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Black Americans Thriving in Trump Era
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Jim Jordan and Elise Stefanik Lead 
a Republican Press Conference
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Representatives Jim Jordan (OH) and Elise Stefanik (NY) delivered some of the most powerful congressional questioning today during day-two of the House impeachment hearings... At the conclusion of the hearing the two leaders were joined by Republican members for a press briefing. It is clear why Jim Jordan was added to the GOP team for the impeachment hearings. Additionally, Ms. Stefanik is not only a sharp representative, her disposition has made her the greatest threat to the liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff and Lawfare impeachment effort.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/15/jim-jordan-and-elise-stefanik-lead-a-republican-press-conference/  
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Four More Years: R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. on 
Trump’s Conservative Victories at The American Spectator’s Robert L. Bartley Gala
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by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR.
{ spectator.org } ~ Let us begin our annual celebration of The American Spectator by reviewing where we stand today, with the Right that is us arrayed against the Left that is them in another glorious democratic contest to bring heaven to earth... But first let me remind you of how right I was about the Mueller report of some months ago. I predicted last year at this gala that the report would include not a word about our blockbuster story of 2017. That was the story about how then–FBI Director scumbag-James B. Comey was caught on White House surveillance cameras blowing his nose on the White House curtains. The American Spectator broke that story well over a year ago. The New York Times with its front-page story of May 17, 2017, verified it. Incidentally, the curtains, according to the Times, were “blue.” Yet in the Mueller report, true to my prediction, there was no mention of the soiled curtains and of scumbag-Comey forgetting to bring Kleenex with him to the White House. Read the report for yourself. America is going through a dreadful period. It has got to come to an end. One among us saw it all coming years ago, long before there was talk of a second civil war being visited on America. I was sitting with Jim Piereson, our board member and frequent contributor, at the Yale Club discussing the condition of politics in the Republic. Jim astounded me with the observation that conditions are such that we could have another civil war today. That was 2010, nine years ago. Today we hear talk of how intense partisanship has become, and I often remind Jim of his prescient observation: “There could be violence.” In fact, there already has been violence, and it is not coming from the right, as we have been conditioned by our educational establishment and mainstream media to believe. Rather, it is coming from the left and at all levels. There have been assaults on people because they wear red hats that call for Making America Great Again. There have been assaults against participants at Trump rallies. There have been altercations with White House employees in restaurants and other public places. And of course there have been assassination attempts. Who will forget the demented commie-Bernie Sanders supporter who attacked the Republican baseball team and almost killed Rep. Steve Scalise? And the violence crosses new frontiers. The Democratic National Committee recently had to call upon its candidates to refrain from using crude back-alley language in debate. A major news network had to insist that the candidates refine their oratory to abide by the guidelines of the FCC. Many of these candidates have been women — supposedly the keepers of American virtue. Think of it: the political stars of the #MeToo movement are discouraging sexuality between adults while introducing crude back-alley language in their pursuit of the presidency. Has anyone ever been elected to the presidency because of his fluency with four-letter words? I can tell you as an official presidential historian — remember my scholarly writings on the scumbag/liar-Clintons — that never in American history has the entire upper tier of one of our major political parties had to be cautioned against using gutter language. For that matter, I am sure that the Communist Party of the USA never had to issue such a warning to its candidates. George Wallace was innocent of even a hint of the language that the young socialist-Beto O’Rourke made his trademark until even he realized he was going nowhere with his dirty mouth...  https://spectator.org/four-more-years-r-emmett-tyrrell-jr-on-trumps-conservative-victories-at-the-american-spectators-robert-l-bartley-gala/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=8268c1f449-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_15_03_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-8268c1f449-104608113   
Did You Know This About Marie Yovanovitch?
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by DOV FISCHER
{ spectator.org } ~ One, she was appointed ambassador to Ukraine by scumbag/liar-nObama in May 2016, six months before his presidency ended. From 2008 to 2011, she was Bush’s and scumbag/liar-nObama’s ambassador to Armenia... George W. Bush removed Yovanovitch’s predecessor, Ambassador John Evans, from the Armenia post after he rightly called the Turkish Holocaust of Armenians a “genocide.” Bush then nominated Richard Hoagland to be U.S. ambassador to Armenia, but he refused to acknowledge the Turkish Holocaust as “genocide,” so the Senate rejected him. Yovanovitch was the next nominee for the post, and she got the message not to call it “genocide” but to fudge it enough to placate Armenian Americans, so she played along and refused to call the Medz Yeghern — the Turkish Holocaust of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915–23 — a “genocide.” In the  words of Sen. scumbag-Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), reported by the Associated Press on June 19, 2008, when he questioned her during hearings on her nomination, It is a shame that career foreign service officers have to be brought before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and find difficulty in acknowledging historical facts, and find difficulty in acknowledging the realities of what has been internationally recognized.… And it is amazing to me that we can talk about millions, a million and a half human beings who were slaughtered, we can talk about those who were raped, we can talk about those who were forcibly pushed out of their country, and we can have presidential acknowledgements of that, but then we cannot call it what it is. The Associated Press headlined its story “Nominee Refuses to Call Killings Genocide.” After the hearings on Yovanovitch, the Los Angeles Times reported the executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), Aram Hamparian, stated, “We were troubled by Ambassador Yovanovitch’s refusal to offer any meaningful rationale for the Administration’s ongoing complicity in Turkey’s denials, other than her tacit admission that the United States has apparently allowed a foreign nation to impose a gag rule on America’s right to speak truthfully about the Armenian genocide.” Because Armenian Americans were so upset with Yovanovitch’s testimony and because Senate Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee, including Sen. Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, felt comfortable criticizing the Bush administration’s refusal to use the word “genocide” to describe the Medz Yeghern, Yovanovitch’s nomination was delayed while she was forced to respond in writing to a series of written questions from the senators. Her responses further disgusted Armenian Americans. “We remain troubled by Ambassador Yovanovitch’s evasive answers, her outright non-responses, and her refusal, in her replies to Senator scumbag/liar-nObama and other Senators, to offer anything approaching a reasonable or factually supportable explanation of the reasons behind Administration’s misguided policy on the Armenian Genocide,” Hamparian said. “This being said, it appears as though Ambassador Yovanovitch and her colleagues have learned from the disastrous Hoagland experience and are coming to understand that the U.S. Senate will not accept — and the Armenian American community will never allow — an Ambassador to Armenia who denies the Armenian Genocide.” On October 2, 2008, towards the end of President George W. Bush’s tenure, she was asked while she was U.S. ambassador to Armenia what she would do if the newly elected president would change foreign policy, such as formally calling the Turkish Holocaust of Armenians a “genocide” even though she refused to do so.  The ARMINFO News Agency reported, “An Ambassador serves his president and may be recalled anytime and for any reason,” newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Marie L. Yovanovitch said in response to an ArmInfo question as to whether her personal stand on the Armenian Genocide will allow her further to work at the US Department of State if the new leadership of the White House recognizes Genocide.“The decision to recall an Ambassador fully depends on the president,” the American diplomat said avoiding a direct answer to the question. To recall, the former Ambassador John Evans was recalled from Armenia in 2006 for his statements on recognition of the Armenian Genocide... 
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Fixing the Debt: A Reality Check
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By John Merrifield and Barry Poulson
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The United States is now one of the most indebted countries in the world. The national debt is $23 trillion and is projected to grow to 150 percent of national income in coming years... Think tanks of different persuasions agree that this growth in debt is not sustainable, but there is little consensus on how to “fix the debt”; most proposals are unrealistic and misleading. We can dismiss out of hand the new monetary theories proposing to print more money. Heavily indebted countries that finance spending by printing more money, such as Venezuela, end up with hyperinflation and a stagnating economy. Some proposals would attempt to close the fiscal gap. Closing the fiscal gap means stabilizing the ratio of debt to national income at current levels. But experience with debt in other highly indebted countries suggests that simply closing the fiscal gap is not a sufficient condition for fixing the debt. With high levels of debt, a country is exposed to economic instability, as revealed in highly indebted European countries during the recent financial crisis. The countries that have been successful in fixing their debt have done so by significantly reducing debt as a share of national income below the consensus target of 60 percent. Countries such as Sweden and Switzerland, for example, have reduced debt to sustainable levels by imposing a so-called “debt brake,” limiting the growth of spending and using surplus revenue to reduce their debt. In our research, we use a dynamic simulation model to estimate the potential impact of a Swiss-style debt brake in the United States. See vetfiscalrules.net. Reducing the ratio of debt to national income below 60 percent would require fundamental reforms to America’s fiscal policies over the next three decades...
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Terrorists Fire Hundreds Of Rockets Into Israel, 
But Majority of 2020 Democratic 
Contenders Are Silent
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By Erielle Davidson
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Over the past three days, our closest ally in the Middle East has endured a barrage of rockets from its Islamic jihadist neighbors in Gaza, resulting in the closing of Tel Aviv schools for the first time since 1990... In the early hours of Tuesday morning in Shajaiyah in Gaza City, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) assassinated Baha Abu al-Ata, a top commander of the Gaza terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a strike which has resulted in violent retaliatory measures against Israel on the part of the PIJ. Though Hamas is the terrorist organization currently exercising political control over Gaza, their absolute hold over the region has been more tenuous in recent years. And the Iran-backed PIJ has capitalized on this weakening of power, rising to fill the resulting power vacuum from Hamas’ decline. Yet, despite the hundreds of rockets launched at civilian centers throughout the southern part of Israel, only four of the top 10 2020 Democratic contenders bothered to comment—former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris who commented only when approached, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Notably absent were frontrunners Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren (D-MA) and Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (D-VT).The irony of this silence from top primary contenders such as Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, D-VT., and Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, D-MA., is that they have no problem rustling up commentary on Israel when it is to lecture Israel on its immigration policy or to challenge Israel’s understanding of its own territorial claims. Indeed, many of the Democratic contenders expressed public anger at Israel’s denial of entry to Rep. worthless-Rashida Tlaib, D-MI., and Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar, D-MN., who were refused admittance under Israel’s Entry into Israel Law due to their BDS activities which included the proposal of a pro-BDS bill in U.S. Congress. Though Israel’s decision was largely the result of adhering to laws already in place, public chastising on the part of the Left was swift and severe. Democrats prefer to discuss Israel only when they can condemn Israel... These dems continue to forget what happen in 1940s.  https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/14/terrorists-fire-hundreds-of-rockets-into-israel-but-most-2020-democratic-contenders-are-silent/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=d05ce01bf1-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-d05ce01bf1-83771801   
Guilty on all counts: Roger Stone, longtime 
Trump confidant, convicted of lying, 
obstruction, and intimidation
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by Jerry Dunleavy
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Roger Stone, the longtime Republican operative, flamboyant dirty trickster, and Trump ally, lied to Congress, obstructed an investigation, and intimidated a witness, a jury found Friday... He was found guilty on five separate counts of lying to the House Intelligence Committee in addition to two more charges of obstructing a congressional investigation and intimidating a witness following a two-week trial that centered on the actions taken by the self-identified "dirty trickster" and GOP agent provocateur during the 2016 election and beyond. Stone, 67, now faces up to 50 years in prison, a maximum of 20 alone for the most serious charge. Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who has presided over the case since January, will hand down Stone's sentence in February. The jury found Stone repeatedly misrepresented and concealed his 2016 attempt at collaborating with WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange to obtain dirt on then-candidate scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and stolen emails when speaking with Trump-Russia investigators from the House Intelligence Committee in a spin-off case from special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation. The charges against Stone included one count he “corruptly influenced, obstructed, and impeded” the congressional investigation and another that he attempted to “corruptly persuade” Credico’s congressional testimony. Stone also faced five counts of making “materially false, fictions, and fraudulent statements” to Congress. After the jury handed down its verdict, Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Zelinsky argued that Stone should be held in prison for the next few months pending his official prison sentence... Yet nothing happens to scumbag/liar-Hillary or scumbag/liar-Schiff.
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How Fordham University Lost 
to Radical Palestinians in Court
By Richard L. Cravatts
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Coinciding with the 2019 National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) conference held in Minnesota this past weekend... the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released an alarming report that exposes the toxic ideology that characterizes this radical campus group. The ISGAP report confirms what observers of radicalism in higher education have documented for years: that while SJP purports to be a group whose mission is to achieve a peaceful and just resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by supporting Palestinian self-determination, in fact, as the report put it, "SJP is steeped in an ideology that has roots in racist and antisemitic extremism." That toxic campus radicalism has meant that administrators, supporters of Israel, pro-Israel speakers, and Jewish students and organizations have experienced the caustic side-effect of SJP's presence on campus. As SJP grew more aggressive in its demonstrations and behavior, it occasionally, though rarely, has been sanctioned or restrained. Finally, in 2016, one university, Fordham University in New York, cognizant of SJP's history of poisoning dialogue on campuses and promoting a campaign of libels, defamation, and lies against Israel and Jewish students, reversed the decision of the student government to allow SJP to become a recognized student organization and decided that SJP, based on its sorry record at other universities, had no place at Fordham. Dean Keith Eldridge, aware of SJP's methods and ideology, bravely decided that "while students are encouraged to promote diverse political points of view, and we encourage conversation and debate on all topics, I cannot support an organization whose sole purpose is advocating political goals of a specific group, and against a specific country, when these goals clearly conflict with and run contrary to the mission and values of the University. ... The purpose of the organization as stated in the proposed club constitution points toward ... polarization." SJP immediately sued Fordham, in Awad v. Fordham University, 2019 WL 3550713, asserting that the decision to block it from becoming a recognized student organization was, as the judge ultimately found in reversing the dean's decision in  2019, "arbitrary and capricious," and "it must be concluded that Dean Eldridge's disapproval of SJP was made in large part because the subject of SJP's criticism is the State of Israel, rather than some other nation," and that "his only articulated concern was that SJP singled out one particular country for criticism and boycott." In fact, Fordham's instincts were well founded in that the dean knew, based in SJP's record elsewhere, of its pattern of radicalism, misbehavior, toxic speech, and overtly anti-Semitic behavior. That radicalism has been problematic, particularly since research by the AMCHA Initiative, an organization that tracks anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism at universities, "indicates a significant increase in actions which directly harm or threaten Jewish students, including physical and verbal assaults, destruction of property, harassment discrimination and suppression of speech, at schools with an SJP or similar anti-Zionist chapter."  Equally serious is the report's findings that SJP's presence resulted in "incidents of Israel-related anti-Semitic harassment increaseing 70%."...
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Black Americans Thriving in Trump Era
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Political Editors:  We noted it before but it bears repeating: All Americans are thriving under President Donald Trump, and especially black Americans. The data proves it, irrespective of what the Leftmedia claims. Under Trump, the black unemployment rate has hit record lows (5.4%), thanks in large part the Republicans’ Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which has helped create “opportunity zones” responsible for employing 1.4 million people within disadvantaged communities.

Under Trump, long-sought criminal-justice reforms have been realized. The First Step Act was passed, which shortened the length of mandatory-minimum sentencing requirements for nonviolent drug-related offenses and it allows the reevaluation of sentences that are suspected for being racially motivated. As of today, more than 3,000 Americans have been released from prison thanks to the First Step Act.

Trump’s policy agenda of pushing for greater school choice has resulted in the proposal of “a $5 billion per year tax credit on donations that fund scholarships for private schools, apprenticeships, and other educational programs,” as the GOP blog notes. Furthermore, Trump has established a board of advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) — something sought under Barack Obama — and Trump “has appropriated more money than any past president to HBCU’s.”

In all honesty, based upon his record in support of black Americans, it is profoundly misleading and disingenuous for the mainstream media to continue screaming that Trump is a racist. The reality is that the majority of black Americans (as well as the rest of America) are doing better under Trump’s presidency than under his predecessor’s.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66720?mailing_id=4651&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4651&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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America Must Decide If It's Serious 
About Winning War on Terror
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Harold Hutchison  
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liar-Pelosi Devastated 
Hot Mic Moment ENDS Impeachment
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by Martin Walsh
{ explainlife.com } ~ House Speaker House liar-Nancy Pelosi was devastated this week when her push for impeachment blew up before her very eyes. And this “hot mic” moment from former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama is horrific news for liar-Pelosi... Democrats held their first public impeachment hearings on Wednesday, and House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes stumped the Left’s “star” witness with just one question about scumbag/liar-nObama. Nunes reminded Democrats about scumbag/liar-nObama being caught on a “hot mic” speaking to then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. “Are you aware, during the 2012 election when, at the time, President scumbag/liar-nObama leaned over on a hot mic to the then-Russian president and said that he’d have to wait until after the election?” asked Nunes. Was that inflammatory to all Ukrainians also?” continued Nunes. At the time, the Republican congressman was questioning acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, a witness called up by the Democrats. “I don’t know, sir,” Taylor responded. This particular line of questioning from Nunes came after Taylor claimed Trump “made a statement saying that it was possible that he would allow Crimea to go back to Russia.” The ambassador said that such a statement was “amazingly inflammatory to all Ukrainians,” yet, when Nunes brought up the 2012 incident between scumbag/liar-nObama and the Russian president, Taylor was caught and so were the Democrats...   https://explainlife.com/pelosi-devastated-hot-mic-moment-ends-impeachment-17364/?utm_source=Explainlife.com%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan 
Discuss Impeachment “Sham”
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan discuss the testimony of State Dept. officials George Kent and Bill Taylor yesterday, as well as the upcoming testimony of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch scheduled for tomorrow... Not only was Marie Yovanovitch’s prior testimony carefully orchestrated with Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff’s staff, but Ms. Yovanovitch brought three lawyers to help construct the needs of the committee and protect Yovanovitch’s legal interests. During her deposition, when Yovanovitch was questioned about having released her opening statement to the Washington Post on behalf of the Democrats on the committee, her lawyers would not let her talk about it citing attny-client privilege.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/14/mark-meadows-and-jim-jordan-discuss-impeachment-sham/
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Ukraine Foreign Minister Refutes Central Claims 
to Democrat Impeachment Narrative – There 
Was Never a Trump Request to Investigate 
loose lips liar-Biden
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Within the current claims of the Democrats there is a baseline action that needs to exist for any “bribery” or “undue influence” claim to exist... Meaning there had to be pressure by President Trump upon the government of Ukraine to initiate an investigation of loose lips liar-Joe Biden. The call transcript between President Trump and President Zelenskyy doesn’t show such a request. Ukraine President Zelenskyy said there was never such a request by President Trump; and now Ukraine Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko says there was never such a request from U.S. Ambassador Sondland on behalf of President Trump:  The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vadym Prystaiko told Ukrainian reporters a day after the first public impeachment hearing that Ambassador Gordon Sondland did not detail any relationship between the assistance and probe, according to Interfax, a Ukrainian news agency. ‘Ambassador Sondland did not tell us, and did not tell me exactly, about the relation between the military assistance and the investigations,’ Prystaiko told journalists in Kiev. ‘You should ask him. I do not recall any conversation with me as with foreign minister. It was not we, the Ukrainian officials who were told this.’ The Ukrainian official is suggesting that if there were any quid pro quo – as Democrats claim – it was not communicated to the Ukrainian government, adding that he never had contact with Sondland...
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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff is sweating bullets 
after Fox News exposed this one 
crime that could end him
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by renewedright.com ~ The Democrats’ impeachment witch hunt suffered a massive defeat. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s big gamble backfired. And scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff is sweating bullets after Fox News exposed this one crime that could end him... Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was one of the Democrats’ star witnesses. Yovanovitch was an scumbag/liar-nObama loyalist fired by President Trump because she engage in a partisan smear campaign against the President. But Yovanovitch claimed she was fired because Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani wanted her gone so he could proceed with his supposedly rogue plan to extort Ukraine into investigating loose lips liar-Joe Biden through withholding military aid. But it turns out Yovanovitch was just another partisan hack colluding in secret with scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s staff. “Before the contents of the whistleblower complaint were known publicly, a Democratic congressional staffer contact the former American ambassador to Ukraine to discuss what the staffer described as ‘quite delicate and time sensitive questions,’” Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusively reported. “This show has obtained exclusively an email for that Democratic staffer for the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent by private email to the former American ambassador Marie Yovanovitch,” Carlson continued. “Yovanovitch, you know, is a key player in the Democrats’ impeachment probe and was recalled from her post in Ukraine by President Trump in May 2019 following allegations of serious partisanship and political bias… …“That email was sent on August 14, that was two days after the whistleblower complaint was filed and a month before that complaint became public,” Carlson stated. “The whistleblower, however, went to scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s team before filing the complaint.” To makes matters worse, Yovanovitch appeared to lie under oath to Congressman Lee Zeldin when asked if she responded to the email. Yovanovitch is set to be one of the star witnesses at scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s televised impeachment hearings. But this alleged perjury will now become the central focus of Yovanovitch’s testimony.
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Rush Limbaugh left listeners speechless when 
he revealed how he knew the whistleblower
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by renewedright.com ~ The identity of the so-called “whistleblower” is one of the biggest mysteries of the phony Ukraine scandal. But Rush Limbaugh dropped a major bombshell that provide a major break in the case... And Rush Limbaugh left listeners speechless when he revealed how he knew the whistleblower. Paul Sperry’s report on Real Clear Investigations claiming 33 year old scumbag/liar-nObama Deep State operative Eric Ciaramella was allegedly the whistleblower turned the impeachment investigation upside down. Sperry claimed Ciaramella was one of the key figures that helped spread the Russian collusion hoax and given his links to the scumbag/liar-nObama Deep State and former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden it became clear the allegations made by the so-called “whistleblower” were nothing more than a partisan smear designed to bring down Donald Trump. Limbaugh discussed this report on his program and after claiming that Ciaramella looked like the scumbag/liar-nObamacare “pajama boy”, Limbaugh said he must have seen Ciaramella slinking around the White House on the occasions Limbaugh visited the Oval Office. Limbaugh stated: This whistleblower… He’s not a whistleblower! This is another thing. This guy’s a leaker! He’s not a whistleblower! His name is Eric Ciaramella. He’s 30-some-odd-years- old. I’ve got a picture. It looks like the Pajama Boy in the scumbag/liar-nObama ad that they ran back during, I think, the first term. “Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the scumbag/liar-nObama White House…” Why the hell was he still there? What do you mean, “held over”? This guy… I’ve probably seen this guy there. I’ve been to the Oval Office two or three times since Trump’s been president. I’ve been in the West Wing. I’ve probably seen this guy slithering around. It never even registered. Next time I go, I’m gonna keep a sharp eye for people I think might be scumbag/commie-John Brennan holdover plants, ’cause they’re obviously slithering all over the place. Slinking, slithering, whatever you want to say. But that’s not even half the story. The so-called whistleblower, is 33-years-old, “a registered Democrat Can anybody say “partisan”? held over from the scumbag/liar-nObama White House, previously worked with former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan…” He is “a vocal critic of Trump” who – did you know what else? This guy “helped initiate the Russia ‘collusion’ investigation” which was a nothing burger! Democrats initially loved the idea of the so-called “whistleblower” testifying.
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France: An "Inverted Colonization"
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by Guy Millière
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On October 12, 2019, a meeting of the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté was held in Dijon, a quiet town in central France... A woman wearing a long black veil was in the audience, apparently accompanying a group of students. All at once, the head of the National Rally party group at the Regional Council, Julien Odoul, rose and said that the presence of a woman wearing an Islamic headscarf in a public building was incompatible with the values of the French Republic: "We are in a public building, we are in a democratic enclosure. Madame has all the time to keep her veil at home, in the street, but not here, not today. It's the Republic, it's secularism. It's the law of the Republic, no ostentatious signs." He was neither threatening nor violent, yet his words immediately upset others in the room. A boy, apparently the son of the veiled woman,  rushed crying into her arms. She then left the room slowly, accompanied by other children. The event was immediately highlighted in newspapers and television throughout France. Odoul was described as a provocateur and a "despicable Islamophobic racist". The leaders of French political parties asked Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally party, to apologize and to expel Odoul from the party. She replied that Odoul had been "clumsy" and "should have remained silent". She did not, however, expel him from the party. A petition,  "How far will we let hatred towards Muslims go?", in the newspaper Le Monde, described France as "a country where Muslims are stigmatized" as "victims of racism", "segregation" and "ostracism". Without mentioning a recent terrorist attack  at Paris police headquarters where four police employees were murdered by a colleague, Mickaël Harpon, a convert to Islam, the text denounced the decision of some public agencies to "monitor the signs of radicalization among their Muslim employees". The petition also did not mention that it was this attack that prompted public institutions to establish preventive measures. The petition was signed by 90 Muslim writers,  actors and university professors, as well as a few non-Muslim intellectuals. Since then, more than 230,000 people have signed it...
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America Must Decide If It's Serious About Winning
War on Terror
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Harold Hutchison:  We celebrated Veterans Day yesterday. Each year, it serves as the one day that Americans should be remembering and thanking those who stepped up and served their country. But it also needs to be a day of reflection — especially when we discuss the Global War on Terror.

Today, there are Americans who were born after the attacks of September 11, 2001 who are considering enlisting in the military. Right now, America has made some huge gains with driving ISIS into a bunch of holes and taking out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Those are important victories, no doubt about it. But there is precious little follow-up — and a lack of overarching strategy, or even an idea of what ultimate victory looks like.

To his credit, President Donald Trump had an idea of what beating ISIS looked like: Eliminating jihadi control over any territory. We succeeded, and with very few casualties. But there seems to be a lack of vision about the post-ISIS strategic landscape. It’s as if America is just waiting for the next group to form and strike. The situation is not as good in Afghanistan, where the United States seems to be just trying to contain the Taliban — while coming up with some face-saving strategy to exit.

This is not a serious strategy to win the Global War on Terror. It seems more like a holding action — the military has been asked to keep things tamped down, as if that’s the end goal. In one sense, it is winning, but the endless fighting takes a toll on those sent to fight, notably the members of United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM).

Those elite military personnel are carrying the brunt of the effort. They risk getting killed or maimed. They see their fellow troops killed or maimed. Even if they aren’t maimed, they risk the invisible wounds of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. That also goes for the rest of the military — but SOCOM is taking the brunt of the load in Iraq/Syria and Afghanistan.

It gets worse, though. A Green Beret, Major Mat Golsteyn, is facing charges relating to taking out a member of the Taliban who built improvised explosive devices. That bomb-maker was responsible for killing and maiming American and Afghan troops. Yet the scumbag/liar-nObama administration went after him, an effort that recently re-started and that has been tainted by investigator misconduct.

But that misses the fundamental problem with the case: To win in Afghanistan, you need to do things like kill Taliban bomb-makers. Golsteyn did just that — and now, he faces a court martial that could deprive him of his freedom and a fair amount of his constitutional rights.

The Golsteyn case hits for another reason: Taking down terrorist groups like al-Qaida, the Taliban, and ISIS isn’t going to necessarily be a clean fight like World War II was. America pretty much had to ask those tasked with defending it to do some very necessary but distasteful stuff to protect this country. Look what it took to get Khalid Sheik Mohammed to talk. Then look at how those who accomplished that incredibly difficult, yet vital, task were treated.

Arguably, America has pulled its punches, even in the wake of 9/11. George W. Bush had a very superb definition of victory, and he pursued it vigorously. But early mistakes led to the strategy being badly executed. In addition, America pulled punches. Could the Long War have been shortened had the United States replicated the 1945 bombing of Dresden masterminded by Sir Arthur Harris on a Taliban-held city in 2001? Did we miss a similar chance to send a message during the anti-ISIS campaign of 2017?

This doesn’t just affect the War on Terror — but other parts of the globe as well. The nuclear negotiations with North Korea could have had better results if America had the ability to point to a bombed-out pile of burnt rubble that had once been the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa as a case of potential destruction being the consequence of incurring our wrath. Deterrence is not just having the ability to do something, it’s also about having the will to use that ability. The latter is arguably a bigger question than the former these days, and that is not good.

At present, America is asking its military personnel engaged in combat operations as part of the Global War on Terror to risk their lives. But at the same time, we are not serious about winning the war we have sent them to fight. Our troops deserve better than that.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66716?mailing_id=4651&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4651&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Supreme Court to Decide DACA's Fate
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Thomas Gallatin  
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scumbag/liar-Schiff, the Whole
scumbag/liar-Schiff, and Nothing But
the scumbag/liar-Schiff
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by Lloyd Billingsley
{ cms.frontpagemag.com  } ~ In his opening statement Wednesday, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff proclaimed that his impeachment show was about the survival of the American republic itself... Rep. Jim Jordan interrupted to ask when the committee would vote on the ability to address the vaunted “whistleblower,” known only to scumbag/liar-Schiff. “That’s a false statement,” the intel committee boss said. “I do not know the identity of the whistleblower.” Viewers could note that scumbag/liar-Schiff was not under oath, and wonder what factual statements the Burbank Democrat might make. Ranking Republican Devin Nunes described the hearing as a “televised theatrical performance.” The witnesses had “passed star chamber auditions” and been cast in a “low-rent” Ukrainian sequel to the Russia probe that smeared Trump as a Russian agent. The whole show was an “impeachment process in search of crime,” and scumbag/liar-Schiff’s first witness confirmed Nunes’ advance review. George Kent bears some resemblance to actor Martin Sheen, but as Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Kent is hardly a heavy hitter. Still, he touted his illustrious family and even dropped the name of Roger Staubach. As Kent testified, the brave Ukrainians were the equivalent of our own Minutemen, and American aid was an echo of French aid to the United States during the Revolution. Impeachment players Vindman, Hill, Yvanovich and all were the heirs of Brzezinski and Kissinger, who “fled Nazi and Communist oppression.” For Kent, Hunter Biden’s presence on the board of Burisma was a “perception of conflict of interest.” Kent was concerned that the USA not ask for prosecutions that “undermine the rule of law” or conduct “politically motivated investigations.” Later in his testimony, Kent conceded that U.S. aid, including security assistance, is always conditional. Ambassador William Taylor was pleased that Trump had provide Javelin missiles to Ukraine but worried about the role of Rudy Giuliani and an “irregular channel.” Taylor “sat in astonishment” at the way Trump proceeded, driven by the irregular policy channel into an investigation of Burisma. “We must support Ukraine,” Taylor said, “Russian aggression cannot stand.”...
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Graham says scumbag/liar-Schiff should 
be a witness in Trump impeachment trial
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By JORDAIN CARNEY
{ thehill.com } ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Wednesday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) should be a witness in the Senate's impeachment trial... Graham was asked during an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity if senators would try to call scumbag/liar-Schiff, his staff, the whistleblower or Hunter Biden as part of an impeachment trial. "As a matter of oversight, I'm not going to call a House member, but if you impeach the president of the United States, I want to find out if in fact scumbag/liar-Schiff and his staff met with the whistleblower," Graham said. "So if there's a trial in the Senate, one of the witnesses will be scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff because if he in fact did meet with the whistleblower and coach the guy up, I think that's relevant to the impeachment inquiry itself," Graham continued. Graham appeared to be referring to a moment during the public impeachment inquiry hearing earlier in the day when scumbag/liar-Schiff pushed back against an accusation from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that he knew the identity of the whistleblower whose claim is at the center of the House impeachment inquiry. When Jordan said scumbag/liar-Schiff was the only member of Congress who knew the whistleblower's identity, scumbag/liar-Schiff responded, "As the gentleman knows, that's a false statement. I do not know the identity of the whistleblower." A spokesman for scumbag/liar-Schiff didn't immediately respond to a request for comment...   https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470406-graham-says-schiff-should-witness-in-trump-impeachment-trial   
Limbaugh to liar-Pelosi
You getting close to shutting this down?
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by wnd.com ~ Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh had a pointed question for House Speaker Rep. liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after an impeachment inquiry hearing Wednesday led by Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., that lasted nearly six hours... "liar-Pelosi, are you getting close to making a decision on shutting this down?" Limbaugh asked. scumbag/liar-Schiff insisted for more than two years he had proof of President Trump "colluding" with Russia to win the 2016 election before special counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no evidence to support the claim. On Wednesday, the House Intelligence Committee chaired by scumbag/liar-Schiff heard the testimony of two officials to support Democrats' claim that Trump used the withholding of U.S. aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate a potential political opponent, former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Limbaugh, on his show Wednesday, noted Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Ill., asked the witnesses: "Could either of you two guys identify the impeachable offense?" There was dead silence. Limbaugh said there was a "kerfuffle" as scumbag/liar-Schiff tried to "prevent damage," then scumbag/liar-Schiff noticed Ambassador William Taylor wanted to answer. But instead of helping the Democrats, Taylor said: "I want to remind everybody here, I’m not here dealing with impeachment. I’m not here to deal with partisan things. I’m not here, I have no interest in the outcome." Limbaugh commented: "You could have heard the lead balloon drop on the chairman’s chair." He also pointed out Taylor admitted his knowledge was second-hand, and the other witness, George Kent, a senior State Department official, claimed his expertise was in anti-corruption and rule-of-law issues. Those are typical diplomatic answers, Limbaugh said. "You know what the key to diplomacy is, folks? Honestly. Do you know what it is? Never solving anything. Diplomacy is pure one thousand percent devotion to process, not solutions. Because when solutions happen, bureaucracies are no longer needed. When solutions occur, diplomacy is no longer needed, and diplomats are no longer needed. And, folks, I am not exaggerating," he said. Limbaugh pointed to scumbag/liar-Schiff's previous lies about the impeachment evidence...   https://www.wnd.com/2019/11/limbaugh-pelosi-getting-close-shutting/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking 
Ken Starr tells Brett Baier: Republicans 
were rock-solid, ‘no crimes were proven today’
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by Brett T.
{ twitchy.com } ~ Now, before anyone starts complaining about Faux News and its coverage of Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, keep in mind that Judge Andrew Napolitano was a guest on Neil Cavuto’s show... and he seemed to think that the Democrats scored big with Wednesday’s questioning:  However, anchor Bret Baier later talked to former independent counsel Ken Starr from the scumbag/liar-Clinton impeachment, and Starr opined that the Democrats didn’t manage to prove any crime was committed, and furthermore, the chances of the Senate removing Trump from office are nonexistent — Wednesday’s testimony certainly wasn’t going to flip any of them. Who knows … liar-Nancy Pelosi might even pull the plug on this thing at the end of the week if the Democrats can’t come up with some better soundbites.  Not that they’d take our advice, but the Democrats would be a whole lot better off and liar-Pelosi likely agrees if they focused on the 2020 election.  https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/11/13/ken-starr-tells-brett-baier-republicans-were-rock-solid-no-crimes-were-proven-today/?utm_source=twtydaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680   
Televised Impeachment Hearings 
are a Dem Disaster
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by Daniel Greenfield
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Dem scandal mongering, like the Mueller farce, worked best when the media was able to sketch a picture that left out lots of pertinent details and invented others... Televising impeachment hearings which aren't actual impeachment, but committee hearings, one of the most boring things beyond curling and Japanese baseball, was a terrible idea. It's an even worse idea when the pretty picture that you drew doesn't look so good in the light of day. Manufacturing narratives is a lot easier than actually presenting them to public scrutiny and in forums where the opposition gets a voice. Today's disaster introduced 'witnesses' who hadn't actually witnessed anything. Or actually spoken to President Trump. And while omissions like that are easy to achieve in a New York Times or a CNN report, it doesn't work so well in hearings within a legislature encompassing more than one party. Why bring witnesses who didn't witness anything? Because what you've got isn't very impressive. Russiagate was based on the bizarre conspiracy theories of a scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign employee. It worked best when no one read the Steele Report. Its sequel worked best when no one actually got to see the raw material. This is the raw material. Just as with the Mueller testimony, the media's obsessive hyping made things much worse. If the media had been patient enough to take a slower pace, not to oversell, or to urge everyone to rush to the TV Yahoo Mail actually broadcast a red chyron as if a nuclear war had broken out the fail wouldn't have been as strong. But the media is too thirsty and too greedy. And its big push turned into another case of the pajama boy crying wolf.  https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2019/11/televised-impeachment-hearings-are-dem-disaster-daniel-greenfield   
dinky/liar-Warren, commie-Sanders, and
loose lips liar-Biden Preach Diversity,
They Don’t Live It
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by Daniel Greenfield
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Senator commie-Bernie Sanders lives in a $476,000 colonial in Burlington VT. The house in New North End is one of three homes that he and his wife own... Burlington VT is 85% white and less than 5% black. Unlike the Old North End, which is diverse, the New North End has an older and more conservative population. The average household income is $80,000, and a number of the elected officials have been Republicans. Despite commie-Bernie’s socialist image, he chose to live in a white conservative suburban neighborhood where lefties are only slowly beginning to make inroads as younger couples start to move into the area. commie-Bernie's vacation place in North Hero, Vermont, by Lake Champlain, is over 97% white and only 0.25% black. His 1890 rowhouse in Washington D.C.’s Stanton Park is in a somewhat more diverse area. Why invest in a home so close to Capitol Hill? Because commie-Bernie expects to be in the Senate for life. Senator Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren lives in a $3.5 million Victorian home a few blocks from Harvard Square built in 1890. Cambridge is 82% white and Asian, and 10% black. Half the population has an MA or a PhD. Neighborhood Nine or Radcliffe, where dinky/liar-Warren lives, is even whiter than Cambridge in general. Her home is a four-hour drive away from commie-Bernie’s. And it’s a long way from the foreclosed Oklahoma homes that she was buying and flipping to make a profit. Once dinky/liar-Warren arrived in Washington D.C., she also quickly bought into the real estate market, expecting to stay around for a while. Her $800,000 condo in Penn Quarter puts her close to the National Mall and has an 8% African-American population in a city that is otherwise some 47% black. And then there’s loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Or, as he likes to call himself, “Middle Class loose lips liar-Joe”...
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Supreme Court to Decide DACA's Fate
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Thomas Gallatin:  The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today over President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Back in 2012, scumbag/liar-nObama was unable to get legislation passed that would have granted legal status to so-called Dreamers — children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents. So, despite having repeatedly asserted he had no power to act unilaterally, he went around Congress to unilaterally enact DACA via an edict from then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. In September 2017, Trump ordered the DACA program rescinded over the ensuing six months, giving Congress time to come up with a legislative solution for Dreamers. Trump’s decision was clearly an attempt to pressure Congress to act on immigration reform, including funding his border wall.

However, lower courts populated with scumbag/liar-nObama judges were able to derail those plans by issuing injunctions, and now the issue is before the Supreme Court. To clarify, the justices will not be ruling on the legality of DACA itself; rather the question is whether the Trump administration followed the proper protocols when rescinding DACA. In other words, the issue is one of procedure, yet the ramifications for the DACA program — and constitutional Rule of Law itself — are immense.

The Trump administration’s argument in defense of rescinding DACA boils down to the program having been illegally implemented from the start. Trump officials insist that ending an illegally enacted program should not be subject to the same rules and protocols for rescinding or changing a program that was legally instituted. Why apply the rules to rescind a program — rules that mandate a public notice and a period for public comment — when that would merely extend the process of ending the illegal program by months or even years, all for a program that did not follow rules or protocols when it was first implemented?

Either way the Court rules, Trump will still have an opportunity to rescind DACA, thereby putting the ball of immigration reform back in Congress’s court. As the Washington Examiner’s Brad Polumbo notes, “The clear merits of DACA as policy aside, the answer to congressional incompetency is not an imperial presidency with the ability to re-write immigration law by executive fiat. So the conservative-majority Supreme Court would be well justified in striking down DACA as it stands. Critics may blast them for it, but they’re missing the point. The blame truly lies on Capitol Hill.” The Court is expect to issue its ruling early next summer.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66730?mailing_id=4651&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4651&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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The Fall & Our Future
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Impeachment Inquiry Finally
Sees the Light of Day
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by DAVID CATRON
{ spectator.org } ~ Wednesday, seven weeks after House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi launched the “official impeachment inquiry” into alleged misdeeds committed by President Trump... the Democrats leading that probe finally emerged from the bowels of the Capitol building to convene a hearing in the light of day. They made the odd choice to devote their first public hearing to a couple of Foggy Bottom diplomats, William Taylor and George Kent, from whom they have already taken testimony. Neither of these gentlemen have firsthand knowledge of the storied conversation during which Trump is supposed to have demanded that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky open a political investigation in return for U.S. aid. The most conspicuous feature of their testimony was that both Taylor and Kent were in a state of consternation concerning the supposedly sinister implications of the Trump–Zelensky call, about which they learned secondhand from a Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. The latter is one of the only witnesses who actually listened in on the fabled phone call, but his testimony to scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s select committee contains no explicit claim that Trump requested any quid pro quo arrangement, much less engaged in the kind of “extortion” and “bribery” that have now become staples of Democratic impeachment talking points. This is probably why Wednesday’s hearing featured Taylor and Kent rather than Vindman. The hearing commenced shortly after 10 a.m. when Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff introduced the proceedings with his trademark admixture of bombast and innuendo. He began with a gratuitous account of the historical antipathy between Russia and Ukraine and quickly proceeded to a rote recitation of the evidence-free charges he and other Democrats have been leveling against the president since the mystery whistleblower filed his original complaint. scumbag/liar-Schiff then spent several minutes attacking Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, accusing him of blackmailing Ukrainian officials and spreading “debunked conspiracy theories.” At long last he finally got to the point of the exercise: The questions presented by this impeachment inquiry are whether President Trump sought to exploit that ally’s vulnerability and invite Ukraine’s interference in our elections. Whether President Trump sought to condition official acts, such as a White House meeting or U.S. military assistance, on Ukraine’s willingness to assist with two political investigations that would help his reelection campaign. And if President Trump did either, whether such an abuse of his power is compatible with the office of the presidency. Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) opened by recounting the unrelenting attacks on the president. He pointed out that, even after the collapse of the incompetent Mueller investigation, the Democrats remained determined to move forward with their coup and thus invented the Ukraine scandal. He reminded the voters that Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff and his fellow Democrats had routinely lied about the amount of evidence they possessed proving Trump’s collusion with the Russians, read transparent fabrications into the congressional record, accused the president’s son of colluding with WikiLeaks, and illegally leaked classified information to the media, ad infinitum. He then raised the inevitable point: And yet now we’re supposed to take these people at face value when they trot out a new batch of allegations.… Though executive branch employees including State Department officials are charged with implementing the policy set by our president, who is elected by and responsible to the American people, elements of the civil service have decided that they, not the president, are really in charge.… This spectacle is doing great damage to our country. It’s nothing more than an impeachment process in search of a crime...  https://spectator.org/impeachment-inquiry-finally-sees-the-light-of-day/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=b0b04b3fbf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_14_04_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-b0b04b3fbf-104608113   
Trump Caught America’s Biggest Lawbreaker
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By Richard A. Viguerie and Mark J. Fitzgibbons
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Last week in his now-classic style of quips to the media President Trump said, “I caught the Swamp.” To the tens of millions of Americans who elected him, Trump is telling them he’s fulfilling yet another campaign promise... But this one is something perhaps if not certainly no other president could claim. It’s not just the Swamp that Trump caught -- it’s actually America’s biggest lawbreaker. Three years into the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, while America was under the throes of being “transformed” into post-constitutional socialism, we wrote a Thomas Paine-style pamphlet, or e-book, entitled The Law That Governs Government: Reclaiming the Constitution from Usurpers and Society’s Biggest Lawbreaker. The law that governs government is, of course, the Constitution. It was established by “We the People” not merely to create government’s basic structure, but as a fundamental and paramount law over government, legally granting it certain powers and limiting its authority to infringe on God-given rights of the People. People who properly understand that the Constitution is man-made law governing government have a better appreciation for the reasons why it is central to the modern day fight between conservatism and radical leftism. Our book began: Government is the oldest, largest and most pervasive lawbreaker in America. Lawbreaking by government in terms of cost and the number of people victimized is of a scale unmatched by any other organization or group -- leaving nothing as a close second. The Swamp that President Trump “caught” is comprised of more than government, of course, and includes the parasites and abettors in, around, and combining with America’s biggest lawbreaker. The core of the Swamp, however, is corrupt, lawless, lawbreaking government. Under scumbag/liar-nObama, the role of the Departments of Justice and State, as well as the intelligence community, expanded as part of America’s biggest lawbreaker. Those who attempted to “catch” the lawbreaking met with reprisal. scumbag/liar-nObama’s unprecedented use of the Espionage Act against reporters, for example, was the equivalent of using goon squad enforcers to intimidate the fainter-hearted white hats...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/trump_caught_americas_biggest_lawbreaker.html   
Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit 
over New York tax returns
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By Ronn Blitzer and Bill Mears  
{ foxnews.com } ~ "Mr. Trump bears the burden of establishing personal jurisdiction, but his allegations do not establish that the District of Columbia’s long-arm statute is satisfied here with respect to either Defendant,"... Nichols wrote in a decision handed down Monday. "Mr. Trump has also not demonstrated that jurisdictional discovery is warranted. Mr. Trump may renew his claims against the New York Defendants should future events trigger one or more provisions of the D.C. long-arm statute, and he may, of course, sue either New York Defendant in another forum presumably in New York." The judge noted that in theory there could be a situation where the D.C. court could have jurisdiction over the New York officials in this matter, such as if the commissioner hand-delivered Trump's tax returns to a congressional committee. "But speculation that they might occur is insufficient to exercise jurisdiction over the Commissioner now," Nichols wrote. In a footnote, Nichols also cited potential legal complications involved in having a D.C. federal court rule on the constitutionality of a New York state law. Trump has argued that the law poses a First Amendment issue, claiming that it targets him due to his political beliefs and speech. New York Republicans also opposed the law, claiming that is what is known as a "bill of attainder" – meaning one that singles out an individual for punishment – which is prohibited by the Constitution. The language of the law does not mention Trump at all, but Democrats like state Sen. Brad Hoylman, who sponsored a version of the bill, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., specifically mentioned Trump in reference to the legislation before it passed. scumbag liar-Nadler described it in the context of House Democrats' quest to get Trump's tax returns, calling it "a workaround to a White House that continues to obstruct and stonewall the legitimate oversight work of Congress." Trump's lawsuit also named the House Ways and Means Committee as a defendant. The case against the committee is still proceeding in federal court.    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-dismisses-trump-case-against-ny-tax-return-law   
Impeachment Witness Stuns Dems 
President Trump CLEARED
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by Martin Walsh
{ explainlife.com } ~ Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi tapped House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff to lead their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, and it has completely backfired on them in recent weeks... Every time scumbag/liar-Schiff releases new information to the public about their impeachment witch hunt, it further proves they have no case at all. But a bombshell new revelation this week completely clears the president.Democrats claim that Trump directly ordered the U.S. to withhold military aid to Ukraine in exchange for the country reopening their investigation into loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden’s shady business deals in the country. Democrats argue Trump is guilty of an inappropriate “quid pro quo” and that he should be removed from office over it. However, testimony from a senior State Department official specializing in Ukraine revealed that military aid to Ukraine had been withheld previously by the White House — long before the requested investigations came into play — and for very valid reasons, according to Breitbart. State Department official Catherine Croft testified on Oct. 30 that the military aid had been placed on hold for about “a week or two” in late 2017 at the direction of Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. Croft testified the military aid was withheld in 2017 — almost two years before Trump’s July 25 call with the Ukrainian president — over concerns that Russia would react negatively to the provision of lethal aid to Ukraine. But wait, it gets better. Croft also said that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration shared this same concern, which is why they never provided similar aid to Ukraine over the course of the preceding years. The hold was lifted and the military aid was delivered around April 2018. But Croft also revealed in her testimony that Mulvaney’s OMB hadn’t just taken an interest in aid to Ukraine, but was, in fact, looking closely at all aid provided to foreign nations. When asked specifically about the temporary hold on aid to Ukraine in 2017, Croft noted Trump’s reasoning for the hold was “pretty well-known” and that the president was “skeptical of providing weapons to Ukraine.” Asked to elaborate, she said, “When this was discussed, including in front of the Ukrainian delegation, in front of former President Petro Poroshenko, he described his concerns being that Ukraine was corrupt, that it was capable of being a very rich country, and that the United States shouldn’t pay for it, but instead, we should be providing aid through loans.” Here’s the main takeaways: Croft testified that (1) the hold on military aid was enacted in 2017, not around Trump’s July 25, 2019 call; (2) the scumbag/liar-nObama administration never provided similar aid to Ukraine amid the same fears that the Trump administration had; (3) the aid was delivered in early 2018, well before Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president, meaning it was never a condition of the phone call; (4) and the Trump administration was looking at all aid to foreign nations, not just Ukraine, in an attempt to ensure it wasn’t going to corrupt actors/governments. scumbag/liar-Schiff brought in Croft to give him ammunition to impeach Trump over his Ukraine phone call. But instead, she set the record straight and proved that Trump did absolutely nothing wrong.
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By 'abandoning' PIJ, Hamas risks 
sparking crisis with Iran - analysis
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By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
{ jpost.com } ~ Hamas’ failure to join the round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which began after Tuesday’s assassination of PIJ commander Bahaa Abu al-Ata... was one of the main reasons why PIJ agreed to the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, Palestinians said on Thursday. The heavy casualties PIJ suffered during the two days of fighting also contributed to the terror group’s decision to accept Egypt’s mediation efforts, they said.  Several Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said that relations between Hamas and PIJ have been strained as a result of recent round of fighting with Israel. The tensions between the two groups could trigger a crisis between Hamas and Iran, they predicted. Officials from the two groups, however, sought to dismiss the talk about a crisis between Hamas and PIJ and accused Israel of seeking to drive a wedge between the Gaza-based groups.  Sources close to Hamas explained that the movement chose not to involve itself in the fighting out of fear of dragging the Gaza Strip into an all-out war with Israel. “The residents of the Gaza Strip can’t afford another major war like the one that took place in 2014,” the sources said, referring to the seven-week Operation Protective Edge military offensive after Hamas fired rockets into Israel.  According to the sources, Hamas did not believe that the assassination of al-Ata was sufficient to spark another war with Israel. “As far as Hamas was concerned, this was an internal issue concerning Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” the sources explained. “While Hamas did not try to stop the group from avenging the death of its commander, it saw no reason why its men should join the rocket attacks on Israel.”...  https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/By-abandoning-PIJ-Hamas-risks-sparking-crisis-with-Iran-analysis-607876   
IDF, Iranian-led PIJ battle was limited, 
will not be the last - analysis
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By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
{ jpost.com } ~ Forty-eight hours of fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad was monitored by Iran and its proxies in the region, including Hezbollah... IRGC commander Hossein Salami spoke at a ceremony on Thursday, warning that the Islamic world would soon see the “fall of the Zionist regime.” He said that Iran’s military industry has greatly improved and that advanced weapons were being deployed. They were so advanced that the Iranian media would not even be allowed to see them.  What he is hinting at is precision-guided missiles, cruise missiles and drones – the same kind of threat that Iran used against Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq facility in September. “We assure the Iranian nation that the armed forces and the IRGC are so great that they can cope with the enemy, and our people will live comfortably with the knowledge that we can crush our enemies,” Salami said, according to Tasnim and Fars News in Iran. “We will never stop or retreat due to sanctions.” Iran’s IRGC commander and his aerospace units, which have missiles as well as drones, watched closely the battles with Islamic Jihad in Gaza. Salami hinted at this by noting that he had monitored the “Palestinian resistance commanders and leaders of Hamas and PIJ.” He said that they have a right to defend themselves and the “Zionist regime” was leading itself to destruction...  https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/After-Gaza-the-Iranian-threat-607839  
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3 senior Haqqani Network leaders 
to be freed in prisoner exchange
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By BILL ROGGIO
{ longwarjournal.org } ~ The Afghan government plans to free three senior Haqqani Network leaders, including a brother and an uncle of deputy Taliban emir Sirajuddin Haqqani... in exchange for an American and an Australian professor who were kidnapped in 2016. The release of the three senior Haqqani leaders will provide a boost to the Taliban’s leadership, but likely will do little to further derail the moribund negotiations between the US and the Taliban. Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani said that it has to “pay this bitter price” to secure the release of American University of Afghanistan professors Kevin King and Timothy Weeks, who were kidnapped by the Haqqani Network in Kabul in Aug. 2016, TOLONews reported. Both King and Weeks are believed to be in poor health. In exchange, the Afghan government will free Haji Malik Khan, Siraj’s uncle and a top leader in the network; Anas Haqqani, Siraj’s brother and a propagandist and ambassador; and Qari Abdul Rasheed Omari, the group’s military commander for southeastern Afghanistan. The US is likely pressuring Afghanistan to complete the swap in the hopes of a positive development in the negotiations, if history is any guide, it won’t have a positive effect. The Taliban has been clear in that past that prisoner exchanges are conducted merely to release their jailed comrades, and that it does not link such exchanges to peace talks. Like the previous high-profile prisoner swap, the Taliban is likely to portray this exchange as a key victory. In addition to the propaganda win, the three leaders will also provide a boost to the Taliban’s leadership. Before their capture, all three played key rolls within the group...   https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/11/3-senior-haqqani-network-leaders-to-be-freed-in-prisoner-exchange.php   
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The Fall & Our Future
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Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I’ll never forget the emotion I felt watching that stark symbol of communism come tumbling down.

Young Germans poured out of their homes and overwhelmed the security guarding the piece of concrete that physically and psychologically separated East and West Berlin. They quickly began demolishing it piece by piece.

The seeds of the wall’s destruction were planted a couple of years earlier in 1987 when President Ronald Reagan delivered one of his most famous speeches.

Standing before the historic Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Reagan spoke directly to the leader of the Soviet Union and forcefully declared:

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

While reflecting on this anniversary, I couldn’t help but think of a recent poll of millennials. It found that nearly 70% of millennials are willing to vote for a socialist candidate. Even more frightening, a third said they approve of communism.

How is that possible? How can the most highly educated generation of Americans, with Google literally at their fingertips, be so clueless about what life was like under communism?

This is beyond shocking. It’s scandalous. It is a damning indictment of our modern educational establishment and the elected politicians who failed to prevent that establishment from becoming an indoctrination enterprise.

Either we haven’t taught our children what the Berlin Wall was and why it came down or we have taught them a lie. Sadly, I fear it is the latter.

I suspect most young Americans are being indoctrinated to believe that capitalism and free markets are evil, that America is evil. So evil that they’re willing to embrace economic and political ideas that have resulted in tremendous death and suffering.

My friends, 30 years ago I thought America had won the Cold War. Apparently, the fight against communism still continues. Only today the battlefield isn’t West Berlin. The fight is on our high-school and college campuses.

The Culture War

The Supreme Court is hearing several cases this term with tremendous implications for religious liberty. Not surprisingly, at least one far-left group is attempting to rig the result by demanding that Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh recuse themselves from these critical cases.

Why? Because they had the audacity to pose for a picture with the president of the National Organization for Marriage, which advocates for the “radical idea” that marriage should be the union of one man and one woman.

This is further evidence of just how extreme the left has become. Not content with having won the battle over the civil definition of marriage, it is now trying to restrict religious liberty across the board.

It has launched an aggressive campaign called “Beyond I Do.” The success of this effort could be seriously impacted by the outcome of these pending Supreme Court decisions. Thus the attempt to intimidate Alito and Kavanaugh.

The left lost the fight over Kavanaugh’s confirmation, but it never gives up. It wants to disqualify him over a picture. And impeach him if possible.

More Impeachment Lies

Yesterday we noted that the alleged CIA “whistleblower” may have committed perjury by failing to disclose his contacts with Democrat congressional staffers prior to filing his complaint. It seems he isn’t the only one.

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and an scumbag/liar-nObama holdover, is widely seen as a star witness in the Democrat impeachment effort. President Trump removed Yovanovitch in May.

Ambassador Yovanovitch testified before Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s kangaroo court last month. Under questioning from Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), Yovanovitch said she had ignored messages sent in August from a Democrat staffer on the House Foreign Affairs Committee who wanted to speak with her about “quite delicate/time-sensitive” matters.

The timing of the staffers email to Yovanovitch is suspicious as it was sent just two days after the CIA “whistleblower” filed his complaint.

Yovanovitch told Zeldin that she referred the message to the State Department so that someone in the Legislative Affairs Office could “handle the correspondence.”

You can appreciate why State Department officials would be sensitive about handling official business through the proper channels after scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s private-server scandal. In fact, scumbag/liar-Hillary warned State Department employees against using personal email accounts for official business and she even fired an ambassador for doing so.

So kudos to Yovanovitch for following proper protocol. Except she didn’t.

Fox News has obtained emails indicating that Yovanovitch did in fact reply to the Democrat staffer using a private email account. It seems that her response to Rep. Zeldin was not entirely truthful.

Responding to this revelation, Rep. Zeldin said, “It is greatly concerning that Ambassador Yovanovitch didn’t answer my question as honestly as she should have, especially while under oath.”

In related news, Republican senators are stepping up their efforts to expose Hunter Biden’s dealings with the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma. It turns out that the company was aggressively lobbying the State Department and using Biden’s name to gain access and favor.

2020 Update

The Democrat presidential primary took a bizarre turn Friday. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg filed paperwork to have his name appear on the Alabama primary ballot, the state with the earliest filing deadline.

Bloomberg’s move was motivated by growing angst among establishment Democrats that loose lips liar-Joe Biden, Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, and commie-Bernie Sanders just can’t cut it. In fact, Bloomberg’s spokesman said as much, telling reporters that “Mike is increasingly concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned” to defeat Donald Trump.

It is widely reported that Bloomberg is particularly concerned about the rise of the progressive left and the possibility that commie-Sanders or dinky/liar-Warren could win the nomination due to loose lips liar-Biden’s weakness.

But it’s not at all clear to me that Bloomberg has any support in today’s Democrat Party. In spite of his well-known liberal positions on social issues and anti-Second Amendment activism, 75% of Democrat voters said they would vote for a socialist for president. It seems that Bloomberg lost this fight a long time ago.

Bloomberg may not be the last candidate to jump in. There are reports that former Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder may get into the race too.

Meanwhile, President Trump and Vice President Pence headed to Georgia Friday, kicking off a major push to attract black voters to the Republican Party.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66698?mailing_id=4647&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4647&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Justices Should Reject Criminal Alien’s 
Appeal of Deportation Order
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Friday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


LANDMARK SCUFFLE: Trump asks Supreme Court to let him keep his tax returns secret, setting up a landmark fight (CNBC)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER, PART I: Congress releases messages showing Rep. worthless-Rashida Tlaib asked campaign for personal money, announces investigation into her (The Daily Wire)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER, PART II: Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings faces House ethics investigation of relationship with top staffer (National Review)

Government & Politics


TRADE PROGRESS: liar-Nancy Pelosi says finalized trade deal with Mexico and Canada “imminent” (National Review)

MEMO TO STACEY ABRAMS: Bevin concedes in Kentucky governor’s race (The Washington Times)

DUMB AND DUMBER: Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren sells “Billionaire Tears” mug on platform created by billionaire (Townhall)

National Security


BACKGROUND HERE: Federal judge rules U.S.-born “ISIS bride” not an American citizen, U.S. not required to repatriate her (National Review)

BORDER FENCING: Trump admin preparing to take over private land in Texas for border barrier — which is progress given that new barriers have yet to be erected (NBC News)

AWKWARD: U.S. manufacturing group hacked by China as trade talks intensified (Reuters)

World


IRON FIST: Hong Kong violence continues to escalate as China’s Xi Jinping makes strongest statement yet (Hot Air)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: The Green New Deal isn’t just expensive. It’s also bad environmental policy. (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: Don’t reauthorize the Export-Import Bank — defund it (Washington Examiner)

HUMOR: “We don’t need to look into the loose lips liar-Bidens’ corruption,” insists scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff while attempting Jedi mind trick (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66817?mailing_id=4660&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4660&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
House Intelligence Committee 
Impeachment Hearing – Day Two 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Today at 9:00am ET, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will hold the second day of open hearings for the impeachment of President Donald Trump... Todays testimony will come from former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. Marie Yovanovitch is a woman of dubious character who was removed from the administration prior to the July phone call between U.S. President Trump and Ukraine President Zelenskyy. Ms. Yovanovitch has coordinated both her deposition and public hearing comments with the Democrat staff of the committee.
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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff made one shocking admission that stunned everyone into silence
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by renewedright.com ~ scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff is the star of the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. Wednesday saw the opening of the Democrats’ Stalinist public show trial... But in the opening of the hearing, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff made one shocking admission that stunned everyone into silence. After scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s opening statement, Republicans pressed Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff on points of order about their ability to call witnesses. scumbag/liar-Schiff had stated that anyone who attempted to name the whistleblower would be subject to an ethics investigation. Republicans — such as Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan — declared that of the 435 members of Congress, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff was the only one to know the identity of the whistleblower. scumbag/liar-Schiff responded by outrageously claiming to not know the whistleblower’s identity. House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday he does not know the identity of the intelligence officer “whistleblower” who set off Democrats’ impeachment inquiry by mischaracterizing a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked scumbag/liar-Schiff during the House’s first public impeachment hearing Wednesday about when the committee might be able to vote and have the whistleblower come and testify regarding his complaint against the president. Jordan said that scumbag/liar-Schiff was the “only member” that knows the identity of the whistleblower. “I do not know the identity of the whistleblower, and I’m going to make sure that identity is protected,” scumbag/liar-Schiff claimed. Americans watching at home were dumbfounded at that answer.  https://renewedright.com/adam-schiff-made-one-shocking-admission-that-stunned-everyone-into-silence/   
Senator Graham on Impeachment: “I Will Not 
Allow Hearsay Evidence During Senate Trial”
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ An impeachment trial in the senate would presumably be run through the Senate Judiciary Committee presiding judge John Roberts, unless there are constitutionally permitted process rule changes... Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham begins to get specific about what he will and will-not allow as part of the senate trial.  Graham notes the ‘hearsay rule’ will be applied to the House evidence within the articles as presented. Additionally, Graham notes that anonymous witnesses ie. “whistleblower” will not be permitted.
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Senate GOP Leadership Warns Trump
Any White House Attempt to Dismiss 
Impeachment Charges Will Fail
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ They are called “decepticons” for a reason. McConnell is king, and Cornyn, Thune and Barasso are his praetorian guards. Go Deep... Senator John Cornyn (TX), a key member of the Senate GOP leadership; and a member of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees; warns the White House that a vote to immediately dismiss articles of impeachment and avoid a trial won’t work. “There’s some people talking about trying to stop the bill, dismiss charges basically as soon as they get over here. I think that’s not going to happen. That would require 51 votes,” Cornyn told reporters Wednesday. “I think it would be hard to find 51 votes to cut the case off before the evidence is presented.”  A top Senate Republican, John Cornyn, said on Wednesday that should the U.S. House of Representatives vote to impeach President Donald Trump, he doubts a motion in the Senate to immediately dismiss the charges would succeed. Cornyn, who spent years as the Senate’s no. 2 Republican, said such a motion would not receive the 51 votes necessary in the Republican-controlled Senate to pass. He said he was confident that ultimately, a vote in the Senate to remove Trump from office would fail. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, is one Republican senator who previously hinted at the possibility of advancing a motion to dismiss the articles of impeachment. However, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told GOP colleagues during a lunch meeting last month any motion to dismiss would have to come from the president’s defense team after the impeachment managers deliver the articles to the Senate...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/13/senate-gop-leadership-warns-trump-any-white-house-attempt-to-dismiss-impeachment-charges-will-fail/     
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Impeachment Hearings Produce 
Shocking Evidence of Moral Corruption
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by Andrew Stiles 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Impeachment hearings taking place on Capitol Hill on Wednesday produced shocking evidence of moral corruption in the nation's capital... A number of Twitter users expressed dismay after a bombshell document related to the House impeachment inquiry was posted on the popular social networking website. Prior to the start of Wednesday's hearing, the Capitol Lounge, a D.C. drinking establishment frequented by congressional staffers, announced a special menu of "impeachment cocktails" for patrons with nothing better to do than watch political hearings at a bar in the middle of the day. In the opinion of most analysts who reviewed the document, it was a stunning indictment of the moral and intellectual derangement of the left-wing political professionals who reside in Washington. The cocktails in question, priced at 450 Russian rubles ($7), were given clever resistance-themed names and descriptions. The "Daddy Will Never Love You" martini, for example, was advertised as "extra bitter" and "extra filthy dirty," a reference to the fact that the words "bitter" and "dirty" can have different meanings, depending on context. In fact, most of the other cocktail descriptions used wordplay in an effort to entice patrons and inject amusement into the bitter hearts of resistance libs. The fizzy, fruity concoction known as the "Quit Bro, Go" would be "served on a subpoena," while the rye-based "Jared's Grease in the Middle East" would be "served covered-up. "The menu concludes with the establishment's tagline: "No Politics. No Miller Lite. "A handful of Twitter users expressed joy and excitement in response to the impeachment-related document. Most Americans, meanwhile, went about their daily lives, blissfully unaware of the moral turpitude on display in our nation's capital.   https://freebeacon.com/politics/impeachment-evidence/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f2c412a92c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_12_10_22_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f2c412a92c-45611665     
Washington State Defeats 
Affirmative Action Proposal
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by Charles Fain Lehman 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Washington state voters rejected a referendum to permit affirmative action in hiring decisions, election officials confirmed Tuesday evening... Officials announced after a week of counting that Referendum 88, which would have allowed the state government to use minority status as a factor in public education, hiring, and other public acts so long as it did not erect a quota system, had failed by 13,000 votes. The referendum would have overturned the state's civil rights initiative that explicitly prohibits any discrimination or preference on grounds of race, sex, or other protected status. The defeat of Referendum 88 in a state otherwise dominated by Democrats may serve as a warning to national candidates, even as 2020 contenders race to the left on everything from "more-inclusive" language to reparations for slavery. The Democrat-controlled state legislature passed an affirmative action bill known as Initiative 1000 in April. Initiative 1000 would have expanded the scope of discrimination laws to include sexual orientation, disability, and veteran status. But it also would have given the Washington state government free rein to give preferential treatment to groups it views as minorities. Activists challenged the bill and put the issue directly in the hands of residents rather than lawmakers. Tuesday's results reaffirmed a 1998 ballot initiative in which voters approved an anti-affirmative action law by a 58-42 margin. "Our coalition of volunteers from across the political spectrum defeated the Pro-88 campaign because voters didn’t want a new system of quotas based on race, nor did they want a massive new unaccountable government bureaucracy to implement it," Linda Yang, a leading affirmative action opponent, said in a press release. The referendum's loss is surprising given Washington state's status as a liberal stronghold. Democratic governor Jay Inslee drew national attention through a hard-left presidential campaign focused on spending  $3 trillion to fight global warming; he dropped out in August. Both houses of the Washington state legislature are also dominated by Democrats, making it 1 of just 15 states with total Democratic control...  https://freebeacon.com/issues/washington-state-defeats-affirmative-action-proposal/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f2c412a92c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_12_10_22_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f2c412a92c-45611665   

Deportation of Shakir is a Win for Democracy
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by Matthew Mainen
{ meforum.org } ~ On Monday, the European Union called on Israel to "reverse its decision" to deport Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch's director for Israel and the disputed territories... This request comes in the wake of a finding last week by Israel's High Court that Shakir breached a 2017 law prohibiting entry and residency to foreigners who publicly support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Though applauded in pro-Israel circles, the deportation has been met with a bevy of  criticism for allegedly violating democratic norms. In fact, Shakir's removal and the broader circumstances exemplify the robustness of Israel's democratic process, something that should not be undermined by the European Union or any other external actor. The Knesset passed "Amendment No. 28 to the Entry Into Israel Law" after Israelis elected three successive right-wing governments vowing to aggressively combat BDS. By continuously backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies, the Israeli people affirmed this platform. Their decision should be respected. The same goes for that of the Israeli judiciary, which ruled against Shakir at every merits stage of the process. By any theory of statutory interpretation, Shakir unambiguously broke the law with routine calls on companies to cease business in Israeli-controlled parts of the disputed territories, and that was a drop in the bucket compared to his larger BDS activism...  https://www.meforum.org/59897/deportation-of-shakir-is-a-win-for-democracy?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=9784655404-MEF_Mainen_2019_11_14_12_54&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-9784655404-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-9784655404-33703665&mc_cid=9784655404&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12   
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Justices Should Reject Criminal Alien’s 
Appeal of Deportation Order
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The Supreme Court on Nov. 4 heard oral arguments in an immigration case that could have a dramatic impact on how many criminal aliens plaguing our communities finally get deported.

The case, Barton v. Barr, is complicated, in large part because the statutes involved are vague and subject to various interpretations.

That prompted Justice Stephen Breyer to comment during oral arguments that “it wasn’t a genius who drafted this.” But the decision that will be made by the court in interpreting these immigration laws will affect the lives and safety of Americans.

Under federal immigration law, a permanent resident alien who is here legally is “removable” if he is “inadmissible.” That is to say, he should never have been admitted in the first place because he met one of the factors listed in the statute (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)), such as posing “a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others.”

A permanent resident alien is also removable if he is “deportable” under another statute (8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)), which lists a series of disqualifying offenses, including violations of any “law of the United States.”

The attorney general has the discretion to cancel the removal of such an alien, but to be eligible for such cancellation, the alien has to show not only that he is statutorily eligible for such relief from the attorney general, but that he also deserves such favorable treatment.

The statutory requirement is that the alien has been “lawfully admitted for permanent residence for not less than 5 years”; has “resided” in the country “continuously for 7 years after having been admitted”; and that he has not been “convicted of any aggravated felony.”

What is at issue in the Barton case is the “stop-time rule.” The stop-time rule outlined in 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(d)(1) says that an alien’s “period of continuous residence” in the U.S. is “deemed to end” if the alien has committed any offense that makes him “inadmissible” or “removable.”

In other words, an alien has to be crime-free under the law during the seven-year period of continuous residence. That’s not asking very much of a would-be citizen or lawful permanent resident.

Andre Martello Barton is a Jamaican who was admitted to the U.S. on a tourist visa in May 1989. In 1992, he was granted permanent resident alien status. Four years later, in 1996, he was convicted in state court on three counts of aggravated assault, as well as first-degree criminal damage to property and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. This was followed up by more convictions in 2007 and 2008 for drug offenses.

In 2016, the Department of Homeland Security finally sought to remove Barton, and an immigration judge agreed that he could be removed because of his drug and weapon convictions.

When Barton applied for cancellation of his removal, the DHS argued he wasn’t statutorily eligible because he didn’t meet the seven-year continuous residence requirement due to his convictions for aggravated assault in 1996.

The DHS said the “stop-time” rule meant that his period of continuous residence ended in 1996, when he committed the aggravated assaults and firearms offenses.

Barton appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In what amounts to a highly technical argument about the wording in the applicable immigration statutes, Barton claimed that since he was not currently seeking admission to the U.S., he couldn’t be “rendered” inadmissible through the stop-time rule.

Barton also argues that the 1996 convictions did not trigger the stop-time rule because it is not referenced in Section 1182(a)(2) of the statute, and that he was convicted in July 1996, after the seven-year anniversary of his initial admission as a tourist.

The Court of Appeals rejected Barton’s arguments, and he appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The high court should rule against Barton, too. As the 11th Circuit said, the stop-time rule’s “plain language forecloses” the interpretation that Barton and his lawyers are trying to push.

Further, if the Supreme Court rules against the government, it could keep thousands of dangerous aliens who have committed serious crimes, such as aggravated assault and using a weapon to commit a felony, in the U.S.

Congress obviously wanted criminal aliens like Barton, who endanger our communities, removed from the country. Although the statutes in play here may not have been written by “a genius” (or even a decent legal writer), their intent is clear.

A ruling for Barton would not just violate the text of federal immigration law, but the congressional intent behind those particular statutes.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66699?mailing_id=4647&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4647&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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What's Under There?
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Tom McLaughlin
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Hearing Highlights – Jordan, Stefanik and 
Ratcliffe Deconstruct Impeachment Narrative
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Day One of the liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff and Lawfare effort to publicly construct support for the impeachment of President Trump ends... Within the questioning of State Department officials George Kent and Bill Taylor the value of adding Jim Jordan to the hearings became clear. Jim Jordan, Elise Stefanik and John Ratcliffe methodically deconstructed the false premise advanced by the impeachment crew. It became clear that both Kent and Taylor held no specific and direct knowledge of the substance behind the claims made by the democrats leading the effort. Here’s a few highlights starting with Jim Jordan: Jordan pressed Taylor on how he came to have a “clear understanding” that the U.S. aid to Ukraine was dependent on opening an investigation into Trump’s political rivals. Jordan said there was no “linkage” and Ambassador Taylor said he came to his “clear conclusion” based on what other people said about what other people heard about conversations with other people...
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What the ...? scumbag-Schiff claims 
NOT to know identity of whistleblower
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by wnd.com ~ Even the left-leaning FactCheck.org says Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff lied when he "implied" the House Intelligence Committee had had no contact with the anti-Trump, career CIA whistleblower... whose complaint triggered the current impeachment inquiry. scumbag-Schiff claimed, "We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower."But the whistleblower had reached out to a committee aide and might even have received guidance from Democrats before filing his complaint against the president. Now, scumbag-Schiff has claimed he doesn't know the identity of the whistleblower, reported to be Eric Ciaramella, a career CIA employee who was assigned to the scumb ag/liar-nObama White House and worked on Ukraine issues before he was returned to the CIA during the Trump administration. scumbag-Schiff made the denial Wednesday during the first public impeachment-inquiry hearing after Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pointed out that scumbag-Schiff is the only member of Congress who knows the whistleblower's identity. Jordan asked when the rest of Congress will be afforded that right."Do you anticipate when we might vote on the ability to have the whistleblower in front of us. ... Out of the 435 members of Congress, you are the only member who knows who that individual is," Jordan said. "And your staff is the only staff of any member of Congress who's had a chance to talk with that individual. We would like that opportunity. When might that happen in this proceeding today?" scumbag-Schiff claimed Jordan's statement is "false." "I do not know the identity of the whistleblower, and I'm determined to make sure that identity is protected," he said. Fox News reported  Republicans in the room "laughed and sneered" when scumbag-Schiff made the statement. His claim seems to clash with past statements he made about his staff having contact with the whistleblower and his admission that he should have been more transparent about the private encounter...   https://www.wnd.com/2019/11/huh-schiff-claims-not-know-identity-whistleblower/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking  
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Jordan on fire, real star of impeachment
hearing ‘I’ve seen church prayer chains
easier to understand’
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by Zachary Leeman
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan expressed the same shock at Wednesday’s impeachment inquiry hearing that no doubt many Americans are feeling as they watch this political theater play out... The first public hearing in the inquiry included witnesses William B. Taylor Jr., the former top diplomat in Ukraine, and George P. Kent, a senior State Department official, two men who were unable to provide anything of substance to the inquiry. Taylor even admitted multiple times during his testimony that he was merely there to pass along information he had heard secondhand. Jordan got a little tired of the rumors being passed off as evidence and he broke down the entire sham process as only he can. He, like many others, was confused how Taylor could argue he had a “clear understanding” of the alleged quid pro quo at the center of this impeachment inquiry when he had no new substantial information to provide. “You’re their Democrats’ star witness,” Jordan said in awe after having Taylor admit he had no firsthand knowledge of any phone calls between President Trump and the Ukraine president and also that in multiple meetings with the Ukraine president, a potential investigation was never once brought up. “I’ve seen church prayer chains that are easier to understand than this,” Jordan continued. As Jordan then started breaking down the fact that Taylor’s information was all secondhand and contained no real substance, scumbag-Adam Schiff swooped in to save the day and gave Taylor a chance to respond. “Let me just say, I don’t consider myself a star witness for anything,” he eventually said...
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Shady sumbag-Schiff Claims he Doesn’t
 Know Identity of “Whistleblower”
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by bongino.com  ~ Despite his office’s coordination with the Ukraine “whistleblower,” Russian collusion hoaxer scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA) claims he does not know their identity... At today’s impeachment hearing, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked when lawmakers might have the ability to question the “whistleblower.”  “Of the 435 members of Congress, you are the only member who knows who that individual is. Your staff is the only staff of any member of Congress that’s had a chance to talk with that individual,” Jordan said. “We would like that opportunity. When might that happen in this proceeding?” “That’s a false statement,” scumbag-Schiff responded. “I do not know the identity of the whistleblower. I’m determined to make sure that identity is protected … You will have an opportunity after the witnesses testify to make a motion to subpoena any witness and compel a vote.” Last month, it was revealed that the “whistleblower” sought “informal guidance” from scumbag-Schiff’s Intelligence Committee before filing their complaint with an inspector general. scumbag-Schiff had previously stated that his office had  “not spoken directly to the whistleblower,” however,  he was forced to clarify his remarks in an October appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “I should have been much more clear and I said so the minute it was brought to my attention,” scumbag-Schiff told CBS. “I was referring to the fact that when the whistleblower filed the complaint, we had not heard from the whistleblower. We wanted to bring the whistleblower in at that time. But I should’ve been much more clear about that.”
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At Least 72,000 Meals for Homeless 
Veterans Stolen on Veterans Day Weekend
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By Bradley Evans 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ A nonprofit group in the greater Kansas City, Missouri, area discovered Monday that its trailer filled with thousands of meals for veterans had been stolen... Paul Chapa, the founder and president of Friends in Service of Heroes, had spent Veterans Day putting on celebrations for those who have served, KSHB-TV reported. When he returned later that day to his organization’s office in the Kansas City suburb of Lenexa, Kansas, he noticed that the trailer was gone. Chapa said the trailer was filled with 12,100 meal packets. Since each packet can make six to eight meals, the trailer contained roughly 73,000 to 97,000 meals in total. KMBC-TV reported that the contents of the trailer were worth $30,000 and that it was stolen between 8 p.m. Saturday and Monday morning. FISH was planning on handing out the meals to veterans at the Kansas City VA Medical Center on Nov. 21, according to KSHB. “It was a punch in the gut,” Chapa said of the theft. “You know, such a great day, I mean such a great day, and to come back to this? It’s not cool.” “Why would someone want to do this? These are the people that provide our freedom.”...  https://www.westernjournal.com/least-72000-meals-homeless-veterans-stolen-veterans-day-weekend/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance   
Senate Confirms Chad Wolf, Paving 
The Way For Him To Become DHS Chief
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by JASON HOPKINS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Lawmakers in the upper chamber of Congress took a major step that paves the way for Chad Wolf to become the next acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security... The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Wolf as the undersecretary of Homeland Security’s Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans by a vote of 54-41. The move allowed the Trump administration to make Wolf the next acting secretary of DHS before a more permanent replacement can be named. The vote marks the latest development since Kevin McAleenan, the current DHS acting secretary, announced he would be leaving the position.  McAleenan publicly announced in October that he would be vacating his post at the end of the month. President Donald Trump at the time said he would name a replacement by the end of the week. However, that week came and gone, and no replacement was named. By the end of October, it was clear that McAleenan would be needed to stay on as the administration raced to find a suitable candidate. The White House heavily considered acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) acting commissioner Mark Morgan and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) acting director Ken Cuccinelli. However, since both of these men are in acting positions, an internal White House review of rules of succession deemed both men ineligible. After days of speculation, the president told reporters on Nov. 1 that he would be choosing Wolf for the job. Before he could be tapped, however, Wolf needed to be confirmed for his current position. He has served in the DHS undersecretary position since February, when Trump first nominated him, but he had not been confirmed until Wednesday. Wolf touts a long history within the Department of Homeland Security and other immigration-related work. He joined the Transportation Security Administration — an agency within Homeland Security — shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and served as the assistant administrator of transportation security policy. Wolf recently served as former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s chief of staff. Beyond his career within the federal government, Wolf also worked as a lobbyist and a consultant for more than a decade. The vote on Wednesday fell mostly along party lines, with Democrat Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona crossing party lines in favor of Wolf. Because of Wolf’s past work as a lobbyist for the National Association of Software and Service Companies, where he advocated for H-1B visas for foreign workers, some immigration hardliners in the GOP needed extra convincing before his confirmation. The Washington Post confirmed on Wednesday that Wolf, shortly after his Senate confirmation, was officially sworn in as the acting secretary of Homeland Security.
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What's Under There?
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Tom McLaughlin
 
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Remember digging a hole at the beach with your pail and shovel? It’s pretty easy to dig in sand when its grains are held together somewhat by moisture. Dig down far enough though and the hole fills with water. Then its sides collapse and you end up with a shallow depression. Well, that’s something like what we found when replacing a 35-year-old foundation that had been heaving up under a large garage on one of the properties I manage. First, we moved the garage off to the side. Then Colin Micklon and his crew at Micklon Tree and Landscaping dug out the old foundation which had been built on blue clay at the bottom of a hill near Kezar Lake.
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Hitting blue clay  
Colin got down to an undisturbed level, or “virgin ground,” as it’s called in the trade. Then he set up a pump to suck out accumulating groundwater, trucked away all the fill, and got ready to build a crushed-stone base for the new foundation. Then a nor’easter arrived last month with all that rain. On top of groundwater from several springs in the hillside, it was too much and the blue-clay sides of the hole sloughed back in. While Colin and his crew dealt with that, I consulted my research materials to understand why the blue clay was there.
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Whenever I see an excavator or backhoe digging, I pull over and look in the hole. It’s the only way to see what is under the surface, right? That’s basically what geologists do when compiling data on what they call Maine’s “surficial geology.” About fifteen ago I purchased several sets of data from the Maine Geological Survey (MGS) on Lovell and the surrounding area. The MGS arranges its research to correspond with green quadrangle maps from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) you’ve probably seen hanging up in various places.  
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USGS map Center Lovell Quadrangle
My house is located on the southwest corner of the green map called the “Center Lovell Quadrangle.” Surrounding that are the Fryeburg Quadrangle, the Pleasant Mountain Quadrangle, the North Waterford Quadrangle, and so forth. I purchased those about forty years ago when I first moved to Lovell. I used them in my classroom to teach local geography, to guide me in my deer-hunting expeditions, and to explore cellar holes in abandoned settlements all around the area. The University of New Hampshire has an online collection of USGS Maps going back to the 1890s.  
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Those maps are great for seeing what is on the surface like old logging roads, jeep trails, elevations, streams, and so forth, but don’t offer any information about what is under the surface. The Maine Geological Survey (MGS) surficial geology maps I purchased were based on data compiled up to 2002, but they’ve since been updated. Teams of state geologists visit each quadrangle periodically and look into whatever excavations are going on at the time, gravel pits, cellar holes, road cuts — wherever they can get peeks underground. They compare visible data with evolving theories about which of at least four ice sheets to have come and gone over this area during the past two million+ years did what.
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After purchasing fourteen acres on Lovell’s Christian Hill back in 1980 or so, we began building the house in which we now live. First I cleared the trees, then hired Tommy Barker to dig the cellar hole. Colin was in kindergarten then. There’s only a foot or so of topsoil above what’s called “hardpan,” which goes about fifty feet down to bedrock. That, according to the above data, was laid down by a glacier, but which one? Was it the last one that melted back about 11,000 years ago? Or was it one the ice sheets that came and went before it hundreds of thousands of years earlier?  
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There were no geologists around to consult, but my guess is it was probably all of them. We know the last glacier best and it was estimated to be 1-2 miles thick and very heavy. It had boulders, sand, gravel, and clay contained within it which dropped wherever it melted. Earlier glaciers did the same. They all dropped material which was then compressed by the weight of subsequent glaciers. Maine’s hard pan is like concrete, extremely difficult to break through, and impermeable to water.  
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That blue clay we encountered near Kezar Lake seems to have been deposited during the last warming period around 11,000 years ago when meltwater was held back by an ice and debris dam and formed a much larger lake geologists call “Lake Pigwacket.” It was many times the size of what’s now Kezar Lake. All this surficial geology overlays bedrock, and it seems that Maine’s bedrock is among the most diverse on the entire planet — but that’s a column for another time.  
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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

funer-1.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xIf you were going to take a vote on making a witch hunt inquiry official, there couldn’t have been a more appropriate day to do so than on Halloween, and that is exactly what the wicked one of the west coast did on October, 31st.

Let me be staggeringly honest here…vodka-soaked Nancy Pelosi spent 7 months trying to gin up some sort of mandate to either move forward with such an official impeachment inquiry, fabricated though it may be, or get to work getting things done to fix real issues we face as a country, and the best she could do was prove that the liberal/socialist radicals that are leading her party are perpetrating a transparent sham.

Save 2 democrats who just couldn’t bring themselves to join the revenge-minded, sour-grapes line of pressured thinking, every democrat in the House voted for moving the impeachment inquiry to the next level, and every single Republican voted against it.

As Pelosi stated some 7 months ago…

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Dems Reject Fairness in Partisan
Impeachment Inquiry
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Thomas Gallatin  
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Multiple victims reported 
in shooting at California high school
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by Zachary Halaschak
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ One is dead and four are injured after an early morning shooting at a California high school... The shooting took place at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, on Thursday morning. Reports of gunfire first came in around 7:40 a.m. local time. Upon arriving to the scene, police found six gunshot victims in the quad are of the high school. It was later determined that one of those injured was the gunman, a 16-year-old Asian male. Police said he pulled out a semi-automatic pistol from his backpack and began firing before shooting himself in the head. The suspect is in custody and is being treated at a local hospital. One of the female patients died at the hosptial while being treated in the wake of the shooting. Classes had not yet begun at the time of the shooting, so the campus was not completely full. A number of students were seen being wheeled out of the school on gurneys and put into ambulances. Students were seen in aerial footage being led out of the school with their arms in the air as police with rifles stood by. All schools in the area were placed on lockdown after the shooting and area roads were temporarily closed. Police were still clearing students from classrooms as of 8:45 a.m. local time.“My daughter’s still in the band room. They’ve got a policeman with them,” parent Brian Skiba told CBS2. “They’re still in lockdown. They’re only clearing it classroom by classroom.” “She heard the shots as well, she was in the quad where it started and ran to the band room and locked the door behind her and told everybody to get down,” Skiba added.
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On the Eve of scumbag/liar-Schiff
Show: Two Head Fakes
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by JOHN C. WOHLSTETTER
{ spectator.org } ~ As we approach the public segment of the House Democrats’ impeachment parade, there are two monster head fakes aimed at bamboozling the viewing public... (1) House Intel chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s likening the House process to the grand jury and (2) the Democrats and a few stray Republicans insisting that the utterly phony “whistleblower” remain anonymous as protection from harm. Grand Jury Games. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff tells us that closed-door sessions follow the grand jury process. But the scumbag/liar-Schiff process strays from grand jury practice in several key aspects. First, grand jurors are allowed to ask their own questions — even if the prosecutor managing the process doesn’t wish them to do so. This was done in 1872 with the Boss Tweed corruption scandal by what lawyers call a “runaway grand jury”; and again in 1974, when the Watergate grand jury was prepared to indict Richard Nixon on four counts before Nixon resigned. Gerald Ford fully pardoned him a month later, and the grand jury was disbanded. In his memoir, The Right and the Power (1976), Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski saw a fair trial as impossible due to massive, unprecedented pre-trial publicity — the factor that moved President Ford to pardon his predecessor. Of indictment, Jaworski wrote, “The grand jury, I knew, would indict him in a minute. But could he receive a fair trial, a constitutional right?” Second, all grand jurors have equal rights. The Handbook for Federal Grand Jurors specifies the rights of grand jurors: Each juror has equal rights and responsibilities, and each is entitled to be satisfied with the evidence before being called upon to vote. No juror has the right to dismiss a witness or to shut off proper discussion if other jurors wish to pursue the matter further. The handbook further states, Every grand juror has the right to express his or her view of the matter under consideration, and grand jurors should listen to the comments of other grand jurors before making up their minds. Only after each grand juror has been given the opportunity to be heard will the vote be taken. Put simply, neither as foreman nor as prosecutor would scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff be able to run his show the way he has conducted the Intelligence Committee hearings, running roughshod over Republican members who wish to cross-examine witnesses and have other witnesses testify. Protection Racket. Mark Zaid, the “coup has started” lawyer who represents the “whistleblower,” informed the FBI about threats made against his client. One threat, reported on October 2, was found “not credible” by the FBI. There have been numerous threats. Yahoo reports that threats they investigated show no physical harm intended. These are low-level individual threats, far less worrisome than threats from the mob, terrorists, or drug cartels. U.S. marshals have a Federal Witness Security Program, which since establishment in 1970 has successfully protected over 7,500 witnesses and over 9,500 witness family members; there have been over 10,000 criminal convictions, with an 89 percent conviction rate...   https://spectator.org/on-the-eve-of-schiff-show-two-head-fakes/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=4c0a94130a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_13_02_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-4c0a94130a-104608113   
Nunes: Transcripts Are 
‘Devastating to the Democrats’
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by JEFF POOR
{ breitbart.com } ~ As House Democrats speed toward impeachment, some are wondering how the U.S. Senate, controlled by the Republican Party, will react when the ball is in the Senate’s court... Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, urged folks to take a wait-and-see approach to the proceedings. He explained how Democrats and the media will attempt to frame the storylines but added that the recently released transcripts from the closed House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearings last week show the testimony given was “devastating to the Democrats.” “Let’s see how this goes this week,” Nunes said. “My guess is it’s going to be a complete circus. We’re not going to get any of our witnesses. The mainstream media is going to say how damaging it is to the president. That’s just going to be the storyline. But the fact of the matter is if you actually read these transcripts and Gregg Jarrett was just going through them … these transcripts as we were saying when the Democrats were slowly leaking them out to their friends in the media – that’s what we’ve been doing for the last six weeks. But now that the transcripts are out, they’re devastating to the Democrats. So, let’s see where this goes. But at the end of the day, the Senate should be calling all these people in as soon as possible.”   https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/11/11/nunes-transcripts-are-devastating-to-the-democrats/   
Ranking Member Devin Nunes Opening
Statement – Impeachment Hearings Day One
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Here’s the opening statement from HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes:
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DOJ Watchdog Takes Key Step 
Toward Releasing FISA Abuse Report
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by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Justice Department’s inspector general has reportedly started inviting government officials to review a report of an investigation into the FBI’s surveillance activities against a Trump campaign official... the latest signal that the report will be released soon. Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, has in the past few days invited current and former government officials interviewed the investigation to review portions of the report, according to people familiar with the process, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. The opportunity for review is a routine step in inspector general’s investigations that typically takes place just prior to publication of the report. Horowitz has scheduled the reviews for this week and next week, the people said, according to the AP. Horowitz has been investigating whether the FBI followed laws and procedures when seeking Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser. Republicans have accused the FBI of abusing the FISA system by relying heavily on the unverified and Democratic-funded Steele dossier in applications for the warrants. The special counsel’s report undermined the dossier’s main allegation that the Trump campaign conspired with Russian to influence the 2016 presidential election. Horowitz’s team has been investigating whether the FBI and Justice Department properly disclosed all the information it had about Steele and the dossier.  Horowitz submitted the report to the FBI and Justice Department for a review of classified information. He told lawmakers on Oct. 24 that he expects his report to be “lengthy” and have few redactions.  Republican lawmakers have expressed frustration at how long it has taken to release the report. Some lawmakers claimed earlier in 2019 that they expected the report to come out in June. The timeline was extended after Horowitz reportedly interviewed Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the dossier.   https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/12/horowitz-fisa-dossier/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10896   
IT’S CONFIRMED – Bill Barr’s 
Prosecutor Is Doing It
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by Martin Walsh
{ explainlife.com } ~ Attorney General William Barr has been very busy lately getting to the bottom of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration spying on the Trump campaign... and trying to prevent Trump from winning the 2016 election. Barr and the prosecutor running the investigation, John H. Durham, just shifted into a criminal inquiry and that means corrupt scumbag/liar-nObama-era officials could be held accountable. This has already infuriated Democrats, but Barr’s prosecutor is about to kick things up a notch. According to a report from The New York Times, the investigation is starting to take a deeper look into some of Trump’s most vocal enemies. The target list in this investigation seems to be growing more and more every day. Some of the names appearing on the list also happen to be some of the same ones we have heard in opposition to Trump throughout much of his time in office. The investigation seems to be going after key members of the FBI who were integral to the Russia collusion investigation, with sources telling the NYT that Durham seems heavily focused on the role Peter Strzok played during the wide-reaching probe. Strzok served as the No. 2 counterintelligence analyst at the FBI before being fired last year and let go from ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team after an internal probe found that he had sent hundreds of anti-Trump text messages to Lisa Page, a former lawyer at the FBI lawyer with whom he was having an affair. People like Strzok inside the FBI should be very worried, because this investigation has gone from a simple investigation to a criminal matter. That move would not have been made unless Durham felt he had enough evidence of major wrongdoing on the part of one or more individuals. Durham is reportedly leaving no stone unturned in his effort to get to the bottom of this corruption. He has reportedly issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, and talked to more than 500 witnesses so far...   https://explainlife.com/its-confirmed-bill-barrs-prosecutor-is-doing-it-17334/?utm_source=Explainlife.com%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email 
Rep. Mo Brooks: ‘Whistleblower’ A Spy 
Acting On Behalf Of The Dems And 
loose lips liar-Joe Biden
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by Alicia Luke
{ lidblog.com } ~ Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said where the real threat lies is in “people like” the so-called whistleblower, who Brooks deemed to be a spy for Democrats... “It becomes a real problem when you have people like the whistleblower, who is, in fact, a spy in my judgment,” Brooks said. “And he was a spy on behalf of the Democratic Party, loose lips liar-Joe Biden and who knows whom else. And I suspect he went into the White House knowing he was going to spy and he was going to try to undermine the president of the United States as best he could. Now when you have someone of that nature, that is a real problem.” “And to me, we need to look long and hard at this whistleblower, and there ought to be a determination as to whether he should be fired if he violated any laws that relate to the confidentiality of communications between the president of the United States, on the one hand, and the president of Ukraine on the other, because his doing what he did as a spy on behalf of the Democrats, has created a significant amount of friction between the United States of America, Ukraine and who knows who else.” This has been my thought from the very beginning! This was a spy planted by scumbag/commie-Brennan’s operatives and worked in conjunction with the scumbag/liar-nObama appointed ambassador along with other operatives in the State Department and Military. That’s why this is a real Coup d’état. It’s not only a coup. It’s a smokescreen to deflect attention from the AG’s investigation of scumbag/liar-nObama’s decision to spy on the Trump campaign.   https://lidblog.com/mo-brooks/   
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Dems Reject Fairness in Partisan
Impeachment Inquiry
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Thomas Gallatin:  This week promises ramped-up impeachment drama as the House will finally hold public hearings of several “witnesses” to “whistleblower-gate.” The Democrats’ impeachment-inquiry resolution, which not a single Republican voted for, gives House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA) veto power over any witnesses the GOP may call. Predictably, scumbag-Schiff has demonstrated the purely partisan nature of this whole impeachment charade by denying the Republicans’ request that the whistleblower,  widely identified as Eric Ciaramella, testify. So, the individual responsible for instigating this whole fiasco will not be called on to give an account. All this does is further cement the fact that this impeachment inquiry is a sham.

Democrats don’t want the whistleblower to testify because they know it will lead to Schiff’s doorstep. By taking the whistleblower out of the equation, scumbag-Schiff hopes to build a case on the testimony of cherry-picked State Department officials who clearly disagreed with President Donald Trump’s foreign-policy agenda but were not witnesses to the phone call upon which the entire complaint is based.

Meanwhile, House Republicans aim to discover who all was involved in orchestrating this clearly partisan hit job against Trump and its connections to Ukraine’s 2016 election interference. The GOP’s list of requested witnesses includes Hunter Biden and his longtime business partner and former fellow Burisma board member, Devon Archer, as well as Nellie Ohr, who worked for the opposition research firm Fusion GPS (famous for the dossier) and whose husband Bruce was a key anti-Trump conspirator at the FBI. Thus far, it’s highly unlikely that scumbag-Schiff will let any of these individuals testify, nor will scumbag-Schiff testify about his own role as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) called for him to do.

In an open letter to scumbag-Schiff, Nunes labels the Democrats’ actions a “sham impeachment process” and insists scumbag-Schiff’s “failure to fulfill Minority witness requests shall constitute evidence of your denial of fundamental fairness and due process.”

Interestingly, Democrats have now backed off their demand that former National Security Advisor John Bolton testify following the White House’s blocking of their subpoena. Bolton has indicated that he would be happy to testify, and Judge Richard Leon is expected to rule on this issue shortly even after the Democrats asked for the matter to be dropped. It appears that Democrats fear Bolton’s testimony would severely undercut their allegations against Trump.

Will Democrats have any success in their attempts to convince Republicans and the majority of the American public that their impeachment spectacle is anything but a partisan hit job against a duly elected president? It’s highly unlikely.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66708?mailing_id=4647&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4647&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Judge Rules Against Merit-Based Immigration
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House Impeachment Public Hearings – 
Day One – William B. Taylor and George
Kent – 10:00am Livestream
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 by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The House Intelligence Committee will begin holding public hearings to impeach President Donald Trump today at 10:00am EDT... The hearings are carefully scripted, organized and planned. Day One begins with Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent. To support the Democrat impeachment effort all major media networks are carrying the event live, and promoting their anticipation of drama. Impeachment Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff has threatened severe punishment if any member of congress speaks publicly about the CIA helping to organize the ‘whistleblower‘ effort. Mr. Taylor currently serves as the Chargé D’affaires for the U.S. State Department in Ukraine. Mr. Kent serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau at the U.S. Department of State. Both State Dept. officials disagree with President Trump’s foreign policy which they hope will lead to his removal from office...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/13/house-impeachment-hearings-day-one-william-b-taylor-and-george-kent-1000am-livestream/
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Trump Lectured Previous 
Ukraine President About Corruption, Too
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by JOEL B. POLLAK
{ breitbart.com } ~ A key witness called by Democrats to appear before the House Intelligence Committee testified last month that President Donald Trump had temporarily blocked U.S. aid to Ukraine in 2017... and expressed some similar concerns to those in 2019. Catherine Croft, a State Department official specializing in Ukraine, told a closed-door meeting that Trump, through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), held up the first grant of military aid to the Ukrainian government of then-President Petro Poroshenko partly because of concerns about the country’s corruption and the president’s frustration that the U.S. was expected to pay for its defense. Another concern was how Russia would react to the first provision of lethal weapons — which President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama had denied to Ukraine despite ongoing Russian attacks. Croft testified that prior to the now-infamous hold on aid in the summer of 2019, there had been a hold in late 2017 for “a week or two” at the direction of OMB Director Mick Mulvaney, acting on behalf of President Trump. The main reason, she said, was concern about “the Russian reaction” — the same reason that scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials had been cautious about providing military aid. Eventually, President Trump provided the aid, particularly Javelin anti-tank missiles, which helped Ukraine push back the Russian advance. But he did so, she said, after lecturing President Poroshenko — to his face — about Ukraine’s corruption and inability to pay for its own defense: Croft later reiterated the president’s concerns that “Ukraine is corrupt, and that Europe should be stepping up to do more to provide security assistance to Ukraine.” Trump has voiced similar concerns about U.S. military aid to other countries — that American taxpayers bear the burden of their defense...
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Republicans Fight Back –
4 Weapons They’re About To Use
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by Cristina Laila
{ wethepeopledaily.com } ~ House Republicans on three committees leading the “impeachment inquiry” released 4 key pieces of evidence undermining Democrats’ arguments for impeachment ahead of this week’s public hearings... In a memorandum obtained by The Gateway Pundit sent to Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee, Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee on Foreign Affairs, the GOP countered all of the ‘evidence’ provided by the Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. “In the 49 days since Speaker liar-Pelosi’s announcement, Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff” has been conducting the sham impeachment hearings from his “Capitol basement bunker” the GOP said, arguing that all the fact-finding is “unclassified” so the closed-door process and secrecy is “purely for information control.”  1. The July 25 call summary — the best evidence of the conversation — shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure.  2) Both President Zelensky and President Trump have publicly and repeatedly said there was no pressure to investigate the President’s political rivals.  3) The Ukrainian government was not aware that U.S. security assistance was delayed at the time of the July 25 phone call.  4) The United States provided security assistance to Ukraine and President Trump met with President Zelensky without Ukraine ever investigating President Trump‘s political rivals...
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Islamic Jihad says not ready for ceasefire; 
PM: Israel will do what’s needed
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{ jpost.com } ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to continue targeting Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Wednesday... as the terrorist group announced that it was far from ready to engage in ceasefire talks.  "We are not talking of mediation, it's not appropriate to talk about it,” A spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad said. “When we complete our response that we want to send, it will be possible to talk about calming things down."  Over 220 rockets have been fired at Israel by PIJ militants in the Gaza Strip in response to Israel's targeted killing of Islamic Jihad leader, Bahaa Abu al-Ata. Earlier in the day, there were reports in the Arab press that Israel had conveyed a message via the United Nations to Islamic Jihad that it was prepared to assassinate its leaders in Syria if the rocket fire did not immediately cease. During an address at the Knesset, Netanyahu argued with Arab MKs from the Joint List, who accused him of war crimes. “We will not tolerate attacks on our citizens,” Netanyahu said. “In the last year, we accumulated a mass of these attacks.” Al-Ata “was ready to carry out more and more terrorists attacks, including in these days. We thwarted him when we were not heading for an escalation, but we will do all that we need to defend our citizens,” the prime minister added. “We are not bent on escalation, but that we would respond to every attack against us, and respond very sharply. Islamic Jihad would do well to understand this right now, instead of when it will be too late. I believe that Islamic Jihad is starting to internalize this message. They understand that we will continue to strike them without mercy. They understand that Israel is very strong and that our will is very great,” Netanyahu said...   https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Islamic-Jihad-says-not-ready-for-ceasefire-PM-PM-will-do-whats-needed-607731   
The 4,006 Palestinians the 
Europeans Have Not Heard Of
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by Bassam Tawil
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ As all eyes are turned on the latest tensions in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian terror groups have been firing rockets at Israel in retaliation for the Israeli killing of Islamic Jihad commander Bahaa Abu al-Ata... the number of Palestinians killed in Syria since the civil war began there in 2011 has risen to 4,006. The plight of the Palestinians in Syria, however, is of no concern to Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, who continue to be obsessed with destroying Israel. The international community, including the United Nations and human rights organizations, are also clearly not interested in the suffering of Palestinians in Syria -- or in any other Arab country. The 4,006 Palestinians killed in Syria were not targeted by Israel; evidently that is reason enough for the international community and the UN to look the other way. The Europeans evidently think they have all the time in the world to worry about foodstuffs originating from Israeli suburbs, but no time at all even to express concern about the brutal deaths of more than 500 Palestinians a year in Syria over the past seven years. This week, instead of taking notice of the rising death toll of Palestinians in Syria, the European Court of Justice ruled that member states must oblige retailers to identify products made in Israeli settlements with special labels. The European court decision does not help the Palestinians in Syria in any way. These Palestinians do not give a damn whether or not the Europeans label settlement products. What they do give a damn about is staying alive -- a goal which they would appreciate the people of Europe would further by helping them to stay employed, rather than focusing on debates about packaging. What, for example, does the European court's decision do to highlight the case of three Palestinians who were tortured to death in October while being held in detention in a Syrian government prison? The three, identified as Said Mustafa Amarin, Ziad Lutfi Amarin and Fadi Fuad Al-Sotari, were arrested by the Syrian authorities several years ago. Their deaths bring to 611 the number of Palestinians killed as a result of torture in Syrian prisons in the past eight years, according to a recent report...
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The Islamic Trojan Horse
By Mario Alexis Portella
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Many in the West today are grappling as to how Islam has been able to get a foothold in our society. We know of Islamists’ present-day means to get government officials to capitulate to their whims through lobbying and the mainstream media... presenting themselves as victims of the same Western society that has helped them. But how have they been able to acquire such political leverage? Apparently, there has been a willful lack of circumspection or foresightedness. Back in the 1970s, the late archbishop Marcel Lefebvre had  said: “As long as Muslims are an insignificant minority in a Christian country, they can live on friendly terms, because they accept the laws and customs of the country that receives them. But as soon as they become numerous and organize, they become aggressive and try to impose their laws, which are hostile to Western civilization.” Protagonists such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar -- both supposed allies of the United States and the European Union -- have been able to forge or manipulate situations having politicians and the mainstream media to direct attention to military conflicts in the Middle East, such as Syria and Afghanistan, or by “exclusively” focusing on the Iranian regime as the principle source of terrorism. As Ayaan Hirsi Ali explained, because of the West’s obsession with terror, we have become blind to the broader threat of the dawa, Islamic proselytizing: the ideology behind the terror attacks -- and what drives numerous Muslims to Islamize us. In other words, by leading us to believe that the threat of Islam is only in far-off distant lands, Islamists have been able to conceal their ultimate weapons of Islamization: exploitation of  democracy and pluralism, immigration, and the multiplication of the progeny. Since its foundation, islam has always been transnational as it spread across the world when the nation-state and national identity were at best inchoate and more often nonexistent. This has impelled many Muslims, regardless of their views of democracy, to utilize the democratic instruments of pluralism and freedom of expression to insert themselves into society with the goal of propagating Islam at the expense of others. The most salient example has been the election of worthless-Ilhan Omar to the House of Representatives. Notwithstanding marrying her own brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, to get him a green card to the U.S., even before being sworn into Congress on a Quran, she successfully demanded that Congress reverse a 181-year ban on the wearing of any headgear -- in her case she was able to wear the hijab: a religious attire, when lawmakers cannot even display a cross -- on the floor of Congress. Like a Trojan horse, Islamists have been able to infiltrate, for example, the Western field of education, creating an environment of receptivity and understanding for the next generation of Americans to accept their sharia-based lifestyle. Saudi money has financed institutions alongside multitudes of other Islamic organizations across the world and within the United States 80 percent of 1,200 mosques operating in the United States were built after 2003. Qatar’s equal vision for America is being peddled through our children’s classrooms, targeting a pliable population and one with a long shelf life...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/the_islamic_trojan_horse.html
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Judge Rules Against Merit-Based Immigration
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Arnold Ahlert:  Remember scumbag/liar-nObamaCare? Remember the act that was passed on Christmas Eve without a single Republican vote? Remember when liar-Nancy Pelosi famously asserted Democrats had to pass it so Americans “find out what’s in it?” Remember what Americans “found” is that despite the former president’s promises that one could keep one’s health insurance if one liked it — more accurately known as the 2013 Lie of the Year — one would be required to purchase health insurance, or face a fairly substantial fine for failing to do so?

How times have changed, courtesy of U.S. District Judge Michael Simon, an scumbag/liar-nObama appointee. On Nov. 2 in Portland, Oregon, Simon issued a temporary restraining order blocking a Trump administration initiative that requires immigrants to prove they will have health insurance or can pay for medical care before they can get visas aimed at giving them permanent legal status. “Facing a likely risk of being separated from their family members and a delay in obtaining a visa to which family members would otherwise be entitled is irreparable harm,” Simon wrote.

Irreparable harm for whom? Trump invoked executive authority last month with regard to those requirements, as part of the administration’s efforts to transition to a merit-based immigrant system—as in one that would not further harm Americans. “The United States has a long history of welcoming immigrants who come lawfully in search of brighter futures. We must continue that tradition while also addressing the challenges facing our healthcare system, including protecting both it and the American taxpayer from the burdens of uncompensated care,” Trump stated in the proclamation. “Continuing to allow entry into the United States of certain immigrants who lack health insurance or the demonstrated ability to pay for their healthcare would be detrimental to these interests.”

In other words, those seeking permanent residency shouldn’t have immediate access to America’s welfare state. In a nation burdened by $23 trillion of national debt — driven in large part by welfare state mandates — such a requirement would seem to be a no-brainer. The administration made that clear when it noted that subsidized healthcare plans still available on scumbag/liar-nObamaCare exchanges would not qualify as insurance.

study by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute (MPI) reveals why: Only 57% of U.S. immigrants had private health insurance in 2017, and America still welcomes 1.1 million legal immigrants to our nation on an annual basis.

It should be further explained that this order was not issued ex post facto. It would have applied to immigrants living abroad, not those already here. Moreover, refugees, asylum-seekers, and children would have remained  unaffected.

None of it mattered to Judge Simon. The temporary restraining order blocks the policy’s implementation for 28 days, and another hearing on the matter is scheduled for Nov. 22.

Unsurprisingly, the move was celebrated by those who apparently believe self-sufficiency should not be an integral part of immigration reform. “Countless thousands across the country can breathe a sigh of relief today because the court recognized the urgent and irreparable harm that would have been inflicted” (without the hold), Jesse Bless, director of federal litigation at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said in a statement.

Justice Action Center senior attorney Esther Sung, who litigated the case brought by seven U.S. citizens and a nonprofit organization, echoed those sentiments. “We’re very grateful that the court recognized the need to block the health care ban immediately,” she stated. “The ban would separate families and cut two-thirds of green-card-based immigration starting tonight, were the ban not stopped.”

That two-out-of-three immigrants seeking green cards can’t afford their own health insurance is a testament to the agenda of those who believe America should abiding the standards of immigrants, instead of immigrants abiding the standards of America.

Unsurprisingly, Simon is only the latest scumbag/liar-nObama-appointed federal jurist on a self-aggrandizing mission to undermine this administration’s effort to end the nation’s immigration crisis. On a single day last September 27, three scumbag/liar-nObama-appointed judges also did their best to thwart the administration’s efforts. In California, Judge Dolly Gee of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles issued a preliminary ruling banning the administration’s attempt to detain migrant families for longer than 20 days; U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birrote Jr. issued a permanent injunction blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from relying solely on the databases when issuing detainers; and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the administration from using a fast-track deportation process aimed at illegals who illegally entered the nation in the last two years.

And last Tuesday, Judge John Kronstadt of the United States District Court in Los Angeles — yet another scumbag/liar-nObama appointee — ruled that America must provide mental-health services to families “traumatized” by being separated at the border. “This is truly groundbreaking,” said dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky.

It’s also quite telling. Kronstadt was appointed in 2011 — meaning he sat mute when the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was separating families at the border.

Thus, some separations are more equal — and much more political — than others. Especially when the media make a big deal out of them on one hand and, on the other, either completely ignore the issue, insist the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was more “virtuous” because they didn’t do it as often — or simply [lie]https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/05/28/democrats-blame-trump-for-photo-children-separated-border-illegal-aliens/) about who was housing children in cages.

All of these judicial rulings are part of the Left’s coordinated effort to maintain a globalist status quo aimed at reducing the nation-state to irrelevancy. Meanwhile, keep in mind last week’s cartel-driven massacre of a Mormon family, including eight-month-old twins — along with the arrest of a suspect in possession of two bound hostages, four semiautomatic rifles, ammunition and a bullet-proofed SUV. That followed closely on the heels of a Mexican military defeat at the hands of a drug cartel, as well as last Wednesday’s brazen daylight assassination of a cop involved in that operation. Americans must deal with drug overdoses that now kill more Americans per year than car accidents, over-taxed school systems and healthcare facilities, wholly unnecessary crimes, and the ongoing bipartisan attempts by our elites to expand the foreign-born workforce at the expense of American workers.

Above all, Americans must abide the reality that Democrats are working hard to make sure the definition of merit-based immigration is bastardized to the point of absurdity. And in a testament to that effort, Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren says she’s “open to suspending deportations.” And commie-Bernie Sanders promises that his immigration “reform” plan will included the admittance of “at least 50,000” immigrants “displaced by climate change.” And that’s just the start. commie-Sanders’s campaign website states, “By 2050, an estimated 200 million people will be displaced by climate change. Bernie will lead the international community in combating this crisis and America will do its part to welcome those who are forced from their homes by climate change.”

No doubt Democrats will demand that everyone of them will be eligible for subsidized healthcare — and that they’ll find a judge to abet their ambitions.

“Fundamental transformation” demands nothing less.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66704?mailing_id=4647&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4647&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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30 Years After USSR Collapse, Mindless
Millennials Embrace Socialism
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Thursday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


WHO’D A THUNK IT? Heat but no light: First public impeachment hearing a dud (Washington Examiner)

SO SERIOUS: NBCNews.com swoons over drag queen at impeachment circus hearings (NewsBusters)

Government & Politics


REHEARING REJECTED: U.S. appeals court again backs House request for Trump tax documents (Reuters)

NO CONFIDENCE: Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announces Democrat presidential bid (Associated Press)

“UNCONSTITUTIONAL BIDDING”: Federal government can’t just allow 3D gunmaking software to proliferate without a license, federal judge declares (Reason)

BIG BROTHER: commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and commie-Bernie Sanders pitch Green New Deal bill for public housing (The Washington Post)

CLOSING IN: China holding “in-depth” talks with U.S. on interim trade deal (Reuters)

National Security


CONSEQUENCES: Trump administration proposes employment restrictions for asylum seekers who enter U.S. illegally (National Review)

CHILDREN EXPLOITED: More than 600 children “recycled” by migrant smugglers at border (The Washington Times)

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: FBI’s “lone wolf” report says domestic terrorists are rarely isolated (NBC News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: How LGBTQ education is gaining in tax-funded schools, from pre-K on up (RealClearInvestigations)

POLICY: A new faith emerges: The religion of climatism (Commentary)

HUMOR: Capitol Building to be decorated as giant circus tent for duration of impeachment hearings (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66785?mailing_id=4657&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4657&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Hearing Highlights – Jordan, Stefanik and 
Ratcliffe Deconstruct Impeachment Narrative
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Day One of the liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff and Lawfare effort to publicly construct support for the impeachment of President Trump ends... Within the questioning of State Department officials George Kent and Bill Taylor the value of adding Jim Jordan to the hearings became clear. Jim Jordan, Elise Stefanik and John Ratcliffe methodically deconstructed the false premise advanced by the impeachment crew. It became clear that both Kent and Taylor held no specific and direct knowledge of the substance behind the claims made by the democrats leading the effort. Here’s a few highlights starting with Jim Jordan: Jordan pressed Taylor on how he came to have a “clear understanding” that the U.S. aid to Ukraine was dependent on opening an investigation into Trump’s political rivals. Jordan said there was no “linkage” and Ambassador Taylor said he came to his “clear conclusion” based on what other people said about what other people heard about conversations with other people...
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Obstruction: scumbag-Schiff Coaches 
Witness Vindman to Ignore Some GOP 
Questions in Deposition
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by EDWIN MORA
{ breitbart.com } ~ House impeachment probe witness and the White House’s top Ukraine expert, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, with the help of Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA), was evasive in answering questions from Republicans during the colonel’s closed-door deposition late last month... scumbag-Schiff, the leader of the impeachment inquiry, repeatedly interrupted the Republicans, ordering the witness not to answer questions, according to the transcripts of Vindman’s October 23 testimony unveiled Friday. House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Schiff and Vindman’s lawyer prevented the witness from answering several questions, including whom he spoke to after listening to the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that triggered the impeachment efforts. The Democrats’ potential obstructions of justice by ordering Vindman to leave out details while testifying under oath suggest that the White House National Security Council (NSC) official focused on Ukraine may have shared information about the call with the so-called “whistleblower.” Some Republicans have accused scumbag-Schiff of coaching and coordinating with the “whistleblower,” believed to be anti-Trump, to damage the U.S. President. The “whistleblower” met with scumbag-Schiff’s office. Another question sidelined by the Democrats was whether Vindman intentionally worked to undermine Trump’s policy.  “You are interrupting us, and we have questions. He has counsel who can tell him he’s not to answer that,” Rep. Jim Jordan from Ohio, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told scumbag-Schiff. Republicans accused scumbag-Schiff of obstructing the impeachment probe by “coaching” Vindman on what he could and could not say. Vindman is the director of European Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) official who listened in on the July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which ultimately triggered the impeachment probe. Jordan asked Vindman, “Who else did you talk to following the July 25th call?” “I reached out to a group of counterparts and informed them of a call. And, frankly, the reasoning behind it, I don’t think I could talk about in this context,” Vindman replied. Rep. scumbag-Swalwell (D-CA), one of Trump’s fiercest critics, ordered Vindman to stop answering Jordan’s questions, citing protecting the “whistleblower’s” identity as the reason. “Chairman, I want to object that the question calls to reveal the whistleblower,” scumbag-Swalwell interjected as Vindman was trying to respond to the question...   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/08/obstruction-schiff-coaches-witness-vindman-to-ignore-some-gop-questions-in-deposition/   
Memo from House Republicans Lays 
Out the Case Against Impeaching Trump
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By Randy DeSoto  
{ westernjournal.com } ~ House Republicans serving on the three committees involved in the impeachment inquiry released a memo Monday night laying out their case against impeaching President Donald Trump... The 18-page memorandum  offered by GOP members of the House Intelligence, Oversight and Government Reform, and Foreign Affairs committees offers “four key pieces of evidence that are fatal to the Democrats’ allegations” of wrongdoing by the president involving his July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Stripping away the hyperbole and hysteria, these indisputable pieces of evidence show that there was no ‘Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ as required by the U.S. Constitution,” the memo reads. First, the Republicans point out, the call summary  “shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure” to investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, regarding their dealings in Ukraine. Second, “President Zelensky and President Trump have both said there was no pressure on the call.” Third, “The Ukrainian government was not aware of the hold on U.S. assistance at the time of the July 25 call.” Finally, Trump met with Zelensky at the United Nations in late September and released the foreign aid Sept. 11 without Ukraine having opened an investigation into the loose lips liar-Bidens.“These four key points undercut the Democrat impeachment narrative that President Trump leveraged U.S. security assistance and a presidential meeting to force Ukraine to investigate the President’s political rivals,” the memo reads. The Republicans noted in their memo (page 15) that both acting U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine Bill Taylor and former special representative for Ukraine negotiations Kurt Volker testified in closed-door hearings, being overseen by Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, that the Ukraine government was not aware of the aid being held up until late August. The implication is if Trump was trying to demand a quid pro quo, implied or otherwise, on his call, the Ukrainians did not understand it that way...   https://www.westernjournal.com/memo-house-republicans-lays-case-impeaching-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal   
ICIG Atkinson Receives Ethics Complaint Against 
CIA ‘Whistleblower’, Goes to scumbag-Schiff 
Basement for Talks
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Chad Pergram noted that Intelligence Community Inspector General (IGIC) Michael Atkinson was spotted today going into HPSCI Chairman scumbag-Schiffs’ basement bunker for discussions with the impeachment inquisitors...  This is interesting because it was reported today that ICIG Atkinson has now received an ethics complaint about a GoFundMe account set up by the CIA ‘whistleblower’ attorney, Mark S. Zaid, to finance the ongoing efforts of CIA operative Eric Ciaramella. The dirty dealing is getting thick. Attorney Mark Zaid has claimed to be working pro-bono for his CIA client. Meanwhile scumbag-Adam Schiff is threatening anyone and everyone about keeping the CIA client hidden and anonymous; and the media is all-in with efforts to support the protection. A narrative created by a CIA operative favorable to the coup. So what exactly is this current $228,000 for? goal $300k. And who is this group “Values United” who is organizing it?  That’s where the letter to ICIG Atkinson comes in...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/12/dirty-business-icig-atkinson-receives-ethics-complaint-against-cia-whistleblower-goes-to-schiff-basement-for-talks/ 
Conservative Supreme Court justices seem 
ready to allow Trump to end DACA
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by Melissa Quinn
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with whether to allow the Trump administration to bring an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program... After more than an hour of arguments, the court’s conservative wing of the bench appeared ready to side with President Trump in his efforts to rescind the program, which was started under President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in 2012 and provides legal protections for young immigrants. The dispute is one of the most closely watched of the Supreme Court’s blockbuster term, and hanging in the balance is the fate of 700,000 Dreamers, the name given to those brought to the United States illegally as children and shielded from the threat of deportation. A decision by the court is expected by the end of June, in the heart of the 2020 presidential campaign. A central question in the trio of cases before the court is whether the Trump administration’s rescission of DACA can even be reviewed by the courts. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch raised questions as to whether the courts should do so, with Gorsuch saying he was “still struggling” with whether the executive branch's decision should be reviewed. A coalition of states, civil rights organization, and Dreamers challenged Trump’s attempt to shut down DACA and argue the explanation for doing so — detailed in memos written by former acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke and former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — rests on a faulty legal premise. When then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in September 2017 the Trump administration would roll back DACA, he said its justification for doing so was based on the assessment the program violated the law...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/conservative-supreme-court-justices-seem-ready-to-allow-trump-to-end-daca   
'Money-making enterprise': Intelligence officer 
files complaint over whistleblower donations
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by Daniel Chaitin & Jerry Dunleavy
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The whistleblower who spurred impeachment proceedings against President Trump is now the subject of a complaint that says the official may be soliciting illegal donations... The complaint, which was filed last week by an intelligence officer, was sent to the Intelligence Community inspector general and focuses on a GoFundMe page for the whistleblower that has raised more than $227,000. According to a letter sent by the law firm Tully Rinckey PLLC, their client alleges donations from roughly 6,000 individuals "clearly constitute" gifts to a current intelligence official, which are restricted by statute. Because many of the donors are anonymous, the complaint asks Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson to investigate whether any "foreign citizen or agent of a foreign government" gave money. The complaint also said the whistleblower's lawyers may be abusing their client's access to classified information. "My client believes ... that the federal employee you are protecting and their attorneys apparently have strategically weaponized their alleged whistleblowing activities into a very lucrative money-making enterprise using a charity incorporated under a different name than the trade name it is using for fund-raising purposes, which would appear to my client to be a clear abuse of the federal employee's authority and access to classified information," Anthony Gallo, the managing partner of Tully Rinckey, said in the letter sent on Nov. 8. The person who filed the new complaint remains anonymous, but Tully Rinckey described their client to Fox News as someone who has served in government and holds a top-secret security clearance. "This isn’t about politics, it is about ethics and ensuring our intelligence officials aren’t collecting cash to pay for their expenses from anonymous or foreign intelligence agencies," Gallo told the Washington Examiner. "We are merely laying out the facts for the IG to look into this."...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/money-making-enterprise-intelligence-officer-files-complaint-over-whistleblower-donations?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/12/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
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Swamp Drain Goes Big – Trump Fires 
8,000 From Top Agency
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by Adam Casalino
{ wethepeopledaily.com } ~ It’s an open secret that Washington, D.C. is infested with politicians and government workers. The main reason they despise Donald Trump? He actually expects them to do their job... Sadly, our best suffer thanks to this swamp. Veterans are struggling while awaiting care from our country. President Trump refused to let that stand. He’s taken steps to make sure that, on this Veterans Day, not one hero will be forgotten. The first step? Getting rid of anyone that refuses to do their duty to help these men and women in need. And the tally is up to 8,000. “The standard is if you don’t live up to your oath if you don’t live up to the standards that our veterans expect, that you will be asked to leave,” Wilkie told reporters in a press conference on Friday. “This is a transformational moment in our history.” Wow. Since Trump entered the White House, over 8,000 VA employees were fired.  Trump set a high standard: do your job. And over 8,000 people got pink slips. Can you believe that? All that the president asked for was to do their job and care for our veterans. Yet 8,000 of them were kicked to the curb because they failed to help our veterans. Imagine a company with over 8,000 staffers not doing their jobs? It would be out of business in a month.
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30 Years After USSR Collapse, Mindless Millennials Embrace Socialism
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Mark Alexander:  November 9th marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — and the precipitous disintegration of the tyrannical Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its East Block gulags.

I remember well President Ronald Reagan’s forceful remarks two years earlier. On 12 June 1987 at the Brandenburg Gate in then-West Berlin, he spoke pointedly to the Russian leader of the USSR. He demanded: “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Reagan spoke near the location where John Kennedy delivered his “Ich bin ein Berliner” (“I am a Berliner”) unification speech on 26 June 1963, but it took President Reagan to crush the Soviet empire without firing a Cold War shot, at least in open warfare. There were a great many American lives lost endeavoring to contain the communist threat, most notably in Korea and Vietnam.

A military colleague on our National Advisory Committee  recounted that the Brandenburg Gate officially opened on 22 December 1989. That night, he and a friend, both in military uniform, crossed into East Berlin. They received a very different welcome reception compared to the one for which they had spent their previous decade training.

President Reagan’s speechwriter, Peter Robinson, now a Hoover Institution fellow, observed that State Department officials wanted Reagan’s bold call for Liberty struck from his speech. However, notes Robinson: “After the Berlin Wall toppled … Reagan’s words … came to define a turning point in U.S.-Soviet relations. What was once deemed audacious had become auspicious.”

A day ahead of this weekend’s anniversary, a statue of President Reagan was unveiled at the U.S. embassy in Berlin. Donald Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, dedicated the embassy terrace overlooking the Brandenburg Gate in President Reagan’s name, and that is where his statue will reside, despite objections from the German government.

Some European nations have institutionalized historical ignorance…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was a young Army tank commander in West Germany at the time of Reagan’s Brandenburg remarks, channeled his advocacy for freedom in his own comments at the ceremony dedicating the statue. Pompeo rebuked “former KGB officer” Vladimir Putin and described how Russia continues to “invade its neighbors and slay political opponents.”

I have been in the belly of the Soviet beast more than a few times in my career and know firsthand the consequences of socialist tyranny. In stark contrast to the efforts to secure our southern border, the Berlin Wall, like the rest of the Soviet block border, served the purpose of keeping people IN, not out.

However, today, largely because of the relentless leftward march of the Socialist Democrat Party, almost 70% of Millennials say they would vote for a socialist candidate, having been led far astray by presidential candidate  commie-Bernie Sanders and his socialist ilk. Fully a third of those young people say they approve of communism.

Ignorance is bliss — until it is not…   ~The Patriot Post

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30 Years After USSR Collapse, Mindless
Millennials Embrace Socialism
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Thursday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


WHO’D A THUNK IT? Heat but no light: First public impeachment hearing a dud (Washington Examiner)

SO SERIOUS: NBCNews.com swoons over drag queen at impeachment circus hearings (NewsBusters)

Government & Politics


REHEARING REJECTED: U.S. appeals court again backs House request for Trump tax documents (Reuters)

NO CONFIDENCE: Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announces Democrat presidential bid (Associated Press)

“UNCONSTITUTIONAL BIDDING”: Federal government can’t just allow 3D gunmaking software to proliferate without a license, federal judge declares (Reason)

BIG BROTHER: commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and commie-Bernie Sanders pitch Green New Deal bill for public housing (The Washington Post)

CLOSING IN: China holding “in-depth” talks with U.S. on interim trade deal (Reuters)

National Security


CONSEQUENCES: Trump administration proposes employment restrictions for asylum seekers who enter U.S. illegally (National Review)

CHILDREN EXPLOITED: More than 600 children “recycled” by migrant smugglers at border (The Washington Times)

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: FBI’s “lone wolf” report says domestic terrorists are rarely isolated (NBC News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: How LGBTQ education is gaining in tax-funded schools, from pre-K on up (RealClearInvestigations)

POLICY: A new faith emerges: The religion of climatism (Commentary)

HUMOR: Capitol Building to be decorated as giant circus tent for duration of impeachment hearings (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
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Hearing Highlights – Jordan, Stefanik and 
Ratcliffe Deconstruct Impeachment Narrative
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Day One of the liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff and Lawfare effort to publicly construct support for the impeachment of President Trump ends... Within the questioning of State Department officials George Kent and Bill Taylor the value of adding Jim Jordan to the hearings became clear. Jim Jordan, Elise Stefanik and John Ratcliffe methodically deconstructed the false premise advanced by the impeachment crew. It became clear that both Kent and Taylor held no specific and direct knowledge of the substance behind the claims made by the democrats leading the effort. Here’s a few highlights starting with Jim Jordan: Jordan pressed Taylor on how he came to have a “clear understanding” that the U.S. aid to Ukraine was dependent on opening an investigation into Trump’s political rivals. Jordan said there was no “linkage” and Ambassador Taylor said he came to his “clear conclusion” based on what other people said about what other people heard about conversations with other people...
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Obstruction: scumbag-Schiff Coaches 
Witness Vindman to Ignore Some GOP 
Questions in Deposition
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by EDWIN MORA
{ breitbart.com } ~ House impeachment probe witness and the White House’s top Ukraine expert, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, with the help of Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA), was evasive in answering questions from Republicans during the colonel’s closed-door deposition late last month... scumbag-Schiff, the leader of the impeachment inquiry, repeatedly interrupted the Republicans, ordering the witness not to answer questions, according to the transcripts of Vindman’s October 23 testimony unveiled Friday. House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Schiff and Vindman’s lawyer prevented the witness from answering several questions, including whom he spoke to after listening to the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that triggered the impeachment efforts. The Democrats’ potential obstructions of justice by ordering Vindman to leave out details while testifying under oath suggest that the White House National Security Council (NSC) official focused on Ukraine may have shared information about the call with the so-called “whistleblower.” Some Republicans have accused scumbag-Schiff of coaching and coordinating with the “whistleblower,” believed to be anti-Trump, to damage the U.S. President. The “whistleblower” met with scumbag-Schiff’s office. Another question sidelined by the Democrats was whether Vindman intentionally worked to undermine Trump’s policy.  “You are interrupting us, and we have questions. He has counsel who can tell him he’s not to answer that,” Rep. Jim Jordan from Ohio, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told scumbag-Schiff. Republicans accused scumbag-Schiff of obstructing the impeachment probe by “coaching” Vindman on what he could and could not say. Vindman is the director of European Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) official who listened in on the July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which ultimately triggered the impeachment probe. Jordan asked Vindman, “Who else did you talk to following the July 25th call?” “I reached out to a group of counterparts and informed them of a call. And, frankly, the reasoning behind it, I don’t think I could talk about in this context,” Vindman replied. Rep. scumbag-Swalwell (D-CA), one of Trump’s fiercest critics, ordered Vindman to stop answering Jordan’s questions, citing protecting the “whistleblower’s” identity as the reason. “Chairman, I want to object that the question calls to reveal the whistleblower,” scumbag-Swalwell interjected as Vindman was trying to respond to the question...   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/08/obstruction-schiff-coaches-witness-vindman-to-ignore-some-gop-questions-in-deposition/   
Memo from House Republicans Lays 
Out the Case Against Impeaching Trump
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By Randy DeSoto  
{ westernjournal.com } ~ House Republicans serving on the three committees involved in the impeachment inquiry released a memo Monday night laying out their case against impeaching President Donald Trump... The 18-page memorandum  offered by GOP members of the House Intelligence, Oversight and Government Reform, and Foreign Affairs committees offers “four key pieces of evidence that are fatal to the Democrats’ allegations” of wrongdoing by the president involving his July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Stripping away the hyperbole and hysteria, these indisputable pieces of evidence show that there was no ‘Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ as required by the U.S. Constitution,” the memo reads. First, the Republicans point out, the call summary  “shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure” to investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, regarding their dealings in Ukraine. Second, “President Zelensky and President Trump have both said there was no pressure on the call.” Third, “The Ukrainian government was not aware of the hold on U.S. assistance at the time of the July 25 call.” Finally, Trump met with Zelensky at the United Nations in late September and released the foreign aid Sept. 11 without Ukraine having opened an investigation into the loose lips liar-Bidens.“These four key points undercut the Democrat impeachment narrative that President Trump leveraged U.S. security assistance and a presidential meeting to force Ukraine to investigate the President’s political rivals,” the memo reads. The Republicans noted in their memo (page 15) that both acting U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine Bill Taylor and former special representative for Ukraine negotiations Kurt Volker testified in closed-door hearings, being overseen by Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, that the Ukraine government was not aware of the aid being held up until late August. The implication is if Trump was trying to demand a quid pro quo, implied or otherwise, on his call, the Ukrainians did not understand it that way...   https://www.westernjournal.com/memo-house-republicans-lays-case-impeaching-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal   
ICIG Atkinson Receives Ethics Complaint Against 
CIA ‘Whistleblower’, Goes to scumbag-Schiff 
Basement for Talks
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Chad Pergram noted that Intelligence Community Inspector General (IGIC) Michael Atkinson was spotted today going into HPSCI Chairman scumbag-Schiffs’ basement bunker for discussions with the impeachment inquisitors...  This is interesting because it was reported today that ICIG Atkinson has now received an ethics complaint about a GoFundMe account set up by the CIA ‘whistleblower’ attorney, Mark S. Zaid, to finance the ongoing efforts of CIA operative Eric Ciaramella. The dirty dealing is getting thick. Attorney Mark Zaid has claimed to be working pro-bono for his CIA client. Meanwhile scumbag-Adam Schiff is threatening anyone and everyone about keeping the CIA client hidden and anonymous; and the media is all-in with efforts to support the protection. A narrative created by a CIA operative favorable to the coup. So what exactly is this current $228,000 for? goal $300k. And who is this group “Values United” who is organizing it?  That’s where the letter to ICIG Atkinson comes in...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/12/dirty-business-icig-atkinson-receives-ethics-complaint-against-cia-whistleblower-goes-to-schiff-basement-for-talks/ 
Conservative Supreme Court justices seem 
ready to allow Trump to end DACA
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by Melissa Quinn
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with whether to allow the Trump administration to bring an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program... After more than an hour of arguments, the court’s conservative wing of the bench appeared ready to side with President Trump in his efforts to rescind the program, which was started under President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in 2012 and provides legal protections for young immigrants. The dispute is one of the most closely watched of the Supreme Court’s blockbuster term, and hanging in the balance is the fate of 700,000 Dreamers, the name given to those brought to the United States illegally as children and shielded from the threat of deportation. A decision by the court is expected by the end of June, in the heart of the 2020 presidential campaign. A central question in the trio of cases before the court is whether the Trump administration’s rescission of DACA can even be reviewed by the courts. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch raised questions as to whether the courts should do so, with Gorsuch saying he was “still struggling” with whether the executive branch's decision should be reviewed. A coalition of states, civil rights organization, and Dreamers challenged Trump’s attempt to shut down DACA and argue the explanation for doing so — detailed in memos written by former acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke and former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — rests on a faulty legal premise. When then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in September 2017 the Trump administration would roll back DACA, he said its justification for doing so was based on the assessment the program violated the law...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/conservative-supreme-court-justices-seem-ready-to-allow-trump-to-end-daca   
'Money-making enterprise': Intelligence officer 
files complaint over whistleblower donations
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by Daniel Chaitin & Jerry Dunleavy
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The whistleblower who spurred impeachment proceedings against President Trump is now the subject of a complaint that says the official may be soliciting illegal donations... The complaint, which was filed last week by an intelligence officer, was sent to the Intelligence Community inspector general and focuses on a GoFundMe page for the whistleblower that has raised more than $227,000. According to a letter sent by the law firm Tully Rinckey PLLC, their client alleges donations from roughly 6,000 individuals "clearly constitute" gifts to a current intelligence official, which are restricted by statute. Because many of the donors are anonymous, the complaint asks Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson to investigate whether any "foreign citizen or agent of a foreign government" gave money. The complaint also said the whistleblower's lawyers may be abusing their client's access to classified information. "My client believes ... that the federal employee you are protecting and their attorneys apparently have strategically weaponized their alleged whistleblowing activities into a very lucrative money-making enterprise using a charity incorporated under a different name than the trade name it is using for fund-raising purposes, which would appear to my client to be a clear abuse of the federal employee's authority and access to classified information," Anthony Gallo, the managing partner of Tully Rinckey, said in the letter sent on Nov. 8. The person who filed the new complaint remains anonymous, but Tully Rinckey described their client to Fox News as someone who has served in government and holds a top-secret security clearance. "This isn’t about politics, it is about ethics and ensuring our intelligence officials aren’t collecting cash to pay for their expenses from anonymous or foreign intelligence agencies," Gallo told the Washington Examiner. "We are merely laying out the facts for the IG to look into this."...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/money-making-enterprise-intelligence-officer-files-complaint-over-whistleblower-donations?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/12/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
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Swamp Drain Goes Big – Trump Fires 
8,000 From Top Agency
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by Adam Casalino
{ wethepeopledaily.com } ~ It’s an open secret that Washington, D.C. is infested with politicians and government workers. The main reason they despise Donald Trump? He actually expects them to do their job... Sadly, our best suffer thanks to this swamp. Veterans are struggling while awaiting care from our country. President Trump refused to let that stand. He’s taken steps to make sure that, on this Veterans Day, not one hero will be forgotten. The first step? Getting rid of anyone that refuses to do their duty to help these men and women in need. And the tally is up to 8,000. “The standard is if you don’t live up to your oath if you don’t live up to the standards that our veterans expect, that you will be asked to leave,” Wilkie told reporters in a press conference on Friday. “This is a transformational moment in our history.” Wow. Since Trump entered the White House, over 8,000 VA employees were fired.  Trump set a high standard: do your job. And over 8,000 people got pink slips. Can you believe that? All that the president asked for was to do their job and care for our veterans. Yet 8,000 of them were kicked to the curb because they failed to help our veterans. Imagine a company with over 8,000 staffers not doing their jobs? It would be out of business in a month.
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30 Years After USSR Collapse, Mindless Millennials Embrace Socialism
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Mark Alexander:  November 9th marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — and the precipitous disintegration of the tyrannical Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its East Block gulags.

I remember well President Ronald Reagan’s forceful remarks two years earlier. On 12 June 1987 at the Brandenburg Gate in then-West Berlin, he spoke pointedly to the Russian leader of the USSR. He demanded: “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Reagan spoke near the location where John Kennedy delivered his “Ich bin ein Berliner” (“I am a Berliner”) unification speech on 26 June 1963, but it took President Reagan to crush the Soviet empire without firing a Cold War shot, at least in open warfare. There were a great many American lives lost endeavoring to contain the communist threat, most notably in Korea and Vietnam.

A military colleague on our National Advisory Committee  recounted that the Brandenburg Gate officially opened on 22 December 1989. That night, he and a friend, both in military uniform, crossed into East Berlin. They received a very different welcome reception compared to the one for which they had spent their previous decade training.

President Reagan’s speechwriter, Peter Robinson, now a Hoover Institution fellow, observed that State Department officials wanted Reagan’s bold call for Liberty struck from his speech. However, notes Robinson: “After the Berlin Wall toppled … Reagan’s words … came to define a turning point in U.S.-Soviet relations. What was once deemed audacious had become auspicious.”

A day ahead of this weekend’s anniversary, a statue of President Reagan was unveiled at the U.S. embassy in Berlin. Donald Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, dedicated the embassy terrace overlooking the Brandenburg Gate in President Reagan’s name, and that is where his statue will reside, despite objections from the German government.

Some European nations have institutionalized historical ignorance…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was a young Army tank commander in West Germany at the time of Reagan’s Brandenburg remarks, channeled his advocacy for freedom in his own comments at the ceremony dedicating the statue. Pompeo rebuked “former KGB officer” Vladimir Putin and described how Russia continues to “invade its neighbors and slay political opponents.”

I have been in the belly of the Soviet beast more than a few times in my career and know firsthand the consequences of socialist tyranny. In stark contrast to the efforts to secure our southern border, the Berlin Wall, like the rest of the Soviet block border, served the purpose of keeping people IN, not out.

However, today, largely because of the relentless leftward march of the Socialist Democrat Party, almost 70% of Millennials say they would vote for a socialist candidate, having been led far astray by presidential candidate  commie-Bernie Sanders and his socialist ilk. Fully a third of those young people say they approve of communism.

Ignorance is bliss — until it is not…   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/66710?mailing_id=4647&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4647&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Trump Derangement Syndrome on Steroids
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Trump Impeachment Inquiry Hearing
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by .democracynow.org ~ Televised impeachment hearings have begun into whether President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine... to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate his political rival loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son. It is only the third time in U.S. history there have been televised impeachment hearings. The first two witnesses to testify will be George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, and Bill Taylor, a former ambassador and the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine.
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scumbag-Adam Schiff blasted 
as 'lying sack of excrement'
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By Joe Kovacs
{ wnd.com } ~ As Democrats prepare for televised hearings this week in connection with their effort to impeach President Donald Trump... the congressman leading the charge to oust the commander in chief is being publicly slammed as a serial liar. "scumbag-Adam Schiff is a lying sack of excrement!" radio talk-show his Rush Limbaugh exclaimed on his national broadcast Tuesday, adding that House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi "chose a bug-eyed, lying sack of excrement to be the face of this." "We've documented the lies," Limbaugh continued. "The guy and scumbag-Eric Swalwell were inseparable in this. They both claim they've got evidence of Trump colluding with Russia. They both say it's clearly obvious, it's clearly visible, it's right there. They've never produced it 'cause they don't have it. scumbag-Schiff is the guy who lied about the contents of Trump's phone call." While many in the national news media have suggested this could be one of Trump's worst weeks in office because of the televised hearings, Limbaugh said it could be the opposite. "This could end up being one of Trump's best weeks, because the curtain is now being pushed back," he explained. "I think there are gonna be millions of Americans who are going to have the chance, anyway, who haven't been following this wall-to-wall like you and I have been, to see what a partisan sham this whole thing is.""So it's possible here, folks, the American people are gonna finally see scumbag-Schiff's goggle-eyed, rabid hatred of Trump on full display. They're going to see the rabid partisanship of other Democrats on that committee. "They're not gonna be able to help themselves, and people are going to quickly realize what a total farce this whole exercise is. That is as big a possibility as this being a disaster for Trump. Trump didn't do anything. That doesn't mean it can't be a disaster. It depends on how clever they are and so forth, but I'm not as pessimistic as a lot of people are about this." Limbaugh found it curious how citizens are not even going to hear from the anonymous whistleblower, reported by RealClearInvestigations to be career CIA employee Eric Ciaramella...   https://www.https://www.wnd.com/2019/11/adam-schiff-blasted-lying-sack-excrement/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking  /2019/11/adam-schiff-blasted-lying-sack-excrement/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking   
What About a loose lips liar-Biden
Impeachment Inquiry?
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by E. DONALD ELLIOTT
{ spectator.org } ~ In his fine book Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide (2017), Harvard Law School Professor Cass R. Sunstein, a prominent Democrat who served in the scumbag/liar-nObama White House, stresses a key point about impeachment... grounds for impeachment should be neutral in the sense that we would be willing to apply them equally to politicians with whom we agree as well as those whom we despise. A general principle of law, enshrined among other places in the 14th Amendment, is that norms are valid only if we are willing to apply them to everyone; that’s why the statue of Justice is blind. Professor Sunstein is right, however, that the neutrality test is particularly important for impeachment, because the constitutional standard is necessarily vague and turns on judgments such as whether or not misdeeds are sufficiently serious to justify removal from office. If we would not be willing to apply the same rule to someone with whom we agree politically, we should doubt whether it is a valid basis to kick someone out of office with whom we disagree. Or, in the immortal words of Vinny, the homespun legal philosopher in the movie My Cousin Vinny, “It won’t hold water” to say that something is an impeachable offense when the other side’s guy does it but it is perfectly okay when our own guy does essentially the same thing. loose lips liar-Joe Biden has admitted to doing almost exactly what the House Democrats accuse President Trump of doing in their impeachment inquiry: using his position in government to obtain private political benefit from a foreign government. We should all be asking, “Why isn’t loose lips liar-Biden also the target of a second impeachment inquiry?” Some people might think that is because loose lips liar-Biden has left office, but according to both William Murphy, professor of American History at the State University of New York, and every other expert I know who has addressed the issue, former officials like loose lips liar-Biden may also be impeached after they leave office. Impeaching a former official is not a meaningless gesture because impeachment may prohibit someone from holding office in the future, including the presidency in loose lips liar-Biden’s case; in the words of the Constitution, impeachment may disqualify a person “to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States.” As vice president, loose lips liar-Joe Biden threatened to hold up a billion dollars in aid to Ukraine unless that country fired a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, the energy company that was paying his son $600,000 a year to serve on its board of directors. All these facts are detailed here ( https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2019-10-5-the-bidens-stone-cold-crooked ) and don’t need to be repeated. There is no dispute about them. You can even watch loose lips liar-Biden on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=65&v=UXA--dj2-CY ) bragging to the Council on Foreign Relations that he did it: “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor Shokin is not fired, you’re not getting the money a $1 billion loan guarantee.’ Well, son of a b-tch.… He got fired.” As a result, the investigation of Burisma was suspended, at least until Trump tried to get it restarted, a move for which the Dems want to impeach him.  Despite the eerie similarity of loose lips liar-Biden’s actions to those that are supposed to constitute “high crimes and misdemeanors” warranting the impeachment of President Trump, loose lips liar-Biden and his supporters dare anyone to find anything illegal in his use of his official position to threaten to withhold aid to Ukraine unless it stifled a criminal investigation of his son’s company...
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scumbag-Schiff Denies Republican 
Requests for Testimony From Key Witnesses
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by Joseph Klein
{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ Alexander Hamilton warned in Federalist No. 65, dealing with impeachments in the House of Representatives and trials in the Senate... that during the impeachment phase there may often be “animosities, partialities, influence, and interest on one side or on the other; and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.” He hoped the Senate would be able to determine guilt or innocence and serve impartially “between an INDIVIDUAL accused, and the REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE, HIS ACCUSERS.” House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, pressing hard for the House to formally become President Trump’s “accusers” and hand over articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial, is displaying the worst traits that Alexander Hamilton described. The latest example is scumbag-Schiff’s refusal to let the American people hear from the whistleblower, whose complaint containing a secondhand account of President Trump’s July 25, 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave rise to the impeachment inquiry against President Trump in the first place. The whistleblower’s testimony is "redundant and unnecessary," scumbag-Schiff said in a letter to Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes rejecting House Republicans’ request for the whistleblower to testify during the public phase of the impeachment inquiry hearings. scumbag-Schiff claimed that the impeachment inquiry already “has gathered an ever-growing body of evidence -- from witnesses and documents, including the president's own words in his July 25 call record -- that not only confirms but far exceeds the initial information in the whistleblower's complaint." As usual, scumbag-Schiff is lying to rationalize the extreme one-sided way he is conducting his sham hearings. Originally, scumbag-Schiff himself had said the whistleblower would appear before Congress “very soon,” but changed his mind after reports surfaced of the whistleblower’s contacts with members of scumbag-Schiff’s staff before filing the complaint. The whistleblower’s testimony as to the identity of his or her sources is highly relevant to ensuring a fair proceeding and making a complete record for the Senate to consider as the trier of fact. So are the whistleblower’s biases and motives for coming forward and filing a complaint after having first contacted members of scumbag-Schiff’s staff. Who did the whistleblower talk to, what did they say to the whistleblower that became the basis for the whistleblower’s complaint, and where did the whistleblower’s sources tell the whistleblower they got their information about the July 25th call? The complaint did not match in some material respects what the president said as memorialized in the publicly released memo of the call, despite scumbag-Schiff’s false claims to the contrary. Moreover, from what we have learned so far from the released deposition transcripts, there appears to have been more of a sharing of interpretations of President Trump’s intentions among like-minded individuals opposed to the president’s policies in Ukraine than a factual account of what the witnesses actually heard or observed the president say or do...  How can this be a fair inquiry when he is blocking witness.  https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/11/schiff-denies-republican-requests-testimony-key-joseph-klein   
Afghan president: 3 Taliban to be 
released for held US, Australian
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By Danielle Wallace  
{ foxnews.com } ~ Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced on Tuesday that his government would release three Taliban figures in an effort to have the insurgents free an American and Australian abducted in 2016 and held captive for three years... Ghani said at a press event broadcast live on state television that three members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network -- Anas Haqqani, Haji Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid -- would be released "conditionally in exchange" for an American identified as Kevin King and an Australian man identified as Timothy Weekes — who were both abducted at gunpoint outside the American University in Kabul where they worked as teachers, according to the Associated Press. It was not clear if the three insurgents had been released yet. Ghani did not elaborate on when or where the prisoner exchange would take place. The Afghan president said the three insurgents had been under the custody of the Afghanistan government and were held at the Bagram prison, at an airbase that also houses U.S. troops just outside Kabul. "In a demonstration of respect for humanity by the government and nation of Afghanistan, we decided to conditionally release these three Taliban prisoners who were arrested in close cooperation with our international partners from other countries," Ghani said. "We can assure the families of both teachers that we welcome and honor those who come to our country to pursue education." Ghani said his government decided to release the insurgents in order “to facilitate direct peace negotiations." He added that the release of the teachers was a "part of our main demands during the indirect negotiations with Taliban." The Taliban have long demanded the release of Anas Haqqani, the younger brother of Sirajuddin, the deputy head of the Taliban and leader of the Haqqani network, often considered the strongest of the Taliban factions fighting in Afghanistan.  Anas Haqqani was arrested in Bahrain in 2014 and handed over to the Afghan government, which later sentenced him to death. It was not clear when his execution was supposed to take place...   https://www.foxnews.com/world/afghan-president-3-taliban-released-us-australian-kevin-king-timothy-weekes-american-university  
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Justices Should Reject Criminal Alien’s 
Appeal of Deportation Order
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by Hans von Spakovsky
{ dailysignal.com } ~ The Supreme Court on Nov. 4 heard oral arguments in an immigration case that could have a dramatic impact on how many criminal aliens plaguing our communities finally get deported... The case, Barton v. Barr, is complicated, in large part because the statutes involved are vague and subject to various interpretations. That prompted Justice Stephen Breyer to comment during oral arguments that “it wasn’t a genius who drafted this.” But the decision that will be made by the court in interpreting these immigration laws will affect the lives and safety of Americans. Under federal immigration law, a permanent resident alien who is here legally is “removable” if he is “inadmissible.”  That is to say, he should never have been admitted in the first place because he met one of the factors listed in the statute (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)), such as posing “a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others.”  A permanent resident alien is also removable if he is “deportable” under another statute (8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)), which lists a series of disqualifying offenses, including violations of any “law of the United States.” The attorney general has the discretion to cancel the removal of such an alien, but to be eligible for such cancellation, the alien has to show not only that he is statutorily eligible for such relief from the attorney general, but that he also deserves such favorable treatment. The statutory requirement is that the alien has been “lawfully admitted for permanent residence for not less than 5 years”; has “resided” in the country “continuously for 7 years after having been admitted”; and that he has not been “convicted of any aggravated felony.”...   https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/08/justices-should-reject-criminal-aliens-appeal-of-deportation-order/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=justices-should-reject-criminal-aliens-appeal-of-deportation-order?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdFd00yVTRaV015WlRVNSIsInQiOiI2Q2xwUHdnWlVcL3JsVzBnM0FBWEhVSk1JOGtKZXBWejdxMDd1U2h2bnFjQ0NLRFVUWEo0Nk5hemF5bWdcL2FxU05QZlhxcG9ZN243SHdhY05PT2pkU3ZaNTBlbVJhQ3JTeGQybFlxeVMwUmJnZTdcL2VjMnN0UFN3dlBXNjF3YXBxSyJ9   
Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, 
Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World
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by Dion Pierre
{ dailysignal.com } ~ The climate change movement has become the “modern world’s secular religion,” declared Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker recently. Climate activists preach a gospel of conservation that aims to redeem humanity’s environmental sins... They counsel us to abstain from eating meat to reduce our “carbon footprint,” and prophesy that Earth will perish unless governments worldwide trust the oracle from whom we received this hallowed revelation. Climate cultists appropriate aspects of Christianity to call the world to repent for its “Original Sin of a carbon industrial revolution,” wrote Baker. They do that and more. Climate cultists, whether consciously or unconsciously, have adopted the schema of the Christian eschaton, or end of the world. They have also incorporated into their faith elements of neo-paganism. Baker wasn’t the first to spot traces of the eschaton in the climate gospel. Researchers Rachelle Peterson and Peter Wood remarked in “Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism” that “sustainability, like Christianity, offers a view of the Earth as once-pristine and pure but now fallen; recognizes the sinfulness of humanity,” and “offers forms of expiation and absolution.” However, rather than seeking to redeem humanity in the “next life,” sustainability promises to stave off the end times and save sinners in the “here and now.” Some episodes have emphasized the climate cult’s resemblance to neo-paganism. Sumantra Maitra at The Federalist pointed to an event at Union Theological Seminary in New York City where students confessed their sins to plants. Maitra argued that this means climate activists are “pagan animists.” In other words, they believe that worshipping nature enables one to “grow as a living soul connected to the universe.”... Why and how do these people continue to believe this falsely claim.  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/08/lettuce-pray-climate-change-neo-paganism-and-the-end-of-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lettuce-pray-climate-change-neo-paganism-and-the-end-of-the-world?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdFd00yVTRaV015WlRVNSIsInQiOiI2Q2xwUHdnWlVcL3JsVzBnM0FBWEhVSk1JOGtKZXBWejdxMDd1U2h2bnFjQ0NLRFVUWEo0Nk5hemF5bWdcL2FxU05QZlhxcG9ZN243SHdhY05PT2pkU3ZaNTBlbVJhQ3JTeGQybFlxeVMwUmJnZTdcL2VjMnN0UFN3dlBXNjF3YXBxSyJ9   
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Trump Derangement Syndrome on Steroids
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Trump Derangement Syndrome is not merely a cute-sounding phrase to deflect criticism of President Trump. It’s real. It’s palpable.

Case in point: The American Prospect’s Paul Waldman gives us an earful about President Trump and how Trump is destroying everything that’s good and decent in America. Let me share some of his words, which speak for themselves — but I’ll speak for them, too.

“The impending impeachment of Donald Trump brings with it the possibility of something that has been in short supply over the last three years: accountability,” Waldman writes. “At last, you may think, we can use a constitutional process to proclaim at last that This Is Not OK.” Waldman goes on to acknowledge that Trump probably won’t be held to account after all, because though the House will likely impeach him, the Senate will vote against removing him from office.

What strikes me is Waldman’s unchecked assertion that Trump’s accountability “has been in short supply.” He wholly ignores that Democrats have been feverishly pursuing Trump since he announced his candidacy. For two years, they’ve prosecuted a bogus case on Trump “colluding” with Russia, guaranteeing they had unimpeachable evidence.

They were lying, and their would-be savior, special counsel Robert Mueller, produced no evidence of collusion. Accountability? Why haven’t the Democrats had to answer for their wasting taxpayers’ time and money over this lie? Neither they nor their legacy media co-conspirators have uttered one syllable of apology to the American people, let alone President Trump, for dragging us through this nightmare.

Instead, they immediately pivoted to Ukraine. Here we go again — but this time, it’s really serious. What is this, the fourth impeachment attempt? Why not? We now know from released transcripts that they’ve been planning this coup from the jump. We already knew it, but we’ve got the smoking gun. Will they be held to account for their election and post-election interference? Of course not, unless their constituents vote them out of office for abuse of power.

Waldman continues: “This is one of the products of Trump’s time in office: the contamination of our emotional lives. Trump has made us feel dread, despair, disillusionment, and a dozen other awful emotions whose grip it feels impossible to escape. And even if he loses in 2020 then slinks back to Mar-a-Lago to spend his days regaling his dwindling number of sycophants with tales of his matchless presidency, we’ll continue to live with the effects for years or even decades to come.”

I don’t know whom Waldman purports to speak for, but millions of Americans would find his words repugnant. Trump doesn’t make us feel dread and despair. Bullish on America and fighting leftist insanity and political correctness, he invigorates our patriotic instincts. His policies have stimulated robust economic growth, which is hardly cause for despair.

Waldman details “the unceasing parade of horrors emanating from the Oval Office,” citing the usual litany of Trump’s alleged sins — his oh-so-offensive tweets, his racism and his cruelty. It’s just so exhausting for poor Waldman. He writes: “And how many times have you found yourself almost involuntarily talking with friends or family about some awful thing Trump did or said, only to have someone stop and say, ‘Oh god, let’s just not talk about him for a while. I can’t take it.”

What’s exhausting is the ceaseless leftist noise machine railing against Trump. Leftists need to remove the smudges from their mirrors and see that they are projecting. They are the ones who have been vicious and hateful toward Trump from the beginning. They have wrongly accused him — and his supporters (half of Americans) — of racism and cruelty. They have contempt for all his supporters. Yet has Trump called them Nazis? Racists?

If you don’t believe me, read Waldman’s elaboration: “For many the mere fact that Trump could win in 2016 (even if he got three million fewer votes than scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton) was reason enough to lose faith in their country in a fundamental way. Eight years before they had convinced themselves that Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s election meant America could be the place they wanted it to be: inclusive, tolerant, progressive, hopeful. Trump came along and told them that America was not that place.”

What? Precisely the opposite is true. Progressives are the antithesis of inclusion, tolerance and hope. They are intolerant of opposing viewpoints, and they readily use the power of government and social media giants to suppress conservative speech and religious liberty. They bully conservatives out of restaurants and college campuses. They are anything but hopeful. Former President scumbag/liar-nObama’s team told us the days of 3% growth were over. President Trump rejected the naysaying and gave us an economic boom, fulfilling his campaign promises and restoring hope.

The rest of Waldman’s piece is even more desperate and bitter, but space constraints preclude further dissection. I’ll just leave you with his closing paragraph, which encapsulates his TDS: “There may yet be more to come, if nothing else in the form of an election defeat next year. But it’s hard to escape the gnawing feeling that nothing we can do to Trump will ever make up for what he has done to us.”

To the contrary, Trump has done nothing to them, but they have done plenty to him. And he’s done plenty for us — specifically standing athwart the extreme left’s crusade to fundamentally and permanently transform America into a nation our framers wouldn’t recognize.

Thank you, President Trump, for standing up for America and those who still believe in it.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66667?mailing_id=4642&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4642&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Scientists' Advocate Population 
Control to Save Planet
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Ranking Member Devin Nunes Opening
Statement – Impeachment Hearings Day One
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Here’s the opening statement from HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes:
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scumbag-Schiff issues veiled warning to 
Republicans against mentioning 
whistleblower's name
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By Joe Saunders
{ wnd.com } ~ In the shadowy world of scumbag-Adam Schiff, even the threats are veiled. The California Democrat currently disgracing himself and embarrassing his party as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee... circulated an equally embarrassing warning to his Republican colleagues this week, aimed at protecting the worst kept secret in Washington. The name of Eric Ciaramella, the CIA intelligence analyst widely suspected of being the “whistleblower” behind the whole impeachment effort, was not to be mentioned. The warning came in the form of a memo from scumbag-Schiff to the Intelligence Committee members, insinuating scumbag-Schiff could make real trouble with the House Ethics Committee for any representative who even thought about revealing Ciaramella’s name in public. But scumbag-Schiff being scumbag-Schiff, the threat was also couched in language he can always deny. In the memo, scumbag-Schiff described the committee’s history with whistleblowers: “The Committee has a long, proud, and bipartisan history of protecting whistleblowers -- including from efforts to threaten, intimidate, retaliate against, or undermine Eric Ciaramella” during the course of the proceedings. Use of the name would apparently be taken as a willful violation of the rule that members “shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.” “The Committee on Ethics has historically viewed this provision as ‘encompassing violations of law and abuses of one’s official position,’” scumbag-Schiff wrote. As The Daily Caller and Politico described it, scumbag-Schiff was issuing a threat that every congressman could understand: Use the whistleblower’s name and you’ll be facing a House Ethics Committee investigation. “scumbag-Schiff warns GOP that outing Trump whistleblower could violate ethics rules,” Politico headlined its story. “scumbag-Schiff Warns GOP: Name Whistleblower In Public Hearings, And Face Possible Ethics Probe,” The Daily Caller put it, more explicitly... Something is wrong with scumbag-Schiff every American knows who the whistlebower is, Eric Ciaramella.
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The 5 Questions the First Witnesses MUST 
Be Asked to Pierce the Veil of 
scumbag-Schiff’s Impeachment Sham
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by GREGG JARRETT
{ thegreggjarrett.com } ~ Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff has no credible or reliable evidence that President Trump committed an impeachable offense during his telephone conversation... with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, 2019. Despite hysterical accusations by Democrats of extortion or a mysterious “quid pro quo” that is evidenced nowhere in the transcript of the call, the Democratic Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is determined to pursue his baseless inquisition with nothing more than opinion witnesses offering speculation built on multiple hearsay.  This is impeachment by rumor and innuendo.The first two witnesses at the public hearing on Wednesday will be William Taylor, the acting ambassador to Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state. Factually, they are not witnesses at all. They heard and repeated the equivalent of gossip from a chattering class of diplomats, then made erroneous assumptions that are belied by the only relevant and reliable evidence –a transcript of the Trump-Zelensky conversation. It is incumbent on Republicans to pose succinct questions that will expose scumbag-Schiff’s charade of witnesses. Cross-examination is often referred to as “the engine of truth.” If done properly, it is the only effective method to test both substance and credibility. While there are many questions that should be posed, here are five that should not be overlooked: Isn’t it true that you have no firsthand or direct knowledge from President Trump that he ever demanded from President Zelensky a promise to investigate loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden in exchange for U.S. military aid?Isn’t it true that your “belief” or “understanding” that aid was linked to a loose lips liar-Biden investigation a so-called “quid pro quo” was based on what other diplomats said or what you surmised? Where in the transcript of the phone conversation between Presidents Trump and Zelensky is there a demand, condition, or pressure for a “quid pro quo” tied to U.S. aid? Isn’t it true that you never spoke to President Trump about U.S. aid to Ukraine nor did he ever direct you to withhold military assistance unless Ukraine agreed to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens?...  https://thegreggjarrett.com/5-questions-witnesses-pierce-veil-schiffs-impeachment-sham/   
AP Confirms Horowitz Report “Principal 
Review Phase” Underway – “Invitations” 
For Witnesses and Lawyers
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ We finally have confirmation of a procedural process that allows us to anticipate the timing for public release of the FISA report from Inspector General Horowitz... The Justice Department’s watchdog is nearing the release of its report on the early stages of the FBI’s Russia investigation, a document likely to revive debate about a politically charged probe that shadowed President Donald Trump’s administration from the outset. The inspector general in recent days has invited witnesses and their lawyers who were interviewed for the report to review portions of a draft this week and next, a critical final step toward making the document public, according to multiple people familiar with the process who insisted on anonymity to discuss it. As part of that process, the people will have opportunities to raise concerns or suggest potential edits, making it unclear precisely when in the coming weeks a final version could be ready for release. Inspector General Michael Horowitz told Congress in a letter last month that he did not expect a lengthy review period and that he intended to make as much of the report public as possible, with minimal redactions. Generally speaking, and using the 2018 IG report on FBI conduct as a guide, the ‘Principal Review’ phase under Horowitz usually lasts 10 business days, or two weeks. All principals, and lawyers who review the report, are required to sign non-disclosure agreements...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/12/finally-ap-confirms-horowitz-report-principal-review-phase-underway-invitations-for-witnesses-and-lawyers/ 
The Silence of The Shams – “Some 
Witness Reviews Still Being Negotiated”
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The Washington Post jumps-in to the Horowitz ‘principal review’ timeline adding that some of the opportunities for witnesses to review the final draft report are “still being negotiated”... likely by the attorney’s for the principals. Take all reporting on this two-week review phase with a grain of salt. Despite the NDA’s there will be a rush to control the narrative. “People familiar with the matter” will start popping up in the Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, Buzzfeed and CNN. There is likely to be a flood of spin from the PR teams behind each principal outlined in the report. Lawyers for scumbag-James Comey and Andrew McCabe will be using every angle of Lawfare imaginable to attempt to shape their clients image within the report. Lawyers, Lawfare legal teams, and DC-based PR consultants for liar-Sally Yates, John Carlin, Mary McCord, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, James Baker, Michael Kortan, Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, Chris Steele, Glen Simpson, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, scumbag/commie-John Brennan, scumbag-James Clapper and many more will all be working at courtroom rates to control any report damage for their clients. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration will be working in the background, while Fusion-GPS takes in fees and pays their primary journalists and narrative engineers premium rates for column inches that protect their client interests. This is one big confab of interests all positioning to control any negative impressions and highlight their magnanimous patriotic activity. Watch and we will see full deployment of the justification defense and “outrage trap“. After all, according to their predictable defenses, there was evidence, even if slight, that President Trump was a Russian asset belonging to Vladimir Putin…. it had to be taken seriously, etc. Even the Republicans in congress were alarmed. We are going to see the Intelligence Community Assessment deployed as a shield… see, even the entire intelligence community was concerned about Russia; so we had to use the FISA process…. because these were unprecedented times, unprecedented threats, etc. Spying, surveillance, unmasking, electronic monitoring, all of it will be deemed as necessary because the system of our entire governmental apparatus was under attack…
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Hamas Claims It Has ‘Thousands of Missiles,’ 
Miles of Underground Terror Tunnels
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by Adam Kredo 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Top Hamas officials are claiming to have thousands of missiles pointed at Israel and miles of underground tunnels running into the Jewish state... offering these new disclosures amid a wave of renewed violence by the Palestinian terror group. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar threatened to use many of the missiles the group has stockpiled to destroy the city of Tel Aviv in a recent speech broadcast on Hamas-run television and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. "We now have hundreds of kilometers of underground tunnels," Sinwar was quoted as saying in his Nov. 4 remarks. "We have many hundreds of control-and-command rooms, both underground and above ground." Israel was deluged Monday evening by at least 150 rockets fired from terror outposts. A number of those rockets struck areas populated by Israeli citizens, prompting schools to shutter for the first time since the early 1990s. The major escalation hit after the Israeli Defense Forces assassinated a top Palestinian terror leader.  Sinwar claimed in his remarks that the group, which is partially supported by Iran, has the ability to launch surprise attacks on Israel from underground."We have hundreds and thousands of traps, and if the enemy so much as thinks to enter the Gaza Strip, our sons will go out…. You and your brothers will emerge from the belly of the earth…. The earth will spew forth our men and our youth, who will go out to the enemy's tanks from the belly of the earth with anti-tank missiles that were manufactured in the Gaza Strip," MEMRI  quoted the Hamas leader as saying.  The group's cache of arms has grown substantially over the years, according to Sinwar...   https://freebeacon.com/national-security/hamas-claims-it-has-thousands-of-missiles-miles-of-underground-terror-tunnels/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=a22cf5bd73-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_12_10_22_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-a22cf5bd73-45611665   
scumbag/liar-nObama, scumbag/liar-Clinton
Alumni Serve At UN, Continuing Liberal Influence Over International Affairs During Trump Era
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by LUKE ROSIAK
{ dailycaller.com } ~ scumbag-Obama-era Democrats are still influencing foreign affairs, now through jobs at the United Nations and at other international organizations... where Americans can help shape international politics in ways at odds with the Trump administration. Before and after the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, scumbag/liar-nObama- and scumbag/liar-Clinton-aligned politicos took the positions, which are not U.S. government jobs but generally are the result of lobbying by U.S. officials. Many are entitled to keep the jobs indefinitely once they are in them. Tensions between the Trump administration and employees in the foreign service and international organizations — including some that serve at the pleasure of the president — have repeatedly come to the fore in recent weeks. When President Donald Trump  addressed the U.S. Mission to the United Nations on Sept. 26, “someone laughed loudly,” while others “spoke in hushed murmurs,” The Washington Post reported. The mission consists of U.S. government employees interacting with the U.N., while some Americans also occupy jobs at the U.N. itself. The Americans who work in top jobs at international organizations wield significant influence and ordinarily get the jobs with the backing of the administration, Brett D. Schaefer, a United Nations expert at the Heritage Foundation who serves as a U.N. official after being nominated by Trump, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. But because the slots aren’t federal jobs, they do not appear on the organizational chart of U.S. agencies and amount to some of the government’s more obscure nooks and crannies, he said. Incoming presidents dole out some 4,100 federal jobs listed in the “Plum Book” to political appointees who share the president’s policy views. But inside the State Department, there is also an international version of the Plum Book, listing roles at the many trans-national organizations where U.S. leaders can place their people, Schaefer said. They’re the type that would easily be overlooked by an outsider candidate like Trump, but their existence and importance were well-understood by Democrats inside the State Department, Schaefer said...  https://{/2019/11/11/obama-clinton-alumni-international-affairs-trump/
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Scientists' Advocate Population 
Control to Save Planet
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Political Editors:  Like something out of a dystopian science-fiction story, more than 11,000 “scientists” from 153 nations recently signed a petition declaring that climate change would bring “untold human suffering” that is “unavoidable” unless drastic action is immediately taken. And what is the drastic action these “scientists” advocate? A socialist tyranny that would end capitalism by stopping all economic growth and … human population control. Why is it that socialists’ solutions invariably call for less stuff, fewer people, and restricted freedom?
 

As David Harsanyi notes, “Basically, these scientists are advocating for the Green New Deal: a collection of ludicrous solutions wholly unconcerned with economic tradeoffs or political reality. The plan treats nature and people as moral equals, imagining them in an apartment-dwelling, plant-based-food-eating, bicycle-riding society where well-being is administered ‘by prioritizing basic needs and reducing inequality’ — which doesn’t sound creepy or authoritarian at all.”

Oh, the glaring irony in warning of “untold human suffering.” That’s exactly what would be brought by the socialist “solutions” to climate change — solutions that are responsible for creating some of the worst human suffering and misery the world has ever known. So, in order to save the planet and keep humanity from suffering, millions must die.

It’s the overpopulation myth. Harsanyi observes, “‘Overpopulation’ is routinely cited by journalists — who often live in the densest, yet miraculously, the wealthiest, places on earth — as a problem. Yet, if density were itself causing human suffering, Monaco, as Nicholas Eberstadt once pointed out, with its 16,000 people per square kilometer, would be a far bleaker place than Bangladesh, with its 1,000 people per square kilometer.”

The truth, is the greater number of humans existing, the greater amount of human capital leading to greater intellectual capacity to find and develop solutions to the myriad of problems facing humanity and the world. Stopping all modern economics and artificially limiting and controlling the human population will only serve to greatly increase human suffering, not lessen it. Thanks in large part to the spread of capitalism, the number of individuals living in abject poverty across the globe has been halved since the year 2000, even as the population of the planet has continued to increase.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66693?mailing_id=4647&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4647&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Coup Has Started'
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Wednesday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


PUBLICITY: As impeachment hearings go live on TV, here are four things to expect, courtesy of The Daily Signal.

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXlbDEATZwM&feature=emb_title  

FELONIOUS WHISTLEBLOWER? ICIG complaint alleges Trump-Ukraine “whistleblower” may be soliciting illicit donations (Fox News)

Government & Politics


WHO? Republican Mark Sanford abandons presidential primary run (National Review)

THIRD TIME’S A CHARM? scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton continues to fuel speculation that she will run in 2020 — or perhaps it’s the many, many, many voices in her head urging it (The Daily Wire)

DEATH BY DEFICIT: Study: Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren plan would hike deficit $15 trillion, create “soaring demand” for healthcare (The Washington Free Beacon)

National Security


BORDER ARRESTS SHRINK: Border arrests fall again in October, down almost 75% since May (The Daily Wire)

WARRANT REQUIRED: U.S. court rules against warrantless searches of phones, laptops of international travelers (NBC News)

Culture


HATE CRIME STATS: Overall hate crimes decreased in 2018 while violence ticked up, according to new FBI report (National Review)

FOR THE RECORD: Man who slashed “Baby Trump” balloon: “First time” leftists are “mad about chopping up a baby” (The Daily Wire)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Three major reforms NATO needs to keep from collapsing (The Federalist)

POLICY: Smart government focuses on essentials: reviving family and business formation (Issues & Insights)

HUMOR: Epstein island sold to wealthy Middle Eastern businessman Haadid Nahkil Muhssef (Genesius Times

~The Patriot Post
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Officials testify in first public 
hearing of impeachment investigation
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by washingtonexaminer.com ~ The House Intelligence Committee will hold its first public testimony in regards to the impeachment investigation into President Trump on Wednesday at 10 a.m... William Taylor, the top diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, will testify on Wednesday. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch will testify Friday morning.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/watch-live-house-impeachment-testimony-day-one?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_11/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261  
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scumbag-Adam Schiff froze dead in his
tracks when he saw the results of
this impeachment poll
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by patriotpulse.net ~ scumbag-Adam Schiff and liar-Nancy Pelosi are wondering what they got themselves into. The Democrats launched their impeachment witch hunt because they bought into the Fake News Media hype... that removing President Trump from office was wildly popular with the American people. But scumbag-Adam Schiff froze dead in his tracks when he saw the results of this impeachment poll. When the initial news about the so-called “whistleblower” complaint kicked off phony scandal about military aid to Ukraine, polls showed a bump in support for impeachment. So-called “journalists” cheered this development as they believed Trump was just weeks away from being thrown out of office. But the latest polling data shows the Democrats’ strategy is a bust. A brand new USA Today/Suffolk poll found just 37 percent of Americans supported impeaching and removing the President from office. A newly-released poll found less than 40 percent of registered voters believe House Democrats should vote to impeach President Donald Trump. Democrats totally overplayed their hand. Their lunatic base and allies in the Fake News Media will never forgive the Democrats if they don’t impeach Trump. If Democrats do impeach Trump they are running into political headwinds that could wipe them out in 2020.   https://patriotpulse.net/adam-schiff-froze-dead-in-his-tracks-when-he-saw-the-results-of-this-impeachment-poll/#gf_1172   
'Saw everything': Alleged whistleblower 
Eric Ciaramella had extensive access
 in Trump White House
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Eric Ciaramella, the alleged Ukraine whistleblower, was long suspected of deliberately attempting to damage President Trump's foreign policy from the inside and had access to policy information far beyond his regional expertise... according to former National Security Council officials. Ciaramella, 33, a career CIA analyst, was Ukraine director on the NSC toward the end of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and stayed there during the first few months of the Trump administration, when he was acting senior director for European and Russian affairs and then special assistant to Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who was Trump's national security adviser, until he left the White House in summer 2017. Now a deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia on the National Intelligence Council, Ciaramella is suspected of being the official who filed a complaint  about a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Democrats are pursuing the impeachment of Trump, accusing him of linking Ukrainian military aid to investigating corruption related to business dealings by former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. “The person that I always felt extremely uncomfortable around was Eric Ciaramella. He was one of the few guys around who seemed to know where the filing cabinets were, so to speak,” one former official told the Washington Examiner, adding that Ciaramella was antagonistic at an early Trump administration gathering when it was said that the goal was to turn Trump’s campaign promises and platform into policy. When the issue of Ukraine was brought up at a policy meeting, Ciaramella mentioned aid to Ukraine. He became visibly upset, the official recounted, when he was told that Trump would review Ukraine policy and that it would likely not be the same as President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s. “He kind of rolled his eyes and went, 'Hmph!' He didn't leave the room, but it was pretty clear that he thought that we were wrong and he was right. ... I never trusted him with anything after that." "Body language to me was all that this guy was about, you know. He was not happy about the Trump administration. He wasn't on board with the Trump policy. So, I always assumed that he was leaker number one and not to be trusted."...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/saw-everything-alleged-whistleblower-eric-ciaramella-had-extensive-access-in-trumps-white-house?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/11/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
scumbag-Schiff warns of consequences if GOP 
talks about ‘whistleblower’ during 
impeachment hearings
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by Tom Tillison
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and lead Democrat in the effort to take out President Trump... has ordered Republicans to not talk about the whistleblower who prompted the partisan impeachment inquisition.  With the Democratic Party taking their secret impeachment inquisition from behind closed doors in the basement of the U.S. Capitol and going before cameras this week, scumbag-Schiff released a statement essentially threatening those who fail to comply with an ethics investigation. Byron York, the chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner and a Fox News contributor, shared the statement online. “Whistleblower started Trump-Ukraine matter, framed issue in way House Dems have adopted for impeachment,” York tweeted. “Now Chairman scumbag-Schiff orders GOP: Do not talk about whistleblower in impeachment hearings. If you do, you’ll hear from Ethics Committee.” A timely directive in the face of a Fox News exclusive report of a complaint being filed with the Intelligence Community Inspector General alleging the Ukraine-Trump whistleblower may have violated federal law by indirectly soliciting over a quarter-million dollars from mostly anonymous sources via GoFundMe. The complaint only adds to a list of concerns about the whistleblower, beginning with the fact that he contacted scumbag-Schiff’s staff on the House Intel Committee before filing his complaint — a decision that could subject this individual tofelony false statement charges for not disclosing that he had contacted scumbag-Schiff... What gives scumbag-Schiff the right to threaten the GOP.
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REAL ID Soon: Inescapable Extension 
of the Federal Surveillance State
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{ thenewamerican.com } ~ “Your papers, please.” What image just came into your head? Something straight out of Casablanca? A jack-booted, uniform-clad, Nazi stopping someone on the street?... Well, a similar scene is about to be played out in the airports of the United States of America. What will bring this dystopian drama to life? REAL ID. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a notice to all travelers that “beginning October 1, 2020 not only must all states be issuing Real ID-compliant licenses or IDs, but individuals must also have visited their state’s driver’s licensing agency and obtained a REAL ID compliant card, or acceptable alternative such as a U.S. passport, if they wish to fly on commercial aircrafts or access federal facilities.” What happens on that fateful date of October 1, 2020? Again, from DHS: Federal agencies, including DHS and TSA, may only accept state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards as identification for purposes of accessing federal facilities — including TSA airport security checkpoints — if the license or card was issued by a REAL ID compliant state in accordance with the REAL ID security standards meaning the license or card must include the REAL ID compliant star marking.  Enhanced Driver’s Licenses (EDL) issued by Washington, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and Vermont are considered acceptable alternatives to REAL ID-compliant cards and will also be accepted for official REAL ID purposes. Most EDLs do not contain the star marking and this is acceptable. For those of you who’ve forgotten what REAL ID is, here’s DHS’s definition: Passed by Congress in 2005, the REAL ID Act enacted the 9/11 Commission's recommendation that the Federal Government “set standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver's licenses.” The Act established minimum security standards for state-issued driver's licenses and identification cards and prohibits Federal agencies from accepting for official purposes licenses and identification cards from states that do not meet these standards. Constitutionalists will immediately recognize the real problems with REAL ID...
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Netanyahu and Gantz meet for security 
update as Gaza violence rages
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{ timesofisrael.com } ~ MK Benny Gantz received a security update Tuesday from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hours after the Blue and White leader said the escalation of hostilities in Gaza... would not affect his ongoing negotiations to form a coalition. “This action will have no effect on the political processes taking place,” Gantz said in a statement supporting Israel’s early-morning airstrike killing a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander in the Gaza Strip. “The terrorist Abu Al-Ata who was killed tonight was destined for death. Just like Hamas chief of staff Ahmed Jabari, just like any terrorist who commits murderous acts against Israeli citizens,” Gantz said. In 2012, while IDF chief of staff, Gantz ordered a strike targeting  Ahmed Jabari, the acting head of Hamas’s military wing and mastermind of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit’s kidnapping in 2006. As the army chief of staff, Gantz also commanded the 2014 Gaza war under Netanyahu. “For the sake of Israel’s security, the political and security echelons often have to make tough decisions, while assessing their price. Such was the decision on the night’s operation, on which I was updated in advance. This is an operational and policy decision,” Gantz said, apparently dismissing claims the strike was politically motivated.“I would like to emphasize: Blue and White, headed by me, will always put citizens’ safety before anything else,” he said. A meeting between Gantz and Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman set for Tuesday to discuss ongoing coalition negotiations was postponed until Wednesday “due to the security situation,” Blue and White said...
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Young People Ignorant of History
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{ cnsnews.com } ~ A recent survey conducted by the Victims of Communism and polled by YouGov, a research and data firm... found that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist and that one in three millennials saw communism as "favorable." Let examine this tragic vision in light of the Fraser Institute's recently released annual study "Economic Freedom of the World," prepared by Professors James Gwartney, Florida State University; Robert A. Lawson and Ryan Murphy of Southern Methodist University; and Joshua Hall, West Virginia University, in cooperation with the Economic Freedom Network. Hong Kong and Singapore maintained their lead as the world's most economically free countries — although China's heavy hand threatens Hong Kong's top ranking. Rounding out the top 10 are New Zealand, Switzerland, the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Mauritius. By the way, after having fallen to 16th in 2016, the U.S. has staged a comeback to being in the top five economically free countries in the world. What statistics go into the Fraser Institute's calculation of economic freedom? The report measures the ability of individuals to make their own economic decisions by analyzing the policies and institutions of 162 countries and territories. These include regulation, freedom to trade internationally, size of government, sound legal system, private property rights and government spending and taxation. Fraser Institute scholar Fred McMahon says, "Where people are free to pursue their own opportunities and make their own choices, they lead more prosperous, happier and healthier lives." The evidence for his assessment is: Countries in the top quartile of economic freedom had an average per-capita GDP of $36,770 in 2017 compared with $6,140 for bottom quartile countries. Poverty rates are lower. In the top quartile, 1.8% of the population experienced extreme poverty ($1.90 a day) compared with 27.2% in the lowest quartile. Life expectancy is 79.5 years in the top quartile of economically free countries compared with 64.4 years in the bottom quartile...   https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/walter-e-williams/young-people-ignorant-history   
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Coup Has Started'
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Mark Zaid is not a household name. Not yet at least. But you’re probably going to hear a lot about him in the days ahead. Zaid is one of the lawyers representing the CIA leaker who colluded with scumbag-Adam Schiff’s staffers on the House Intelligence Committee to trigger the impeachment of President Trump.

As we noted in yesterday’s report, Donald Trump Jr. named the alleged “whistleblower” in a tweet — Eric Ciaramella. But I want to focus on Mr. Zaid.

Fox News has examined Zaid’s social-media accounts and discovered a startling degree of hostility toward the president that began from the very beginning of Trump’s administration. Consider these few examples:

  • On Jan. 30, 2017, reacting to news that President Trump had fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an scumbag/liar-nObama holdover, Zaid tweeted this: “#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow ultimately.”

  • Zaid repeated his threat of a coup the same day in response to Trump naming liar-Yates’ replacement, tweeting: “#coup has started. As one falls, two more will take their place. #rebellion #impeachment.”

  • In May, Zaid tweeted about past presidential impeachments: “Johnson (1868), Nixon (1973), scumbag/liar-Clinton (1998) impeachment hearings. Next up @realDonaldTrump (2017).”

  • A few weeks later, he commented on Watergate, tweeting: “45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the impeachment of @realDonaldTrump. I’ll be old, but will be worth the wait.”

  • On July 1, 2017, Zaid wrote that he’d rather be in Canada: “Since Jan 20th, I would much rather be in Canada. What a great country! We’ll be great again when @realDonaldTrump leaves.”

  • Responding the same day to another anti-Trump progressive, Zaid tweeted: “It’s very scary. We will get rid of [Trump], and this country is strong enough to survive even him and his supporters. We have to.”

  • A few days later, on July 4th, Zaid tweeted: “I predict @CNN will play a key role in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president.”

Notice how Zaid’s contempt extends beyond Donald Trump and includes “his supporters.” You know, those 63 million “deplorable and irredeemable” Americans.

Fox News adds that Zaid shamelessly pitched his anti-Trump efforts to left-wing Hollywood celebrities, including Cher, Debra Messing, and sicko-Rob Reiner. 

He even attempted to offer his services to — wait for it — Michael Avenatti of Julie Swetnick fame. As you may recall, Avenatti is currently facing trial for defrauding his clients and attempting to extort Nike. I think that speaks volumes about Zaid’s credibility.

Zaid’s call for a “coup” and “rebellion” should not be dismissed. This should be a huge story. It should be reported as such, but I’m not holding my breath.

Zaid should be investigated, and the Deep State leaker should be investigated. It is likely that the alleged “whistleblower” broke the law by failing to disclose his contacts with scumbag-Adam Schiff’s staff.

Order in the Courts!

I was honored to join dozens of conservative leaders at the White House on Wednesday for a ceremony celebrating President Trump’s record number of judicial appointments. 

So far, the president has nominated and the Republican Senate has confirmed more than 150 judges, including two Supreme Court justices, in less than three years! And there will be more in the weeks and months ahead.

The president is ecstatic over these opportunities, and conservatives who care about the Constitution, the rule of law, religious liberty, and the right to life should be grateful. When it comes to defending the values of faith, family, and freedom, appointing the right judges is perhaps the most important thing any president can do.

But there is a long way to go. You can’t undo eight years of scumbag/liar-nObama appointments in just three or four years. To fundamentally reform the federal courts and fully restore balance to the judiciary, President Trump needs a second term. And if he gets it, we have a tremendous opportunity.

Two of the Supreme Court’s liberal justices are 81 and 86 years old. If President Trump gets four more years, we could have a 7 to 2 conservative majority! 

Misplaced Priorities

Columnist Terry Jeffrey notes that we could be headed for a government shutdown due to the misplaced priorities of Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats.  President Trump is asking Congress for $5 billion in border-security funding. But House Democrats have approved only $1.3 billion. 

And there’s a huge catch: The funds are specifically designated for enhancing “the border security of nations adjacent to conflict areas including Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Tunisia resulting from actions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”

In other words, Democrats will spend your money to secure the borders of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Tunisia, but not the borders of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

Senate Republicans are offering the president the full $5 billion he requested to secure the southern border. Whether liar-Pelosi and her squad of socialists are willing to compromise remains to be seen.   

~The Patriot Post

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Roger Helle  
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In Their Own Words, Democrats 
Explain Why This Impeachment Is A Farce
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By Adam Mill
{ thefederalist.com } ~ It’s getting exhausting having to explain over and over and over why the Ukraine farce is a silly if sinister exhibition of poorly written political fiction. As such... I’m going to hand the microphone over to some of the people advancing this terrible sequel to the horrible Russia collusion hoax. Let’s start with the former vice president, the person with whom this all started. What is his opinion about the scandal? “This behavior is particularly abhorrent because it exploits the foreign policy of our country and undermines our national security for political purposes,” loose lips liar-Biden said in a statement. “It means that President Trump used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation — a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia — pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor.” Whoa! Don’t be so rough on yourself, loose lips liar-Joe. Here is loose lips iar-Biden’s video-recorded confession that he “used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation — a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia — pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor.” He said, “I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a b-tch. (Laughter) He got fired.” loose lips liar-Biden held up U.S. aid to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired — but Donald Trump needs to be impeached. Witnesses Are Only Relevant If They Favor Impeachment How about the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee? Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff recently penned an article in which he partially explained why he’s so triggered. He wants to know whether the White House conditioned a meeting with Ukraine, “on Ukraine’s willingness to launch and publicly announce sham political investigations to discredit the unanimous conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and into President Trump’s potential political rival in 2020.” Somewhere in scumbag-Schiff’s version of the Constitution, it says the elected U.S. president can’t question or attempt to discredit a “unanimous” conclusion or else he must be impeached...
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Dobbs and Fitton Discuss Vindman’s 
“Deep State” Coup Effort
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Fox Business Host Lou Dobbs and President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton discuss the testimony of Lt. Col Vindman and his congressional admission to usurp the executive power of the President... The word “coup” shifted to a new level of formalized meaning last week when members of the political resistance showed up to remove President Trump wearing military uniforms. Not only did U.S. military leadership remain silent to the optics and purpose, but in the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman he admits to giving instructions to ignore the instructions from a sitting United States President. In the absence of push-back from the Joint Chiefs, from this moment forth, the impression is tacit U.S. military support for the Vindman objective...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/09/the-coup-against-a-sitting-u-s-president-became-official-on-october-29th-2019/
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2020 Dems Plan Deportation Freeze
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by Charles Fain Lehman 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Multiple 2020 Democrats have voiced interest in or support for a freeze on deportation of illegal immigrants... a move that immigration expert Jessica Vaughn said would effectively put an end to border enforcement. Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren (D., Mass.), Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), and former scumbag/liar-nObama administration official Julián Castro have all backed either suspending deportations or dismantling detention facilities for those caught crossing the border. In fiscal year 2019, a wave of unauthorized immigrants at the southwestern border led to what U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has called a "humanitarian crisis." Loosened enforcement would likely exacerbate this situation, according to Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. "A moratorium on deportations would cause chaos in the immigration system and prevent ICE from removing even the worst of the worst criminal aliens that are the bulk of its case load," Vaughn told the Washington Free Beacon. "The result is basically open borders." Speaking Friday at a forum hosted by the Latino activist group Mijente, dinky/liar-Warren said that she is "open to suspending deportations, particularly as a way to push Congress for comprehensive immigration reform." She added that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is "focusing on people who do not pose a threat" and does not "make this country safer." Other 2020 Democrats have made similar proposals. In his immigration plan, commie-Sanders promises to, on his first day in office, "put a moratorium on deportations until a thorough audit of current and past practices and policies is complete." Castro's plan did not call for a moratorium, but did propose to dismantle immigration detention and restructure ICE. If implemented, such policies would allow tens of thousands of individuals with standing deportation orders to remain in the country. In fiscal year 2019 alone, immigration judges granted more than 186,000 deportation orders, nearly six times  the number of orders they rejected. In fact, in 2019 ICE asked for the deportation of even more people—more than 440,000—contributing to the immigration court system's million-person backlog...   https://freebeacon.com/issues/2020-dems-plan-deportation-freeze/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=b8bb616757-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_07_07_01_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-b8bb616757-45611665   
IDF girds for several days of fighting 
after 190 rockets fired at Israel
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By JUDAH ARI GROSS
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday afternoon launched a campaign of retaliatory airstrikes against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the Gaza Strip... following approximately six hours of unanswered rocket attacks on central and southern Israel from the enclave. The military said its airstrikes targeted Palestinian Islamic Jihad underground facilities and training camps. The IDF said these underground facilities were used “for storage and manufacturing of weapons.”These sites are seen as critical facilities, which PIJ has invested large sums of money to construct. IDF aircraft also bombed a group of Islamic Jihad operatives in the northern Gaza Strip as they prepared to fire rockets at Israel around 1 p.m., the military said. One of the terrorists was killed and three others were wounded in the strike, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said. In a second round of airstrikes around 4 p.m., the army said it struck “training compounds, including one used by PIJ’s naval commando unit, the shaft of an offensive terror tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip and a tunnel digging site in the central Gaza Strip.” In the predawn hours of Tuesday morning, Israeli Air Force jets fired precision ammunition at a building in the Shejaiya area of Gaza City where PIJ senior terror chief Baha Abu al-Ata was located, assassinating him and killing his wife, in a joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet security service...
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Megyn Kelly Is Back To Work
Makes Instagram TV And YouTube Debut
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By Leo Briceno
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Megyn Kelly made her first real reappearance in broadcasting since she left NBC news in 2017 on Instagram last Friday. In the seven-minute video she released on YouTube and Instagram TV... Kelly interviewed Ashley Bianco, former ABC producer who was fired by NBC for allegedly releasing footage that suggested the network attempted to cover up the developing Epstein story three years ago. With her Instagram interview, Kelly has re-inserted herself in the public conversation and added additional pressure to the developing NBC story. This isn’t the first time that she has confronted topics of controversy and national interest, but it’s the first time she done it outside of a newsroom. The influence of mediums like Instagram is growing daily. And while the social media platform might be an unconventional stage for a news anchor, for Kelly it seems to be the latest in a long line of professional transitions. “Follow along with me here @MegynKelly, for current stories and my insight in real time,” she wrote on Instagram. According to Business Insider, Kelly first practiced law for nine years before beginning work with ABC news as an affiliate in Washington D.C in 2003. During this time, she covered the Bush – hanoi-Kerry presidential race, and by 2004 was working at Fox News. It was at this time that Kelly became what the Washington Post described as “a leading voice in political journalism,” covering stories like the Boston Marathon Bombings and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Shortly following the 2016 election, she changed employers again, moving this time to NBC news. There she would run a daytime news and talk show, star a Sunday Night program, and—again—cover some of the most pertinent stories of her day. But her relationship with NBC news would be cut short when in October of 2017, Kelly got into hot water after she made comments about the social acceptability of using blackface. It was these comments that prompted the chair at NBC to say that Kelly’s comments had, “no place on our air.” Kelly and NBC parted ways...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/11/megyn-kelly-embraces-alternative-broadcasting-platforms-on-instagram-and-youtube/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=d321844dd2-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-d321844dd2-83771801  
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The Palestinian Christmas Show
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by Bassam Tawil
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In a few weeks' time, the Palestinian Authority (PA) will perform its annual Christmas deception show. As is its custom, the PA will invite foreign journalists and diplomats to Bethlehem... where its spin doctors will wax poetic about good relations and harmony between Christians and Muslims in the city on the eve of Christmas. PA officials often seize this opportunity to blame Israel for the "plight" of Palestinian Christians, who make up only one percent of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. There is one incident, however, that the PA officials will do their utmost to keep under wraps. It is the story of 63-year-old Terez Ta'amneh, a Christian woman from the town of Bet Jala, near Bethlehem, who died when PA police officers raided her home to arrest her son, Yusef, for unpaid debts. The story of Ta'amneh is one of those that cause serious damage to the PA's propaganda machine, which is, instead, preoccupied with blaming Israel for the fact that a large number of Christians have left the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the past few decades. The number of Christians in the Gaza Strip is currently estimated at a few hundred. Until 10 years ago, there were about 3,500 Christians living under Hamas rule. Most fled to Israel, the West Bank or other countries in the West. According to a 2017 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics census, approximately 47,000 Christians live in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. In the past seven decades, since Israel was declared a state, tens of thousands of Christians have emigrated to the US, Canada, Europe and Latin America, mostly for economic reasons. The low birth rate among Christians, as well as mass emigration, has resulted in a steep decline of the Palestinian Christian population, from an estimated 10% in 1948 to around one percent today. The timing of the death of Ta'amneh in Beit Jala could not have been worse for the Palestinian Authority leadership, particularly because it came shortly before Christmas, when PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his senior officials usually go out of their way to present a rosy picture about the conditions of Christians living under their rule in Bethlehem and other West Bank areas...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15150/palestinian-christmas-show  
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Open-Border Dilemma
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Roger Helle:  On Monday, America was shocked by the brutal murder of an extended Mormon family less than 100 miles south of the U.S. border. The nine victims were women and children, including twins only six months old. According to a relative, the killers ambushed their vehicles and then walked up to them spraying more bullets into the women and children. After pilfering the vehicles, they set one on fire, burning some of the victims alive.

The family has dual citizenship with Mexico and the U.S. Supposedly, they were aware of the danger of the drug cartels and took precautions when traveling. So how did this happen? This problem is not anything new to Mexico. As has become more frequent, the victims were Americans!

Mexico has been a dangerous place for tourists for some time. Last year, when my brother told me he was going to Mexico for a vacation, I told him to be careful because of the violence. He told me it would be fine, it was a tourist area. The week he was there, a Marine on leave was brutally murdered.

This brings me to the touchy subject of open borders. We are told the vast majority of those coming across the border are good people who only want a better life. That may be true, but the facts also tell us that along with all of these “good people,” we are getting sex trafficking, a flood of drugs, and thousands of violent MS-13 gang members.

Enough deadly fentanyl has come across the border to literally wipe out our entire population. Mexico has replaced China for this deadly drug because of our poor control of the border. Let’s not forget the several hundred thousand deaths due to drug overdoses.

How many times have we read about mass graves found just south of our border? Are these victims of the cartels battling each other or trafficking victims who didn’t make it across? How many people have to die in vehicles when their “coyotes” abandon them after getting into the U.S. to avoid being caught? No time to get into Americans killed by illegals!

How high does the body count need to go before the Left acknowledges this is a human tragedy? I’m guessing a lot more because there are not yet enough to swing future elections. They have to know that when each of the Democrat candidates for president stand on the debate stage and tell of all the benefits they want to give to illegals who can make it here, it only encourages more people to leave their homes in the hope they make it here alive!

Why do we allow hundreds of thousands of Mexican and Central Americans to freely flow into our country each year? We have no idea who they are or what their intentions might be. What about the thousands of OTM (other than Mexicans) who come from countries NOT friendly to America? We are letting future terrorists come in and we have no idea where they will go. Think I’m exaggerating? How many Somali refugees allowed in this country legally have been caught planning terrorist acts? I rest my case.

While politicians of both parties do nothing about this human disaster, we will continue to read about these kinds of tragedies.

Something to think about?   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66652?mailing_id=4642&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4642&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Iran Mistakenly Attempts to Bully 
Trump Into Lifting Sanctions
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Political Editors  
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EU Pledges Increased U.S. Investment 
in Effort to Avoid U.S. Auto Tariffs
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Funny stuff amid headlines discussing the likelihood of President Trump postponing a 25% tariff on European autos... What the pundits are missing is how President Trump has positioned a myriad of trade dynamics that make EU action unavoidable.   This is the fun stuff, so let’s enjoy the details. The current headlines surround President Trump “postponing” a 25% tariff on EU automobiles as an outcome of the major EU manufacturers mostly Germany promising increased investment in their U.S. operations. By itself this would be considered a win for President Trump, but that’s not the whole picture, not even close. What the more broad trade and manufacturing dynamic includes will explain what EU economists are only just now  starting to realize. Yes, the major European auto-makers will put more investment into the United States thereby lessening the EU industrial economy; however, the auto decision is not because they are presenting a magnanimous benefit of sorts, but rather it is a foregone conclusion; an unavoidable reality due to a previous trade agreement construct. Within the USMCA agreement President Trump negotiated a win-win-win for Mexico, Canada and the U.S. through a requirement that 75 percent of North American auto content must originate from manufacturing within North America. Failure to reach that threshold means the auto company will be subject to a 25 percent tariff to bring the product to the U.S. market...
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Nikki Haley: John Kelly and Rex Tillerson 
Tried to Recruit me to Undermine Trump
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by Team Bongino
{ bongino.com } ~ Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is just now revealing that both former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former Chief of Staff John Kelly tried to undermine President Trump while serving in his administration... Haley makes the disturbing claim in her new book, “With all Due Respect,” and says the two former cabinet officials tried to recruit her to implement their agenda.  “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,” she writes in the upcoming memoir.“ It was their decisions, not the president’s, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn’t know what he was doing.” The Daily Mail reports that Haley “described Tillerson as ‘exhausting’, and said the secretary of state told her that ‘people would die’ if Trump went unchecked.” In an interview which aired yesterday on CBS, Haley said “Instead of saying that to me, they should’ve been saying that to the president, not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan,’ she said. She continued, “It should’ve been: ‘Go tell the president what your differences are, and quit if you don’t like what he’s doing. But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing. And it goes against the Constitution, and it goes against what the American people want. And it was offensive.” While Tillerson has yet to respond for comment, Kelly told CBS, ’If by resistance and stalling she means putting a staff process in place … to ensure the president knew all the pros and cons of what policy decision he might be contemplating so he could make an informed decision, then guilty as charged.’ White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham responded to Haley’s revelations this morning, telling Fox News that “undermining a president is dangerous and it does go against the Constitution and it does go against the American people, which is something that’s happening at Congress right now...but I wouldn’t know about that conversation she’s purporting to have in the book.”
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The whistleblower got help from 
one RINO traitor to impeach Trump
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by renewedright.com ~ The so-called “whistleblower” set out to help remove Donald Trump from office. No one expected Republicans to lend a hand to this attack on democracy... But now the whistleblower got help from this RINO traitor to impeach Trump. RINO never-Trumper Texas Congressman Will Hurd is one of the Fake News Media’s favorite Republicans. Hurd endorses anti-American positions on open-borders and grabbing guns while routinely criticizing Donald Trump for everything under the sun. Now, Hurd provided a boost to the Democrats’ impeachment witch hunt by shooting down the idea that the so-called “whistleblower” should testify in public. Republican Rep. Will Hurd on Sunday broke with members of his party who have been calling for the release of the Ukraine whistleblower’s identity, though he agreed with his party’s calls to have Hunter Biden testify in the first public impeachment hearings set to begin this week. Reports indicate the so-called “whistleblower” is Democrat partisan former CIA agent Eric Ciaramella. His long history in the Democrat Party — as well as accusations of being a prominent Deep State leaker — would add context to his allegations the President improperly pressured Ukraine to investigate loose lips liar-Joe Biden. If the American people learned the truth about this so-called “whistleblower,” they would demand the Democrats end this un-American attempt to undo the 2016 Presidential Election... https://renewedright.com/the-whistleblower-got-help-from-one-rino-traitor-to-impeach-trump/   
Key scumbag-Schiff Witness Blows Up in
His Face, Tears Christopher Steele
Apart Over Russia Dossier
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By Cade Almond 
{ westernjournal.com  } ~ A star witness in Democratic California Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump expressed skepticism about information collected by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele... according to The Daily Caller. Dr. Fiona Hill, who served as the White House’s top adviser on Russia until July, centered a portion of her Oct. 14 closed-door testimony on the infamous dossier compiled by Steele. The Steele dossier contained accusations of a conspiracy between the Russian government and then-candidate Donald Trump. It was widely considered to be riddled with false intelligence, and many of its claims remain unsubstantiated even after the conclusion of the investigation. Hill told lawmakers that Steele was desperate to “drum up business” and obtain work, which made him vulnerable to be misled by his Russian sources. Upon reading the report, Hill said she was concerned that “Steele could have been played.” She also speculated that the Russians’ move to feed material to Steele was motivated more by revenge than by an interest in helping out Trump. “Because if you also think about it, the Russians would have an ax to grind against Steele given the job that he had previously,” she said. “And if he started going back through his old contacts and asking about, that would be a perfect opportunity for people to feed some kind of misinformation.” Hill admitted that she was “shocked” when she discovered that Steele, whom she had worked with during her time as a national intelligence officer from 2006 to 2009, was the author behind the suspicious report. She even testified that she had first-person knowledge of Steele’s desperation, noting that he “was clearly very interested in building up a client base” when the two met in 2016. “And this is why I was concerned about the Steele report because that is a vulnerability,” Hill said. “Christopher Steele going out and looking for information. He’s obviously out there soliciting information,” she continued. “What a great opportunity to, basically, you know, present him with information that he’s looking for that can be couched some truth and some disinformation.”...
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Former Acting ICE Director Mulls Over Running 
To Unseat Anti-ICE Democratic Senator
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By  Molly Prince
{ dailywire.com } ~ Former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan suggested on Monday that if he decides to run for political office in New York state... he would ultimately want to take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).  “Let me just say this,” Homan told host Larry O’Connor during an episode of his “Examining Politics” podcast. “When I do return to New York and if Senator Gillibrand is still around, she won’t be around because I will take her on.”Homan’s remarks were in response to O’Connor’s inquiry as to whether Homan would be interested in replacing Rep. Pete King (R-NY), who announce that after 14 terms in Congress he would not be seeking reelection when his current term expires. Homan, who was born in New York, noted that he was not currently a resident of the Empire state, but will likely be when he retires, similar to former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, who previously held the United States Senate seat. Gillibrand has been an outspoken opponent of the ICE and one of the first Democratic lawmakers to call for abolishing the immigration enforcement agency. “I believe we need to protect families who need help, and ICE isn’t doing that,” the New York senator said in June 2018. “It has become a deportation force. We need to separate immigration issues from criminal justice. We need to abolish ICE, start over and build something that actually works.”  Gillibrand received widespread backlash after she continued to promote ICE’s abolishment. She subsequently walked back some of her comments that she claimed were misconstrued. Gillibrand said that despite demanding that “we need to abolish ICE,” she stated in September 2018 that she believes America still needs an agency that will fulfill the goals that ICE was created to achieve...   https://www.dailywire.com/news/listen-former-acting-ice-director-mulls-over-running-to-unseat-anti-ice-democratic-senator   
Guest dares Fox News to name whistleblower 
for first time on air… so, Mollie
Hemingway does it!
by Victor Rantala
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ After a former scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton adviser essentially dared fellow panelists on “Spin Cycle” to name the whistleblower... Mollie Hemingway took the challenge to heart and promptly said the name of the schmuck who “shall not be named.” As the discussion developed on Sunday’s Fox News program, Phillippe Reines asked, “Why hasn’t the press done it? I could say why hasn’t Fox done it? I could say why hasn’t The Federalist done it?”  Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist, did not hesitate to name the whistleblower and she explained that media outlets have long been publishing his name. True enough, yet host Howard Kurtz reacted as if he expected an immediate angry visit from mob enforcers. He said not once, but twice that he wanted to “clarify” that he personally did not know who the whistleblower is, desperately pleading to the camera his mea innocentia. Earlier in the discussion, Kurtz rightfully stated: “Understand that legally there is no prohibition against naming the whistleblower, just against retaliation. Maybe you think he is a partisan, a hack or a never-Trumper, but as I said, it would send a message to future whistleblowers that this person can be outed just because their name is leaked to the press and that might be true in a Democratic administration.” “I think people should be concerned about protecting people that are in the public news,” Hemingway replied. “But the most important thing is that the media should be about sharing information that is in the public interest. And there’s no question that this is in the public interest.” She went on to point out the ludicrous double dealing at work in the national media. “We are not seeing this kind of concern that the media has for the whistleblower that they have had for other people. You had CNN doxxing a grandmother because they didn’t like what she put on Facebook, filming her on her front lawn. You have NBC recently outing an American spy who was Russian. You have had the New York Times out a CIA station chief in Iran.” “And Real Clear Investigations has identified a man named Eric Ciaramella as the whistleblower,” said the Federalist editor, “so it’s already out there. We could be talking about this reporting and talking about whether that’s accurate reporting or not and I feel confused why we are pretending that it hasn’t already been …” Way to go Mollie Hemingway.
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Iran Mistakenly Attempts to Bully Trump Into
Lifting Sanctions
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Political Editors:  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced this week that Iran will double its uranium-enrichment program in violation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — a.k.a. the Iran nuclear deal. President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from JCPOA, which was cobbled together by the Obama administration and also signed by China, Russia, and the European Union in 2015. In doing so, Trump called it a terrible deal that ultimately did nothing to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Trump then leveled sanctions against the rogue nation and encouraged EU countries to follow suit. Iran, to no one’s surprise, had been in violation of the agreement all along.

Rouhani’s threat is clearly aimed at getting the EU to pressure the U.S. into lifting the sanctions that are currently crippling his nation’s economy. As The Wall Street Journal observes, “The Iranian strategy has been to escalate its violations of the deal step by step, hoping to intimidate Mr. Trump and divide the U.S. from Europe.”

But with Iran now in open defiance of the deal, leaders in Germany, France, and the UK will be hard pressed not to side with the U.S. In fact, following Iran’s Sept. 14 attack on Saudi oil fields, European leaders called on Iran to “accept negotiation on a long-term framework for its nuclear programme as well as on issues related to regional security, including its missiles programme and other means of delivery.”

Trump wants any new deal “to limit Iran’s ballistic missile development, allow unlimited inspections of suspect nuclear sites, and remove the sunset clauses that allow restrictions on Iran to expire.” (Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s biggest mistake, among many, was agreeing to allow the restrictions against Iran’s nuclear development program to expire.)

Iran’s saber-rattling smacks of desperation, and it’s a clear indication that Trump’s efforts to pressure the regime are working — even as the U.S. plans to introduce a fresh round of sanctions against advisors to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.   ~The Patriot Post

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Has American Capitalism Lost Its Soul?
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Netanyahu to Gantz: Gov't With 
Arab List Slap in Face of IDF Soldiers
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By LAHAV HARKOV  
{ jpost.com } ~ Forming a minority coalition with the Joint List would be a slap in the face to IDF soldiers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said... in a message to Blue and White leader Benny Gantz in his address to a conference held by the Makor Rishon weekly on Monday.  Netanyahu called on Gantz to drop the “insane” and “dangerous” idea and form a national unity government with Likud, instead. “Benny, you were the IDF chief of staff during Operation Protective Edge. We ran that operation together. We sent soldiers into battle,” Netanyahu recounted. “Do you remember what Joint List MK Ahmed Tibi did during the operation? He read the names of terrorists killed in Gaza from the stage of the Knesset. He said that the IDF is committing war crimes…In a campaign video, they said ‘Gantz, there is blood on your hands.’” Blue and White is considering building a minority coalition of 44 or 52 seats, with outside support from the Joint List. However, the faction is divided, with its MKs on the right opposing the move, because the Joint List is an anti-Zionist party. Netanyahu said a government that depends on Tibi and Joint List leader Ayman Odeh is a “slap in the face of the IDF soldiers who we sent into battle together.” “Those are the people with whom you want to form a government?... It’s unbelievable,” Netanyahu said, calling the idea “insane” and saying the Joint List “doesn’t recognize the state’s right to exist.” In the same vein, Netanyahu later responded to a remark by Yisrael Beytenu Avigdor Liberman that there is no greater disaster than a third election in less than a year: “There is a greater disaster, and it is a minority government that is dependent on the Arab parties. Blue and White's spokesman said: "Netanyahu, we don't need lessons from you in patriotism and loving the nation and the people. The citizens of Israel will not forgive you if you drag us to another expensive and unnecessary because of your legal situation." Tibi called Netanyahu "Mr. Pinnochio," accusing him of incitement, and said that he read the names of women and children killed in the operation...  https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Netanyahu-to-Gantz-Minority-gov-that-supports-terror-not-even-one-day-607527   
scumbag-Schiff: We Don’t Need
 No Stinking Whistleblower
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by DAVID CATRON
{ spectator.org } ~ When House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi announced that the Democrats would launch an “official impeachment inquiry,” she said this action had been made necessary by a whistleblower complaint... concerning a phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Madam Speaker used the term “whistleblower” no fewer than eight times in her five-minute statement. Saturday, however, we learned that the anonymous individual whose complaint loomed so large in the speaker’s decision to launch the investigation will not be permitted to testify before Congress. House Intelligence Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), whom liar-Pelosi assigned to lead the inquiry, announced that the whistleblower’s testimony would be “redundant.” Chairman scumbag-Schiff’s relegation of the whistleblower to the realm of redundancy was revealed in a letter to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, in response to a witness request that included him in a list of individuals the Republicans want to question. The House  resolution that formalized the rules of the investigation allows them to call witnesses, but it also gives scumbag-Schiff veto power, which he exercised in this case. There is, however, no legitimate reason to deny the minority party access to this witness. No honest chairman of an impeachment inquiry would prevent the Republicans from questioning the very person whose complaint launched the inquiry. Sunday morning, Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham put it bluntly: I consider any impeachment in the House that doesn’t allow us to know who the whistleblower is to be invalid because without the whistleblower complaint we wouldn’t be talking about any of this.… It’s impossible to bring this case forward, in my view, fairly without us knowing who the whistleblower is and having a chance to cross-examine them about any biases they may have. So if they don’t call the whistleblower in the House, this thing is dead on arrival in the Senate.… This is not about scumbag-Schiff finding the truth, this is about scumbag-Schiff trying to destroy the Trump presidency. Sen. Graham’s point is particularly poignant considering that restricting access to the whistleblower constitutes a vertigo-inducing volte-face by scumbag-Schiff concerning the testimony of this mysterious individual and its importance to the inquiry. As recently as late September, scumbag-Schiff insisted that the testimony of this person was definitely part of the plan and would be forthcoming very soon: “We’ll get the unfiltered testimony of that whistleblower … We are taking all the precautions” to protect his identity. During a very contentious September hearing with Joseph Maguire, director of national intelligence, scumbag-Schiff demanded a firm commitment from the director that the whistleblower be permitted by the Trump administration to testify...   https://spectator.org/schiff-we-dont-need-no-stinking-whistleblower/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=c1085496cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_11_02_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-c1085496cd-104608113   
'Still there': White House denies Vindman 
fired in retribution for Ukraine testimony
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by Daniel Chaitin
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman expects to serve out the remainder of his time on the National Security Council, according to his attorney... "He is still there," White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham also confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Multiple reports Sunday claimed Vindman, who gave sworn testimony for the House impeachment effort against President Trump, would be removed from the National Security Council. These reports hinged on a Face the Nation interview on CBS in which national security adviser Robert O'Brien was asked if Vindman would remain on the National Security Council after testifying against the president. O'Brien said, "Everyone who's detailed at the NSC, people are going ... back to their own departments, and we'll bring in new folks." Afterward, the Twitter account for Face the Nation blared, "VINDMAN OUT AT NSC: After testifying on the Hill, NSA O'Brien says Alexander Vindman will be removed from the National Security Council." Other outlets followed suit with similar reports, and verified Twitter users with hundreds of thousands of followers announced that Vindman had been fired. But Vindman's lawyer, Michael Volkov, dismissed anything out of the ordinary was being done to his client. Volkov told CBS News that Vindman “still has a job — his detail ends in July 2020."“Vindman is still detailed to NSC. We are not aware of any changes in his status. Obviously any retaliatory action against LTC Vindman on a day when we honor our military heroes would be reprehensible," he added, referring to Veterans Day... It would be Reprehensible to lie about our President.   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/still-there-vindman-not-removed-from-national-security-council-despite-alarm-over-vengeful-firing?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/11/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
Son of Terrorist Leftist Radicals 
Wins San Francisco Election
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by libertyheadlines.com ~ Chesa Boudin, the son of the Weather Underground terrorists sent to prison for murder when he was a toddler, has won San Francisco‘s tightly contested race for district attorney... after campaigning to reform the criminal justice system. The former deputy public defender declared victory Saturday night after four days of ballot counting determined he was ahead of interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus. The latest results from the San Francisco Department of Elections gave Boudin a lead of 8,465 votes. Loftus conceded and said she will work to ensure a smooth and immediate transition. Boudin, 39, became the latest candidate across the nation to win district attorney elections by pushing for sweeping reform over incarceration. He said he wants to tackle racial bias in the criminal justice system, overhaul the bail system, protect immigrants from deportation and pursue accountability in police misconduct cases. “The people of San Francisco have sent a powerful and clear message: It’s time for radical change to how we envision justice,” Boudin said in a statement. “I’m humbled to be a part of this movement that is unwavering in its demand for transformation.” Boudin entered the race as an underdog and captured voters’ attention with his extraordinary life story: He was 14 months old when his parents, who were members of the far-left Weather Underground, dropped him off with a babysitter and took part in an armored car robbery in upstate New York that left two police officers and a security guard dead. His mother, Kathy Boudin, served 22 years behind bars and his father, David Gilbert, may spend the rest of his life in prison. He said that as one of the dozens of people whose lives were shattered by the deadly robbery in 1981, he experienced first-hand the destructive effects of mass incarceration and it motivated him to reform the nation’s broken criminal justice system...  San Fran you have made a big mistake.
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Mulvaney Surprises Bolton 
Allies With Impeachment Suit
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By Jason Devaney  
{ newsmax.com } ~ White House officials who worked with former national security adviser John Bolton were frustrated and surprised when White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney signed onto a lawsuit that opposes him and others... close to President Donald Trump cooperating with the impeachment inquiry. The Washington Post reported Sunday, two days after Mulvaney joined the lawsuit through his personal lawyer, that he played a key role in Ukraine policy — which is at the center of the impeachment probe that seeks to uncover whether Trump used his office for political gain by using U.S. military aid to Ukraine as a weapon. The Post said people close to Bolton and his former deputy Charles Kupperman were taken back when news broke that Mulvaney was joining the suit. Bolton, according to the report, sees Mulvaney as having a central role in the military aid situation. The two were hardly speaking to each other when Bolton departed the Trump administration in September, the Post noted. Neither Bolton nor Mulvaney complied with House subpoenas to testify last week as part of the Democrats-run impeachment probe. Bolton has indicated he is willing to talk if the court system compels him to do so. But Mulvaney's decision to join the lawsuit indicates he intends to fight the subpoena on the grounds that a directive from the White House not to testify takes precedence over a subpoena from Congress."As acting chief of staff, Mr. Mulvaney intends to follow any lawful order of the president and has no reason to think that the order at issue is unlawful — other than the fact the House has threatened him with charges of contempt and obstruction for following it," Mulvaney's lawyer William Pittard told the Post. Trump reportedly ordered aid to Ukraine held up after asking its president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in July to investigate former U.S. Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter for corruption. loose lips liar-Biden is one of Trump's main Democrat rivals in the 2020 election.  https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bolton-mulvaney-trump-impeachment/2019/11/11/id/941032/?ns_mail_uid=62cddd55-241d-495e-8ad9-b8a04d508a36&ns_mail_job=DM66591_11112019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010502tpsc11  
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Count on Big Media to
Protect Anti-Trump Sources
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by DEBRA J. SAUNDERS
{ spectator.org } ~ It’s so precious watching big-name journalists speak of the sanctity of the anonymity of the Ukrainian phone call whistleblower... They say they’re concerned that publishing the whistleblower’s name will discourage other whistleblowers from coming forward. Funny, they didn’t seem to care in 2010 when, thanks to WikiLeaks, diplomatic emails were splayed across front pages and national security officials complained that the leaks hindered their work and spooked worthy allies. If there’s one group that big media will support, it’s anonymous sources who discredit President Donald Trump. Notice how they want to protect a source’s privacy until it becomes a disposable tool to a political end. Like Anita Hill, Christine Blasey Ford was a reluctant witness against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Her privacy was sacrosanct and vulnerability unassailable — right up until the moment her testimony was needed to destroy Kavanaugh’s reputation. The whistleblower? If House Democrats had needed Whatshisname’s identity to bury Trump in the Ukraine affair, you know they’d have thrown his cloak under the bus in a heartbeat — “for the good of the country.” But Trump made unmasking the whistleblower unnecessary when he released a rough transcript of a July 25 phone conversation during which the president suggested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dig up dirt on former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, whose son Hunter was paid the princely sum of about $50,000 a month for his association with a Ukrainian energy company. And so big media outlets keep running stories about the ethics of unmasking the whistleblower rather than unmasking the whistleblower. A profession that prides itself on delivering information to the public without fear or favor is sitting on its hands. And they’re having these debates as Whatshisname’s name is all over social media...
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Netanyahu Would Beat Gantz
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by jpost.com ~ According to a Channel 13 poll published Sunday, if elections were held today, Blue and White would receive 35 seats compared to 34 for the Likud... Each party would therefore receive two more seats than it did in the September election. The poll indicates that most people 41% would blame Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if there is a third round of elections, while some 31% will blame Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman Only 7% of respondents believe that Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz is to blame for the current impasse; 15% indicated that they do not know who is to blame, and 6% said none of them are to blame. Regarding other parties:  The Joint List would receive 13 seats the same as it has now; Yisrael Beytenu nine up from eight; Shas and United Torah Judaism six each down from nine and seven respectively; Labor-Gesher five down from six; New Right four down from the seven it has now with Bayit Yehudi in Yamina; the Democratic Union four down from five; and the Union of Right-Wing Parties four passing the electoral threshhold, which it didn't do in September. The URP would therefore be the biggest gainer, joining the Knesset with four seats although it includes Bayit Yehudi, which was part of Yamina in the last election. Shas would be the biggest loser, losing three seats: a third of its current strength. There would be little movement in the blocs, with the Center-Left-Arab bloc getting 57 mandates, and the Right-religious bloc receiving 54 mandates. The balance of power still remains in the hands of Yisrael Beytenu with its nine votes. The poll also shows that if direct elections are held for prime minister, Netanyahu would win with about 40% of the vote, and Gantz would be a close second, receiving about 37% of the vote.   https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Poll-Blue-and-White-biggest-party-Netanyahu-wins-in-direct-election-607462  
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Has American Capitalism Lost Its Soul?
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Brian Mark Weber:  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) gave a speech this week at the Catholic University of America called “Human Dignity and the Purpose of Capitalism.” In the age of Millennial socialism, his words offer some intriguing food for thought.

He encouraged students to change the way they think about economics and the relationship between corporations and workers, including the goal of ensuring that Americans find dignity in the work they perform and creating what he called “common-good capitalism.” Rubio was critical of socialism and dismissed it as being far worse than capitalism. He warned that the ideas of “free” medical care, “free” college, and a universal basic income are not free but come at a great cost to society.

Yet he didn’t mince words in stating that Republicans have “become defenders of the right of business to make a profit” while “we have neglected the rights of workers to share in the benefits they create for their employer.” Additionally, Rubio expressed compassion for “the people whose lives were turned upside down when companies exercised their right to make a profit by taking their jobs to another country.” Those companies, Rubio asserted, often “did so with little regard with the corresponding duty to invest in their own workers.”

Tobias Hoonhout at National Review reports that Rubio’s remarks emerged from an essay he penned in First Things titled “What Economics is For,” in which he incorporated “ancient philosophy and Catholic social doctrine, particularly the 1891 papal encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum’ by Pope Leo XIII, which articulated the Catholic Church’s response to the Industrial Revolution to find a middle ground between socialism and laissez-faire capitalism. Rubio thinks the same message has relevance today, especially among the youth, who are gravitating to socialism, according to recent polls.”

Rubio has a point. Selling capitalism to young Americans will take more than warning about socialism. Perhaps the fact that capitalism has “lost its soul” is one of the reasons why so many young people are turning against it. Overall, they’re not opposed to making money or to businesses turning a profit, but they don’t see any humanity in today’s corporate world.

The Florida senator is bringing a thoughtful approach to a topic not even on the radar for some conservatives. For too long American businesses have neglected to remember the people who built their companies. They no longer feel a sense of loyalty or obligation to American citizens or the country that enabled such companies to build wealth in the first place. At the same time, restoring ethics to business is not a decision to made by those in government. Socialism would do nothing but take from one group of people and give it to another, while accruing ever-more power in Washington, DC. Obviously, that’s not a good solution for consumers or business owners.

Capitalism unbridled by morals, on the other hand, has other negative consequences.

“Economic stability for working-class families is not a feature of today’s economy,” Rubio wrote in his First Things essay. “Business profits have become increasingly estranged from production and employment. This is mainly driven by large, transnational corporations. Many of these corporations are now using our country’s resources to speculate on financial assets, including their own share prices. Rather than engaging in real production and innovation with workers here at home — the production that delivers widely shared prosperity — they have sought to reduce their domestic labor costs. This strategy is damaging not only the American worker, but also the competitiveness of American industry. We are cutting off the branch on which we sit.”

What’s even more interesting is that Rubio is tying his thinking to the teachings of the Catholic Church. He adds, “The Church emphasizes the moral duty of employers to respect workers not just as means to profit, but as human persons and productive members of their community and nation. The tradition sees past our stale partisan categories and roots our politics in something larger: the inviolable dignity of every human person, the work he or she does, and the family life that work supports.”

To be expected, the senator’s ideas are being criticized  by some on the Left and Right. But let’s give Rubio a little credit. His remarks are refreshing during a time when the debate over economics always comes down to a crass, politicized argument over capitalism versus socialism. There’s no doubt that socialism is destructive for both businesses and individuals, but capitalism that is purely profit-driven and void of what Rubio calls the “common good” can be bad for society as well.

Unfortunately, those on the political Left believe the common good means giving politicians power to exploit businesses and workers in order to manipulate voters. In the end, everyone suffers under this system except the political class. However, Rubio’s idea of “common-good capitalism” deserves more attention in a time when many Americans are dissatisfied with their jobs and working conditions, and whole regions of the country have been gutted by companies moving overseas.

By encouraging businesses to be loyal to the country and the workers that made their success possible, we can restore some of the soul and humanity that Corporate America has lost over the years.  

~The Patriot Post

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Stop Blaming the One Percent
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Michael Swartz  
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Tuesday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


SEMANTICS: Legal status of “Dreamers” comes down to arcane, procedural case at Supreme Court: Did Mr. Trump and his aides check all the correct procedural boxes when they announced the phaseout? (The Washington Times)

LAWLESSNESS: 2020 Democrats plan deportation freeze: “The result would basically be open borders” (The Washington Free Beacon)

Government, Politics, & Heartland


POOR PROGNOSIS: Google gathering healthcare data on millions of Americans with secret “Project Nightingale” (National Review)

INTERESTING GIVEN THE LEFT’S SKEWED VIEW OF “SCIENCE”: EPA to limit science used to write public health rules (The New York Times)

BOGUS LAWSUIT: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block a lawsuit brought by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting against Remington, the firearms manufacturer that made the AR-15 rifle used in the shooting. (National Review)

NO JURISDICTION: Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit over New York tax returns (Fox News)

THE WANING POWER OF UNIONS: Education unions in Oregon and Washington report sharp declines in membership and revenue (The Washington Free Beacon)

World


ESCALATION: Israel hit by rockets from Gaza after airstrike kills Islamic Jihad leader (NBC News)

BARGAINING CHIP: Turkey’s Erdogan warns that it can release ISIS prisoners back to Europe as lawmakers seek to have Erdogan’s White House invitation rescinded (Fox News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Three reforms Congress can build on to get the budget under control (The Heritage Foundation)

POLICY: Four feminist lies that are making women miserable (The Federalist)

HUMOR: Church that believes exactly what the world believes not sure why no one bothers coming to church anymore (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66735?mailing_id=4651&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4651&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
John Bolton testimony could be a game changer
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By ADAM PETERS
{ dailychristiannews.com } ~ House Democrats have gotten a number of witnesses to testify in impeachment related hearings. However, they’ve set their sights on the biggest name so far: former National Security Adviser John Bolton... Washington Examiner  chief political correspondent Byron York recently spoke to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum about what Bolton’s testimony would mean. “The other witnesses, there were people listening on the call. There were people in the State Department, you know, they know about things from their peripheral positions, but they don’t really get you inside the White House,” York said. “And John Bolton would do that.” Bolton joined the Trump administration in April of 2018, having previously served under President Reagan and both Bushes. He was known to be a foreign policy hawk and a strong supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a war that President Trump frequently criticized during the 2016 campaign. On  September 10, 2019, Trump announced that he had told Bolton his “services are no longer needed” as the two had experienced “many” disagreements. Bolton contradicted this account in a tweet of his own, stating that he offered to resign on September 9, with Trump replying, “Let’s talk about it tomorrow.” That claim was repeated to members of the media. Following his departure, Trump accused Bolton of “holding me back” and said his own views were “far stronger” than Bolton’s had been. Still, regardless of whatever hostility that may exist between the two, getting Bolton to testify would involve clearing a large hurdle. “I will say, if anything is covered by executive privilege, it would be the president’s private conversations with his national security adviser about issues of foreign policy and national security,” York explained. “This is confidential advice the president is receiving from a top aide in an area in which the Constitution gives the president a lot of powers.” According to York, Democrats have an electoral interest in hurrying the process along. “There’s another problem here, which is that Democrats are racing the clock with their 2020 presidential race,” York said. “Six candidates in the Democratic race right now are members of the Senate who, if there were a trial, they’d be basically chained to their desk in Washington.” York noted that Bolton hasn’t ruled out testifying.   https://www.dailychristiannews.com/john-bolton-testimony-could-be-a-game-changer/   
Kevin McCarthy -vs- Maria Bartiromo – “this 
is a calculated coup orchestrated by 
scumbag-Adam Schiff”
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the ongoing details within the legislative impeachment process... As part of his remarks Leader McCarthy states: “this is a calculated coup orchestrated by scubag-Adam Schiff”… Sometimes we get so far into the weeds we forget to evaluate our location. The minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives has just stated the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is “orchestrating a coup” against the sitting President of the United States of America…  And, McCarthy is correct. After church services today I happened to have a conversation with an independent voter. During our discussion I mentioned that if you take the current Democrat argument without rebuttal; and then overlay their acknowledged level of hardened Trump support; the political left is trying to disenfranchise approximately 40 percent of the population of the U.S. What exactly do the Democrats expect that 40 percent to do? Do they think 140 million people will just sit down and shut up? Have the politicians in DC really thought about an outcome where they are visible, clearly visible, removing a sitting U.S. President for no constitutional reason?.
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This Judge Is NUTS-Rules Trump Admin Must Provide Mental Health Services To Illegals
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by Jeff Dunetz and Alicia Luke
{ lidblog.com } ~ A federal judge in California ruled this week that the government must provide mental health services to illegals... who have undergone trauma because of being separated by the Trump administration. The ruling said the Trump administration could be held accountable for the psychological effects of its hard-line immigration policies, The NYT reports. Was the same mental health service provided when Barack scumbag/liar-nObama separated children from their families at the border? Nope! A federal judge in California earlier this week ruled that the Trump administration must provide mental health services to thousands of migrant parents and children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report. Judge John Kronstadt of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said that under the “state-created danger” doctrine, the federal government is liable for inflicting psychological trauma on those families separated between 2017 and 2018, the New York Times reported. A group of migrant families filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in September, arguing that they suffered “life-altering” trauma that would “continue to affect their mental and emotional well-being for years to come.” Several plaintiffs claimed that for months parents were not given clear information about the whereabouts of their children and were unable to communicate with them on a regular basis. Tuesday’s decision said these services would include mental health screenings, psychological counseling and possibly other forms of long-term treatment. Our government did not create this danger. The migrants did by trying to illegally invade our country. These leftist federal judges are the greatest threat to our republic...   https://lidblog.com/mental-health-illegals/   
Megyn Kelly revealed one impeachment 
bombshell that will leave you speechless
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by patriotpulse.net ~ Megyn Kelly suddenly found herself in the middle of the impeachment drama. A relationship from her past revealed a key connection to one of the major players in the impeachment witch hunt... That’s when Megyn Kelly dropped one impeachment bombshell that will leave you speechless. When it became public that the alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella retained attorney Mark Zaid, many Trump supporters claimed this was proof enough that Ciaramella was a politically-motivated hack. Megyn Kelly defended Zaid, noting the two attended the same law school and she had known him for years and that Zaid was a straight shooter. But that all collapsed when Zaid’s tweets from January 2017 surfaced when he declared a coup was in motion and that it would end in impeachment. Kelly changed her tune and declared that Zaid was in fact a partisan actor out to get Trump. Ciaramella’s background as a leftist ideologue that launched numerous campaigns to impeach Trump — he stands accused of leaking Trump’s May 2017 meeting with Russians in the Oval Office which led to the FBI investigating Trump for being a Russian asset — as well as Zaid’s tweets make it clear Zaid spent years casting about for a mole inside the Trump administration to complete the coup Zaid said was in motion back in January 2017.   https://patriotpulse.net/megyn-kelly-revealed-one-impeachment-bombshell-that-will-leave-you-speechless/#gf_1198   
California Dems’ Private Prison Conundrum
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by Yuichiro Kakutani 
{ freebeacon.com } ~  As California moves forward with a plan to phase out private prisons in eight years, state Democrats have no plan for how to deal with the 1,600 inmates housed in such facilities... Governor scumbag-Gavin Newsom signed a law last month that will abolish all private prisons by 2028. One of the bill's supporters, California representative Mike Levin, admitted to constituents that California policymakers "don't know" how the state will accommodate the hundreds of prisoners who currently live in private prisons. "We're going to have to write a letter to figure out exactly how this is going to be implemented, but those facilities, I believe, will close," Levin said at an October town hall. "I wonder what happens to the 1,500 people there right now. We are in a bit of uncharted territory to this because we just passed this law." Levin's concession is symbolic of the larger tension between the two competing goals that California's prison system must now pursue. On the one hand, the new private prison ban will force the state to close private facilities, lowering the system's inmate capacity. On the other hand, abolishing private prisons might return the state to dangerous levels of overcrowding that former Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy said was a "serious constitutional violation." Alexandra Wilkes, a spokesperson for prison industry advocacy group Day 1 Alliance, said Democrats lack any plan to house the inmates incarcerated at private prisons."There is no plan to our knowledge," she said. "There is no plan to address the overcrowding and all the issues that come with that. This is a knee jerk emotional decision that is not rooted in public policy. It is rooted in making activists happy."...   https://freebeacon.com/issues/california-dems-private-prison-conundrum/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8e3cbe91d7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_10_08_37_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8e3cbe91d7-45611665   
scumbag-Schiff’s Committee Published 
Name Of Alleged Whistleblower Last Week
By Madeline Osburn
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Last Wednesday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Democratic Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, published the unredacted name of a man alleged to be the so-called whistleblower... who helped launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. During HPSCI testimony, William Taylor, the charge d’affairs of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, was asked by a staff lawyer on the committee whether the name Eric Ciaramella was familiar to him.“Does a person by the name of Eric Ciaramella ring a bell for you?” asked Steve Castor, a committee staff counsel asked Taylor during a deposition on October 22. “It doesn’t,” Taylor responded. “So, to your knowledge, you never had any communications with somebody by that name?” “Correct,” Taylor said. The transcript of that exchange, which was not redacted, was published and publicly released by scumbag-Schiff’s committee last Wednesday. On October 30, Real Clear Investigations published a lengthy article alleging that Ciaramella was the official who filed a formal complaint against Trump on August 12. “Ciaramella pronounced char-a-MEL-ah left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media,” Real Clear Investigations reported in October. “He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.” In September, The New York Times all but outed the alleged whistleblower, identifying him as a CIA employee and Ukraine expert who had been detailed to the White House by former scumbag/liar-nObama CIA director scumbag/commie-John Brennan...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/10/schiffs-committee-published-name-of-alleged-whistleblower-last-week/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=eedec7d775-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-eedec7d775-83771801  
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Stop Blaming the One Percent
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Michael Swartz:  It’s been a popular theory for decades, gaining steam over the last few years with the Occupy Wall Street movement and through the presidential campaigns of commie-Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren: The wealthy take more than their share and, as a consequence, exert excessive control on government, making the problem of income and wealth inequality even worse.

Recently, however, Chris Edwards and Ryan Bourne, who both write for the libertarian-leaning CATO Institute, made a punching bag out of the Sanders/Warren theory of income and wealth inequality being bad. Instead, they counter with the facts: The problem isn’t nearly as bad as leftist hype portrays, hasn’t increased at nearly the pace many believe is occurring, and to the extent it exists is made worse by the very types of programs and philosophies favored by the socialist Left.

In his analysis of the Cato findings, the Washington Examiner’s Brad Polumbo adds, “Clearly, commie-Sanders’ socialist proposals would just make economic inequality worse. In fact, that’s what has happened in some of the countries he often points to as examples.”

The lengthy white paper by the Cato’s economist duo points to six different reasons the socialist axiom of wealth inequality doesn’t hold water, beginning with the inaccurate assumptions of economist Thomas Piketty, whose error-riddled book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is heralded as a bible by those who subscribe to the inequality theory. The Cato pair point out that Piketty and his cohorts missed a significant piece of the puzzle by relying so much on data from income-tax returns. This misses up to 40% of real income, argue Edwards and Bourne. Also missing: the “wealth” individuals hold with their Social Security and Medicare benefits — benefits that do more for the less well-to-do than the wealthy. Yet Social Security and Medicare also sustain the problem because they serve as a disincentive for those who need to save for retirement.

Another root cause of wealth inequality is a problem most acknowledge, but few take concrete steps to address: cronyism in government. While Edwards and Bourne acknowledge the problem is far worse in other nations where graft is king, the prospect of rent-seeking and other techniques to artificially expand markets and limit competition contribute to the inequality, even in America.

But the best and most cheering reason the “income inequality” crowd is all wet: Wealth in our nation is generally earned, not inherited. Only a small fraction of the “one percent” inherited their fortunes; instead, the large majority made their wealth by working hard and taking the risk to start a small business, creating their own market in many cases. Contrary to popular belief, those who inherited their wealth eventually fall off the “wealthiest people” charts because many huge fortunes are split several ways, and seldom do heirs have the drive to start again on building a fortune.

So rather than leveling the playing field at a low level of prosperity by taxing the wealthy until it hurts, perhaps the better approach is doing our best to encourage entrepreneurship and allowing more value to be added to our resources, such as through fair trade. While that doesn’t make for a system leftists would consider fair, we have no doubt there are many fortunes to be made in America — that is, unless Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, commie-Bernie Sanders, and a host of other Democrats would take over and make being wealthy akin to committing a crime. We already have the public shaming of wealthy people as society succumbs to the mantra that all rich people are evil, ignoring that those pillars of society often make the nonprofit world go ‘round. Wealth creation is the right model, not a stunted system built on envy fomented by wealthy Democrats.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66675?mailing_id=4642&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4642&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Tuesday Top News Executive Summary
Media Editors:  Above the Fold


SEMANTICS: Legal status of “Dreamers” comes down to arcane, procedural case at Supreme Court: Did Mr. Trump and his aides check all the correct procedural boxes when they announced the phaseout? (The Washington Times)

LAWLESSNESS: 2020 Democrats plan deportation freeze: “The result would basically be open borders” (The Washington Free Beacon)

Government, Politics, & Heartland


POOR PROGNOSIS: Google gathering healthcare data on millions of Americans with secret “Project Nightingale” (National Review)

INTERESTING GIVEN THE LEFT’S SKEWED VIEW OF “SCIENCE”: EPA to limit science used to write public health rules (The New York Times)

BOGUS LAWSUIT: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block a lawsuit brought by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting against Remington, the firearms manufacturer that made the AR-15 rifle used in the shooting. (National Review)

NO JURISDICTION: Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit over New York tax returns (Fox News)

THE WANING POWER OF UNIONS: Education unions in Oregon and Washington report sharp declines in membership and revenue (The Washington Free Beacon)

World


ESCALATION: Israel hit by rockets from Gaza after airstrike kills Islamic Jihad leader (NBC News)

BARGAINING CHIP: Turkey’s Erdogan warns that it can release ISIS prisoners back to Europe as lawmakers seek to have Erdogan’s White House invitation rescinded (Fox News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Three reforms Congress can build on to get the budget under control (The Heritage Foundation)

POLICY: Four feminist lies that are making women miserable (The Federalist)

HUMOR: Church that believes exactly what the world believes not sure why no one bothers coming to church anymore (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66735?mailing_id=4651&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4651&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
John Bolton testimony could be a game changer
By ADAM PETERS
{ dailychristiannews.com } ~ House Democrats have gotten a number of witnesses to testify in impeachment related hearings. However, they’ve set their sights on the biggest name so far: former National Security Adviser John Bolton... Washington Examiner  chief political correspondent Byron York recently spoke to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum about what Bolton’s testimony would mean. “The other witnesses, there were people listening on the call. There were people in the State Department, you know, they know about things from their peripheral positions, but they don’t really get you inside the White House,” York said. “And John Bolton would do that.” Bolton joined the Trump administration in April of 2018, having previously served under President Reagan and both Bushes. He was known to be a foreign policy hawk and a strong supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a war that President Trump frequently criticized during the 2016 campaign. On  September 10, 2019, Trump announced that he had told Bolton his “services are no longer needed” as the two had experienced “many” disagreements. Bolton contradicted this account in a tweet of his own, stating that he offered to resign on September 9, with Trump replying, “Let’s talk about it tomorrow.” That claim was repeated to members of the media. Following his departure, Trump accused Bolton of “holding me back” and said his own views were “far stronger” than Bolton’s had been. Still, regardless of whatever hostility that may exist between the two, getting Bolton to testify would involve clearing a large hurdle. “I will say, if anything is covered by executive privilege, it would be the president’s private conversations with his national security adviser about issues of foreign policy and national security,” York explained. “This is confidential advice the president is receiving from a top aide in an area in which the Constitution gives the president a lot of powers.” According to York, Democrats have an electoral interest in hurrying the process along. “There’s another problem here, which is that Democrats are racing the clock with their 2020 presidential race,” York said. “Six candidates in the Democratic race right now are members of the Senate who, if there were a trial, they’d be basically chained to their desk in Washington.” York noted that Bolton hasn’t ruled out testifying.   https://www.dailychristiannews.com/john-bolton-testimony-could-be-a-game-changer/   
Kevin McCarthy -vs- Maria Bartiromo – “this 
is a calculated coup orchestrated by 
scumbag-Adam Schiff”
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the ongoing details within the legislative impeachment process... As part of his remarks Leader McCarthy states: “this is a calculated coup orchestrated by scubag-Adam Schiff”… Sometimes we get so far into the weeds we forget to evaluate our location. The minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives has just stated the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is “orchestrating a coup” against the sitting President of the United States of America…  And, McCarthy is correct. After church services today I happened to have a conversation with an independent voter. During our discussion I mentioned that if you take the current Democrat argument without rebuttal; and then overlay their acknowledged level of hardened Trump support; the political left is trying to disenfranchise approximately 40 percent of the population of the U.S. What exactly do the Democrats expect that 40 percent to do? Do they think 140 million people will just sit down and shut up? Have the politicians in DC really thought about an outcome where they are visible, clearly visible, removing a sitting U.S. President for no constitutional reason?.
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This Judge Is NUTS-Rules Trump Admin Must Provide Mental Health Services To Illegals
by Jeff Dunetz and Alicia Luke
{ lidblog.com } ~ A federal judge in California ruled this week that the government must provide mental health services to illegals... who have undergone trauma because of being separated by the Trump administration. The ruling said the Trump administration could be held accountable for the psychological effects of its hard-line immigration policies, The NYT reports. Was the same mental health service provided when Barack scumbag/liar-nObama separated children from their families at the border? Nope! A federal judge in California earlier this week ruled that the Trump administration must provide mental health services to thousands of migrant parents and children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report. Judge John Kronstadt of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said that under the “state-created danger” doctrine, the federal government is liable for inflicting psychological trauma on those families separated between 2017 and 2018, the New York Times reported. A group of migrant families filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in September, arguing that they suffered “life-altering” trauma that would “continue to affect their mental and emotional well-being for years to come.” Several plaintiffs claimed that for months parents were not given clear information about the whereabouts of their children and were unable to communicate with them on a regular basis. Tuesday’s decision said these services would include mental health screenings, psychological counseling and possibly other forms of long-term treatment. Our government did not create this danger. The migrants did by trying to illegally invade our country. These leftist federal judges are the greatest threat to our republic...   https://lidblog.com/mental-health-illegals/   
Megyn Kelly revealed one impeachment 
bombshell that will leave you speechless
by patriotpulse.net ~ Megyn Kelly suddenly found herself in the middle of the impeachment drama. A relationship from her past revealed a key connection to one of the major players in the impeachment witch hunt... That’s when Megyn Kelly dropped one impeachment bombshell that will leave you speechless. When it became public that the alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella retained attorney Mark Zaid, many Trump supporters claimed this was proof enough that Ciaramella was a politically-motivated hack. Megyn Kelly defended Zaid, noting the two attended the same law school and she had known him for years and that Zaid was a straight shooter. But that all collapsed when Zaid’s tweets from January 2017 surfaced when he declared a coup was in motion and that it would end in impeachment. Kelly changed her tune and declared that Zaid was in fact a partisan actor out to get Trump. Ciaramella’s background as a leftist ideologue that launched numerous campaigns to impeach Trump — he stands accused of leaking Trump’s May 2017 meeting with Russians in the Oval Office which led to the FBI investigating Trump for being a Russian asset — as well as Zaid’s tweets make it clear Zaid spent years casting about for a mole inside the Trump administration to complete the coup Zaid said was in motion back in January 2017.   https://patriotpulse.net/megyn-kelly-revealed-one-impeachment-bombshell-that-will-leave-you-speechless/#gf_1198   
California Dems’ Private Prison Conundrum
by Yuichiro Kakutani 
{ freebeacon.com } ~  As California moves forward with a plan to phase out private prisons in eight years, state Democrats have no plan for how to deal with the 1,600 inmates housed in such facilities... Governor scumbag-Gavin Newsom signed a law last month that will abolish all private prisons by 2028. One of the bill's supporters, California representative Mike Levin, admitted to constituents that California policymakers "don't know" how the state will accommodate the hundreds of prisoners who currently live in private prisons. "We're going to have to write a letter to figure out exactly how this is going to be implemented, but those facilities, I believe, will close," Levin said at an October town hall. "I wonder what happens to the 1,500 people there right now. We are in a bit of uncharted territory to this because we just passed this law." Levin's concession is symbolic of the larger tension between the two competing goals that California's prison system must now pursue. On the one hand, the new private prison ban will force the state to close private facilities, lowering the system's inmate capacity. On the other hand, abolishing private prisons might return the state to dangerous levels of overcrowding that former Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy said was a "serious constitutional violation." Alexandra Wilkes, a spokesperson for prison industry advocacy group Day 1 Alliance, said Democrats lack any plan to house the inmates incarcerated at private prisons."There is no plan to our knowledge," she said. "There is no plan to address the overcrowding and all the issues that come with that. This is a knee jerk emotional decision that is not rooted in public policy. It is rooted in making activists happy."...   https://freebeacon.com/issues/california-dems-private-prison-conundrum/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8e3cbe91d7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_10_08_37_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8e3cbe91d7-45611665   
scumbag-Schiff’s Committee Published 
Name Of Alleged Whistleblower Last Week
By Madeline Osburn
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Last Wednesday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Democratic Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, published the unredacted name of a man alleged to be the so-called whistleblower... who helped launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. During HPSCI testimony, William Taylor, the charge d’affairs of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, was asked by a staff lawyer on the committee whether the name Eric Ciaramella was familiar to him.“Does a person by the name of Eric Ciaramella ring a bell for you?” asked Steve Castor, a committee staff counsel asked Taylor during a deposition on October 22. “It doesn’t,” Taylor responded. “So, to your knowledge, you never had any communications with somebody by that name?” “Correct,” Taylor said. The transcript of that exchange, which was not redacted, was published and publicly released by scumbag-Schiff’s committee last Wednesday. On October 30, Real Clear Investigations published a lengthy article alleging that Ciaramella was the official who filed a formal complaint against Trump on August 12. “Ciaramella pronounced char-a-MEL-ah left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media,” Real Clear Investigations reported in October. “He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.” In September, The New York Times all but outed the alleged whistleblower, identifying him as a CIA employee and Ukraine expert who had been detailed to the White House by former scumbag/liar-nObama CIA director scumbag/commie-John Brennan...
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Stop Blaming the One Percent
Michael Swartz:  It’s been a popular theory for decades, gaining steam over the last few years with the Occupy Wall Street movement and through the presidential campaigns of commie-Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren: The wealthy take more than their share and, as a consequence, exert excessive control on government, making the problem of income and wealth inequality even worse.

Recently, however, Chris Edwards and Ryan Bourne, who both write for the libertarian-leaning CATO Institute, made a punching bag out of the Sanders/Warren theory of income and wealth inequality being bad. Instead, they counter with the facts: The problem isn’t nearly as bad as leftist hype portrays, hasn’t increased at nearly the pace many believe is occurring, and to the extent it exists is made worse by the very types of programs and philosophies favored by the socialist Left.

In his analysis of the Cato findings, the Washington Examiner’s Brad Polumbo adds, “Clearly, commie-Sanders’ socialist proposals would just make economic inequality worse. In fact, that’s what has happened in some of the countries he often points to as examples.”

The lengthy white paper by the Cato’s economist duo points to six different reasons the socialist axiom of wealth inequality doesn’t hold water, beginning with the inaccurate assumptions of economist Thomas Piketty, whose error-riddled book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is heralded as a bible by those who subscribe to the inequality theory. The Cato pair point out that Piketty and his cohorts missed a significant piece of the puzzle by relying so much on data from income-tax returns. This misses up to 40% of real income, argue Edwards and Bourne. Also missing: the “wealth” individuals hold with their Social Security and Medicare benefits — benefits that do more for the less well-to-do than the wealthy. Yet Social Security and Medicare also sustain the problem because they serve as a disincentive for those who need to save for retirement.

Another root cause of wealth inequality is a problem most acknowledge, but few take concrete steps to address: cronyism in government. While Edwards and Bourne acknowledge the problem is far worse in other nations where graft is king, the prospect of rent-seeking and other techniques to artificially expand markets and limit competition contribute to the inequality, even in America.

But the best and most cheering reason the “income inequality” crowd is all wet: Wealth in our nation is generally earned, not inherited. Only a small fraction of the “one percent” inherited their fortunes; instead, the large majority made their wealth by working hard and taking the risk to start a small business, creating their own market in many cases. Contrary to popular belief, those who inherited their wealth eventually fall off the “wealthiest people” charts because many huge fortunes are split several ways, and seldom do heirs have the drive to start again on building a fortune.

So rather than leveling the playing field at a low level of prosperity by taxing the wealthy until it hurts, perhaps the better approach is doing our best to encourage entrepreneurship and allowing more value to be added to our resources, such as through fair trade. While that doesn’t make for a system leftists would consider fair, we have no doubt there are many fortunes to be made in America — that is, unless Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, commie-Bernie Sanders, and a host of other Democrats would take over and make being wealthy akin to committing a crime. We already have the public shaming of wealthy people as society succumbs to the mantra that all rich people are evil, ignoring that those pillars of society often make the nonprofit world go ‘round. Wealth creation is the right model, not a stunted system built on envy fomented by wealthy Democrats.   ~The Patriot Post

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Trump Whistleblower Good, Media Whistleblower Bad
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Nate Jackson  
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Devin Nunes Uninterrupted
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ In a refreshing change from Fox News Interruptus interviews, where the pundits talk more than the guests... HPSCI ranking member Devin Nunes appears for an interview with Mike Huckabee on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) to discuss the impeachment dynamic. Within the interview Mr. Nunes walks through the Chairman scumbag-Schiff impeachment team and then expands with details of the prior witnesses brought to the committee.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/10/sunday-talks-devin-nunes-uninterrupted/  
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Rep. Peter King, R-NY, 
will not seek reelection in 2020
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By Nicole Darrah 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the powerful 14-term congressman who once chaired the House Committee on Homeland Security... announced Monday he will not seek reelection in 2020. King, in a statement Monday, said his "prime reason" for retiring "was that after 28 years of spending four days a week in Washington, D.C., it is time to end the weekly commute and be home in Seaford." "This was not an easy decision. But there is a season for everything and Rosemary and I decided that, especially since we are both in good health, it is time to have the flexibility to spend more time with our children and grandchildren," he said. "My daughter’s recent move to North Carolina certainly accelerated my thinking." The 75-year-old congressman said his decades in Congress have been "an extraordinary experience." He currently serves as a member of the Homeland Security Committee, which he served as chair from 2005-2006 and again from 2011-2012, is a ranking member of the sub-committee on Emergency Preparedness, and also serves on the Financial Services Committee. "Politically I will miss the energy and dynamism of a reelection campaign especially since my polling numbers are as strong as they have ever been and I have more than $1 million in campaign funds," King wrote in his statement. He said he will continue to be "active politically." He added, "In the coming weeks and during the next year I intend to vote against President Trump's impeachment and will support the  president’s bid for reelection." King is one of several Republicans —  four senators and 17 other House members — who have announced plans to not seek reelection.   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-peter-king-r-ny-will-not-seek-re-election-in-2020  
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“These witnesses, for the most part, they’ve 
not been coordinating or talking to each other”
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The closed-door sessions with scumbag-Adam Schiff and his Lawfare-contracted legal aide, Daniel Goldman, were pre-planned.  The process was designed last year... The current  HPSCI legislative impeachment process, and every little aspect within it, is the execution of a plan, just like the DOJ/FBI plan was before it in 2016, 2017 & 2018. Today democrat Representative scumbag-Eric Swalwell appears on Face The Nation to discuss his ongoing efforts as part of the impeachment agenda. Within the interview scumbag-Swalwell has a little  Freudian slip highlighting how the House is manufacturing witness testimony: [@01:17] REP. scumbag-SWALWELL: These witnesses have been fairly consistent. And for the most part, they’ve not been coordinating or talking to each other. Whoops: “for the most part“?  Thereby Mr. scumbag-Swalwell admits the witnesses are coordinating some  testimony...  
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NSA Robert O’Brien -vs- Margaret Brennan – Alexander Vindman Being Cycled Out 
of National Security Council
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien continues to impress today as he appears on Face the Nation for an interview with the ever-emotional and overly-dramatic resistance dingbat Margaret Brennan... In 2016 and 2017 President Trump said NATO was obsolete and the moonbats went bananas; NATO is the only thing saving the planet Brennan claimed. Fast forward to 2019… Trump meets with a NATO nation leader Erdogan and the moonbats go bananas; NATO is a horrible construct, Erdogan bad. Yes, liberal apoplexy is contagious in groups...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/10/sunday-talks-nsa-robert-obrien-vs-margaret-brennan-alexander-vindman-being-cycled-out-of-national-security-council/  
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Close but no cigars: 7 things
 to know for November 11
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By JOSHUA DAVIDOVICH
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Netanyahu and Gantz almost touch, but unity remains elusive in the political arena, in the national memory and in a Bnei Brak wedding... 1. Shouldering the burden: Even from beyond the grave, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin are managing to bring together two Israeli leaders who are locked in a political deadlock the likes of which the country has not seen for decades, if ever. 2. Taking aim at Liberman (but really Arabs): They say numbers don’t lie, but polls, aside from being unreliable, can also be easily spun. Thus Army Radio reports that 44 percent of Blue and White voters oppose a minority government backed by Arab parties. 3. Yvette’s bets: Likud doesn’t need Israel Hayom to act as a stand-in, though, with the party brass being quite vocal about how it feels about Liberman and his ultimatums. Haaretz leads off its print edition with Netanyahu accusing Liberman of coordinating with Gantz and only placing demands on Likud. 4. Politics and memory: While Netanyahu and Gantz brushing against each other was nice, the real news at the Rabin ceremony was a public feud that broke out between Netanyahu and Rabin’s grandson. 5. Circles in the square: In fact, Rabin Square was home to an annual event meant to push national conciliation in Rabin’s remembrance. 6. Rude reception: Perhaps running a close second when it comes to events that should possibly not be politicized is a wedding, but Gantz’s decision to attend the wedding of the son of ultra-Orthodox lawmaker Yaakov Asher drew protesters who gathered outside, called him a “terrorist,” told him to “go to the Arabs.” 7. Shut that neias: Rather than cover it up, the rude welcome is also covered in the ultra-Orthodox press, though sites are sure to note that Gantz had a wonderful time inside...
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In overwhelming vote, U.S. Senate 
confirms Nardini to federal appeals court
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by ANA RADELAT
{ ctmirror.org } ~ The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to confirm William Nardini, a 19-year veteran of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut... to a seat on the New York-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Nardini, who was nominated for a seat on the appeals court by President Donald Trump in August, was confirmed on a bipartisan, 86-2 vote. Only Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., vote against the nominee. “It was one of the strongest votes for an appellate court nominee,” said University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias, an expert on the federal courts. “That’s the way to do nominees.” As a judge on the Second Circuit, Nardini will hear appeals from Connecticut, New York and Vermont. Although Nardini’s candidacy was supported by his home state Democratic senators, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, and most Senate Democrats, he will alter the partisan composition of the court in one way. The Second Circuit has 13 active judgeships. Of the judges on the bench, three were appointed by scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, two by George W. Bush, three by Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, and — with Nardini’s confirmation — four by Donald Trump. This means the court, which once had a majority of Democratic nominees, is now split evenly between nominees of both parties...
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Trump Whistleblower Good, Media Whistleblower Bad
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Nate Jackson:  Nobody circles the wagons like the Leftmedia. As every mainstream-media outlet trumpets the latest churn on the Democrats’ impeachment charade — the first version over supposed “collusion” and the second fueled by the complaint from a “whistleblower” whose identity the Leftmedia assiduously protects — two networks were busy colluding to punish their own whistleblower.

First, how much have CBS and ABC contributed to the impeachment churn? The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman asked and answered: “In the 50 days since news consumers were told that a federal whistleblower was expressing his disapproval of a presidential phone call, CBS News has aired or published more than 100 stories on President Donald Trump and Ukraine. Counting stories from local affiliates, the number rises above 200. That’s according to the Dow Jones Factiva news archive. But CBS hasn’t come close to the wall-to-wall coverage offered by rival ABC News. A Factiva search of ABC stories about Mr. Trump and Ukraine yields 687 results for the last 50 days. More than 300 of the ABC stories specifically include the term ‘whistleblower.’”

Well, some whistleblowers are more equal than others.

Earlier this week, we noted the story of how ABC spiked a 2016 story about Jeffrey Epstein, likely because noting the serial pedophile’s connections to scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton would have hurt scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The fact that the story was spiked was revealed by someone from ABC you might call a whistleblower — she leaked the video of ABC’s Amy Robach complaining about the network’s decision on the well-researched story.

But the whistleblower now works for CBS. Correction: She worked for CBS. Once ABC figured out who the whistleblower was, the network pressured its rival and she was fired.

While NBC wasn’t involved in this particular fiasco, that network is no better, having covered up stories on Harvey Weinstein and defended Matt Lauer for years. The #MeToo movement was supposed to be about giving voice to women abused by powerful men. And journalists are supposed to simply follow the facts and report the story, let the chips fall where they may. Yet the media’s primary mission is to cover for the offending men if doing so benefits Democrats and to punish those who speak out. Funny that these same media outlets complain when President Donald Trump accurately calls them the “enemy of the people.”   ~The Patriot Post

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