath of fresh air ­­­– proud of American achievements, unashamed of American power. She spoke forcefully in defense of human rights, and for Israel, the U.N.’s whipping boy. She didn’t apologize. She didn’t get confused. She didn’t curry favor with despots and their high-living mouthpieces on the East Side of Manhattan Island. The daughter of immigrants, a woman of color whose father wears a turban, she experienced prejudice, and overcame it, in large measure because she understood that’s possible to do in America. In most other lands around the world — not so much. She was twice elected governor of South Carolina where she brought people together by focusing on values that unite rather than interests that divide. In 2016, Donald Trump was not the presidential candidate she favored, and at first he didn’t care for her either. After his election, however, it occurred to him that she might make a good secretary of state. With humility, she demurred. But when he proposed she take the ambassadorship at Turtle Bay, she accepted the challenge. An astonishingly quick learner, she was soon explaining Mr. Trump’s policies in public, and advising him in private, which she had the right to do because he had appointed her to his cabinet, a perquisite not granted most U.S. envoys to the U.N. She didn’t always agree with him. In July 2018, when he appeared to be cozying up to Russia’s authoritarian president, she said: “We don’t trust Russia. We don’t trust Putin. They’re never going to be our friend.”...  https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/01/01/nikki-haley-all-american/   
US military strike in Iraq revives talk of war vote
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by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The House and the Senate return to work next week with revived interest in holding a vote on whether to authorize the use of U.S. military force in the Middle East... The Defense Department announced Friday it would deploy an additional 3,500 troops to the region after a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force and a terrorist who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American service personnel. The Trump administration deployed the troops in preparation for a potential escalation of aggression in the region. But a growing number of lawmakers want to vote on any new U.S. military action in the Middle East. “It is my view that the president does not have the authority for a war with Iran,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Friday. “If he plans a large increase in troops and potential hostility over a longer time, the administration will require congressional approval and the approval of the American people.” The United States is sending the extra troops to the Middle East to respond to increased tensions resulting from the drone strike, the Pentagon announced Friday. Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned "severe revenge awaits the criminals" who killed Soleimani. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has warned U.S. strikes against Iran inside Iraq will cause “a dangerous escalation that will light the fuse of a destructive war in Iraq, the region and the world.” Lawmakers warned Friday the escalation of conflict in the region would require even more U.S. involvement and more troops but that Trump is not authorized to get the U.S. military involved in a full-scale conflict...
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Iran threatens Tel Aviv, US bases 
in Middle East after killing of Soleimani
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by timesofisrael.com ~ A senior Iranian commander on Saturday threatened that some 35 US targets in the Middle East, as well as Tel Aviv, were within the reach of Tehran to avenge the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani... “The Strait of Hormuz is a vital point for the West and a large number of American destroyers and warships cross there… vital American targets in the region have been identified by Iran since a long time ago,” said General Gholamali Abuhamzeh, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in the southern province of Kerman, according to the Reuters news agency. “Some 35 US targets in the region, as well as Tel Aviv, are within our reach,” he added. Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force and mastermind of its regional security strategy, was killed in an airstrike early Friday near the Iraqi capital’s international airport. The attack has caused regional tensions to soar. The strike also killed the deputy head of Iraq’s Hashed al-Shaabi, a network of mostly Shiite factions close to Iran and incorporated into the Baghdad government’s security forces. Iran has vowed harsh retaliation, raising fears of an all-out war. US President Donald Trump says he ordered the strike to prevent a conflict. His administration says Soleimani was plotting a series of attacks that endangered American troops and officials, without providing evidence...  https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-threatens-tel-aviv-us-bases-in-middle-east-after-killing-of-soleimani/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-01-04&utm_medium=email   
Lindsey Graham: If Iran retaliates, our response 
will be greater than the market will bear
by saraacarter.com ~ “The intelligence was that Soleimani was orchestrating chaos in Iraq at our expense and throughout the region,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-SC), on “Fox & Friends” on Friday... “The president was informed of these potential attacks and he acted. This was a defensive strike to neutralize future attacks that were planned and executed by Soleimani and the popular mobilization front: the Shiite militias in Iraq.” “He’s not dead today because of what he did in the past, he’s dead today because he miscalculated what President Trump would do regarding future attacks,” explained Graham. Graham said President Trump must make it clear to Iran that any retaliation will put their oil refineries at risk. “Their oil refineries are the last thing they have in terms of an economy,” he said. Graham said that “the president has to convince the ayatollah that if he retaliates, our response will be greater than the market will bear.”
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Speaker liar-Pelosi Threatens Possibility 
of Armed Conflict Against U.S.
Department of Justice
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Think about all of the media panel discussions on gun ownership you have watched; segments where second amendment advocates were ridiculed by media pundits... for daring to bring up the possibility of the U.S. government using arms against U.S. citizens who hold opposing political views… There are hundreds of recent reference points. Now consider, earlier today U.S. House of Representatives Legal Counsel, Douglas Letter, argued in court it would be a possible remedy -for a conflict between branches of government- for Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi to order an armed “gun battle” between the House and the United States Department of Justice. Yes, this actually happened. At the same time as national Democrat political candidates are arguing to remove the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners, the highest ranking Democrat in the United States; a person only two succession-steps away from the presidency; is arguing in DC federal court the House could begin an armed conflict against the Dept. of Justice.Federal appeals court judges aggressively grilled lawyers for the Justice Department and the House of Representatives Friday in a pair of intertwined cases that could have major implications for Donald Trump’s presidency and the Democrats’ ongoing efforts to remove him from office. During back-to-back hearings spanning about three hours, the judges drilled in on the House Judiciary Committee’s dual quests to learn special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury secrets and to secure testimony from Don McGahn, Trump’s former top White House lawyer. The two hearings were overseen by two partially overlapping, three-judge panels.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/03/speaker-pelosi-threatens-possibility-of-armed-conflict-against-u-s-department-of-justice/  
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Even Leftist Historians Rebuke 1619 Project
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Brian Mark Weber:  Just last summer, The New York Times launched its 1619 Project on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first African slaves to North America. If you’ve forgotten what this project is all about, here’s a good overview of its radical and transformative agenda.

The authors of the Times’ project don’t care much if American adults refuse to buy into the hogwash that our country’s entire independence movement was nothing more than a ruse for holding onto slavery. What’s more important is making sure tomorrow’s leaders are programmed and ready to take down Western history, culture, and values in one fell swoop, hence the focus on spreading the 1619 Project through America’s school curriculum.

When the project was first released, the criticism came from constitutional scholars and conservatives who actually learned real American history during a time when teaching students to love their country wasn’t controversial. These critics were quick to denounce what the 1619 Project attempted to present as truth. But now even some communist academics and historians have had enough with the project.

The Times revisionists know they’re in trouble when even the most extreme leftists think they’re making stuff up.

The Washington Post’s Katie Mettler writes, “Five historians recently wrote to the New York Times Magazine, asking the architects of its comprehensive 1619 Project, which tells the founding narrative of America through the lens of slavery, to issue several corrections. They argued that assertions in the 1619 package about the motivations that sparked the Revolutionary War and President Abraham Lincoln’s views on black equality were misleading.”

One of the issues with the 1619 Project is the claim that the Revolutionary War was fought by the colonists in order to protect slavery, not to establish a society founded on God-given rights and individual liberty. This is easily dismissed with some middle-school-level research into primary historical documents and events.

The Founding Fathers took swift steps to prevent the spread of slavery in the new nation, including the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. And several states soon began to eradicate slavery within their borders. Frederick Douglass, who endured the horrors of slavery during his early years before escaping to freedom, referred to the new American Constitution as a “glorious liberty document.”

All the abolitionists inspired by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution must have had it wrong all along.

In a letter to the editor of the Times Magazine, five historians asked  that the Times, “according to its own high standards of accuracy and truth, issue prominent corrections of all the errors and distortions presented in The 1619 Project.” Furthermore, the five demanded, “We also ask for the removal of these mistakes from any materials destined for use in schools, as well as in all further publications, including books bearing the name of The New York Times. We ask finally that The Times reveal fully the process through which the historical materials were and continue to be assembled, checked and authenticated.”

They added, “Those connected with the project have assured the public that its materials were shaped by a panel of historians and have been scrupulously fact-checked. Yet the process remains opaque. The names of only some of the historians involved have been released, and the extent of their involvement as ‘consultants’ and fact checkers remains vague. The selective transparency deepens our concern.”

Who could argue with this? After all, shouldn’t transparency be central to a ground-breaking piece of work like the 1619 Project, something that has the power to change the way millions of Americans think about their country’s history?

Times Editor-in-Chief Jake Silverstein was quick to react to the historians’ request for accuracy and evidence. But his response  merely summed up why the 1619 Project should be rejected by historians, teachers, and students alike. Silverstein wrote, “We are not ourselves historians, it is true. We are journalists, trained to look at current events and situations and ask the question: Why is this the way it is?”

In other words, The New York Times wants to alter the American people’s understanding of history and of our nation’s founding documents based on the political viewpoints of journalists.

“We did not assemble a formal panel for this project,” Silverstein added. Of course they didn’t. Doing so would have undermined their agenda and made it even more challenging to concoct and promote this pseudo-history.

Now that criticism of the 1619 Project is coming from all sides, maybe it’s time to leave history up to the historians.   

~The Patriot Post

 https://patriotpost.us/articles/67654?mailing_id=4779&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4779&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Trump's 'Deal' With Iran ... Soleimani Dead
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Mark Alexander  
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Secretary Pompeo Discusses 
Killing of Qassem Soleimani
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ After a U.S. airstrike kills Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells ‘Fox & Friends’ that President Trump’s decision was necessary to deter further aggression and disrupt an ongoing terror plot.
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Political Tensions Rise as 
US Strike Kills Iranian Terrorist Hero
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by Fred Lucas
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Iran is threatening retaliation and Iraq is considering forcing U.S. officials out of the country after an American drone strike killed Qassem Soleimani, the notorious Iranian general blamed for the deaths of hundreds of Americans... Soleimani, leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and considered a terrorist by American officials for years, also headed Iranian-affiliated terrorist operations known for training Iran proxies they say are responsible for more than 600 American deaths. The U.S. strike near Baghdad International Airport that killed Soleimani followed the siege of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq led by Iranian-backed militias Tuesday. Protesters breached embassy walls in Baghdad and set fires and damaged property in response to a U.S. airstrike on Iranian-backed militias Sunday that killed 25. The killing of Soleimani already has widened the partisan divide in the United States. Trump noted on Twitter: “Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!” “General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more…but got caught!” Trump tweeted. “He was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number….of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself. While Iran will never be able to properly admit it, Soleimani was both hated and feared within the country. They are not nearly as saddened as the leaders will let the outside world believe. He should have been taken out many years ago!” House Speaker liar4-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., criticized the president’s action for leaving Congress out of the decision and for potentially provoking more terror...
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scumbag/liar-nObama knew what 'coup 
leaders' scumbag-Comey and 
scumbag/commie-Brennan were doing
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by wnd.com ~ Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova says Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was well aware of an effort by the "corrupt" scumbag-James Comey and scumbag/commie-John Brennan to undermine Donald Trump... DiGenova noted in an interview with OAN's John Hines that liar-Susan Rice, scumbag/liar-nObama's national security adviser, sent an email on inauguration day to memorialize a Jan. 5 meeting in which scumbag/liar-nObama told his senior law enforcement and intelligence officials that everything in the Trump-Russia probe had been done by the book. "I want to thank liar-Susan Rice for being so stupid and so arrogant to write that email on January 20th because that’s exhibit A for Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, who knew all about this from start to finish, and was more than happy to have the civil rights of a massive number of Americans violated so he could get Donald Trump," DiGenova said. DiGenova, contending Trump officials and associates such at Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos were "framed," said the "corrupt investigative process of the FBI and DOJ was being used to basically conduct a coup d'état." He said there's "no doubt that scumbag/commie-John Brennan was the primogenitor of the entire counterintelligence investigation." "It was scumbag/commie-John Brennan who went to scumbag-James Comey and basically pummeled him into starting a counterintelligence investigation against Trump. scumbag/commie-Brennan's at the heart of this. He went around the world. He enlisted the help of foreign intelligence services. He's responsible for Joseph Mifsud and other people," DiGenova said...   https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/digenova-obama-knew-coup-leaders-comey-brennan/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=newsletter  
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DC Circuit Appeals Panel Hear Oral Arguments 
from House Lawsuit for Mueller Evidence 
and McGahn Testimony
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ This court case is the background to remove President Trump. Everything else, including the impeachment effort, is chaff and countermeasures. Conservatives are oblivious... Today the DC Circuit Court heard oral arguments from House legal subcontractors representing lawmakers, in their attempt to unseal grand jury testimony and documents from the Mueller investigation. Remember, the subcontracted lawyers were part of liar-Nancy Pelosi’s changed House rules in 2018…These moments were all pre-planned To give further indications of the landscape, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr sent his weakest constitutional lawyers, Mark Freeman, Justice Department Civil Division Appellate Staff Director, and Deputy Asst Attorney General Hashim Mooppan to face-off against Douglas Letter, U.S. House of Representatives General Counsel, and approximately two dozen House contracted lawyers. The hearing lasted for an hour and thirty-seven minutes. The three panel judges are tackling the unprecedented attempt by House lawyers to gain access to the Mueller material. During one segment of the hearing House Lawyer Douglas Letter discussed the serious possibility of sending armed House officers to the DOJ to engage in a gun battle with the Dept. of Justice if needed. Not joking – serious stuff: Again, for those who were not paying attention, the creation of an armed House enforcement division was part of liar-Nancy Pelosi’s new House rules in 2018...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/03/dc-circuit-appeals-panel-hear-oral-arguments-from-house-lawsuit-for-mueller-evidence-and-mcgahn-testimony/ 
Senator prepares measure 
to dismiss impeachment outright
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by wnd.com ~ Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., warned Thursday that if Democrats fail to deliver their articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate... he will introduce a measure on Monday to dismiss them.  In a series of Twitter messages, Hawley noted House Democrats insisted impeaching Trump was an urgent matter. "Now they don't want to have a trial, because they have no evidence," he said. The senator argued that in the "real world," if the prosecution doesn't proceed with its case, it gets dismissed. "So on Monday, I will introduce measure to dismiss this bogus impeachment for lack of prosecution," he wrote. "This will expose Dems' circus for what it is: a fake impeachment, abuse of the Constitution, based on no evidence." Hawley said his proposal will take the form of a motion "to update Senate impeachment rules to account for this unprecedented attempt to obstruct Senate trial." "Stay tuned," he added. Hawley was spotlighted by columnist Andy Schlafly as his choice for "conservative of the year in the Senate." After defeating entrenched liberal favorite Claire McCaskill 2018, Hawley earned a coveted seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee "and quickly became its strongest member," Schlafly wrote. Hawley blocked the confirmation of a liberal nominated to the federal bench, despite intense pressure to stand down. He also took on Big Tech, sponsoring legislation against censorship by internet giants. And he promoted the "America First" agenda of President Trump. In a speech, the senator called pro-America policies and the rejection of the failed globalism approach of the past.
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It’s Happening! commie-Aoc’s Career 
Could Be Over For Good With This New Census
by rightwingamericans.com ~ Mike LaChance from American Lookout reports, commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could soon be out of her government job. Due to the high number of non-citizens in her district, it might be eliminated after the census. Wouldn’t that be ironic?  Good by commie-AOC.
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Trump's 'Deal' With Iran ... Soleimani Dead
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Mark Alexander:  Our military forces carried out another remarkable precision strike in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday. Killed in that strike were Gen. Qasem Soleimani, leader of Iran’s elite terrorist Corps-Quds forces, and Soleimani’s Iraqi counterpart, paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes. For decades, Iran has been the wealthiest and most significant state sponsor of Islamic extremists in the Middle East — and Soleimani has directed that terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria.

Boldly, Soleimani traveled to Iraq to oversee the Iran-backed Shiite militia assault on our embassy there, thinking that his forces could overtake it much as his boss, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had done with our Tehran embassy in 1979. Recall then, 52 American diplomats and citizens were taken hostage and held for 444 days — and released immediately after Ronald Reagan took his oath of office on January 20, 1981. Fortunately, Jimmy Carter was no longer president then, but Soleimani was operating as if Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was still president now — a fatal flaw in his plan.

Apparently Soleimani thought he was more bomb-proof than Islamic State terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who we sent to hell last October.

President Donald Trump responded swiftly and decisively to the embassy attack, sending in rapid-force Marine units and Army air reinforcements to repel the militants. He then ordered the death of those who planned it. To suggest this was a “shot across the bow” of Iran’s regime would be grossly understated. This was not a feckless “line in the sand” threat like scumbag/liar-nObama issued in Syria.

As OIF veteran and frequent Trump critic David French noted, “This was no Benghazi. … There was no American defeat. The embassy still stands.” That was a reference to Obama’s failure to defend our embassy officials in Libya and the subsequent political coverup ahead of his 2012 election.

As I have noted for years, our operations in the Middle East since the 9/11 attack have been quietly but primarily focused on preventing Iranian-backed terrorists from detonating a fissile weapon in an East Coast urban center.

For context, after George W. Bush launched Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, many U.S. military casualties were the direct result of Iranian-backed militias. The Bush administration made slow but steady progress to contain the Islamic threat in the region, but when scumbag/liar-nObama entered the diplomatic debate in 2009, all the blood and treasure expended in Iraq became nothing more than political fodder for his regime’s policy of appeasement.

Recall that in 2012, scumbag/liar-nObama centered his reelection on his “success” in the Middle East, declaring that al-Qa'ida was “on the run” and using that false claim to initiate a politically expedient withdrawal from Iraq. Predictably, a Middle East meltdown followed, which led to the most catastrophic humanitarian crisis in recent history as millions of Syrian refugees fled into the desert.

How did scumbag/liar-nObama respond to that crisis?

In a feat of Middle East policy malfeasance unmatched in generations, scumbag/liar-nObama, scumbagt/liar-Hillary Clinton, and her understudy, hanoi-John Kerry, empowered Iran’s nuclear capacity with a “Nuke Deal” that advanced the threat of an “Islamic Bomb” detonation in the U.S. And they followed that up by lifting sanctions against Iran and flying in $400 million in cash that, arguably, bolstered its terrorist operations.

Fortunately President Trump put an end to that insanity, restoring sanctions against Iran, supporting pro-democracy movements in the region, and, in the last 24 hours, responding to Iranian aggression with force. The message this sent to pro-democracy leaders in Iran can’t be understated.

Of course, much saber-rattling followed, with Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif laughably calling the strike an “act of international terrorism” and insisting that Tehran would “exhaust all its political, legal and international capacities … to hold the terrorist and criminal regime of the United States responsible regarding this obvious crime.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi played along, issuing a politically necessary statement condemning the attack as a violation of the terms agreement for maintaining U.S. troops in Iraq. But Abdul-Mahdi clearly understand the Iranian threat to his country and the necessity to abate that threat.

Most assuredly, an escalation of Iranian aggression will follow, but that was inevitable.

Deeply mired in their Trump impeachment mess, the current crop of Democrat Party leaders criticized our military operation as reckless and unconstitutional. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) protested, “Did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in Iran?” Yes, he declared Soleimani was “assassinated.” As for constitutionality, David French laid those Demo claims to rest in a series of social-media posts.

And a final note: Recall that in October of last year, President Trump was subjected to a barrage of criticism from armchair media experts for his agreement with Turkey regarding the Kurdish lines on the Turks’ southern border in Syria. Amid all the criticism, we noted in “The REAL U.S./Turkey Strategic Endgame — Iran” that “formulating foreign policy and military strategy is akin to a complex multi-dimensional chess match — except the objectives are rarely black and white, and the targets are constantly moving.” We noted further, “Turkey provides the U.S. with strategic airbase access, which will be essential in any regional operations, most notably those against Iran. … In other words, there exists a more pressing but unmentioned objective: containing or eliminating the Iranian nuclear threat.”   

 ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/67683?mailing_id=4779&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4779&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

Read more…

Please Read Part 104C:

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 104C)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-August 9, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-104c

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that the 'UN is allegedly currently hiring "disarmament officers" to conduct "field missions" in New York as the UN occupation plan for America goes LIVE'-You Decide:

Image: UN hiring “disarmament officers” to conduct “field missions” in New York as UN occupation plan for America goes LIVE

UN hiring “disarmament officers” to conduct “field missions” in New York as UN occupation plan for America goes LIVE!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On January 2, 2020:

(Natural News) The critics who have mocked the “UN occupation of America” news that we’ve been covering for years are eating crow today as the United Nations is publicly and openly hiring “disarmament, demobilization and reintegration officers” in New York, specifically admitting that they will be running “field missions” to engage in gun confiscation from citizens.

As this “United Nations Careers” document reveals, the job opening was posted on December 26, 2019 and remains active through February 8, 2020. The job opening number is, “19-Security Institutions-DPO-127453-R-New York (R).”

As the help wanted document explains, these jobs are physically located in New York and demands English proficiency — not French — indicating this job requires engaging with Americans and isn’t some overseas deployment:

This position is located in the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Section of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI), within the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in New York. New York is classified as a hardship “H” duty station and family duty station. The incumbent reports to and is under the overall supervision of the DDR Section Chief.

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The people who carry out this job are specifically required to operate “two to three missions” carrying out “Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR)” activities.

DDR is the United Nation’s euphemism for gun confiscation followed by the imprisonment of local populations. This job listing also calls for candidates to, “Conduct field missions to assess implementation of established DDR programmes.”

This position is specifically calling for applicants to have a Master’s degree in “disarmament affairs.” Keep reading to fully understand what the UN means by “DDR” operations.

In summary, gun confiscation in America is about to go HOT.

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In 2017, Democrat Richard Boykin called for UN occupation of America with UN troops to be stationed on the streets of U.S. cities

As you learn of this breaking news, don’t forget that just a little over two years ago, Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin called for UN troops to be stationed on the streets of America. As covered by NewsTarget.com:

Boykin says that UN troops need to be brought into America’s cities as a way to help “victims of violence.”

“I’m hoping to appeal to the UN to actually come to Chicago and meet with victims of violence, and maybe even possibly help out in terms of peacekeeping efforts,” Boykin explains in the video below.

When asked to explain further, he says that armed foreign troops / shock troops are necessary to “protect minority and vulnerable populations.”

He also says that gun violence is a kind of “quiet genocide” that demands a UN presence in America’s cities.

Amazingly, this video hasn’t yet been banned by YouTube, so you can see Boykin saying all this on camera:

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Just a few months ago, radical left-wing Democrat Ilhan Omar also called for the UN occupation of America. Hear the full details in my podcast on Brighteon.com:

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“DDR Handbook” of the United Nations spells out what DDR is all about

What is “DDR,” exactly? The United Nations defines it as disarming local populations through the use of force. In fact, as part of this “disarmament” operation, the UN runs its own “weapons and ammunition management” operations to make sure UN troops have a monopoly on firepower.

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As shown on this page, there’s even a UN handbook for “DDR practitioners” that’s entitled, “Effective Weapons and Ammunition Management in a Changing Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Context.” The overview for the book explains:

It responds to the greater need for arms control activities in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programmes, including weapons and ammunition management at the community level as part of community violence reduction projects. The material presented here equips DDR practitioners with practical resources to design effective weapons and ammunition management operations that can be implemented across the peace continuum.

Notice the key concepts here? Arms control activities… at the community level… community violence reduction… the “peace continuum.”

This is all globalist doublespeak for gunpoint gun confiscation, and the UN is clearly ramping up this entire operation for the United States of America, starting in New York.

Barack Obama signed the “Arms Trade Treaty” with the UN in 2013, and that’s the basis being invoked for gun confiscation

Another book published under the United Nations’ Office for Disarmament Affairs details how to confiscate guns from local citizens under the “Arms Trade Treaty” which Barack Obama signed in 2013 and which went into force from the UN’s point of view on December 24, 2014. However, President Trump withdrew the United States from this gun control treaty, and the treaty was never ratified by the U.S. Senate. Nevertheless, the UN might argue that since Obama signed it, it remains in force.

This UN book is called, “Disarmament: A Basic Guide – Fourth Edition (2017),” and talks about how to “build a more peaceful world” by disarming citizens through the use of UN weaponry and armed UN soldiers.

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In that book, the UN describes firearms in the hands of civilians as causing “armed insecurity,” equating the Second Amendment with terrorism and chaos. The book also claims that small arms in the hands of civilians is equivalent to “excessive accumulation” that “may aggravate political tension.” Indeed, according to the United Nations, peace is only achieved with the raping, child-trafficking UN soldiers have a monopoly on guns.

In other words, the United Nations defines “peace” the same way Adolf Hitler did: By achieving a total monopoly on firepower while the citizens are completely disarmed and unable to defend themselves. That’s exactly what took place during the Third Reich: First disarming the Jews, then carrying out mass genocide to exterminate them. Sounds like a modern-day UN operation!

New York is chosen because there aren’t enough armed citizens to fight off an invading UN enemy force

Notice, too, that this operation is being launched in New York, where gun control laws are already so strict that few citizens will be able to fight back against UN occupation.

This will enable the UN to quickly establish a firepower monopoly and a geographical beachhead from which other operations can be launched, such as gun confiscation raids across New Jersey or other nearby areas.

Meanwhile, Virginia is staging UN vehicles in preparation for an armed assault on Washington D.C. to try to execute President Trump or run him out of office, followed by the installation of Nancy Pelosi as the acting president.

As Daisy Luther writes for The Organic Prepper:

You may recall that citizens of Virginia have become outraged recently by new laws that are likely to pass this month, effectively banning all semi-automatic weapons. Sanctuary counties, cities, and municipalities now cover all but the most urban parts of the state. These sanctuaries have vowed to support the Second Amendment and are refusing to enforce unconstitutional gun laws… One has to wonder if this is why the UN is hiring “disarmament officers?”

How many times has someone told you not to worry – that nobody is coming to take your guns away? That all they want is “common-sense gun laws?” In light of the current political climate and this job listing, I’d say that is an outright a lie.

Also see this important article from NationalFile.com: “New York UN Office Recruits Paramilitary Troops for ‘Disarmament’ and ‘Reintegration’ of US Civilians.”

ARM UP, America: You are about to be invaded by a foreign enemy that’s engaged in a massive false flag followed by a kinetic coup attempt against the President

The bottom line here is that events are lining up for an attempted take down of America. First, deep state actors will stage a massive false flag attack that makes Charlottesville look like child’s play. The media will, in concert, blame Trump and call him a white supremacist dictator, then demand his removal from office. When he refuses, the UN will activate its thousands of troops and armored personnel carriers which have already been staged across America.

The gunpoint gun confiscation will begin, and any Americans who refuse to turn over their guns will be shot on sight.

The war is nearly here, and globalists, Democrats and the deep state cannot tolerate Trump winning another election this year and having four more years to prosecute left-wing criminal corruption involving the Bidens, the Clintons and even Barack Obama, himself, who is a criminal traitor and enemy of America.

The very people who are about to be indicted and imprisoned if Durham is allowed to complete his investigation are now cornered rabid animals, willing to do anything to stop the 2020 elections and try to kill Trump or overthrow the nation between now and then. Don’t be surprised if they turn to nuclear, biological or chemical weapons to stage a large-scale, deadly event that can somehow be blamed on Trump.

What should rational, informed Americans do right now in preparation for all this? It’s simple: Arm up and prepare to defend your nation using the Second Amendment.

Personally, I recommend improving your proficiency in long-range tactical shooting using calibers such as 300 Win Mag or 338 Lapua Magnum.

338 Lapua Magnum rounds can damage or disable armored vehicles used by enemy forces such as the mad raping UN soldiers. Even better, 50 BMG rounds can seriously damage those vehicles and penetrate hardened cover positions. Right now, you can purchase 660 grain .50 BMG rounds for less than three dollars each (go to Ammoseek.com to find them). Always deploy weapons responsibly, in a manner that’s consistent with the rule of law and the national sovereignty of the United States of America. Yes, we have the right to defend our nation against occupying enemy forces. In fact, millions of our soldiers and law enforcement officers are sworn to do so.

New York will easily fall to UN tyranny, but once the UN soldiers reach rural areas of America, they’re going to find a rifle behind every blade of grass, and a patriot targeting them from every building.

We the People must prepare to bring such heavy metal down upon the occupying enemy UN troops that every last one of them is engaged, defeated and forced to flee our land. This is where history has now brought us, at the precipice of the most important conflict in the history of the United States of America: an invasion by an occupying enemy force. This is “Red Dawn” but with blue helmets. I suppose that makes it, “Blue Dawn,” but either way, the invaders must be eliminated and defeated. There is no other option if America is to survive this globalist assault and a coordinated attempt to carry out a political coup that would nullify democracy and silence the will of the people.

All this looks likely to ramp up this year, in 2020, so your time to prepare is growing very short.

The people of New York, New Jersey and other liberal areas who gave up their guns are soon going to find out what happens when you surrender to a foreign enemy whose troops are known rapists and child traffickers, by the way. There are going to be a whole lot of liberals in New York City who sadly discover why you should never give up your right to self-defense and hand some foreign enemy a monopoly on firearms. Especially not the UN, which is known around the world for mass rapings, child kidnappings and human trafficking.

Why do you think they need a monopoly on firepower in the first place? It’s because they would normally be shot for their crimes against women and children. That’s why they disarm populations first, get it?

Continue Reading:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-01-02-un-hiring-disarmament-officers-field-missions-new-york-un-occupation-of-america.html

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  I believe that the information revealed in the following articles and videos relates to and/or further supports the disturbing information revealed in the above thought-provoking article-You Decide:

 

Virginia county to fund militia, per US Constitution, in wake of Democrats' gun-control agenda

Virginia county to fund militia, per US Constitution, in wake of Democrats' gun-control agenda: One official said the measure allows for immediate intervention if state legislation violates citizens' Second Amendment rights!-Posted on The Daily Wire-By Dave Urbanski-On December 17, 2019:

Amid dozens of Virginia counties declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries in case the state enacts strict gun-control measures next year, Tazewell County joined in — and took a big extra step.

In addition to passing a resolution declaring the county a Second Amendment sanctuary, the Tazewell County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 3 also passed a resolution underscoring the right to a well-funded and regulated militia as described in the U.S. Constitution and the commonwealth's constitution, WJHL-TV reported.

And even though Democrats outnumber Republicans 3-2 on the board, both resolutions passed unanimously, the station said.

What does it all mean?

The Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution indicates the county won't provide funds for any measure infringing upon its citizens' Second Amendment rights, the station said.

The militia resolution allocates county funds to maintain a well-regulated militia, board chairman Travis Hackworth told WJHL.

Vice Chairman Charles Stacey added to the station that the militia resolution also would provide immediate intervention if the Virginia General Assembly — which will be Democrat-controlled in 2020 — passes legislation violating citizens' Second Amendment rights.

Stacey and Hackworth also told WJHL that if state laws are signed that oppose the Second Amendment, Tazewell County will prepare an injunction.

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What's the background?

Virginia Democratic lawmakers have threatened law enforcement officials in Second Amendment Sanctuary counties with potential prosecution if they don't uphold future gun control measures.

Regarding the matter Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam said "there's not going to be retaliation" but "if we have constitutional laws on the books, and law enforcement officers are not enforcing those laws on the books, then there are going to be consequences, but I'll cross that bridge if and when we get to it."

Amid the backlash, Northam and incoming Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw said they would add a "grandfather clause" to the proposed assault weapon ban, which would let gun owners keep weapons already legally owned — as long as they're registered.

In addition, a Virginia sheriff said if Democrats pass restrictive gun control laws, he may deputize thousands of citizens to exempt them from such measures.

(H/T: Washington Examiner)

Continue Reading:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/virginia-county-to-fund-militia

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Virginia Gun Owners Protest New Law in True American Fashion!-Posted on The Political Insider-By David Kamioner, LifeZette-On January 3, 2020:

Taking a page from the playbook of the radical leftist immigration lobby, gun owners in the state of Virginia have convinced over 100 cities, towns, and counties in the state to declare themselves gun-“sanctuary” areas.

This is in response to upcoming extremist gun-control legislation put forth by the Democratic majority in the Virginia General Assembly.

Democrats flipped the state house blue in November 2019 state elections.

The leader who backs the bills, Gov. Ralph Northam (D), is also a hard-Left Democrat best known for his (possible) recreational use of blackface — and his championship of late-term abortion to the point of actual infanticide.

The two new bills, SB 16 and SB 18, would ban “assault weapons” (as the Left defines them), raise the minimum age to purchase a weapon to 21, and require background checks for any gun transfer.

So much for “shall not be infringed” and the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Related: Virginia Sheriff Has Warning for Gun-Grabbing Dems About Massive ‘Militia’

Anti-constitutional activists, such as the so-called Moms Demand Action group, frame their argument this way: “We know that, as it has been proven, gun safety laws save lives,” as a representative from the group is reported to have said in open debate.

The person who made that statement is apparently not aware that the cities in America with the highest gun-related crime rates, such as Baltimore and Chicago, also have the most stringent gun control laws.

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) does not agree with the gun-control group: “I am against the current laws put forth by the General Assembly to restrict firearm purchases and I will remain committed to preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals to purchase, possess, and use firearms,” he said to Fox News on Thursday.

Gun sanctuary groups are even more adamant. The Virginia Citizens Defense League announced in a statement on December 26 that, “should the government in Richmond act lawlessly, then local officials and the people they represent will not cooperate and may take steps to actively resist.”

Focus on that last part of the line: “May take steps to actively resist.”

What form that resistance could take is anyone’s guess.

But it is likely the Dem–run Virginia General Assembly didn’t take it into account when proposing this extreme kind of measure.

Now, one way or another, their leftist arrogance will cost them. Virginia should be hopeful that the reckoning is only at the polls.

This piece originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

Source Link:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/virginia-gun-owners-protest-new-law-in-true-american-fashion/

The Virginia Model for a Constitutional Confederation of States: Where there is no clear constitutional authority for congressional legislation and taxes, what should be the consequence for such dereliction?-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On January 22, 2020:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/68076-the-virginia-model-for-a-constitutional-confederation-of-states-2020-01-22

Virginia’s Recent Extremism a Warning Sign for Other States!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Jarrett Stepman /@JarrettStepman-On January 27, 2020:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/27/virginias-recent-extremism-a-warning-sign-for-other-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=virginias-recent-extremism-a-warning-sign-for-other-states

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The Virginia House Just Passed a Bill that Bans Assault Weapons–And More!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Guest Author-On February 11, 2020:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/the-virginia-house-just-passed-a-bill-that-bans-assault-weapons-and-more/

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Virginia Democrats pass draconian, ineffective bill banning ‘assault weapons’!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Brad Polumbo-On February 12, 2020:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/virginia-democrats-pass-draconian-bill-hr961-banning-assault-weapons

Virginia's Model for Both Sides of Gun Debate: As Democrats advance anti-Second Amendment measures, Patriots fight back!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Louis DeBroux-On February 12, 2020:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68514-virginias-model-for-both-sides-of-gun-debate-2020-02-12

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Democrats In Arizona Propose Legislation With Chilling Implications For “Assault Weapon” Owners!-Posted on TeaParty247.org-On February 12, 2020:

https://www.teaparty247.org/democrats-in-arizona-propose-legislation-with-chilling-implications-for-assault-weapon-owners/

New Mexico: 2020 Legislative Session Convenes Today!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On January 21, 2020:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200121/new-mexico-2020-legislative-session-convenes-today

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New Mexico: Senate Committee to Consider Extreme “Red Flag” Legislation TOMORROW!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On January 27, 2020:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200127/new-mexico-senate-committee-to-consider-extreme-red-flag-legislation

NRA ILA

New Mexico: Senate Public Affairs Passes Extreme “Red Flag” Legislation to Judiciary Committee!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On January 29, 2020:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200129/new-mexico-senate-public-affairs-passes-extreme-red-flag-legislation-to-judiciary-committee

NRA ILA

New Mexico: Senate Judiciary Committee to Consider Extreme "Red Flag” Gun Confiscation Bill TOMORROW!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 4, 2020:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200204/new-mexico-senate-judiciary-committee-to-consider-extreme-red-flag-gun-confiscation-bill-tomorrow

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New Mexico Action Needed: Senate Could Consider “Red Flag” Firearms Surrender Bill as Early as Friday!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 6, 2020:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200206/new-mexico-action-needed-senate-could-consider-red-flag-firearms-surrender-bill-as-early-as-friday

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New Mexico: Senate Passes Extreme “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation Legislation!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 8, 2020:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200208/new-mexico-senate-passes-extreme-red-flag-gun-confiscation-legislation

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New Mexico: “Red Flag” Gun Surrender Legislation to be Heard in House Committee TOMORROW!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 10, 2020:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200210/new-mexico-red-flag-gun-surrender-legislation-to-be-heard-in-house-committee-tomorrow

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New Mexico: House Committee Passes “Red Flag” Gun Surrender Bill to the Floor!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 10, 2020:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200212/new-mexico-house-committee-passes-red-flag-gun-surrender-bill-to-the-floor?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ila_alert

New Mexico Governor: Sheriffs Should Enforce Red Flag Law or Resign!-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On February 27, 2020:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/34994-new-mexico-governor-sheriffs-should-enforce-red-flag-law-or-resign

The Slippery Slope of Red Flag Laws!-Posted on The New American-By Dan Gifford-On February 9, 2020:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/34775-the-slippery-slope-of-red-flag-laws

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2019 Ended With Heroic Actions by Lawful Gun Owners!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Amy Swearer / @AmySwearer-On January 21, 2020:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/21/2019-ended-with-heroic-actions-by-lawful-gun-owners

Crime, Punishment, and the Second Amendment: It's not creating new laws that will save lives; it's consistently enforcing old ones!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Harold Hutchison-On January 31, 2020:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68254-crime-punishment-and-the-second-amendment-2020-01-31

Political Super Bowl Ad Likely to Backfire!-Posted on The Political Insider-By David Kamioner, LifeZette-On February 2, 2020:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/political-super-bowl-ad-likely-to-backfire/

How Will Virginia’s New Gun-control Laws Be Enforced?-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On February 4, 2020:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/34802-how-will-virginias-new-gun-control-laws-be-enforced

The Folly of Unilateral Political Disarmament: The GOP establishment is still failing to stand up for grassroots conservatives!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Harold Hutchison-On February 11, 2020:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68486-the-folly-of-unilateral-political-disarmament-2020-02-11

Retired Connecticut State Trooper: Another Tax Won’t Stop Gun Violence.  “NO CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CRIMINAL!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On February 15, 2020:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2020/02/15/retired-connecticut-state-trooper-another-tax-wont-stop-gun-violence/

Florida's 'Red Flag' Applied Over 3,500 Times in Just Two Years: Inconsistent use of laws and questions regarding due-process protections only add to criticism!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On February 19, 2020:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68673-floridas-red-flag-applied-over-3500-times-in-just-two-years-2020-02-19

Biden to Gun Manufacturers: “I’m Going To Take You Down!”-Posted on The New American-By Warren Mass-On February 25, 2020:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/34976-biden-to-gun-manufacturers-i-m-going-to-take-you-down

Yes, Women and Minorities Should Own Firearms: But some gun grabbers are especially worried that these Americans are buying guns!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Brian Mark Weber-On February 28, 2020:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68892-yes-women-and-minorities-should-own-firearms-2020-02-28

Biden: I Don't Have Any of the Facts on Colorado, But We Definitely Need a Gun Ban!-Posted on Townhall-By Katie Pavlich@KatiePavlich-On March 23, 2021:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/03/23/biden-admits-he-doesnt-know-the-facts-about-the-colorado-shooting-calls-for-gun-control-anyway-n2586745

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, has been named by police as the suspect in a mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.

Here's what we know about the Boulder, Colorado, mass shooting suspect!-Posted on CNN.com-By Ray Sanchez and Blake Ellis, CNN-On March 23, 2021:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/us/boulder-colorado-shooting-suspect/index.html

The Colorado Shooting Suspect Just Destroyed the Left's Narrative!-Posted on Townhall-By Katie Pavlich@KatiePavlich-On March 23, 2021:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/03/23/the-colorado-shooting-suspect-just-destroyed-the-lefts-narrative-n2586749

Flashback: Video: Black conservative leaders discuss how the NRA was created to protect freed slaves!-Posted on YouTube.com-By DAFRUSA-On 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RABZq5IoaQ

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  I also believe that the disturbing information revealed on the above recent articles and videos relates to and/or further supports my following blogs from the recent past-You Decide:

 

Biden: I Don't Have Any of the Facts on Colorado, But We Definitely Need a Gun Ban!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 23, 2021:

https://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/biden-i-don-t-have-any-of-the-facts-on-colorado-but-we-definitely

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Billionaire Leftists Attack Your Gun Rights!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 28, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/billionaire-leftists-attack-your-gun-rights

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An Open Letter To Communist Valerie Jarrett!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on August 25, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-communist-valerie-jarrett

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What is the true intent of the UN Small Arms Treaty?-Posted on WordPress.com-On January 12, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-true-intent-of-the-un-small-arms-treaty/

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Letter to Our NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Newly Proposed Gun Control Measures)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 19, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-governor-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-newly

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Letter to NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Border Security)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 14, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-governor-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-border

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Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 13, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-representative-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-3

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Follow-up Letter to NM Governor Michelle Lujan Gresham (Re: Taking down of America from within!)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 30, 2020:

https://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-governor-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-taking- 

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Brainwashed the DocuMovie Part One!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 17, 2021:

https://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashed-the-documovie-part-one

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Brainwashed the DocuMovie Part One(Part 89)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-March 31, 2022:

https://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashed-the-documovie-part-one-part-89

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9/11 TRUTH SEEKERS: THE ‘LUNATIC FRINGE’ IS WHOM?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 25, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/9-11-truth-seekers-the-lunatic-fringe-is-whom

Where Is America Today?-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 26, 2010:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/where-is-america-today-2/

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

4063590393?profile=originalA Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

4063360053?profile=originalThe Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc

4063359977?profile=originalWhen Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms

“Food for Thought”

4063359991?profile=originalHello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Against The Deplorable Obstructionists That Are Doing Their Utmost To Take Down Our Democratically Elected President, His Administration and Ultimately Destroy our Country/Republic?-God Bless America!

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.
 
Semper Fi!
Jake
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Soleimani Dead – Sketchy Details Emerging – Airstrikes at Baghdad Airport, Cargo Area
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by sundance
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GOP senator predicts Senate will 
acquit Trump before State of the Union
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by Spencer Neale
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Sen. Roy Blunt is predicting that President Trump will be found not guilty by the Senate before he gives the State of the Union address on Feb. 4... Speaking with Wake Up Columbia on Missouri radio station KSSZ, the Missouri Republican said House Democrats have had plenty of time to make their case for impeachment and that Trump will have "a chance for his lawyers to explain why he shouldn't be impeached, and then we'll have that vote and move on." The State of the Union is scheduled for a day after the Iowa caucuses this year, which would mean a quick trial of fewer than four weeks in the Senate. Republicans control the majority in the Senate, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he anticipates a swift vote, stating that both sides have "heard enough." “Have we learned enough after listening to all of this to go on and vote on the two very weak articles of impeachment?” McConnell said after the two articles passed. “Or do we have a show trial in which both sides try to embarrass the other and put on an embarrassing scene, frankly, for the American people?" Blunt added that House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi had not fulfilled her promise when the investigation began of a bipartisan impeachment. "liar-Nancy Pelosi said at the very start of the year that if impeachment wasn't bipartisan, it wouldn't work," said Blunt. "And it clearly was not bipartisan in the House, not a single Republican voted for the articles of impeachment, and a couple of Democrats didn't, either." Blunt stated he believes a Senate trial would be "pretty predictable" and would happen "quickly."
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Marine Corps Crisis Response 
Force Will Remain In Baghdad
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By Ben Werner
{ news.usni.org } ~ After sending Marines from Kuwait to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said a battalion of Army paratroopers will now serve as the regional quick-response force, a role previously filled by the Marines... The additional Marines were sent to Baghdad on Tuesday after a mob, including members of the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia, stormed the front gate of the U.S. Embassy compound. The militia members were protesting recent U.S. military airstrikes on five Hezbollah sites in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. airstrikes were in response to earlier Kataib Hezbollah militia attacks on Iraqi bases hosting Operation Inherent Resolve coalition forces, including U.S. military personnel, Esper said during a Thursday morning media briefing with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley. Attacks on U.S. and coalition bases have been increasing in frequency and lethality since October, Esper said, blaming the increase on Iran, who provides equipment and backing to Kataib Hezbollah.“This is just the latest example of Iranian bad behavior in the region – in Iraq specifically – attacking U.S. coalition and partner forces, involving themselves in the sovereign government of Iraq, and doing other things that upsets the balance and creates turmoil in the entire region,” Esper said. The Marines now in Baghdad are assigned to the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF)-Crisis Response-Central Command. Among their skill sets is to provide additional security to U.S. embassies in the CENTCOM region quickly. The Marine Corps revamped its U.S. embassy crisis response program after the murder of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three Americans in his security detail during an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012. However, with the MAGTF now in Baghdad, Esper and Milley said they needed to send additional forces to act as a regional reserve force. They want CENTCOM Commander Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie to have sufficient forces to respond quickly to any emergency in the region, which is why about 750 members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division left for Kuwait on New Year’s Day...   https://news.usni.org/2020/01/02/marine-corps-crisis-response-force-will-remain-in-baghdad?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=4f3d4c3b5d-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-4f3d4c3b5d-231491269&mc_cid=4f3d4c3b5d&mc_eid=3999f18767
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‘Iranian proxy’ militia leader spotted at US 
Embassy attack was guest at
scumbag/liar-nObama WH, now
reportedly in US custody
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by Vivek Saxena
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Nearly nine years after then-President Barack Hussein scumbag/liar-nObama and then-Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden met with an Iraqi political figure in 2011... that same shadowy figure went on to reportedly help assist in the attack this New Year’s Eve on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. The figure is Hadi al-Amiri, who in 2011 served as then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s minister of transportation, and who currently serves as both a member of the Iraqi Parliament and as the president of Iraq’s largest pro-Iranian militia, Badr Corps.  Below is photo evidence of Amiri outside the embassy early Tuesday morning EST. “The Washington Post reported Amiri’s presence at the protests outside the embassy, saying he was ‘in attendance,” Fox News notes. “The Associated Press also reported that Amiri was among the ‘commanders of militia factions loyal to Iran’ who ‘joined the protesters outside the embassy in a strikingly bold move.'” As previously reported by BizPac Review, that morning hundreds of affiliates of an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militia known as Kata’ib Hezbollah stormed the embassy, nearly triggering another Benghazi butultimately failing to do so. Now flashback to Dec. 12, 2011, when Amiri reportedly accompanied then-PM Maliki for a high-profile visit to the scumbag/liar-nObama White House, despite complaints from critics. “Amiri’s inclusion in the trip to Washington raised eyebrows at the time due to his involvement and ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which backed the Badr Corps at the time and had been linked to several attacks on Western targets,” Fox notes...   https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/01/03/iranian-proxy-militia-leader-spotted-at-us-embassy-attack-was-guest-at-obama-wh-now-reportedly-in-us-custody-871399?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL 
2020 Resistance – Dem Operatives 
Open New Leak Clearing House
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ 2020 is the year when a variety of prior democrat operations will converge with a single goal in mind. Predictably we will see several years of prior effort beginning to merge, and it begins today... NOTE: For interested readers it will be impossible for me to summarize the background for each step prior to putting the next puzzle piece into place. Therefore I strongly suggest bookmarking posts for later reference because it would take tens of thousands of words to understand for anyone who steps into the light mid-way through. Tomorrow, January 3rd, 2020, the House Judiciary Committeee (HJC) will be presenting oral arguments in the DC court of appeals for their effort to obtain the Mueller grand jury information [6(e) material], and also compel testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn. The House has a group of dozens of various DOJ and former scumbag/liar-nObama officials working on their behalf. That House network also has several currently employed DOJ, FBI, State Department and Intelligence Community officials feeding them information on current real-time events. The HJC are currently arguing the Mueller material and the McGahn testimony are needed for the impeachment trial of President Trump. If the HJC team wins the argument to the three member DC Appellate Court, the DOJ will likely file for a full ‘en blanc’ review by the entire panel. If the HJC wins the ‘en blanc’ argument the DOJ will likely appeal for an administrative stay by the Supreme Court...
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Palestinian 'Moderates' Celebrate Terror
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by Bassam Tawil
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The Palestinian ruling Fatah faction, headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, is celebrating the 55th anniversary of its first terrorist attack against Israel... by reminding everyone that it remains committed to the "armed struggle as the only way to liberate Palestine." Thousands of Fatah supporters took to the streets in the Gaza Strip on December 29, 2019 to celebrate the anniversary. The celebration was organized by the armed wing of Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – Nidal Al-Amoudi Battalion, a rogue Fatah splinter group. Hundreds of masked Fatah gunmen dressed in military uniforms marched through the streets of Gaza City. Some carried rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons. The military parade could not have taken place without the consent of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that has been ruling the Gaza Strip since 2007, when its members overthrew the regime of the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA). Since then, Hamas and Fatah have been at each other's throats – a fight that has resulted in the emergence of two separate Palestinian entities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Hamas, it appears, perceives Fatah as a major threat to its rule over the Gaza Strip, which is presumably why it arrests and harasses Fatah members there on a regular basis. Similarly, the PA security forces and Fatah seem to consider Hamas a real threat to their rule over parts of the West Bank; they, too, have long been cracking down on Hamas members and supporters there. Why did Hamas allow Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades to hold a military parade in the Gaza Strip? The Fatah group operating in the Gaza Strip shares the ideology of Hamas, which defines itself as the "Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood." Both Hamas and the PA seek to replace Israel with an Islamic state through violent jihad holy war. The Hamas covenant, published in 1988, defines jihad as its highest priority for the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of an Islamic Palestine "from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River."...
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Iranian Commander Says Country 
Ready for War With U.S.
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by Adam Kredo 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ A top Iranian military commander said on Thursday that the Islamic Republic is ready for a war with the United States... amid growing tensions following Iranian-backed attacks on American outposts in Iraq. Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, warned in remarks that Iran is prepared to defeat the United States in an armed conflict. The prospect of a full-scale war between the two countries has been brewing for weeks as Iranian-backed militias in Iraq attacked American outposts and personnel. The Trump administration recently launched a retaliatory attack on sites controlled by Iranian forces.  "We are powerful and ready for defeating the U.S. several other times and we are not worried about the U.S. threats and it is them who should be worried," Salami said in yet another escalation of words. "The Iranian nation has not started war in the past incidents but it annihilates any aggressor and the U.S. is aware of this." Iraqi protesters backed by the Iranian government have taken to the streets in recent days, sparking clashes around the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad. The violence followed an attack on a U.S. outpost that killed one American contractor, which led to the United States bombing facilities the Trump administration said were under control of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia force. Since Monday, protesters have swarmed the U.S. embassy, firing guns and attempting to set the facility on fire...   https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-commander-says-country-ready-for-war-with-u-s/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=9e317732b9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_02_08_01_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-9e317732b9-45611665   
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Soleimani Dead – Sketchy Details Emerging – Airstrikes at Baghdad Airport, Cargo Area
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by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Details are starting to emerge about the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. As with all early reports a modicum of skepticism toward the details should be applied. However, here’s the expanded reporting from the Associated Press.

The Pentagon said Thursday that the U.S. military has killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Donald Trump.

An airstrike killed Soleimani, architect of Iran’s regional security apparatus, at Baghdad’s international airport Friday, Iranian state television and three Iraqi officials said, an attack that’s expected to draw severe Iranian retaliation against Israel and American interests.

The Defense Department said Soleimani “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.” It also accused Soleimani of approving the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad earlier this week.

A statement released late Thursday by the Pentagon said the strike on Soleimani “was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.”

The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, Iraqi officials said. The PMF media arm said the two were killed in an American airstrike that targeted their vehicle on the road to the airport.

Citing a Revolutionary Guard statement, Iranian state television said Soleimani was “martyred” in an attack by U.S. helicopters near the airport, without elaborating.

[…] A senior Iraqi politician and a high-level security official confirmed to The Associated Press that Soleimani and al-Muhandis were among those killed in the attack shortly after midnight.

Two militia leaders loyal to Iran also confirmed the deaths, including an official with the Kataeb Hezbollah faction, which was involved in the New Year’s Eve attack by Iran-backed militias on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

[…] A senior Iraqi politician and a high-level security official confirmed to The Associated Press that Soleimani and al-Muhandis were among those killed in the attack shortly after midnight. Two militia leaders loyal to Iran also confirmed the deaths, including an official with the Kataeb Hezbollah faction, which was involved in the New Year’s Eve attack by Iran-backed militias on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

[…]  The security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said al-Muhandis had arrived to the airport in a convoy along with others to receive Soleimani, whose plane had arrived from either Lebanon or Syria. The airstrike took place near the cargo area after he left the plane to be greeted by al-Muhandis and others.

Two officials from the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces said Suleimani’s body was torn to pieces in the attack while they did not find the body of al-Muhandis. A senior politician said Soleimani’s body was identified by the ring he wore.

[…]  The official with the group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces said the dead included its airport protocol officer, identifying him as Mohammed Reda.

A security official confirmed that seven people were killed in the attack on the airport, describing it as an airstrike. Earlier, Iraq’s Security Media Cell, which releases information regarding Iraqi security, said Katyusha rockets landed near the airport’s cargo hall, killing several people and setting two cars on fire. 

Statement from the Pentagon:

At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more. He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months – including the attack on December 27th – culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel. General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.

This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.
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Anti-Semites and Their Progressive Enablers
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Arnold Ahlert  
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President Trump Delivers a Statement on Iran 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com } ~ This afternoon President Trump delivered a statement on Iran outlining the successful preemptive strike against Iranian terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani.…“We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.”…https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/president-trump-statement-iran.jpg?w=640&h=379
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Trump Calls the Ayatollah’s Bluff
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by Matthew Continetti 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The successful operation against Qassem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, is a stunning blow to international terrorism and a reassertion of American might... It will also test President Trump's Iran strategy. It is now Trump, not Ayatollah Khamenei, who has ascended a rung on the ladder of escalation by killing the military architect of Iran's Shiite empire. For years, Iran has set the rules. It was Iran that picked the time and place of confrontation. No more.  Reciprocity has been the key to understanding Donald Trump. Whether you are a media figure or a mullah, a prime minister or a pope, he will be good to you if you are good to him. Say something mean, though, or work against his interests, and he will respond in force. It won't be pretty. It won't be polite. There will be fallout. But you may think twice before crossing him again.  That has been the case with Iran. President Trump has conditioned his policies on Iranian behavior. When Iran spread its malign influence, Trump acted to check it. When Iran struck, Trump hit back: never disproportionately, never definitively. He left open the possibility of negotiations. He doesn't want to have the Greater Middle East—whether Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, or Afghanistan—dominate his presidency the way it dominated those of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and George W. Bush. America no longer needs Middle Eastern oil. Best keep the region on the back burner. Watch it so it doesn't boil over. Do not overcommit resources to this underdeveloped, war-torn, sectarian land.The result was reciprocal antagonism. In 2018, Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiated by his predecessor. He began jacking up sanctions. The Iranian economy turned to shambles. This "maximum pressure" campaign of economic warfare deprived the Iranian war machine of revenue and drove a wedge between the Iranian public and the Iranian government. Trump offered the opportunity to negotiate a new agreement. Iran refused. And began to lash out. Last June, Iran's fingerprints were all over two oil tankers that exploded in the Persian Gulf. Trump tightened the screws. Iran downed a U.S. drone. Trump called off a military strike at the last minute and responded indirectly, with more sanctions, cyber attacks, and additional troop deployments to the region. Last September a drone fleet launched by Iranian proxies in Yemen devastated the Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia. Trump responded as he had to previous incidents: nonviolently...   https://freebeacon.com/columns/trump-calls-the-ayatollahs-bluff/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=9e317732b9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_02_08_01_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-9e317732b9-45611665   
'Decisive defensive action': Pentagon declares 
that US killed Qassim Soleimani 
on Trump's orders
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by Russ Read
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Pentagon has confirmed that United States forces killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani “at the direction of the president.”... It said in a statement that Soleimani had been "actively developing plans" to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and further afield. In full, the statement said: "At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. "General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more. He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months - including the attack on December 27th - culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel. General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week. "This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world."
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The Unthinkable: Soleimani Executed in Iraq
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by Seth Frantzman
{ meforum.org } ~ Qasem Soleimani, the "shadow commander," Israel's "most dangerous enemy," has been killed in Iraq alongside his key disciple Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis... An airstrike near or at Baghdad International Airport targeted a motorcade with the men in it just days after their followers stormed the US Embassy compound and scrawled "Soleimani is our leader" on its walls. US President Donald Trump approved the airstrike. The Pentagon confirmed the US killed the Iranian Quds Force leader. The US said Iran was responsible for killing 608 US troops during the Iraq war. The unthinkable has happened. The man behind Iran's drive for regional hegemony, who commanded the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been targeted. This time, unlike all the previous times where he got away, he has met his end. Reports emerged after four in the morning, Iraqi time. A mysterious airstrike near the airport had led to rumors of its closure hours earlier. Two flights were inbound at the time. A Pegasus and Iraq airways flight. Three or four rockets impacted near the airport. US helicopters were reported buzzing in the distance. It appears a cryptic tweet from US Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced the US policy to begin pre-emptive strikes against Iranian adversaries or their proxies. "To Iran and its proxy militias: We will not accept the continued attacks against our personnel and forces in the region. Attacks against us will be met with responses in the time, manner and place of our choosing. We urge the Iranian regime to end malign activities."...   https://www.meforum.org/60196/the-unthinkable-soleimani-killed-in-iraq?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=4a770185e9-MEF_Frantzman_2020_01_03_06_58&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-4a770185e9-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-4a770185e9-33703665&mc_cid=4a770185e9&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12 
Iran vows 'harsh retaliation' after 
US airstrike kills Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani
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By Danielle Wallace 
{ foxnews.com } ~ On New Year's Day, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei taunted Donald Trump on his favorite platform... Twitter, after the President vowed Iran would be held "fully responsible" for any lives lost at U.S. facilities abroad. "You can't do anything," Khamenei boldly declared. Less than 48 hours later, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike in Iraq ordered by "that guy" President Trump, with the ayatollah now claiming "harsh retaliation is waiting for the criminals whose filthy hands spilled his blood. "His words were echoed by Iran's president Hassan Rouhani, who promised to "take revenge for this heinous crime." Rouhani also said Iran would "raise the flag" of Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, "in defense of the country's territorial integrity and the fight against terrorism and extremism in the region." The Pentagon confirmed Thursday evening that Trump had ordered the attack that killed Soleimani and other military officials at Baghdad International Airport. Iran’s top “shadow commander” was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more, the State Department said. The U.S. State Department  issued a security alert Friday morning urging all U.S. citizens to “depart Iraq immediately” due to heightened tensions in the region. “Due to Iranian-backed militia attacks at the U.S. Embassy compound, all consular operations are suspended. U.S. citizens should not approach the Embassy,” the alert said. The agency also shared phone numbers people concerned about U.S. citizens and other loved ones in Iraq could call toll free for information. The State Department said the airstrike “was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans."...  https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-promises-harsh-retaliation-after-us-airstrike-kills-iranian-gen-qassem-soleimani  
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Cruz Asks Joy Reid 'What Is Wrong With You?' 
After Her Benghazi Comment
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By Jim Hayek
{ americantruthtoday.com } ~ President Trump’s swift response to the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad had Americans comparing and contrasting his leadership with that of former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton... scumbag/liar-Clinton headed the State Department during the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 and was condemned for failing to act as terrorists stormed the compound and killed four Americans, including ambassador Chris Stevens. A group of U.S. contractors were itching to fight but were told to stand down. As we know, they did not follow those orders and fought valiantly to protect our personnel. If that wasn’t bad enough, members of the scumbagt/liar-nObama administration also tried to tell us this was not a premeditated terror attack. It was a different scenario this week. When the team at the U.S. embassy in Iraq needed emergency assistance, President Donald Trump immediately agreed to send military reinforcements. Marines were sent from neighboring Kuwait to strengthen the embassy’s security, and the Pentagon said it would deploy an infantry battalion of about 750 soldiers to the region. The unit, from the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, N.C., was expected to deploy to military bases, likely in Kuwait, and remain on standby, officials said. Additional U.S. forces were preparing to deploy over the next several days, the Pentagon said. It wasn’t long before the supporters and members of Kataib Hezbollah who had terrorized those inside the embassy retreated. Astonishingly, American politics has become so nasty and so partisan, that some people, at least judging by their rhetoric, wanted Baghdad to be “Trump’s Benghazi.” One of those critics was MSNBC host Joy Reid. She was surprised that the White House had released a new statement about the transcripts related to his impeachment inquiry while the president’s own Benghazi was occurring...
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Manhattan DA Declines to Prosecute 
Anti-Semitic Attack as Hate Crime
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by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Manhattan district attorney's office has declined to prosecute a recent anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish subway passenger as a hate crime... according to lawyers representing the victim. Lihi Aharon, an Israeli student riding the New York City subway in December, was attacked by another passenger who cursed at her and yelled "Allahu akbar!" While the attack on Aharon seemed to be motivated by anti-Semitic animus, the Manhattan DA informed lawyers representing Aharon on Thursday that it would not prosecute the case as a hate crime. The incident is one of several recent anti-Semitic attacks around New York City that have sparked a nationwide conversation about the resurgence of anti-Semitism in America. "The DA's refusal to prosecute this targeted attack as a hate crime is an egregious miscarriage of justice," Brooke Goldstein, executive director of the Lawfare Project, which is representing Aharon, said in a statement provided to the Washington Free Beacon. "The Jewish community is under siege and the DA's office won't even attempt to defend us," Goldstein said. "Allowing acts of hate and violence like what happened to Lihi to go unanswered seeds the ground for more horrible tragedies like we saw in Jersey City and Monsey. We must send a message that religious bigotry and violence targeted against any minority community is not acceptable." Aharon and a Jewish man she was riding with were attacked after another passenger heard them conversing in Hebrew and saw the man was wearing a yarmulke, according to the victim...   https://freebeacon.com/national-security/manhattan-da-declines-to-prosecute-anti-semitic-attack-as-hate-crime/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=9e317732b9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_02_08_01_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-9e317732b9-45611665   
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Anti-Semites and Their Progressive Enablers
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Arnold Ahlert:  In New York, anti-Semitism has returned with a vengeance — abetted by the state’s new “bail reform” legislation.

Last week alone, eight anti-Semitic attacks were initially reported in New York City. All but one occurred in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Those attacks were followed by one in Monsey, where a man walked into a rabbi’s home during a Hanukkah celebration and attacked five people with a machete, critically injuring two. (He has been charged with a federal hate crime.) And late Tuesday, reports surfaced of yet another savage assault against an Orthodox Jewish man by a group of seven black teenagers, and an incident where two men flashed a knife and yelled “Hey Jew boy” at a 17-year-old teen.

Unsurprisingly, Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed  President Donald Trump and the hate “emanating from Washington.” Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blamed the incidents on a “pattern of hate in this nation” that “starts at the top.”

That would be the same Mayor de Blasio who has  championed anti-police rhetoric to the point where officers are being assaulted in broad daylight, and the same Gov. Cuomo who once asserted that “extreme” conservatives “have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”

Predictably, both men are staunch supporters of the bail-reform law that kicked in on New Year’s Day, but demonstrated its “effectiveness” prior to its official start date, precipitating the no-bail release of most of the suspects involved in the initial eight attacks. Why were they released before the law took effect? “The de Blasio administration has made it clear that we all need to get into compliance with bail reform now,” a law-enforcement source explained.

The law also engendered the resignation of NYC police commissioner James O'Neill, who warned the legislation would release thousands of dangerous inmates.

O'Neill wasn’t exaggerating. “Courts are in the process of case-by-case reviews that by New Year’s Day will release at least 3,800 people from county jails across the state,” the New York Post reported in mid-December. “Some officials estimate that a quarter to a third of their jail populations will be back on the street. The city’s looking at about 900 releases, with an estimated 170 defendants sprung on Staten Island alone.”

One of the early “springees” was Tiffany Harris. She was released without bail, despite admitting she slapped and cursed at three Orthodox women in Brooklyn, and despite having another open harassment and assault case on the court docket since November. Harris also received a no jail sentence for committing felony criminal mischief in Manhattan.

How did her release work out? One day later, she was re-arrested for punching another woman in the face.

Harris is the tip of a highly inconvenient iceberg. Despite leftist assertions that every attack is due to the “Anti-Semite-in Chief” in the Oval Office, Tablet columnist Armin Rosen reveals that “the perpetrators who have been recorded on CCTV cameras are overwhelmingly black and Hispanic,” a reality that “inverts the perpetrator-victim dynamics with which most national Jewish organizations and their supporters are comfortable,” he adds.

Comfortable? Ideologically compromised is more like it. In a devastating account published in The Lid, columnist Jeff Dunetz chronicles Democrats’ increasing acceptance of anti-Semitism, abetted by leftists who are not anti-Semitic but “cowardly refuse to expose and/or fight the Antisemitism rampant in their ranks.”

He cites several collaborators, including Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, who “allied himself with Al Sharpton who was a leader of the anti-Semitic pogrom in Crown Heights and incited the anti-Semitic firebombing of Freddy’s Fashion Mart in Harlem.” He notes that rabid anti-Semite scumbag-Louis Farrakhan was supported by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and that Israel hater and anti-Semite Linda Sarsour has shared platforms with “scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, Nydia Velasquez, Brad Sherman, Mike Quigley, scumbag-Al Green, Robin Kelly, Jamie Raskin, Donald McEachin, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.”

He reminds us of the Democrat Party’s cowardly refusal  to condemn worthless-Ilhan “It’s All About the Benjamins Baby” worthless-Omar for that slur and another tweet where she asserted that “Israel has hypnotized the world.” He notes that Democrat presidential candidate commie-Bernie Sanders has two anti-Semites on his staff, the aforementioned worthless-Linda Sarsour and James Zogby, a man who has referred to Israelis as “Nazis,” and sitting members of Congress as “Israel Firsters.”

What about our “anti-Semitic” president? Trump “recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital” (in stark contrast to the chorus of boos that idea received at the Democrats 2012 National Convention), supported the the “Taylor Force Act to withhold U.S. taxpayer dollars from the Palestinian Authority until they stop rewarding terrorists with blood money,” pulled America out of the disastrous Iran deal, and “became the first president in US history to issue an official definition of Antisemitism” and “an executive order to fight the hatred of Jews.”

Trump signed that order to counter the increasing acceptance of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. It instructed each agency tasked with enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to embrace the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

A welcome development? Not for the Washington Post. “It is important to take measures to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campus, but not at the price of classifying Jews as a nationality,” the paper asserts. “This contradicts the feelings of most American Jews and opens up a dangerous discussion that really never existed in this country. In the end, in the name of protecting Jews from anti-Semitism, such a maneuver might lay the groundwork for a much more serious anti-Semitic threat.”

More serious than what? According to FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Jews and Jewish institutions remain the biggest target of religion-based hate crimes, accounting for 59% of the overall total.

And again, what’s going on in New York cannot be ignored. “Nobody wants to talk about it, but something is going on between the black and Jewish communities in the New York City area that needs to be addressed,”  warns columnist David Marcus.

Why won’t it be? “The problem for all the silent elected officials is that the perpetrators of these violent crimes don’t fit neatly into their political-enemies list,” columnist Karol Marcowicz explained last May, following a series of previous attacks. “They aren’t MAGA-hat-wearing white supremacists.”

Indeed. Thus, Jewish Americans can expect the Left to continue embracing its moral meltdown, driven by an all-consuming hatred of President Trump.

Will it get worse? “From the streets of Chicago to the city council of Seattle, and in the pages of academic journals ranging from the Cardozo Law Review to the Harvard Law Review and of mainstream publications from the Boston Review to Rolling Stone, advocates and activists are building a case not just to reform policing — viewed as an oppressive, violent, and racist institution — but to do away with it altogether,” columnist Christopher F. Rufo reports.

What could possibly go wrong? Tragically, Jews are statistically the most likely group of Americans to find out.   ~The Patriot Post

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Top Foreign Threats Facing the U.S. in 2020
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Thomas Gallatin  
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Friday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


TERRORIST NEUTRALIZED: Iran vows “harsh” response to U.S. killing of top general, Qassem Soleimani; meanwhile, Americans are implored to leave Iraq “immediately” (Associated Press)

SANITY: Marine Corps authorizes concealed carry on bases following recent shootings (National Review)

Government & Politics


CIRCLING THE WAGONS: Media struggle to explain recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks without blaming Jews, Trump (The Washington Free Beacon)

LIMITED VAPING BAN: Trump administration declares ban on mint, fruit-flavored vaping products (The Hill)

Virginia


GUN-GRAB PROPOSAL: Virginia governor’s call for 18-person gun-ban force comes under fire (Washington Examiner)

STOCKING UP: Guns and ammo “flying off the shelves” in Virginia as Democrats pursue confiscation (The Daily Wire)

REVISIONIST HISTORY: Ralph Northam calls for removing statue of Robert E. Lee from U.S. Capitol (The Daily Wire)

Culture


“A RADICALLY UNSETTLED PRECEDENT”: Two hundred members of Congress are urging the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade (The Daily Caller)

MOTHER, DOCTORS DISAGREE: Texas judge rules 11-month-old to be taken off life support against mom’s wishes (The Daily Wire)

“THE LIES … HAVE BEEN FOREVER EXPOSED”: First trans person to obtain legal “non-binary” sex status changes back to birth sex in blow to LGBT movement (PJ Media)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Qassem Soleimani’s death a “major operational, psychological victory” for the U.S. (The Heritage Foundation)

POLICY: The surprisingly good news about American family life — for kids (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: Racist Democrats kick another minority out of 2020 presidential primary (Genesius Times)  

~The Patriot Post
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US assassinates Qasem Soleimani, 
Iran's Khamenei warns of 'harsh revenge'
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By OMRI NAHMIAS
{ jpost.com } ~ IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, along with at least 10 other people... were killed in an attack by US forces in Baghdad on Friday morning Israel time, according to reports confirmed by the Pentagon and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). In a statement, the Pentagon said that the US killed Soleimani and al-Muhandis in an airstrike inside Baghdad International Airport.  "At the direction of the President, the US military has taken decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization," the Pentagon's statement read. According to the Pentagon, Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. "General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more," the Pentagon claimed, noting that the Iranian leader had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months, "including the attack on December 27th, culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel. "General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the US Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week," the Pentagon added, clarifying that the strike was aimed at  deterring future Iranian attack plans."The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world," the statement concluded...
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State Department urges U.S. citizens 
to leave Iraq immediately
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By Brie Stimson
{ foxnews.com } ~ The State Department issued a security alert early Friday morning urging Americans in Iraq to leave the country immediately... The warning comes hours after Iran promised “harsh retaliation” against the United States for an airstrike that killed top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad International Airport. “Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region, we urge U.S. citizens to depart Iraq immediately,” the State Department said in the alert. The alert also said all consular operations are suspended at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad “Due to Iranian-backed militia attacks at the U.S. Embassy compound.” “U.S. citizens should not approach the Embassy," the alert said.
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liar-Pelosi and McConnell begin 
2020 in standoff over Trump trial
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by Erik Wasson
{ personalliberty.com } ~ House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are locked in a stare-down over the terms of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial... which carries political risks for both sides if it continues deeper into January. The two-week congressional holiday break produced no new negotiations on the contours of the Senate trial, according to people familiar with the matter. liar-Pelosi is leaving the talks with McConnell up to Senate Democratic leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, with whom she’s been coordinating, officials in the speaker’s office said. liar-Pelosi has held up delivering to the Senate the two articles of impeachment adopted by the Democratic-majority House, saying she wants to see a “fair” process for the trial. Officials in liar-Pelosi’s office said she and scumbag-Schumer are in lockstep on what that means: trial procedures that would include documents and testimony from witnesses that were blocked by Trump during the House’s impeachment inquiry. “Neither Senator McConnell, nor any Republican senator, has articulated a single good reason why the trial shouldn’t have these witnesses or these documents,” scumbag-Schumer said at a news conference Monday in New York. McConnell is showing no signs of shifting off his position that a vote on calling witnesses can be left until after the impeachment case is argued by House managers and Trump’s counsel. While most lawmakers won’t return to Washington until next week — when haggling over the trial process is likely to begin in earnest — McConnell is expected to deliver remarks on the Senate floor Friday criticizing the Democrats’ position. In the background is the 2020 election campaign that will decide control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, and that’s putting pressure on both sides in the impeachment drama...   https://personalliberty.com/pelosi-and-mcconnell-begin-2020-in-standoff-over-trump-trial/   
Pompeo Responds to Iran's Three Demands Following Their Attack on the 
U.S. Embassy
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by Beth Baumann
{ townhall.com } ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday night discussed the attacks on the United States' embassy in Baghdad with Fox News' Mike Emanuel... According to Pompeo, those who carried out the attacks are terrorists that are backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. "Well, what you say was Iranian-backed terrorists. Many of them are individuals that have been designated terrorists by the United States and others, coming to the American embassy and posing a risk to the American diplomats and personnel inside the embassy," Pompeo explained. "You saw President Trump direct a quick, decisive, prudent response by making sure that we had all the resources necessary to keep our people safe and to secure the compound as well." "Any plans to evacuate the embassy in Baghdad, sir?" Emanuel asked. "None," Pompeo replied. "Okay. Any plans to pull some of the 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq out?" Emanuel asked. "None," Pompeo replied. On Tuesday, the Pentagon deployed 750 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg that were sent to nearby military bases where they will wait until they are needed in Baghdad. Up to 5,000 troops from the 82nd are reportedly being sent overseas. Emanuel asked about the 82nd being used to "bolster forces in the region." According to the Secretary of State, more context has to be given to the situation. "This is 40 years of the Islamic Republic of Iran being engaged in global terror campaigns, nuclear weapons dreams and nuclear enrichment capability existing today," he explained. Pompeo said that when the Trump administration took over, they inherited a difficult situation. "The previous administration provided lots of money, lots of money that was used for that nuclear program, lots of money that had been used for terror all around the world, to develop their missile program," he said. "The Trump administration has taken a much different view." "We put real pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran," he explained. "We will continue to do so. And you saw the president say today we will continue to hold the Islamic Republic of Iran accountable wherever we find their malign activity and we'll make sure we have the resources to do so." Although Pompeo refused to talk about specific actions that can and will be taken against Iran, he reiterated President Trump's stance that Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will feel America's power if the situation warrants it...
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Trey Gowdy Shreds Democrats’ Impeachment 
Case, Gives Update On Joining Trump Legal 
Team After Playing Golf With Trump
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by dailywire.com ~ Former South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy dismantled Democrats’ impeachment case against President Donald Trump during an interview on Fox News this week and gave an update... on whether he was joining Trump’s legal defense team for the upcoming Senate trial. Gowdy, who made the remarks on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” with guest host Jason Chaffetz, was originally was set to join Trump’s legal team late last year before learning that he would have to wait until the new year before he could join due to lobbying rules. “Getting serious here, are you going to represent President Trump coming into 2020?” Jason Chaffetz asked. “No, the president has got great lawyers and more importantly than having great lawyers, he’s got great facts,” Gowdy responded. “I think for several months we’ve been talking about the process and how fundamentally flawed it’s been. Imagine being investigated by somebody like scumag/liar-Adam Schiff, that’s the process. But Jason, I focus on the substance. The single best piece of evidence for the president is the transcript itself. You know because you are familiar with the transcript.” “This is the second phone call President Trump and President Zelensky had. If President Trump were obsessed with conditioning aid on investigations, he would have brought that up in the first phone call, right?” Gowdy continued. “If you are really obsessed with it, you’re going to bring it up every chance you get. Go pull the transcript from the first phone call. Not a single word. Look at the remainder of the transcript. What do the president say? He said I want you to do ‘us’ a favor. For those wondering who ‘us’ is, he answered it, he said I want you, our country has been through a lot. The ‘us’ is linked to the country.” “Who brought up Rudy Giuliani’s name? Was President Trump or President Zelensky? It was President Zelensky, that’s who introduced Rudy Giuliani into the conversation,” Gowdy concluded. “The only thing President Trump did is he inserted Bill Barr and if it’s an impeachable offense to ask the attorney general, the top law enforcement officials of the country, to look in to potential impropriety, if that’s an impeachable offense, then we’re not going to have presidents serving very long.” Gowdy also mocked Democrat presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden over his flip-flops on whether he would comply with subpoena from the Senate, saying, “Yeah, if you don’t like loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s answer just wait about an hour and he’ll give you the exact opposite.”...
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The Myth of Voter Suppression  
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by Jason Riley 
{ youtube.com } ~ Do Republicans win elections by preventing minorities from voting? The Left says yes, but the data says no. In the latest short video from Prager University, Jason Riley, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, settles the argument with hard evidence, separating fact from fiction. Don't miss it!  
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Homeland Security Chief Orders Review of 
State Laws Allowing Driver’s 
Licenses for Illegal Aliens
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by Jason Hopkins
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, ordered a review of state laws that allow illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses and restrict data sharing with federal immigration authorities... Wolf on Tuesday ordered all of the components of DHS to conduct a department-wide review of the state laws to determine how they affect their day-to-day operations, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The DHS chief’s directive indicates he is prepared to take aim against the state laws. “Accordingly, I am instructing each operational component to conduct an assessment of the impact of these laws, so that the Department is prepared to deal with and counter these impacts as we protect the homeland,” Wolf’s memo read. The memo follows implementation of New York’s “Green Light” law, and passage of a similar bill in New Jersey in December. Both laws not only allow illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses, but also restrict DMV data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security. In New York, in particular, numerous county clerks have expressed reservation over the fact that illegal aliens can obtain a driver’s license with foreign documentation—arguing that such a policy paves the way for voter fraud, identity theft, and even terrorism. DHS had already voiced its opposition to a provision in the New York law that prohibits Homeland Security Investigations, a division of ICE, from accessing DMV information—even if the agency is investigating serious crimes... NY and NJ have looked the other way and disregarded the law against illegals.
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Keystone State learning from Gosnell tragedy?
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by Charlie Butts
{ onenewsnow.com } ~ Pennsylvania could soon consider legislation that would give women seeking an abortion more helpful information... The state has passed House Bill 2138 -- what Maria Gallagher of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation calls a "common sense measure" that calls for set standards and regular and surprise inspections of the state's abortion clinics. "Pennsylvania suffered a terrible tragedy with Kermit Gosnell and his house of horrors in West Philadelphia, where newborn babies were murdered and where women lost their lives," Gallagher notes. "So we need to make sure that our laws are as strong as possible." Gosnell, whose clinic was filthy and whose workers were not properly trained, is serving three consecutive life sentences for killing babies born alive after failed abortions. State Representative Timothy O'Neal (R) has introduced the bill that would require abortuaries to post the results of state health department inspection reports, as well as their plans for correcting any violations. "When you're talking about informed consent, it's important that the woman be apprised of all of the information that's available for a particular abortion facility, and this bill would guarantee that," Gallagher explains. The measure might also motivate poorly operated abortion clinics to work harder to meet the state's minimum requirements for abortion facilities.
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Top Foreign Threats Facing the U.S. in 2020
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Thomas Gallatin:  As we enter a new year and a new decade, Americans were reminded anew that our old geopolitical foes still present a significant threat to our nation and our way of life. In Baghdad, Iraq, the U.S. embassy was attacked by Iran-backed “protesters” angered at President Donald Trump’s authorization of air strikes against the Iran-backed terrorist group Kataib Hezbollah — a jihadi group that had killed an American civilian contractor. Trump was quick to send in the U.S. Marines to secure the embassy and prevent another Benghazi fiasco. He also warned, “Iran killed an American contractor wounding many. We strongly responded, and always will. Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held fully responsible.”

Iran continues to be provocative in an effort to get Trump to back off his crippling sanctions, while the regime continues its pursuit of building a nuclear weapon. Thus far, Trump has avoided being pulled into a war with Iran, but as the Iranians get more desperate, expect an increase in the number of attacks against U.S. interests and allies.

At the same time, North Korea has once again ramped up its saber-rattling, with Kim Jong-un claiming to possess a “new strategic weapon” while also suggesting he will end the moratorium against testing long-rang missiles. For the moment, Trump seems content to hold the line on sanctions while continuing his charm offensive. He continues to avoid offering any heated criticism of Kim while effectively calling on Beijing’s puppet to uphold the denuclearization agreement “he did sign.”

Finally, the ongoing trade war with China. There was some recent positive news, as the White House announced that a “phase one” deal agreed to last month would be signed on January 15. The deal would cancel a new round of $156 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods as well as slash current tariffs on another $120 billion in goods. While it is undeniable that the trade war has hurt certain sectors of the U.S. economy, it has been necessary to fight against Chinese cheating. However, this fight is far from over, as Beijing would love nothing more than to see Trump lose his reelection bid with an aim to continue its unfair trade practices.

In short, as 2019 passes into 2020, there are some things that haven’t changed and will require continued American vigilance. 

~The Patriot Post 

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The Trump Administration's Record 
Bodes Well for 2020
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Nate Jackson
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Trump orders attack that kills Iranian Gen.
 Qassem Soleimani, other military officials 
in Baghdad, Pentagon says
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By Frank Miles
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump ordered a game-changing U.S. military attack that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force...among other military officials at Baghdad  International Airport early Friday, the Pentagon confirmed. Soleimani is the military mastermind whom Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had deemed equally as dangerous as Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In October, Baghdadi killed himself during a U.S. raid on a compound in northwest Syria, seven months after the so-called ISIS "caliphate" crumbled as the terrorist group lost its final swath of Syrian territory in March. Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted after the attack "The US' act of international terrorism, targeting & assassinating General Soleimani—THE most effective force fighting Daesh (ISIS), Al Nusrah, Al Qaeda et al—is extremely dangerous & a foolish escalation." He added that the U.S. "bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism."In April 2019, the State Department announced Iran was responsible for killing 608 U.S. troops during the Iraq War. Soleimani was the head of the Iranian and Iranian-backed forces carrying out those operations killing American troops. According to the State Department, 17 percent of all deaths of U.S. personnel in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 were orchestrated by Soleimani. As recently as 2015, a travel ban and United Nations Security Council resolutions had barred Soleimani from leaving Iran. Friday's Baghdad strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, a source told Fox News. In all, at least seven people were killed and at least three rockets were fired, officials told The Associated Press. An official with the Popular Mobilization Forces said its airport protocol officer, Mohammed Reda, also died...  https://www.foxnews.com/world/rockets-baghdad-airport-injuries-reported 
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Iran Can No Longer Rely on 
Shia Militias to Fight its Wars
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by Con Coughlin
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The intense pressure Iran is facing over its continued meddling in Iraq is the key factor behind the recent upsurge of violence in the Middle East that has resulted... in American warplanes carrying out their biggest attack in a decade on Iran-backed militias. Ever since the ayatollahs came to power more than 40 years ago, they have sought to distract attention away from their domestic unpopularity by getting Iran-backed Shia militias to carry out high profile attacks. From the devastating car bomb attacks the Iranian-backed Hizbollah militia carried out against American bases in Beirut in the 1980s to the more recent attacks on Saudi Arabia's Aramco oil facilities in October 2019, the Iranian regime has repeatedly used its proxy Shia militias to great effect to distract attention away from its domestic travails. The beauty of this arrangement, so far as the ayatollahs are concerned, is that, by relying on Shia militias to do their dirty work, whether it is firing missiles at Israel or carrying out assassinations in Europe, Tehran is able to deny any involvement in wrongdoing. No longer. By launching a series of air strikes against Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria on Sunday night, the Trump administration has made it abundantly clear that it will no longer tolerate Tehran's denials of its involvement in attacks against the US and its allies. Moreover, after Washington accused Iran of being responsible for the subsequent attacks against the US Embassy in Baghdad that followed the air strikes, Tehran is risking a direct military confrontation with the US if it persists with the underhand tactic of employing proxies to carry out attacks on its behalf...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15368/iran-shia-militias-iraq 
President Trump Announces Delegation for 
Davos Worldwide Economic Forum Conference
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The 2020 Davos economic conference will be a little more important to watch this year as it was in 2017 due to the completed U.S. Trade Agreements S Korea, Japan, Mexico, Canada, and China... and the predicted focus for the Trump administration to pivot from Asia to the EU and U.K. for the next critical phase of the ‘America-First’ global trade reset. As a result of the recent U.K. election, pending Brexit, a favorable $7.5 billion WTO ruling and USTR Lighthizer’s new $2.4 billion EU targeted tariff program, the administration has significant advantages going into a trade discussion with the EU in 2020. Team USA has the world’s strongest economy, the largest market, legally bolstered tariff authority and a quiver full of powerful economic arrows. Meanwhile Team EU has: (1) the UK leaving; (2) severe drops in German industrial manufacturing; (3) a shrinking French economy; (4) yellow-vests in the streets; and (5) demands for greater economic autonomy from many key member states. Overlay Germany, France and Italy large economy challenges such as: their promise to meet NATO obligations – and their attachment to the strangling Paris Climate Treaty, and the EU’s collective economic position is precarious at best...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/01/president-trump-announces-delegation-for-davos-worldwide-economic-forum-conference/ 
The Media Is Lying About The 
Attacks On The Embassy In Baghdad 
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By Erielle Davidson
{ thefederalist.com } ~ You can tell that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s legacy in the Middle East is in danger because the media, as the self-appointed janitors of that legacy, have gone into overdrive obfuscating the timing... context, and significance of this week’s attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad. Although President Donald Trump has gone a long way to dismantling scumbag/liar-nObama’s legacy in the region, much more remains to be done, including a halt to American taxpayer money that has been flowing into Iranian-controlled governments in Iraq and Lebanon.  Earlier this week Iran-backed militias stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, chanting “Down, down USA!” and hurling water bottles and smashing security cameras. The attackers breached parts of the embassy and were only disbursed the next day, after Trump deployed Marines to ensure the safety of our embassy personnel and property. The attacks have been building for months, including roughly a dozen attacks on U.S. assets by these militias and American retaliatory strikes against five locations in Iraq and Syria belonging to the Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah. The group represents an ongoing replication of the “Islamic revolutionary model” that Iran first “exported” to and “perfected” in Lebanon in the early 1980s.  The New York Times has labeled the attackers “mourners” responding to the U.S. strikes, while the front page of the first Washington Post edition of 2020 labeled them “protesters.” The latter is a particularly pernicious mislabeling. The media has done its best to conflate the attacks with anti-Iran protests that have been happening across Iraq for the last three months, but of course those actual protesters are pro-Iraqi sovereignty demonstrators fed up with the corruption and the broad perception that the Iraqi government is controlled by Iran. Confirming exactly that accusation, the Iraqi government has repeatedly attacked the anti-Iran protesters, killing hundreds and wounding thousands, while giving a free pass and ready access to the Iran-backed fighters who stormed our embassy. The media’s goal is to characterize the protests as a wholesale rejection of Trump’s policies in the region, hence the wall-to-wall disinformation about mourning and protesting. What’s actually at stake is scumbag/liar-nObama’s legacy. The Iran Deal was a bargain in which Iran would be handed control over the Middle East in exchange for some temporary limitations on nuclear activities...
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Climate Predictions – Doubling Down on Stupid
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By Brian C Joondeph
{ americanthinker.com } ~ If the “science is settled” regarding global warming, climate change, extreme weather, or whatever it goes by these days, why are past predictions not more accurate?...Weather forecasting, although frequently off the mark, is usually fairly accurate. If snow is predicted, it typically falls. It may be a few inches more or less than predicted but it isn’t sunny and 80 degrees on a day a major snowstorm is forecast. Yet climate, which is a longer-term measure of weather, cannot be predicted with any more accuracy than flipping a coin or throwing dice. Let’s look at some past predictions. Almost twenty years ago, in 2004, the Guardian reported what U.S. defense officials at the Pentagon warned about the future climate: Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. A secret report, suppressed by US defense chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world. The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies.  The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents. As 2020 has just arrived, let’s see how those predictions turned out. For New Year’s Day, London is predicted to have a high of 46 degrees. While in Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberia, the New Year’s Day high was only 23 degrees. So much for “Britain is plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020.” London was Siberia at one time, but 200 years ago. Remember the snow and ice in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? “Dickens grew up during the coldest years of the Little Ice Age, between 1805 to 1820.”...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/_climate_predictions__doubling_down_on_stupid.html   
One Barack scumbag/liar-nObama Deep state 
cover up is even worse than you think
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by renewedright.com ~ Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and his Deep State allies are still shielding their co-conspirators from criminal prosecution. The scumbag/liar-nObama Deep State is desperate to prevent the American people from knowing... the extent of the crimes committed against Donald Trump in the 2016 election. And one Barack scumbag/liar-nObama Deep state cover up is even worse than you think. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the FBI spying on the Trump campaign found 17 significant errors and omissions by the FBI in applications for FISA warrants to spy on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The FISA court pretended to be outraged, but in reality is trying to continue the cover up by only ordering a review of FISA applications by a FBI lawyer accused of doctoring evidence, and not reassessing all FISA warrant applications by every FBI agent named in the report. Earlier this month, the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ordered the FBI to re-verify all previous warrant applications involving the FBI attorney who falsified evidence against the former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. However, Fox News has learned the court did not order the FBI to double-check warrant applications involving other officials who made key omissions and errors in warrant applications as the bureau sought to surveil Page. The FISC’s failure to request a comprehensive evaluation of previous submissions has stunned court-watchers who have questioned whether enough is being done to deter future misconduct by the FBI. In the past, the FISC has gone so far as to prohibit some FBI agents from appearing before the court after finding impropriety. In response to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s recent report into FBI surveillance abuses, FBI Director Christopher Wray has claimed that the agency “embraces the need for thoughtful, meaningful remedial action.” Congressional Republicans, however, remain unconvinced that the bureau will solve the problem on its own...
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scumbag-James Comey
The 21st Century's Benedict Arnold
By John Leonard
{ americanthinker.com } ~ When I was a child, history was my favorite subject. I even took enough elective history classes at the collegiate level to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in history and political science (pre-law)... I changed my major to business after watching Al Pacino overact while portraying a criminal defense attorney in the movie And Justice for All. I probably ought to write Mr. Pacino a letter thanking him for crushing my naïve fantasy of becoming a real-life Perry Mason. I should also thank God that Al Pacino never played the part of a software developer or a writer, because he probably would have killed any future interest in those professions as well. The only safe career for me might have been as a sanitation worker. If you've never seen the docudrama Turn, about General Washington's spies during the Revolutionary War, it is well worth the time to binge-watch and appreciate what America was like before it became the beacon of freedom and hope that I've been blessed and privileged to call home for my entire lifetime. I can virtually guarantee that everyone will learn something about the origin of our country they either never knew or had forgotten as some obscure footnote of history. For example, I clearly remembered that General Benedict Arnold was widely considered the most notorious traitor in U.S. history, but I couldn't remember specifically what he had done to betray General Washington and the Continental Army he negotiated to sell a map of our defenses at West Point to spymaster Major John Andre of the British Army or why the previously distinguished military hero would have done such a despicable deed. If Benedict Arnold hadn't escaped to England, he would have been hanged as a traitor. This makes for a nice segue to scumbag-James Comey, former FBI director and one of the lead conspirators in the plot to overthrow the presidency of Donald Trump. At minimum, scumbag-James Comey is guilty of sedition. If there was a crime like perjury for repeatedly lying through the mainstream media to the American people about a criminal conspiracy to overthrow our elected government, scumbag-Comey would probably get locked in a cell for the rest of his miserable life. Instead, this disgraceful excuse for a human being has thus far been rewarded for his treachery  with a multimillion-dollar deal to write a book irony alert! on loyalty. And if that isn't bad enough, the Washington Post just published one of the most disgusting "opinion" pieces in recent memory, authored by this disgraceful excuse for a former FBI director, in which he whines about being the target of Donald Trump's wrath while making absurd and audacious claims such as "Foreign leaders laugh at him and throw his letters in the trash." Yes, we've all seen the video of Macron and Trudeau laughing and making jokes at Trump's expense. Serious question: who cares what Macron or Trudeau thinks?...
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The Trump Administration's Record 
Bodes Well for 2020
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Nate Jackson:  The new year is always a good time to reflect on blessings of the past and hope for the future. In that spirit, here’s a highlight reel of good stuff resulting from the Trump administration’s policy achievements.
 
  • Jobs are plentiful. The White House says seven million jobs have been created since Donald Trump’s election. Record numbers of Americans are employed, and wages are rising as employers compete for workers. The headline unemployment rate is at its lowest in 50 years, with minorities in particular enjoying the fruits of this labor.

  • The stock market has continued to break records, yielding benefits for the investment and retirement accounts of more than half of all Americans. The Dow Jones average rose 22% in 2019, while the S&P was up 29% and the NASDAQ climbed 35%. When Trump was elected, the market was pretty volatile, and New York Times economist Paul Krugman predicted, “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.” Boy was he ever wrong.

  • Consumer optimism is reflected in year-end retail sales. Gary Bauer notes, “Retail sales surged 3.4% over last year, led by record online spending. The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a critical time for the economy. According to Reuters, sales during these few weeks can account for up to 40% of all annual sales for many retailers.”

  • Regulations reduced. Economic growth comes when government gets out of the way, contrary to the “stimulus” philosophy of the last administration. The White House says, “Since taking office, President Trump has rolled back nearly 8 regulations for every new one, saving American taxpayers more than $50 billion in the process — with bigger savings still to come.” That includes rolling back a lot of his predecessor’s environmental controls. The Daily Caller reports that Trump “nixed nearly 100 environmental regulations during his first three years in office.”

  • Not only has Trump cut red tape, he’s been slow to add new regulations. According to The Washington Times, “The Trump administration issued the fewest new regulations during 2019 than in any year since the government began keeping track more than four decades ago.” All three of the lowest regulation totals belong to President Trump.

  • Judicial appointments. Not all of Trump’s success has been economic. An astounding 20% of the federal judiciary is now composed of Trump appointments after the Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed 187 of his nominees. For the pace of that success, Republicans at least owe a wink and nod to former Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid, who nuked the filibuster for judges in 2013. Judges were a big reason for millions of conservative votes in 2016, and Trump has delivered.

  • Defeating terrorists. After Barack scumbag/liar-nObama fomented the rise of the Islamic State, Trump has spent three years fighting back. It hasn’t been free of controversy, but it’s hard to argue with success like the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.

  • Other gains include military funding and rebuilding, immigration policy, and — we hope — trade.

Not bad for a guy Democrats have been hell-bent on impeaching. Meanwhile, 2020 is, of course, an election year and Americans will choose whether or not they want to stay this positive course. 

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67646?mailing_id=4776&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4776&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Netanyahu asks Knesset for immunity 
from prosecution, delaying indictment
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by Raoul Wootliff
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Secretary Pompeo Cancels Travel Plans 
to Remain Focused on Iraq Crisis
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ At the time of a Tuesday evening Fox News interview Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was affirming his trip to Ukraine was still planned. However, by the time Pompeo woke up on Wednesday morning those plans were cancelled…Perhaps someone told the secretary he needed to stay-attached to the crisis he helped inspire? U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine so he could focus on the situation in Iraq after demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassy. Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups stormed the U.S. embassy’s perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests. They withdrew on Wednesday after Washington dispatched extra troops and threatened reprisals against Tehran. Pompeo postponed his trip to Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Cyprus “due to the need for the Secretary to be in Washington, D.C., to continue monitoring the ongoing situation in Iraq and ensure the safety and security of Americans in the Middle East,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement. On Tuesday evening Pompeo had told Fox News the Ukraine trip was still on.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/01/secretary-pompeo-cancels-travel-plans-to-remain-focused-on-iraq-crisis/ 
Netanyahu quits ministerial positions
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By GIL HOFFMAN
{ jpost.com } ~Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced shortly before midnight on Wednesday that he was quitting his cabinet posts because of his criminal indictments... Facing a High Court of Justice petition, Netanyahu announced on December 12 that he would drop all his portfolios on January 1 other then his role as prime minister. Beside being prime minister, Netanyahu was social welfare minister, Diaspora affairs minister and acting agricultural minister. He was also the health minister – until Sunday, when the cabinet approved the promotion of deputy health minister Ya’acov Litzman (United Torah Judaism).  The Movement for Quality Government in Israel had threatened a lawsuit for shaming the court if Netanyahu did not quit by Wednesday night. Netanyahu left on Thursday morning for Greece and will only be back on Sunday, which is the earliest possible day that new ministers can be appointed. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely will be appointed Diaspora affairs minister after receiving a promise from Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Asher Hayon. Candidates for the Agriculture Ministry are MKs David Bitan and Nir Barkat. Shas sources said that MK Meshulam Nahari is a likely candidate for welfare minister. The resignations will only take effect 48 hours after they were issued at 11:45 p.m. on Wednesday night. Because the 25 hours of Shabbat are not counted, Netanyahu technically still remains in all three posts until Sunday...
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Happy New Year! commie-Ocasio-Cortez's 
seat in Congress may vanish
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By Joe Kovacs
{ wnd.com } ~ As the year 2020 rings in, one of the most controversial names in American politics may soon lose her seat in the House of Representatives... That well-known leftist figure is U.S. Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.  With this being the year of the 2020 Census, it's possible the Democrat's district could be completely eliminated. "New York is expected to lose a House seat after the 2020 Census, and state Democrats are looking to draw out @commie-AOC's district," pollster Frank Luntz tweeted on New Year's Eve. Luntz attached his comment to a story from the local New York City magazine known as the City, which proffered the notion that commie-Ocasio-Cortez is intensifying her efforts to persuade her constituents to fill out the Census to help keep her in office. "Our strategy is all about building trust in the community before the enumerators even come to your door," commie-Ocasio-Cortez told the magazine. "There's been an increased use of one's immigration status as a form of intimidation." A whopping 47 percent of the residents in commkie-AOC's district are foreign born, and many may fear filling out any official government count...   https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/happy-new-year-ocasio-cortezs-house-seat-may-vanish/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking 
ABC News Fears American People 
Might Interfere in 2020 U.S. Election
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Despite the initial reaction a stable-minded person would likely take away from the headline, it is a good thing that ABC News and other MSM have dropped their pretense and shallow-efforts to retain their open secrets... In this example while lamenting the outcome of the recent U.K. election that saw the socialists and leftists crushed by conservative and pragmatic voters, ABC is concerned the American people may end up similarly interfering in media objectives for the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The problem they discover is this pesky concept called “freedom”.Consider this argument from the article: “One of the things that we’re always very cautious about is everyone looking at Russia. But actually, we should be looking at the party and political dynamics closer to home and how domestic actors are using the platforms and manipulating the systems to spread information or misinformation that’s favorable to their political stance.” I mean seriously. Can you imagine a world where U.S. politicians easily spread information favorable to their political stance. Oh.My.God…The outcome is almost unimaginable….People, allowed to think for themselves. Yikes, the horror of it.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/01/abc-news-fears-american-people-might-interfere-in-2020-u-s-election/ 
Gregg Jarrett says McConnell should hold impeachment trial -- without liar-Pelosi's OK
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By Victor Garcia
{ foxnews.com } ~ Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett blasted House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Friday for not sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial... and saying that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., should proceed with an impeachment trial without the Democratic leader's involvement. "The framers never envisioned a stunt pulled by a speaker of the House like liar-Nancy Pelosi holding onto articles of impeachment. Two decades ago it was sent over immediately, within minutes. There was a vote to convey and transmit it," Jarrett said on "Hannity." "The Constitution is actually silent about that. It doesn't say that the Senate has to wait until it's transmitted. It's simply a Senate rule." Jarrett advised McConnell to "alter the rule" and proceed with an impeachment trial. "Mitch McConnell shouldn't be subjecting himself to the extortion of liar-Nancy Pelosi," Jarrett said to guest host Tammy Bruce. "He can, beginning in January, simply alter the rule or eliminate it entirely and set a date for an impeachment trial." President Trump tore into House Democrats this week over their handling of the impeachment process, calling them "hypocrites" and "liars" for allegedly seeking concessions in the Senate that Republicans were not afforded in the House -- and for hitting pause on impeachment after previously portraying it as an urgent matter. Jarrett said McConnell could just ignore impeachment but that liar-Pelosi could use the articles to hurt Trump. "Mitch McConnell can say, 'Well, if you're not going to send them over, I don't care. We're not we're not going to deal with it,'" Jarrett said. "liar-Nancy Pelosi, though, could then use it as a cudgel to hit Trump over the head at every turn -- add things to it." "Simply change the rule, hold a trial, do it. Do it on your own terms," Jarrett advised McConnell.   https://www.foxnews.com/media/gregg-jarrett-says-mcconnell-can-move-forward-with-impeachment-trial-without-pelosi  
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Judicial Watch Sues CIA And DOJ For 
Information On Alleged Whistleblower
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By Sara Carter
{ saraacarter.com } ~ Judicial Watch announced Friday that it filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against both the  Department of Justice and CIA for information on the whistleblower... whose complaint led to the House Democratic impeachment of President Donald Trump. According to  numerous reports the alleged whistleblower is CIA employee Eric Ciaramella. Ciarmella allegedly worked on Ukraine issues while on detail to both President scumbag/liar-nObama and President Trump administrations. The whistleblower did not have first hand knowledge of any of the allegations submitted in the report to the Intelligence Community’s Inspector General and was protected by Democrats in the committee from testifying. There is significant public interest, thanks to the scumbag/liar-nObama Spygate scandal and the related abusive impeachment of President Trump, in what Eric Ciaramella was up to, Tom Fitton. Ciaramella’s name was circulating during the House impeachment proceedings and many Republican lawmakers wanted to call on him to testify, according to numerous Congressional sources. The sources stipulated that none of the Congressional members named Ciaramella publicly because of protections granted whistleblowers...   https://saraacarter.com/judicial-watch-sues-cia-and-doj-for-information-on-alleged-whistleblower/?utm_source=Darkwire+Inc&utm_campaign=16950ed04e-Jan+1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5f3d745e4f-16950ed04e-283256057 
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Netanyahu asks Knesset for immunity 
from prosecution, delaying indictment
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by Raoul Wootliff

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially announced Wednesday night that he would ask the Knesset for immunity from prosecution in the three criminal cases against him.

Netanyahu made the statement in a nationally televised appearance four hours before a midnight deadline, defending the decision as protection from “trumped-up charges.”

“In order to continue to lead Israel to great achievements, I intend to approach the speaker of the Knesset in accordance with chapter 4C of the law (Hebrew link), in order to fulfill my right, my duty and my mission to continue to serve you for the future of Israel,” he said.

 An official request was later submitted to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein from a law firm retained by Netanyahu.

Moments after the announcement, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman announced his party would oppose immunity, drastically complicating Netanyahu’s prospects of winning the necessary 61 votes he will need. But the request effectively freezes the criminal process against him until the Knesset rules on the matter — a process which, due to parliament’s dissolution last month ahead of new elections, could buy Netanyahu several months until a formal indictment can be filed with the Jerusalem District Court.

The premier has been charged with fraud and breach of trust in three criminal cases and bribery in one of them.

Days after giving a speech in which he defended immunity as a “cornerstone of democracy,” the prime minister repeated his claims that he was the victim of persecution by authorities, and asserted that “immunity is intended to protect elected representatives from trumped up charges. It was intended to ensure that those elected by the people can serve the people, according to the will of the people.”

The ask essentially sets up the upcoming March 2 election as a referendum on Netanyahu and his legal troubles. The Likud leader’s allies have presented the judicial proceedings as an undemocratic attempt to remove him from power and have begun campaigning on the idea of voting Likud as a way of protecting the prime minister from prosecution.

Touting his accomplishments as prime minister over the past decade, Netanyahu said: “I intend to keep leading Israel for many more years to historic achievements which I am working towards day and night… achievements we could once only dream of and which are now within reach.” He vowed to stop Iran, set Israel’s permanent borders, sign a defense pact with the US, obtain more peace agreements with Arab states, and extend Israeli sovereignty into the territories.

The premier’s announcement came after months in which he has remained evasive when questioned about his intentions on the matter, and in one case told Channel 12 during an interview “no way,” when asked if he would make any move to thwart his indictment.

On Wednesday he defended that statement, saying he continued to stand behind his words and insisting he would not avoid an eventual day in court.

“Immunity is always temporary. It is canceled at the end of the term of the Knesset that gave it. By law there is no way for anyone to avoid prosecution. So when I was asked by Channel 12 ‘Will you push for a law or move that will prevent you from being prosecuted?’ I said no. Tonight I once again say ‘No way.’ I did not advance any law or change any law. I intend to go to court and destroy all the preposterous claims against me [after leaving office].”

He once again alluded to a conspiracy against him, accusing authorities of engaging in “trumped-up charges, selective enforcement, blackmail of state’s witnesses” and more. He claimed exonerating information was “being held in the shadows under gag orders and attorney general decisions.”

Under a 2005 change to the Knesset immunity law, members of the legislature no longer receive automatic immunity from prosecution but must request it from the plenum when relevant. Netanyahu is apparently planning to base his petition on clauses in the immunity law that allow an MK to ask for protection from prosecution under the claim that an indictment has been filed in “bad faith” or while discriminating against the defendant, and/or that prosecution would counter the will of the electorate.

 Despite Netanyahu’s assertion that any immunity would be temporary, his actual request sent to Edelstein indicated otherwise: the prime minister’s lawyers wrote he was asking for functional immunity in one of the three cases against him as well as in certain aspects of another. Functional immunity protects parliamentarians from prosecution for things they did in fulfilling their parliamentary work, and is permanent, rather than temporary. Procedural immunity is temporary, and has to do with offenses committed by a parliamentarian that are unrelated to his parliamentary work.

Netanyahu’s attorneys, in their request to the Knesset speaker, asserted that his actions in Case 2000 — in which he is suspected of an illicit quid pro quo deal with Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper publisher Arnon Mozes that would weaken a rival daily — fell under the purview of functional immunity as “all that is attributed to him in this charge was done by the prime minister as part of his work as a Knesset member.”

They also said his alleged attempts to extend tax exemptions for returning expats to aid billionaire Arnon Milchan, under Case 1000, deserved functional immunity “as here too the indictment attributes actions to the prime minister carried out as part of his work as a Knesset member, in the framework of reviewing potential legislation.”

Issuing a scathing response even before Netanyahu’s presser was over, Liberman said his party would oppose the immunity request.

“Now it is clear beyond doubt. The only thing that has interested and interests Netanyahu is immunity,” Liberman wrote in a Facebook post. “The State of Israel has become a hostage to Netanyahu’s personal problem. He doesn’t care about left or right, religious or secular. The only thing that concerns him is a coalition for immunity. The rest is old wives’ tales.”

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz said Netanyahu’s announcement showed the premier “knows he is guilty.” Gantz said his party would push for the establishment of the Knesset House Committee so the immunity request can be debated by parliament quickly.

Gantz said the country now faced a choice between “the Kingdom of Netanyahu… or the State of Israel.”

Netanyahu’s announcement came four hours before his midnight deadline to make the request or forfeit his right to do so. Some reports suggested that the decision came down to the wire, with the premier’s inner circle deeply uncertain about the move.

Reports on Channel 12, Channel 13 and Kan said Netanyahu’s advisers were concerned that an immunity request, seen as unpopular among the general public, could hurt the prime minister’s chances in the March 2 election and make him less likely to be able to cobble together a majority coalition following the national poll — a feat he also failed to achieve in 2019’s two elections.

The prime minister is far from assured of getting majority support for immunity and many pundits believe his bid will not succeed. But failing to make the request would have meant the criminal process against him would immediately move forward.

His request must now by weighed by the Knesset House Committee before it can be voted upon by the plenum, but due to the lack of a functioning legislature amid ongoing political deadlock, and with new elections set, there is currently no functioning House Committee. The Knesset will thus likely only be able to review and decide on his request after a coalition is formed — if it is finally formed — following the March 2 vote.

Netanyahu’s chief rivals in the Knesset, the Blue and White party, are seeking to expedite the process. Party MK Avi Nissenkorn has asked Knesset Speaker Edelstein to swiftly call a meeting of the Knesset Arrangements Committee, which Nissenkorn heads, to discuss the possibility of forming a House Committee under the special circumstances to discuss Netanyahu’s request.

The matter is legally contentious, and led recently to mud-slinging and arguments as to whether the Arrangements Committee has the authority to form a House Committee during a transitional government.

Blue and White complained Wednesday that Edelstein was delaying the process, responding that he was abroad until the weekend, and wished to meet with the Knesset’s legal adviser before reviewing Nissenkorn’s request.

“Edelstein’s response is a shameful attempt to prevent the Knesset from discussing Netanyahu’s immunity request. We would not have imagined that the Knesset speaker would use his statesman’s position to turn the Israeli Knesset into a shelter [from prosecution],” Blue and White said in a statement.

In recent days Netanyahu had described his right to immunity as “a cornerstone of democracy.”

A request from the Knesset for immunity is seen as unpopular among voters, even among many of the prime minister’s supporters. A poll published Sunday evening by Channel 12 news found that 51 percent of Israelis oppose such a move, while only 33% support it.

Channel 13 television news reported Monday that Netanyahu had already formulated his request and informed Edelstein of his intention to submit it.

The unsourced television report said that Netanyahu wrote in the letter that he would be willing to face criminal prosecution, but only after he left political life.

He reportedly argued that trying him now would compromise the will of the electorate and harm the Knesset, since many of the witnesses in the trial are current lawmakers; that it would discriminate against him, since indictments haven’t been filed against other politicians; and that the charges were announced in “bad faith,” since Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit made his decision too soon after the pre-indictment hearing, and the process was marred by numerous leaks to the press.

Edelstein’s office rejected the report, with a spokesperson telling The Times of Israel late Monday: “No request has been made.”

Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu’s staff invited the media to a live statement to the press for 8 p.m., only to cancel it just half an hour later. Netanyahu was believed to have planned to formally announce he would be seeking immunity.

It was not immediately clear why Netanyahu canceled the announcement, which came shortly before hundreds of his supporters gathered Monday evening at Habima Square in Tel Aviv to protest against the criminal cases and support his immunity bid.

Mandelblit in November announced his intention to indict the prime minister in three corruption cases. Netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust in all three cases, as well as bribery in one of them. He denies wrongdoing and has accused police and state prosecutors of an “attempted coup” against him.

In a related development, the High Court of Justice on Tuesday morning held a preliminary hearing on whether a lawmaker facing criminal indictment can be tapped to form a coalition. Ruling against the possibility of tasking an indicted lawmaker with forming a government would immensely complicate Netanyahu’s position. The court indicated its wariness on making such a fateful ruling during the election period and after concluding the session said that a decision would be handed down at a later date.

The cloud of corruption charges hanging over the premier is widely seen as one of the chief reasons he has failed to form a government in the wake of two elections in 2019. Blue and White has repeatedly said it would not join a coalition under Netanyahu so long as he is suspected of criminal wrongdoing.
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Ted Cruz Demolishes Mayor Pete's Malicious 
Lie About the Founders and Slavery
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Thursday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


PROXY WAR: Iran-backed militiamen withdraw from U.S. embassy but Iraq tensions linger (Associated Press)

THANKS, scumbag/liar-nOBAMA: In 2011, scumbag/liar-nObama met with one of the leaders in Baghdad embassy attack (PJ Media)

Government & Politics


CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM: Trump honored with “Bipartisan Justice Award” by black leaders (The Western Journal)

TOO GOOD TO IGNORE: CBS News reporter highlights minority improvements under Trump as most underreported story (The Daily Wire)

MASSIVE: commie-Bernie Sanders tops Democrat field with massive $34.5 million haul in fourth quarter (ABC News)

MORE MASSIVE: Trump camp raises $46 million in final quarter; reelect team says impeachment drove best haul to date (The Washington Times)

MAGA: Trump beats own record for fewest new regulations issued in a year (The Washington Times)

POLITICAL FUTURES: New census data suggests previous report wrong: Republican states gaining seats in Congress (The Daily Wire)

DECADE REWIND


PRESENTED IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: The 24 most absurd PC moments of the 2010s (National Review)

DECADE OF DEBT: Federal debt up more than $10 trillion in 2010s (CNSNews.com)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: A New Year’s revolution for Iran (Issues & Insights)

POLICY: GOP should “double down” on tax cuts 2.0 (The Heritage Foundation)

SATIRE: scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton slams Trump for not taking a more “hands-off” approach to embassy attack (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
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Trump Responds to Iran
“This is Not a Warning, it is a Threat”
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump responds to the domestic and foreign alignment of provocations. President Trump doesn’t have too many options here. However... he’s a much more cunning adversary than the Deep State has faced previously.  Strategically a good decision to head-off those carrying the banners in the war parade. Secretary Pompeo, Secretary Asper, Joint Chiefs’ Milley have an alignment of domestic interests well organized. Resounding applause will be heard from The State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA, Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, John Bolton, Tom Cotton, Adam Kinzinger, Mark Levin, rino-Mitt Romney and a host of well positioned senators, soon to be jurists…. The domestic warning was akin to ‘we can create a Benghazi, watch‘.  POTUS takes the energy from the threat, uses a little judo adding his own energy, and controls the outcome. “Happy New Year” is akin to “Relax, I got this“…. So now we watch.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/31/president-trump-responds-to-iran-this-is-not-a-warning-it-is-a-threat/ 
Corey Lewandowski announces 
decision on running for US Senate seat
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by Chuck Ross  
{ dailycallernewsfoundation.org } ~ Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Tuesday he will not run for Senate in New Hampshire... where he was considering a challenge of Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen. “After much consideration I have decided to forgo a campaign for the US Senate,” Lewandowski wrote on Twitter. “While taking on a career politician from the Washington swamp is a tall order, I am certain I would have won. My priorities remain my family and ensuring that @realDonaldTrump is re-elected POTUS.”  Lewandowski has been toying for months with a Senate run, and President Donald Trump encouraged him to do so during a New Hampshire rally in August. Lewandowski launched a website for a potential Senate run Sept. 17, during a break while he was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. “I am truly humbled by the outpouring of support I have received from people across New Hampshire and the country,” Lewandowski wrote on Twitter. Lewandowski was fired from the Trump campaign June 20, 2016, but has remained one of the president’s most ardent defenders. He has not held a job at the White House, but is considered an informal adviser to Trump.  http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2019/12/31/corey-lewandowski-isnt-running-for-us-senate-seat/   
Trump says he will go 
to Beijing for 'phase two' of trade talks
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by Sean Higgins
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump said that he will head to Beijing next year to begin "phase two" of trade talks with China... following a Jan. 15 signing ceremony for "phase one" of the deal. "I will be signing our very large and comprehensive Phase One Trade Deal with China on January 15. The ceremony will take place at the White House. High level representatives of China will be present. At a later date I will be going to Beijing where talks will begin on Phase Two!" Trump tweeted Tuesday. The current talks involve firming up details regarding a trade agreement that was reached in October. Progress in the talks has been slow as China has been reluctant to commit details to writing and demanded the White House roll back existing tariffs. The White House has said the talks will likely have three phases. The administration has placed tariffs of 25% on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods and 7.5% tariffs on another $120 billion worth of goods. Beijing had tariffs of up to 25% on $185 billion worth of U.S. goods.
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Attacks on Jews in NYC and 
Media Double Standards
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by Danusha V. Goska
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ December 26, 2019, the day after Christmas, those Americans who emerged from their holiday celebrations to check world headlines were in for a shock... Police reported several attacks on Jews in New York. Americans don't think of their largest city, a world center of finance and the arts, a cosmopolitan capital where one can enjoy cuisine from any continent at any hour of the day or night, as a place where Jews are unsafe on the streets. New York is the city of Seinfeld, of Woody Allen and three-time mayor Michael Bloomberg. Former Mayor David Dinkins famously called New York a "gorgeous mosaic" of diverse peoples. But in fact, these Christmas-and-Hanukkah-week attacks were part of a trend. As bad as they were, worse was yet to come. On Saturday, December 28, Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg and his guests celebrated the closing nights of Hanukkah in Monsey, a suburb north of Manhattan. An intruder burst into the home and stabbed five people. Recent attacks on Jews in New York City typically involve unprovoked punching, cursing, and hurling of objects ranging from soft drinks to large and potentially deadly stones. Victims range from children to the elderly, and include mothers accompanied by their babies. Attackers sometimes yell anti-Semitic comments.  Videos reveal that attackers are frequently black. In one startling video from November 4, 2018, a group of young African Americans congregate outside a Brooklyn synagogue, talk among themselves, hurl a pole through the synagogue window, and then run away. In another attack, a Jewish man is walking down the sidewalk when what appears to be a black youth runs up behind him and punches him hard in the head, nearly knocking him over. In a March, 2019 assault, an apparently healthy, young man kicks a toddler's stroller being pushed by the child's mother. Attacks are not always violent. In one videotaped confrontation, a black woman screamed verbal abuse at a Jewish man on the New York City subway. On December 10, 2019, David Anderson and Francine Graham killed four people in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Deceased victims include Police Detective Joseph Seals, Leah Ferencz, owner of a kosher grocery store, Moshe Deutsch, a rabbinical student and a shopper at that store, and Douglas Rodriguez, a store employee and immigrant from Ecuador. Shooter David Anderson was an anti-Semite who had been influenced by the Black Hebrew Israelites, who claim that Jews are not really Jewish, and that the characters in the Bible were all really black. In this ideology, contemporary Jews are labeled "imposter Jews" and "so-called Jews." This idea is not limited to violent extremists. On December 14, Saturday Night Live comic Kenan Thompson referred to "historically correct black Jesus." Jersey City killer  David Anderson used the word "imposter" to refer to modern-day Jews. Anderson and Graham's killings were classified as a terrorist incident and a hate crime. The New Jersey attorney general said that the killers "had a tremendous amount of firepower. They had a pipe bomb in their van." In the wake of this attack, Jersey City school board member Joan Terrell-Paige appeared to attempt to justify it. Terrell-Paige called "jews," as she spelled the word, in lower-case, "brutes," and said that people should seek a "message" in the killers' actions...
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scumbag-Soros’ War Against the Jews
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by Daniel Greenfield
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ When scumbag-George Soros hit middle age, he began seeing a shrink. The ruthless financier's problem was that he was burdened with an "oversized" sense of shame over a "guilty secret"... That guilty shameful secret which sent scumbag-Soros to a psychoanalyst was "Jewishness".scumbag-Soros’ Jewish problem was generational. He grew up in, in his own words, a "Jewish, anti-Semitic home" He had adopted his father Tivadar’s worldview, that God was a human invention. It was Tivadar who forged and sold documents to Jews trying to escape the Holocaust, charging "wealthy clients", as he put it, "whatever the market would bear". And it was Tidavar who found his teenage son a place with a Hungarian fascist official who was confiscating Jewish property. In his biography, Tivadar later described the trip to confiscate Jewish property as a move by the "kind-hearted" Nazi collaborator to "cheer the unhappy lad up" where after a dose of watching the persecution of Jews, "he quickly regained his spirits". scumbag-Soros would later describe this, a period that most Jews remember as a time of utter horror, as “the most exciting time of my life” or an “adventure”. Tivadar’s amorality thoroughly infected his son. In an infamous 60 Minutes interview, which the scumbag-Soros network and his media allies have worked hard to spin, scumbag-Soros coolly agreed that he had "helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.” Then denied any feelings of guilt. "It’s just like in the markets — that if I weren’t there — of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would," he observed. It echoed his response to allegations of hurting the British economy. “When you speculate in the financial markets, you are free of most of the moral concerns that confront an ordinary businessman.”...   https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/soros-war-against-jews-daniel-greenfield   
Israel Finally Gets Help in 
the War Against Iran
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{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ On Sunday, Israel finally got help from the US military in the battle against Iran and its numerous proxies in the Middle East... when American warplanes fired more than 30 missiles at 5 bases of the Kata’ib Hezbollah militia in both Iraq and Syria. US F-15 Strike Eagles bombed weapon depots and command centers of Kata’ib Hezbollah meaning: battalion of the party of God killing 25 members of the militia which is part of the Iranian-backed al-Hashd al-Shaabi umbrella organization of predominantly Shiite militias in Iraq. Kata’ib Hezbollah is believed getting its orders from Qassem Soleimani the crafty commander of the Quds Force, the branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) which is tasked with exporting the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran. The American attack took place after Kata’ib Hezbollah on Friday attacked a US military facility in the vicinity of the Kurdish city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq killing an American contractor and wounding four US soldiers. Jonathan Hoffman the US Deputy Secretary of Defense said that the attack was a response to “repeated Kata’ib Hezbollah attacks on Iraqi bases that host Operation Inherent Resolve coalition forces” a reference to the US-led international coalition of forces that fought ISIS in both Syria and Iraq. The attack on US personnel in Iraq was anticipated for a long time after Kata’ib Hezbollah and other al-Hashd al-Shaabi militias demanded that all US forces leave Iraq thereby paving the way for the completion of the so-called Iranian land-bridge from Tehran to the Mediterranean Sea and the Israeli Golan Heights. When the Americans didn’t give in Kata’ib Hezbollah and other militias belonging to al-Hashd al-Shaabi started to launch missiles and mortars at US facilities in Iraq such as the American embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone...  https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/analysis-israel-finally-gets-help-in-the-war-against-iran/  
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Ted Cruz Demolishes Mayor Pete's Malicious 
Lie About the Founders and Slavery
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By TYLER O'NEIL

{ pjmedia.com } ~ Speaking to schoolchildren, 2020 Democrat Mayor Pete Buttigieg insisted that the authors of the Constitution "did not understand that slavery was a bad thing." Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) demolished this claim with direct quotes from the Founders, who very much understood the evil of slavery but compromised on the issue in order to keep the early United States together.

Buttigieg addressed the amendment process, saying that the Founders "were wise enough to realize that they didn’t have all the answers and that some things would change. A good example of this is something like slavery or civil rights. It’s an embarrassing thing to admit but the people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing."

Mayor Pete was correct that the Founders instituted the amendment process in the Constitution partially because they were humble enough to realize things would change. In fact, the amendment process is the correct way for the government to recognize new rights, not Supreme Court interventions like Roe v. Wade (1973).

However, Buttigieg was entirely off base to suggest the Founders did not understand the evils of slavery. In fact, many of them acknowledged the evils of slavery, but they compromised in order to hold the new nation together. As Matt Spalding wrote for the Heritage Foundation, "Those who founded this nation chose to make practical compromises for the sake of establishing in principle a new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Ted Cruz rebuked Buttigieg by posting a string of direct quotes from the Founders.

"Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude & I am utterly averse to the admission of slavery into the Missouri Territories. It being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law," Cruz quoted from John Adams, a Founding Father and the second president.

"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature," he quoted from Benjamin Franklin, who was a member of an abolitionist society. "Neither my tongue, nor my pen, nor purse shall be wanting to promote the abolition of what to me appears so inconsistent with humanity and Christianity."

"Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold a bill of Rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?" Cruz quoted from Alexander Hamilton, an abolitionist and the first secretary of the Treasury.

"It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished," John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote. "The honor of the States as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. ... To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused."

The Northwest Ordinance, one of the very first laws passed under both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, explicitly excluded slavery from the Northwest Territory, which would become the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and part of Minnesota. This set the precedent that slavery would not be allowed to expand into federal territories,  setting the stage for a debate that would escalate into the Civil War.

The Founders compromised on banning the slave trade, restricting Congress from doing so until 1808 — in order to appease the southern states. Yet Congress did indeed ban the slave trade as soon as possible.

Buttigieg should know these things — he majored in history and literature at Harvard. Yet the identity politics narrative simplifies the complex history of the Founders, painting them as evil rich old white oppressors. Perhaps Mayor Pete has allowed himself to get infected by a little too much "woke"ness.
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New California Laws Spell Trouble for Cops, 
Workers, Housing Providers
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Israel’s Foreign Minister Warns 
Iran Not to ‘Drag Us Into’ Iraq Crisis
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by Benjamin Kerstein
{ algemeiner.com } ~ Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz said on Tuesday that the Tehran regime should not try to drag Israel into the crisis... surrounding the violent riots outside the US Embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad by a pro-Iran mob. If it did so, he warned, “We will respond powerfully.”“From Israel’s perspective,” Katz said, according to Israeli news site Mako, “if Iran tries to drag us into this, beyond demonstrators screaming, ‘Death to Israel,’ we will respond powerfully. I advise Iran not to test our patience.” “This is a dramatic development,” Katz said of the unrest, adding that Iran had a “mistaken understanding of the essence of the American superpower.” “When the US decides to react, they do it powerfully,” he asserted. “They’ve proved that historically.” “Not just the secretary of state, but also President Donald Trump said that this attack on the embassy was carried out by Iran and it will be answered,” Katz noted.
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Prosecutor John Durham Looking into Ex-CIA Director scumbag/commie-Brennan’s 
Role in Russia Hoax
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by EDWIN MORA
{ breitbart.com  } ~ The federal prosecutor probing the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax has requested “emails, call logs and other documents” from scumbag/commie-John Brennan... former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s CIA director turned NBC and MSNBC contributor, the New York Times reported Thursday.  Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, the prosecutor charged with conducting the review into the origins of the Russia collusion probe, “wants to learn what Mr. scumbag/commie-Brennan told other officials, including the former FBI director scumbag-James B. Comey, about his and the C.I.A.’s views of a notorious dossier of assertions about Russia and Trump associates,” the Times noted, adding: Mr. Durham’s pursuit of Mr. scumbag/commie-Brennan’s records is certain to add to accusations that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies. The president has long attacked Mr. scumbag/commie-Brennan as part of his narrative about a so-called deep state cabal of scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials who tried to sabotage his campaign, and Mr. Trump has held out Mr. Durham’s investigation as a potential avenue for proving those claims. scumbag/commie-Brennan is considered an ardent critic of the Trump administration. Durham is also investigating whether scumbag/commie-Brennan “privately contradicted his public comments, including May 2017 testimony to Congress, about both the dossier and about any debate among the intelligence agencies over their conclusions on Russia’s interference,” the Times learned...
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5 Predictions For The Next 
Five Years Of Global Power Struggles 
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By Edward Chang
{ thefederalist.com } ~ In 2008, as the scumbag/liar-nObama administration prepared to take control in Washington, retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey offered a list of bold predictions for the coming five years... Some of them bore out: The economy performed well globally despite the Great Recession, relations with Russia became more hostile without devolving into outright dysfunction, and the United States withdrew from Iraq right at the 36-month mark, which McCaffrey specified. Other predictions, such as a North Korean collapse, improved prospects for success in Afghanistan following a massive commitment of resources, and a nuclear breakout for Iran, never occurred. A year later, geopolitical analyst George Friedman published the widely read “The Next 100 Years.” Like McCaffrey, Friedman correctly predicted a new cold war between the United States and Russia, but he also foresaw the emergence of Turkey as a major regional power, the consequences of demographic change in Europe and North America, and tensions between the United States and Mexico as instability in Latin America threatens to generate a crisis on the southern border. Friedman got some things wrong, to be sure, but the number of things he got right is fascinating. Making accurate predictions is no easy feat, leading some to take the “wait and see” approach. However, I offer six predictions, in no particular order, that will have serious implications for American national security and foreign policy in the 2020s. 1. Russia Will Lose Great Power Status 2. China Will Double Down on Authoritarianism 3. Japan Will Rise as Asia’s Powerhouse 4. Germany Will Flirt with the Idea of Leaving the EU 5. Latin America Will Become America’s No.1 National Security Challenge...
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Mexican Cop Arrested In Connection 
To Massacre Of American Mormon Family
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by JASON HOPKINS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ In a shocking development in the hunt to locate those responsible for the massacre of nine U.S. citizens at the hands of suspected cartel gunmen... authorities arrested a Mexican police chief. Federal authorities arrested Fidel Alejandro Villegas, the police chief of Janos, a small town in the state of Chihuahua, earlier this week, Mexico’s Public Security Ministry  announced Friday. Villegas is suspected of not only being involved in local organized crime, but of also having a hand in the killings that took place in November. The arrest confirms a longstanding criticism of the country’s law enforcement: that many are on cartels’ payroll. “It’s common knowledge down here that the police work with the criminals,” Julián LeBarón, a relative of the victims, told The New York Times. “They have a monopoly on security and they get paid a wage for protection, and later we find out that they participate in the murder of women and children,” he continued. “These people take resources to protect us and they are murderers themselves.” The arrest follows the Nov. 4 murders of a binational Mexican-American Mormon family. While driving through a remote area near the southern border, the family was suddenly gunned down by suspected members of a cartel. The massacre left three women and their six children — two of whom were infants — dead. It’s still not entirely clear why the family was targeted, but authorities suspect they were mistakenly suspected of belonging to a rival cartel...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/28/mexican-police-chief-arrested-mormon/  
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Giant Star That’s Acting Strange 
Could Explode Soon, Scientists Say
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by KYLE HOOTEN
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Constellation Orion may look very different soon if astronomers are right about the giant star Betelgeuse which marks the starry hunter’s right shoulder... Betelgeuse was once in among the top 10 brightest  stars in the night sky, but since October it’s been dimming so much that it’s no longer even in the top 20, according to The Astronomer’s Telegram. This is remarkable for a star that is 20 times more massive than our sun. This reduction in brilliance is significant because the dimming of a star often foreshadows an incredibly bright, explosive conclusion to the life of a stellar body in the form of a supernova, according to National Geographic. If Betelgeuse were to go supernova, it would put on a show for the ages as it collapses into itself and detonates. From earth, this event would be clearly observable, briefly outshining even a full moon in our night sky before going dark forever, reports National Geographic. “Betelgeuse is living on borrowed time and could explode as a supernova any day now,” Fraser Cain, publisher of Universe Today explained recently on his  YouTube channel. However, he also noted that it “might not detonate for another 100,000 years, we just don’t know.”...   https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/30/giant-star-explode-scientists-orion/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11441  
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UK Sex Grooming Gangs 
Victimize 19,000 Children in 2019
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by clarionproject.org ~ Despite the publicity given to UK’s Pakistani sex grooming gangs since 2012, close to 19,000 children have been victimized by UK sex grooming gangs in 2019... The number represents a 3,300 increase from five years ago. In a report by the Independent, activists say the true number is much higher, as many of these crimes go unreported. After underage girls are groomed using drugs and alcohol, many are reluctant to go to the authorities as their groomers convince them that due to the illegality of the substances, the victims themselves will be punished. The exploitation has been widely known to local government officials, social workers and law enforcement officials for over a decade. However, for fear of being called racists, authorities took no steps to prevent the horrific abuse of young, white British girls. Sarah Champion is a Labour MP from Rotherham where the story broke in 2012 and a tireless campaigner for the victims of these gangs. In 2017, Champion was forced to resign from her position as shadow opposition secretary for women and equalities after writing an article in The Sun telling the facts about the sex grooming gangs: Frustrated that years after recommendations were made to endless government commissions with no measures taken to support victims and prevent such abuse in the future, Champion wrote, “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls … There. I said it. Does that make me a racist? Or am I just prepared to call out this horrifying problem for what it is?”...   https://clarionproject.org/uk-sex-grooming-gangs-victimize-19000-children-in-2019/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7cbab34b96-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_31_02_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-7cbab34b96-6442509&mc_cid=7cbab34b96&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5   
Taliban says it ‘has no intention 
of declaring a ceasefire’
By BILL ROGGIO 
{ longwarjournal.org } ~ The Taliban has denied press reports indicating the group was on the cusp of declaring a ceasefire in Afghanistan, saying this is “false and baseless.”... Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued an official statement denying the reports, which claimed that the group’s ruling council has approved a ceasefire, thereby opening the door for possible intra-Afghan negotiations. However, it was unclear if the reported ceasefire would include Taliban attacks against the Afghan government and security forces. The reported ceasefire agreement was sourced to “Taliban officials familiar with the negotiations” who “spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media,” the Associated Press reported on Dec. 29. Mujahid chastised the media for “publishing false and baseless reports about a ceasefire by the Islamic Emirate,” the name the Taliban calls its official government. Mujahid also denied that there is a “supposed schism within the Islamic Emirate on the issue of a ceasefire.” “The reality of the situation is that the Islamic Emirate has no intention of declaring a ceasefire,” he continued. Mujahid said the Taliban’s Rabhari Shura, which better known as the Quetta Shura, was considering “a reduction in the scale and intensity of violence,” which was requested by the U.S. negotiating team...   https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/12/taliban-says-it-has-no-intention-of-declaring-a-ceasefire.php 
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New California Laws Spell Trouble for Cops, 
Workers, Housing Providers
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California’s long tradition of advancing nation-leading legislation continues into the new year, with laws reining in the gig economy, boosting online privacy and discouraging shootings by police, among other potential trend-setters.

The laws have sent jobs-producing businesses like Uber, Lyft and Google scrambling — raised the ire of law enforcement, and drawn negative reaction from President Donald Trump.

The state dominated by Democrats routinely locks horns with the White House on immigration and other issues,

But the state’s Democrats lost a major fight when legislation requiring Trump to reveal his tax returns was found unconstitutional by their own state Supreme Court — in a unanimous decision.

Some of the higher-profile new laws taking effect Jan. 1 include:

Hitting Job Creators, Workers

California is making it harder for many industries to treat workers like contractors instead of employees who are entitled to minimum wage and other benefits such as workers compensation. The Legislature carved out certain exemptions after the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of workers at the delivery company Dynamex in 2018...

Restricting cops

Two new laws together give California one of the nation’s most comprehensive approaches to restricting police use of force. One changes the legal standard for when police can use deadly force, while the companion law increases officers’ training on how to handle confrontations...   

Online privacy

The nation’s most sweeping data privacy law takes effect with the new year. The law passed in 2018 requires companies to tell consumers what data they collect about them, why it was collected and who sees it. Consumers can refuse to let companies sell that data, and companies are barred from selling data from children younger than 16 without consent...  

Limiting school and employer authority

California becomes the first state to bar workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and locks. The new law says hairstyles are associated with race and therefore protected against discrimination...

Vaccinations

State public health officials have new tools to crack down on doctors who write fraudulent medical exemptions for schoolchildren’s vaccinations, after the most emotionally charged legislative debate of the year repeatedly drew hundreds of supporters and opponents to the Capitol...

Restricting property rights

Landlords will be barred from raising yearly rent prices by more than 5 percent plus the cost of inflation under a new law that drew supporters who said they can no longer afford the state’s soaring housing costs. Landlords also won’t be allowed to evict someone without a reason or refuse to rent to someone solely because they have a federal Section 8 housing voucher...

Child sex assault

California is joining several other states in giving adults who were sexually assaulted as children more time to sue, a measure expected to trigger multitudes of new lawsuits against the Catholic church, Boy Scouts of America and other organizations...
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Can the Union Endure?
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By Christopher Skeet
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THE ANTI-BENGHAZI
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by JOHN HINDERAKER 
{ powerlineblog.com } ~As Paul noted a little while ago, pro-Iran militia forces known as Kataeb Hezbollah have besieged the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. They are being referred to in news accounts a “protesters,”... but in fact they are a trained and organized military force. The attackers breached the outer wall of the embassy compound and then milled around, set fires, etc. Apparently many liberals are trying to portray this attack as Trump’s Benghazi; “Benghazi” is now the most trending word on Twitter, with 231,000 tweets. There is, of course, no analogy: President Trump has not ignored calls for help, and instead has sent Marines to reinforce the embassy’s guards and Iraqi troops. So far, there have been no American casualties. Trump has been tweeting up a storm today. Some, but by no means most of his tweets have related to the Iranian military operation in Baghdad. Many more at the link. All of this has to do with the fact that Iran’s leaders are feeling the heat of President Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign. Last Friday, a missile strike by Iran or one of its proxies on a military installation in Kirkuk killed a civilian American contractor and wounded several American, as well as Iraqi, troops. In retaliation, the U.S. carried out strikes that killed 25 Kataeb Hezbollah members. Iran responded with today’s embassy attack. President Trump vowed further retaliation via the tweet above. I assume it will be forthcoming.   https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/the-anti-benghazi.php
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Pentagon Sends More Marines, 
Army Battalion to Iraq
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By Ben Werner
{ news.usni.org } ~ The Pentagon is sending more forces, including roughly 100 Marines, to provide additional security to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad after a mob stormed the compound’s main entrance on Tuesday... Marines assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command deployed to Baghdad Tuesday from Kuwait, according to the Pentagon. Addtitionally, an infantry battalion from the Immediate Response Force (IRF) of the 82nd Airborne Division are headed to U.S. Central Command, the Pentagon announced following an earlier version of this post. “Approximately 750 soldiers will deploy to the region immediately, and additional forces from the IRF are prepared to deploy over the next several days,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action taken in response to increased threat levels against U.S. personnel and facilities, such as we witnessed in Baghdad today.” The protesters included members of the Shia group Kataib Hezbollah militia, according to an NPR report. Group members were protesting recent U.S. military airstrikes on five Hezbollah sites in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. airstrikes were in response to Kataib Hezbollah militia attacks on Iraqi bases hosting Operation Inherent Resolve coalition forces including U.S. military personnel, according to a statement released Sunday by chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman...  https://news.usni.org/2019/12/31/video-pentagon-sends-more-marines-army-helos-to-u-s-embassy-in-baghdad?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=0f1828c801-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-0f1828c801-231491269&mc_cid=0f1828c801&mc_eid=3999f18767  
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Trump Calls Embassy Attack 'The Anti-Benghazi' 'This Is Not a Warning, It Is a Threat'
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By Joe Saunders 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ As much as liberals and the mainstream media will hate it, Baghdad isn’t Benghazi — and the Trump White House isn’t scumbag/liar-nObama’s... President Donald Trump issued a forceful reminder of both of those facts on Tuesday with Twitter posts declaring that he regards Iran as the instigator of Tuesday’s attack on the United States Embassy in Iraq’s capital — and vowing to protect the embassy and its personnel. “The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is, & has been for hours, SAFE,” Trump wrote. “Many of our great warfighters, together with the most lethal military equipment in the world, was immediately rushed to the site.” He also made clear that if the murderous mullahs in Tehran think they can use their Iraqi supporters to avoid the consequences for their own role in the proxy war in Iraq, they’re much mistaken. “Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities,” Trump wrote. “They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year.” In a separate post, as if to drive the point home, Trump wrote: “The anti-Benghazi.” The reference, of course, was to the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including the United States ambassador. To its eternal shame, the scumbag/liar-nObama White House not only made no effort to aid the outpost while the attack was in progress, but flat-out lied to the American people in the aftermath, pretending the deaths were the result of spontaneous demonstrations. As Trump’s actions Tuesday made clear, he wouldn’t follow either example when it came to the Baghdad embassy crisis. In addition to deploying 100 Marines to Iraq to reinforce security personnel at the embassy,  the U.S. military flew an Apache attack helicopter over the embassy Tuesday, firing flares as a show of force to the militants surrounding the compound. According to Fox News, paratroopers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division have been ordered to deploy to Kuwait to be on hand if they are needed...
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Pro-Iran protesters fully withdraw 
from US embassy in Baghdad
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by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Pro-Iran demonstrators Wednesday ended a sit-in outside the US embassy in Iraq’s capital after an order from the Hashed al-Shaabi military force... an AFP correspondent said, a day after their dramatic incursion. “We burned them!” the demonstrators shouted as they streamed out of the high-security Green Zone housing the embassy just as easily as they had walked in on Tuesday. Trucks picked up the tents and makeshift barricades that had been brought in for the planned sit-in.Thousands of Iraqi supporters of the largely Iranian-trained Hashed force had gathered at the embassy on Tuesday, outraged by US strikes that killed 25 Hashed fighters over the weekend. They marched unimpeded through the checkpoints of the usually high-security Green Zone to the embassy gates, where they broke through a reception area, chanting “Death to America” and scribbling pro-Iran graffiti on the walls. Iraq’s caretaker premier Adel Abdel Mahdi called on the angry crowd to leave the embassy but most spent the night in dozens of tents set up outside the perimeter wall...
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Iran-backed militiamen withdraw from siege 
of US Embassy in Baghdad as more
 American troops deployed
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By Lucia I. Suarez Sang
{ foxnews.com } ~ The siege outside of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad came to an end Wednesday afternoon after dozens of pro-Iran militiamen and their supporters withdrew from the compound... The two-day crisis started early Tuesday, when, in an orchestrated assault, hundreds of militiamen stormed the embassy compound, one of the most heavily fortified U.S. diplomatic missions in the world. As the militiamen cleared the area, smoke still rose from a section of the compound building where hours before they had lit a fire on the roof. The violent protests, which included smashed windows and sprayed graffiti on the embassy's walls, were said to be in protest of the deadly U.S. airstrikes that targeted an Iran-backed militia over the weekend, killing 25 fighters. In turn, those strikes had been in response to a rocket attack on an Iraqi Army base that killed a U.S. contractor and injured several American troops. The protests prompted the Pentagon to send hundreds of additional troops to the Middle East. Earlier Wednesday morning, the protesters had set up around 50 tents, along with a makeshift clinic. Cooks with aprons were serving meals out of giant pots. Outside one of the gates, a Shiite cleric recited verses from the Muslim holy book, the Koran, through a loudspeaker. Elsewhere, demonstrators could be seen hurling rocks over the walls of the embassy compound before U.S. troops responded by firing tear gas from the roofs of the buildings. The Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of state-allied militias — many backed by Iran — called on its supporters to withdraw in response to an appeal by the Iraqi government, saying “your message has been received.” By late afternoon the tents had been taken down and the protesters relocated to the opposite side of the Tigris River, outside the so-called Green Zone housing government offices and foreign embassies. U.S. Apache helicopters circled overhead. "After achieving the intended aim, we pulled out from this place triumphantly," said Fadhil al-Gezzi, a militia supporter, told the Associated Press. “We rubbed America's nose in the dirt.”...   https://www.foxnews.com/world/iraq-us-embassy-troops-protests-tear-gas  
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As Wednesday night deadline looms,
 Netanyahu expected to request immunity
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by timesofisrael.com ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected Wednesday to ask the Knesset to grant him immunity from prosecution in the three corruption cases against him... as the clock counted down toward a midnight deadline for him to seek the protection. Netanyahu has described his right to immunity as “a cornerstone of democracy.” However, rather than make a public announcement at a press conference, as is Netanyahu’s preferred style for key developments, and was apparently his intention at the beginning of the week, he is seeking to keep a low profile and will likely reveal his request in a social media post, Channel 12 news reported. Netanyahu and his aides are eager to remove the topic from the public agenda as quickly as possible, the report said. The prime minister has told close associates he is concerned that making the request for immunity, which must be formally delivered to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, could impact his campaign for the coming March 2 elections, the Kan public broadcaster reported Tuesday. In addition, Netanyahu is worried that the Knesset may vote against granting him immunity or that, even if lawmakers approve it, the High Court of Justice could intervene and overturn it. A request from the Knesset for immunity is seen as unpopular among voters, even among many of the prime minister’s supporters. A poll published Sunday evening by Channel 12 news found that 51 percent of Israelis oppose such a move, while only 33% support it. Netanyahu must announce whether he wants to seek immunity by midnight or automatically forfeit his right to do so. Though the premier is far from guaranteed to get a Knesset majority to support an immunity bid, merely asking for it will likely delay any potential trial by months...  https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-wednesday-deadline-looms-netanyahu-expected-to-request-immunity/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-01-01&utm_medium=email   
Europe: Anti-Christian Attacks Reach 
All-Time High in 2019
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by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Anti-Christian hostility is sweeping across Western Europe, where, during 2019, Christian churches and symbols were deliberately attacked day after day... Gatestone Institute reviewed thousands of newspaper reports, police blotters, parliamentary inquiries, social media posts and specialized blogs from Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain. The research shows that roughly 3,000 Christian churches, schools, cemeteries and monuments were vandalized, looted or defaced in Europe during 2019 — which is on track to becoming a record year for anti-Christian sacrilege on the continent. Violence against Christian sites is most widespread in France, where churches, schools, cemeteries and monuments are being vandalized, desecrated and burned at an average rate of three per day, according to government statistics. In Germany, attacks against Christian churches are occurring at an average rate of two per day, according to police blotters. Attacks on Christian churches and symbols are also commonplace in Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. The attacks overwhelmingly involve Roman Catholic sites and symbols, although in Germany, Protestant churches are also being targeted. The perpetrators of anti-Christian attacks — which include acts of arson, defecation, desecration, looting, mockery, profanation, Satanism, theft, urination and vandalism — are rarely caught. When they are, police and media often censor information about their identities and ethnic backgrounds. Many suspects are said to have mental disorders; as a result, many anti-Christian attacks are not categorized as hate crimes...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15366/europe-anti-christian-attacks 
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Can the Union Endure?
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By Christopher Skeet

{ americanthinker.com } ~ At this point, Red and Blue America are not even speaking the same language.  We stand near the point of what divorce lawyers term “irreconcilable differences.” In increasingly strident and self-assured tones, the Left believes it is morally superior, intellectually untouchable, and wholly justified in pursuing whatever extralegal, corrupt, or violent methods available to implement their ideology.

Talk of a breaking point has been circling conservative circles for some time, with three tangible options arising from the chatter:

1) continued focus on barely winning elections, appointing "conservative" judges that uphold scumbag/liar-nObamacare, keeping Arizona from going blue, etc.;

2) a “divorce” of sorts that peaceably divides the United States into permanent blue and red territories, or;

3) civil war.

The first option clearly is the best. It is the least disruptive and preserves the Union and the Constitution, the goal that Abraham Lincoln fought our bloodiest war to support.

But what if it is sabotaged? Trump is an anomaly from both the Democrat and Republican point of view. His no-holds-barred street fighting style has been a welcome change for many Republican voters.  But once his presidency ends, is there likely to be a Trump-like figure? Rest assured, the GOP Establishment is busy re-calibrating its primary process that “allowed” Trump to win the nomination to begin with. Republican voters thinking they won’t attempt to force-feed us a rino-Romney or Jeb! next time around are fooling themselves.

At a minimum, in order to keep them honest, we need to be able to consider the other options.

The second option, that of an amicable divorce between red and blue states (and allowing for counties to switch states) seems the best option towards the preservation of the American ideal. While true that the United States of America would lose some coastline and a few radical hotbeds to the newfound Socialist Republics of Wokestan, we could permanently consolidate our strongholds, restructure our judiciary, clean the Augean stables we call public schooling, and amend our Constitution with stronger protections.

Such a “divorce” would be messy.  Questions of interstate travel, resources, airspace regulation, migration control, and a million unforeseeable disputes would need to be hashed out before we were able to cut away the deadwood.  But it’s doable. Europe is in the throes of a polygamous divorce, but it is proceeding bumpily along. Even Sudan pulled it off.

The problem is the Left probably wouldn't agree to a divorce.  It will play the part of the jealous, manipulative, control freak husband who never loved his wife, but rather savored the power he exerted over her. The Left will delay, obfuscate, and resist divorce at all costs, even if the Right unilaterally gave up the sports car, the big screen TV, and the dog in an attempt to cut loose as quickly as possible.

The economy would unfortunately be, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, a "known unknown." We would have to prepare for a temporary state of flux. We lose a fair amount of ports, transportation hubs, and financial sectors. The world's two largest stock exchanges (the NYSE and NADSAQ), each of which trade over one trillion dollars a month, are both located in New York City. Silicon Valley alone, were it its own nation, would be one of the world's richest and most productive.

But though we would have to brace ourselves to find our economic footing, we would not be without our own advantages. The Bakken Formation of North Dakota alone is estimated to hold 30 to 40 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Of the 31 states that currently produce oil, 25 (over 82% of total production) went for Trump in 2016. In addition, the United States has seen its best manufacturing boom in three decades, with over 500,000 manufacturing jobs created since Trump took office. In the third quarter of 2019, manufacturers' biggest concern was a shortage of skilled labor to keep up with hiring demands.  This is not the concern of an industry in trouble.

Our new economy would be stabilized by stable tax policy, deregulation, America-first trade negotiations, audits of the Federal Reserve (assuming we keep it), and deference to supply-side, free market principles. And assuming Wokestan pursued the socialistic policies they preach, now unencumbered by such antiquated annoyances like constitutions and elections, their economy would free fall.

Silicon Valley is already bleeding residents to more tax-friendly states like Colorado, Texas, and North Carolina. Predictably, problems arise when they refuse to concede that their progressive policies were what caused their home state to go bankrupt. In our new America, gone would be the days when blue state progressives are allowed to migrate to red states, bringing their ignorant voting patterns with them. America could focus on God, freedom, family, and productivity. Wokestan could focus on socialism, homeless encampments, needle programs, and post-birth abortions. A wall would surely be built, either by us to keep them out, or by them to keep them in.

The third option is civil war.

Suffice to say, victory in such a war would be a foregone conclusion. Antifa punks fancy themselves brave while terrorizing progressive cities whose socialist mayors green light their thuggery, but when met with actual force they always skitter away. In a civil war, during which the American side will enjoy the support and firepower of the vast majority of the military, the police, the food and energy sectors, most of the blue-collar class, and over 100 million gun owners, it's doubtful gaggles of black-masked, androgynous incels would offer much “resistance.”

We won the first Civil War, and we would win a second. This time around, the slavers have no Robert Lee, Stonewall Jackson, or James Longstreet, but rather the likes of Messers Manning, Bergdahl, and Vindman. Long gone are the days when Trotsky led the Red Army full of dedicated shock troops into battle. Today's Left lacks the discipline, the courage, and the spirit of self-sacrifice necessary to muster up enough volunteers for a national army.  Men who micturate aghast at the torment of doing their own laundry don't win wars.

Still, I would argue against this path, which can and always does lead to unintended consequences. Increasing numbers of conservative thinkers appear open to the idea of civil war. Most do so hesitatingly, but others seem to relish the prospect, and chortle at the idea of plunging the rest of us into the abyss.

Even for the winning side, the cost of both innocent victims and the quality of life endured by the survivors is far greater than those clamoring for war care to admit. Internet tough guys who’ve never seen what a bullet does to human flesh can let me know in the "Comments" section just how big of a pansy I am. That’s fine. But to more mature readers who ponder their own capabilities for wanton bloodshed more judiciously, I implore you to seriously reckon the ramifications upon our civilian population that civil war would entail. Sherman’s March to the Sea will seem, by comparison, a sweet dream.

Civil war in present-day America would not consist of professional armies mowing each other down across empty fields. It would be a house-to-house, street-by-street massacre, more akin to Hotel Rwanda than the battlefields of the American or even the Russian and Spanish civil wars.

The majority of the fighting would be carried out not by professional armies, but by private citizens, vigilantes, partisans, ad hoc neighborhood units, and the like. People on both sides would use the breakdown of order to settle private scores and commit crimes of opportunity. Others would kill indiscriminately based on “offenses” such as voting records, yard signs, etc.

Schools would close. Hospitals would become graveyards for the untreated. Water purification plants, oil refineries, and transportation hubs would be sabotaged. Even in red states, food and energy supplies would be unreliable. Sympathizers would be targeted, mobs would destroy, and homes would burn. Bombings that bedeviled Great Britain during the Troubles or present-day Afghanistan would become the norm here.

I freely admit this is all conjecture. Maybe it will be Grenada 2.0, like the neo-cons told us Iraq and Afghanistan would be. But when contemplating war, especially war in our own streets and neighborhoods, it behooves us to err on the side of caution. Wars usually go worse than predicted, and we have no idea what it would unleash here. Despite the aforementioned advantages we would retain, the last century has proven that the Left possesses an unfathomable capacity for atrocity, cruelty, and mass murder in the furtherance of its ideology.  Progressives will burn this nation to the ground before letting anyone enjoy it free from their benevolence. They wouldn't hesitate to murder their own children on their altars, and would hesitate even less about murdering yours.

In between today and this hypothetical civil war is the option of divorce. Knowing the Left, it will only be dragged to the arbitration table kicking and screaming. But we should at least attempt it before delving blindfolded into slaughter.
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US Embassy compound in Baghdad 
under siege as crowds protesting 
airstrikes break through gate
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By Greg Norman and Edmund DeMarche
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Former House Oversight Chairman 
Trey Gowdy Discusses Impeachment Outlook
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Former representative Trey Gowdy appears on Fox News for a discussion of the current impeachment process and his outlook for the Senate trial. Mr. Gowdy spent some time with President Trump last weekend, but states he will not be part of the legal team moving forward.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/31/former-house-oversight-chairman-trey-gowdy-discusses-impeachment-outlook/  
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Col Douglas Macgregor Has Suspicions 
About Pompeo, Esper and Milley
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Well, well, well…. we are not alone in our suspicions of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley... Tonight Col Douglas Macgregor outlines his own suspicions about the U.S. military attack in Iraq and Syria that parallel our initial gut reaction. Macgregor states his belief that President Trump is being “skillfully misinformed”.
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The Polling Trend on Impeachment Shows 
the True Impact of the Democrats’ Sham
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by Michael Glassner
{ townhall.com } ~ If the Democrat establishment thought that their chances of ousting President Trump were slim a few months ago, the latest polls prove that their obstructionist agenda is utterly hopeless... other than a contingent of radical leftists, Americans have officially lost any belief in the Democrats’ partisan impeachment sham. Of course, there is a good reason why the Democrats are losing on impeachment -- the entire process has been unjust from the start. “They treated us very unfairly,” President Trump said during an event on Christmas eve. “They didn’t give us due process. They didn’t give us a lawyer. They didn’t give us anything. Now they come to the Senate and they want everything.” The voters, it turns out, were not blind to the Democrat Party’s dirty tricks. According to a recent survey from Gallup, public support for impeachment has now dropped to 46 percent, down six percentage points since the start of the impeachment inquiry. But that’s not the only bad news for the impeachment-crazed Democrats -- the same poll also found that 51 percent of Americans oppose impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office, a five percent increase during the same time period. Likewise, Gallup found that President Trump’s approval rating has increased by six percentage points since the launch of the impeachment probe in the fall and is now at 45 percent. Mind you, national polls have rarely reflected that actual support for President Trump since he first descended down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015. That’s why this trend is so encouraging for the millions and millions of Americans who love and support this President. Much to its dismay, even CNN published a poll that found support for impeachment was even dropping among Democrats, while opposition was growing across the country. And the long list of similar impeachment polls goes on, and on, and on. The Democrat leadership in the House took the bait -- their ongoing partisan impeachment sham has done irreversible damage to their political aspirations, further strengthening President Trump’s chances of winning the 2020 election. “All I know is my poll numbers are the highest they’ve ever been,” the President said in his remarks on Christmas eve, adding that “our fundraising in the Republican Party is the highest it’s ever been.” The Democrat Party’s failure to spearhead a legitimate impeachment process was evident from the very start of this charade. The Democrats never had enough evidence to impeach President Trump in the first place, which is exactly why House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi avoided impeachment like the plague until September...
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After US attacks Iranian-backed militias, 
is America back in the game?
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By ANNA AHRONHEIM  
{ jpost.com } ~ Just days after IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi lamented that Israel was going up against Iran alone... airstrikes rocked several locations belonging to Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah in Iraq and Syria, killing dozens. The airstrikes, which came two days after a barrage of over 30 rockets were fired towards the K1 Iraqi military base in Kirkuk which killed a US civilian contractor and wounding dozens of Iraqi and American troops, were described by the Pentagon as “precision defensive strikes” against the group that "will degrade" the group's ability to carry out future attacks against coalition forces.  The rocket barrage and the subsequent retaliatory strikes in the area of Al-Qaim are the latest peak in tensions between Washington and Tehran. And might have negative effects on Israel, which has been carrying out a war-between-the wars campaign against Iranian entrenchment since 2013. Situated in Iraq’s restive Anbar province on one side and Syria’ Deir Ezzor province, al-Qaim is an area which is under the control of pro-Iranian Shiite militias who are handled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force.  Only last week Israel’s top military chief publicly admitted to Israeli airstrikes in Iraq, stating that Iran’s Quds force is smuggling advanced weapons in the country on a monthly basis “and we can’t allow that.” The first strike close to Iraq attributed to Israel was in June of last year near the town of Al-Bukamal, killing 22 members of a Shiite militia.  The next month several other blasts rocked Shiite militia warehouses and bases across the country. Both Israel and the US have warned that Iran and its proxy militias are the biggest threats to peace in the region and hope to weaken Tehran's growing influence across the Middle East and the Persian Gulf...
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NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart Exposes 
Biggest False Flag Operation In History
FBI / Fusion Centers
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by Tim Brown
{ thewashingtonstandard.com } ~ FBI / Fusion Centers, created after 911 to “fuse” Federal and Local Law Enforcement information to protect America from “Terrorists,”... INSTEAD have been creating hundreds of thousands of FALSE DOSSIERS on perfectly INNOCENT AMERICANS (Targeted Individuals) to JUSTIFY secretly bloating the fraud Terrorist Watchlist, for a fabricated enemy to rally resources against and keep the population frightened and accepting of a Police State. NSA whistleblower and retired intelligence analyst Karen Stewart joins me to expose exactly what is going on. Ms. Stewart sent this to Sen Lindsey Graham after hearing his recent speech on CNN2 about “FISA abuse could happen to you” to his colleagues. Only Lindsey really pushed for this kind of thing years ago on the Senate floor when he proclaimed “You don’t get a lawyer.” INSTEAD have been creating hundreds of thousands of FALSE DOSSIERS on perfectly INNOCENT AMERICANS (Targeted Individuals) to JUSTIFY secretly bloating the fraud Terrorist Watchlist, for a fabricated enemy to rally resources against and keep the population frightened and accepting of a Police State. E.O. S-1233 , DOD Directive S-3321.1 and National Security Directive 130,  the United States military and Intelligence Communities are forbidden by law from targeting U.S. citizens with PSYOPS within US borders. A SECRET UNCONSTITUTIONAL ARMY of NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH-TYPE Civilian Mercenaries, like INFRAGARD, were TRAINED in covert and overt intimidation surveillance, along with covert vicious libel/slander, stalking, harassment, assault, and murder techniques, utilizing HIGH TECH and ADVANCED WEAPONRY difficult to detect on their innocent civilian neighbors, for what amounts to “practice and training” of a guerrilla army of extrajudicial “enforcers” thugs to keep people compliant as the US is subverted. They are richly compensated and promised immunity by rogue Fusion Center officials...
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Despite Intense Media Disinformation 
Zogby Poll Shows President Trump 
Beating all Dem Candidates
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The scale of media involvement in the 2020 election will likely be the most massively biased propaganda effort in the history of U.S. media manipulation... Together with the big tech effort from control operatives in social media, the scale of unified effort is likely to exceed Orwellian proportions…However, that said, after three years of constant media propaganda and narrative engineering, recent polling shows President Trump beating all Democrat candidates.Some of the interesting details inside the polling shows that when the furthest-left candidates commie-Sanders and dinky/liar-Warren are polled against President Trump the college educated numbers swing quickly in Trump’s favor 50% to 45%. Trump is winning with union voters (Trump leads 48% to 42%) and consumers-NASCAR fans (Trump leads 63% to 32%), weekly Walmart shoppers (Trump leads 54% to 37%), and weekly Amazon shoppers (Trump leads 54% to 43%).
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US Embassy compound in Baghdad 
under siege as crowds protesting 
airstrikes break through gate
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By Greg Norman and Edmund DeMarche

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 Crowds of angry Iraqis protesting America’s recent airstrikes against an Iran-backed militia laid siege to the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad Tuesday, chanting “Down, Down USA!” as they stormed through a main gate, prompting U.S. troops to fire back tear gas in response.

On Tuesday afternoon the chaotic scene was still unfolding in the Iraqi capital. At least six U.S. soldiers  were seen standing on the roof of the main building pointing their firearms at the demonstrators and sounds of gunfire could be heard.

Two Iraqi foreign ministry officials initially told Reuters the U.S. ambassador and staff were evacuated, but U.S. officials pushed back, telling Fox News that was not correct. Ambassador Matthew H. Tueller was not evacuated, but was out of the country on a previously planned vacation, an official said.

“Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held fully responsible,” President Trump tweeted. “In addition, we expect Iraq to use its forces to protect the Embassy, and so notified!”

Dozens of protesters, many of whom are reported to be wearing militia uniforms, are said to have come within 200 yards of the embassy after busting through an entrance used by cars.

The embassy attack, one of the worst in recent memory, followed deadly U.S. airstrikes on Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed group, the Kataeb Hezbollah. The U.S. military said the airstrikes were in retaliation for last week's killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base, which the U.S. blamed on the militia.

Military jet fighters conducted "precision defensive strikes" on five sites belonging to Kataeb Hezbollah, Jonathan Hoffman, a spokesperson for the Pentagon told Fox News. Two defense officials added that Air Force F-15 jet fighters carried out the strikes.

Supporters of the militia held funerals Tuesday for the fighters killed, before setting their sights on the embassy.

The mob shouted “Down, Down USA!” as the crowd first tried to push inside the embassy grounds, hurling water and stones over its walls, the Associated Press reports. They raised yellow militia flags and taunted the embassy's security staff who remained behind the glass windows in the gates' reception area. The mob also sprayed red graffiti on the wall and windows, in support of the Kataeb Hezbollah, reading: “Closed in the name of the resistance.”

 Following the breach of the gate, an Associated Press reporter at the scene saw flames rising from inside the compound. Smoke from tear gas that was fired rose in the area, and at least three of the protesters appeared to have difficulties breathing. A man on a loudspeaker also was heard urging the mob not to enter the compound, saying: “The message was delivered.”

No one was immediately reported hurt in the rampage and security staff withdrew inside the embassy when protesters started to gather outside.

"We differentiate between these militia groups and the legitimate protesters who have been in the streets for the last couple months demanding a better government and a better future for themselves. These people came right on in. They are very clearly identified," a U.S. official told Fox News.

"Iraqi security forces did participate in protecting the embassy and the President's message is that we continue to do so," the official added. "Our first priority is the security of our people and assets in the embassy. The President was very clear in the tweet that the government of Iraq needs to protect the embassy."

As tempers rose, the mob also set fire to three trailers used by security guards along the embassy wall.

Yassine al-Yasseri, Iraq's interior minister, appeared outside the embassy at one point and walked around to inspect the scene. He told the AP that the prime minister had warned the U.S. strikes on the Shiite militiamen would have serious consequences.

"This is one of the implications," al-Yasseri said. "This is a problem and is embarrassing to the government."

He said more security will be deployed to separate the protesters from the embassy, an indication the Iraqi troops would not move in to break up the crowd by force.

Seven armored vehicles with about 30 Iraqi soldiers arrived near the embassy hours after the violence erupted, deploying near the embassy walls but not close to the breached area. Four vehicles carrying riot police approached the embassy later but were forced back by the protesters who blocked their path.

Sen. Marco Rubio took to Twitter early Tuesday and said Iran was directly responsible for orchestrating the breach.  There was no immediate comment from the Pentagon and the State Department.

But U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said Sunday's strikes send the message that the U.S. will not tolerate actions by Iran that jeopardize American lives.
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The DoJ FISA Report — Trump Was Right
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Mark Alexander  
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Law professor writes Kentucky newspaper 
op-ed accusing McConnell of breaking two oaths
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By MARTY JOHNSON
{ thehill.com } ~ A Kentucky-born law professor went after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in an op-ed Friday, saying that the senator broke two of the three oaths in the U.S. Constitution... The Boston College law professor, Kent Greenfield, criticized McConnell's comments about an impeachment trial for President Trump. "We Kentuckians know that our word is our bond. Oaths are the most solemn of promises, and their breach results in serious reputational — and sometimes legal — consequences," Greenfield wrote in his op-ed published by the Courier Journal."President Donald Trump will soon be on trial in the Senate on grounds that he breached one oath," Greenfield wrote. "Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is about to breach two." The first oath McConnell is breaking, Greenfield states, is the oath that he took when took office. It's an oath that all state and federal officers take, an “Oath … to support this Constitution.” The second oath pertains to the impeachment trial that will take place sometime after the new year. "In Article I, the Constitution gives the Senate the 'sole' power to 'try all impeachments,' and the Constitution requires that 'when sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation,' " Greenfield wrote... Why didn't the professor go after the leaders in the House.  https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/476042-law-professor-writes-kentucky-newspaper-op-ed-accusing-mcconnell-of-breaking   
Trump impeachment is culmination of
four-decade feud between Giuliani
and loose lips liar-Biden
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by Jerry Dunleavy
{ washingtonexaminer.com  } ~ Clashes between Rudy Giuliani and loose lips liar-Joe Biden go back decades, starting in the early days of Ronald Reagan’s administration... and eventually leading to Ukraine and President Trump’s impeachment. For months, Giuliani, 75, has touted damning evidence of corruption in Ukraine linked to loose lips liar-Biden, 77. “If you’re going to go on national television and tell the country that you found evidence of a cover-up, then I hope you know what you’re talking about,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said last week. “So I’m going to have an open invitation to Rudy Giuliani to come to the Senate Judiciary Committee and tell us what you found. And if he comes, you gotta be willing to ask questions about your conduct. It’s just not good for the country to make these accusations on cable television without them being tested.” A spokesman for the Democratic front-runner said earlier this year that “bringing forward noted conspiracist and liar Rudy Giuliani would further discredit the reputation of the Senate Judiciary Committee under Senator Graham.” During the July 25 phone call which led to a whistleblower complaint and an impeachment effort, immediately after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed interest in purchasing anti-tank weaponry, Trump asked Zelensky "to do us a favor” to look into CrowdStrike and any possible Ukrainian election interference in 2016. Trump also urged Zelensky to investigate “the other thing,” referring to allegations of corruption  related to loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden, telling Zelensky to speak with Attorney General William Barr and Giuliani...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/analysis-giuliani-and-biden-spent-decades-butting-heads-before-ukraine-and-impeachment?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/29/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
Germany Puts Its Head in Russia's 
Energy Pipeline Noose
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by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ A Swiss company working on the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline directly linking Russia to Germany has suspended pipelaying operations... after U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed into law new sanctions. The sanctions are part of an effort by the United States to halt completion of the €9.5 billion ($10.5 billion) pipeline, which would double shipments of Russian natural gas to Germany by transporting the gas under the Baltic Sea. Opponents of the pipeline warn that it will give Russia a stranglehold over Germany's energy supply. Proponents counter that with European domestic natural gas production in rapid decline, the pipeline will enhance security of supply. American sanctions may delay Nord Stream 2, but they are probably too late to kill the project. More than 80% of the 1,230-km (764-mile) pipeline has already been laid and the project is expected to be completed in 2020, according to Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak. On December 17, the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 86 to 6, passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill, which includes the Nord Stream 2 sanctions language. The measure previously cleared the U.S. House of Representatives on December 11 by a vote of 377 to 48. President Trump signed it into law on December 20. The legislation requires the U.S. State and Treasury departments to submit a report within 60 days that identifies "vessels that are engaged in pipe-laying at depths of 100 feet or more below sea level for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, the TurkStream pipeline project a new gas pipeline stretching from Russia to Turkey across the Black Sea or any project that is a successor to either such project."...
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'Don't touch kids, you pervert!': 
loose lips liar-Biden slammed by 
protesters at campaign rally
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by Spencer Neale
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Several audience members at loose lips liar-Joe Biden's 2020 campaign rally in Milford, New Hampshire, lashed out at the former vice president... calling him a number of insults, including "pervert" and "quid pro loose4 lips liar-Joe." loose lips liar-Biden, 77, was speaking on Sunday night ahead of the state's Feb. 11 Democratic primary, where he is trailing South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Vermont Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, according to RealClearPolitics. A handful of those present interrupted the event on multiple occasions with heckles."Quite a start to loose lips liar-Biden’s event in Milford, NH — He was quickly interrupted near the top of his remarks by a protestor who called him “creepy” & made false claims about him being a “pervert,” tweeted NBC News's Marianna Sotomayor. "Another woman then yelled “quid pro loose lips liar-Joe” before another man began to shout about Ukraine."Video from the campaign stop shows a man asking loose lips liar-Biden about old videos that show him touching children and adults. “You touch kids on video, and women," said the man. "We don’t need another old, white man running for president." loose lips liar-Biden quickly reprimanded the man, saying, "This isn't a Trump rally." The man continued to speak, saying he wasn't a Trump supporter before yelling, "Don't touch kids, you pervert!" "This is democracy," said loose lips liar-Biden, before another audience member shouted, "The truth is going to come out, buddy."...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dont-touch-kids-you-pervert-biden-slammed-by-protesters-at-campaign-rally?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_12/29/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261   
Ex-FBI Analyst Sentenced to Jail for Hacking 
Private Email To Protect Mueller
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By C. Douglas Golden 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ If you’re a law enforcement official who has more allegiance to ideology than to the law or to the country, where does that get you?... For former FBI analyst Mark Tolson, the answer is jail — however briefly. Tolson is best-known — if he’s known at all — as the man who broke into a pro-Trump operative’s email account in October 2018, took screen-shots of some of the messages, then sent images to a reporter and offered the reporter the password, according to Politico. The unnamed member of the media turned down the opportunity. Tolson, 60, said he did it because that activist was claiming, absent any evidence, that then-special counsel Robert Mueller had committed sexual assault. “I did what I did to try to protect Director Mueller, who can protect himself,” Tolson said at his sentencing at an Alexandria, Virginia, court on Dec. 20, according to The Washington Post. “I’m terribly sorry.” For breaking into the email account, a misdemeanor, Tolson was sentenced Dec. 20 to seven days behind bars and pay $500 in fines, according to the  Washington Examiner. The sentence includes 50 hours of community service and a year of probation. The jail time could be served after the holidays, the judge ruled. The details are these: Tolson broke into the email account of Jack Burkman, a neighbor of his in Alexandria, back in October of 2018. Burkman had announced he was about to call a news conference at which he would announce the details on his very dubious allegations regarding Mueller. Tolson’s wife, Sarah Gilbert Fox, had done some work for Burkman and had the password to his email account. “It was because of the press conference, your honor,” the former FBI analyst said in court, according to Politico...   https://www.westernjournal.com/ex-fbi-analyst-sentenced-jail-hacking-private-email-protect-mueller/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-CT&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=conservative-tribune   
loose lips liar-Biden Will Defy 
Senate Impeachment Trial Subpoena
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By Tom Borelli
{ deneenborelli.com } ~ 2020 presidential candidate and former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden will not be part of the impeachment trial for President Trump... loose lip liar-Biden made the statement during an interview with The Des Moines Register where he clearly states he will refuse to testify in the Senate impeachment trial. The video also includes a political panel discussing the impact of an impeachment trial on Democrats running to be the party’s nominee to face President Trump in 2020. loose lips liar-Biden justified his position by stating, “The reason I wouldn’t is because it’s all designed to deal with Trump doing what he’s done his whole life: trying to take the focus off him.” This is not the first time loose lips liar-Biden stated he is not willing to appear in the Senate as part of the impeachment trial. During an interview with NPR in early December, loose lips ;liar-Biden responded to a question about whether he would comply with a Senate subpoena saying, “No, I will not yield to what everybody is looking for here. And that is to take the eye off the ball.” President Trump’s witness list includes loose lips liar-Biden and his son Hunter.Biden’s clarification is meaningless. He is merely trying to justify his decision by claiming a Republican-driven subpoena is not legitimate. It’s just a convenient excuse not to appear in the Senate. Most certainly, loose lips liar-Biden does not want to face challenging questions from Republican Senators. Moreover, the possibility of his son Hunter testifying must keep the former vice president up at night.
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The DoJ FISA Report — Trump Was Right
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Mark Alexander:  The best indication that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review of FISA applications is a serious problem for Democrats is the fact that The Washington Post listed it as third down in its political headlines this morning.

If the report had dispensed with the Trump administration’s claim that a handful of top government bureaucrats who supported scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, most notably Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey and former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan, used the FISA court search warrants as a layup for Robert Mueller’s investigation — in effect a bureaucratic coup d'etat to take Trump down — the report would have been the top headline this morning. That would have teed up subsequent headlines about the House impeachment inquisition and Articles of Impeachment.

scumbag/commie-Brennan and scumbag-Comey, and their corrupt scumbag/liar-Clinton cronies, used their “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation to set Trump up for a takedown. And the best evidence supporting that fact provided by Horowitz: Of the 17 most egregious “errors” a handful of corrupt FBI managers committed in order to justify the FISA warrants and launch the Mueller investigation, every one favored the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign.

As you recall, the Russia-collusion investigation  originated with the FBI’s “evidence” for unaccredited FISA warrants linked to the fake Trump dossier they knew was funded by the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign.

And that has been the fundamental basis for our objection to these “investigations” from their inception.

According to Horowitz’s report: “We identified at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications, and many additional errors in the Woods Procedures. While we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct on the part of the case agents … we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for the errors or problems we identified. In most instances, the agents and supervisors told us that they either did not know or recall why the information was not shared with the OI (Office of Investigations), that the failure to do so may have been an oversight, that they did not recognize at the time the relevance of the information to the FISA application, or that they did not believe the missing information to be significant. On this last point, we believe that case agents may have improperly substituted their own judgments in place of the judgment of the OI, or in place of the court, to weigh the probative value of the information.”

In other words, members of the deep-state cabal who set Trump up proceeded on the basis of their opinion, which was obviously a reflection of their bias.

To that end, the Horowitz report concludes: “We also found that the FBI did not aggressively seek to obtain certain potentially important information from Steele author of the fake Trump/Russia dossier. For example, the FBI did not press Steele for information about the actual funding force source for his election reporting work.”

So, we are to believe that nobody involved in this setup thought to ask the critical question, “Who funded the dossier?” — even though it had been suggested the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign was behind it. How convenient! Again, we now know, as scumbag/liar-Clinton’s FBI backers knew then — that the funding was from the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign and the Democrat National Committee.

And a note regarding the report’s assertion that, based on the mandate of what Horowitz was tasked to investigate, there was no evidence of “bias.” scumbag/liar-Clinton’s backers were high-ranking FBI bureaucrats — of course they did not leave an official trail of evidence pointing to their political bias in kicking off this investigation. However, there is no question that each of the individuals involved in the chain of command demonstrated significant personal bias against Trump. Horowitz was not tasked with evaluating their personal bias, only the evidence directly related to the FISA warrants.

The FBI’s predication for those FISA warrants is what prompted Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham to declare the Horowitz report woefully incomplete.

According to AG Barr: “The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken. It is also clear that, from its inception, the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory. Nevertheless, the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration of the campaign and deep into President Trump’s administration. In the rush to obtain and maintain FISA surveillance of Trump campaign associates, FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source. The Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory.”

Barr was highly critical of the implications of the FBI’s “gross abuses” of FISA: “I think from a civil liberties standpoint, the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state…both to spy on political opponents, but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of an election. As far as I am aware, this is the first time in history that this has been done… And here I felt this was very flimsy… I think our nation was turned on its head for three years based on a completely bogus narrative that was largely fanned and hyped by a completely irresponsible press. I think that there were gross abuses of FISA and inexplicable behavior that is intolerable in the FBI. I think that leaves open the possibility that there was bad faith.”

Durham, whose criminal investigation report into the origins of scumbag-Comey’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation is still months away from conclusion, took the unusual step of commenting: “I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff, however, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within component parts of the Justice Department. Our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities, both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S. Based on the evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.”

Additionally, FBI Director Christopher Wray issued a response to the FISA report, concluding: “We will review the performance and conduct of certain FBI employees who were referenced in the Report’s recommendations – including managers, supervisors, and senior officials at the time. The FBI will take appropriate disciplinary action where warranted. Notably, many of the employees described in the report are no longer employed at the FBI.”

The Wall Street Journal notes, “The FBI corrupted the secret court process for obtaining warrants to spy on former Trump aide Carter Page. And it did so by supplying the court with false information produced by Christopher Steele, an agent of the Hillary Clinton campaign.” The editors noted further, regarding the report’s finding that “the Crossfire Hurricane team’s receipt of Steele’s election reporting on September 19, 2016 played a central and essential role in the FBI’s and Department’s decision to seek the FISA order,” that “This confirms what Rep. Devin Nunes and House Republicans first disclosed in February 2018, which was denied by Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and sneered at by the press at the time.”

Senior Senate Judiciary Committee member Charles Grassley added: “Anyone who values fundamental civil liberties in the United States should be disgusted and terrified by what the inspector general uncovered…on the FBI’s spying on an American citizen. The FBI’s job is to protect Americans, our democracy and our rights. Its actions have done great harm to the public trust and jeopardize the important work that rank-and-file agents do every day for our nation.”

Predictably, Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer declared: “For years, President trump and his Republican allies in Congress and the media have speculated wildly about deep-state conspiracies against his presidency. They’re based on the claim that the FBI opened an investigation into the president’s campaign with political motives. Yesterday we…got a report from the Department of Justice inspector general that puts these conspiracy theories to rest once and for all. This report conclusively debunks the baseless conspiracy that the investigation into Mr. Trump’s campaign and its ties to Russia originated with political bias.”

That is an award-winning obfuscation!

His House sidekick scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff piled it on, “It may be too much to hope that this report will put to rest the conspiracy theories about the 2016 election — especially now when the president and his allies are eager to distract from mounting evidence of his abuse of power with respect to Ukraine.”

That notwithstanding, seasoned political analyst Brit Hume concludes, “The 17 instances of misconduct cited in the report — they are damning… The FISA court was clearly taken for a ride by the FBI … up and down the chain of command. … The FBI has had some dark days in its past, but nothing like this recently. … This was very serious misconduct on the part of the FBI.”

Of course, the now-demented scumbag-James Comey is out taking a victory lap, laughably insisting, “The FBI fulfilled its mission — protecting the American people and upholding the U.S. Constitution.” While most rank-and-file agents are devoted to that mission, scumbag-Comey was not among them. The report indicates that, among other things, scumbag-Comey lied to Congress when he asserted he did not open a counterintelligence investigation into Trump prior to the 2016 election, leading to the FISA warrants. But in fact, he did just that.

Finally, responding to the FISA report, Trump said: “They got caught, they got caught red-handed. … Never ever should this happen again in our country.” And he is right.

Stay tuned for the Durham report…  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/67271-the-doj-fisa-report-trump-was-right-2019-12-10?mailing_id=4775&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4775&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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America can we keep it?

I read the last blog post and agree.  Since the lat 1950s and early 1960s we the people may not have seen how the left snuck in and took over.  What did they do?

1. THEY GOT INTO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND ARE NOW TEACHING OUR KIDS TO HATE AMERICA, THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT TAUGHT, THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGENCE IS WELL MOSTLY GONE, THE HISTORY OF AMERICA IS TAUGHT LITTLE IF ANY  AND WE HAVE TO RECLAIM IT OR LOOSE OUR CHILDREN AND THE COUNTRY.  IT IS OUR JOB TO TEACH THEM BEFORE SCHOOL BEFORE KINDERGARTEN OR WE COULD BE LOST;

2. THEY TOOK OVER THE MEDIA MOST OF IT NOW IS ALL LEFT WING DEM.  THEY ARE IN LOCKSTEP W/THE DEM PARTY AND PUSH THEIR AGENDA.  

3. THEY GIVE COVER TO BIDEN AND THE DEMS AND THEIR HATE OF PRES TRUMP IS DISGUSTING HE AND US STAND IN THEIR WAY OF NWO TAKEOVER.

4. THE UN ; IS A DISASTER WE SHOULD BE OUT OF IT AND IT NEEDS TO BE GONE.  

5. LOOK WHAT OBAMA DID: HE VIOLATED THE US CONSTITUTION LEFT AND RIGHT AND NEARY A WIMPER FROM THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED HE WAS NOT;

6. HILLARY; A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE ON HER OWN.  TOO LONG TO LIST BUT YOU GET THE BIG PIC.

WE AS AMERICANS HAVE A GREAT COUNTRY BUT IF WE DO NOT VOTE OUT THE ENTRENCHED POLITICIANS IN THEIR NOW BOY ARE WE IN FOR SOME TOUGH DOING.  THE FEW LIKE 10 IN THEIR NOW WHO ARE GOOD WE NEED THE REST NO WAY.  IT IS OUR JOB NOW  THE WORLD AGAINST AMERICA WE ARE IN FOR THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES.  

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WORLD AGAINST AMERICA

   I am now 70 years old. I have watched the social changes during and since the 1950's, back then too young to understand most things, but learned more as I grew up. Children should NOT be allowed to participate in political things until they are old enough to VOTE, and that should not be until they are age 21. I have been a legal professional a very long time, and I am a supporter of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. I have been involved in criminal litigation, and have done work in criminal cases where I had to investigate a criminal's entire history. The U.S. Supreme Court in several major decisions about crime by adolescents has relied on findings from the professional community (psychologists/psychiatrists) that reveal and conclude that the human brain does not fully mature until late teens through early 20's, and therefore their minds do not fully mature until the brain is fully mature. I agree. Deductive reasoning is not yet mature and therefore conclusions and decisions made by adolescents are typically made from their emotional senses, the "feel good" and "I want" perspective, which explains a great deal about misbehavior and, in America today, why a large percentage of our young folks have become brainwashed with the "feel good" propaganda of the pro-socialists. I am aware through my own research and listening to experts in the field that our schools and universities have long been infiltrated by Marxist teachers and professors, and I have learned that Russia, who long ago took the same approach, is heavily involved in that infiltration in our own country. Envy and jealousy is something each of us knows on the small scale, i.e., the guy with the fancy car, the lady with expensive jewels, the list for envious responses is endless. And so it is on the world stage, with countries around the world "hating" America and Americans because it is the best country there ever was. So they're trying to take it down, and they are doing it from within. Anyone with an open mind and decent reasoning should already know this to be true. Our President Donald Trump, by his election, got in their way, blocked their agenda, and has been ruthlessly attacked by those factions trying to destroy our country. This is no joke. I have finished two books, and hope to get them published in spring of 2020; truth is I lack the funding at this time, but I do have someone famous looking it over now, and I do have a couple of investors interested in helping me get it done. I cannot do much in the way of campaigning, but I can write well, and I have spent countless hours over 5-years investigating and writing it all down. This is what I can do for my country, and I hope I can make a difference for all patriots of our American ideology, regardless of what Party they belong to. The Left seems to blindly accepts the "feel good" type propaganda and ignore reality itself. Patriots should use more common sense and deductive reasoning, not cognitive dissonance like that coming from the far Left. I hope to inspire a new movement, called the American Patriots Party, not as a political party in addition to the established institutions, but as a movement across the land where we can network and blossom into a power sufficient to stop those trying to destroy our home, and America is our HOME. I am tired of being a "nobody" who is helpless to help my country, who feels he is but one person who can't make a difference. I want to make a difference. I want to make a lasting contribution to my home before I die.  

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The Hellish Dingell Legacy
by Daniel Greenfield 
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Whoops – CBS Major Garrett Notes Highly 
Effective Trump Minority Policies 
“Any President Would Want to Claim”
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Oh dear, CBS’s Major Garrett is going to be in trouble now. During a panel discussion Garrett pointed out President Trump’s accomplishments on behalf of minority communities is a legacy any President “would want to claim”:
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U.S. Military Strikes Iranian Militia in Iraq 
and Northern Syria – Secretary Pompeo 
and Esper Briefing
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Miley traveled to Mar-a-Lago today to brief President Trump on issues around the middle-east... The three leaders also held a press briefing this evening about U.S. military strikes that took place earlier today. At the beginning of his remarks Secretary Pompeo stated “we came to Florida today to brief the president on activities that have taken place in the Middle East over the course of the last 72 hours.” Additionally Pompeo said he would let Esper discuss “the military aspects but I wanted to put into context our policy with respect to the Islamic Republic of Iran.”...
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NatSec Advisor Robert O’Brien -vs- Jonathan Karl
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien appeared on ABC This Week with Jonathan Karl to discuss the ongoing issues with North Korea... Karl attempted the oft familiar approach of pitting O’Brien against former advisor John Bolton, by highlighting Bolton’s always customary and short-sighted war mongering approach against the more pragmatic position of President Trump. O’Brien did well to swat down that media tactic. Jonathan Karl quickly shifts tactics by using North Korea’s Kim Jong Chol comments in an effort to undermine President Trump’s strategic policy with Kim Jong-un. That too failed. Taking a third swing at the administration Karl shifts narrative construction to the case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher by using leaked prosecution video in an effort to undermine the intervention of malicious prosecution through a pardon by President Trump. O’Brien smartly deflects the side-snark by reminding the narrative engineer that President Trump not only has pardon authority but also delivered criminal justice reform which produced a similar outcome for many non-military Americans.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/29/sunday-talks-natsec-advisor-robert-obrien-vs-jonathan-karl/  
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Senator Ted Cruz Breaks-down 
Likely Impeachment Process
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Senator Ted Cruz appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to break down the likely procedural process for an impeachment trial in the upper chamber... Senator Cruz walks through the likely scenario based on current Senate rules of impeachment. It should be noted the rules are subject to changes at any time by the Senate. Additionally, Senator Cruz discusses the specific points of each article of impeachment which make the construct weak; hence, the liar-Pelosi, scumbag liar-Nadler and Lawfare effort to delay sending the articles and gather more evidence.
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Ivanka Trump -vs- Margaret Brennan
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Ivanka Trump appears on Face the Nation to discuss the ongoing initiatives around paid family leave. Ms. Brennan exhibits serious envy as she attempts to position Ms. Trump on the defensive... However, Ivanka Trump is deeply informed on the nuances, details and challenges of the proposal and easily handles the narrative engineering effort of Brennan. The family leave topic is a serious policy proposal that crosses into the larger America First economic need for a vibrant U.S. workforce. Additionally, the topic of balance between family and work is critically important for middle-class and main street workers. There are currently seven million jobs available and policies that help working families with children have long-term benefits beyond economics.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/29/sunday-talks-ivanka-trump-vs-margaret-brennan/  
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We Can No Longer Ignore
 The Attacks On Jews In New York
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By David Marcus
{ thefederalist.com } ~ In Rockland County last night, during a Chanukah celebration at a synagogue a man stormed in with a machete and stabbed at least five victims, who were taken to the hospital... This is the latest in a string of antisemitic attacks in the New York City area, coming in the wake of the tragic killing of four people during an attack on a Jewish grocery store in Jersey City. These two acts of violence this month have brought renewed attention to the sharp uptick in anti Jewish violence that has quietly held New York City in its grip over the past few years. Sadly, Mayor Bill de Blasio, who spent much of the year more concerned with his farcical run for president than protecting the citizens of his own city, and the state governments of New York and New Jersey have, been flatfooted in addressing the growing concern.It has frankly been astounding how little attention attacks on Jews in the New York City area have received. If any other minority group were subject to such abuse, it would be a leading national story. Why have these attacks been swept under the carpet? The clearest answer seems to be that the news media and our political leadership are uncomfortable with the fact that many of these attacks, including last night’s, were perpetrated by black people. Make no mistake, if white supremacists in MAGA hats were shooting minorities or carving them up with machetes, it wouldn’t just be news, it would be the only news. So satisfying would that narrative be to our politicians and scribes that we would scarcely be able to turn away. But alas, it’s Jews being killed and maimed. And the criminals don’t fit the bill of right-wing, Trump-supporting Nazis, so, you know, it’s complicated. De Blasio, who has ignored this festering problem for years, had this to tweet last night: “Horrific, So many Jewish families in our city have close ties to Monsey. We cannot overstate the fear people are feeling right now. I’ve spoken to longtime friends who, for the first time in their lives, are fearful to show outward signs of their Jewish faith.” Seriously, Bill? You are just realizing this now? Attacks on ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn have become an almost weekly occurrence under de Blasio. Synagogues and schuls are vandalized regularly, and children and old people are attacked. This is a crisis and has all too often happened throughout Jewish history. It has typically been ignored at best. At worst, the victims are blamed for not fitting in. Nobody wants to talk about it, but something is going on between the black and Jewish communities in the New York City area that needs to be addressed. The Jersey City shooters were Black Hebrew Israelites; the machete-wielding man who attacked last night was also identified as black. It is time we stop simply wishing that this problem did not exist and address it full on...   https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/29/we-can-no-longer-ignore-the-attacks-on-jews-in-new-york/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=692d7c00bd-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-692d7c00bd-83771801 
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The Hellish Dingell Legacy
by Daniel Greenfield 

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ A decade ago, Time Magazine unveiled an in-depth article on the death of Detroit. One of the politicians whom the article blamed for Detroit’s woes was Rep. John Dingell.

The Dingell clan has held a congressional seat outside Detroit since 1932. Their 87-year tenure has not coincidentally coincided with the decline of a thriving industrial city into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

But it’s been good for the Dingells, three of whom have sat in their congressional seat since the days of Herbert Hoover, the rise of Hitler, and the radio age, and fattened their pockets on its sinecures.

Dingell Sr. was the son of Polish immigrants who started out in politics as a union boss, jumped into a newly created seat, and kept it through eleven elections before passing it on to his son. Dingell Jr, outdid daddy by becoming the longest serving member of Congress in American history. Before he died, he passed on the seat to his second wife, whom he married when she was 28 and he was 55 years old.

She was a GM lobbyist who married the Congressman from GM. What was good for GM was good for the Dingells.

By 2014, Dingell Jr. was listed as the third richest member of Congress from Michigan with a net worth of $3.5 million. When Debbie took over for him next year, her net worth was up to $3.6 million. The salary for House members was $174,000. The median household income is $57,000 in the 12th.

Not bad for a family whose business was and is the 12th district from western Detroit through Ann Arbor. Much of the Dingell money came through GM. And Rep. John Dingell had vocally fought for the GM bailout. The GM couple, which had millions in GM stock, had a lot riding on taxpayers bailing them out.

Taxpayers spent billions and the Dingells got millions in an arrangement made in the depths of hell.

Even though Rep. Debbie Dingell ran unopposed in the Democrat primary, and even though she was running for office in one of the most heavily Democrat districts in the country, she still raised over $1 million for that campaign, and another $1.2 million for 2018, and is already up to half a million now.

Even though no one running in the 12th whose last name is Dingell could lose an election to Abe Lincoln.

Where’s the money coming from? Unions, PACs, including the GM PAC, the Ford PAC, Walmart, and, insurance companies. GM, Ford, and Chrysler had also been paying her an undisclosed salary before she took over her husband’s congressional seat. It was a very neat arrangement.

The Dingells take care of them and they take care of the Dingells. Everyone else can go to hell.

Despite Rep. John Dingell’s motorcade pausing at the Capitol, and the gushing tributes to the “longest-serving” member of Congress, even his own party loathed him in life.

In 1996, the New York Times called him a “bully”. Some years earlier, Bloomberg had accused him of the, “bullying of bureaucrats, executives, and colleagues.”

“In the arrogance of his power, he terrorized individuals and institutions that he wanted to humble,” Anthony Lewis wrote in the Times.

"There isn't an industry in the country not touched by our committee,” Rep. John Dingell had bragged.

That includes finance which dragged him into the BCCI scandal through a $10,000 contribution and a mortgage on a home in McLean, Virginia.

After ruling the Committee on Energy and Commerce for 28 years, his own party grew tired of him and unprecedentedly forced him out in 2008. The overthrow of the corrupt "old bull" was the work of none other than Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi.

Despite eventually becoming the longest-serving member of the House, it was his fellow Democrats who conspired to take away the privileges of his seniority.

All that has been forgotten. Dingell’s descriptions of Asians as “little yellow people”, his greed, shameless abuse of power, and arrogance were replaced with empty tributes to his greatness.

President Trump hasn’t forgotten.

And so, at a campaign rally in Michigan, Trump recalled a phone call from Rep. Debbie Dingell on her husband’s funeral. “‘He’s looking down, he’d be so thrilled,’” He recalled her saying. “I said, that’s okay, don’t worry about it. Maybe he’s looking up, I don’t know. I don't know. I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe. But let’s assume he’s looking down."

The locals laughed.

It was impossible to be from Michigan, to have had a front row seat to the antics of the Dingell clan which practically date back to the birth of mass automobile ownership, and imagine “Big John” in heaven. The image of the old crooked thug with wings and a harp is hopelessly laughable.

It’s easy to imagine him looking up, but President Trump generously tried to assume otherwise.

This isn’t the first time that Trump has gotten into trouble for bluntly poking fun at the niceties of a political industry where every crook is “honorable” and everyone pretends to believe it in public.

Does Speaker liar-Pelosi really believe that Rep. John Dingell was a saint? If she does, why did she conspire to take away his chairmanship, against precedent and the seniority rules of the road?

Do the New York Times and Bloomberg want to apologize for calling him a bully?

John Dingell was not a nice guy. Nobody seriously thinks he would have been traumatized by the suggestion that he might not be going to heaven. This was a man who admired a tombstone that read, “He’s done his damnedest.” There’s two ways to read that one. But Dingell never pretended to be a saint. His calling card was hauling pork back to his district and supporting local companies. Like GM.

Nor did he restrain his rhetoric.

"I've read enough of that Steele dossier to know just how risky a ‘used Trump hotel mattress’ can truly be," he tweeted in 2018, referencing a smear by the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign.

But Trump reached out to Rep. Debbie Dingell. John got a nice funeral in Washington D.C. And Debbie responded by voting to impeach President Trump for the smears of her fellow Democrats.

Nor is Debbie a nice person. At one point she inveighed against the, "the 13 white boys–sorry to say it that way–that are going to be doing this in the Senate". So much for civility and collegiality.

Was Trump really supposed to pretend that this racist, thieving clan is heavenly?

The D.C. political class throws a fit every time President Trump speaks bluntly about members of the swamp. And Rep. John Dingell wasn’t just part of the swamp. He owned his own mire. In his days ruling the Committee on Energy and Commerce with an iron fist, he would define his jurisdiction by pointing at the planet. These days his ambit, wherever it may be, is a whole lot smaller. And that’s for the best.

There’s a place for civility and collegiality. And had the Dingell clan sailed off into the sunset, maybe we could all remember them fondly the way we do the Hapsburgs, the Bourbons, and the Gambinos.

But they’re not going anywhere. That’s what this is all about.

After John Sr, came John Jr, and after John Jr. came Debbie, and after Debbie will come Christopher, currently a Michigan judge, and on and on, endless generations of Dingells, marching through the House, porking, thieving, and procuring, passing the family legacy of taxpayer money on through the ages until the Republic falls. Should President Trump or anyone else really be afraid to say it’s so?

America didn’t need a single Dingell in her House. It certainly didn’t need three.

If the country is to be rid of them, the chattering classes will have to accept hearing that John Dingell Jr. might not, despite his lifetime of good deeds for GM at taxpayer expense, have made it to heaven.
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The Demos' Socialist Cloward-Piven Pivot
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Mark Alexander  
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Trump Presidency Exposed Scope of Deep 
State Corruption and Influence
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~Tammy Bruce is filling in for Sean Hannity. Refreshing. Congressman Louie Gohmert discusses the status of the political impeachment effort... and Speaker liar-Pelosi’s refusal to send the articles to the Senate. Ms. Bruce notes the DC reaction to an outsider administration was predictable; President Trump is adverse to their self-interests.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/26/gohmert-trump-presidency-exposed-scope-of-deep-state-corruption-and-influence/
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scumbag/liar-Schiff hired former colleague 
of alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella 
the day after Trump-Ukraine call
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by Kerry Picket
{washingtonexaminer.com } ~House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff hired a former National Security Council aide who worked with alleged Ukraine whistleblower Eric Ciaramella... at the NSC during the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administrations the day after the phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It was previously reported by the Washington Examiner that public records indicated Sean Misko, 37, started work on scumbag/liar-Schiff’s committee in August as a professional staff member. A specific start date was not available until this week when the latest congressional quarterly disbursements were released. The new records show that Misko’s official hire date was July 26. Misko was the director for the Gulf States at the NSC between 2015 until the first half of 2018. The Washington Examiner has established that the whistleblower is a CIA officer who was on the NSC during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and worked on Ukrainian issues with loose lips liar-Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic candidate, when he was vice president. Ciaramella, 33, is a career CIA analyst and was the Ukraine director on the NSC from 2016 until the summer of 2017. In October 2016, he was loose lips liar-Biden's guest at a State Department banquet. Before joining the NSC, Misko worked in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration at the State Department for deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, who went on to become scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's senior foreign policy adviser during her 2016 presidential campaign. Both Ciaramella and Misko started their tenures during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and left during the first year of the Trump administration...
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Judicial Watch Sues scumbag/liar-Adam 
Schiff for Phone Snooping Records
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by JOEL B. POLLAK
{ breitbart.com } ~ Judicial Watch has sued the House Intelligence Committee and its chairman, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-CA), on Friday for records relating to scumbag/liar-Schiff’s phone snooping... on his Republican counterpart, a journalist, and the president’s lawyer. scumbag/liar-Schiff included phone logs purporting to document communications between Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA), journalist John Solomon, and presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani, among others, attempting to implicate them in a plot to smear the reputation of then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, whom President Donald Trump had constitutional authority to fire for any reason, regardless. The phone records led to the publication of the private phone records of Giuliani, Congressman Devon Nunes, journalist John Solomon, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, attorney Victoria Toensing, and other American citizens. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit under the public’s common-law right of public access to examine government records after it received no response to a December 6, 2019, records request (Judicial Watch v scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (No. 1:19-cv-03790)): All subpoenas issued by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on or about September 30, 2019 to any telecommunications provider including, but not limited to AT&T, Inc., for records of telephone calls of any individuals; All responses received to the above-referenced subpoenas. Judicial Watch accused scumbag/liar-Schiff of abusing his power. scumbag/liar-Schiff allegedly used a subpoena to AT&T for the records of several unidentified phone numbers in an apparent attempt to conceal the fact that he was trying to reconstruct the phone conversations of his intended targets, which he then published in the Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report. scumbag/liar-Schiff did not cite any legal authority for his actions, which arguably violated the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution. Nunes has said that scumbag/liar-Schiff violated his civil liberties, and that he will pursue all legal options; the White House responded by noting that one of the phone numbers in the report was incorrect.   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/22/judicial-watch-sues-adam-schiff-for-phone-snooping-records/   
Health Care and Dollar Efficiency
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By Deane Waldman
{ americanthinker.com } ~ As U.S. healthcare slides toward collapse, Americans are looking in the wrong direction for a cure. They are trying to cut costs and save money in order to make healthcare affordable. No one is focusing what really matters: dollar efficiency... To avoid miscommunication, terms should be clearly defined. Healthcare, one word, refers to a complex system that cost Americans $3.65 trillion in 2018 (19.4 percent of U.S. GDP). That amount is 130 percent of Great Britain’s GDP. Health care as two words includes the services or work product of health professionals as well as the goods and devices involved in diagnosis and treatment. Health care is a legally protected fiduciary relationship between a patient and a care provider.  Cost in healthcare is often expressed in confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate ways. When I asked a hospital CFO how much it cost to do a cardiac catherization, he accessed his computer and told me a number in thousands of dollars. When I asked how he knew this, he answered, “Simple. We divided the number of catheterizations you did by the budget allocation for the catherization lab.” There was no aggregation of costs such as labor hours, disposables, durable goods and devices, amortization schedules, and overhead. True or accounting cost is the sum of all sellers’ expenditures necessary to bring products or services to market. Costs in healthcare are not accounted that way. They are allocated or calculated. Out-of-pocket cost is the consumer’s personal expenditure. Dollar efficiency refers to the percentage of dollars that go into a system or organization that contributes to desired outputs or outcomes. In healthcare, efficiently spent dollars are those that produce what patients (consumers) need: care. Having insurance might be a necessary process step, but only if it leads to the desired outcome: care. Similarly, saving money is a desirable phase of the process but not an outcome. No one wants to save money if such saving leads to unfavorable medical outcomes, such as the death-by-queueing experienced by those with government-supplied Medicaid and TriCare insurance...  
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Win/Win – Speculation of Mike Pompeo 
Running for Kansas Senate Seat
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Several news articles are speculating that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might run for the U.S. Senate Seat from Kansas... If accurate, that move would seem to solve a few personnel issues in a rather diplomatic way. Since the Sept./Oct. impeachment operation started there has been a considerable shift notable in the relationship between President Trump and Secretary Pompeo; especially after officials from within the Dept. of State came out strong against President Trump after CIA whistle-blower Eric Ciaramella lit the fuse…. and Pompeo was, well, essentially mute. Getting rid of Pompeo for a Senate bid would be a win/win. Absent the dangerous Siren voice from Nikki Haley spit-spit-spit moving Treasury Sec. Mnuchin or similar to State would be a good transition. Mnuchin already knows the players and has contacts therein etc. A Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation should be seamless, well, sans the predictable rino-Mitt Romney grandstanding. Spitballing CTH could see moving Mick Mulvaney (or similar) to Treasury Senate Finance Confirmation and then put Mark Meadows in as chief-of-staff and/or Robert O’Brien with Meadows becoming Nat Sec Advisor. Or something similar...
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Libya's Political Instability 
Makes Room for ISIS to Regroup
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by Ahmed Charai
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the way on December 26 for direct military intervention in Libya: he announced a parliamentary vote in early January on sending troops to support the UN-backed Tripoli government against General Khalifa Haftar... Instructors, equipment and Turkish special forces are already operating in Libya alongside pro-government militias. Erdogan said that Turkey would also be willing to send aerial and naval assistance if circumstances require it. Sending Turkish troops will complicate the situation in an already fragile country, torn by internal dissent since the ouster and killing of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The map of foreign intervention in Libya is important: In the east of the country, forces from Saudi Arabia and Egypt support Gen. Haftar, the separatist who heads the Libyan National Army -- not the country's national army. Arrayed against them are Turkey and Qatar, supporting the recognized government headed by Fayez al-Sarraj, but his government is not supported by the legislature. Then there is Russia. It has dispatched militia forces known as the Wagner Group, which have already carried out operations in Syria, are also operating in several African countries -- supporting and assisting Haftar's forces. France has joined the group of countries that support the rebel general, while Italy backs Sarraj's recognized government. As it has done in Syria, the United States has so far refrained from any intervention. Instead, the US has clung to the position of an outside observer, ready to offer advice and diplomatic assistance to resolve the Libyan crisis. Turkey, which signed a military and economic accord with the Libyan government in November, could deprive Greece and the Greek Cypriots of large swaths of their oil and gas exploration areas and force Egypt and Israel to negotiate with Turkey over the construction of natural gas pipelines to Europe. Libya is now one of the main axes of future ISIS operations, to compensate for the loss of ground in Syria. ISIS in Libya finances its activities through robbery, kidnapping for ransom, extorting Libyan citizens and cross-border smuggling of artifacts and other commodities...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15348/libya-instability-turkey 
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The Demos' Socialist Cloward-Piven Pivot
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Mark Alexander:  Since broadcasting our first email digest more than 20 years ago, our Patriot Post editorial team has reviewed, daily, the full spectrum of political advocacy and rhetoric. After all, the best way to understand the strategies and tactics used by the adversaries of Liberty and Rule of Law is to go straight to the source. And so, every day, my inbox is filled with a wide range of email — from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) on the Left to the John Birch Society on the Right.

Reviewing everything the Left spews is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it!

Over the last decade, the political and policy positions of the CPUSA and those of the Socialist Democrat Party leadership increasingly constitute a distinction without much difference — Democrats are just more tactful than communists (sometimes). It’s no small irony that we observed “The Communist Centennial of Tyranny and Terror” during the same year that, thank goodness, Donald Trump defeated scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton.

Ahead of 2020, the cadres of assorted statists who make up the Democrats’ presidential primary plethora hope to defeat Trump with their collective constituencies strategy. Their socialist pacesetter is commie-Bernie Sanders, who was sandbagged by the Democrats in the 2016 primary, and his loudmouthed gaggle of socialist sycophants includes four congresswomen — commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, worthless-Ilhan Omar, worthless-Rashida Tlaib, and worthless-Ayanna Pressley, collectively labeled “The Squad,” but more accurately, “The Gang of Four.”

Indicative of the backroom alliance between Tom Perez’s Democrat National Committee (DNC) and John Bachtell’s CPUSA was a recent email I received. No, it didn’t announce the merger of the two organizations, but it did do something much more subtle.

In order to track incoming email from various sources, I use more than 30 email address variants. But three weeks ago, I started receiving duplicate emails from the DNC — and I noted that those duplicates were using the specific address I use for incoming email from CPUSA. Not that I was surprised, but how revealing. For the record, when one organization integrates the email list of another, without the knowledge or permission of those being merged, it violates a lot of email double-opt-in protocols. When this happens, the email from the sender will typically be marked “spam” and this will hinder delivery of the sender’s email — in this case, that of the DNC. Not a problem! (For the record, Patriot Post subscribers have to double-opt-in to receive our publications, and we do not share or sell that information to any third party, which is why our email lists are “spam free” and our delivery rates are very high.)

So, what objectives and strategies do the Democrat Party and CPUSA have in common? Well, how much time do you have?

Most notably, both are advocates of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which is the ‘60s-era brainchild of two hard-left academics to “end poverty” by creating an economic crisis that would lead to the collapse of capitalism resulting in its replacement with socialism.

As one of our political analysts, Arnold Ahlert, wrote: “In 1966, Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven formulated the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It was a plan to overthrow America’s capitalist system by overloading the welfare state bureaucracy with demands that were impossible to meet, thereby precipitating a revolution.” Ahlert noted that the latest “effort to 'crash the system’” is to overload it with illegal immigrants.

This explains the Demos’ 2020 platform: “Open Borders and Free Stuff.” Indeed, the party that was once the champion of blue-collar workers now supports the greatest threat to labor, wage growth, and the economy overall: the influx of millions of illegal aliens competing for jobs, willing to take lower wages, and soaking up enormous taxpayer resources in terms of medical care, welfare, housing, and education.

According to Cloward and Piven, to achieve their goal, it would necessitate “a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls,” followed by “a federal program of income redistribution … necessary to elevate the poor en masse from poverty.” That income redistribution would take the form of “a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.” Except the only thing that’s equal under socialism is poverty — except, of course, for the political class.

Cloward and Piven insisted: “Republicans are always ready to declaim the evils of public welfare, and they would probably be the first to raise a hue and cry. But deeper and politically more telling conflicts would take place within the Democratic coalition. … Whites — both working class ethnic groups and many in the middle class — would be aroused against the ghetto poor, while liberal groups, which until recently have been comforted by the notion that the poor are few … would probably support the movement. Group conflict, spelling political crisis for the local party apparatus, would thus become acute as welfare rolls mounted and the strains on local budgets became more severe.”

Their strategy is similar (albeit more radical) to the failed model Franklin Delano Roosevelt called “The New Deal.” FDR infamously proclaimed, “Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.” Of course, that “American principle” is merely a paraphrase from Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, in which he declared, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

FDR’s failed programs were reincarnated as the Democrats’ so-called “Great Society,” which, in effect, enslaved millions of poor Americans on urban poverty plantations and coincided with the first publication of the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

Today, 50 years after the Left’s so-called “War on Poverty,” many Americans are now “institutionally impoverished,” unprepared and unwilling to rise above the poverty line because they’ve been generationally disabled from doing so.

As Cloward and Piven noted: “As the crisis develops, it will be important to use the mass media to inform the broader liberal community about the inefficiencies and injustices of welfare.” The Demo/MSM propaganda machine is just waiting for the signal from its leftist puppeteers! The organizing arm this plan utilizes Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” model for “community organizers.”

The Democrats almost achieved critical economic overload in 2008, when their statist “economic equality” policies resulted in the near-collapse of our economy. I detailed this in “How Democrats Seeded the 2008 Financial Crisis.” That was a near miss, but they did get an ideological socialist as a consolation prize: eight years of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama as president of the United States.

As I wrote eight months ago, Democrats are desperately hoping for a recession before the 2020 election. And they’re ready to pounce on the next opening to overload the system and create a crisis, adhering to the advice of scumbag/liar-nObama’s former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

Fellow Patriots, stand ready and keep your powder dry! 

~The Patriot Post

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Former NSA chief helping criminal 
probe of Russia-collusion claims
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by wnd.com 
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Against Impeachment for Thought Crimes
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by E. DONALD ELLIOTT
{ spectator.org } ~ Both of the articles of impeachment passed by the Democrats in the House are unprecedented in that they charge “thought crimes” against a president... They are based on the dubious legal theory that doing something that is legal in and of itself but with a supposedly improper mental attitude turns an otherwise legal act into an impeachable offense. Lawyers call such offenses “specific intent” crimes, which means they turn on what was in someone’s mind at the time of the actions in question. If accepted by the Senate as a valid basis for impeachment, these articles of impeachment would set a dangerous precedent that a president may be removed from office any time that a majority of the House is suspicious of a president’s motives, which occurs frequently in an era of divided government. It is legal for a president, who is under a constitutional duty to enforce the law, to ask a foreign government to cooperate with the Attorney General to investigate an American citizen about allegations that involve possible misuse of office for private gain. It is also legal for the President to delay the delivery of foreign aid to make sure he gets the foreign government’s attention; that’s not “extortion,” which is also a specific intent crime that requires a “wrongful” or corrupt purpose. On the contrary, one of the recognized purposes of foreign aid is “to reward a government for behavior desired by the donor.” Under the theory adopted by the Democrats in the House, the President’s otherwise legal acts supposedly become “high crimes and misdemeanors” warranting impeachment if they were done with the allegedly improper intent of “digging up dirt on a political rival,” rather than for a legitimate purpose. But why isn’t “digging up dirt” on a political opponent in an election year a legitimate purpose? It is called “opposition research” and the Democrats do it all the time. Their original theory was that because a foreign government was involved, the request for an investigation would have been soliciting an illegal campaign contribution. That tortured legal theory that asking for an investigation that never happened was an impeachable offense was abandoned when the Republicans pointed out that a foreign government provided information against candidate Trump in the notorious Steele dossier.  The second article of impeachment for so-called obstruction of Congress also involves a thought crime, but based on an even more far-fetched theory. The idea there is that by invoking Executive privilege, the president was somehow “obstructing” a Congressional investigation. This is specious, as Professor Jonathan Turley rightly pointed out in his testimony to the House judiciary committee.  Presidents, like all other American citizens, are entitled to raise plausible objections to a Congressional subpoena and to direct their subordinates to do likewise; if the House does not agree, it may go to the third branch, the judiciary, to resolve the dispute...
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Netanyahu wins Likud leadership race 
by landslide, defeating Sa’ar 72%-27%
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by timesofisrael.com ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu trounced his rival Gideon Sa’ar in the Likud leadership race early Friday, winning some 72.5% of the party vote in a landslide victory for the longtime Likud leader... Netanyahu declared victory soon after midnight Thursday-Friday, as the count was underway, while Sa’ar conceded an hour later. As the final results were announced, Sa’ar called Netanyahu to congratulate him.“This is a huge victory! Thank you Likud members for your trust, support and love,” Netanyahu said in a message to supporters, vowing to “lead Likud to a great victory in the upcoming [national] elections and continue to lead the State of Israel to unprecedented achievements.”“We won! Thank you for your support,” Netanyahu later tweeted. At 1 a.m., Sa’ar conceded defeat, saying that while “we don’t have the final figures, the result is clear.” He said he would “congratulate the prime minister on his victory,” and pledged support for Netanyahu and Likud ahead of the March 2 general elections. “The contest was vital to the Likud and its democratic character,” said Sa’ar. “My decision to run was right and necessary. Whoever isn’t prepared to take a chance for the path he believes in, will never win.” The contest was the first significant challenge to Netanyahu’s leadership of the Likud in more than a decade, but he maintained the support of the vast majority of the party’s Knesset members and its prominent local leaders and activists, and can thus utilize the result as a boost ahead of Israel’s third general elections in under a year...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-declares-victory-in-likud-primary-appears-headed-for-landslide-win/?utm_source=Breaking+News&utm_campaign=breaking-news-2019-12-27-2209242&utm_medium=email   
These Former Intelligence Chiefs Fit Perfectly
Into Our Media Advocacy Culture
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by Victor Davis Hanson
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence scumbag-James Clapper have lots of things in common... One, they ran the nation’s key intelligence and investigatory agencies under President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. They were deeply involved in the “Russian collusion” hoax. And they participated in the surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition. scumbag-Comey and McCabe both signed applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrants requesting surveillance on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. A report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz criticized scumbag-Comey and McCabe’s FBI for falsehoods and misrepresentations during its investigation of the Trump campaign. scumbag-Clapper, scumbag/commie-Brennan, and the FBI helped to disseminate the fallacious Steele dossier to the press and among government agencies. Two, scumbag-Comey, McCabe, scumbag/commie-Brennan, and scumbag-Clapper have all lied either under oath or in the public sphere. Horowitz has said that he referred scumbag-Comey for criminal prosecution for leaking classified memos he wrote about his confidential conversations with the president, but the Justice Department did not pursue charges. He signed FISA warrant applications that the inspector general has determined were misleading at best and at worst simply flat-out wrong. In testimony before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, there were 245 occasions on which scumbag-Comey claimed he couldn’t remember details or couldn’t answer questions. scumbag-Comey did not tell the truth when he said the Steele dossier was not the prime evidence that he submitted to the FISA court. He also lied about when he was briefed on the dossier...
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The Accelerating Growth Of The 
Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement
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by Dave Workman
{ lidblog.com } ~ More than a hundred counties, cities, and towns in Virginia have joined the spreading Second Amendment Sanctuary movement... as newly-empowered Democrats look to crack down on gun owners. In New Jersey, the community of West Milford Township has been joined by the community of Sussex Borough in opposition to new gun control laws. In Washington, grassroots volunteers are scrambling to fill Initiative 1094 petitions to get on the November ballot. That initiative seeks to repeal gun control Initiative 1639, adopted by voters in 2018. In Illinois, more than half of the counties have adopted sanctuary resolutions. Ditto in Colorado. These and other signs—the entire states of Alaska, Idaho Kansas, and Wyoming have “gone sanctuary”—suggest that the long-anticipated “civil war” may have already started. However, it’s a war of words and ideals. No shots have been fired, no state has seceded, but the combined message is simple: Leave our guns and our rights alone. Anti-gunners contend this is nothing more than symbolism, but symbolism can be a powerful political weapon. Not since the national elections in 1994, when more than 50 members of Congress lost their jobs after voting for the scumbag/liar-Clinton Crime ban, has there appeared to be a renewed sense of urgency among gun owners. Despite the presence of Donald Trump in the Oval Office making the threat seem diminished, with Democrats now in control of legislatures in both Washington and West Virginia, there appears to be a growing likelihood of legislative confrontations over respective state legislation aimed at gun restrictions...   https://lidblog.com/second-amendment-sanctuary-movement/   
DiGenova Calls Admiral Mike Rogers’ 
Cooperation With Durham Team to Be the 
‘Biggest Single Development’ in Case
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by Elizabeth Vaughn
{ redstate.com } ~ Last week, it was reported that Admiral Mike Rogers, who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President scumbag/liar-nObama... has been cooperating with U.S. Attorney John Durham’s criminal inquiry into the origins of the Trump/Russia collusion investigation. This was big news for two reasons. I wrote about the first reason in a recent post, in which I called Rogers the “Unsung Hero.” He was one of the few scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials who actually had integrity, a man who noticed that something was amiss and acted. It was this man who traveled to Trump Tower on November 17, 2016, to brief then-President-elect Donald Trump that communications from the building were being tapped. He did not notify his superior, then-Director of National Intelligence scumbag-James Clapper, beforehand. Later that day, the Trump transition team announced they were moving their operations to a new location in New Jersey. Within days, the Washington Post reported that “scumbag-James Clapper and Defense Secretary Ash Carter had recommended the removal of Mike Rogers from his NSA position.” Rogers was not fired, for obvious reasons. The second reason predates the FBI’s application to the FISA Court for a warrant to spy on Carter Page by a couple of years, but in light of IG Horowitz’s report, this story becomes even more relevant. Rogers discovered that American citizens were being spied upon and drew attention to the abuse of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. According to former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova, Section 702 allows the government to essentially weaponize the NSA’s ability to collect data and surveil private U.S. citizens. Used as intended, it has been a useful law enforcement tool. Abused as it had been by scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials up until Rogers’ discovery in 2014, it became a weapon. DiGenova said, “For more than four years before the election of Donald Trump, there was an illegal spying operation going on by FBI private contractors — four of them — to steal personal information, electronic information about Americans and to use it against the Republican Party.”...
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Here Are the ‘Courageous’ 
Leaders Honored by CAIR
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by clarionproject.org ~ “Courage Under Fire” was the theme of this year’s banquet held by the Los Angeles branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)... Those “courageous leaders” under fire included featured speakers: Pennsylvania State Representative Movita Johnson-Harrell, accused of stealing $500,000 from a charity fund...Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill, an anti-Semite who supports the eradication violent, if necessary of the state of Israel...CAIR-LA executive director Hussam Ayloush, a Muslim Brotherhood and avid Hamas supporter...Law professor and comedian Amer Zahr, who proudly serenaded Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh and compares Israel to ISIS and describes the Jews of Israel as white supremacists. Far from being victims under fire, these featured speakers are also anything but “courageous leaders.” Meanwhile in Canada, Islamists were much more open about their agenda at a recent conference in Toronto titled “Reviving the Islamic Spirit.” The conference, touted as Canada’s largest Islamic conference attracting thousands, featured radical Islamist American preachers Omar Suleiman, Yasir Qadhi, Zaid Shakir and Siraj Wahhaj, among others. More accurately, the conference should have been titled “Reviving the Islamist Spirit.” Ironically, while North American Islamists are hell-bent on keeping Islamist supremacy alive, author Ed Husain, a former Islamist radical, notes that a new Arab-Israeli alliance is forming in the Middle East, which he predicts will lead to less antisemitism and a pushback against Islamism...   https://clarionproject.org/courageous-leaders-honored-by-cair/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=248085d35a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_26_02_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-248085d35a-6442509&mc_cid=248085d35a&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5   . 
 
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Former NSA chief helping criminal 
probe of Russia-collusion claims
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by wnd.com 

There's been a fair bit of information that's become available about the criminal investigation U.S. Attorney John Durham is doing into the origins of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration's "Russia collusion" claims about the Trump 2016 investigation.

We know that it now involves potential criminal activity. We know several of the top Obama administration intel agency officials have come under review. And we know he disagrees with some of the relatively mild conclusions from a report from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz into the same issues.

Now The Intercept is reporting that retired Adm. Michael Rogers is cooperating with Durham's investigation.

He is a former director of the National Security Agency.

The report said the information was confirmed by four people familiar with the situation.

"Rogers has met the prosecutor leading the probe, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, on multiple occasions, according to two people familiar with Rogers's cooperation. While the substance of those meetings is not clear, Rogers has cooperated voluntarily, several people with knowledge of the matter said," according to the report.

The report explained, "The inquiry has been a pillar of Attorney General William Barr's tenure. He appointed Durham to lead the inquiry last spring, directing him to determine whether the FBI was justified in opening a counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and alleged links between Russia and the Trump campaign, among other matters. What began as a broad review has turned into a criminal investigation, according to the New York Times."

The report said a week ago a nonpartisan review of the investigation by the Justice Department inspector general concluded that while the FBI and Justice Department committed serious errors in their applications to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, the investigation was opened properly and without political bias.

It was over that report that Barr and Durham both disagreed with Horowitz.

The revelation points out that Rogers is the first former intel director known to have been interviewed in the investigation.

"Politico and NBC News have previously reported that Durham intends to interview both former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence scumbag-James Clapper. It is unclear if that has happened. scumbag/commie-Brennan and the Justice Department declined to comment. scumbag-Clapper could not be reached for comment," the report said.

The Washington Examiner reported Rogers is the "latest to sit down with U.S. Atttorney John Durham in the widening inquiry."  
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