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   Stop Mental Health Data Mining of Our Kids
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The U.S.-Taliban Negotiations:
A Deadly Qatari Trap
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by Yigal Carmon
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ What is happening in Afghanistan is already beyond grief. The United States is negotiating with the Taliban, without the Taliban first agreeing to a cease-fire as a precondition for talks... and although President Trump has emphatically announced his determination to withdraw from the country, American soldiers are still being killed in recent days, three American servicemen died. One can understand President Donald Trump's wish to leave Afghanistan. Whether the US can sustain its strategic and economic leadership in the context of an isolationist policy, is a legitimate debate. This is the president's and Congress's purview. There are, however, ways to leave without losing people, respect, and allies. Mr. Trump, instead of leaving unilaterally, while reinforcing the democratically elected government in Kabul without boots on the ground, is unfortunately empowering his Taliban enemy by protracted negotiations, where America makes successive concessions and ultimately throws its Afghan allies under the bus. Afghan officials are the first to sense that the sellout of the Kabul government is impending, and are scurrying to defect to the Taliban in July alone there were 800 defections. Some enemies have no interest in anything but an American withdrawal and will not pay anything for such a withdrawal; on the contrary, they will exact payment for each day the Americans remain until they exit with their tails between their legs. Apparently, the president and his administration are unable to see this. According to leaks to the media, the Americans are trying to negotiate with the Taliban a dialogue with the elected Kabul government. However, even if the Taliban sign on the dotted line, our experience in the Middle East shows time and again that there is no way to ensure that they keep their word. President Trump insists that the Taliban promise not to attack the US following its departure. The Taliban can definitely affix their empty signature: in the Middle East, people use proxies. Like the Iranians, the Taliban can be seemingly uninvolved, but 9/11 was hatched in Afghanistan by Muslim-Arab Al-Qaeda members. Who blinded brilliant, shrewd and goal-oriented people such as President Trump and the people around him, as they did also during his first year in office? Why do they prefer to overlook the public announcements by the Taliban such as: "the reason behind war... in Afghanistan is the presence of Americans forces and it will only find an end when American forces leave Afghanistan." The answer (surprise) is Qatar, which talked the U.S. administration into this self-destructive process. The administration bought into it on the assumption that a country that built and hosts the CENTCOM base is therefore an ally with shared interests and therefore its recommendations must be benevolent and bona fide. Little do they understand -- Qatar is an enemy in allied clothing -- and its interests are antithetical to America's...
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NASA admits that climate change occurs
because of changes in Earth’s solar orbit,
and NOT because of SUVs and fossil fuels
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by Ethan Huff
{ naturalnews.com } ~ For more than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal... But the space agency, for whatever reason, has chosen to let the man-made global warming hoax persist and spread, to the detriment of human freedom. It was the year 1958, to be precise, when NASA first observed that changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming” or “cooling,” depending on their agenda. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet by driving SUVs or eating beef, in other words. But NASA has thus far failed to set the record straight, and has instead chosen to sit silently back and watch as liberals freak out about the world supposedly ending in 12 years because of too much livestock, or too many plastic straws. In the year 2000, NASA did publish information on its Earth Observatory website about the Milankovitch Climate Theory, revealing that the planet is, in fact, changing due to extraneous factors that have absolutely nothing to do with human activity. But, again, this information has yet to go mainstream, some 19 years later, which is why deranged, climate-obsessed leftists have now begun to claim that we really only have 18 months left before the planet dies from an excess of carbon dioxide (CO2). The truth, however, is much more along the lines of what Serbian astrophysicist Milutin Milankovitch, after whom the Milankovitch Climate Theory is named, proposed about how the seasonal and latitudinal variations of solar radiation that hit the earth in different ways, and at different times, have the greatest impact on earth’s changing climate patterns...
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Israel Launches Its Largest-Ever 
Solar-Energy Project, Fueled From the Negev
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by algemeiner.com ~ A private Israeli company on Tuesday inaugurated the largest solar project in the country, reported the Israeli financial daily Globes... Located in the Negev Desert, the Ashalim solar-energy project is the size of a small town, and is currently producing enough energy to power an estimated 70,000 households, according to the report. Shikun u’Binui Holdings Ltd. chief shareholder Naty Saidoff announced the start of Ashalim’s commercial operations at ceremony attended by Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz. “Since I assumed office, I have used every possible means to increase the scope of renewable-energy production, and by doing so, I expect to meet the government goal of 10 percent by the end of 2020,” said Steinitz. “The breakthrough in this field enables us, in addition to stopping the use of coal, to significantly promote the 2030 renewability goal,” he added.Saidoff said, “I am proud to be given the opportunity to build meaningful mega-projects in Israel and abroad, and plan to promote similar projects in the future.” The 988-acre plant comprises approximately 16,000 parabolic troughs and about half-a-million concave mirrors, and converts solar energy into steam that is then used to generate electricity. The Negev Energy Power Station has a unique system for storing thermal energy, based on molten salt, allowing the plant to operate for an extra 4.5 hours a day at full power following sunset. Negev Energy is a joint venture of Shikun & Binui Energy (50 percent), the Noy Infrastructure Fund (40 percent) and the Spanish firm TSK (10 percent). It won a government tender in 2013 for the planning, design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a 121 MW thermal-solar plant for a 25-year period.
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Howard Zinn's American Holocaust
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By Richard Kirk
{ americanthinker.com } ~ If anyone wonders why youngsters today are less patriotic and more inclined toward socialism, they need look no further than the most popular “history” textbook in the United States, Howard Zinn’s  A People’s History of the United States... a one-sided work written from the perspective of a Communist activist that contains a plethora of distortions and outright lies. In 2012, the director of the American Textbook Council noted that Zinn’s text had sold two million copies and was the “best-selling survey of American history.” By 2018, it was estimated that the book had sold more than 2.6 million copies. Mary Grabar’s new book,  Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America (Regnery History) does us the service of exposing  the mendacious,  non-scholarly character of this work that was praised to the hilt by Zinn’s former Cambridge neighbor, Matt Damon. In Good Will Hunting the film’s protagonist exclaims, “It will knock your socks off!” making an even greater rock star of Zinn and solidifying for impressionable teens the bona fides of a propaganda tome composed in a scant year. Even a sympathetic leftist historian, Michael Kammen, called the book “simpleminded” and a “scissors-and-paste-pot job.” The well-known liberal scholar Arthur Schlesinger was even more critical, labeling Zinn “a polemicist, not a historian.” Grabar herself notes that after his graduate school book on Fiorello La Guardia, Zinn produced not a single piece of historical scholarship until decades later he slapped together his People’s History -- a work that relies overwhelmingly on secondary sources and for which “there is no evidence that Zinn ever actually made extensive notes,” as he claimed, in preparation for its writing. Grabar provides scores of examples of Zinn’s modus operandi -- one that ignores, distorts, or simply lies about evidence to construct a Manichean portrait of good versus evil as those categories are conceived by a Marxist activist. Zinn’s caricature of Columbus sets the stage for his presentation of American history as a series of holocausts. In one case Zinn quotes Columbus’ diary entries out of context to portray the explorer as a rapacious gold-seeker who wouldn’t be averse to enslaving the island’s primitive inhabitants. To accomplish this goal, Zinn ignores Columbus’ positive comments about “freedom” for the “Arawak” tribe and splices together separate entries that make the explorer appear a nascent slave trader on first viewing the island’s inhabitants. In fact, the damning comments about the natives being “good servants” were made days later and concerned the perspective of a warring tribe intent on subjugating their more docile neighbors. The other side of Zinn’s narrative involves the beatification and Marxification of the Americas’ native population -- a portrait at odds with any objective history of the New World which was filled with wars at least as ubiquitous and violent including the cannibalism that Zinn omits as those in “capitalist” Europe!...  
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Jim Carrey: “What Osama bin Laden did to us 
was terrible but he doesn’t hold a 
candle to Mitch McConnell”
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By ROBERT SPENCER
{ jihadwatch.org } ~ This is the kind of derangement that results from believing the people who tell you that there is no jihad threat, that the real problems confronting America today are “white supremacism” and “Islamophobia.”... Big Lies breed big idiocy, and big complacency. Jim Carrey used to be a comedian and a beloved actor. Now he spends his dis ays drawing horrifying images and tweeting about his hate for Republicans. On Wednesday, Carrey tweeted a drawing of a three-fingered hand holding a bloody hundred-dollar bill next to a candle. “10,000 gun deaths in 2019 and the year is far from over. What Osama bin Laden did to us was terrible but he doesn’t hold a candle to Mitch McConnell,” Carrey wrote when tweeting out the drawing. The Washington Times reported that McConnell’s presence in the senate has had no effect on gun-related deaths in the United States. “In 1983, the year before Mr. McConnell was first elected to the U.S. Senate, there were more than 31,000 gun deaths in the U.S., the outlet reported.” Jim Carrey is a worthless liar and shouldn't listen to.  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/09/jim-carrey-what-osama-bin-laden-did-to-us-was-terrible-but-he-doesnt-hold-a-candle-to-mitch-mcconnell  
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Stop Mental Health Data Mining of Our Kids
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No, no, no. Hell, no!

That’s my response to the latest trial balloon floated by the White House to join with Silicon Valley on a creepy program monitoring Americans’ “neurobehavioral signs” to (purportedly) prevent gun violence.

President Donald Trump’s old friend, former NBC head Bob Wright, has been pushing an Orwellian surveillance scheme called “Safe Home” — “Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes” — that would cost taxpayers between $40 million and $60 million. The Washington Post, owned by Amazon billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, reports that the plan could incorporate “Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home,” as well as “ fMRIs, tractography and image analysis.”

Here’s the big lie: Wright’s group promises that privacy will be “safeguarded,” profiling “avoided” and data protection capabilities a “cornerstone of this effort.”

There’s so much bullcrap packed in that statement it should be banned as a global warming pollutant. Anything involving Google should trigger automatic danger warnings of invasive data mining. We do not need the federal government partnering with Google to red-flag citizens. We need the federal government to red-flag Google.

Let me remind you that Google has already admitted to data mining children’s emails without consent and in violation of the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This school year, untold thousands, if not millions, of children were required to sign on to Google email and Chrome in order to access homework, schedules and classroom discussions — without obtaining parental consent. Thanks to “1-to-1” programs forcing students across the country to use laptops and tablets when paper and pencil would suffice, iPads loaded with Google for Education are metastasizing in tech-crazed, fad-addled school districts oblivious to privacy concerns.

At my high school sophomore son’s school, every student was told to download an app called “E-Hallpass,” which is seamlessly connected to their Google login, to track how much time students spend in the bathroom. It’s all in the name of “safety,” of course. And there’s no opportunity for parents to provide their preemptive feedback or consent.

Minnesota educator Jennifer Dahlgren told me this week: “Too many schools use Google docs and sheets to store and share (private) student information, as well as using Google as their secure email! I have brought this up in staff meetings as a concern and no one else seems bothered. Not good!”

Just last week, the Federal Trade Commission approved a settlement with Google/YouTube over its violation of the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. YouTube had been stealthily mining data of unsuspecting YouTube users under the age of 13. It will reportedly pay a pittance for this massive child abuse — somewhere between $150 million to $200 million, which amounts to just a few months’ of YouTube ad revenue. In other words: a hill of beans.

Earlier this summer, Google agreed to a $13 million settlement over its Street View program, whose roaming cars in more than 30 countries secretly collected emails, passwords and other personal data from Wi-Fi networks. The Wall Street Journal reported on how the company’s dishonest dismissal of the breach as a “mistake” was exposed by investigators who found that “Google engineers built software and embedded it into Street View vehicles to intentionally intercept the data from 2007 to 2010.”

It’s not just Google. Under the cloak of “science,” Big Tech and Big Government are on the cusp of instituting a mental health social credit score system incorporating dubious predictive analytics.

Who defines “mental health” risk factors? There is no consensus on how much mental health predicts violence. And don’t forget: The mental health profession is filled with partisan zealots who think all Trump voters are dangerous. Camera-hogging psychiatrists and psychologists clog left-wing news shows recklessly and fecklessly pretending to “diagnose” the president himself through their own unhinged political lenses.

Mental health data mining in schools is already happening. The Pioneer Institute reported that federal, state and local governments splurged on more than $30 billion in 2018 to implement social-emotional learning monitoring in K-12 public schools. I’ve reported on Google apps previously such as ClassDojo (which collects intimate behavioral data and long-term psychological profiles encompassing family information, personal messages, photographs and voice notes) and on federally funded TS Gold testing (which monitors “developmental domains including social emotional, physical, language and cognitive development”). Students are rated and recorded on their ability to do things like “respond to emotional cues,” “interact cooperatively” and “cooperate and share ideas and materials in socially acceptable ways.”

Who defines “socially acceptable?” Liberal educators who are mindlessly addicting our kids to Silicon Valley technology and brainwashing them to conform or be excluded?

The last thing Washington should be doing is handing over yet another set of keys to Silicon Valley spies with a voracious appetite for our private information — and our children’s precious minds. You want to make children safer? De-platform Google and the other data-mining predators from public schools now. It’s insanity to let them roam free.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65235?mailing_id=4509&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4509&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Crimes by Illegal Immigrants Widespread Across U.S. — Sanctuaries Shouldn't Shield Them
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Trump Says scumbag/liar-nObama ‘Never 
Had The Legal Right’ To Implement DACA
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by Jason Hopkins
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ President Donald Trump said Friday that former President scumbag/liar-Barack did not have the legal right to sign DACA... and lamented the fact that hasn’t been able to rescind it. “The Immigration Law Institute’s Christopher Hajec says, ‘The Supreme Court has to look at whether DACA is lawful. What they are looking at now is whether Trump’s recision of DACA is lawful. Must consider lawfulness of DACA itself,” Trump tweeted Friday morning.“Looks very odd that President Trump doesn’t….have the discretion to end the program that President scumbag/liar-nObama began in his discretion. That program was unlawful to begin with. I think it’s very unlikely that the SCOTUS is going to issue an order reinstating what it believes is an unlawful program. DACA Is unlawful,’” he added.The president was quoting Christopher J. Hajec, the director of litigation for the Immigration Reform Law Institute. The IRLI is a legal organization that works to reduce immigration into the U.S., and it’s closely affiliated with the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “President scumbag/liar-nObama never had the legal right to sign DACA, and he indicated so at the time of signing. But In any event, how can he have the right to sign and I don’t have the right to ‘unsigned.’ Totally illegal document which would actually give the President new powers,” Trump continued...
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House Dems investigate Pence stay 
at Trump's Doonbeg, Ireland resort
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By Brooke Singman 
{ foxnews.com } ~ House Democrats are investigating Vice President Mike Pence’s decision to stay at President Trump’s golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland... claiming the move could have possibly violated the emoluments clause in the Constitution and is "of significant interest" as the House Judiciary Committee considers whether to recommend articles of impeachment against the president. House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., penned a letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Secret Service Director James Murray late Thursday, seeking information about Trump's "apparent promotion and solicitation of foreign and U.S. government business at Trump Organization owned or affiliated properties." scumbag liar-Nadler's committee is already investigating alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption and other alleged abuses by the president, but claimed that the vice president's stay at Doonbeg, as well as Trump's proposal to host the 2020 G-7 summit at Trump National Doral Golf Club outside Miami, were "potential violations of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution," and noted that they are "of significant interest and grave concern to the Committee as it considers whether to recommend articles of impeachment." "The Doral and Doonbeg cases are just two of the many examples of the solicitation or receipt of foreign government spending to the benefit of the President's private financial interests," scumbag liar-Nadler wrote. "While White House officials have repeatedly claimed it is easier for Secret Service and law enforcement to secure the President's resorts when he and the Vice President travel, there has been no confirmation by law enforcement or the Secret Service to support the practice of spending taxpayer dollars on the President's businesses." He added: "The impact that the President's business interests may have on his official conduct and American foreign policy interests demands scrutiny by Congress-as does the use of taxpayer dollars on properties or businesses benefitting the president." ... These House Democrats are going nuts, I see no action on this matter.
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Judge Jeanine Sideswipes Fox News – 
They Suspended Her, And Now 
They’re Planning To Fire Her
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By Adam Casalino
{ gopdailybrief.com } ~ Judge Jeanine has acquired a reputation as a bold and uncompromising media personality, but she just upped the ante bigtime... A former judge, she often hits issues of crime and justice hard. She’s not afraid to speak her mind, even when it’s not popular—or profitable. So, it should not be a surprise that she ruffles some of the corporate feathers of her company, Fox News. Recently, it seems like Pirro went too far, according to the network, and they pulled her off the air. Now, during a hot mic moment, Pirro admits what she thinks Fox was trying to do all along. Pirro was suspended and she claims the network was looking to fire her. Fox News has made plenty of blunders in the past. They have fired hot personalities, loved by millions, over pathetic complaints by left-wing companies. Why should a conservative network worry about obvious attempts by the left to silence facts and truth? Is Fox News even a conservative network? Why would they harass a top host like Pirro, unless they don’t like what she has to say? It’s something that viewers have to ask themselves. As the left tries harder and harder to suppress and censor conservatives across all media platforms, we need to support the voices who continue to speak their minds. And if Fox wants to fire Judge Jeanine, it would be a massive mistake.
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Any Way You Slice it, Hezbollah 
Had a Very Bad Month
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by Tony Badran
{ .fdd.org } ~ After a period of relative calm on Israel’s northern border, the past two weeks have seen a sudden spate of attacks and counterattacks between Israel and Hezbollah... The escalation began on Aug. 24 when Israeli Defense Forces thwarted a planned Iranian and Hezbollah drone attack from the Golan Heights. The IDF’s strike killed two Iranian-trained Hezbollah operatives in their compound near Damascus. Israel reportedly followed this operation with another, hitting components of Hezbollah’s missile infrastructure in the heart of its Beirut stronghold. Hezbollah retaliated this past Sunday by attacking an IDF vehicle in northern Israel, prompting a volley of Israeli artillery fire into southern Lebanon. The dust is still clearing, but what’s clear is that Israel’s operation reflects a new security footing towards Hezbollah that is being put into effect at the same time the U.S. increases pressure on the group on other fronts. All told, it’s plain that August did not end auspiciously for Hezbollah. First, Israel seemingly resumed operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah and Iranian missile capabilities. Then shortly after, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned the Lebanon-based Jammal Trust Bank, which it described as Hezbollah’s “bank of choice.” These actions mark an important shift in both Israeli and U.S. policies, which is likely to deepen Hezbollah’s strategic dilemma. For the past decade, Hezbollah’s strategy has relied on two key conditions both of which now appear to be coming to an end. The first condition was that the U.S. would continue to pay into the myth of an independent Lebanese state that exists separate and autonomous from the terror group. That indulgence has granted Hezbollah the critical freedom to operate through the auspices of Lebanese institutions like the armed forces and banking system, without facing penalty from the U.S. The second condition on which Hezbollah relied, an outgrowth of Syria’s civil war, was Israel’s general avoidance of conducting military operations inside Lebanese territory. Events over the past month suggest that these twin pillars of the Hezbollah edifice, behind which sits Iran’s designs for the Middle East, are wearing down as the Trump administration’s new security approach to the Middle East opens up new possibilities in the region. The limited skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah this past Sunday might have looked familiar, only they reflected a shift in the conflict. In a similar incident in January 2015 Hezbollah responded to an Israeli strike on its cadres in southern Syria by firing antitank missiles on IDF vehicles from the Israeli-controlled Shebaa Farms area near the Golan Heights. Sunday’s attack was also carried out in retaliation for an Israeli strike on Hezbollah operatives in southern Syria, and followed an alleged Israeli operation in Dahieh, one of the main Hezbollah-controlled neighborhoods in Beirut, and once again utilized antitank missiles fired on an IDF vehicle—but, unlike in 2015, this time the attack was carried out from inside a Lebanese village, underscoring the shift to Lebanon as the front from which the group now retaliates. The operation, reportedly involving a drone attack, marked the end of an almost six-year hiatus, during which time the Israelis limited their strikes against Hezbollah and Iranian assets to targets in Syria. Israel’s tacit agreement not to conduct operations inside Lebanon, which was intended to prevent an escalation into full-on war, had jibed well over the past six years with a U.S. policy that prioritized “preserving Lebanon’s stability.” Unable to respond directly to Israel’s ongoing operations in Syria, Iran and Hezbollah launched a project to upgrade the precision of Hezbollah’s stockpile of missiles inside Lebanon...
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ThinkProgress shuts down 
after failing to secure a publisher
by Mike Brest
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ ThinkProgress, a news website linked to a liberal think tank, is shutting down on Friday... The site, connected to the Center for American Progress, will instead be used as a platform for CAP scholars to post. It will no longer function as an independent entity focused on original reporting. They had been searching for a buyer to take over the company but were unsuccessful. “Given that we could find no new publisher, we have no other real option but to fold the ThinkProgress website back into CAP’s broader online presence with a focus on analysis of policy, politics, and news events through the lens of existing CAP and CAP Action staff experts,” Navin Nayak, the executive director of the CAP Action Fund, told the Daily Beast. “Conversations on how to do so are just beginning, but we will seek to reinvent it as a different platform for progressive change.” Many members of the staff will lose their jobs, while some are now employed elsewhere. The staff unionized in 2015 as a result of editorial friction, and they proceeded to try to wrestle editorial control away from senior leaders at CAP.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/thinkprogress-shuts-down-after-failing-to-secure-a-publisher?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_09/06/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261  
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Crimes by Illegal Immigrants Widespread Across U.S. — Sanctuaries Shouldn't Shield Them
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The decision by a California appeals court Friday overturning the conviction of an illegal immigrant who shot and killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco in 2015 once again put the national spotlight on the serious problem of crimes committed by people in the U.S. illegally.

The appeals court in San Francisco overturned the conviction of Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Garcia-Zarate was earlier found not guilty of first- and second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and assault with a semi-automatic weapon.

Garcia-Zarate said he unwittingly picked up a gun, which he said was wrapped in a T-shirt, and it fired accidentally. The appeals court overturned his conviction on the firearm possession charge because it said the judge at his trial failed to give the jury the option of finding him not guilty on the theory that he only possessed the gun for a moment.

Opponents of federal efforts to enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress repeatedly claim that illegal immigrants are “less likely” to commit crimes than U.S. citizens — and thus represent no threat to public safety. But that’s not true when it comes to federal crimes.

Non-citizens constitute only about 7 percent of the U.S. population. Yet the latest data from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that non-citizens accounted for nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of all federal arrests in 2018. Just two decades earlier, only 37 percent of all federal arrests were non-citizens.

These arrests aren’t just for immigration crimes. Non-citizens accounted for 24 percent of all federal drug arrests, 25 percent of all federal property arrests, and 28 percent of all federal fraud arrests.

In 2018, a quarter of all federal drug arrests took place in the five judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border. This reflects the ongoing activities of Mexican drug cartels. Last year, Mexican citizens accounted for 40 percent of all federal arrests.

In fact, more Mexicans than U.S. citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in 2018.

Migrants from Central American countries are also accounting for a larger share of federal arrests, going from a negligible 1 percent of such arrests in 1998 to 20 percent today.

Critics will try to downplay the importance of the Justice Department’s report by pointing out that the majority of crimes in the United States are handled by prosecutors in state and local courts. But even there the data is shocking.

A recent report from the Texas Department of Public Safety revealed that 297,000 non-citizens had been “booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and July 31, 2019.” So these are non-citizens who allegedly committed local crimes, not immigration violations.

The report noted that a little more than two-thirds (202,000) of those booked in Texas jails were later confirmed as illegal immigrants by the federal government.

According to the Texas report, over the course of their criminal careers those illegal immigrants were charged with committing 494,000 criminal offenses.

Some of these cases are still being prosecuted, but the report states that there have already been over 225,000 convictions. Those convictions represent: 500 homicides; 23,954 assaults; 8,070 burglaries; 297 kidnappings; 14,178 thefts; 2,026 robberies; 3,122 sexual assaults; 3,840 sexual offenses; 3,158 weapon charges and tens of thousands of drug and obstruction charges

These statistics reveal the very real danger created by sanctuary policies. In nine self-declared sanctuary states and numerous sanctuary cities and counties, officials refuse to hand over criminals who are known to be in this country illegally after they have served their state or local sentences.

This refusal to cooperate with federal immigration officials suggests that state and local officials supporting the sanctuary movement believe it’s better to let these criminals return to their communities rather than being removed from this country. Not all of their constituents would agree.

The Texas report is careful to note that it is not claiming “foreign nationals” commit “more crimes than other groups.” Whether that is true or not — and it is certainly true when it comes to federal crimes — is irrelevant.

What is highly relevant to the current debate about immigration policy is that the Texas report “identifies thousands of crimes that should not have occurred and thousands of victims that should not have been victimized because the perpetrators should not be here.”

We know that in Texas and around the country some individuals would be alive today — and their families would not be mourning their loss — if we had a secure border and an effective interior enforcement system.

Instead of trying to obstruct enforcement of our immigration laws, state and local officials should do everything they can to help the feds reduce the very real — and all too often fatal — dangers posed by criminal illegal immigrants.

One of the worst recent examples of a state official who refuses to help federal immigration authorities carry out their duties is North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper.

The Democratic governor recently vetoed a bill that would require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Cooper did so just days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents captured an illegal immigrant charged with first-degree rape and indecent liberties against a child.

The man arrested in that crime was on the loose because he had been released from custody by county officials, despite the existence of a federal detainer warrant for him.

Politicians who declare their jurisdictions to be sanctuaries for illegal immigrants who commit crimes are needlessly endangering their law-abiding citizens. That is shameful.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65240?mailing_id=4509&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4509&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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~ Featuring ~ 
 Automakers Demand More 
Electric Vehicle Tax Breaks
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Media Cancel James Mattis After They Learn
 His Book Criticizes The Wrong President
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by Bonchie
{ redstate.com } ~ {When it comes to foreign policy, the President has the final say, no matter how strongly his advisors feel... The media don’t seem to understand this and constantly portray any decision Trump makes as dangerous and illegitimate. Somehow, the world hasn’t gone into a nuclear meltdown though. It’s almost like they have no idea what they are talking about? One such decision was Trump wanting to pull out of Syria. It was enough that James “Mad Dog” Mattis resigned over it. That’s fair. If he couldn’t do the job anymore, I’m not going to criticize him for deciding to move on. The irony of the entire situation is that Democrats, who cheered scumbag/liar-nObama’s disastrous pull-out from Iraq, suddenly become the hawkiest of war hawks, but I digress. The current story is that Mattis is writing his memoir and that got the media press corp really excited. You see, because Mattis left on rocky terms from the Trump administration, including a fairly forward resignation letter, the expectation was that he was going to blast Trump. So you got headlines like The Man Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore from The Atlantic and The Man Trump Wishes He Were from The New York Times. You could almost see the foam forming around their collective mouths. They were about to get another tell all they could fluff for weeks, and if that meant rehabilitating a person they used to hate in James Mattis, then that was a price they were willing to pay. Then something happened. While Mattis’ book laid into a President, it just so happened to be the wrong President in the media’s eyes. That would be Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. scumbag/liar-nObama was essentially willing to let Iran get away with anything to preserve his doomed nuclear deal. Mattis also points out his incredible naivete when it came to the Arab Spring, which turned out to be one of the worst things to happen to the Middle East in regards to stability, as fundamentalist Muslims were further empowered...  https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2019/09/05/media-cancel-james-mattis-learn-book-criticizes-wrong-president/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680  
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Stone-Age Democrats Are Crazy With the Heat
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by David Limbaugh
{ townhall.com } ~ If you're a political conservative, don't feel so picked on by the Stalinist Democratic Party. It doesn't allow dissent among its own ranks either, being the party of the ideological straitjacket... In watching some of the clips from the Democratic climate change marathon, I was struck by how willing each candidate was to grovel and play dumb to retain favor with the crazy leftist base. And that should tell us all we need to know about how dangerous this party is for America. "You didn't watch the entire thing?" you ask. No, sorry, I do have some self-respect. How these reckless clowns could persuade even 10 percent of voters to support them in a general election is a disturbingly sad commentary on the state of our electorate. Each candidate was more ridiculous than the next. It was a painful spectacle to endure. lowlife-Kamala Harris seemed to realize how ridiculous she sounded when she said she would favor banning plastic straws. Saying something has to be done, she descended into inane laughter about the difficulty in using paper straws. Seriously? This is what animates them today? Being the shrewd lawyer she is, lowlife-Harris also said the government must take action to reduce Americans' red meat consumption. Yes, that's a pressing federal issue and certainly the type of government action the framers contemplated at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Andrew Yang, when the time is right, might ban commercial air travel. He also mentioned the possible confiscation of gas vehicles and refused to rule out making electric cars mandatory. Suggested Democrat campaign slogan: "Vote for us and we'll lead you back to the Stone Age -- a time of environmental sensitivity and equal income distribution." Elizabeth dinky-Warren crusaded against straws, and cheeseburgers, too. Why would Trump focus on economic growth, spreading wealth and reducing unemployment for all Americans when he could prioritize their nutrition awareness? Republicans should be ashamed of their obvious indifference to the federal government's proper role in our dining decisions -- and federally mandated exercise, for that matter. Now I know what Democrats mean when they say we don't care. Indeed, commie-Bernie Sanders is right to advocate curbing population growth. Capping population will facilitate economic malaise, thus ending the rich's stranglehold on all that stuff they want their voters to covet...  https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2019/09/06/stoneage-democrats-are-crazy-with-the-heat-n2552686?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=09/06/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623   
What Happened During Flynn Lawyer’s Secret Meeting With Judge This Week? 
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By Margot Cleveland
{ thefederalist.com } ~ On Thursday, two docket entries in the criminal case against Michael Flynn provided a roadmap to the next steps in the case that took a surprise turn last week... As I reported  earlier this week, while Americans prepared for the long Labor Day weekend, lawyer Sidney Powell, who had taken over Flynn’s defense in June, hit federal prosecutors with a motion to compel evidence and a request for sanctions for prosecutorial misconduct. In her motion, Powell charged that government attorneys withheld potentially exculpatory evidence from Flynn, whom had pleaded guilty in late 2017 to lying to FBI agents. In a status report filed the same day, Powell also complained that the government had refused to grant her a security clearance to allow her to review pertinent evidence, and she sought presiding judge Emmett Sullivan’s intervention. Yesterday, Judge Sullivan “held an ex parte and sealed hearing with Mr. Flynn and defense counsel to consider Mr. Flynn’s request for the Court’s intervention on counsel’s request for security clearances.” An ex parte hearing is one in which one or more parties are absent, which here would mean the prosecutors did not participate in the hearing. Because the hearing was sealed, a transcript is not publicly available, and Powell is prohibited from commenting on the proceedings. However, the docket order stated the bottom line: “The Court advised counsel that it intends to resolve Flynn’s Motion to Compel Production of Brady Material before addressing any Court intervention regarding security clearances for Mr. Flynn’s counsel.” A minute order soon followed, with the court stating that “in view of Defendant’s Motion to Compel Production of Brady Material, the Court will set a briefing schedule and a motion hearing date at the September 10, 2019 Status Conference.” That briefing schedule will set the timing for federal prosecutors to respond to Powell’s motion and the 19-page memorandum filed in support of the motion to compel. On the tenth, the court will also set a deadline for Powell to reply to the government’s counter and schedule a hearing for the parties to orally argue their positions. Judge Sullivan’s minute order also included another intriguing tidbit. In it, he noted that the court would “apply the standard set forth in United States v. Yunis, 867 F.2d 617 (D.C. Cir. 1989) to resolve the pending motion.”...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/06/happened-flynn-lawyers-secret-meeting-judge-week/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=1fd8b5cbf4-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-1fd8b5cbf4-83771801   
Can loose lips liar-Joe Biden
Run This Marathon?
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by Pat Buchanan
{ townhall.com  } ~ Thursday, Sept. 14, looks to be a fateful day in the half-century-long political career of loose lips liar-Joe Biden. That night, a three-hour debate will be held, a marathon in politics... loose lips liar-Biden will be on stage, taking incoming missiles for 180 minutes from nine rivals, each of whom is hungry for the Democratic nomination and has a huge investment in seeing him stumble and fall. A solid showing by loose lips liar-Biden that night, marked by wit and a mastery of the issues, would cause a storm surge of relief in the Democratic Party. It would provide desperately needed reassurance to millions of Democrats who have a gnawing fear loose lips liar-Biden's time has come and gone, that he is losing it, that his memory is failing, and that, at any moment, from some egregious gaffe, his campaign could crater and crash. If he stumbles that night, misremembers or misspeaks repeatedly in the three hours, the apprehension about his nomination, already widespread among the party elite, could turn into panic. Why is the Democratic Party apprehensive about loose lips liar-Joe Biden? Though every poll has him running well ahead of his competitors, the loose lips liar-Biden campaign has ranged from dull to embarrassing. loose lips liar-Biden began by speaking nostalgically of his days as a young senator and the warm friendships he formed with segregationist senators Herman Talmadge and Jim Eastland, the latter a Mississippi pillar of "massive resistance" to civil rights legislation. In the first debate, loose lips liar-Biden was skewered by Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris for having boasted of opposing the court-ordered busing that, lowlife-Harris claims, enabled her to get an integrated education in California. Asked, in Keene, New Hampshire, how it felt to be in the lovely town, loose lips liar-Biden volunteered, "Look, what's not to like about Vermont." loose lips liar-Biden spoke of meeting in his vice president's office with students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the scene of a horrific school shooting. Only the Parkland massacre did not occur until after he left the vice presidency. Speaking in the aftermath of shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, loose lips liar-Biden talked of the recent "tragic events in Houston and also in Michigan the day before." After the shootings in Odessa, Texas, done with an assault rifle, an outraged loose lips liar-Joe said it was "absolutely mindless" not to ban all firearm magazines that carry more than a single bullet...  https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2019/09/06/can-joe-biden-run-this-marathon-n2552683?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=09/06/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623    
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Save the Planet: Reform the 
Endangered Species Act
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{ spectator.org } ~ Environmental socialists’ knee-jerk reactions to regulatory changes the Trump administration implemented to the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) were as predictable as they were misguided... Claiming the Trump administration violated the law and gutted endangered species protections, several environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to overturn the rule changes. Based on environmentalists’ reactions, you’d think the ESA had a glowing track record of success in bringing species back from the brink of extinction. But this is not the case. Actually, ESA has been a costly fiasco. Since 1973, more than 2,470 species of plants and animals have been listed as “endangered” or “threatened” under the ESA. Federal, state, and local governments, as well as private individuals, have spent billions to help those species recover. People have been forbidden to build homes or businesses on their own land and told they must stop farming or logging, and road and hospital construction has been halted or delayed. Yet for all this effort, just 85 species have been removed from the Endangered Species List, representing only 3.4 percent of all species ever listed. Further, most of the species removed from the list were taken off either because they had been improperly placed on it in the first place or they recovered due to factors unrelated to the ESA. In more than 46 years of existence, ESA is, at best, responsible for helping 16 species recover. If ESA were a school, it would have the worst graduation rate in history! DOI’s actions are aimed at reducing costs and focusing scarce agency resources to recover species most at risk of disappearing in the near term. Indeed, DOI is reversing a decades-old policy that mandated threatened species receive the same protections as endangered species. Under ESA, actions impacting threatened species were to be judged on a case-by-case basis. previous administrations, however, applied the same heavy-handed prohibitions intended for endangered species to threatened species...
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Automakers Demand More Electric 
Vehicle Tax Breaks
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Political Editors:  In Washington’s upside-down parlance, a temporary subsidy actually means something closer to permanent. A recent example demonstrating this reality is the electric-vehicle (EV) tax credit. Back in 2009, part of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s so-called “stimulus” package included an EV tax break intended to help the auto industry counter the high cost of developing electric cars. As The Wall Street Journal explains, “The federal government currently provides a $7,500 consumer tax break for an auto maker’s first 200,000 cars. The tax credit then drops by half for EVs sold over the next six months, and by half again for another six months. It then disappears.”

However, as Tesla and General Motors both surpassed 200,000 EV’s sold last year, and Ford, Nissan, and Toyota are quickly closing in on that sales threshold, automakers are lobbying Congress for the tax break to be extended up to 400,000 sales. And thus far their lobbying has proven somewhat successful. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) are currently floating an extension for the EV tax break. If passed it would cost taxpayers an estimated $16 billion over the next 10 years.

As the Journal notes, “It’s hard to imagine a more blatant income transfer for the well-to-do. Electric cars are significantly more expensive than the average vehicle, with a starting price of around $36,000. A recent Congressional Research Service study found that nearly 80% of the credits were claimed by households with adjusted gross income of more than $100,000. Sales data show that about half of all electric vehicle sales occur in one state — California.” We’re shocked — shocked.

Washington’s habit of picking winners and losers rather than letting the free market decide only ends up costing everyone. It’s time to end these subsidies, not extend them.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65231?mailing_id=4509&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4509&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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  Corruption Corrodes the UAW
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Business Review Board 
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American Jews Are in Total Denial 
about the Democratic Party
By Ron Jager 
{ americanthinker.com } ~Not a day goes by without Jews being shot in their synagogues, stabbed, bludgeoned by blocks, physically attacked, pushed to the ground, spat on, and cursed... without graffiti on the walls of Jewish institutions, graffiti on the walls of synagogues; without victims killed, maimed for life, traumatized, hospitalized, extended rehabilitation. The list goes on and on. Older Chassidic Jews, young orthodox Jews, Conservative Jews, Reform Jews, non-affiliated Jews — they are all targeted, irrespective of their level of Jewishness, irrespective of whether they look or act Jewish. They are preyed upon only because they are Jews. The daily incidents now pass without much notice. A steady and acceptable level of violence and hate targeting Jewish people anywhere and everywhere is seemingly quietly condoned and accepted as a daily fact of American life. Where are the powerful Jewish American organizations that are always at the forefront of helping others? We Jews are always there to be the first to extend a helping hand — donate funds, arrange media attention, pull strings with politicians, enlist leading newspapers. Yet when it comes to defending American Jews against the spiraling epidemic of physically violent anti-Semitic attacks, there is a deafening silence. Jewish organizations that were built for the precise purpose of navigating times like these are to a large extent inadequate, unresponsive, and restrained, as if they do not want to rock the boat, as if they are careful not to demand accountability from those that are entrusted to protect us. Too many of these Jewish organizations are operating with a myopic moral compass that guides their largely pathetic indifference. They deny the urgency of the clear and present danger to the well-being of American Jews. Sadly, we the Jewish people are complicit in our own victimhood, making excuses for and throwing in our lot with the Democratic half of the political system, whose members proudly parade Muslim congresswomen espousing anti-Semitic poison disguised as progressivism. American Jewry proudly stands on the same stage with worthless-Tlaib and worthless-Omar, providing them support and encouragement 9/6/2019 American Jews Are in Total Denial about the Democratic Party as they demonize and slander the State of Israel...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/american_jews_are_in_total_denial_about_the_democratic_party.html  
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CNN’s Presidential Climate 
Change Town Hall Was Insane 
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By David Harsanyi
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Put it this way: the most benign climate-change plan proposed during CNN’s seven-hour Democratic Party presidential candidate town hall was more authoritarian than anything Donald Trump has ever suggested during his presidency... Democrats were not merely proposing massive societal upheaval but mass coercion. CNN says it’s a “crisis,” though, so Democrats were free to offer one insane Nostradamus-like prediction after the next. Not only is every weather event now a manifestation of global warming, but socialist-Beto O’Rourke says our communities will soon be “uninhabitable,” and Pete Buttigieg says the challenge of warming is on par with World War II, a conflict that took more than 400,000 American lives and tens of millions of others. None of this hysteria, as far as I can tell, was challenged during those seven hours. As Joel Pollak notes, at this point climate change “is primarily experienced as a mass hysteria phenomenon,” a collective illusion of a massive threat. Just listen to audience members earnestly asking questions based on the risible premise that we’re on the brink of extinction. It’s really one of the tragedies of our age that so many anxious young people have been brainwashed into believing they live on the cusp of dystopia when, in fact, they’re in the middle of a golden age — an era with less war, sickness, poverty, and suffering than any in history. When loose lips liar-Joe Biden, the “moderate” front-runner, was asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper if the Green New Deal — commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s unifying climate plan that bans all fossil fuels, 99 percent of cars and planes, and meat within the next decade — “goes too far,” or whether it was “unrealistic, promising too much” “promising,” of course, suggests that GND’s goals are desirable, he answered, “No, no it’s not.” In fact, the Green New Deal — which also promises to “retrofit” every building in the entire country and provide government-guaranteed jobs, free higher education, and salubrious diets to all Americans — “deserves an enormous amount of credit,” said the front-running candidate of the nation’s serious party...
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How Despots Interpret Deals with the West
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by Bassam Tawil
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The European Union says it will support talks between the US and Iran, but only if the current nuclear deal with Tehran is preserved... The idea of direct talks between the US and Iran seems to have developed after President Donald Trump recently said he was ready to meet Iran's President Hassan Rouhani. "We are always in favor of talks, the more people talk, the more people understand each other better, on the basis of clarity and on the basis of respect," EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said last month. The EU wants the world to welcome Iran back into the international community because -- this might sound harsh, but it is increasingly hard not to believe it -- they are hoping that the leaders of Tehran will focus their efforts on achieving their goal of annihilating Israel. As far as the Europeans are concerned, it appears that the stronger Iran is, the better: a renewed Iran would further Europe's hope of seeing Israel and the Jews wiped off the face of the earth. Heard just a few months ago were calls such as, "send Jews to the ovens," "Hitler didn't finish the job," and "kill the Jews." US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper was quoted as saying on August 28 that the US is "not seeking conflict with Iran." During the Pentagon press briefing, Esper repeated Trump's calls for diplomatic efforts with Iran. "You saw over the weekend some reporting. The president once again said that he's more than willing to meet with Iran's leaders to resolve this... diplomatically." The Trump administration's gestures towards Iran, however, do not appear to have impressed the leaders of the Islamic Republic. In fact, Arabs and Muslims have a habit of misinterpreting gestures from Westerners as a sign of weakness and retreat. In addition, such gestures have historically whetted the appetite of Arabs and Muslims, leading to demands for yet more concessions...
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Liberal Dark Money Group Behind Maine 
News Site Attacking Collins
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by Cameron Cawthorne
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Maine Democrat Sara Gideon is benefiting from another multimillion-dollar dark money group as she attempts to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine)... despite decrying "big money" in politics. Gideon has been receiving positive coverage from a Maine news website which operates as part of a larger news network that publishes favorable content of Democratic candidates and attacks their Republican opponents. Maine Beacon is one of the 12 affiliates of The Newsroom, a network of media outlets focused on state-level politics which operates across the United States. The Newsroom is a project of the Hopewell Fund, a Washington, D.C-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that "incubates projects and provides professional support and guidance." Other affiliates of The Newsroom include the Arizona Mirror, the Colorado Independent, Maryland Matters, the Nevada Current, and the Michigan Advance. In recent months, the Maine Beacon has published glowing headlines on Gideon, including "Gideon's bill would make Maine a national leader on paid family leave" and "Record-breaking fundraising for Gideon and other Democratic Senate candidates." Its pieces on Collins are often negative and read as opposition research pieces. Some of its headlines against Collins are "Big bucks ready to flow into Maine as Susan Collins aims to keep her seat," "Cowardice is the dominant gene for Collins and her Republican Party," "Collins attends fundraiser at $4m mansion of nation's top anti-choice judicial activist," and "Collins says judge backed by anti-abortion groups is an ‘outstanding' example." The Maine Beacon's editor is Lauren McCauley, a former staff writer at Common Dreams, a progressive news website. The Hopewell Fund, which received  $130,469,297 in grants and untraceable contributions in 2017, is one of four nonprofit entities managed by Arabella Advisors, which helped funnel $1.6 billion to liberal organizations between 2013 and 2017, according to the Washington Free Beacon...  https://freebeacon.com/politics/liberal-dark-money-group-behind-maine-news-site-attacking-collins/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=bf6b73b7cc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_05_08_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-bf6b73b7cc-45611665  
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New Sanctions Target Iran’s 
Oil-for-Terror Network
by David Adesnik
{ fdd.org } ~ The Treasury Department took action Wednesday against a global network that exports Iranian oil for the benefit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization... The Trump administration has moved aggressively since April to block Iran’s petroleum exports, a campaign it now seeks to reinforce by exposing the ties between the oil sector and Iran’s terrorist infrastructure. The U.S. began to emphasize the linkage between oil exports and Iranian terrorism last month, when the Department of Justice issued a warrant for the seizure of the Adrian Darya 1, an Iranian tanker that British authorities temporarily detained en route to Syria. In a forfeiture complaint tied to the warrant, the department laid out the intricate web of connections between the IRGC and an array of front companies in Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the Caribbean, whose role was to facilitate Iranian oil exports, including the cargo of the Adrian Darya 1. In its announcement of Wednesday’s sanctions, Treasury included substantial new information about precisely how the IRGC manages Tehran’s oil exports. The key figure in the Iranian network is former Minister of Petroleum Rostam Qasemi, who is now a senior official in the IRGC Quds Force, its foreign operations branch. Qasemi oversees a “sprawling network, which features dozens of ship managers, vessels and facilitators,” including his son, Morteza Qasemi. The Quds Force “also relies heavily on Hezbollah officials and front companies to broker associated contacts.” The scumbag/liar-nObama administration initially sanctioned Qasemi in 2010 for other IRGC-related activities. As part of Wednesday’s action, Treasury added nine individuals, 16 entities, and six vessels to its Specially Designated Nationals list, an inventory of those under U.S. sanctions. The new entities on the list include companies based in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, India, and Singapore. The premier destination for the IRGC’s oil is Syria. According to Treasury, the Quds Force network exported nearly 10 million barrels of crude oil “predominantly to the Syrian regime” as well as nearly 4 million barrels of condensate, another liquid hydrocarbon. The combined value of these exports was roughly $750 million. The connection between these exports and the regime of Bashar al-Assad underscores the degree to which putting pressure on Assad serves not just a humanitarian purpose, but also disrupts the funding of Iranian terrorism...
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Corruption Corrodes the UAW
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Business Review Board:  As we marked Labor Day Monday, it’s interesting timing to note a painful truth: Union workers are being exploited by union bosses. Last week, The Detroit News reportedthat Big Labor big whigs may be living a bit too high on the hog:

Federal agents expanded an investigation of corruption within the U.S. auto industry … by raiding locations in four states, including the suburban Detroit home of United Auto Workers President Gary Jones and the California home of former President Dennis Williams…

The four-year federal investigation into bribes, kickbacks and attempts by auto executives to influence labor negotiations with the UAW has led to charges against nine people and prison sentences for eight figures linked to the UAW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV.

The raids at six locations in Michigan, California, Wisconsin and Missouri uncovered evidence including “wads” of cash and files that could bolster federal investigations into UAW leaders spending dues paid by blue-collar workers on personal luxuries, vacations and private villas in Palm Springs, California…

The searches, coinciding with national labor negotiations among the UAW and Detroit automakers, and potential new criminal charges raise the specter of Justice Department officials wielding a powerful and rarely used tool to wrest control of the UAW — civil racketeering law.

The Washington Examiner’s editorial board puts that in perspective: “This means the nation’s most iconic union may soon be officially branded a criminal conspiracy.”

If confirmed, auto executives certainly share a big part of the blame for this corruption. And with current labor deals with Detroit’s Big Three — GM, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler — set to expire on Sept. 14, it’s little wonder that the skids were being greased.

Yet while union executives are raking in the dough, union workers are left with fewer jobs. It’s no wonder blue-collar workers voted for Donald Trump in 2016. What have Democrats and union bosses done for them? It’s also no wonder Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga have  rejected — twice — UAW efforts to unionize the plant. Likewise, workers at a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, rejected unionization. And UAW membership dropped 8% in 2018, down to 396,000 members. It’s seems that many Americans don’t want their hard-earned dollars funding Democrat political causes or corruption among the top brass.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65229?mailing_id=4509&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4509&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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  Mattis: scumbag/liar-nObama and 
loose lips liar-Biden Empowered ISIS
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Thomas Gallatin  
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Mattis: scumbag/liar-nObama Failed to Respond 
to Iran Bomb Plot on U.S. Soil 
Because of Nuclear Deal
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By MATT MARGOLIS
{ pjmedia.com } ~ After the surprise resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis last December, Democrats were quick to politicize the news... and have certainly been hoping ever since that Mattis would provide them with new information they could use to attack Donald Trump. He does have a memoir coming out, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, but it looks like it’s Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Joe Biden who get the bulk of the criticism. Prior being Secretary of Defense under Trump, Mattis served as commander of U.S. Central Command under scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden. Mattis had predicted that Iran would continue to provoke the United States. Mattis’s warning went ignored, and when Iran committed an act of war on American soil, he was not told about it, and the United States never responded to it. The duty officer at his Tampa, Florida, headquarters on Oct. 11, 2011 told him that the attorney general and FBI director had held a press conference to announce the arrest of two Iranians who had planned a bomb attack on Cafe Milano, a high-end restaurant in Washington that was a favorite of the rich and famous, including Saudi Arabia’s ambassador, Adel al-Jubeir. As Mattis writes, “Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder said the bombing plot was ‘directed and approved by elements of the Iranian government and, specifically, senior members of the Qods Force.’ The Qods were the Special Operations Force of the Revolutionary Guards, reporting to the top of the Iranian government.” Many pundits questioned the administration’s assessment that the Iranian government was involved in the plan. Despite Iran’s long history of overseas assassination plots, some observers were skeptical that the theocratic regime would attempt such an audacious attack. Mattis is certain, however: “I saw the intelligence: we had recorded Tehran’s approval of the operation.” Mattis writes, “Had the bomb gone off, those in the restaurant and on the street would have been ripped apart, blood rushing down sewer drains. It would have been the worst attack on us since 9/11...
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Foreign Influence Ops on US Universities
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By Ryan Mauro and Alex VanNess
clarionproject.org } ~ A massive amount of the funding comes from foreign governments and government-tied entities that run influence operations in the U.S. to try to mold public opinion and policy... The Department of Education is currently investigating funding from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and presumably other countries.The law requires universities to disclose information about foreign gifts and “any ownership interests in or control over the institution by a foreign entity.” Yet, many concerns exist about possible gaps in the accounting. According to our tally, published June 13, 2019, Qatar alone has provided almost $1.5 billion to U.S. universities and colleges since 2012. In some cases, the funding comes via government-tied entities with known links to subversion, spying, terrorism and extremist ideology. For example, the terror-linked Qatar Foundation donated a jaw-dropping $33 million to Georgetown University in 2018. That’s just a single year from a single worrisome donor. Contrary to common belief, the Department of Education records do not  show all donations from foreign actors. Disclosure can be avoided with simple evasive measures. In a previous Clarion Project expose, we showed how the Iranian regime used a well-known front to send donations to about 30 universities in the U.S. and Canada. These donations, for example, do not show up in the Education Department records of foreign funding. We also published an expose of how the Muslim Brotherhood has successfully used a front called the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) to fund, engage and train academics. The expose included a long list of professors tied to IIIT...
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Mattis Deflects MSNBC Host’s 
Invitations to Slam Trump
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by David Rutz
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Former secretary of defense James Mattis repeatedly refused MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell's invitations to criticize President Donald Trump in an interview Thursday... Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, resigned in December over policy differences with Trump, specifically the president's decision to withdraw American troops from Syria. Mattis, an advocate of cultivating alliances and American engagement, said he had "no choice" but to depart. Mitchell quoted a portion of Mattis's new book Call Sign Chaos that criticized the scumbag/liar-nObama administration—including former vice president and 2020 candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden—for leaving the Middle East in "disarray" and "our friends confused." "Aren't we at risk of making the same mistake if we withdraw from Afghanistan as the president has ordered by the end of what he says the first term?" she asked. Mattis said the "strategy-free environment" in which he had operated for 20 years cut across party lines.Mitchell then asked if the American alliances were weaker now than when Mattis took office in 2017, and Mattis replied, "I don't think I can quantify that." "NATO is actually stronger today," Mattis said. "Now, there are political tensions. Those tensions have always been there in NATO where the American presidents—I remember all the way back to President scumbag/liar-Clinton when I became aware of this issue—President scumbag/liar-Clinton, President Bush, President scumbag/liar-nObama, all saying the same thing President Trump is. You've got to pay more." After Mattis deflected questions about the resurgence of the Islamic State and the Trump administration's reallocation of military funding toward border wall construction, Mitchell appeared frustrated...
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CAIR's Research Director Endorsed 
Jihadist Supporting Charity
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by John Rossomando
investigativeproject.org } ~ The lead author of the Council on American Islamic Relations' (CAIR) 2019 Islamophobia report has repeatedly endorsed a terror-tied Turkish charity... CAIR research director Abbas Barzegar, the lead author of "Hijacked By Hate: American Philanthropy and the Islamophobia Network," has supported the Turkish-based IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation for years even though IHH has provided financial, logistical and political support for jihadists. IHH worked the "front lines of the Syrian conflict," helping tens of thousands of refugees fleeing to Turkey, Lebanon an Jordan, Barzegar wrote in a 2015 Washington Post op-ed with a Georgia State University colleague. The op-ed argued that Muslim non-governmental organizations are "the glue, preventing struggling communities from spiraling out of control." As such, IHH "should be leveraged for more than just routine aid work ... Indeed, with the right communications infrastructure training, they could quickly become ideological gatekeepers as well. Online images of violence, suffering and catastrophe are key elements in the process of radicalization, which drive many volunteer fighters to participate in violent extremism," Barzegar wrote. "Radical groups such as the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and al-Nusra Front systematically use tormenting images of human misery in their online messaging and recruitment efforts."... And CAIR is still in the USA - Why.  https://www. https://www.investigativeproject.org/8056/cair-research-director-endorsed-jihadist  /8056/cair-research-director-endorsed-jihadist   
US Military Experts Say “America Needs” 
A.I. to Control Nuclear Missiles
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by Elias Marat
activistpost.com } ~ According to two U.S. military researchers, the United States needs a “Dead Hand” that would ensure an automated, rapid response to any nuclear threat... Their solution? To fit the U.S. nuclear arsenal with artificial intelligence (AI) controls. In a column for military blog War on the Rocks, U.S. nuclear warfare experts Adam Lowther and Curtis McGiffin suggest that AI is precisely the solution for what they see as a lagging U.S. response system to threats. The two men make the claim that the current NC3 system is dependent on outdated Cold War technology, posing the danger that it “may be too slow for the president to make a considered decision and transmit orders” in case of a nuclear attack on the United States. The authors are well aware that such a proposed system invokes the horrifying apocalyptic imagery of U.S. science fiction films, noting: Admittedly, such a suggestion will generate comparisons to Dr. Strangelove’s doomsday machine, War Games’ War Operation Plan Response, and the Terminator’s Skynet, but the prophetic imagery of these science fiction films is quickly becoming reality. And while the Cold War may long be a thing of the past, experts claim that such a system “that might seem unfathomable” remains necessary “to reinforce the desired deterrent effect” of the U.S. war machine in the face of rivals’ nuclear modernization programs while giving a boost to second-strike capabilities. The potential application of artificial intelligence tech to nuclear warfare is hardly a fresh concept. The United Nations University explains that during the height of late 20th century nuclear rivalry between the U.S. and the former USSR, both countries’ respective military leaderships explored the option of bolstering their nuclear capabilities with varying degrees of AI...
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Mattis: scumbag/liar-nObama and 
loose lips liar-Biden Empowered ISIS
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Thomas Gallatin:  President Donald Trump’s former defense secretary, James Mattis, just released his book, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, and it’s not what many within the Leftmedia were hoping for — a rebuke of Trump’s leadership. In fact, if anything Mattis does the opposite by offering stinging criticism of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Mattis, who abruptly left the Pentagon last year following a disagreement with Trump over his decision to withdraw troops from Syria, explained his rationale for refusing to offer any criticism of Trump: “There’ll come a time when I speak out on strategic issues, policy issues, that I do not have a question about. But I need to give some period of time to those who have to carry out the responsibility to protect this country in a very, very difficult age.”
 

Meanwhile, since both scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden are no longer in office (though loose lips liar-Biden wants Trump’s job), Mattis freely offers his critique of their leadership (or lack thereof), specifically regarding U.S. involvement in the Long War and their inept handling of Iran. For example, Mattis noted that both scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden summarily dismissed his objections to pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, as Mattis warned that Iraq would slip back into violence. As we’ve noted, scumbag/liar-nObama practically did create ISIS. Mattis pinpoints the reason for scumbag/liar-nObama’s rejection of his warnings, writing, “At the top, then as now, there was an aura of omniscience. The assessments of the intelligence community, our diplomats, and our military had been excluded from the decision-making circle.”

Following scumbag/liar-nObama’s dismissal of Mattis, he writes, “I was leaving a region aflame and in disarray. The lack of an integrated regional strategy had left us adrift, and our friends confused. We were offering no leadership or direction. I left my post deeply disturbed that we had shaken our friends’ confidence and created vacuums that our adversaries would exploit.”

Mattis’s criticism of loose lips liar-Biden, while not biting, leaves one with little confidence that loose lips liar-Biden would really listen to advice. “I found him an admirable and amiable man,” Mattis says. “But he was past the point where he was willing to entertain a ‘good idea.’ He didn’t want to hear more; he wanted our forces out of Iraq. Whatever path led there fastest, he favored. He exuded the confidence of a man whose mind was made up, perhaps even indifferent to considering the consequences were he judging the situation incorrectly.”

Effectively, Mattis may be offering one more warning to Trump: Don’t follow the same failed path taken by your predecessor. Furthermore, it serves as a warning to the American people against electing loose lips liar-Biden, who just recently boasted, “If I have any expertise, it’s American foreign policy.”  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65255-mattis-obama-and-biden-empowered-isis  

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 Communist Chinese Gov't 
Fears a Free Hong Kong
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Louis DeBroux   
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Friday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


AUGUST JOBS REPORTS: “Job growth continued at a tepid pace in August, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by just 130,000,” CNBC reports. The headline unemployment rate remains at 3.7%. However, “Wage growth remained solid, with average hourly earnings increasing by 0.4% for the month and 3.2% over the year; both numbers were one-tenth of a percentage point better than expected.” Furthermore, the labor-force participation rate is at a six-year high of 63.2%. Economic growth may not be as strong as what President Donald Trump promised, but much of that is because of near-full employment and also because he’s using a strong economy to coerce China into a fairer trade agreement. The initial result is internal bleeding, but the final outcome may be worth the preliminary price.

HOUSING REFORM: “The Trump administration released a sweeping plan Thursday that could remake the U.S. housing market, starting with ending more than a decade of government control of two massive companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that back half of the nation’s mortgages,” according to The Washington Post. Recall that these entities were considered “too big to fail” and were bailed out by the federal government during the Democrat-caused housing meltdown. And even this plan incorporates a taxpayer contingency plan. “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would pay taxpayers a fee in return for a government guarantee in case they fall into financial trouble again,” the Post adds, meaning a “too big to fail” mindset remains.

Gun Control


DOJ PROPOSITIONS: “The Department of Justice has sent a package of legislative proposals on gun violence to the White House, a person familiar with the matter told Fox News, as the debate rages over how lawmakers and the president should respond to a recent spate of deadly mass shootings. The White House has had the proposals for two weeks, according to the source, but has not yet sent anything along to Capitol Hill. It was not immediately clear what proposals are included in the DOJ package.” (Fox News)

ANTI-OPEN-CARRY BANDWAGON: The Daily Wire reveals that “Wegmans, Walgreens, and CVS all banned open carry in their stores on Thursday, following the same gun policy change from Walmart and Kroger the day before. Unlike the other retailers that only called for a ban on open carry, CVS advised all customers except for authorized law enforcement officers to totally refrain from carrying at all in their stores.” On a related note, according to The Washington Free Beacon, “Walmart clarified its new policy on ammunition sales a day after its CEO announced the retailer would stop selling certain ammunition but didn’t specify exactly which ammunition. … Walmart senior director of communications Delia Garcia … said Walmart would only sell ammunition capable of being used in the remaining firearms they sell.” Tangentially, Tucker Carlson & Neil Patel observe: “Notice that Walmart still plans to sell the remainder of its AR-15 ammunition. This couldn’t really be about saving lives, obviously. It’s about the money.”

TEXAS UPDATES: National Review reports, “Authorities believe the gun used in the drive-by shooting in Midland and Odessa, Texas this past weekend was illegally manufactured and sold by a Lubbock, Texas man… The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is currently investigating a man who they believe illegally manufactured and sold the AR-15-style rifle that [the assailant] used to kill seven people and injure 22 more on Saturday, before he was shot and killed by police.” In related news, National Review also reveals, “Texas governor Greg Abbott on Thursday issued eight executive orders aimed at preventing mass shootings after two massacres last month left the Lone Star State shaken.”

Government & Politics


TOWN-HALL LETDOWN: Via The Hill: “CNN’s 7-hour town hall on climate change with 2020 White House contenders finished last among the three cable news networks in terms of average total viewers, according to early numbers from Nielsen Media Research. CNN averaged 1.1 million viewers from 5 p.m. to midnight, the hours devoted to back-to-back town halls by 10 Democratic contenders. MSNBC finished second with 1.7 million total viewers during the time period, with Fox News winning the time period with an average of 2.5 million.” The Hill also notes that “the average 1.4 million tuning in to CNN for the event was well above its average in primetime in 2019.” Yet it still couldn’t match MSNBC or Fox News. For an issue that’s supposedly an “existential crisis,” viewers don’t seem particularly interested in hearing about it.

LIGHTBULB DEREGULATION: “The Department of Energy announced this week that it’s withdrawing the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s energy-rationing mandate for certain lightbulbs. Opponents criticized the rule change, arguing that the move would be bad for consumers and the climate. The reality, however, is that families and businesses will be better off, and the change will have a negligible impact on the environment.” (The Daily Signal)

Other Notables


MSU FINED: “The U.S. Department of Education has levied a $4.5 million fine against Michigan State University for its ‘systemic failure’ to address the sexual abuse committed by Larry Nassar, the MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor who admitted to sexually assaulting his patients for decades.” (NPR)

GOOD RIDDANCE TO A THUG: “Robert Mugabe, the controversial president of Zimbabwe who was forced to resign in 2017 after decades in power, has died at age 95. … Mugabe took power in Zimbabwe after white minority rule ended in 1980. He blamed Zimbabwe’s economic problems on international sanctions and once said he wanted to rule for life. … Despite Zimbabwe’s decline during his rule, Mugabe remained defiant, railing against the West for what he called its neo-colonialist attitude and urging Africans to take control of their resources.” (Fox News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Why the right to bear arms is an individual right (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: Five surprising scientific facts about Earth’s climate (Foundation for Economic Education)

HUMOR: Trump holds up map suggesting hurricane may hit coast of Middle Earth (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
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NeverTrump Nitwits Should Just Go Away
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By Brian C. Joondeph
americanthinker.com } ~ Instead of admitting they were wrong about President Donald Trump, the #NeverTrump nitwit brigade is doubling down on stupid... Is it simply that they are too stubborn to acknowledge that despite their misgivings during campaign season, Trump is turning out to be the president they have been writing, lecturing, and think-tanking about for their entire careers? Or are they bitter because they are now on the outside looking in, relegated to interviews with journalistic lightweights like Brian Stelter at CNN or Chris Hayes at MSNBC rather than appearing on Fox News opinion shows with much higher ratings and appeal? Many of the names are familiar to longtime conservatives. What’s new in the past few years is the vitriol directed at Trump and his supporters Max Boot said, “Donald Trump is the worst person ever to be president.” George Will called Trump, “A sad, embarrassing wreck of a man.” Steve Schmidt, who ran rino-McCain’s losing presidential campaign said, “I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over.” These former “conservatives” -- actually in name only -- would have happily campaigned for a rino-Jeb Bush or rino-Mitt Romney, even gladly serving in those administrations if invited. Yet along comes someone whom they never interviewed for their now failing newsletters or magazines, a guy not from their world, with his own ideas, formed without the assistance of the slick tongues and the policy institutes of the #NeverTrumpers. And here he is, a president instituting as conservative an agenda as any Republican has done since Reagan. A strong military to keeping America out of foreign entanglements. Tax cuts and reduced regulations to promoting America and creating more job opportunities than there are people to even fill those jobs. From conservative judicial selections to a strong pro-life stance, Trump is doing what the #NeverTrumpers have been wishing for during their entire careers...
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The ‘Simple’ Homeless Solution
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by STEVEN GREENHUT
spectator.org } ~ This California Watch column ought to be renamed Crisis Watch, given the number of public-policy crises that have engulfed the Golden State. There’s a common thread in all of them... They all are the result of government agencies or policies. There’s the housing crisis, caused by state regulations and environmental rules that keep developers from building the number of homes needed to keep up with population growth. There’s a transportation crisis, caused by a state government that doesn’t prioritize road building — and by unions that have driven up road-building costs far beyond the cost in other states. Let’s not forget about the education crisis, which is the result of a public-school monopoly and teachers’ union-enforced tenure rules. Then there’s the pension crisis, which is the result of promising hundreds of billions of dollars in benefits beyond the pension funds’ ability to pay for them. Now, officials are consumed by the homelessness crisis. This crisis is rooted in complicated factors, but the fruits of it can be seen in virtually every big and small city across the state. San Francisco remains a beautiful place, but sections of its downtown look like a cross between Road Warrior and Burning Man. The city employs a crew of $184,000-a-year poop scoopers. This being San Francisco, there’s even an app to tell visitors how to avoid large piles of defecation as they meander their way around the city’s streets. The problem is everywhere. Underpasses and vacant lots are filled with makeshift tent cities. In a historic small town where I own a building, it’s a constant battle to keep homeless people who congregate in a nearby park from sleeping, pooping, and using drugs in the backyard. The police can’t do much, and many of the homeless are downright brazen. I was fixing a fence on the property, and a few feet away a homeless person was making a mess. I told him he could stay for a while if he cleaned up his litter, but soon enough he got out the crack pipe. I looked at buying one property, but vagrants had broken into the basement and used it as a public restroom. No thanks to that one. Some cities have tried to clear away tent cities from their public parks, but a federal court decision has limited their ability to do so. City officials can’t shoo them away unless the city has a place for them to go. That sounds reasonable enough, until one considers the results of this limitation. Public parks have become foreboding places and de facto campgrounds, where rats and diseases including bubonic plague now fester. Do we really have to abandon our public spaces this way?...
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Are They Sending Their Best?
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By Les Still
americanthinker.com } ~ Democrats and the press won’t let us forget what Trump said following his descent down the escalator at Trump tower, when he announced his candidacy for President of the United States... He was scorned for what he said. After all, only a racist could utter those unforgivable words. Democratic candidates have joined in the chorus and haven’t hesitated to  remind us any chance they get. Those now infamous words are: When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, They’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” For the  purpose of our discussion here, let’s focus on the part of his statement regarding drugs, crime, and rapists. Trump believes these are serious concerns that truly contribute to an unsafe environment for the most vulnerable among us. For this reason, Trump has spent a great deal of his political capital on stopping the flow of illegal traffic crossing our southern border and has encountered roadblocks from Democrats and the press throughout this entire process. Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker has said, “On day one, I will make sure that number one, we end the I.C.E. policies and the Customs and Border policies that are violating the human rights.” Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren said: "Offer a home to refugees. That is who we are. That's our values. That's part of what we do." Julian Castro said, “So instead of building a wall or closing the border, we should choose compassion instead of cruelty.” Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris said: “We welcome refugees and bring people out of the shadows.” Clearly, these candidates do not consider immigration to be a security issue. Trump does, and let’s look at some of the reasons why...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/are_they_sending_their_best.html  
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In 2020 Trump Will Reduce 
the Blue Wall to Rubble
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by DAVID CATRON
spectator.org } ~ The biggest surprise of the 2016 election was, of course, Donald Trump’s breach of the “blue wall” upon which the Democrats depended to hold back the howling MAGA hordes... It was the fissures in that fabled fortification that brought tears to the eyes of all those scumbag/liar-Clinton supporters watching dumbfounded as the dreaded “deplorables” invaded their safe electoral spaces. The Democrats have attempted to repair the damaged wall, but it has only weakened further as the unemployed voters who took a chance on Trump have found jobs. They won’t desert him next year, which means the crumbling blue ramparts will completely collapse in 2020. These voters, many of whom found themselves out of work for the first time in their lives during the scumbag/liar-nObama years, see the resurgence of the job market since the last election as a promise kept by the president. In states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, unemployment has plummeted. In Pennsylvania, for example, scumbag/liar-nObama and his Democratic accomplices declared war on coal and drove unemployment to a peak of 8.8 percent. It was still 5.2 percent when President Trump took office. Unemployment is now 3.9 percent. In 2016, the President won Pennsylvania by 44,292 votes, less than 1 percent. He will win by a far larger margin next year. The story is much the same in Michigan. Trump’s predecessor and the Democrats spent years coddling foreign trade partners like China, allowing the state’s manufacturing jobs to evaporate. Unemployment peaked at an outrageous 14.6 percent, and it was still at 5 percent when President Trump took office and dropped as low as 3.9 percent last summer. It has hovered around 4 percent since. The voters who are now back at work are those “forgotten Americans” whom Trump courted in 2016, much to the amusement of the media. As in Pennsylvania, he won Michigan by well under 1 percent. The margin will not be nearly that small in 2020. Because Wisconsin had a Republican governor and legislature during the scumbag/liar-nObama era, it didn’t suffer as badly as Pennsylvania and Michigan. Nonetheless, Trump did motivate a lot of the state’s “forgotten Americans.” This allowed Trump to win in yet another squeaker. And, despite the Badger State’s relatively low unemployment rate, it has nonetheless declined from 3.6 percent to 3 percent. This isn’t likely to turn voters off. Indeed, a recent poll confirms that Trump is more popular in Wisconsin than when he won in the state in 2016. Dan Pfeiffer, a former adviser to erstwhile President scumbag/liar-nObama, has bad news for the Democrats...  https://spectator.org/in-2020-trump-will-reduce-the-blue-wall-to-rubble/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=973c8cc1ca-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_05_02_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-973c8cc1ca-104608113   
China Is Winning the Race to the Deep Ocean
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By Curt Newport
americanthinker.com } ~ While the United States rests on her 60-year-old laurels, China has mounted an aggressive and long-term assault on the deep ocean, or the region known as the Hadal Zone areas deeper than 6,000 meters 19,685 ft... Our country’s efforts to explore these depths effectively ended in 1960 at the conclusion of Project Nekton. That was when the U.S. Navy’s Trieste I Bathyscaphe reached the deepest known part of the ocean, the Challenger Deep, with Lt. Don Walsh and Swiss explorer Jacques Piccard inside a tiny steel sphere. China’s current efforts are being led by Professor Cui Weicheng of Shanghai Ocean University and more recently, the Rainbow Fish Ocean Technology Company. Their current plan is to deploy 11 km (6.8 mi)-capable submersibles in 2020 to explore the deepest sections of the Marianas Trench. According to the South China Morning Post, “Beijing has listed deep-sea scientific exploration as one of the key projects in their five-year plan to 2020. These programs involve the development of unmanned vehicles, benthic landers, gliders, and manned submersibles, as well as the infrastructure needed to maintain this technology. In addition, several research vessels have been constructed to support field operations, most of them purpose-built for specific systems. How have the Chinese created such capabilities? Their projects were initially made possible by purchasing non-ITAR controlled underwater sonars and vehicles from British, Norwegian, and Canadian companies. As has been the case before, Chinese engineers used this technology as an educational tool, so that they could copy and improve on existing designs...
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Communist Chinese Gov't Fears a 
Free Hong Kong
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Louis DeBroux:  In recent months, the world has anxiously watched the scenes of violence and oppression in Hong Kong at the hands of the communist Chinese government.
 

As a British colony for more than 150 years, on July 1, 1997, Hong Kong was returned to Chinese rule under an agreement that promised to leave it as a largely autonomous region under a “one country, two systems” policy.

Yet soon after mainland China took control it began eroding Hong Kong’s autonomy, understandably causing concern and resentment for a people accustomed to the freedoms of a Western-style democratic government; a form of government that had made them wealthy and prosperous and the envy of much of the world. Of course, such freedom and prosperity was and is a cause for fear within the communist Chinese government, which relies on fear and force to maintain absolute control of its vast population.

Tensions between Hong Kong and the mainland government have escalated since June, when legislation was proposed by Carrie Lam, Beijing’s hand-picked puppet leader of Hong Kong, allowing extradition of its citizens to mainland China for trial under communist Chinese courts.

The backlash was enormous; nearly two million of Hong Kong’s 7.4 million citizens took to the streets to protest. With tensions rising, the communist Chinese government began cracking down on demonstrators in an effort to crush demands for more freedom before it spread beyond Hong Kong and into mainland China.

This weekend the government arrested more than a thousand protesters, including several members of the city’s Legislative Council who have been vocal critics of the Beijing government’s denial of Hong Kong’s promised autonomy.

With the crackdown by government forces, some protesters set up barricades around the Central Government Complex, blocking access to the buildings, resulting in a clash where dissidents were hit with tear gas and water cannons, and retaliated with Molotov cocktails.

In addition to the crackdown by police, the communist government sent in gangsters to physically attack protesters. One victim was Jimmy Sham, head of the pro-democracy Civil Human Rights Front, who was beaten with baseball bats by two thugs. CHRF was denied a permit for a peaceful demonstration. Anyone who participates in a non-permitted demonstrations faces up to five years in prison.

In another incident, Hong Kong police stormed a subway train and violently subdued citizens, some of whom had not even been demonstrating.

While not explicitly calling for a state of emergency, Lam stated that if protests continue, the government would consider declaring a state of emergency. Under Hong Kong law, under a state of emergency, the executive can “make any regulations whatsoever which he may consider desirable in the public interest,” including “censorship, and the control and suppression of publications,” arrests, seizure of property, and restricting movement.

Today we learn that Lam — certainly on orders from Beijing — is withdrawing the extradition bill.

The withdrawal is a sign that protests worked (or at least that Beijing wants to contain them by the appearance of backing down). That may include Lam’s protest. In a leaked tape of a meeting between Lam and Hong Kong business leaders, it appears Lam is a powerless puppet for Beijing, telling business leaders, “For a chief executive to have caused this huge havoc to Hong Kong is unforgivable… If I have a choice, the first thing is to quit, having made a deep apology.” Lam has since denied she ever discussed resigning with Beijing.

Remember, however, which government we’re talking about here. The Chinese government has made abundantly clear its willingness to use all means necessary to restore order and force protesters to comply with its dictates. In a warning issued Sunday through the state-controlled Xinhua News Agency, the communist government declared, “The end is coming for those attempting to disrupt Hong Kong and antagonize China… Anyone who dares to infringe upon these bottom lines and interfere in or damage the ‘one country, two systems’ principle will face nothing but failure… They should never misjudge the determination and ability of the central government … to safeguard the nation’s sovereignty, security, and core interests.”

Does anyone doubt that the government which fired on peaceful protesters and crushed them with tanks would not use deadly force again to secure its power?

In Hong Kong, protesters wave American flags, sing our national anthem, and plead with President Donald Trump to intervene in their behalf. It may be that whatever pressure he applied behind the scenes was successful, given that China backed down on the extradition bill.

Yet the communist Chinese government remains a threat not only to its own people but to all free people. A failure to confront China’s totalitarian brutality now will only lead to more brutality — within its borders and without.  ~The Patriot Post

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The Widening Generation Gap
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Tom McLaughlin
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Mark Levin: Notice How 
Democrats Never Want to “Expand Liberty”
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conservativefreepress.com } ~ On his radio program on Tuesday, legendary conservative talker Mark Levin turned his attention to the Democratic presidential race and some of the most prominent talking points being used by the leading candidates... Discussing the platforms of contenders like Elizabeth dinky-Warren and commie-Bernie Sanders, Levin explained why conservatives would be better off letting these Democrats defend concepts like universal healthcare and reparations for slavery than to attack them head on. The policies, he said, were ridiculous enough to implode on their own. “People don’t support abolishing private health care,” Levin said. “They want prices to come down; they want more options; and only the private sector — really only competition — can provide that. Not a government-run private system, which is kind of what we have today. So the Democrats should be forced to eat their proposals. The Democrats want to run on reparations? Let them run on reparations! But first let them explain it.” Levin said that, if Democrats don’t self-destruct by simply explaining their imbecilic plans to the American public, then allowing them to explain how they intend to pay for it should do the trick. “Now they want a federal wealth tax on your real estate,” Levin said. “Do you know why there’s no federal property tax? Because it’s not in the Constitution. So how’re they going to get federal wealth tax? If you own a private business, you’re now going to have towns and states telling you what your minimum wage is. You’re going to have health care for all that you’re going to have to pay for; it’ll be a monumental cost. You’re going to have to pay for family leave, another monumental cost. “And then on top of that, the federal government’s going to come in and say, ‘Uh, wealth tax,’” Levin continued. “Why is it that the Democrats never think of ways to expand liberty and opportunity and creativity and productivity? Instead, they’re always trying to choke the golden goose. And they think they’ll choke the golden goose and yet the golden goose will continue to lay golden eggs. It doesn’t work that way.” No, it doesn’t, but there is an unfortunate number of voters who seem to think this way. Who think that innovation and excellence will just magically appear from the huddles masses, even if we completely take the profit motive out of the equation. Then again, these same people think that socialism/Communism are still valid ideologies, and that the only problem with them is that they haven’t actually been implemented correctly yet.
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Trump's envoy for Middle East, 
architect of peace plan set to leave post
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By BRETT SAMUELS
thehill.com } ~ President Trump's special envoy to the Middle East and an architect of the administration's long-awaited peace plan for the region is leaving the White House... a senior official confirmed to The Hill on Thursday. Jason Greenblatt will depart the administration in the coming weeks to return to New Jersey, where his wife and six kids reside, the official said. His exit had been discussed at the end of 2018, and the administration began taking steps to transition oversight of the peace plan. Trump's special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, will assume some of the responsibilities of handling the Middle East peace process, according to the administration official. Avi Berkowitz, a top aide to senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, will also play a more prominent role. Trump thanked Greenblatt in a tweet for being "a loyal and great friend and fantastic lawyer." Greenblatt previously worked as an attorney for the Trump Organization. "His dedication to Israel and to seeking peace between Israel and the Palestinians won’t be forgotten," Trump tweeted. "He will be missed. "The New York Times first reported Greenblatt's impending exit from the administration. The move further throws into question the timing and viability of the Trump administration's long-promised Middle East peace plan. Greenblatt and Kushner have taken the lead on negotiations and have met with leaders in the region throughout the past two years...  https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/460082-trumps-envoy-for-middle-east-peace-plan-set-to-leave-post   
Why Republicans Shouldn’t 
Cave To Democrats On Guns 
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By Mark Overstreet
thefederalist.com } ~ It has been said that Republicans are the “party of stupid” and Democrats the party of something worse... In their reaction to Democrats’ demand for gun control several weeks ago, President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared ready to prove the comparison about the GOP. Soon after the multiple-victim murders in Dayton and El Paso—the former by a Democrat and self-described leftist supporter of Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren, the latter allegedly by someone who, for the sake of the environment, theorized “if we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can be more sustainable”—Trump and McConnell said they were considering two elements of Democrats’ decades-old civilian disarmament agenda: “universal” background checks and a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, including those for handguns. If Trump and McConnell, encouraged by Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, who supports susceptible-to-abuse “red flag” gun confiscation laws; Rick Scott, who as governor of Florida signed legislation prohibiting young adults from buying firearms; and Pat Toomey, co-sponsor of a version of “universal” checks, cave to Democrats on guns, they might alienate enough voters to assure that Democrats re-take the White House and Senate, and hold the House of Representatives in the 2020 elections. However, there are more important reasons Republicans should reject Democrats’ demands on guns. By way of background, firearm dealers are required to run a background check on anyone to whom they sell guns. “Universal” checks would impose the same requirement on everyone else...
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Failed Chicago Mayor Blames Republicans 
For Gun Violence, Dana Loesch 
Steps In And Demolishes Her
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By Jon Dougherty
rightwingtribune.com } ~ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) has picked a fight with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over the issue of gun control... but she’s been bested by former NRA spokeswoman and talk show hostess Dana Loesch, who used facts — and Chicago officials — to refute the mayor. The feud comes as Chicago suffered another heavy casualty weekend of shootings, with more than 25 people shot and seven killed — the near-daily equivalent of a mass shooting. “Gun control doesn’t work. Look at Chicago. Disarming law-abiding citizens isn’t the answer. Stopping violent criminals—prosecuting & getting them off the street—BEFORE they commit more violent crimes is the most effective way to reduce murder rates. Let’s protect our citizens,” Cruz tweeted on Labor Day. That drew the ire Lightfoot, who tried to blame her city’s historic gun murder rate on…Republicans. “60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside IL—mostly from states dominated by coward Republicans like you who refuse to enact commonsense gun legislation. Keep our name out of your mouth,” she wrote. She then went onto blame Cruz and Republicans for dismissing “common sense gun policies” — which, apparently, aren’t working in her city with strict gun control laws. Loesch wasn’t having any of it. She counterattacked with local reporting in Chicago to refute Lightfoot’s “facts.” In fact, Loesch noted the biggest flaw in Lightfoot’s argument: It does not matter where guns come from if they wind up in the hands of people who, by law, aren’t supposed to have them... Always a dem governor fails they start pointing towards others.  https://rightwingtribune.com/2019/09/04/failed-chicago-mayor/   
Andrew Yang's 'free money' 
idea in total collapse
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by wnd.com ~ Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang claims that implementing his proposal to provide a universal basic income of $1,000 monthly to every American adult... would lift people out of poverty and create millions of jobs. But it's been tried many times on a smaller scale, noted Breitbart News, and the latest experiment, as with many others, doesn't bode well for the Silicon Valley entrepreneur's grand scheme. The Washington Post reported a nonprofit implemented a plan last November that gave 20 African American single mothers living in public housing $1,000 each month for a year with no strings attached. Fifteen of the women were working at the time. Twelve of the 20 "had reported being so short on cash that they had used an emergency lender in the preceding six months," the Post reported. Kira Johnson, a social worker, asked the women how much money they had saved. One woman said she "blew all of it," and most of the others said the same. The women knew how to make minimum-wage paychecks stretch, Johnson said, but they had little experience with discretionary income. "Then, they asked if we were going to hand them the next check," Johnson said. The Post said that "despite Yang's prediction, the number of women who were in the workforce did not change." Other trials have seen similar results. The province of Ontario, Canada, canceled its three-year universal basic income pilot program last year after just over a year due to the high cost. Finland also ended its universal basic income experiment last year. An analysis found the experiment did little to nothing to assist people in finding jobs and ultimately didn't change their lives. But Yang told "Face the Nation" in an interview in August that if his plan is implemented, Americans "will work even harder when they get the resources in place to actually get ahead." "This is the trickle-up economy from our people, families and communities up,” he said... An example of getting free stuff.  https://www.wnd.com/2019/09/andrew-yangs-free-money-idea-total-collapse/   
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The Widening Generation Gap
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Solid evidence has arrived to confirm what many feared. Despite what has been visibly obvious for the past several years, many held out hope that it really wasn’t so bad, or that it was only temporary and would eventually turn around again. The results of an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll last week dispelled that hope. They were a reality slap and a very painful one at that.
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According to the poll, nearly four out of five Americans aged 55+ consider patriotism a strong value, but only about half as many millennials believe that. Two out of three aged 55+ believe religion/belief in God very important, while fewer than one in three millennials do. Lastly, desire for children is way down too. Most 55+ Americans consider having children very important, but fewer than one in three millennials do. There is a little good news, however. Most of us still value hard work, community involvement, and tolerance for others.  

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The values my generation (I’m 68) considers essential for the continued survival of America as we know it are dying and will soon expire along with us. As conservativeessayist Rod Dreher put it: “Those under 40 don’t believe in God, their country, or having children (which is to say, the future), but they do believe in fulfilling themselves. They have nothing to live for except themselves and their jobs.”  
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While millennials believe in hard work, what about the fruit of their toil? If their money isn’t spent raising a family, what is it for? If it’s not donated to a church, where does it go? Do millennials spend it all on themselves? And why don’t they want children? It’s a question I’ve visited in this space often over the past twenty years. Asking millennials why they eschew raising a family, they cite the high cost of children — a claim for which there is much evidence. Others point to the huge sacrifice of time and energy. Still others want to avoid pregnancy because it can cause stretch marks and sagging breasts.  
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Also released last week was a very insightful book by essayist Mary Eberstadt called Primal Screams, a collection of essays by several authors which attributes the rise of identity politics to many of the trends highlighted in the above-mentioned poll. During an interview with Kathryn Lopez in National Review, Eberstadt claimed that Americans are becoming more tribal as family support diminishes. They identify with others of their race, sex, and sexuality and Eberstadt claims these trends result from the sexual revolution and social upheaval of the ’60s and ’70s.  
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When asked what the connection is, Eberstadt said: “In part, it’s simple arithmetic. Think of all the post-revolutionary phenomena that are quotidian facts of life. Abortion, fatherlessness, divorce, single parenthood, childlessness, the shrinking family, the shrinking extended family: Every one of these developments has the effect of reducing the number of people whom we can call our own. And since we are relational creatures, the result is a great vacuum. That’s a lot of what the increasingly panicked flight to collective identities is about.”  
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As an undergraduate sociology major in the seventies, I recall my left-wing professors still referring to the family as “the basic unit of society.” I doubt sociology departments would countenance that assertion today. Eberstadt points to recent confusion about “gender identity” stemming from the same source. Social upheaval starting in the sixties, she said: “… whittled away at our primary attachments [and] have by now deprived a great many people of traditional answers to the question, ‘Who am I?’ These traditional answers involve our relations to others: I am a sister, mother, aunt, cousin, wife, etc. We define our identities relationally — as the popularity of 23 and Me indicates; as the well-known search for biological relations by children of anonymous sperm donors also affirms. But for a lot of us today, thanks to family vanishing, those fundamental familial building blocks of identity are harder to come by.” 
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They are indeed. Throughout my long teaching career I assigned students to interview someone seventy or older and ask them: Do you think it’s easier for children to grow up today compared to sixty years ago? Elders said it was easier back then because everyone had the same values. Other questions included: How many brothers and sisters did you have? How many children did the average family have when you were growing up? Did you know any couples who got divorced? To that last question, the answer would often be: “No. I didn’t know anyone who was divorced.” I wanted students to understand, first hand, that it didn’t use to be this way.  

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The great unraveling began in the late 20th century and continues at an accelerated pace today. Not only are we unable to answer the question “Who am I?”; we can’t even figure out if we’re male or female — or something else entirely.  
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worthless-Ilhan Omar Protected — for Now — Against Accusations of Campaign 
Finance Law Violations
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U.S. Confirms Cash Offer 
to Tanker Captains to Seize Iranian Vessels
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by Adam Kredo and Stephanie Merrick 
freebeacon.com } ~ The United States offered millions in cash to tanker captains of Iranian vessels in a bid to seize Iranian ships... the State Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.  The Financial Times on Wednesday reported   that the Indian captain of an Iranian tanker suspected of shipping oil to Syria was offered several millions of dollars by Brian Hook, the U.S. representative for Iran and senior policy adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.  The State Department was offering the money to sail the ship to "a country that would impound the vessel on behalf of the U.S." A State Department spokesperson confirmed to the Free Beacon that details in the Financial Times article were accurate.  The offer was made in a bid to disrupt illicit Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps activities, according to the spokesperson."The IRGC-QF is directing near monthly shipments of Iranian petroleum products—each worth tens of millions of dollars—to Syria and elsewhere to fund terrorist and militant activity across the Middle East," the spokesperson told the Free Beacon. The department conducted extensive outreach to several ship captains and shipping companies warning them of the consequences of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions and providing support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to the spokesperson, who added that companies and individuals found to be working with designated persons or entities could be subject to sanctions themselves...
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Islamist-inspired Terrorism Returns to Yemen
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by Con Coughlin
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ As if war-torn Yemen did not have enough violence to contend with at present, the recent spate of terror attacks in its southern port points to the return of Islamist terror groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIL... which are still plying their deadly trade in the country. In the latest wave of terror attacks last month, a suicide bombing in Aden has claimed the lives of three members of Yemen's security forces while, in a separate attack, a senior Yemeni security official survived a roadside bomb attack against his convoy in the centre of the city. Initially Yemeni security officials said the attack had been carried out by al-Qaeda, which has claimed responsibility for a number of recent attacks in government-controlled territory in the south of the country. In early August, for example, an al-Qaeda attack on a military base claimed the lives of 19 Yemeni soldiers. In what is, however, a graphic illustration of the ease with which rival Islamist terror groups are now able to operate in this lawless country, it was ISIL, not al-Qaeda, that eventually claimed responsibility for last weekend's attacks. Al-Qaeda and ISIL have become fierce rivals in recent years, with ISIL the more recent manifestation of militant Islam that was responsible for establishing the so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria. ISIL claims it is a more extreme alternative to al-Qaeda, the original iteration of Islamist-inspired terrorism. Both organisations have a history of taking advantage of the chaos created in failed Muslim states to establish bases from which they can plot attacks against the West and its allies. After the recent setbacks they have suffered -- al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and ISIL in Iraq and Syria -- it is logical that they should turn to Yemen to establish a new foothold...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14818/islamist-terrorism-yemen   
CAP President Slams 
commie-Bernie’s Healthcare Plan
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by Andrew Stiles 
freebeacon.com } ~ Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden and the rest of the corporate-backed, neoliberal establishment wing of the Democratic Party have made no secret... of their trepidation at the prospect of commie-Bernie Sanders winning the party's nomination for president. Tanden, who served as scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's policy director during her failed 2008 presidential  commie-Sanders national press secretary Briahna Joy Gray chimed in to explain differences between commie-Sanders's version of Medicare for All and those offered by other candidates. Tanden responded by trashing the commie-Sanders plan as a massive tax increase that isn't popular among Democratic voters or the general public.  "Every plan has a cost," Tanden wrote on Twitter. "One pays for it in taxes or premiums or copays. Yours has a 4% tax on everyone making $29,000 or more. Medicare for America doesn't tax the middle class. You're right, people have a choice. The choice of Dems/public is to allow people to keep private plans."campaign, sometimes makes a token effort to appear neutral. For example, she recently appeared to express passive-aggressive support for the various Democratic proposals to achieve universal healthcare. Medicare for America is the Democratic establishment's watered-down alternative to commie-Sanders's plan, which would eliminate the private health insurance industry within four years...   https://freebeacon.com/blog/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=bad2277816-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_04_08_15_COPY_236&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-bad2277816-45611665   
Media Mostly Ignores Gov. 
scumbag-Newsom’s Awful New Bill
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By S.Noble
independentsentinel.com } ~ Communistic Democratic Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom of California signed a bill today that’s a direct slap in the face of law enforcement... California is very corrupt, hopelessly so. The bill says it’s okay for able-bodied people over 18-years of age to refuse to assist a police officer if he requests it during an arrest. That sends a terrible message to the youth. You know what, police needn’t help them either. And if there is a call to the governor’s mansion, they should take their time getting there. The Sacramento Bee reported that the old law, the California Posse Comitatus Act of 1872, was common in the country’s early days, but Sen. Bob Hertzberg, a Los Angeles Democrat who sponsored the bill, called the old law a “vestige of a bygone era.” The law was employed to help catch runaway slaves, the report  said. Oh right, it’s racist to help officers, many of whom are Black and Hispanic. That’s nice. California Senate Bill 192 strikes down the nearly 150-year-old piece of legislation requiring that “able-bodied person 18 years of age or older” aid such officers or they could be charged with a misdemeanor, according to The Sacramento Bee. Persons charged with failing to aid a responding officer were also subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000, The Bee reported in February. The Democratic sponsor for the bill, state Sen. Bob Hertzberg of Los Angeles, referred to the original California Posse Comitatus Act of 1872 as a “vestige of a bygone era” that creates “an untenable moral dilemma” for citizens. A moral dilemma to help an officer in distress or in need?... Just think Californians you voted for these scumbag.
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Michigan Gov. Orders 
‘All-out Ban’ on Flavored Vapes
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by Nic Rowan 
freebeacon.com } ~ Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.) on Wednesday made her state the first to institute an "all-out ban" on the sale of flavored vapes... citing a public health crisis.  "This is the emergency authority that I have as governor," Whitmer said on MSNBC's  Morning Joe. "I'm going to work with the legislature to ensure that we've got it written into statute, but we can't wait on Washington, DC. We have to take action right now."  Whitmer began considering the ban after the United States surgeon general declared in 2018 that there is a nationwide epidemic  related to vaping, especially among young people. Whitmer added that earlier this week, her chief medical officer said there is a "public health crisis" in Michigan because of vaping.  "Eighty-one percent of our young kids who start vaping start with a flavoring product, and that's why it's so important we ban this flavored product," Whitmer said. "They market it like it's a healthy alternative that's glamorous, and in fact, our kids are inhaling nicotine, which is addictive, formaldehyde, and other toxic chemicals and metal particles, and they're ending up in the hospital."  Whitmer said that she hopes the Michigan ban will be the first in a nationwide sweep of action against vapes." It would be great if, at the federal level, we know there was a surgeon general warning on all vape products, that they were treated like tobacco, taxed like tobacco," she said. "But none of that is happening, and that's why it's on the states to take action. And as governor, I'm going to do it unilaterally until I can get the legislature to adopt a statute and write it into law."...  https://freebeacon.com/politics/michigan-gov-orders-all-out-ban-on-flavored-vapes/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=bad2277816-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_04_08_15_COPY_236&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-bad2277816-45611665  
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worthless-Ilhan Omar Protected — for Now — Against Accusations of Campaign Finance Law Violations

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Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who is accused of improperly using political campaign funds to reimburse her alleged lover for travel expenses, doesn’t need to worry for now about a complaint filed against her with the Federal Election Commission. Vacancies on the FEC make it impossible for the commission to take any action.

The FEC, where I served as a commissioner over a decade ago, is supposed to act as a government watchdog against election law violations. But unless it has four members, the watchdog is effectively muzzled and chained, helpless to act. Right now there are three members and three vacancies on the commission.

That’s good news for worthless-Omar, who refused Wednesday to answer questions about the allegations filed against her this week by a nonprofit group called the National Legal and Policy Center, which describes itself as “a charitable and educational organization” that seeks to “foster and promote ethics in government and public life.”

Asked by a reporter in Minneapolis why she is refusing to answer questions, worthless-Omar said: “Because they’re stupid questions.” Later in the day the married congresswoman told reporters: “I will just say I have no interest in commenting on anything that you are about to ask about my personal life, so you can chase me all you want.”

The FEC will send worthless-Omar a copy of the complaint filed against her and she will have 15 days to send a response. But the question of whether to open an investigation of the congresswoman — who has been accused by President Trump and others of anti-Semitism and hatred of the Jewish state of Israel — will have to wait until there are four confirmed FEC commissioners. No one knows when that will happen.

With at least four members, the FEC could levy a fine against worthless-Omar if it finds she committed a civil violation of campaign finance law. The commission has the power to determine the amount of such a fine, based on whatever commissioners believe is appropriate.

The complaint filed with the FEC against worthless-Omar alleges that her election campaign paid a consultant — Tim Mynett and his E. Street Group, LLC — $230,000 for fundraising consulting, digital communications, Internet advertising and travel expenses.

However, in a divorce case filed by Tim Mynett’s wife, Beth Mynett, she alleges that her husband told her “he was romantically involved with” worthless-Omar — a claim worthless-Omar denies.

Beth Mynett’s divorce complaint alleges that her husband’s “recent travel and long work hours now appear to be more related to his affair with Rep. worthless-Omar than with his actual work commitments.”

The complaint filed with the FEC points out that the payment of Tim Mynett’s travel expenses started the same month that Mynett reportedly told his wife he was having an extramarital affair with worthless-Omar.

Thus, according to the complaint filed with the FEC, the travel expenses for Tim Mynett made with funds collected as political campaign contributions “may have been unrelated, or only partially related, to worthless-Omar’s campaign” and instead may have been “so that Rep. worthless-Omar would have the benefit of Mynett’s romantic companionship.”

If that is the case, then payments by worthless-Omar to Tim Mynett were “personal in nature” and not related to the campaign, according to the complaint.

If these allegations are true, worthless-Omar may have run afoul of a federal law — specifically, 52 U.S.C. §30114. This law bars the use of campaign funds “to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.”

Examples of what is prohibited for funding with campaign donations include such items as a personal mortgage, clothing purchases, non-campaign-related car expenses, and vacations and other non-campaign-related trips.

In other words, if Mynett’s travel expense were unrelated to his actual work for the campaign but in furtherance of an affair with worthless-Omar, those would be personal expenses. Campaign funds couldn’t be used to pay them.

worthless-Omar’s attorneys have dismissed the complaint filed with the FEC as a “political ploy.” But until the FEC gets another commissioner, neither this complaint nor any others will be investigated by the commission to see if there is actually any substance — and any credibility — to the allegations being made.

So while the complaint against worthless-Omar is making headlines — both because of the nature of the allegations and her prominence as one of four far-left Democratic freshman congresswomen known as the “Squad” — all political candidates are getting a free pass on any complaints filed against them with the FEC as long as the commission has three vacancies.

The resignation of Commissioner Matt Petersen (who replaced me) from the FEC earlier this month left the commission in its current state of paralysis, with three vacancies.

The six FEC commissioners are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. There is a long tradition that whenever a seat held by the political party not in control of the White House opens up, the president asks the leader of that political party in the Senate for his choice to fill the seat.

There are currently two empty Republicans seats and one empty Democratic seat on the commission.

The names of FEC nominees are sent to the Senate in pairs — one Republican and one Democrat.

President Trump nominated a Texas lawyer, Trey Trainor, in 2017 to fill an open Republican seat. But there has been no public report that Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, D-N.Y., has given Trump a nominee for the Democratic seat that has been empty since 2017.

Without a quorum — four commissioners on the six-member FEC — the commission can’t hold meetings, initiate audits, vote on enforcement matters, issue advisory opinions, or engage in rulemaking.

As a result, as the 2020 presidential election cycle heats up, the FEC remains unable to carry out the most important duties it was created to perform.

The FEC regulates all of the contributions and expenditures of federal candidates for the presidency and Congress. When it has at least four members, the commission is empowered to go after candidates, political parties, political action committees and others who violate the law, imposing civil penalties consisting of fines.

The vast majority of campaign finance violations are civil matters because they are usually inadvertent violations of the law. The Federal Election Campaign Act is byzantine in its complexity and often ambiguous. Even the commissioners sometime disagree on the proper interpretation and application of the law.

The U.S. Justice Department retains jurisdiction over criminal campaign finance violations, which are “knowing and willful” violations of the law. However, criminal prosecutions are very rare.

As an example, missing the deadline for filing a required campaign finance report on contributions received by a candidate is a civil violation, while knowingly spending campaign funds on personal expenses unrelated to a campaign would be a criminal violation.

That’s why former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., D-Ill., went to jail in 2013. He pleaded guilty to spending $750,000 in campaign funds on everything from personal travel and restaurant expenses to a Rolex watch, fur coats for his wife, and memorabilia from Bruce Lee, Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix, along with mounted elk heads for his office.

Right now the ball is in Sen. scumbag-Schumer’s court to nominate a Democratic FEC commissioner, and for the Senate to then confirm a Democrat and a Republican to the commission. Until that happens, worthless-Ilhan Omar has nothing to worry about from the FEC.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65208?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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   Unequal Justice
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Where is Huma Abedin’s Laptop?
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by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ An August 2018 release from the FBI Vault on the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation revealed the Anthony Weiner/Huma Abedin laptop containing scumbag/liar-Clinton emails (350,000)... and Blackberry communications (344,000) was never reviewed for intrusion prior to the 2016 election. Does anyone at the DOJ/FBI even care about this issue any longer? … or was the can-kicking operation successful?From the Boston Marathon bombing investigation through the San Bernardino terrorist attack; passing the Garland, Texas cartoon terror shooting; and continuing through Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub; and then through the Parkland shooting and into Las Vegas -via the Mandalay Bay- we always knew something was wrong with the apparatus, the institutional apparatus, of the FBI… but it wasn’t until 2017 with scumbag-James Comey, Andrew McCabe and the transparently corrupt scumbag/liar-Clinton exoneration and candidate Trump set-up scheme that we fully grasped the scale and scope of the corruption. It is disconcerting to accept that the institution of the FBI is corrupt, soup-to-nuts, including every aforementioned field office and participant therein. But reality doesn’t care about our feelings; it just stares us in the face – until we accept it. Talking heads always approach the FBI issues with a co-dependent and enabling qualifier: “we’re not talking about the field agents”, they say. Um, no; that’s nonsense. If the institution is corrupt, then every entity within it is corrupt – until such time as the corruption is removed...
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House Democrats subpoena Homeland 
Security over Trump’s alleged 'pardon dangling'
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by Susan Ferrechio
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Democrats announced Wednesday the committee has issued a subpoena to acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan related to President Trump’s alleged promise to pardon him for actions taken... to reduce the illegal immigrant surge along the southern border. “The dangling of pardons by the President to encourage government officials to violate federal law would constitute another reported example of the President’s disregard for the rule of law,” Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler said in a statement. The New York Democrat said the pardon investigation would be added to an overall impeachment inquiry he claims to be conducting, although the House has not voted to authorize an impeachment inquiry. The subpoena orders McAleenan to testify before the Judiciary Committee and to produce documents and materials related to the matter. scumbag liar-Nadler is seeking in particular all documents related to two meetings between McAleenan and President Trump on March 21 and April 5. Trump, according to scumbag liar-Nadler, citing media reports, “reportedly discussed” pardoning McAleenan if he proceeded with building a southern border wall despite legal obstacles, or taking action to block illegal immigration by claiming to judges there wasn’t enough capacity to allow them into the country. Ordering government personnel to violate the law is arguably a violation of the Constitution’s Take Care clause, while offering a pardon to encourage an officer of the U.S. government to undertake an illegal action appears on its face to be an unconstitutional abuse of power,” scumbag liar-Nadler explained in a memo provided to the media. According to White House aides, Trump was joking when he offered to pardon McAleenan... House Judiciary Committee Democrats all they do is go after Trump and not govern.
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Fox Bans Jeanine Pirro From Newsmax TV
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By Bill Hoffmann 
newsmax.com } ~ Fox News star Jeanine Pirro says her network has blocked her from appearing on Newsmax TV, America’s fastest-growing cable news channel... Pirro revealed her frustration with Fox News as she chatted Tuesday with Seb Gorka on the former White House aide’s national Salem Radio Network show. Apparently unaware her mic was on during a commercial break, Pirro bitterly complained about the constraints placed on her by Fox, which in recent years has been embroiled in harassment and ethics scandals. “Fox reviews everything. They’re unbelievable,” Pirro told Gorka. “They’re still saying you cannot do Bill O’Reilly, you cannot do Newsmax.” O’Reilly — once Fox News’s number one top-rated host — is now seen regularly on Newsmax TV, which also airs his provocative weekend show, “No Spin News.” Pirro’s slam of Fox suggests the powerful network is increasingly worried about Newsmax TV’s growing influence.  Newsmax, founded in 1998 as a digital media company, recently launched Newsmax TV, a linear cable channel that is carried in more than 70 million U.S. cable homes, rivalling Fox’s reach. Newsmax has signed with all major cable operators including Directv, Dish, Xfinity, Spectrum, Fios, Optimum, U-verse, and several dozen others. But she’s on such a tight leash at Fox, she says she’s not even allowed to go on other conservative outlets – including Newsmax – to promote her book. Almost all networks allow their talent to appear on competing networks when promoting a book. Pirro has been at loggerheads with her bosses over the years, but the rifts have boiled to a head in 2019...  https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pirro-fox-news-ban-newsmax-tv/2019/09/04/id/931173/  
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A Shameless Lying MSNBC 
Hack is the Face of the Media
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by Daniel Greenfield
frontpagemag.com } ~ At the end of July, MSNBC’s biggest and dullest conspiracy theorist got some very bad news. After over a year of booming ratings, The Rachel Maddow Show’s viewership had crashed... It had been a long road for Maddow, the former blonde Catholic high school girl who had decided she wanted to be a media personality and ended up with an MSNBC show through the efforts of Keith Olbermann. And after Keith was gone, MSNBC had to settle for a slightly less effeminate version of Olbermann. Maddow had retained the key elements of Olbermann’s personality, the unhinged conspiracy theories, histrionic delivery, the dark hair and even the fashionably ugly boxy black glasses. The former blonde not only looked and sounded like Olbermann, but she had learned to hit the same buttons in her audience. One man had made her MSNBC career possible and another moved her show into the top cable spot. That man was Robert Mueller. There was no Russian conspiracy theory too bizarre or insane to earn a rant from Rachel. Going where few dared go, Maddow began insisting that Russia was conducting a “continuing operation” and might even be in control of the White House and the entire country now. And then the Mueller Report and later, Mueller’s testimony, destroyed all of Maddow’s conspiracies. At the height of her Russian conspiracy theories in which she connected everyone and their uncle to Moscow, Maddow had could boast 4 million viewers while claiming to be the top cable news show. In July, she had fallen to fifth place without even 2.5 million viewers to scrape together for her rants. If the viewers kept abandoning her, Apple, Bank of America, Mercedes and other advertisers would too...
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HPSCI Member Devin Nunes Files Lawsuit
Against Fusion-GPS Claiming Racketeering
and Conspiracy
by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes appears on Fox News with the Tick-Tock club to discuss a lawsuit he has filed against Fusion GPS... The Nunes lawsuit alleges Fusion GPS participated in racketeering and conspiracy smear campaign Nunes and the House Intelligence Committee; in an attempt to impede the committee investigation of coordination between the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS and the FBI.  According to the Tick-Tock club everyone must work together with Senator Lindsey Graham because the “Deep State” will attempt to obfuscate, hide information, block oversight and impede any effort to highlight damaging institutional information. In essence what they are saying is that U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr is incapable of releasing the information. CTH does not agree. AG Barr is capable, he’s just not delivering; quit defending his inaction. Stop the nonsense...
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Unequal Justice

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One doesn’t have to be a cynic to be cynical about the Justice Department’s decision not to hold former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey accountable for what an Inspector General report called his violation of FBI policies and his setting a “dangerous example” in order to “achieve a personally desired outcome.”

This pretty much characterizes many of the president’s critics, who fully expected scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election and have become seemingly deranged in their responses ever since.

scumbag-Comey reportedly broke several rules for which he will not be prosecuted. He took home memos detailing private meetings he had with the president and then disclosed their contents to a friend who he believed would leak them to The New York Times. His motivation was to make sure a Special Counsel would be appointed to investigate alleged “collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign.

The Justice Department decided not to prosecute scumbag-Comey, citing a lack of evidence that he “knew and intended to violate laws on handling classified information.” As FBI director, how could he not know of these things? Of course he had to know. If you think this mirrors scumbag-Comey’s explanation of why scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton would not be held legally accountable for her mishandling of classified information, you would be right. At the time, scumbag-Comey said scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton did not “intend to break the law.”

Is this the new standard? If it is, the prisons should be emptied because I’m sure every inmate would then claim he or she didn’t intend to break the law and therefore should be released.

The Inspector General noted: “By not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his FBI employment, and by using it to create public pressure for official action, scumbag-Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employee, and the many thousands more former FBI employees, who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.”

Taking to Twitter, scumbag-Comey claimed the IG report vindicates him. That dissembling is reminiscent of some of scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton’s lies and scumbag/liar-Hillary’s, too.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee issued a statement: “(scumbag-Comey’s) actions were disgraceful and part of a wider effort within the scumbag/liar-nObama Justice Department to undermine President Trump.” Who can credibly deny that, though many partisans will.

This isn’t over and scumbag-Comey’s actions may yet be used as part of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s continuing investigation (expected to be concluded sometime this month) into whether false information was used to secure a FISA surveillance warrant on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser. As The Washington Post reported, “That surveillance was based on the FBI’s suspicions that Page could be an agent of the Russian government. Page, who was never charged with a crime, has denied the accusation and accused the FBI of politically motivated surveillance that violated his civil liberties.”

The motivations behind scumbag-Comey’s actions and those in the media who fanned the flames of collusion are now being revealed and should not come as a surprise. If the FISA warrant is shown to have been based on wrong information and the federal judge who issued it is shown to have been lied to, will the liars be prosecuted? They should be, but in the scumbag-Comey-scumbag/liar-Clinton “no intention of breaking the law” era, I’m not betting on it.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65189?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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    Montana Judge Hammers Convicts 
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


TERROR WATCH LIST TAKES A BLOW: “The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as ‘known or suspected terrorists’ violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday,” according to The Washington Times. “The ruling from U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga grants summary judgment to nearly two dozen Muslim U.S. citizens who had challenged the watchlist with the help of a Muslim civil-rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. But the judge is seeking additional legal briefs before deciding what remedy to impose.” Ironically, while terrorists are being pacified, San Francisco is designating lawful Americans as terrorists.

CAROLINAS BATTERED: The Weather Channel reports, “Hurricane Dorian is now unleashing its siege of storm surge flooding, rainfall flooding, high winds and tornadoes as it tracks near the coasts of South Carolina, North Carolina and southeast Virginia through Friday. Dorian’s maximum sustained winds increased to the 115-mph threshold required to regain Category 3 status. Despite that, its damaging impacts are likely to remain the same as it hammers this part of the Southeast coast.” Meanwhile, at least 20 deaths are being attributed to Dorian in the Bahamas.

CLIMATE BLUSTER: “Top Democratic presidential contenders talked tough Wednesday on cutting climate-damaging emissions from oil, gas and coal, turning their focus to global warming in a marathon evening of town halls that gave the candidates a chance to distinguish themselves on a topic of growing importance to their party’s liberal base,” the Associated Press reports. The only thing you really need to know is that the forum was long in length and short on facts.

Business & Technology


TRADE TALKS CONTINUE: “The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced Wednesday that the next round of trade talks with the U.S. will begin in October in Washington, D.C. ‘Both sides agreed that they should work together and take practical actions to create good conditions for consultations,’ the ministry announced.” (Washington Examiner)

BE EVIL: “Google agreed Wednesday to pay a $170 million fine to settled claims that its subsidiary, YouTube, violated children’s privacy by illegally gathering their personal information and selling it to advertisers without their consent or that of their parents. The fine, which is the largest civil penalty ever leveled for a such a privacy violation, was part of a settlement reached by the Federal Trade Commission and New York’s attorney general in response to Google’s violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).” (National Review)

CVS-AETNA MERGER APPROVED: “A federal judge reviewing a Justice Department decision to allow U.S. pharmacy chain and benefits manager CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) to merge with health insurer Aetna said on Wednesday that the agreement was in fact legal under antitrust law.” (Reuters)

Culture


THE SMOKING GUN? “The preliminary hearing for undercover journalist David Daleiden began Tuesday in California with Planned Parenthood admitting that it harvested aborted babies’ body parts and supplied them to human tissue procurement companies, according to the Center for Medical Progress. Daleiden and Sandra Merritt face 15 felony charges for invasion of privacy because they exposed the abortion chain’s gruesome baby body parts trade. Tuesday began a nine-day preliminary hearing about whether the case should go to trial.” (LifeNews.com)

AND NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON: According to The Daily Signal, “A city council in Texas has voted to stop renting out space at the local library to public organizations, essentially canceling the town’s ability to have a ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ for children, a move hailed by pro-family advocates. ‘These are people who are actually employed at adult nightclubs,’ Mary Elizabeth Castle, a policy adviser for Texas Values, a nonprofit organization that promotes faith, family, and freedom, said of the drag queens.” Unfortunately, for many children already exposed, the damage is already done.

Other Notables


LABOR AIDE REINSTATED: “The Department of Labor reinstated a political appointee Wednesday night who resigned under pressure after a Bloomberg Law reporter accused him of anti-Semitism for a Facebook post in which he was actually condemning anti-Semites in the alt-right,” The Daily Caller reveals. This is what happens in a trigger-happy society.

BREXIT HOOPLA CONTINUES: “In a major defeat for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the British House of Commons on Wednesday passed a bill designed to prevent a so-called no-deal Brexit as the country’s October 31 deadline for leaving the European Union draws near,” National Review reports. “Members of Parliament voted 327 to 299 in favor of a bill that would force Johnson to ask the EU for a three-month extension of the October 31 deadline if the two sides can’t reach a deal outlining the terms of future relations and mitigating the economic disruption Brexit is expected to cause by October 19.” The Daily Signal presents the implications and the way forward.

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Medicare reform can no longer be ignored: Warnings from the 2019 Medicare trustees report (American Enterprise Institute)

POLICY: Why the China trade war is justified (The Hill)

HUMOR: U.S. Treasury honors commie-Ocasio-Cortez with new “zero cents” commie-AOC coin (Genesius Times)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65283?mailing_id=4513&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4513&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
GOP Judiciary member predicts Horowitz 
FISA report will lead to indictments
by Jerry Dunleavy
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation into alleged abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the DOJ and FBI will result in indictments... a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee said Sunday. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona made the prediction on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures, discussing Horowitz’s report last week FBI Director scumbag-James Comey’s mishandling and leaking of memos on conversations he’d had with President Trump to spur the appointment of a special counsel. Biggs accused scumbag-Comey of “dodging and weaving” in the wake of the revelations, and said Horowitz’s next report on FISA abuse would be even more devastating. “I anticipate that we will see some very stark revelations of manipulation of the whole system for political purposes,” Biggs said. “When you see that happen, that's when I think you're going to see references or referrals for indictments, and I think you are going to see some indictments.” The DOJ and FBI made extensive use of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s unverified dossier in FISA filings targeting Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Steele put together his dossier in 2016 at the behest of the scumbag/liar-Clinton-funded opposition research firm Fusion GPS. The congressman anticipated the FISA report will be released “probably mid-September.” And the Arizona lawmaker pointed to the ongoing investigation by Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. “I think you are going to see some accountability there,” Biggs said.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-judiciary-member-predicts-horowitz-fisa-report-lead-to-indictments?fbclid=IwAR2ycKSf3eqEmrHnkOcSDSy1g5GQuV8KRQPdXBWMfE8Rno0FD1ZTvSw8Dm0  
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Impeachment sumbag liar-Nadler Suffers 
Devastating Defeat – His Summer 
Insurgency Against Trump Just Fizzled
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By Adam Casalino
gopdailybrief.com } ~ “Fat scumbag liar-Jerry” thought he had Donald pinned – but his day just got ruined! With the Mueller report and testimony in our rearview mirrors... it doesn’t look likely that the Democrats have a path to impeachment. But somehow, that’s not stopping them! scumbag liar-Nadler hoped to file articles of impeachment in September against Trump, so they started to rally the Democrat troops who went home for their August vacation. Now that fall approaches, let’s see how successful they were…“Impeachment August” is officially over, but with progressive groups reaching few of the goals they hoped to reach towards the impeachment of President Trump…Only one Democrat from a district rated a “toss up” by the Cook Political Report came out in favor of impeachment…Other vulnerable Democrats managed to avoid coming out for impeachment, which is unpopular with the majority of Americans. LOL! Wow. A collection of twelve progressive groups pushed to convince lawmakers over August to back impeaching Donald Trump. After all that blood, sweat, and tears, only one Democrat came out in favor of impeachment. Ouch, that’s pretty pathetic...
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Rhode Island’s lingering lead problem
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by Julia Rock
muckrock.com } ~ Of kindergarteners entering school in Rhode Island this fall, nearly seven percent have tested positive for blood lead levels sufficient to trigger a public health response... according to data collected by the Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH). In the City of Providence, that estimate is closer to 10 percent. These data put Rhode Island at twice the national average for rates of lead poisoning, but both officials at the DOH and advocates at community organizations believe that the numbers are marked progress over previous testing levels. In 2001, an estimated 55 percent of new Rhode Island kindergartners tested positive for dangerous levels of blood lead. Though there is no known safe level of lead in the blood, the CDC has established 5 micrograms per deciliter as the reference level for public health actions to be initiated. Flint and Newark have made national headlines for delivering lead-poisoned water to their residents. However, in Rhode Island, state officials and local advocates have been quietly struggling to fight a different, yet similarly dangerous, source of lead poisoning for nearly half a century. Industrial byproducts and Rhode Island’s old and crumbling housing stock have created a physical environment in which the state’s children have been ingesting toxins for decades. While the problem of lead poisoning is built into Rhode Island’s infrastructure, its lingering effects have been unevenly distributed, said Laura Brion, executive director of the Childhood Lead Action Project, a community organization formed in 1992 to eliminate lead poisoning in the state...  https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/aug/30/Rhode-Island-Lingering-Lead-Problem/   
China Makes Startling Trump Admission – Jumps 
On Donald’s MAGA Train, Says America 
Is The World’s Only Superpower
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By Adam Casalino
gopdailybrief.com } ~ President Trump—unlike some presidents before him—is truly putting America first.  We’ve seen the results... Unemployment is at record lows. Wages are rising. And Americans are thriving. It wasn’t easy doing this. Trump had to make some hard, and very unpopular, choices. One of those was hitting China with tariffs. Experts claimed this would damage our economy and our relationship with the communist country. They fear this “trade war” will lead to our ruin. Not exactly. Now China is suing the United States over Trump’s unbending staff. But even while trying to undermine us, they one powerful confession slipped out. “As the world’s only superpower, it needs to shoulder its due responsibility, and join other countries in making this world a better and more prosperous place. Only then can America become great again,” Xinhua added. Woah. China is saying America is the “world’s only superpower.” They might have used that phrase to guilt us into bending to their demands. But the unintentionally admitted the truth. The United States is the world leader in freedom, opportunity, and success. After all, people haven’t been emigrating to China over the last 100 years, have they?...
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DOJ Busts 35 in Drug Conspiracy
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freebeacon.com } ~ The Department of Justice indicted 35 drug traffickers who collectively participated in a conspiracy to sell tons of highly potent drugs in eastern Virginia... Over a three-day period, 120 law enforcement officers representing 30 agencies conducted a mass arrest of alleged conspirators responsible for a massive drug ring. Authorities seized 24 firearms, 30 kilograms of heroin, five kilograms of cocaine, $700,000 in cash, and 30 kilograms of fentanyl—the powerful opioid responsible for the surging number of overdose deaths in recent years. The fentanyl seized in the raid is enough to kill more than 14 million people—roughly the population of New York City, Los Angeles, and Houston combined—according to the Department of Justice. "This operation, through its seizure of scores of kilograms of illicit narcotics, saved lives in the Eastern District and elsewhere," G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said in a statement. "Any day where we can do that is particularly meaningful and impactful." The large-scale trafficking ring began in March of 2016, according to the indictment. Its participants purchased and received narcotics from suppliers in California, New York, and even Mexico. They allegedly had illicit cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine base shipped to Virginia in privately owned vehicles, concealed using "hidden traps." The ring met in businesses throughout Virginia, including in Newport News, Hampton Roads, and Richmond. Over the course of the three-year operation, the 35 individuals charged in the indictment engaged in armed distribution of drugs—a separate felony offense. The alleged conspiracy relied on modern communication technology to evade detection by the authorities. According to DOJ, conspirators used Facebook, FaceTime, and WhatsApp, taking advantage of encrypted software to conduct day-to-day transactions. They additionally relied on pre-paid, anonymous cellphones, which they would change frequently to cover their tracks...
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Montana Judge Hammers Convicts 
for Stolen Valor
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Political Editors:  A district judge in Montana recently meted out sentences to two men who were convicted on a number of charges, including for having claimed veteran status while neither had ever served. For these stolen valor convictions Judge Greg Pinski got creative in sentencing Troy Nelson and Ryan Morris. 
 
As Time magazine reports, “Pinski ordered that Nelson and Morris must:
 
  • Handwrite the names of the 6,756 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq

  • Handwrite the obituaries of the 40 Montanans who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

  • Serve 441 hours of community service

  • Write letters of apology to multiple veteran organizations

  • Attend the Montana Veterans Memorial on Memorial Day and Veterans Day every year during the suspended portions of their sentences for 8 hours wearing a placard that reads "I am a Liar. I am not a veteran. I stole valor. I have dishonored veterans.”

Judge Pinski explained his sentencing, stating, “I want to make sure that my message is received loud and clear by these two defendants. You’ve been nothing but disrespectful in your conduct. You certainly have not respected the Army. You’ve not respected the veterans. You’ve not respected the court. And you haven’t respected yourselves.”

The Times further notes, “In 2016 Morris claimed to have completed seven combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Morris told the courts he suffered from PTSD and had to have his hip replaced after being injured by an IED, AP reports. Nelson had managed to enroll in the veterans court program before it was discovered he was not a veteran.”

The two men were also convicted of felony drug possession and will serve time in prison as well. After serving their prison sentences Nelson and Morris will be required to complete Pinski’s sentencing requirements before being considered for parole. How fitting.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65207?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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 Conservatives Can Win or Whine, but Not Both
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Robin Smith   
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The Gaffable loose lips liar-Joe Biden
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by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR.
spectator.org } ~ Recently in Hanover, New Hampshire, former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden — the gaffable loose lips liar-Joe Biden — stitched together a stupendous concatenation of gaffes that ought to put him out of the race for the Democratic nomination... But apparently it will not. This is good news for those of us who like a good laugh or a whole string of good laughs. If loose lips liar-Joe makes it to the Democratic nomination after surpassing socialist-Beto, dinky-Pocahontas, Crazy commie-Bernie, and all the others, the 2020 election will be the most entertaining in American history, and then President Donald Trump can get back to ministering to the economy, the courts, and affairs of state. Yet, first savor loose lips liar-Joe’s Hanover masterpiece. It apparently will be the first of many. The mainstream media is urging him on. In Hanover loose lips liar-Biden said that at the request of a four-star general he, when he was vice president, had traveled to Kunar, a dangerous province in Afghanistan, to pin a medal on the chest of a heroic Navy captain. The Navy captain, loose lips liar-Biden recalled, had rappelled down a ravine under enemy fire and brought out the body of an American serviceman. The general wanted the vice president to fly to the dangerous province and pin a Silver Star on the captain, despite the captain’s complaint that he was unworthy of the award. loose lips liar-Biden even summoned up the hero’s words from memory’s well: “Sir, I don’t want the damn thing…. He the captain’s fallen comrade died. He died.” And loose lips liar-Biden added to the agog New Hampshire audience, “This is the God’s truth.” According to the Washington Post, he even swore, “My word as a loose lips liar-Biden.” It was apparently a very emotional moment. The problem is that, as the Washington Post found out, practically every detail in loose lips liar-Biden’s histrionic rendition of the event was wrong. loose lips liar-Biden visited Kunar province as a U.S. senator, not as vice president. The soldier who performed the act of heroism was a 20-year-old Army specialist, not a captain in the Navy. Finally, the soldier, Kyle J. White, never had a medal pinned on him by loose lips liar-Biden. He got his award six years later from President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, and, oh yes, it was a Congressional Medal of Honor, not a Silver Star. Congratulations, Kyle, but remember you only have earned one more Congressional Medal of Honor than loose lips liar-Joe. As the Post reports, “In the space of three minutes, loose lips liar-Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.” As I have mentioned above, this gaffe is truly stupendous. It goes even beyond Senator Elizabeth dinky-Warren’s repeated tales of being an American Indian or of any of the other phonies seeking the Democratic nomination. It is a world record, if world records for such BS are kept. And now we are told the press is encouraging further theatrics from him... loose lips liar should quit while he's ahead.  https://spectator.org/the-gaffable-joe-biden/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=2e7a083b21-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_04_02_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-2e7a083b21-104608113    
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Criminologists Mislead Us
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by Walter E. Williams
dailysignal.com } ~ John Paul Wright, professor at University of Cincinnati, and Matthew DeLisi, professor at Iowa State University, have penned a powerful article titled “What Criminologists Don’t Say, and Why,” in City Journal, Summer 2017. There is significant bias among criminologists... The reason for that bias is that political leanings of academic criminologists are liberal. Liberal criminologists outnumber their conservative counterparts by a ratio of 30-to-1. Ideology almost perfectly predicts the position of criminologists on issues from gun control to capital punishment to harsh sentencing. Liberal criminologists march in step for gun control, oppose punitive prison sentences, and are vehemently against the death penalty. In 2012, the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a study on the growth of incarceration. It showed that from 1928 until 1960, crime rates rose slowly each year. After the 1960s, crime rates exploded to unprecedented levels of violence until the 1990s. Prior to 1980, only 40% of individuals arrested for murder were sentenced to prison and those that were served an average of five years. In 1981, less than 10% of those arrested for sexual assault were sentenced to prison. Those who were sentenced served an average of 3.4 years. Liberal criminologists probably believe that light sentencing for murderers and rapists is just. If criminologists have the guts to even talk about a race-crime connection, it’s behind closed doors and in guarded language. Any discussion about race and crime sets one up for accusations of racism and that can mean the destruction of one’s professional career. Wright and DeLisi say that liberal criminologists avoid discussing even explicit racist examples of black-on-white crime such as flash-mob assaults, “polar bear hunting,” and the “knockout game.” These are cases where black youth seek out white people to physically attack...
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Red Flag Laws Are Lethal Leftist Weapons
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by MARK SMITH
spectator.org } ~ A real gun fight is underway in America today, and it doesn’t target criminals or gang members who possess guns. It’s a fight waged against law-abiding citizens... and their right to own and use firearms of their choice for self-defense or other lawful purposes. Red flag laws are a classic example of how the anti-gun lobby wants to choke off the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. These laws slowly erode our rights by creating a judicial mechanism that allows law enforcement to come to a gun owner’s home and seize lawfully owned firearms, based on mere accusations about the gun owner’s mental health or his potential dangerous future behavior. It’s fairly obvious that violent convicted felons and people who are seriously mentally ill with violent tendencies should never have firearms. Yet people like this are turned loose by prisons and jails every day to wreak havoc on our streets, with or without guns. In spite of this reality, “progressives” want the law-abiding citizens disarmed. They want ordinary Americans to depend on government to protect our lives — that’s the same government that can’t keep Jeffrey Epstein alive while locked up in a 10-by-10-foot cell. Red flag laws attack the liberties of American gun owners, one person at a time. Not a fan of your firearm-owning ex-spouse, sister-in-law, or neighbor? All you need do is fabricate an accusation that she is a danger to herself or others. All it will take is one person who holds a grudge and is willing to make a phone call articulating a credible story. Red flag laws empower agenda-driven psychologists, police, politicians, and attorneys to move quickly against gun owners with court orders to seize firearms with virtually no due process for those accused. If such laws keep getting passed, gun confiscation could happen to anyone. Red flag laws place law-abiding gun owners at the mercy of social justice “do-gooders” and timid judges who will rubber-stamp confiscation orders simply because an accuser’s allegations meet the “straight face” test. Don’t kid yourself with rhetoric about and delusions of “due process.” All the presumptions built into the court system will weigh against a gun owner in favor of confiscation. Many proposed red flag laws view having an interest in firearms or having recently purchased firearms as a risk factor in favor of taking away firearms...  https://spectator.org/red-flag-laws-are-lethal-leftist-weapons/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=2e7a083b21-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_04_02_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-2e7a083b21-104608113  
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Human Smuggler Seen Doing SICK Act: 
Border Patrol Saves Kids
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by Dean Garrison
lidblog.com } ~ The border patrol gets very little appreciation for the job they do, even when they save kids’ lives, which happens often... While they get clobbered by liberals for any perceived mistakes they make, the good never gets reported by the liberal-controlled media. Here’s the latest example of heroic border patrol agents from our friends at Next News Network: Once again, Border Patrol Agents save the day and do it without thanks or glory. So I will say it. Thank You! The media and radical Democrats seem to attack our Border Patrol agents every chance they get. What they don’t show you are the incredible feats of good they do to save lives. A new surveillance video of the US-Mexican border revealed the harrowing moment US Border Patrol Agents saved 2 illegal immigrants from drowning. The video captured this last Saturday shows a human trafficker trying to sneak the illegal immigrants around the border wall by water. When he notices the border patrol is coming, he throws them both into the river and speeds away. Luckily for the two illegal immigrants, Border Patrol agents showed up and quickly pulled them out of the water...  https://lidblog.com/border-patrol-saves-kids/  
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Leader of Hong Kong withdraws 
extradition bill that sparked mass protests
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by Zachary Halaschak
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The leader of Hong Kong announced that she is withdrawing an extradition bill that has sparked mass protests across the area... Leader Carrie Lam, 62, made the announcement Wednesday. A full withdrawal from the bill, which would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be extradited to mainland China, was one of the main demands that demonstrators had. She had previously suspended the bill in July, although protests continued in the streets. Lam said in a public announcement Wednesday that although the government had responded to protesters’ demands, it “may not be able to address all the grievances of people in society.” She spoke about putting dialogue before violence. “The government will formally withdraw the bill in order to fully allay public concerns. The Secretary for Security will move a motion according to the Rules of Procedure when the Legislative Council resumes,” Lam said, according to CNBC. “Our foremost priority now is to end violence, to safeguard the rule of law and to restore order and safety in society. As such, the government has to strictly enforce the law against all violent and illegal acts,” she added. In addition to withdrawing the bill, Lam said there would be “direct dialogue” with people in the special administrative region and the appointment of two new members to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Stocks in Hong Kong rallied upon the news, with the Hang Seng index gaining more than 4% value.
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Conservatives Can Win or Whine, but Not Both
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Robin Smith:  During his presidential run, Donald Trump promised that America would soon be back to winning — in stark contrast to bowing to the interests of other nations in trade, tax policy, military engagements, and diplomacy. Trump declared in May 2016, “We are gonna win, win, win. … We’re going to win at everything. And some of you are friends and you’re going to call, and you’re going to say, ‘Mr. President, please, we can’t take it anymore. We can’t win anymore like this, Mr. President. You’re driving us crazy. You’re winning too much.’ … And I’m going to say, ‘I’m sorry, we’re going to keep winning because we are going to make America great again.’”

Well, America is winning again. One of the ways is with jobs. In particular, unemployment for blacks is down to 6.2%, narrowing the gap between Caucasian unemployment from 4.6 percentage points down to 2.9. There are one million more blacks in the workforce and two million more Hispanics than during the Barack scumbag/liar-nObama years. Wage growth is up to a 2.8% annual increase versus the 1.9% of what the media touted as scumbag/liar-nObama’s big economy.

The 2020 election cycle will be one of the most expensive if not the most expensive in American history. With the incumbent president making policy changes that have inarguably improved the economy for Americans, the edge nationally goes to the GOP. However, the ire of those who absolutely despise President Trump (and any who cheer his policies) serves as an artisan well of endless fury that intensifies the commitment of the Democrats.

Winning aside, there’s also whining to contend with. The recent response by a Republican group to a very predictable action of a university leftist faculty expressing such anger offers a moment for all to be a bit reflective on how best to move through the election cycle ahead.

The vice chancellor for student affairs at North Carolina State University recently resigned his post (though he “remains on faculty”) following his social-media posts comparing the College Republicans on campus to the KKK while declaring them to be “neo-Nazis” and “alt-right crazies.” His Twitter account has been replaced by a private account with no trace of his Democrat-approved labels that reveal he too suffers the contagion of Trump Derangement Syndrome that is at epidemic proportions on the Left these days.

His social-media feed didn’t just recently have such posts. Back in November 2018, this same NC State faculty referenced three visitors to campus as “rednecks.” I suppose someone forgot to tell this guy he happens to be vice chancellor to allstudents, not just the disgruntled and downtrodden who virtue signal their moral greatness in tolerance while, interestingly, are grossly intolerant of all who disagree with them.

This academic administrator personified, in his own words, the fact that Democrats instantly label all who disagree with them as racists, bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, and misogynists. They demand uniformity and an apology to come with a safe space to follow. Give the former vice chancellor credit where credit’s due. At least he didn’t hide behind the ultimate demonstration of cowardice by posting on an anonymous Twitter account that hurls insults and criticisms behind the Twitter-is-for-Trolls notion.

The letter issued by the board of the NC State College Republicans serves to inform us all.

It’s reasonable to expect a faculty charged with the duty to lead all students to do just that — lead all students. Clearly, the man has a consistent record of showing his disdain for many walking on the campus entrusted by parents to provide an environment of higher learning based on their political leanings. If his job was chairman of the College Democrats or of the NC State Socialists, his words would be in context. But his public posts provide a couple of snapshots into his undeniable bias.

While his resignation is best, the College Republicans don’t need to mirror the same whining approach taken by their political rivals. Specifically, deeming criticisms as “unsafe” is a bit much when the CRs noted correctly that the administrator’s “comments have affixed Republican students to society’s most egregious and reprehensible groups.” Had their composition ended there, accuracy would have been achieved. But moving to the narrative more characteristic of the entitled was not ideal.

Even more so, adding that the former chancellor used “hurtful rhetoric” and that, “Since 1951, College Republicans at NC State have advocated strongly for respectful dialogue and inclusiveness in the political process.” Um, no!

Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University, rightly wrote, “Progressives love to call for more dialogue, which usually means, ‘Let’s talk until you agree with me,’ and their inclusiveness is really a form of coercion.” On the Center-Right, parroting the same social-justice script seems to validate an emotion-laden mindset that negates the intellect.

Whether in the 2020 election cycle or in any discussion of issues, Americans need to see that some whine in hopes to appeal to voters’ emotions while others offer a reasoned and principled basis to lead our nation to more winning.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65206?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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 Hollywood Leftists Blacklist Conservatives
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Harold Hutchison   
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Investigation: Anti- ICE “Never Again Action” 
Not The Spontaneous Grassroots 
Group It Claims To Be
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by Samantha Mandeles
legalinsurrection.com } ~ Over the past several months, Never Again Action (NAA), a purportedly spontaneous grassroots Jewish group, has burst into the public eye by staging and videotaping protests at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other government facilities across the country... But, as a joint investigation by the Legal Insurrection Foundation and the Washington Free Beacon has revealed, NAA is not what it purports to be. NAA is a repackaging of the same activists who organize with far-left, anti-Israel groups such as IfNotNow (INN),  American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and CodePink. There is every reason to believe that these obsessive anti-Israel activists have a hidden agenda: to insert themselves at the forefront of the immigration issue to hijack the movement and turn it against Israel, as has been done repeatedly since the Ferguson riots in 2014. NAA is not just astroturf, it’s a deception. Launched in late June 2019, Never Again Action claims to be a large grassroots network that spontaneously arose in response to perceived parallels between the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border and the Nazi Holocaust against the Jewish people. Indeed, the phrase “Never Again” has its origin and most common usage in preventing another Holocaust. That analogy is a core tenet of Never Again Action’s philosophy; the group’s focus on the Holocaust seems to have been at least partially inspired by Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s June 18, 2019 tweet and video  comparing U.S.-Mexico border detention centers concentration camps. But in the wake of the controversy, a group of Jews calling themselves Never Again Action emerged—standing in support of commie-Ocasio-Cortez and proclaiming their Jewish-values-inspired outrage at the border “concentration camps.”...
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San Francisco Declares NRA a 
'Domestic Terrorist Organization'
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By Susan Jones 
cnsnews.com } ~ San Francisco, the "sanctuary city" for illegal aliens -- now crowded with homeless people camping and defecating on sidewalks -- has just declared the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization."... The resolution, which the Board of Supervisors passed unanimously Tuesday, urges the rest of the country to "do the same." The resolution accuses the NRA of mustering "its considerable wealth and organizational strength to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence." It accuses the NRA of spreading "propaganda" aimed at deceiving the public about the "dangers of gun violence"; it says NRA leaders promote "extremist positions, in defiance of the views of a majority of its membership and the public, and undermine the general welfare"; and it says NRA "advocacy" has armed terrorists. "All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give them ready access to assault weapons and large-capacity magazines thanks, in large part, to the National Rifle Association’s influence," the resolution says. The National Rifle Association's lobbying arm says it is "committed to preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." The NRA promotes training, safety and education for law-abiding gun owners, and far from inciting acts of violence, it strongly condemns such acts... SFan Board of Supervisors are going nuts and are stupid to think NRA is a terrorist organization. 
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Our Real Identity Politics 
Is Governed By Almighty God
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By E. Jeffrey Ludwig
americanthinker.com } ~  The Left in American life today, with its emphasis on socialist and communist values, is essentially denying the validity of Judeo-Christian values which have been defended successfully for centuries by blood, sweat, and tears... The Left emphasizes needs rather than rights, equality over liberty, state ownership over private property, a woman’s right to choose death over life, gender fluidity over the eternal reality of a two gender system based on creation of both men and women in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), and world government over national identities. To the Left, the moral values held dear for 3500 years and central in Western consciousness are, at the very least, in need of being modified and updated.  For many of these bitter actors wearing masks of outrage at the mention of just about every traditional view, Judeo-Christian morality should be overturned altogether. Talk to those on the Left. Look at their humorless pomposity for what it is. Listen to commie-Bernie Sanders’ half-talk, half-bark presentations. Or listen to the well-groomed lowlife-Kamala Harris who has a serious expression on her face, yet the words have no gravitas. Has she been prosecuting criminals in California for years? She says nothing that suggests any serious commitment or wisdom gleaned. If there is one word for the Leftocrat candidates, I think it should be: "vacuous." How else could it be if one supports issues that reject in a fundamental way Judeo-Christian moral values? Look at the scowling expressions, and presentations of endless speech trial balloons instead of logical, detailed programs for societal growth and betterment. They sound like pages out of the writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who told us in his classic work Thus Spake Zarathustra and other writings that God is dead, and that we are moving into a transvaluation of values where what we hitherto considered good would be evil, and evil good. According to delirious Friedrich, we are evolving towards a new type of human -- the Ubermensch -- who will express this new anti-morality morality, this reversal of priorities.  Humans will be in relation to the Ubermensch as the animal kingdom now is to the human. One of my colleagues said to me ten years ago that “It’s time for a more Nietzschean outlook.” Perhaps he considered himself to be one of the Ubermenschen who was just ahead of his time? Who knows? Nietzsche went into a catatonic state for the last 10 years of his life, marked by occasional outbursts. Some researchers have said that he had an advanced case of syphilitic paresis, while a more recent author points to schizophrenia...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/our_real_identity_politics_is_governed_by_almighty_god.html   
Federal Judge Orders White House 
To Restore Brian Karem's Hard Pass
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by Beth Baumann
townhall.com } ~ A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump Administration to restore the press pass of Brian Karem, Playboy's Senior White House reporter... "Karem has shown that even the temporary suspension of his pass inflicts irreparable harm on his First Amendment rights," U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras wrote. The decision to revoke Karem's hard pass began at the beginning of August when Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham informed the Playboy reporter that a "preliminary decision" had been made in regards to his press access. The decision came after Karem got into a verbal altercation with Sebastian Gorka in the Rose Garden. At the time, Karem was upset because President Donald Trump wasn't taking questions during a presser following his social media summit. He made a remark about those people being “prone to demonic possession.” That's when Gorka became upset. In case you need a refresher, here's a video from the altercation:  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/09/03/federal-judge-orders-white-house-to-restore-brian-karems-hard-pass-n2552564  
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Green Tyranny and the Tragedy 
of the Eco-Commons
By John Klar
americanthinker.com } ~ "The tragedy of the commons" is a phrase that describes the societal loss of resources through individual selfishness... In agrarian cultures, sheep, cows or other animals were often maintained in a "commons" where individual farm families would use large shared areas to pasture animals collectively. This worked well, unless an individual farmer exceeded the carrying capacity of the common to increase his personal wealth -- and if all the farmers did that, the common would be destroyed. This model is useful to examine modern environmental policy efforts, where the tragedy of the commons is seen in our oceans, air, soil -- and global warming. An intriguing parallel to this "common" land or water concept is the "House of Commons" in democracy: the legislative body where individuals collect to craft societal rules. This is where the modern world seeks to prevent individuals from destroying the whole: this is where humanity is most abjectly failing. A legislative body, too, must not be despoiled, overtaxed or squandered. Around our nation, Americans are concluding that individuals have crept into their governing commons, like sheep thieves, to appropriate "common" resources for individual or interest-group enrichment. And nowhere is this more evident than the so-called carbon tax. Neither state nor federal government has a track record of protecting Americans from carcinogenic chemicals, yet now many strive to employ these entities to regulate the much more ambitious and ubiquitous substance known as "carbon." In the name of saving the planet, and with no interest in the mathematical restraints of money supply or economics, these self-proclaimed warriors are marching on America's commons legislative bodies to appropriate their own personal harvest at the expense of others. This is easily illustrated in Vermont, where the progressive experimentation has been unstaunched because of a supermajority in both houses of state government. As they rush to fix the carbon balance, one is reminded of Thomas Sowell's "The Quest For Cosmic Justice" -- with each effort, inequities are created which reveal the folly of seeking government-imposed solutions instead of civil calls for collective personal responsibility...
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Hollywood Leftists Blacklist Conservatives
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Harold Hutchison:  If you want a look at just how bad the situation has become regarding freedom of speech, just look at the former stars of the NBC show “Will and Grace,” Eric McCormack and Debra Messing. Over the holiday weekend, both urged the prepublication of attendees to a Donald Trump fundraiser.

Why would they want that? Well, McCormack made it clear it wasn’t to praise these folks for involvement in the process of governing our country by supporting a political candidate they felt would represent them. This is something that has, until recently, been accepted as the right of every single American. McCormack made it clear that the intention of his request was “so the rest of us can be clear about who we don’t wanna work with.”

To put it bluntly, McCormack wanted to know who supported a politician he opposed so that he could use his power and influence to ruin their professional lives at the very least. This is nothing short of a revival of the tactics of Joseph McCarthy. The big difference between McCarthy and the McCormack/Messing combination is the target selection.

Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated recently that America’s tribalism is what worries him most. Well, we’re seeing the symptoms, and while Messing and McCormack are two of the more prominent, we have noted this pattern before — both private efforts and efforts by the state of New York under the scumbag-Andrew Cuomo-Letitia James regime.

To compound the problem of tribalism is the fact that there is a clear double standard being applied. If you back the NRA, you are painted as a child-killing domestic terrorist who believes in white supremacy. Efforts to ruin your life through blacklisting are practically celebrated by the Leftmedia. But suppose a Second Amendment supporter in office tried to utilize the same tactics that Cuomo is using on the NRA. We’d never hear the end of how America faces a grave threat to “democracy.”

We noted the same double standards in effect with some recent actions by Rep. Joaquin Castro last week. Doxing Trump supporters? It was practically a non-event that got little, if any, mention — much less condemnation — from mainstream media outlets. This was an action by a sitting congressman, someone who wields no small amount of influence in DC, including with regulatory agencies.

Similarly, when Federal Election Commission chairwoman Ellen Weintraub slammed President Trump for making claims about voter fraud in New Hampshire, we couldn’t help but notice her silence regarding Stacey Abrams’s 10 months of unsubstantiated claims of vote suppression in Georgia. By the way, Weintraub applied her double standard while being responsible for the enforcement of campaign-finance laws.

This also comes as scumbag-James Comey again skates despite another damning report on his behavior from the Justice Department’s inspector general. This is in addition to the other issues that emerged from Spygate — questions Americans deserve the answers to, not to mention the need for accountability.

The frustrating thing is the fact that the double standards that could destroy any confidence in the Rule of Law are perpetrated not just by the legal system but by the studious lack of comment from the Leftmedia. While America can survive when Americans have deep divisions, it cannot survive if legal and moral double standards exist. And if free speech is successfully quashed — whether by Hollywood, academia, or Big Tech — our republic is in serious danger.  ~The Patriot Post

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The 'Gay Gene' Guessing Game
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Lewis Morris    
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Democrats Continue To Turn
On The Constitution
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By David Harsanyi
thefederalist.com } ~ The state isn’t here to give you everything you want—not even if what you want is extraordinarily popular with your fellow Americans... This is, no doubt, disorientating for voters who grew up believing they live in a “democracy.” In reality, our un-democratic constitutional bulwarks temper the vagaries of the majority. “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates,” James Madison quipped, “every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.” The left will mock you for making this obvious observation. Yet many progressives don’t seem to understand the distinction between united states and a united state. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, for instance, recently took some heat from conservatives for claiming that the “weirdest thing about the electoral college is the fact that if it wasn’t specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.” Of course, there’s nothing “weird” about diffused democratic institutions. There is nothing weird about arguing for federalism. These should be the foundation for every policy debate. Every governing institution in the country, to some degree, is counter-majoritarian. Quite often, the counter-majoritarianism is the entire point. Hayes is under the impression that “one man, one vote” means every ballot needs to be plugged into a direct democracy, which is absurd. Hayes doubled down on “democracy” by arguing that “conservatism is a movement deeply paranoid and pessimistic about its own appeal, increasingly retreating behind counter-majoritarian institutions: the senate, the courts, the electoral college” and that it was “*deeply* revealing that the entire conservative movement gets #triggered if you say the simple truth about the electoral college.” It’s not a simple truth, is it? For one thing, progressives increasingly view voting as the most sacred and determinative act of a citizen and see any counter-majoritarianism as unnatural and unfair...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/03/democrats-continue-turn-constitution/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=1e77bd67cd-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-1e77bd67cd-83771801 
The Islamic Republic lashes out
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By Clifford D. May  
washingtontimes.com } ~ It’s been 40 years since I’ve been to Iran. I’d love to return. At present, that seems inadvisable... I went there as a reporter, in the early months of 1979, a time of revolution, a time when many Iranians, perhaps most, hoped they might soon be freer than they had been under the shah and more prosperous, too. My media colleagues regarded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution, as an avatar of authentic Third World spirituality and social justice. The U.S. ambassador in Tehran, William Sullivan, compared him to Mahatma Gandhi. I left Iran before summer, and by fall it was clear that Iran’s new rulers were achieving little — unless forcing women to cover up can be considered an achievement. In an attempt to re-ignite revolutionary fervor, militant young followers of Ayatollah Khomeini seized the American embassy and took American diplomats hostage. Though a more blatant violation of international law is hard to imagine, an effective response was not forthcoming. Ayatollah Khomeini famously concluded: “America cannot do a damn thing against us.” Confident of that assessment, the Islamic Republic went on to become the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, eventually providing “nearly a billion dollars a year” to favored asymmetric combatants, according to the State Department. The regime has been behind terrorist attacks and assassination plots in the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the United States. At the same time, it’s been building an empire. Hezbollah, essentially its foreign legion, has become the dominant military and political force in Lebanon, even as it works hand-in-glove with international drug cartels...
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Lesson for Democrats: ‘Soft Power’ 
Relies on U.S. Military
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By Hal Brands  
bloomberg.com } ~ President Donald Trump has a talent for latching onto bad ideas that elicit opposing bad ideas from his critics... For a recent example, look no further than the debate about the relationship between American military power and American diplomacy. Since day one, the Trump administration has been disdainful of diplomacy and other tools of “soft power.” In 2017, the administration unveiled what Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, called a “hard power” budget — one that increased military spending but proposed crippling cuts to the State Department and the foreign-aid budget. Republicans on Capitol Hill made clear that such severe cuts were a non-starter, and in 2018 Congress funded a key initiative — the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation — to compete with Chinese geo-economic influence in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. But the administration has continued trying to take billions of dollars out of the foreign-affairs and foreign-aid budgets, most recently  calling for a $4.3 billion cut in State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development funding.  Meanwhile, the mix of hostility and indifference with which the White House has treated the foreign policy bureaucracy has depleted the human capital that U.S. diplomacy depends on, spurring an alarming brain drain from the State Department and other agencies. To top it off, the White House has waged a quiet war against the World Trade Organization and other international organizations through which the U.S. has long projected its influence. This transparently counterproductive approach to policy explains why even some of Trump’s Republican allies have opposed his proposed cuts. There is no effective strategy for dealing with China, Russia, Iran or any other rival power that does not feature a well-funded diplomatic and development apparatus that can help the U.S. compete for geopolitical and geo-economic sway...
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Italy: Salvini Down but Not Out
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by Soeren Kern
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Matteo Salvini, Italy's deputy premier and interior minister since 2018, has been shut out of the Italian government after his gambit to force snap elections to become prime minister backfired... As the de facto leader of Europe's anti-mass-migration movement, Salvini's departure from government may set back efforts to slow illegal immigration to the continent. Many analysts, however, believe that Salvini, who continues to lead his rivals in opinion polls, will be back in government soon and in an even stronger position than before. On August 8, after months of public feuding, Salvini declared  the governing coalition between his League party and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) unworkable. He  accused M5S of blocking the League's main policies and said that the only way forward was to hold fresh elections. The League and M5S, ahead of an inconclusive election in March 2018, had been political adversaries. Three months later, however, they formed an unlikely alliance. Their June 2018 coalition agreement, outlined in a 39-page action plan,  promised to crack down on illegal immigration and to deport up to 500,000 undocumented migrants. Since then, Salvini has accused M5S of failing to implement parts of the coalition agreement. Tensions came to a head on August 7, when, during a session in Parliament, M5S voted against a project supported by Salvini for a high-speed train link with France. "It is useless to go ahead with 'no's' and quarrels," Salvini wrote on his Facebook page. "Italians need certainty and a government that works, not a Mr. 'No.'" Salvini called for new elections to be held on October 13. In an effort to avoid early elections, which polls show that Salvini would win, M5S reached out to the rival center-left Democratic Party (PD), cutting Salvini's League party out of power. M5S and PD clinched a preliminary coalition agreement on August 28, and a day later Italian President Sergio Mattarella asked Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, an independent, to form a new coalition government. Although the League is Italy's most popular party, M5S and PD are the two largest forces in parliament...
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Michigan Teachers Subjected 
to Bizarre Islamic Propaganda Training
by patriotnewsdaily.com ~ After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Novi Community School District in Michigan...  “We found that the teachers were subjected to two days of Islamic propaganda, where Islam was glorified, Christianity disparaged, and America bashed—all funded by Novi taxpayers,” explained Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Law Center. He noted that the school district had not sponsored teacher trainings on Christianity, Judaism, or other religions over the past five years, but solely on Islam. The “cultural competency” expert hired by the Novi Community Schools District in Michigan is Huda Essa of Culture Links LLC, a hijab-wearing woman of Arab descent. After examining numerous documents relating to Essa’s presentation including audio transcripts from her talk, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) found that “information on Islam she provided to Novi teachers was riddled with falsehoods and errors of omission that were clearly meant to deceive. ”We recognize that Michigan has become a hotbed for Arab immigration thanks to the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s “anything goes” refugee policies, resulting in terrorist cells, the rise of female genital mutilation, and extremely-questionable decisions in congressional races, but how is this okay? What kind of outrage would we see if these teachers were subjected to two days’ worth of a teacher telling them about the superiority of Christianity. ESPECIALLY if it were paired with the denigration of Islam? We’d never hear the end of it. “Under the banner of promoting diversity, inclusion and a multicultural approach to education, Essa sets about comparing Islam to Christianity, calling them ‘mostly similar.’ The one big difference, she claims, is that Islam is the world’s ‘only purely monotheistic religion,’” explained the TMLC. “Islam’s holy book, the Koran, came straight from Allah to the prophet Muhammad and, unlike the Jewish and Christian scriptures, has never been altered or changed, she told the Novi teachers. Significantly, the Koran commands Muslims to ‘Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.’” “Her message was clear: The Koran is superior to the Bible. But she did not address the fact that it calls for the extermination of Christian and Jews,” the TMLC concluded. If we’re going to keep our schools clear of religious teachings, then we need to keep our schools clear of ALL religious teachings. Most especially Islam, which has caused the West and the wider world entirely too much trouble over the last quarter-century and beyond. The last thing we need are teachers being propagandized into this religious nuttery before heading back to the classrooms.  Huda Essa needs to be deported.   http://patriotnewsdaily.com/michigan-teachers-subjected-to-bizarre-islamic-propaganda-training/   
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The 'Gay Gene' Guessing Game
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Lewis Morris:  The findings of a recently released study on the origins of human sexual orientation, the largest of its kind ever conducted, is sure to reignite the debate over homosexuality and whether it is a controlled life choice or the result of an uncontrollable set of genetic circumstances.   

The study determined that genes do have an impact on a person’s sexual orientation, but that it is impossible to predict a person’s sexual behavior solely on their genome. Researchers concluded that different components of different genes in the human genome can contribute to determining a person’s sexuality, particularly in the presence of some external factors, but there is no single so-called “gay gene” that separates homosexuals from heterosexuals.

The study was conducted by researchers and geneticists at the Broad Institute at MIT, Harvard, the University of Queensland, and other institutions. It included surveys conducted among 400,000 UK and Swedish men and women in a British database and approximately 70,000 American customers of the genetic testing service 23andMe. All the subjects are of white European descent, and some 3% of the British sample and a surprising 19% of the American sample admitted to having sex at least once with a same-sex partner.

The sample audience for the study hardly indicates a strong representation of the general adult population, nor did the study spend any time on societal factors such as religion, income, family structure, and so forth. For the purposes of this study, researchers focused solely on genetic factors.

The study is sure to be attacked by the Rainbow Mafia for not quite supporting the party line that homosexuals are “born that way” and are therefore unable to reject that lifestyle. On the flip side, the report also indicates that homosexuality is too complicated to simply be a lifestyle choice.

How will the Left reconcile this study — which purports to lend more nuanced credence to the “born this way” argument — with the “I was born the wrong way” argument of so-called “transgendered” individuals?

On the one hand, leftists insist conversion therapy should be banned for homosexuals because of genetics. As one study author put it, “I hope that the science can be used to educate people a little bit more about how natural and normal same-sex behavior is. It’s written into our genes.” On the other hand, some individuals — including children— should undergo hormone treatment and even surgical alteration because their genetics got their biology wrong.

Some researchers in the study initially questioned the wisdom of going forward with the work. Geneticist Steven Reilly, who leads an LGBT group at the Broad Institute called Out@Broad, told The New York Times, “I deeply disagree about publishing this,” citing fears that the data could be misconstrued — by conservatives — for political purposes.

And the Left would never use homosexuality for political purposes…

Joe Vitti, another researcher at Broad who spoke to the Times, expressed similar close-minded sentiments. “As a queer person and a geneticist, I struggle to understand the motivations behind a genome-wide association study for non-heterosexual behavior. I have yet to see a compelling argument that the potential benefits of this study outweigh its potential harms.”

In the face of discovery, these “scientists” were willing to let their own political views interfere with their ability to conduct and share research for fear of how it might inform political opponents. They even entertained the idea of burying the study. Publicly they claimed fear, but it’s clear that the real motivation is that the study does not comport with their long-held social beliefs. It is the perfect example of what leftists frequently accuse conservatives of doing: using politics to distort reporting scientific fact.

The study was released to the public only after months of internal deliberations. The Times notes that the research team “used suggestions from [Broad] colleagues and outside L.G.B.T.Q. groups to clarify wording and highlight caveats.” Who knows how these so-called suggestions might have changed data as presented in the final report?

One finding of the study that could not be kept in the closet was the discovery of a genetic correlation between same-sex behavior and certain mental-health issues and traits like risky behavior and drug use. Hopefully this information, and the rest of the study, will be used to help people instead of being wielded as a cudgel by the Rainbow Mafia.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65217?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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 Dems' Assault on the Second Amendment
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Thomas Gallatin  
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“Where are the damned ‘Scope Memos’?” 
 Whitaker’s Response is Interesting
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theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Tonight Lou Dobbs, admitting his own frustration, asked former Acting AG Matthew Whitaker “where are the scope memos”? And a conversation began and within that conversation, Dobbs mentions the number of the scope memos… To wit, Whitaker had a very curious and deflective response. Focusing only on the ‘scope memo’ aspect, why do you think Matthew Whitaker deferred from responding about them?… wouldn’t even put a number to them. It’s a straightforward, curiously overlooked until Dobbs and seemingly inconsequential part of the overall issue. The Mueller investigation is long-since over; so why haven’t we been permitted to see the memos, which Rod Rosenstein created, that authorized the targeting within the investigation by Robert Mueller? The implication from the non-answer, and then the subsequent conversation, would seem to indicate Whitaker knows the Scope Memos name specific targets -outlined/approved by Rosenstein- that were not charged by Mueller for anything ex. Flynn Jr. and therefore that’s the justification for not releasing them. Perhaps a valid point. However, the deflection by Whitaker has piqued Suspicious Cat’s suspicions because the scope memos could be released with non-indicted targets redacted. Who exactly is being protected?  The “targets” or Rod Rosenstein?
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scumbag-Soros-Fueled PAC Paying Salaries
 to Employees at Pro-Illegal Immigrant Group
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by Joe Schoffstall 
freebeacon.com } ~ A political action committee largely funded by liberal billionaire scumbag-George Soros is paying salaries to employees at a pro-illegal immigrant group... The Immigrant Voters Win PAC was launched in March with the goal of registering 400,000 new Hispanic voters before the November elections. The PAC is a joint effort between numerous left-wing immigration activist groups as part of the larger "Families Fight Back" campaign organized in opposition to Republican politicians. The group has raised $4 million since its inception, according to the PAC’s financial filings with the Federal Election Commission. scumbag-Soros, who provided a $3 million check to the PAC on March 11, was the only donor to the PAC for nearly two months. The Civic Participation Action Fund, which carries the mission of "Advancing racial equity, economic opportunity and civic engagement," added a $1 million donation on May 31. The PAC disclosed $135,000 in federal operating expenditures, with much of the money going toward salaries to  individuals at America’s Voice, an immigration organization that fights for "A direct, fair, and inclusive road to citizenship for immigrants in the United States without papers." The PAC also disclosed a six-figure reimbursement to the group. Matt Hildreth, the political director of America’s Voice, first received payments from the Immigrant Voters Win PAC on June 21. On that day, three transactions marked "salary" are shown to his name in the amounts of $8,541, $8,541, and $10,541... Why can't the government stop and charge scumbag-Soro?  https://freebeacon.com/issues/soros-fueled-pac-paying-salaries-employees-pro-illegal-immigrant-group/   
Food Kits from U.S. Program to Feed 
Vulnerable Syrians Diverted to Terrorists
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by judicialwatch.org ~ A multi-billion-dollar government program to feed “vulnerable” Syrians has provided food for jihadist militants in a group designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)... American taxpayers have spent a fortune on “emergency food assistance” during the Syrian crisis that began with the 2011 Arab spring and some of it has actually gone to terrorists that hate us and want to kill us. The Al Qaeda affiliate is known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and it aims to establish a regional Islamic caliphate, according to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Since 2012, the U.S. government has provided Syria with nearly $3 billion in emergency food assistance, approximately $1.8 billion to help “vulnerable families” inside the country and more than $1.1 billion for “vulnerable refugees in neighboring countries.” Uncle Sam took action after the United Nations (UN) declared that 11.7 million people inside Syria need humanitarian assistance. Of those, the leftist world body said 9 million require emergency food assistance to meet their basic needs, including 6.5 million people facing “life-threatening food insecurity.” The famously corrupt U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which has a monstrous budget and little oversight, handles the money and doles out cash to groups, mostly non-governmental organizations (NGOs), that provide food. The groups are known as partners and they receive money from USAID to bring flour to bakeries, ready-to-eat rations to newly displaced populations and prepared food kits throughout Syria. Some of the USAID-funded food kits have been purposely diverted to terrorists, according to a federal audit of the program. Investigations by the USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG) have uncovered numerous instances of confirmed diversions to armed groups in northwestern Syria. Among them is Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which split from Al Qaeda a few years ago. In one example cited by the agency watchdog, NGO employees knowingly diverted USAID-funded food kits to the terrorist group by allowing the fighters to be included among program beneficiaries and submitting falsified beneficiary lists. In another case, 27 NGO employees operated a scheme in which USAID-funded food kits were diverted to the same designated terrorist organization. The U.S. spent nearly $50 million on the two programs, according to the audit. This is hardly the first time that terrorists benefit from USAID’s unchecked generosity. The agency has sent Yemen, the Islamic nation that serves as the headquarters of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), $768 million in “humanitarian aid.” In its  Country Reports on Terrorism, the State Department reveals that AQAP militants carried out hundreds of attacks including suicide bombers, vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), ambushes, kidnappings and targeted assassinations. The media has also documented this for years with one in-depth report   confirming that “Yemen has emerged as the breeding grounds for some of the most high-profile plans to attack the U.S. homeland.” Additionally, dozens of terrorists freed from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have joined Al Qaeda in Yemen. Yet the American humanitarian dollars keep flowing with little oversight... This need, needs more control.
Teacher in China accused of 
poisoning kindergarten students
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by cbsnews.com ~ A kindergarten teacher has been arrested in eastern China after 23 students were sickened in a suspected act of deliberate poisoning, police said Tuesday... The teacher, identified by the surname Wang, is believed to have contaminated the children's food with sodium nitrite, the Jiaozuo city police said on their official microblog. Overexposure to sodium nitrite, a white powder most commonly used in fertilizers, can be toxic and even fatal to humans. Police said they were still looking for a motive in last week's incident. Schoolchildren in China have been the target of often fatal attacks by people bearing grudges or considered mentally ill. In October last year, a knife-wielding assailant injured 14 children at a kindergarten in the western Chinese city of Chongqing. The attacker, a 39-year-old woman, was taken into custody but the motive for the assault was unclear. In April a 28-year-old former pupil allegedly seeking revenge for having been bullied stabbed nine pupils to death outside a middle school in northwestern China. Another 10 people were hospitalized with injuries resulting from the rampage in the rural area. China tightly restricts private gun ownership, making knives and homemade explosives the most common weapons in violent crimes, but last week's incident in Jiaozuo wasn't the first suspected case of poisoning. In 2002, 42 people, mostly schoolchildren, died after eating snacks laced with rat poison in the eastern city of Nanjing. The killer, who apparently was jealous of his rivals' thriving business, was swiftly sentenced to death and executed.
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NEW Ohr Docs: FBI KNEW That Christopher Steele was ‘Desperate’ to Stop Trump
"CULTURE OF UNACCOUNTABILITY" at FBI over Sensitive Leaks by Employees
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Dems' Assault on the Second Amendment
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Thomas Gallatin:  Not long ago, Democrats derided any accusation that their political agenda was to see America transformed into a socialist state. Today, the leading Democrat presidential candidates are openly embracing socialism. This hard-left “turn” should come as a surprise to no one, because Democrats have long advocated socialist-based programs while insisting they’re not socialist. In other words, Democrats deny the fundamental reality behind what they are advocating until it becomes impossible to deny it. Then they come out of the closet and celebrate what they have been denying.

This pattern holds true not just with social programs like scumbag/liar-nObamaCare but with issues like Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Democrats love to proclaim that they support protecting Second Amendment rights even if they just want more “sensible” gun control. But as conservatives have regularly pointed out, Democrats’ “sensible” gun control would do next to nothing to stop criminals from committing crimes with firearms. In fact, the vast majority of Democrats’ proposed gun control legislation would only make it harder for law-abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

The fact of the matter is the Democrat Party’s agenda is to essentially eliminate the Second Amendment entirely. On Monday, Democrat presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden insisted there should be “no compromise” on guns. Instead, he bloviated, “We’re talking about loosening access to have guns, to be able to take them into places of worship. I mean, it is absolutely irrational. … The idea that we don’t have elimination of assault-type weapons, magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them, it’s absolutely mindless.” loose lips liar-Biden then absurdly claimed that what he was calling for was “no violation of the Second Amendment.”

Even if loose lips liar-Biden’s statement on banning “magazines that can hold multiple bullets” was a gaffe — the very purpose of a magazine is to hold multiple bullets (cartridges or rounds), and the vast majority of modern firearms use magazines — loose lips liar-Biden’s overall message is a clear attack on the Second Amendment.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth dinky-Warren attacks the Second Amendment by labeling the issue a “public-health emergency.” dinky-Warren pontificated, “We need to treat this as the public-health emergency that it is. And it’s going to take a lot of pieces and a lot of changes that we need to do to bring down deaths from gun violence.” dinky-Warren conveniently ignores the truth — that gun-related deaths due to crime have actually been decreasing for years as gun ownership has gone up — so that she can spin her “public health” narrative with the goal being the effective elimination of the Second Amendment.

Democrats have demonized the National Rifle Association, the nation’s leading advocacy organization for the Second Amendment that historically enjoyed bipartisan support, as a terrorist organization. commie-Bernie Sanders, who in the past stood up for Vermonters’ Second Amendment rights and was endorsed by the NRA, sings a different tune of late. On Saturday, commie-Sanders asserted, “We are telling [President Donald] Trump and [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell, ‘Listen to the American people and not the NRA.’ And I would hope very much that we can overcome the fear of the NRA and do what the American people want.”

socialist-Beto O'Rourke has no love for the Second Amendment either, as he has taken to dropping F-bombs when expressing his disgust over Americans’ right to possess “weapons of war.” Along with banning “assault weapons” and implementing a national gun registry, socialist-O'Rourke also wants a mandatory buyback (a.k.a. confiscation). “Buy those weapons of war back,” he thundered. “Mandate that. Not voluntary. Let’s be really clear with our fellow Americans.”

It has never been more clear that the radical Left has taken over the Democrat Party. And it sees the  elimination of the Second Amendment as an essential stepping stone to the ultimate elimination of the Constitution.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65221?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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 Preaching Race-Bait Hate
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Patrick Hampton   
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Wednesday Top News Executive Summary
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Political Editors:  Above the Fold


BORDER FORTIFICATION: “Defense Secretary Mark Esper has signed off on spending $3.6 billion in Defense Department construction funds for 175 miles of wall on the southern border with Mexico. … Use of the money had been frozen by lower courts while a lawsuit proceeded. Last month, however, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the use of about $2.5 billion. A border wall was a keystone of the president’s 2016 election campaign, but Congress has resisted funding all of it. This year it allocated $1.4 billion, but the president wanted much more.” (Fox News)

VACUOUS VIRTUE SIGNALING: “Walmart said Tuesday it will discontinue all sales of handgun ammunition and sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition that can be used with military-style weapons, following two ‘horrific’ shootings at Walmart stores this summer. It will also stop all handgun sales in Alaska, marking its complete exit from the handguns category. The biggest retailer in the world also is asking customers at Walmart and Sam’s Club to no longer openly carry firearms in stores, in states where ‘open carry’ is allowed, unless they are authorized law enforcement officers.” (CNBC)

Around the Nation


HURRICANE DORIAN UPDATE: “Hurricane Dorian gradually leaves Florida behind Wednesday, setting its sights on the coasts of Georgia and then the Carolinas. These areas face a triple threat of ‘destructive winds, flooding rains, and life-threatening storm surges,’ according to the National Hurricane Center. While Dorian has stayed far enough off the coast to largely spare Florida from the worst of its wrath, it is forecast to make a much closer approach to the coastline of the Carolinas between late Wednesday and Thursday and could even make landfall. Impacts are thus expected to be more severe.” (Capital Weather Gang)

BACKGROUND-CHECK LOOPHOLE: According to National Review, “The lone gunman who killed seven and injured 22 in a series of drive-by shootings in Odessa and Midland, Texas on Saturday obtained the firearm he used in the attack through an illegal private sale. Local police told ABC News and other outlets that the shooter … previously attempted to purchase a firearm from a licensed seller but was denied after failing a background check due to his history of ‘mental illness.’ He then purchased the ‘AR-15 type’ rifle that he used in the attack from a private seller who was under no legal obligation to conduct a background check on him.” This is one of the few legit gun loopholes that conservatives might feel obligated to address.

SOLVING THE BIG PROBLEMS: “The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution declaring the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization” and urged the federal government to do the same — the latest escalation in the heated rhetoric from Democrats regarding the NRA in the wake of several deadly mass shootings.“ (Fox News)

DISTRICT SMACKDOWN: "A North Carolina court on Tuesday struck down the state’s current legislative districts for violating the rights of Democratic voters, forcing districts to be withdrawn ahead of the 2020 election. The three-judge panel’s opinion says that North Carolina’s General Assembly ‘had a partisan intent to create legislative districts that perpetuated a Republican-controlled’ assembly when drawing maps in 2017.” (The Hill)

Other Notables


WARNING SIGNS: “A key U.S. factory gauge unexpectedly contracted for the first time since 2016, sending stocks and bond yields lower and boosting expectations for interest-rate cuts as global manufacturing woes deepen. The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index fell to 49.1 in August, weaker than all forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of economists, data released Tuesday showed. Figures below 50 indicate the manufacturing economy is generally shrinking. The group’s gauge of new orders dropped to a more than seven-year low, while the production index hit the lowest since late 2015.” (Bloomberg)

BREXIT BLOCKADE: “British prime minister Boris Johnson’s government was defeated in a 27-301 vote on Tuesday by a group of rebel lawmakers who have opted to seize control of parliament in order to block the no-deal Brexit that Johnson has repeatedly threatened. A block of the Conservative Party sided with the opposition Labour Party in voting to seize control of parliamentary business on Wednesday in order to pass a bill that would prevent Johnson from exiting the European Union on the October 31 deadline without a deal.” (National Review)

HONG KONG CONCEDES: “Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she will withdraw the highly controversial extradition bill which triggered months of protests. The proposal, introduced in April, would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China. The bill was suspended in June when Ms Lam called it ‘dead’, but she stopped short of withdrawing it.” (BBC)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Giving mass shooters the death penalty is a useless virtue signal (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: To lower residential energy costs, “waive” goodbye to the Jones Act (American Enterprise Institute)

SATIRE: Walmart discontinues auto part sales to prevent car accidents (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65253?mailing_id=4509&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4509&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Court Grants Significant New Discovery 
in scumbag/liar-Clinton Email Case
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by judicialwatch.org ~ Judicial Watch announced today that a federal judge granted seven additional depositions, three interrogatories and four document requests related to former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a private, unauthorized email server... scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and her former top aide and current lawyer Cheryl Mills were given 30 days to oppose being deposed by Judicial Watch (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). The court rejected Justice and State Department arguments to protect scumbag/liar-Clinton and the agencies from additional discovery and ordered agency lawyers to respond to Judicial Watch’s questions about their knowledge of the scumbag/liar-Clinton email issue. The court granted all of Judicial Watch’s requested discovery but gave scumbag/liar-Clinton and Mills 30 days to file any opposition to the requests to question them in person under oath. The new court-ordered discovery allows Judicial Watch to take testimony and gather evidence of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s handling of emails, specifically in an “after action memo” drafted by Heather Samuelson, scumbag/liar-Clinton’s senior advisor at State and White House liaison. The memo was created in December 2014 to memorialize the scumbag/liar-Clinton team’s processing of the scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. The discovery also asks for when Justice and State Department attorneys learned about scumbag/liar-Clinton’s private email use; and what senior records-keeping officials at the State Department knew about scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails and when they knewit. This past Friday, Judicial Watch submitted the document request to scumbag/liar-Clinton’s attorneys for the “after action memo” that Samuelson created. The court specifically raised concerns about a scumbag/liar-Clinton email cache recently discussed in a letter to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) and wants Judicial Watch to “shake the tree” on this issue...
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Democrat Delusion  
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By JOHN HINDERAKER 
powerlineblog.com } ~ I didn’t make it to the Minnesota State Fair this year, so I didn’t do my usual report on left-wing seed art. But a friend attended the Fair over the weekend and stopped by the DFL booth... They were selling two pins, of which he bought this one: The Democrats apparently think most voters will find it charming that a group of extreme, freshmen Congresswomen call themselves by a name that is otherwise used exclusively by high school girls. I suspect that belief is delusional, and that most voters have heard more than enough from, and about, “the Squad.” The second button for sale at the DFL booth consisted of a single word in Russian. My friend doesn’t speak Russian, so he had to ask. The word is “traitor” in English. I take it this means the Democrats are still trying to sell(albeit, here, in incomprehensible form the Russia collusion hoax. Once again, I think most voters are not that dumb. While most probably couldn’t recite the details, I think it is common knowledge that President Trump has stood up to Russia, like China, far more than his predecessor. With the collapse of the Mueller investigation, the DOJ Inspector General’s blistering denunciation of scumbag-James Comey, the stilll-to-come IG report on the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s fraudulent FISA search warrant applications, and what could be a comprehensive account of the genesis of the Russia hoax from U.S. Attorney John Durham, calling President Trump a traitor is looking sillier by the day...  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/democrat-delusion.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29   
Aramco IPO Plans Pushed Forward 
Before Oil Prices Drop Further
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thenewamerican.com } ~ Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, just relieved his energy minister, Khalid al-Falih, of his duties concerning the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of his country’s primary asset, ARAMCO (officially, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company)... Plans for that offering, first announced in 2018, were to raise $100 billion for the country’s sovereign wealth fund so it could invest the funds to diversify the economy away from its dependence upon oil revenues and bring it into the 21st century. Plans were delayed for several reasons. First, MBS needed to consolidate his power. Taking control in 2017, he announced a program to fight corruption in the government, leading to the arrest and murder of a number of high-ranking officials while confiscating the wealth of others in exchange for their lives. He also allgedly ordered the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which temporarily tarnished his public persona and delayed further his plans for the IPO. It didn’t help any that U.S. frackers, oblivious to the plans of the crown prince, continued to produce above expectations, putting pressure on world oil prices in the process. Energy Minister al-Falih counseled a wait-and-see approach, urging MBS and the OPEC cartel to cut production further in the hopes that world crude oil prices would rise to at least $80 a barrel. Outside auditors estimate that $80 a barrel is the price the kingdom needs to balance its welfare-state budget. His strategy nearly succeeded. Brent crude oil prices peaked at $85 a barrel briefly last October before plummeting to $50 two months later. Since then, world crude oil prices have languished and curently trade as of Tuesday under $60. The crown prince’s government was running out of money. It had squeezed ARAMCO for a $20 billion special dividend to help close the budget deficit. It sold $12 billion of government bonds for the first time in the country’s history last spring. But the pressure is on and time is running out...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/33309-aramco-ipo-plans-pushed-forward-before-oil-prices-drop-further  
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The Landscape Of Despair: 
How Our Cities And Towns Are Killing Us
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by JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER
dailycaller.com } ~ The incoherence of the debate in the public arena becomes especially stark whenever a mass murder ignites the news wires — which is dismayingly often these days... But the understandable wish to make sense of these horrifying acts, and how our society seems to provoke them, leads to walls of mystification, psychobabble, and the dogmas du jour of the activist class. Some maniac guns down twenty people in a shopping mall, the news media lights up for a week of inconclusive hand-wringing, and then the discussion subsides back into uncomfortable, confounded silence, until the next maniac comes onstage to gun down as many total strangers as possible in his desperate bid for catharsis, and we go through the motions again, along with the pitiful ceremony of setting up the candles and teddy-bears at the crime scene. By the way, I say “his” because overwhelmingly these spectacle shooters are men, often but not always young men under twenty-five one recent exception being Tashfeen Malik  who, with her husband Rizwan Farook, shot up a San Bernardino, CA, social services agency in 2015. Something is going desperately wrong with the development of young men in this land. Many of the forces at work are pretty obvious. But what is uniformly overlooked about the current scene is the physical arrangement of daily life on the American landscape, how it affects us in unreckoned ways, and what a tragic fiasco it has become. I refer to the everyday human habitat known as suburbia, the matrix of single-family home subdivisions, arterial highways and freeways, chain stores, junk food dispensaries, and the ubiquitous wilderness of free parking — the last of these implying just one insidious side-effect of this template for living: mandatory motoring. Though a variety of economic interests were served richly by the colossal project of building suburbia, and took full advantage of its perversities, no claque of evil geniuses cooked up the idea in a lab. It was an emergent phenomenon, the coming together of many historical forces, innovations, and opportunities. The emergence of suburbia comports with my New Theory of History, which states that things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. The trouble is, circumstances change and what at one time seemed like a good idea turns into a debacle of unintended consequences in another time — which is where we are now...
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Stormy hearings ahead  
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By PAUL MIRENGOFF 
powerlineblog.com } ~ Rust never sleeps and neither do congressional Democrats intent on impeaching President Trump... When the House returns to session next week, the House Judiciary Committee will explore five instances of supposed obstruction of justice by Trump that they say are documented in Robert Mueller’s report. None amounts to actual obstruction of justice. Each, by now, is yawn inducing. But House Dems also plan an inquiry that might gain attention and put Judiciary Committee members in the spotlight. Reportedly, they will investigate Trump’s involvement in paying two women to remain silent about allegedly having sex with him. One of the women is ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal. The other is porn star Stormy Daniels. The payments predate Trump’s presidency. Is it a “high crime and misdemeanor” for a candidate to buy the silence of someone who has damaging information about him? I don’t think so. At worst, it’s a technical violation of campaign finance law, and I doubt it even amounts to that. But why let this stand in the way of sexy hearings? Stormy Daniels and the ex-Playboy model might be able to attract media attention and draw viewers to hearings that otherwise hardly anyone would watch. Might their testimony harm Trump’s image? I doubt there’s anyone left in America who thinks Trump is above having sex with attractive women. I also doubt that any potential Trump voter would fail to understand his effort to keep such matters out of the public’s eye during a presidential election campaign. But maybe Trump will take a minor hit if Daniels testifies that her sexual encounter with Trump occurred not long after his wife had given birth...
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Preaching Race-Bait Hate
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Patrick Hampton:  In my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a recent incident involving black suspects and white law-enforcement officers is proving to be yet another case study of how perennial race-baiting agitators wait for any opening to promote themselves.

The opportunities for such self-aggrandizement have been slim lately, but finally, opportunity rang. Two white Hamilton County deputies stopped a vehicle for having unlawfully dark window tinting — which is to say they could not see inside the vehicle — always dangerous to officers making a stop, which is one of the reasons window tinting is regulated. Because the officers could not see the occupants of the vehicle, it would be difficult to make a “racial profiling” case, but crack cocaine was found in the underwear of a black occupant (a favorite place for concealment) and that is the basis for the race hustlers’ complaint.

The usual race-baiters have their panties in a wad, claiming the suspect, who as it turns out has 40 prior arrests, was “strip searched” in public and subjected to a “cavity search,” despite the fact video footage from two camera angles negates those claims. After a meeting of black community faith leaders convened, most pastors declined to participate in this charade. But a small group of the loudest agitators, along with the leader of hater Louis Farrakhan’s local Nation of Islam cadre, are calling for Sheriff Jim Hammond’s resignation.

My friend Mark Alexander, who has a background in law enforcement, has known Jim Hammond for 30 years, and notes, “Jim is a man with an impeccable color-blind career, an ethical and faithful man who is the most professional Sheriff in HCSO’s history — by a measure of magnitude.” But leftists never let facts get in the way of their agenda.

Meanwhile, Chattanooga, like most urban centers Democrat mayors are turning into slums, had one of the bloodiest weekends of 2019. Among the murder victims was a pregnant 19-year-old and mother of a two-½-year-old girl. But the agitators and community are not coming together to find the assailant or demand justice for this young mother; they are on the government steps blasting the officers that have sworn to protect and serve them.

Pastors and ministers are not called to be race-bait hustlers but peacemakers. Peacemakers are not partial and prejudiced. Ironically, the racially biased behavior exhibited by these local “men of faith” is the same behavior they claim they oppose.

Of course, race-baiting hustlers are nothing new.

Writing about such race agitators in his 1911 book, My Larger EducationBooker T. Washington wrote the following words that are even more relevant to present-day race agitators: “There is [a] class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public… Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.”

Washington continued: “Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs… There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”

The real tragedy in this unfortunate situation is that young black men are dying at an alarming rate, most murdered by other young black men.

Pastors, where is your concern for the souls of these citizens? Where is the call to repentance? Where is the strategy to build flourishing Christian families? Where is the Good News of the Gospel that gives your community hope? These are valid questions that challenge these race-bait agitators. Instead of fulfilling the Great Commission, these pastors have been indoctrinated with hatred and black tribalism, fomented by today’s Democrat Party and its cadres of social justice warriors who thrive on dividing us by race and every other measure.

Truth is, the great majority of Hamilton County citizens support our law enforcement, as do real pastors doing the real work of the cross. We will not stand idly by while radical Islamists and agitators sow racial discord in our community. We have worked too hard and too long to build a peaceful city.

As Washington wrote, “Great men cultivate love. … Only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.”  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65174?mailing_id=4505&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4505&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Trump Caught Between King Corn and Big Oil
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Political Editors   
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Conservative Leaders, Chamber Clash 
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by Fred Lucas
{ dailysignal.com } ~ A coalition of conservatives is supporting the Trump administration’s plan to roll back scumbag/liar-nObama-era fuel efficiency standards, which it says could reduce the cost of cars and light trucks for consumers... The support came a day after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a report with a letter urging the Trump administration not to revise Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, and pushing for a compromise with the state of California, which has much stricter standards. For now, the administration seems to be focused on revising the CAFE standards, which also regulate tailpipe emissions for cars and light trucks. “Revising the current CAFE standards will make vehicles safer and more affordable—saving American families an average of nearly $2,500 on new vehicle purchases,” a senior administration official said Friday. “This move is right in line with President Trump’s deregulation efforts and will benefit all Americans,” the official said. The statement issued by the coalition of conservative leaders, known as the Conservative Action Project, strongly backed President Donald Trump’s proposed change in the standards. It says: Current CAFE standards are both expensive and dangerous. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that domestic passenger vehicle manufacturers paid more than $77 million for noncompliance with President scumbag/liar-nObama’s CAFE standards—penalties that will get worse unless these unrealistic standards are changed...
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Mattis rules out run for president: 
‘Like a five-year jail sentence’
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by Julio Rosas
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis did not have much to say about President Trump during a wide-ranging interview with CBS Sunday Morning... but did warn the president is "unusual" and warned against the "rabid nature of politics." Mattis also said he has no desire to run for president, despite many people wanting him to. Describing a campaign and presidency to one man at his favorite bar in Washington state, he said, "Terry, it would be like a five-year jail sentence." Regarding Trump, Mattis made clear he was not going to "speak ill about a sitting president," indicating he will express his full thoughts when Trump is out of office. Mattis submitted his letter of resignation to Trump over disagreements about pulling U.S. troops out of Syria. Instead of leaving the Defense Department at the end of February 2019, Trump replaced him with Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan at the beginning of the year. "I will not speak ill of a sitting president. I’m not going to do it," Mattis said, adding, "He’s an unusual president our president is. And I think that especially with just the rabid nature of politics today we gotta be careful. We could could tear this country apart." In an interview with the Atlantic to discuss his upcoming book, Call Sign Chaos, Mattis further explained why he will not criticize Trump at the moment, but again indicated he will not be quiet on the topic for long. “The duty of silence. If you leave an administration, you owe some silence. When you leave an administration over clear policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity as possible to defend the country," he said. "They still have the responsibility of protecting this great big experiment of ours. I know the malevolence some people feel for this country, and we have to give the people who are protecting us some time to carry out their duties without me adding my criticism to the cacophony that is right now so poisonous.” "There is a period in which I owe my silence. It’s not eternal. It’s not going to be forever," he added.
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McConnell trolls Dem rep who challenged 
him to five debates -- by accepting
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By Ronn Blitzer 
foxnews.com } ~ A Democratic congressman from Kentucky backed down Tuesday from his threat to run against Mitch McConnell – and admitted he was just joking... after the Senate majority leader called his bluff and agreed to his demand for five debates. On Monday, Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., was asked by a local news reporter from WHAS-TV if he planned on running against the Republican leader in 2020. Yarmuth initially said he had “no desire” to do so, but then smiled and said: “I will say this: If Mitch McConnell would agree to debate me five times in public, I’d do it.” Yarmuth may not have expected the response. “Accepted. When is the announcement? - MM,” McConnell said Tuesday morning through his campaign’s Team Mitch Twitter account. The post retweeted a local news article that included Yarmuth’s suggestion. Yarmuth’s office, though, responded by making it clear that the congressman has no intention of running against McConnell. “Obviously the congressman was making a joke about Senator McConnell’s long record of refusing to meet with anyone except donors and special interests writing him checks,” Yarmuth’s communications director Christopher Schuler told Fox News. Schuler added: “He does hope that the senator is serious about debating his opponent next year though. Kentuckians deserve to hear him defend his actions, and lack thereof, that have been so destructive to our commonwealth and country.” Meanwhile, McConnell is also facing a Republican primary challenge from former state representative Wesley Morgan.
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United States Imposes More Sanctions on Iran
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by jpost.com ~ The United States imposed sanctions on Iran's civilian space agency and two research organizations on Tuesday... saying they were being used to advance Tehran's ballistic missile program. The U.S. Treasury sanctions targeted the Iran Space Agency, Iran Space Research Center and the Astronautics Research Institute, according to a statement on its website. "The United States will not allow Iran to use its space launch program as cover to advance its ballistic missile programs," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. He said Iran's Aug. 29 attempt to test a space launch vehicle underscored "the urgency of the threat." The United States has warned Iran against rocket launches, fearing the technology used to put satellites in orbit could help it develop the ballistic missile capability needed to launch nuclear warheads. Tehran denies its activity is a cover for such development. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Twitter a photo of what appeared to be the site of a failed Iranian satellite launch. "These designations should serve as a warning to the international scientific community that collaborating with Iran’s space program could contribute to Tehran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon delivery system," Pompeo said. Trump withdrew from a 2015 multi-national nuclear deal with Iran, saying it did not go far enough. Earlier on Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran will not agree to bilateral negotiations with the United States until all sanctions are lifted. He also threatened to further cut commitments to the crumbling nuclear deal called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “We’ve said it before time and again, and we say it again: we have no intention to hold bilateral talks with the United States,” Rouhani was quoted as saying by Iran’s Mehr News Agency during a parliament session in Tehran. “We never did and never will. This has been the case in the past year and a half, and even in previous years. There have been calls for talks, but we never responded to them. When we talk about negotiations, we only mean it under the situation where all sanctions have been lifted – that is, the situation we previously had under the JCPOA. Our stance is clear.” He said were Washington to lift all sanctions it imposed on Tehran after it unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA, then there could be multilateral talks with the remaining signatories, the UK, France, Germany, China and Russia.
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'Secret asset': loose lips liar-Joe Biden leans 
heavily on wife Jill as he battles to 
overcome campaign stumbles
by Naomi Lim
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ While loose lips liar-Joe Biden fumbled repeatedly as he campaigned in New Hampshire recently, his wife Jill was almost 1,000 miles away in South Carolina... talking up the former vice president's 2020 White House bid in an altogether smoother manner. It's the sort of division of labor that's sure to happen more frequently as the Democratic primary fight intensifies, but carried risks as the couple present themselves as a two-for-one deal in a way perhaps not seen since scumbag/liar-Bill and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton barnstormed through the 1992 presidential campaign. Jill loose lips liar-Biden, 68, has had a strikingly prominent role since her husband, who at 76 is nine years her senior, announced his candidacy in April. With roughly 38 days of campaigning under her belt in contrast to his comparatively light schedule of 70, she's on the road more than half as much as the two-term vice president, a  Washington Examiner analysis shows. The arrangement compensates for the energy of not only younger rivals such as socialist-Beto O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg, but also commie-Bernie Sanders, who routinely holds more than four events a day while loose lips liar-Biden sticks to one or two. Her initial appearances coincided with a national book tour promoting her 2019 memoir, Where the Light Enters, part of a deal the couple struck following eight years with former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama's administration. It's common for candidates to launch a campaign with a book, much less so for a spouse to do so. After a messy controversy involving a college land deal, Jane Sanders is a quieter presence than in 2016. Chasten Buttigieg, 30, has a cult social media following and headlined the HRC Houston 21st Annual Gala in April, but usually remains in the shadow of his husband. Doug Emhoff, husband of California Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris, has hosted low-key solo engagements. Even their presence, however, is nowhere near the scale of Jill loose lips liar-Biden's. But Jill loose lips liar-Biden, a divorcee who married then-Sen. loose lips liar-Joe Biden, a widower, in 1977 is no ordinary political spouse. The 2020 campaign marks their third White House race together, dating back to the Reagan years. Jill loose lips liar-Biden was at her husband's side as he sought the 1988 Democratic nomination, which ended in failure amid revelations of plagiarism. Twenty years later, they relentlessly toured Iowa ahead of the January 2008 caucuses, but the veteran senator he represented Delaware for 36 years dropped out after a 0.9% showing that left him in fifth place...
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Trump Caught Between King Corn and Big Oil
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Political Editors:  Cronyism coming from either Democrats or Republicans is still cronyism, and one of the biggest crony deals Republicans have long upheld is with King Corn via the ethanol mandate. Recall back in 2016, the only prominent Republican presidential candidate willing to stand up and call for an end to the ethanol mandate was Ted Cruz. At least his position was clear.

Now President Donald Trump finds himself stuck between the gas and oil industry on one side and the ethanol/corn lobby on the other. Trump has been trying to appease both sides, while at the same time fighting a trade war with China.

Earlier this year, in a move aimed at winning support with King Corn, Trump’s EPA extended the sale of E15 or 15% ethanol gas to year-round. This move drew the ire of both the oil industry and environmentalists. However, in a move seen by the ethanol lobby as a means to mitigate the impact of the E15 extension, the EPA increased the number of waivers it issued to smaller refineries, exempting them from the Renewable Fuel Standard mandate. That angered farmers as it reduces demand, but it’s a Faustian bargain to build your business on government support.

Now with China’s targeted tariffs really starting to hurt American farmers, it appears that Trump is looking into ways to increase biofuel demands by raising the level of ethanol in gasoline blends for 2020 and 2021. As Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw observes, “How long can this go on? No matter what Trump does to curry favor with one group, the other one will be up in arms. He wants to play nice with the folks in Iowa, but he also needs to maintain the support of states with a lot of refineries, including Pennsylvania He can’t keep both of them happy at the same time, so it seems obvious that he needs to pick a side and stick with it.” This is just one of the many problems created by cronyism.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65182?mailing_id=4505&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4505&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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IT'S THE GUNS?????

IT'S THE GUNS?????

LIBERALS ARE TOO STUPID TO SEE THE IDIOCY OF THEIR IDEAS

I saw a promo for the Samantha Bee talk show on tv that said the violence problem in our nation is guns. This puke is a looney libtard moron who is so full of hate for God, America, and the American way (liberty) that she can't be even remotely rational. She also hates President Trump with a passion that is just as evil as it is irrational. Liberals want all of us defenseless in the face of evil despite the abundance of examples that prove their premise not only incorrect but downright stupid. Baltimore, Maryland and Chicago, Illinois are famous for being "gun free zones", cities where no one is allowed to possess any kind of firearm yet are the gun murder meccas of America. Liberals contend only police and military should have access to firearms. That plan has worked out well in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Communist China hasn't it????? Take a look at who is committing mass murder with guns, every one of them a liberal demonkrat. None of my guns has ever committed mass murder nor have I used one of my guns to commit any crime, much less mass murder. Guns ARE NOT the problem in America, never have been and never will be, unless of course, We the People lose the ability to defend ourselves from lunatic liberals or a despotic government such as demonkrats desire to impose on us. Sadly, many Americans have bought into the liberal lies and are not intelligent enough to see where the liberal agenda will take them. What America needs is a large dose of God back in the public forum. Since any reference to Jehovah or Jesus Christ have been outlawed by libtard morons we have seen evil explode. Liberals throw a hissy fit any time a Christian even thinks about speaking aloud about our beliefs but moslems can openly spout about their "god", allah, without so much as a raised eyebrow. The moslem major that murdered more than a dozen soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas a few years ago, as in all school shootings, succeeded because there was no one who could stop it because "guns aren't allowed " in those areas. If gun free zones are so safe why does EVERY mass murder occur in one? I can't wait for a liberal to explain that one rationally. They won't even try because they know there is no intelligent explanation so they revert to their "ban guns" claptrap. I often wonder why liberals don't demand that police and military also give up guns, that way only Godless liberal crazies would have guns and they could murder anyone and everyone whenever they want to. I like a lot of the programs on TNT but am no longer going to watch that network because it is blatantly left wing and totally against liberty.

"Getting rid of guns" will not only not work, it wouldn't solve the problem of violence and murder if it could be done. Murder comes from a lack of moral direction not from access to guns. Libtards decry gun violence yet have condoned the mass murder of tens of millions of unborn children through abortion. Calling the murder of an unborn child under the lie of "a woman's right to choose" has severely cheapened life in liberal circles. Liberals have no respect for God given life but rather demand the exclusive right to decide who lives, who dies, and under what circumstances those decisions are made. Realistically, liberals expect everyone to bow to their demands no matter how ridiculous or how evil. Only returning to honoring Almighty God, Jehovah, will solve our nation's violence woes but liberals go into conniption fits at the idea of honoring the Creator of all things, including this nation. Our founders, or at least most of them, were devout Christians who sought God as they waged the military and political battles that resulted in the formation of our nation as a Constitutional Representative Republic. The USA IS NOT a democracy as some erroneously claim, it is a representative republic based on a Constitution that liberals hate because it guarantees the God-given rights listed for the benefit of all citizens, rights that liberals seek to deny to anyone not on their team. Other factors liberals refuse to acknowledge are the glorification of violence, especially as related to guns, in movies and video games

Solving the nation's slide into gun violence is an easy two-step process, first repent and turn to God, and second stop the incessant glorification of violence in movies and video games. It is sad that such simple solutions are beyond the capability of liberals to comprehend. One day Jesus is going to come back and rescue believers from the insanity imposed by liberals and leave them to stew in their own insanity while their "god", satan, torments them. . I pray daily asking God to remove the blinders on the eyes and hearts of liberals and to touch their hearts so they will turn to Him and save themselves and the nation from destruction.

I submit this in the name of the Most Holy Trinity, in faith, with the responsibility given to me by Almighty God to honor His work and not let it die from neglect.

Bob Russell

Claremore, Oklahoma

September 1, 2019

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"PREACHER" INTENTIONALLY MISUSES SCRIPTURE TO JUSTIFY SOCIALISM

I just read a story on the Sons of Liberty site (https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/preacher-perverts-scripture-to-support-socialism/) about a man named "Reverend" William Barber, a leftist hypocrite who calls himself "a man of God" claims the Holy Bible "promotes socialism". This is the same type of blasphemy spouted by other so-called "reverends" like jesse jackson and al sharpton who claim to be doing God's work by hating "white" people and demanding that they be taxed into poverty to "help people of color". Oddly enough I see caucasians as also being "people of color" but the racists don't consider beige to be a color. My skin is beige not white although those promoting racial division refer to me as white and act like my skin color somehow makes me an "oppressor" although I have always treated people the same, basing my view of them based on content of character not on skin color, ethnic background, or social, or economic status. Anyone who knows me even remotely will attest that I am not "racist", "homophobic", "islamophobic", or any of the other phobics liberals like to yap about. I never have and never will cower before political correctness to be accepted by those who use it as a whipping post and an instrument of intimidation. I also don't base my opinions of people on superficial things as liberals do,

One of my pastors, Dr. Ted Estes of Lifechanger Church in Claremore, Oklahoma often speaks of the higher standard that preachers and teachers of God's Word will be held to come judgment day. People like jackson, sharpton, and this fool Barber will one day answer for their perversion of God's Word, a perversion designed mostly to line their pockets with the money of people they deceive and tax funds they are rewarded with for pushing the liberal/socialist agenda. It is sad that people can be so greedy or naive that they can be sucked into the agenda of submission to tyranny. In my 69 + years of life I have yet to see socialism/communism succeed in bettering the overall economic status of the people in any nation it has been imposed in. Look at nations today. Every nation with the name of People's Republic of _____________ (you fill in the blank) is a brutal dictatorship where citizens have absolutely no rights and live under conditions that rival the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Sadly, too many American citizens think of those hell holes as "utopias" because they either can't or won't see the fallacy of the name. Feminists like islam although their base doctrine is that women are nothing but property, have absolutely no rights, and can be stoned to death for merely stepping outside their home without a male relative or show their faces. The "religion of peace" murders homosexuals by hanging them or throwing them off the tops of buildings yet liberals refuse to call them "homophobic" as they call Christians who merely call homosexuality sin and call for homosexuals to repent. Christians do not kill homosexuals but refusing to condone what the Holy Bible calls sin is enough to get us labeled, falsely, as violently opposed to homosexuality. If "feminists" and homosexuals ever get what they foolishly desire they will find out first hand that islam is not a "religion of peace" but rather the cult of rape torture and murder I know it to be. One only needs to accept the reality that is plainly apparent to see where the true threat to society resides but liberals have such a blind hatred for Christianity they can't see the truth. I also believe that liberals accept islam partially because they know my opinion carries a death threat and they would rather live under tyranny than stand for Jesus. They want the illusion "safety" now and are willing to forfeit eternal bliss for temporary comfort now.

Barber is just the latest charlatan to do satan's bidding for fame and wealth in this temporary life while dooming himself to eternity with his "god", satan, in the Lake of Fire. For any liberal moron reading this be advised I am not judging the man but rather am merely stating reality based on my knowledge of the Bible and the understanding of God's intent for us. Pointing out false teaching is not judging but rather providing truth for people to see if they are willing to see it. Jesus didn't preach that government should rob working people to provide for others. Charity is a voluntary thing, both in financial matters and how we use our time and energy. I don't have much money to give to help others but do what I can in that area but also give of my time and abilities to help people  I don't see myself as anything special or better than anyone else but I do see myself as doing my best to live as Jesus taught, putting others first and desiring to serve rather than to be served. I don't look for nor desire the approval or applause from mankind but rather look for approval from Jesus Christ and seek my reward in eternity rather than seeking it now. Anyone who sees the Holy Bible as promoting socialism is in real trouble and needs to repent and seek God's forgiveness before it is too late to do so. People who truly know God's Word can't be deceived by false doctrines because they can recognize His voice when He speaks to them and can recognize the lies of satan and his agents in the world.

I submit this in the name of the Most Holy Trinity, in faith, with the responsibility given to me by Almighty God to honor His work and not let it die from neglect.

Bob Russell

Claremore, Oklahoma

September 1, 2019

 

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"PRO-LIFE" LEGISLATION "UNCHRISTIAN"?????

"PRO-LIFE" LEGISLATION "UNCHRISTIAN"?????

DEMOCRATS OPENLY OPPOSE AND MOCK GOD

Liberal dirtbag senator from New York Kirsten Gillibrand has come out and said that Pro-life bills go against the Christian faith, another ridiculous statement from a member of the political party that proudly booed God during their convention a few years ago. Of course the liberal media applauds anything a godless puke says against faith. I hope a prominent Pastor or Bible teacher will challenge her on this because I know her statement is false. If I had an electronic way to look it up I would bring up the verse that says, "before you were in your mother's womb I knew you". That tells me preserving unborn children is absolutely not "against the Christian faith" as demonkrats claim in unison. I have long contended that a person cannot be both a democrat and a Christian. They can claim whatever they want but to be a "Christian", according to Jesus Christ, one must follow His teachings to belong to His family. Stating that a woman has not only the right to kill her unborn baby for any reason but that tax money should be used to pay for that murder definitely goes against the teachings of Jesus, at least from my understanding of reading the Holy Bible. Gillibrand and her ilk are the ones Jesus meant when He said, "Depart from Me I never knew you". People can't pick and choose what part of Scripture they accept and what they reject. Liberals are going to find out one day that EVERY verse is important and that EVERY verse is intended to be followed. One doesn't need a Doctoral degree in Christian Theology to know that liberals are waaay off the rails in their ideas of what a Christian is or isn't.

So, her position, that of the democrat party, is that preserving the life of an unwanted baby goes against Jesus Christ. From what I read in God's Word the truth is exactly the opposite. Our nation has fallen far in the last 50 or 60 years because it's people have abandoned God and have begun worshipping idols of selfishness, greed, and convenience of standards. The nation as a whole needs to repent of idol worship, pray for forgiveness, and turn back to God. I have seen reports that major church denominations have endorsed abortion, homosexuality, and islam, turning their backs on God so they will be accepted by men and called "diverse", "inclusive", and "acceptable" by the satanic left. I have no desire to be "acceptable" to people who reject Almighty God but would much rather be found acceptable by Him. Jesus told the Apostles, "before they hated you they hated Me". Being hated by man puts me in very good company, the company of Jesus Christ. One day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Those who wait until they have no choice in the matter will face a very bad eternity. I decided several years ago to choose Jesus while I still have a choice. I pray every day that the deceived and delusional libtards will wake up and see the error of their ways before it is too late for them to be saved. Many don't want to hear it but the time will come when it will be too late to be saved from an eternity in Hell. People like Gillibrand, hillary, fuhrer obama, john kerry, robert meuller, and the rest of them see themselves as the ultimate powers in the entire universe.  They consider themselves "gods" and demand people bow to them.

Jesus told us, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but through Me". Some want me to believe that Jehovah and allah are one and the same, expecting me to believe that the same God who sent Jesus Christ to earth with the message of "love your enemy" would 600 of our years later send an angel to mo ham head with the message of hate everyone and the only way to "heaven" was to die in the act of committing murder. My God died to gain Heaven for me but allah requires the death of believers during acts of murder to gain his "heaven".  People foolish enough to believe such hogwash are the people who vote for godless morons like gillebrand!!!!! In the koran, the "satanic verses" as written by a former moslem named Salman Rushdie, lying to promote the satanic cult of islam is not only acceptable but actually encouraged. Also, according to the koran, hatred of others is the commanded attitude. The "ruling class", those with the power and weapons to subjugate others, is not subject to the "rules of morality" laid out in the satanic verses. I see the same problem in America today as the political ruling class considers themselves above the law and the Constitution. Our founding document, the Constitution, was written to protect We the People from tyrannical rulers but the political ruling class deems the Constitution to be an "outdated and irrelevent" document that only pertained to the time it was written, at the end of the 18th Century. They have passed legislation to confiscate money from those they choose to subjugate and have illegally limited our right to "keep and bear arms" as written in the 2nd Amendment. They say weapons at the time were muskets and those are the only guns citizens are allowed to own. What they neglect to say is that the military of the day was also armed with muskets, meaning citizens were as well armed as the military. The Revolutionary War didn't start with the imposition of unjust taxes nor because of the Boston Massacre. Both were factors but the war began when British soldiers set out to confiscate guns from the colonists. Our founders didn't want to see that happen in the nation they forged so they made the right of citizens to be able to defend themselves a primary goal. There are NO exceptions or caveats to the wording but the ruling class simply ignores the protections our founders gave us. Abortion is another issue the godless tyrants like to promote, in opposition to the provision of a "right to life and liberty". An unwanted baby has no rights under the liberal definition. Calling that baby a "blob of tissue" gives anyone the right to terminate that life at any time for any reason. One day Almighty God will deal with those who sneer at His creation of life. What is most ironic to me about abortion is "planned parenthood", the main perpetrators of the murder of the unborn, is an organization started by a rabid racist with the idea to eradicate the black race from America. Black babies are aborted much more than any others so Margaret Sanger's plan is having an effect, not as well as she hoped, but it is killing a huge number of the people she hated so much. Democrat politicians, thought to be the champions of black people by many, are the ones pushing abortion and government funding of this murder of the most innocent of life. The same democrats who demand that unborn babies be murdered at will call capital punishment for rapists and murderers "cruel and unusual punishment". It will be very interesting to see them explain to God how He is wrong and they are right.

America's only hope is to turn back to God. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, "If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven , and will forgive their sin and heal their land". If Americans will take this verse to heart, pray it, and live it, God will do as He promised and heal our land. Sadly many people who claim to be Christians also embrace both abortion and the satanic cult of rape, torture, and murder they call islam. Gillibrand, like her democrat party co-conspirators, push the sin of homosexuality as an "alternate but equal" lifestyle to the one man one woman system established by Almighty God at the beginning of life on earth. The Holy Bible says that homosexuality, sodomy, is an abomination before God and that they will not see Heaven. Even that satanic cult of Islam decries homosexuality as sin. The difference is that Christians call for homosexuals to repent while the "religion of peace" kills them.  

Until this nation, especially Christians, gets back to putting God first it will continue to fall until it is gone. It is up to us, followers of Jesus Christ, to put His Words into action. If we wait until the heathens turn it will be too late to recover. 2 Chronicles 7:14 is not intended to get unbelievers to move; it was written to us, the people who are called by His name.  Gellibrand is part of the immoral, godless heathen class in this country, not one of the people "called by His name". It's time to get SERIOUS, people. It is imperative that Christian people live and pray 2 Chronicles 7:14, partially because those of us serious about getting our nation out of the toilet of sin overcome those who only pay lip service to God's Word, like the denominations promoting homosexuality by appointing open homosexuals to the position of bishops. Too many Christian "leaders" are more interested in pleasing liberals than in pleasing God. We have to overcome that attitude with prayer, right living, and the boldness to speak out for God and against God hating liberals and those who afraid to stand up for what they claim to believe. Jesus told His apostles, "before they hated you they hated Me". We are now the "you", at least those of us with the courage to stand on our faith and God's Word. Will you join with me to get our nation back where it used to be, a nation honoring and obeying God, in order to save it from destruction? Lot asked God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of only 5 righteous men but Lot couldn't find 5 righteous men. When Lot couldn't find 5 he was told to take his family and flee to the hills without looking back. His wife turned for one last look at her long time home and was turned into a pillar of salt. Only Lot and his two daughters survived the destruction of those towns. I don't want to see the USA become a modern day story of Sodom and Gomorrah so I ask for your help in saving it. I don't know how many will be needed to save the nation but the more the better. Let's give God a reason to preserve this once great nation, please join me in repentence, prayer, and seeking His face, and drawing others to the cause.

I submit this in the name of the Most Holy Trinity, in faith, with the responsibility given to me by Almighty God to honor His work and not let it die from neglect.

Bob Russell

Claremore, Oklahoma

July 23, 2019                         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Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition
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Hezbollah Attacks Israel: United Nations 
Force In Lebanon Fails To Keep Peace
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The Hezbollah terror group fired several anti-tank guided missiles at an army base and a military jeep just inside northern Israel’s border with Lebanon on Sunday afternoon, causing no injuries, the Israel Defense Forces said... Military sources said that the vehicle was empty when it was struck, but that soldiers had been inside half an hour earlier. IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus initially said that the armored jeep had been painted with a red Jewish star, identifying it as an ambulance, but later retracted the claim and clarified that the vehicle had been used as an ambulance but was not marked as such. In response to the attack, the Israeli military said its artillery cannons and attack helicopters fired approximately 100 shells and bombs at Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said no Israelis were so much as “scratched” by the Hezbollah attack. “There were no Israeli injuries, not even a scratch,” Netanyahu said, smiling, at the opening of a Honduras diplomatic office in Jerusalem. Clearly the United Nations Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has failed to maintain peace and ensure that Hezbollah stop their attacks on Israel. U.N. peacekeepers were sent to Lebanon in 1978 following the passage of U.N. Security resolutions 425 and 426. After the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.N. Security Council passed resolution 1701, which in part called on UNIFIL to assist the Lebanese military in establishing an area free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons other than the government and UNIFIL. The budget of UNIFIL for 2018-19 was $481 million. The U.S. is the biggest donor to U.N. peacekeeping, paying around a quarter of its total $6.5 billion budget...
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CA Court Overturns Conviction Against 
Steinle Killer
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Thomas Gallatin:  If there wasn’t already more than enough insult added to injury in the sad case of the death of Kate Steinle at the hands of a five-time deported illegal-alien felon, a California appeals court on Friday overturned the lone conviction against her killer. In the case against Mexican national Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate, the First District Court of Appeals overturned his felony possession of a weapon conviction on a seeming technicality. In its decision, the court noted that the trial judge failed to give the jury “the momentary possession instruction.” The court explained, “It is undisputed that defendant was holding the gun when it fired. But that fact alone does not establish he possessed the gun for more than a moment. To possess the gun, defendant had to know he was holding it.”
 

You might need to read that last sentence again.

So, as things currently stand, all charges surrounding Steinle’s death have been either dismissed or overturned. Even the Steinles’ civil suit against the city of San Francisco for its “sanctuary city” laws, which directly led to Garcia-Zarate being released rather than detained for immigration authorities, was dismissed earlier this year.

Upon hearing the news, acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli responded, “Kate Steinle was tragically killed because San Francisco proudly proclaims itself a sanctuary city. How many more innocents will die [before] sanctuary cities stop harboring violent criminals? This defies common sense, public safety, [and] human decency.”

The good news is, while California has failed to hold Garcia-Zarate accountable, he is still in custody facing federal charges for possessing a firearm and being in the U.S. illegally. That trial is scheduled to begin in January.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65199?mailing_id=4505&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4505&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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