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Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 4, 2020 at 9:52am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Actual vs. Counterfeit Intolerance

David Limbaugh

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Tuesday News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

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

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

Government & Politics

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

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

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

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

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

Culture & Heartland

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

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

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

Closing Arguments

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

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

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

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68339?mailing_id=4841&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4841&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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China Gut-Punched as 2nd Deadly

Disease Breaks Out

By Jack Davis

{ westernjournal.com } ~ The Chinese province adjacent to the one where the coronavirus first appeared is facing an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, according to news reports... What officials said was a highly pathogenic strain was reported in Hunan province, just south of Hunei province where the coronavirus-plagued city of Wuhan is located, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced Saturday, according to Reuters. The government reported that the outbreak took place on a farm that had 7,850 chickens, 4,500 of which died due to the disease. More than 17,000 poultry were later killed to avoid the spread of the disease, the government reported. The World Health Organization said the bird flu causes severe respiratory disease in birds and is contagious to humans. “Human cases of H5N1 avian influenza occur occasionally, but it is difficult to transmit the infection from person to person. When people do become infected, the mortality rate is about 60 percent,” WHO reported on its website. Despite the high mortality rate, WHO cautioned against panic. “Almost all cases of H5N1 infection in people have been associated with close contact with infected live or dead birds, or H5N1-contaminated environments. The virus does not infect humans easily, and spread from person to person appears to be unusual. There is no evidence that the disease can be spread to people through properly prepared and thoroughly cooked food,” the WHO said. However, the organization said that if the virus were to mutate and become easily transmissible to humans, there could be a major health concern. “H5N1 infection in humans can cause severe disease and has a high mortality rate. If the H5N1 virus were to change and become easily transmissible from person to person while retaining its capacity to cause severe disease, the consequences for public health could be very serious,” it said. This is not the first report of bird flu in China. Last June, an outbreak of H5N6 flu was reported in western China, according to Reuters, while in January another outbreak of H5N6 was reported there, according to another Reuters report. The bird flu outbreak comes as a gut-punch to a China already reeling from a coronavirus outbreak. As of Saturday, 259 Chinese had died from the virus and about 12,000 infections had been confirmed, according to The New York Times... https://www.westernjournal.com/china-gut-punched-2nd-deadly-disease-breaks/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance

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Importing Socialism

by ERIC PETERS

{ spectator.org } ~ One of the first things President Trump did after being elected was to take a pair of pliers to the teeth of socialized medicine — scumbag/liar-nObamacare — and rescind the “shared responsibility payment”... the massive fine applied to Americans who wanted nothing to do with socialized medicine and the costs it imposed. By getting rid of the “shared responsibility payment,” the president effectively got rid of scumbag/liar-nObamacare’s “individual mandate” to buy into socialized medicine, undermining the whole thing. So it’s ironic — and tragic — that the president who worked to get rid of homegrown medical socialism is importing socialized medicine from abroad. To be fair, it may not be the president who’s working to import medical socialism. It’s the permanent bureaucracy — aka the swamp. Which the president famously promised to drain. But it’s filling back up, courtesy of the bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services, which wants to tie the prices of drugs sold in the United States to the price-suppression of drugs in socialized countries. This is styled International Price Indexing — and it’s being presented to the public using the same superficially appealing but economically fraudulent arguments used to peddle scumbag/liar-nObamacare — which promised lower health care costs and more health care choices. But what did Americans end up with? The cost of health care coverage has increased massively since passage of the not-so-Affordable Care Act. Even the relentlessly pro-ACA New York Times admits — while trying not to — that the average cost of the lowest-tier and most meager coverage “silver” scumbag/liar-nObamacare plan for a family of four is currently $1,520 per month — more than the average family’s monthly mortgage costs and equivalent to about a third of the average family’s annual pre-tax income. Part of the reason mandated coverage costs as much as it does is precisely because it is mandated. When you can’t say no to something, the price of that something tends to be higher — and lower quality. For example, it has become almost impossible to buy just a high-deductible/low premium catastrophic coverage plan. Single men without children are required to buy maternity coverage; people who don’t drink are forced to “bundle” substance abuse counseling — and pay for it, too. Another cost takes the form of absence. Fewer — or no — choices. The things which people don’t notice they haven’t got — because they were never produced... https://spectator.org/importing-socialism/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=841e4eeeb8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_03_02_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-841e4eeeb8-104608113

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Europe Cowers in Front of Iran and Hezbollah

by Soeren Kern

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The British finance ministry has added the entirety of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah — Arabic for "The Party of Allah"... to its sanctions list and has ordered a freeze on any assets it may have in the United Kingdom. The move, aimed at cracking down on Hezbollah's fundraising activities in Britain, adds increased enforcement teeth to the British government's February 2019 decision no longer to distinguish between Hezbollah's military and political wings and to classify the entire organization as a terrorist group. With the exception of the Netherlands, which outlawed all of Hezbollah in 2004, the UK now has the most comprehensive set of sanctions against the terrorist group in Europe. Being a member of, or providing support for, Hezbollah is a crime in Britain punishable by up to ten years in prison. In a so-called General Notice of Final Designation dated January 17, 2020, the Office of Financial Sanctions of the British Treasury ordered financial institutions in the UK to check whether they hold any accounts, funds or economic resources for, or provide financial services to, Hezbollah; freeze such accounts, and other funds or economic resources; suspend the provision of any financial services to Hezbollah; and report any findings to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), in compliance with the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Act 2010 (TAFA). The British Treasury noted: "Hezbollah itself has publicly denied a distinction between its military and political wings. The group in its entirety is assessed to be concerned in terrorism and was proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK in March 2019. This listing includes the Military Wing, the Jihad Council and all units reporting to it, including the External Security Organization." Britain joins the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, Israel, the 22-member Arab League, the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council as well as Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay in making no distinction between Hezbollah's military and civilian wings. In all, more than 30 countries have banned the group in its entirety... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15510/europe-iran-hezbollah

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Millions Of People Are Still Slaves Across

The World, Including In The United States

By Christina Villegas and Vicki Alger

{ thefederalist.com } ~ National Freedom Day commemorates the joint resolution submitting the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery to the states, signed by President Lincoln on February 1, 1865... Today, slavery has been outlawed in every country, and we frequently treat it as a relic of the past. “Slavery is like polio,” as The Economist once noted. “Most westerners associate it with earlier, darker times in human history. Its eradication is a sign of human progress.” If only.Despite the strides made over the last 155 years, slavery is alive and well. Slavery—the subjection of human beings to absolute, uninhibited, and unaccountable power—remains, in the words of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, “the most abject, the most terrible bondage every imposed on any portion of mankind.” As in centuries past, its “grand aim…always and everywhere, is to reduce man to a level with the brute.” Over the past two decades, efforts to combat a wider array of forms of modern slavery have intensified. In October 2000 Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), which has been reauthorized several times since, most recently in January 2019. In November 2000, the United Nations adopted the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, often referred to as the Palermo Protocol, to supplement the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. While these measures are intended to promote international cooperation in combatting modern slavery, the term “trafficking” suggests that it is largely a transnational problem involving organized crime networks in far-away places. Most Americans, for example, think human trafficking requires movement across state or international borders. In reality, more than three-fourths of all modern slavery victims worldwide are exploited in their countries of residence—this is particularly true of victims of non-sexual forced labor. Still, quantifying the extent of human trafficking remains challenging and controversial. The International Labour Office and Walk Free Foundation estimate that at least 40 million individuals worldwide were believed to be victims of forced labor and forced marriage in 2016, including more than 400,000 victims in the United States. Such figures have been criticized for being too high. Estimates from various American government agencies are far lower, but those estimates are also plagued by inconsistent definitions and methodological weaknesses, raising concerns that the number of modern slavery victims in the Unites States may be under-reported... https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/03/millions-of-people-are-still-slaves-across-the-world-including-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=577e605db4-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-577e605db4-83771801

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Is the Coronavirus Outbreak

China's Chernobyl?

By Dexter Wright

{ americanthinker.com } ~ To refresh our memories, it was in 1986 when the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and was burning as the solid fuel rods of Uranium melted down... The smoke and steam from the fire and firefighting spread across Northern Europe and the Russian steppes. The number of deaths attributed to this disaster could be as high as 100,000 but accepted estimates are closer to 27,000. It was the failure of the Soviet system in dealing with a coordinated response that shook the faith of the people. They began to question whether the Soviet government had abandoned the interests of the people in favor of propaganda. The conclusion was that it certainly was not the health and welfare of the people which was first and foremost in Soviet governmental policy. Gorbachev himself wrote in 2006: “The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl… was perhaps the true cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” It is clear that Gorbachev could not bring himself to admit that it was Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy which was the underlying cause. Regardless of the causes of the collapse, it seems history is about to repeat itself. The outbreak in People’s Republic of China (PRC) has led to a declaration of a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). In the 2019 WHO report of the ten most likely threats to global health, an influenza pandemic was in the top three. In light if recent events, it seems that it should have been listed as the number one threat. Just as with the Chernobyl cover-up, there are indications that the outbreak of the corona virus is much more severe than has been admitted by the communist government. There are reports that the PRC is digging mass graves and burning bodies to deal with the death toll. If true, then the actual death toll is well above the 170 officially stated by President Xi Jinping’s government. Unlike the trade war or the Hong Kong protest, Xi cannot blame this outbreak on foreign powers. This was also the case with the Chernobyl meltdown. The questions about the official statements concerning the epicenter of the outbreak being a wild game market are being raised. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) issued this statement: "I would note that Wuhan has China's only biosafety level-four super laboratory that works with the world's most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus," Some scientists now speculate that the government of the PRC was using this lab to devise a biowarfare pathogen...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/is_the_coronavirus_outbreak_chinas_chernobyl.html

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IT’S JOHN BOLTON’S TURN

by Paul Mirengoff

{ powerlineblog.com } ~ So now it’s John Bolton who, in the name of defending President Trump, is to be demonized by conservatives. Some conservatives will find the task an easy one... Bolton is a foreign policy/national security hawk. Many conservatives have become rather dovish. But many other conservatives have continued to admire, or at least respect, Bolton. We like his hard line stance against America’s worst enemies, especially Iran. Bolton has plenty of company under the Trump bus. Some of it is good company. Jeff Sessions was a conservative hero of longstanding. But he fell out of favor for the sin of meeting his ethical obligations as Attorney General and declining, in his capacity as AG, to act as Trump’s consigliere. After his dismissal, Sessions declined to say anything adverse to Trump’s interests. Sessions is a gracious man and he wanted to return to the Senate. Bolton, by most accounts, isn’t gracious and he has no intention of running for office. Thus, he felt no need to hold back when writing about the Trump administration. But that doesn’t mean he deserves to be demonized. He does deserve to be demonized if he has written falsely about Trump. However, there is no reason to believe that what he has written about Trump’s Ukraine policy, or what Trump told him about it, is false. Anyone who has taken the trouble to review the record with even a half-open mind should conclude that Trump’s policy was, as Bolton says Trump told him, to withhold aid to Ukraine for the purpose of inducing that country’s government to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens or at least announce that it would do so. Nor is there any reason to believe that Bolton was okay with Trump’s policy until Trump fired him — though even if this were the case, it wouldn’t show that the policy was other than what Bolton described. Fiona Hill, who worked closely with Bolton at the White House, testified that Bolton analogized the effort to induce Ukraine to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens to a “drug deal.” Obviously, he was disgusted by it before Trump sacked him. Bolton’s August statement that Trump and Ukraine’s president had cordial phone conversations is not at all inconsistent with Bolton’s account of what Trump told him about his Ukraine policy... https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/its-john-boltons-turn.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29

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Actual vs. Counterfeit Intolerance

David Limbaugh

One of the most revealing things about the leftist mindset is the usual leftist’s lack of self-awareness about his own intolerance, hatefulness and inclusiveness — unless you distort all those terms to whitewash the reality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 4, 2020 at 8:38am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

DOB -- The New ID

None really, except as another ID

by Tom McLaughlin

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Lindsey Graham: Senate Intelligence

Committee will call Ukraine whistleblower

by Daniel Chaitin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Senate Intelligence Committee plans to call the whistleblower whose complaint was the impetus for impeachment proceedings against President Trump, according to a top Republican senator... With impeachment headed to a likely acquittal next week, Sen. Lindsey Graham described on Sunday how Republicans in the chamber are gearing up for investigations on three fronts. "The Senate Intel Committee under Richard Burr has told us that they will call the whistleblower," the South Carolina Republican said on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures. "I want to understand how all this crap started," he added. The impeachment effort began to take root with the emergence last year of a whistleblower complaint raising concerns about a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the American leader pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens and other Democrats. The complaint, which the intelligence community inspector general determined to be urgent and credible, was submitted by a CIA analyst whose identity has never been publicly confirmed. Republicans have accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, who is now the lead impeachment manager, of being "complicit" with the whistleblower because the person met with a House Intelligence Committee aide seeking guidance before filing the complaint and because the California Democrat recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA official some believe to be the whistleblower at the NSC in the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administrations. "If the whistleblower is a former employee of — associate of loose lips liar-Joe Biden, I think that would be important. If the whistleblower was working with people on scumbag/liar-Schiff’s staff that wanted to take Trump down a year-and-a-half ago, I think that would be important. If the scumbag/liar-Schiff staff people helped write the complaint, that would be important. We’re going to get to the bottom of all of this to make sure this never happens again," Graham said...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-senate-intelligence-committee-will-call-ukraine-whistleblower?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_02/02/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

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US seeks normali.zation of

ties between Israel, Arab states

By OMRI NAHMIAS

{ jpost.com } ~ The US is actively pursuing normalization between Israel and numerous Arab countries in the Middle East... a senior White House official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday just a day after the Arab League rejected the administration’s new peace plan. “We are getting close on our work on normalization,” the official said. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive relations between the White House and Arab countries, said that three measures were currently on the agenda: non-belligerency agreements with Israel, direct flights between Israel and Arab countries, and allowing Israel officials to attend events in Arab countries. "We have been working behind the scenes to get it ready," he said. Last week, ambassadors from Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates attended the unveiling of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, often referred to as the “Deal of the Century.” Their attendance was seen as a warming of ties between Israel and the Arab world. The remarks from the US official came in wake of the Palestinian decision to reject the administration's peace plan. A few media reports indicated frustration among Arab countries from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to take a call from President Donald Trump just days before the White House ceremony. However, the official noted that moving forward with normalization between Israel and Arab countries is not a step meant to replace the peace plan. "It's an initiative led by Jared Kushner, together with his work on the peace plan," the official said. "It is a separate track that the team has been working on for a while. After we released the plan, we saw that the reaction in the Arab street is very moderate and that many of the Arab leaders were ready to do it," the official continued. "When only Turkey and Iran said that they are against the plan, people in the Arab world realized that a line had been drawn." The official wouldn't say when the first agreement would be reached. "We don't like to set timelines, but there is a ton of momentum," for official added. https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-seeks-normalization-of-ties-between-Israel-Arab-states-616261

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U.S. Universities Set up Front-Line

Defenses to Keep Coronavirus at Bay

by ijr.com ~ On its sprawling campus in America’s heartland, thousands of miles from China, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has taken aggressive steps... to keep the fast-spreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students. The school, with one of the highest percentages of Chinese students among U.S. universities, has suspended academic programs in China for the spring semester and banned students from traveling to the country for academic-related matters. It has advised faculty and staff to follow federal travel advisories that, as of Friday, warned against going to China. “We want to take all of the precautions we can so, in the worst-case scenario, we keep our community healthy,” said Robin Kaler, associate chancellor for public affairs at the University of Illinois, 135 miles (217 km) south of Chicago, where the first human-to-human transmission of the disease in the United States was confirmed last week. More than 350,000 Chinese students are pursuing higher education in the United States and 10,000 American students are enrolled in academic programs in China. The sheer number of the students, many of whom have traveled to their home country in recent weeks, makes schools a potential incubator for a widespread outbreak in the United States, given the close proximity of dormitory life. “Colleges and universities are very much on the front line of those because of our role as global institutions,” Sarah Van Orman, chief health officer at the University of Southern California (USC) said. “The challenge is making sure that we are being prudent without overstating the risk.” In dealing with the new outbreak, officials at U.S. colleges and universities can draw from their experiences with previous public health scares, including the 2003 outbreak of the SARS coronavirus...

https://ijr.com/universities-front-line-defenses-keep-coronavirus-at-bay/

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Alleged Al Qaeda Leader Arrested In Arizona,

Where He Taught Driving School

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ A man who the Iraqi government says was the leader of an Al Qaeda cell who took part in the murders of two Iraqi police officers was arrested Thursday in Phoenix... where he reportedly taught driving school. Authorities arrested Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, following an extradition request from Iraq, federal prosecutors said Friday. An Iraqi judge issued a warrant for Al-Nouri’s arrest on May 12, 2019 on charges that he took part in the premeditated murder of two police officers in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2006. Prosecutors said that the Iraqis believe Al-Nouri was a leader of the Al Qaeda cell in Fallujah, a stronghold for the terrorist group, which Osama bin Laden led at the time. A complaint against Al-Nouri unsealed Friday says that he led an Al Qaeda group on a mission to kill Iraqi police officers. The group allegedly ambushed and murdered officer Issam Ahmed Hussein on June 1, 2006 and officer Khalid Ibrahim Mohammad on Oct. 3, 2006. Al-Nouri will be held in federal custody until his extradition hearing, where a judge will review information the Iraqis provided. It is unclear when Al-Nouri came to the U.S. He ran A-Plus Driving School in Phoenix, according to The Arizona Republic. Business records show that Al-Nouri formed the company on June 22, 2016. How did he ever get into the USA. https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/02/al-qaeda-leader-arrested-phoenix/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11826

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A Global Catastrophe: "260 Million Christians Experience High Levels of Persecution"

by Raymond Ibrahim

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The global persecution of Christians has reached unprecedented levels: "260 million Christians experience high levels of persecution" around the world... notes the recently published Open Doors World Watch List 2020, an annual report that ranks the top 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted for their faith. Additionally, "2,983 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons. On average, that's 8 Christians killed every day for their faith": "9,488 churches or Christian buildings were attacked," and "3,711 Christians were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned." Note: All quotes in this article are from the World Watch List 2020 report. Dictatorial paranoia continues to make North Korea (#1) the worst nation. "If North Korean Christians are discovered, they are deported to labor camps as political criminals or even killed on the spot." Otherwise, and as has been the case in all statistics and reports on the global persecution of Christians, not only does "Islamic oppression" remain the chief "source of persecution" faced by Christians in seven of the absolute ten worst nations, but 38 of the 50 nations composing the list are either Muslim-majority or have a sizeable Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of these Muslim nations are governed by some form of shari'a Islamic law. It is either directly enforced by government or society or, more frequently, both, though societies — family members in particular — tend to be more zealous in its application. Brief summaries of the seven Muslim nations making the top ten follow: Afghanistan (#2), In Somalia (#3), In Libya (#4), Pakistan (#5), In Sudan (#7), In Yemen (#8), In Iran (#9), Africa... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15507/christians-persecution-global-catastrophe

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Alarm sounded on brand-new

and even scarier EMP threat

by wnd.com ~ Triggering a devastating electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack that could kill millions is easier than many believe... according to a report by the Military Cyber Professionals Association. But the report describes another method of generating an attack as the "poor man's EMP nuke." An "amateur or terrorist" organization could easily generate an EMP that would disable the infrastructure or the electric grid through devices such as a Tesla coil or a Marx generator. Invented in 1891 by Nikola Tesla, the coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. A Marx generator is an electrical circuit, first described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924, that generates a high-voltage pulse from a low-voltage DC supply." Another device that can be an EMP source is the camera flash. This device may be an issue if a terrorist connects it to the wiring of a fly-by-wire jet," the report said. EMP is a high energy, short duration discharge of radio frequency energy that can disable electromechanical devices. "It's particularly toxic at lower energy levels to microprocessors and computers," the report said. "It can be created by a hydrogen bomb explosion at an altitude far above the surface of the Earth. A Marx generator or Tesla coil can also generate it. Other sources of EMP can be naturally occurring phenomena: Lightning, solar flares, and coronal mass discharges from the Sun can also produce EMP," the report said. The threat from an EMP has been proven, the report noted. In 1962, the starfish hydrogen bomb test knocked out 300 street lights and telephone service in Hawaii, 890 miles away. "A potent coil can be built for about $2000 within the means of any amateur or terrorist. The ground connects the whole electrical system, and there is no remediation if you create impulses into the ground system. When you open a circuit breaker with 3-phase power, it does not disconnect the ground," the report said. That should be a worry... https://www.wnd.com/2020/02/alarm-sounded-brand-new-even-scarier-emp-threat/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking

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DOB -- The New ID

None really, except as another ID

by Tom McLaughlin

{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ What’s your date of birth? That’s increasingly how the world knows you. Mine is April 7, 1951. Even to get meals in the hospital they ask me for my DOB. I spent most of last week there for a chronic medical condition you never heard of: Buerger’s Disease. That’s not to be confused with Berger’s Disease which is a kidney problem. Mine, with the “U,” manifests in blood vessels. I get aneurysms and blood clots —so far all in my left leg — and I’ve had seven bypasses over the past 35 years all in the same place (so far), inside my left knee.

Vascular surgeons take veins from other places and make them into arteries to get around the clots but I’m running out of suitable veins. Last week, my new surgeon used plastic to firm up an aneurysm and a fabric tube to channel blood. This incision is fifteen inches long. There are scars up and down both legs from groin to ankle. Nearly all of us have something we struggle with. This is my thing.

My brother, Dan

The only other person I ever knew with Buerger’s Disease was my brother and he was dead at 57 by which time he’d lost all his fingers and both legs above the knee. He couldn’t stop smoking and it’s tobacco products that accelerate the disease. I could, so I still have all my parts. For that, I’m grateful. Blood is still getting to my foot — today — so it’s still alive. I’m learning to stay in the day and today is good. I’m getting around with a walker; soon I’ll graduate to a cane; then to a limp. After that I hope to resume running — not too far. I don’t get enough blood down there to go far, but I can still go few hundred yards before cramping up. I hate doing it, but it feels good afterward.

Between three and four million people were born in the USA during 1951. Divide 3.5 million by 365 and you get 9589 born on April 7, 1951. At my 50th high school reunion last fall, I learned that about a third of my class of 1969 are dead. That would be 3164 of the 9589 Americans born on my birthday leaving 6425 — approximately how many Americans born on 4/7/51 are alive today. Darn few of them are named McLaughlin, so, that’s how I’m known: “McLaughlin 4/7/51.” At 68, I’ve lived about 25,000 days. How many more? I don’t go there. I stay in this day.

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I’m asked about my birthday so often I’ve started making light of the question. “You don’t have to get me anything,” I answer. “Just a card or a happy birthday on Facebook is fine.” At least dozens, maybe a hundred times lately, I’ve been asked if I’m allergic to anything. “I’m developing an allergy to Democrats,” I’ll quip. Some people chuckle at that, but most declare vehemently: “No politics! That’s off limits.” “Okay,” I say, “How about humor? Is that off limits too?”

Another thing I’ve been asked a lot is: “Have you had any anxiety or depression lately?” First I just look at them for a second, then say, “Only when I watch the debates.” Most let that go without getting upset.

My brother and I were each diagnosed with Buerger’s Disease when we were 33 years old. He was born April 1, 1955 — almost exactly four years after I was. We had identical surgeries by the same doctor at Mass General. We were even in the same room four years apart. I stopped smoking but continued going to pool tournaments at smoky pool halls and my disease progressed. My aneurysms and clots diminished only when I gave that up too. My brother couldn't quit tobacco and ultimately died after enduring 52 separate amputations. From him, I learned the power of addiction.

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Me in the middle. Dan second from right.

Near his end, he was contacted by one of the Florida attorneys involved in the multi-billion dollar tobacco settlement of 1998. Though Buerger’s Disease is rare, it’s very easily linked to tobacco in all forms and he wanted to represent my brother in another lawsuit. For him to appear in court minus so many of his parts would, of course, be dramatic, and the tobacco companies would likely settle long before that. He wanted me to join the suit but I refused. That caused a rift between us. I always knew smoking was bad and so did he. No one forced us to do it. The suit was thrown out, but not because of his death. The attorney could have continued on behalf of his estate. It was because of something to do with the statute of limitations between when he was diagnosed and when his suit was filed.

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I have a cemetery plot and a stone engraved with my birthdate. Someone else will arrange to engrave the next date. No hurry.

https://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2020/02/dob-new-id.html

Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 4, 2020 at 8:31am

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~ Featuring ~

DOB -- The New ID

None really, except as another ID

by Tom McLaughlin

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Lindsey Graham: Senate Intelligence

Committee will call Ukraine whistleblower

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by Daniel Chaitin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Senate Intelligence Committee plans to call the whistleblower whose complaint was the impetus for impeachment proceedings against President Trump, according to a top Republican senator... With impeachment headed to a likely acquittal next week, Sen. Lindsey Graham described on Sunday how Republicans in the chamber are gearing up for investigations on three fronts. "The Senate Intel Committee under Richard Burr has told us that they will call the whistleblower," the South Carolina Republican said on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures. "I want to understand how all this crap started," he added. The impeachment effort began to take root with the emergence last year of a whistleblower complaint raising concerns about a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the American leader pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens and other Democrats. The complaint, which the intelligence community inspector general determined to be urgent and credible, was submitted by a CIA analyst whose identity has never been publicly confirmed. Republicans have accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, who is now the lead impeachment manager, of being "complicit" with the whistleblower because the person met with a House Intelligence Committee aide seeking guidance before filing the complaint and because the California Democrat recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA official some believe to be the whistleblower at the NSC in the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administrations. "If the whistleblower is a former employee of — associate of loose lips liar-Joe Biden, I think that would be important. If the whistleblower was working with people on scumbag/liar-Schiff’s staff that wanted to take Trump down a year-and-a-half ago, I think that would be important. If the scumbag/liar-Schiff staff people helped write the complaint, that would be important. We’re going to get to the bottom of all of this to make sure this never happens again," Graham said...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-senate-intelligence-committee-will-call-ukraine-whistleblower?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_02/02/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

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US seeks normalization of

ties between Israel, Arab states

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By OMRI NAHMIAS

{ jpost.com } ~ The US is actively pursuing normalization between Israel and numerous Arab countries in the Middle East... a senior White House official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday just a day after the Arab League rejected the administration’s new peace plan. “We are getting close on our work on normalization,” the official said. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive relations between the White House and Arab countries, said that three measures were currently on the agenda: non-belligerency agreements with Israel, direct flights between Israel and Arab countries, and allowing Israel officials to attend events in Arab countries. "We have been working behind the scenes to get it ready," he said. Last week, ambassadors from Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates attended the unveiling of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, often referred to as the “Deal of the Century.” Their attendance was seen as a warming of ties between Israel and the Arab world. The remarks from the US official came in wake of the Palestinian decision to reject the administration's peace plan. A few media reports indicated frustration among Arab countries from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to take a call from President Donald Trump just days before the White House ceremony. However, the official noted that moving forward with normalization between Israel and Arab countries is not a step meant to replace the peace plan. "It's an initiative led by Jared Kushner, together with his work on the peace plan," the official said. "It is a separate track that the team has been working on for a while. After we released the plan, we saw that the reaction in the Arab street is very moderate and that many of the Arab leaders were ready to do it," the official continued. "When only Turkey and Iran said that they are against the plan, people in the Arab world realized that a line had been drawn." The official wouldn't say when the first agreement would be reached. "We don't like to set timelines, but there is a ton of momentum," for official added. https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-seeks-normalization-of-ties-between-Israel-Arab-states-616261

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U.S. Universities Set up Front-Line

Defenses to Keep Coronavirus at Bay

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by ijr.com ~ On its sprawling campus in America’s heartland, thousands of miles from China, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has taken aggressive steps... to keep the fast-spreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students. The school, with one of the highest percentages of Chinese students among U.S. universities, has suspended academic programs in China for the spring semester and banned students from traveling to the country for academic-related matters. It has advised faculty and staff to follow federal travel advisories that, as of Friday, warned against going to China. “We want to take all of the precautions we can so, in the worst-case scenario, we keep our community healthy,” said Robin Kaler, associate chancellor for public affairs at the University of Illinois, 135 miles (217 km) south of Chicago, where the first human-to-human transmission of the disease in the United States was confirmed last week. More than 350,000 Chinese students are pursuing higher education in the United States and 10,000 American students are enrolled in academic programs in China. The sheer number of the students, many of whom have traveled to their home country in recent weeks, makes schools a potential incubator for a widespread outbreak in the United States, given the close proximity of dormitory life. “Colleges and universities are very much on the front line of those because of our role as global institutions,” Sarah Van Orman, chief health officer at the University of Southern California (USC) said. “The challenge is making sure that we are being prudent without overstating the risk.” In dealing with the new outbreak, officials at U.S. colleges and universities can draw from their experiences with previous public health scares, including the 2003 outbreak of the SARS coronavirus...

https://ijr.com/universities-front-line-defenses-keep-coronavirus-at-bay/

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Alleged Al Qaeda Leader Arrested In Arizona,

Where He Taught Driving School

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by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ A man who the Iraqi government says was the leader of an Al Qaeda cell who took part in the murders of two Iraqi police officers was arrested Thursday in Phoenix... where he reportedly taught driving school. Authorities arrested Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, following an extradition request from Iraq, federal prosecutors said Friday. An Iraqi judge issued a warrant for Al-Nouri’s arrest on May 12, 2019 on charges that he took part in the premeditated murder of two police officers in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2006. Prosecutors said that the Iraqis believe Al-Nouri was a leader of the Al Qaeda cell in Fallujah, a stronghold for the terrorist group, which Osama bin Laden led at the time. A complaint against Al-Nouri unsealed Friday says that he led an Al Qaeda group on a mission to kill Iraqi police officers. The group allegedly ambushed and murdered officer Issam Ahmed Hussein on June 1, 2006 and officer Khalid Ibrahim Mohammad on Oct. 3, 2006. Al-Nouri will be held in federal custody until his extradition hearing, where a judge will review information the Iraqis provided. It is unclear when Al-Nouri came to the U.S. He ran A-Plus Driving School in Phoenix, according to The Arizona Republic. Business records show that Al-Nouri formed the company on June 22, 2016. How did he ever get into the USA.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/02/al-qaeda-leader-arrested-phoenix/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11826

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A Global Catastrophe: "260 Million Christians Experience High Levels of Persecution"

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by Raymond Ibrahim

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The global persecution of Christians has reached unprecedented levels: "260 million Christians experience high levels of persecution" around the world... notes the recently published Open Doors World Watch List 2020, an annual report that ranks the top 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted for their faith. Additionally, "2,983 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons. On average, that's 8 Christians killed every day for their faith": "9,488 churches or Christian buildings were attacked," and "3,711 Christians were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned." Note: All quotes in this article are from the World Watch List 2020 report. Dictatorial paranoia continues to make North Korea (#1) the worst nation. "If North Korean Christians are discovered, they are deported to labor camps as political criminals or even killed on the spot." Otherwise, and as has been the case in all statistics and reports on the global persecution of Christians, not only does "Islamic oppression" remain the chief "source of persecution" faced by Christians in seven of the absolute ten worst nations, but 38 of the 50 nations composing the list are either Muslim-majority or have a sizeable Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of these Muslim nations are governed by some form of shari'a Islamic law. It is either directly enforced by government or society or, more frequently, both, though societies — family members in particular — tend to be more zealous in its application. Brief summaries of the seven Muslim nations making the top ten follow: Afghanistan (#2), In Somalia (#3), In Libya (#4), Pakistan (#5), In Sudan (#7), In Yemen (#8), In Iran (#9), Africa... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15507/christians-persecution-global-catastrophe

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Alarm sounded on brand-new

and even scarier EMP threat

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by wnd.com ~ Triggering a devastating electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack that could kill millions is easier than many believe... according to a report by the Military Cyber Professionals Association. But the report describes another method of generating an attack as the "poor man's EMP nuke." An "amateur or terrorist" organization could easily generate an EMP that would disable the infrastructure or the electric grid through devices such as a Tesla coil or a Marx generator. Invented in 1891 by Nikola Tesla, the coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. A Marx generator is an electrical circuit, first described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924, that generates a high-voltage pulse from a low-voltage DC supply." Another device that can be an EMP source is the camera flash. This device may be an issue if a terrorist connects it to the wiring of a fly-by-wire jet," the report said. EMP is a high energy, short duration discharge of radio frequency energy that can disable electromechanical devices. "It's particularly toxic at lower energy levels to microprocessors and computers," the report said. "It can be created by a hydrogen bomb explosion at an altitude far above the surface of the Earth. A Marx generator or Tesla coil can also generate it. Other sources of EMP can be naturally occurring phenomena: Lightning, solar flares, and coronal mass discharges from the Sun can also produce EMP," the report said. The threat from an EMP has been proven, the report noted. In 1962, the starfish hydrogen bomb test knocked out 300 street lights and telephone service in Hawaii, 890 miles away. "A potent coil can be built for about $2000 within the means of any amateur or terrorist. The ground connects the whole electrical system, and there is no remediation if you create impulses into the ground system. When you open a circuit breaker with 3-phase power, it does not disconnect the ground," the report said. That should be a worry... https://www.wnd.com/2020/02/alarm-sounded-brand-new-even-scarier-emp-threat/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking

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DOB -- The New ID

None really, except as another ID

by Tom McLaughlin

{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ What’s your date of birth? That’s increasingly how the world knows you. Mine is April 7, 1951. Even to get meals in the hospital they ask me for my DOB. I spent most of last week there for a chronic medical condition you never heard of: Buerger’s Disease. That’s not to be confused with Berger’s Disease which is a kidney problem. Mine, with the “U,” manifests in blood vessels. I get aneurysms and blood clots —so far all in my left leg — and I’ve had seven bypasses over the past 35 years all in the same place (so far), inside my left knee.

Vascular surgeons take veins from other places and make them into arteries to get around the clots but I’m running out of suitable veins. Last week, my new surgeon used plastic to firm up an aneurysm and a fabric tube to channel blood. This incision is fifteen inches long. There are scars up and down both legs from groin to ankle. Nearly all of us have something we struggle with. This is my thing.

My brother, Dan

The only other person I ever knew with Buerger’s Disease was my brother and he was dead at 57 by which time he’d lost all his fingers and both legs above the knee. He couldn’t stop smoking and it’s tobacco products that accelerate the disease. I could, so I still have all my parts. For that, I’m grateful. Blood is still getting to my foot — today — so it’s still alive. I’m learning to stay in the day and today is good. I’m getting around with a walker; soon I’ll graduate to a cane; then to a limp. After that I hope to resume running — not too far. I don’t get enough blood down there to go far, but I can still go few hundred yards before cramping up. I hate doing it, but it feels good afterward.

Between three and four million people were born in the USA during 1951. Divide 3.5 million by 365 and you get 9589 born on April 7, 1951. At my 50th high school reunion last fall, I learned that about a third of my class of 1969 are dead. That would be 3164 of the 9589 Americans born on my birthday leaving 6425 — approximately how many Americans born on 4/7/51 are alive today. Darn few of them are named McLaughlin, so, that’s how I’m known: “McLaughlin 4/7/51.” At 68, I’ve lived about 25,000 days. How many more? I don’t go there. I stay in this day.

I’m asked about my birthday so often I’ve started making light of the question. “You don’t have to get me anything,” I answer. “Just a card or a happy birthday on Facebook is fine.” At least dozens, maybe a hundred times lately, I’ve been asked if I’m allergic to anything. “I’m developing an allergy to Democrats,” I’ll quip. Some people chuckle at that, but most declare vehemently: “No politics! That’s off limits.” “Okay,” I say, “How about humor? Is that off limits too?”

Another thing I’ve been asked a lot is: “Have you had any anxiety or depression lately?” First I just look at them for a second, then say, “Only when I watch the debates.” Most let that go without getting upset.

My brother and I were each diagnosed with Buerger’s Disease when we were 33 years old. He was born April 1, 1955 — almost exactly four years after I was. We had identical surgeries by the same doctor at Mass General. We were even in the same room four years apart. I stopped smoking but continued going to pool tournaments at smoky pool halls and my disease progressed. My aneurysms and clots diminished only when I gave that up too. My brother couldn't quit tobacco and ultimately died after enduring 52 separate amputations. From him, I learned the power of addiction.

Me in the middle. Dan second from right.

Near his end, he was contacted by one of the Florida attorneys involved in the multi-billion dollar tobacco settlement of 1998. Though Buerger’s Disease is rare, it’s very easily linked to tobacco in all forms and he wanted to represent my brother in another lawsuit. For him to appear in court minus so many of his parts would, of course, be dramatic, and the tobacco companies would likely settle long before that. He wanted me to join the suit but I refused. That caused a rift between us. I always knew smoking was bad and so did he. No one forced us to do it. The suit was thrown out, but not because of his death. The attorney could have continued on behalf of his estate. It was because of something to do with the statute of limitations between when he was diagnosed and when his suit was filed.

I have a cemetery plot and a stone engraved with my birthdate. Someone else will arrange to engrave the next date. No hurry.

https://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2020/02/dob-new-id.html

Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 3, 2020 at 4:12pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

'Compassionate' Dems Just

Can't Solve Homelessness

Brian Mark Weber

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Chief Justice Roberts Is Right: An Unelected

Official Should Not Cast Tie-Breaking Votes

By Erielle Davidson

{ thefederalist.com } ~ On Friday evening, Chief Justice John Roberts announced that should a tie arise during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, he would not step in to break it... Given the near-even split of the Senate along party lines, Roberts’ comments put an end to the extensive speculation that had been bubbling around Washington. Senate Minority leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer prompted Chief Justice Roberts by asking the Justice if he was aware of two instances in which Chief Justice Salmon Chase made tie-breaking votes in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Johnson’s impeachment was the first in our nation’s history, resulting from frequent clashes between the Republican-controlled Congress and then-President Johnson, who repeatedly vetoed legislation designed to protect newly freed slaves. Roberts informed scumbag-Schumer that he was aware of Chief Justice Chase’s voting history, but that he would not be conducting himself in the same manner, should a tie arise. Chase’s two tie-breaking votes were with regards to a motion to adjourn and a motion to end deliberations. Roberts addressed the significance of these two scenarios by stating, “I do not regard those isolated episodes 150 years ago as sufficient to support a general authority to break ties.” “If the members of this body, elected by the people and accountable to them, divide equally on a motion, normal rule is that the motion fails. I think it would be inappropriate for me, an unelected official from a different branch of government, to assert the power to change that result so that the motion would succeed,” he explained...

https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/01/chief-justice-roberts-is-right-an-unelected-official-should-not-break-ties/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=7dfcc6294f-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-7dfcc6294f-83771801

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Steve Bannon Discusses “The

Crime of the Century”, the “Soft Coup”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Steve Bannon appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss ongoing political events. At the beginning of the interview Bannon focuses exactly on the issue that is paramount to the American population... but is being avoided by politicians like Senator Lindsey Graham and institutional leaders like AG Bill Barr. Until there is a process to bring a formal reckoning, sunlight upon the entire enterprise, there will be unending attacks by resistance operatives within the administrative state. Steve Bannon also highlights the plan of the administrative state to diminish the successful accomplishments of President Trump and weaponize the Senate floor speeches to cast a cloud on the State of the Union speech. Indeed, Mitch McConnell has set up the schedule for maximum damage before acquittal.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/02/sunday-talks-steve-bannon-discusses-the-crime-of-the-century-the-soft-coup/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBsIIPvD6M&feature=emb_title

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Barr: The Real People Trying To ‘Impose Their Values’ On Others Are ‘Militant Secularists’

By Joy Pullmann

{ thefederalist.com } ~ U.S. Attorney General William Barr clapped back at leftwing hysteria over his support of the First Amendment Tuesday in an interview with Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Sirius XM... “I feel today religion is being driven out of the marketplace of ideas and there’s a organized militant secular effort to drive religion out of our lives,” Barr told Dolan. “To me the problem today is not that religious people are trying to impose their views on nonreligious people, it’s the opposite — it’s that militant secularists are trying to impose their values on religious people and they’re not accommodating the freedom of religion of people of faith.”Since developing similar ideas in depth in several public talks, Barr has been the subject of a series of hit pieces in publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker. It’s not just his full-throated defense of the natural right to obey one’s conscience above one’s government that gets their goat. Barr’s concern for the rule of law, fair play, and due process especially about Russian collusion and impeachment have also brought out the knives. A particularly unhinged — and error-riddled — 10,000-word New Yorker article by David Rohde may have made one accurate assessment: “Barr is the most feared, criticized, and effective member of Trump’s Cabinet.” There is certainly some relationship between the left’s fear and the right’s effectiveness, and thus the neutering attempts. As Sohrab Amari noted, Barr has been ridiculously labeled an “extremist Catholic” associated with a “secretive, ultra-orthodox Catholic sect.” Of course, the point of flak like this is to polarize the target and thus make him ineffective through clouds of mistrust. A parallel effort has been underway much longer against the nation’s first freedom: the duty to obey God before men. Thus in her own attack article against Barr last month in The New York Times, Katherine Stewart put the words religious liberty and religious freedom in scare quotes, even though these are longstanding natural rights that enjoy U.S. legal protection for very good reasons that include staunching bigotry. The ignorant scare quotes are becoming common in even outlets that style themselves objective news sources... https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/30/barr-the-real-people-trying-to-impose-their-values-on-others-are-militant-secularists/

VOICE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmh8ah5ILhc&feature=emb_title

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Lindsey Graham Discusses Impeachment

‘Next Steps’ With Maria Bartiromo

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the impeachment proceedings, the likely continuance of resistance investigative efforts... and Graham’s role in any Senate proceedings. Despite never having a single investigative hearing since he starting promising hearings at the conclusion of the Mueller probe in April 2019, Senator Graham promises hearings to get to the bottom of the loose lips liar-Biden-Burisma issue. Not likely. Bartiromo pushes the Senator on whether he will investigate the origin of the Whistleblower complaint, Graham avoids. Graham promises hearings on FISA abuse. You decide if they will ever happen. The FISA bulk metadata collection re-authorization vote is next month around March 15th. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/02/sunday-talks-lindsey-graham-discusses-impeachment-next-steps-with-maria-bartiromo/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbjF-6JU8wk&feature=emb_title

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Who's to Blame for liar-Pelosi-

scumbag/liar-Schiff Impeachment Insanity?

By J.L. Johnson

{ americanthinker.com } ~ It was the saddest of times, it was the happiest of times; it was the time of funerary apparel and commiserations, it was the time of festive attire and congratulations; it was, in Washington D.C.'s grand theater of the absurd, the time for impeachment... The final act of this Faustian tragedy began a week before Christmas in 2019, when, draped in black and nervous as a mortician trying to look sad at a fifty-thousand-dollar funeral, liar-Nancy Pelosi announced that the president had been impeached. In spite of the melancholy atmosphere that covered the proceedings like a shroud, the proclamation elicited a smattering of cheers and applause from among her colleagues — but an icy stare and a disapproving wave of the speaker's hand quickly silenced the unwelcome outburst. Some twenty-eight days later, with her time of mourning completed, the liar-speaker traded her black raiment for a hot pink ensemble and replaced her somber affect with a Cheshire Cat–worthy smile. Then, with great fanfare, she took thirty gold and onyx ceremonial pens in hand and signed the articles of impeachment. Three days later, and still in a jubilant mood, Ms. liar-Pelosi appeared on the Bill Maher show, where she was greeted with thunderous applause, cheers, and a standing ovation. Like any good celebrity, Speaker liar-Pelosi responded to this outpouring of affection by bowing and waving to her adoring fans. Then, after Maher thanked her for delaying the impeachment until his show was back on the air, they memorialized her accomplishment with a fist bump, while she smiled and said, "Way to go." In the euphoria of that moment, every semblance of her simulated sadness evaporated, and she enthusiastically embraced the spectacle of impeachment. Yet, in spite of her two-faced conduct, liar-Nancy Pelosi is not the problem — and neither is her unstable and two-faced sidekick, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff.Throughout the two-year Rosenstein-Weissmann investigation, Adam Schiff repeatedly claimed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were in cahoots. He could not discuss the details with any specificity, but he assured everyone that he had seen the proof with his own eyes, and the president's treachery would be exposed when the special counsel issued his report. Yet, when that long awaited day arrived, the proof Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff promised was nowhere to be found. Instead, "The Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election" contradicted his oft-repeated assertion of Russian collusion, and concluded that "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." Much to Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff's dismay, the Russian collusion narrative had crumbled, but he simply would not let it go. During his opening remarks at the Senate impeachment trial, scumbag/liar-Schiff alluded to a Russia-Trump connection some thirty times before turning to the Trump-Zelensky telephone conversation. He then made the astonishing claim that delaying the release of security assistance to Ukraine had increased the probability of a U.S.-Russian war, fought on American soil. "The U.S. aids Ukraine and the people," scumbag/liar-Schiff declared, "so that we can fight Russia over there, and we don't have to fight Russia here."... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/whos_to_blame_for_pelosischiff_impeachment_insanity.html

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Kushner: Palestinians welcome to propose alternative to borders set out in plan

by timesofisrael.com ~ Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Saturday that the borders envisioned by the Trump peace plan for Israel and the future state of Palestine are not set in stone... and that the Palestinian Authority is welcome to provide input that Washington will take into consideration. “If there are things they want to change, if they don’t like where we drew the lines, they should come and tell us,” Kushner told Egyptian journalist Amr Adeeb during an interview on the El-Hekaya news show. But in an apparent contradiction, the senior White House adviser also made clear that the US was moving forward with plans to recognize an Israeli annexation of West Bank settlements, which would limit the amount of land that will be up for negotiation. Moreover, he declared that if the PA did not agree to work with the Trump administration’s peace proposal, Israeli settlements would continue to expand, thereby making it impossible to establish a Palestinian state. “What’s been happening for many years is that Israel has been expanding as they’ve been negotiating and negotiating, and there has not been a resolution to the conflict,” he said. Kushner, one of the main architects of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, said the US was working on reaching an agreement with Israel to recognize Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank, thereby allowing for Jerusalem to move forward with annexing these areas. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared after the plan’s release Tuesday that he intended to seek his government’s approval for annexing the Jordan Valley along with all Israeli settlements as soon as this week, Kushner pushed back the next day, saying that he wanted Israel to coordinate the measure with the US and that it should not go ahead before Israel has a fully functioning government after its March 2 elections...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/kushner-palestinians-welcome-to-propose-alternative-to-borders-set-out-in-plan/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-02-02&utm_medium=email

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kff9jLVAQ7g&feature=emb_title

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'Compassionate' Dems Just Can't Solve Homelessness

Brian Mark Weber: The problem of homelessness in Los Angeles has drawn national and global attention in recent years. Some of the city’s streets are lined with makeshift dwellings and blighted by needles and human feces. The threat of disease is very real, and the city’s residents have reached the breaking point.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68256?mailing_id=4835&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4835&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 3, 2020 at 12:41pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump's Middle East Peace Plan

Media Editors

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Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz Discuss

the Backroom Impeachment Discussion

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Appearing on Ted Cruz podcast, Senator Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz share the backroom discussions that preceded the vote for witnesses. Interesting background information on the arguments and debates, for those who followed events closely. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/01/senators-lindsey-graham-and-ted-cruz-discuss-the-backroom-impeachment-discussion/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezrt7ZIMWMY&feature=emb_title

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Does loose lips liar-Joe Biden

Have a Corruption Problem?

by theintercept.com ~ The Guardian published an op-ed by New York attorney and law professor Zephyr Teachout titled “‘Middle Class’ loose lips liar-Joe Biden has a corruption problem... it makes him a weak candidate.” In it, Teachout argues that loose lips liar-Biden’s history of taking big donations from the credit card, health care, and fossil fuel industries and then voting on their behalf makes him a poor choice against Donald Trump in the fall. “A lot of the voters we need,” she writes, “independents and people who might stay home — will look at loose loips liar-Biden and Trump and say: ‘They’re all dirty.’” Teachout is a public supporter of commie-Bernie Sanders and when the loose lips liar-Biden camp took umbrage at the piece, commie-Sanders apologized for it. “It is absolutely not my view that loose lips liar-Joe is corrupt in any way,” said the Vermont senator. “And I’m sorry that that op-ed appeared.” But was that really the right reply from a candidate who has made the fight against big money in politics one of the cornerstones of his campaign? Zephyr Teachout joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss loose lips liar-Joe Biden and the culture of corruption in Washington. Zephyr Teachout: loose lips liar-Joe Biden has a long history of taking money from big donors and doing them favors as senator. Mehdi Hasan: Welcome to Deconstructed. I’m Mehdi Hasan. On the show today, does loose lips liar-Joe Biden, long-standing friend of Wall Street, one-time surrogate for the credit card industry, and a favorite of big donors in this Democratic presidential campaign, does he have a corruption problem? And if so, is loose lips liar-Biden a symptom of a broader corrupt culture in Washington DC, dominated as it is by big money and big business? ZT: We absolutely need to change the way campaigns are funded. We need to make it so that when somebody is running for Congress the first question that is asked is not how many of the richest people in the world do you know and can you call them all up? MH: That’s my guest today, the academic, activist and corruption expert Zephyr Teachout, who caused controversy last week when she wrote a piece slamming loose lips liar-Joe Biden as a “weak candidate” to take on Donald Trump because of his own “big corruption problem.” So, is she right? Let’s be clear, Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in modern American history. He was impeached, and is now on trial, for abuse of power and for obstruction of Congress but as you’ve heard me say on this show for the past year, he should have been impeached for much, much more... Zephyr Teachout is wrong about Trump. https://theintercept.com/2020/01/30/does-joe-biden-have-a-corruption-problem/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=830646b9f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-830646b9f4-131896129

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The Coronavirus Is a Disease

of Chinese Autocracy

by MINXIN PEI

{ project-syndicate.org } ~ An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan has already infected over 4,000 people – mostly in China, but also in several other countries... from Thailand to France to the United States – and killed more than 100. Given China’s history of disease outbreaks – including of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and African swine fever – and officials’ apparent awareness of the need to strengthen their capacity to address “major risks,” how could this happen? It should be no surprise that history is repeating itself in China. To maintain its authority, the Communist Party of China must keep the public convinced that everything is going according to plan. That means carrying out systemic cover-ups of scandals and deficiencies that may reflect poorly upon the CPC’s leadership, instead of doing what is necessary to respond. This pathological secrecy hobbles the authorities’ capacity to respond quickly to epidemics. The SARS epidemic of 2002-03 could have been contained much sooner had Chinese officials, including the health minister, not deliberately concealed information from the public. Once proper disease-control and prevention measures were implemented, SARS was contained within months. Yet China seems not to have learned its lesson. Although there are important differences between today’s coronavirus epidemic and the SARS outbreak – including far greater technological capacity to monitor disease – they may have the CPC’s habit of cover-ups in common. To be sure, at first glance, China’s government has appeared to be more forthcoming about the latest outbreak. But, although the first case was reported on December 8, the Wuhan municipal health commission didn’t issue an official notice until several weeks later. And, since then, Wuhan officials have downplayed the seriousness of the disease and deliberately sought to suppress news coverage. That notice maintained that there was no evidence that the new illness could be transmitted among humans, and claimed that no health-care workers had been infected. The commission repeated these claims on January 5, though 59 cases had been confirmed by then. Even after the first death was reported on January 11, the commission continued to insist that there was no evidence that it could be transmitted among humans or that health-care workers had been affected... https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/coronavirus-disease-of-communist-party-government-by-minxin-pei-2020-01?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUROallqQmhPVEprWmpFNSIsInQiOiJtbmJ2R2lmb0V6V3pSTWJGVkZGK2ptVmpNXC9yTjBjUkU0Z25mRklvUlZiNldRNVZrZlwvNnErOGNLYnZKaDBCOXI1SFBpeE4wOVpEb0ZNcVwvMU9STmtiTjd0bk9xdVBXQWFrNU5SbDZjQWM4UnhNUDRPN1VoR3lcLzJSSUZKVDh1dncifQ%3D%3D

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The California Contagion Infecting Entrepreneurialism in America

By Luke Wake

{ realclearpolicy.com } ~ Political gridlock in Washington, D.C. is nothing new. While it’s frustrating for those who want to see real regulatory reforms, it offers some relief to those of us worried about Congress making new laws that would further complicate our lives...That is especially true for America’s small business community and the entrepreneurs who must navigate through a dense regulatory thicket. That said, a prolonged stalemate in Washington means we should be watching individual states more closely. We must keep a special eye on California, which remains our nation’s leading exporter of bad and kooky ideas. Every year California lawmakers pile-on more regulatory burdens. For small business owners in California, the urge to flee must be especially high every January when a host of new laws go into effect. This year was no different. But there was one enactment in particular that is causing major headaches, and arousing attention across the country. To be sure, the most pernicious of all of California’s newly effective enactments is AB 5: A law that prohibits entrepreneurs from working as independent contractors, even if they have established themselves as a legitimate business enterprise through active marketing and incorporation. I’ve talked to dozens and dozens of businesses both inside California and beyond who are concerned about the impact the law has on them. For example, I’ve heard from numerous truckers who want to be allowed to continue operating as independent businesses. I’ve heard from photographers who want to continue working with beauticians and videographers who want to continue working with movie studios. And I’ve heard from businesses that refer customers to locksmiths or that work with other service providers who must now treat those workers as their own employees — even if they want to remain independent. So, it is highly concerning to see this new California contagion spreading. Already we’ve seen bills in Oregon, Washington and New Jersey. And now legislators in other states — Colorado, New Mexico and Virginia — are considering AB 5 as a potential model. There is even a bill in Congress.Under California’s law it doesn’t matter how little control the hiring entity exerts over the work performed, or what steps the entrepreneur has taken to establish him or herself as an independent business. The cold fact is that entrepreneurs are now prohibited from offering their services to another business if the work to be performed is “within the usual course of business” for the hiring entity. Even if they have established themselves as an LLC and or have numerous clients, if their work is viewed as essential to the hiring company’s business model the worker must be treated as an employee — which means a lot of red-tape for everyone involved. So, it is not surprising that some businesses are now cutting ties with entrepreneurs in California to avoid complications and major liabilities...

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2020/01/29/the_california_contagion_infecting_entrepreneurialism_in_america_335007.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUROallqQmhPVEprWmpFNSIsInQiOiJtbmJ2R2lmb0V6V3pSTWJGVkZGK2ptVmpNXC9yTjBjUkU0Z25mRklvUlZiNldRNVZrZlwvNnErOGNLYnZKaDBCOXI1SFBpeE4wOVpEb0ZNcVwvMU9STmtiTjd0bk9xdVBXQWFrNU5SbDZjQWM4UnhNUDRPN1VoR3lcLzJSSUZKVDh1dncifQ%3D%3D

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Scientist Explains New Study

Revealing Coronavirus May Have Links to HIV

By Jim Hayek

{ americantruthtoday.com } ~ Epidemiologist and public health scientist Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding took to Twitter to explain a new study that claims to have found a link between the novel Chinese coronavirus and HIV/AIDS... The study, which comes from Bioxriv, is titled “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag.” “We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses,” the report’s Abstract section states. “Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag.” The report also mentions that “interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site.” Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a Chinese-American epidemiologist and public health scientist, referenced the paper in a lengthy Twitter thread explaining the pathology of the virus and the possible misinformation about the epidemic provided by the Chinese government. “BOTTOMLINE: 1) Seafood market not the source,” Feigl-Ding wrote on Twitter. “2) This RNA #coronavirus mutates really fast. 3) has unusual middle segment never seen before in any coronavirus. 4) Not from recent mixing. 5) That mystery middle segment encodes protein responsible for entry into host cells.” The doctor added, “TO BE CLEAR: I am absolutely not saying it’s bioengineering, nor am I supporting any conspiracy theories with no evidence. I’m simply saying scientists need to do more research + get more data. And finding the origin of the virus is an important research priority...

https://americantruthtoday.com/politics/2020/02/01/scientist-explains-new-study-revealing-coronavirus-may-have-links-to-hiv/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=patriothill-scientist-02_01-mid

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Big Trump Win! Kills Major

Al-Qaida Terrorist in Yemen

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By M. Dowling

{ independentsentinel.com } ~ The Trump administration just killed another leading terrorist. The President okayed the killing the leader of Al-Qaida’s Yemen branch in an airstrike earlier this year... according to Yahoo News. The New York Times said three current or former U.S. officials “expressed confidence” that Qasim al-Raymi, the emir of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was killed in Yemen, although there was no official confirmation. The U.S. forces tracked Al-Raymi for months. There was a $10 million price on his head. The strike was carried out by the CIA or the military. “He’s a real bad actor,” said Mick Mulroy, who is also a retired CIA paramilitary operations officer and an ABC News analyst. “This is a big win for us.” In 2005, Al-Raymi was sentenced to five years in prison for planning to assassinate the U.S. ambassador, but he escaped the following year. Since then he has been linked to some of AQAP’s highest-profile attacks, including a September 2008 assault on the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, that killed 10 Yemeni guards and six civilians.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/big-trump-win-kills-major-al-qaida-terrorist-in-yemen/

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Video: Trump's Middle East Peace Plan

Media Editors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvLTzKEpq2o&feature=emb_title

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Video: worthless-Ilhan Omar Investigated for Allegedly Marrying Brother

Media Editors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJv5l_bWVIQ&feature=emb_title

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Video: Virginia Lawmaker Has Zero Understanding of Guns

Media Editors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saW-4aG9N7k&feature=emb_title

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Video: How Kobe Bryant Changed My Mind

Media Editors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUZfQ_1luwo&feature=emb_title

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Video: Democrats Are Huge Hypocrites on Impeachment

Media Editors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Np7oqt0AQo&feature=emb_title

~The Patriot Post

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Mon/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 3, 2020 at 10:08am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

loose lips liar-Joe Biden Must

Explain His Ukraine Dealings

Betsy McCaughey

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Monday News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

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

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

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

Government & Politics

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

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

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

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

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

Other Notables

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

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

Closing Arguments

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

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

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

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68314?mailing_id=4839&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4839&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Massachusetts man has coronavirus,

state health officials say; US cases rise to 8

By Paulina Dedaj

{ foxnews.com } ~ Health officials said Saturday that a man in Massachusetts has been infected with the coronavirus... after returning from a recent trip to China, bringing the overall reported cases in the United States to eight. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health received confirmation late Friday evening that a Boston man in his early 20s contracted the illness after returning from Wuhan, the Chinese city of more than 11 million people where the virus is believed to have originated from sometime in December. Officials said the man sought medical treatment soon after he returned to the U.S., although it was not immediately clear when this was. The patient has been isolated since and anyone who came in contact with him is also being monitored for symptoms. “We are grateful that this young man is recovering and sought medical attention immediately,’’ Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel said in a news release. "Massachusetts has been preparing for a possible case of this new coronavirus, and we were fortunate that astute clinicians took appropriate action quickly. Again, the risk to the public from the 2019 novel coronavirus remains low in Massachusetts.” News of the latest case comes just one day after the seventh case of coronavirus was confirmed in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a news release Friday that a California man was diagnosed with the illness after returning from Wuhan. The adult male, a resident of Santa Clara County, was traveling to China where he visited Wuhan and Shanghai before returning to the U.S. on Jan. 24 where he became ill, KNTV reported. According to the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, the man then visited a local clinic and hospital but was “never sick enough to require hospitalization.” Health officials say the man is in stable condition and is “self-isolating” at home where he has reportedly remained since feeling any symptoms - aside from leaving to seek medical care. “We understand that this news may be concerning, but based on what we know today, the risk to residents of our community remains low,” Dr. Sara Cody, health officer with Santa Clara County, said... How about the people on the plane? https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-cdc-seventh-case-us

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6128909895001#sp=show-clips

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Why Are Liberal Cities Such a Mess?

By Steve Feinstein

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Many major U.S. cities run by liberal Democrats are in rough shape. They are afflicted by the problems of homelessness, violent crime, gangs, and unemployment to a far greater degree than the country as a whole... Consider the following: Chicago's violence and gang-related drug problems are well-known. What’s less well-known is that the city hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1927. The city’s finances -- like most Democratically-run major cities -- are in shambles. At the end of 2015, according to a 2017 report by the Fiscal Times, Chicago had assets of just $4.7 billion against liabilities of more than $14 billion, a funded ratio of barely 33%. The homeless population in Los Angeles has risen from a staggering 33,000 in 2010 to over 55,000 in 2018. The city -- already dominated by a liberal super-majority of legislators -- has just recently pushed through massive local tax increases designed to address the homeless crisis. San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded syringes are everywhere. San Francisco’s property crime rate is the highest in the nation and “smash and grab” thefts involving broken car windows are so commonplace that repair shops have waiting lists. The DA’s office no longer prosecutes “victimless” crimes like prostitution or drug possession, resulting in a massive influx of drug dealers into the city. Frighteningly similar situations exist is nearly every other major Democrat-run city, all around the nation: In New York City, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Hartford, CT, Newark, Philadelphia and on and on, the story follows the same pattern: Homelessness, high crime, underwater finances, soft policing, lax immigration control often sanctuary cities, high taxes, and business-averse regulations. It’s a guaranteed formula for failure...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/why_are_liberal_cities_such_a_mess.html

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IDF strikes terror targets at

Gaza Strip after rockets fired at Israel

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

{ jpost.com } ~ IDF forces struck terror targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday night, following at least two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip that struck southern Israel... according to the IDF Spokesperson Unit. "The IAF struck several outposts of the Hamas terror group in response to rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip," the report stated. According to Palestinian reports, the IDF caused damage to Hamas outposts but no casualties were reported. The rockets were fired while tensions remain high over the release of US President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century.” Incoming rocket sirens were activated in the communities of Sufa and Nir Yizhak, and a statement by the Eshkol Regional Council said that a rocket landed in an open area, causing no damage or injuries. Two hours earlier, sirens sounded in the college town of Sderot. The IDF said that the projectile was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. According to unconfirmed reports, shrapnel from the interceptor landed on a home in Sderot; there were no injuries reported. The rocket fire comes several hours after three mortar shells were fired from the coastal enclave, leading an IDF tank to fire a shell at a Hamas observation post in the southern Strip. One of the mortar shells was intercepted by Iron Dome; the other two landed in open areas. Also on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that 14 Palestinians were injured, including 10 by live fire, in violent clashes with IDF troops taking place along the border fence...

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rocket-intercepted-by-Iron-Dome-616089

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A General’s View of Why US Should

Stay in Afghanistan

by Allison Schuster

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Despite overtures from the Taliban and declining interest among Americans, it is essential that the United States remain in Afghanistan... retired Army Gen. Jack Keane said this week at a Heritage Foundation event. Over the past 18 years, Keane said, the U.S. has made tremendous progress at preventing another attack on the U.S. from al-Qaeda originating from Afghanistan. But military withdrawal now, he said, would have extremely negative consequences. Keane also said his politically astute sources in Afghanistan say the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic military organization that used to control the country, wouldn’t win a single district in the event of an election. “The people absolutely do not want them because they’re living under their boot,” Keane said of the Taliban. “They’re living under their tyranny. They’re living under the fact that they can’t educate their children.” The U.S. first took military action in Afghanistan in response to the attacks of 9/11, when Keane became the first senior military leader to go after the Taliban, which had been in power since 1996 and provided a haven to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terror network. In the event Tuesday at Heritage, “Making the Case for America’s Mission in Afghanistan,” Keane detailed military successes and his recommendations for the future. Although Taliban leaders say they want to negotiate, the threat that terrorist groups al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, or ISIS, would use the nation as a safe space to grow is too great to trust negotiations, he said... https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/31/a-generals-view-of-why-the-us-should-stay-in-afghanistan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-generals-view-of-why-the-us-should-stay-in-afghanistan?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTjJNek1HRXdPR1V4TTJGbCIsInQiOiJEUndrVnNVSHdnK3lWQUk1ZFwvY2dWM1FSVVdMMm1qbHd2QVVqckpMaEJ6Rmpkb1RhM1dRa29rNFFTaDE0RFRESzZ2RTN1MXNEN1FtWnA1aXhiXC9WSGNWblpNQ1ZpYjQzcWdJQU5pY2htaHNQSmRUM3ZCcXFGVXVEUzdoRUNXcE41In0%3D

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9enoo8buZQ&feature=emb_title

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ACU Tells rino-Mitt Romney He’s Not Allowed At CPAC Because of His Vote For More Witnesses

by Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ At the end of February this year, like every year, I’ll be to our nation’s capital for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).... There I will be meeting with other conservative media personalities, and activists. We will be swamped with politicians trying to get our attention for a blog post or a radio appearance. One politician who won’t be there will be rino-Mitt Romney. Matt Schlapp, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union, the organization that runs CPAC, thanked rino-Romney for his vote to call additional witnesses to the Senate impeachment trial by inviting the Senator to stay the heck away from his conference. rino-Romney was one of two Republicans who joined 47 Democrats to smack President Trump and other conservatives supporting the motion for more unnecessary witnesses, which thankfully failed to pass on Friday.’ rino-Romney had been at CPAC before. In 2012, he came to CPAC to beg conservatives to support him for the GOP nomination. After his loss, rino-Romney didn’t need conservatives anymore, so he returned to his liberal roots. Well.. except for when he begged Trump to be his secretary of state, and when he begged Utah conservatives for their support to run for Senate. Since he became a senator, rino-Romney has gone out of his way to be a thorn in President Trump’s side because he claims not to like the president’s rhetoric and style. But it was Trump’s rhetoric and style that prevented him from becoming a loser in 2016 like rino-Romney was in 2012. But what really made rino-Romney a loser was that he only acts like a conservative when it is politically expedient. Today he voted like a Democrat to extend the senate trial. As the president’s acquittal is all but guaranteed, the only reason for rino-Romney’s vote was to hurt President Trump and his conservative followers... https://lidblog.com/mitt-romney-cpac/

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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and John Profumo

A Tale of Two Liars

By Michael Nollet

{ americanthinker.com } ~ I'm an over-the-road truck driver. That means I have lots of time to indulge myself in activities not given to ordinary mortals, such as listening gavel-to-gavel to the Senate's impeachment process still in progress as of this writing... Most ordinary mortals do not enjoy (?) this luxury, because they have lives of their own: things like home, family, hobbies, jobs that don't permit radio or TV listening. But me, I'm a captive audience in my truck, so if I feel like listening, then listening is what I do. It makes the miles go by. In the course of my tuning in to the feed from the impeachment hearings, I caught House manager Congressman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff telling a huge whopper: that he doesn't know who the "whistleblower" is. That is the individual whose machinations and contacts with scumbag/liar-Schiff's Intelligence Committee touched off the entire impeachment business. scumbag/liar-Schiff is asserting that he still, to this day, does not know who this individual is. This is a lie. There is no way that scumbag/liar-Schiff cannot have known exactly who the "whistleblower" is, and have known it for nearly three years now. In scumbag/liar-Schiff's case, it is only the latest in a career of lies, which is well documented. A partial litany would include the contradictory stories he has told about his office's contacts with the "whistleblower," his claims to have conclusive evidence proving that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians which were blown apart by the Muller Report, and his claim that the FBI didn't use the absurd Steele Dossier as its justification to the FISA Court to surveil Carter Page. This time, scumbag/liar-Schiff raised his lies to a whole new level, by repeating his lie inside the halls of Congress. And he did it not once, but three times: once in his own Intelligence Committee and at least twice to the Senate during the question-and-answer phase. scumbag/liar-Schiff's assertion isn't perjury, since scumbag/liar-Schiff wasn't under oath when he made these declarations. But since he repeated these lies in the halls of Congress, and in the most solemn setting possible, it is the next thing to it. It is a lie that was made at the very highest levels of state. Something similar happened in the United Kingdom in 1963: the Profumo Affair. John Profumo was secretary of state for war in the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan. In 1961, he ran afoul of a British showgirl and presumable prostitute, Christine Keeler, embarking on an affair with her lasting a few months. Keeler was also the mistress of a British osteopath and of the senior Soviet naval attaché, which compromised Profumo. When questioned about the affair in the House of Commons, Profumo disgraced himself by lying about it in that he denied the affair. Unheard of! In Britain, lying to Parliament is considered to be one of the worst crimes a person can commit. When Profumo was caught, he had to leave Her Majesty's Government in disgrace, in 1963. The blowback led to the downfall of the MacMillan government and its replacement by the Labor Government of Harold Wilson in 1964...

https://www.https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/adam_schiff_and_john_profumo_a_tale_of_two_liars.html/articles/2020/02/adam_schiff_and_john_profumo_a_tale_of_two_liars.html

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loose lips liar-Joe Biden Must Explain His Ukraine Dealings

Betsy McCaughey

Democrats impeached President Donald Trump for putting his own political fortunes ahead of the national interest in dealing with Ukraine. But it’s loose lips liar-Joe Biden who should be in the hot seat for that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 3, 2020 at 8:14am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The Deal of the Century

Gary Bauer

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Dems unveil 2020 campaign message

Trump not acquitted

by wnd.com ~ Democrats already are honing their message for the 2020 campaign, insisting that the Senate Republicans' decision not to allow further witnesses or documents in the impeachment trial... of Donald Trump means the president's inevitable acquittal next week won't be valid. Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer of New York told reporters Friday "the acquittal will have no value, because Americans will know that this trial was not a real trial." Lead House impeachment manager Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told senators, "You cannot have a true acquittal if you've not had a fair trial." Impeachment manager Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, said "an acquittal on an incomplete record after a trial lacking witnesses and evidence will be no exoneration."At her weekly news conference Thursday, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi said Trump "cannot be acquitted" if the trial lacks witness testimony and documentation. She added that Trump's impeachment defense team "disgraced themselves" and should be disbarred. With a 51 to 49 vote Friday evening, Republicans voted down Democrats' effort to hear the testimony of witnesses such as acting White House Chief of State Mick Mulvaney and former National Security Adviser John Bolton. The White House defense team argued that Democrats had 17 witnesses during the House investigation, and video clips from that testimony were used in the Senate trial. They further contend that the articles presented by the Democrats are not impeachable offenses, meaning any further testimony is unnecessary. Trump is expected to be acquitted next week, possibly on Wednesday, after final arguments are heard and the senators are given an opportunity to speak. Several Democrats are expected to join the 53 Republicans in voting to acquit the president. Removal from office would require a supermajority of 67 votes on either of the two articles of impeachment. The trial will resume Monday... These lying dems had their chance in the House to call witness and they didn't do it. Now they are crying about acquittal. https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/dems-unveil-2020-campaign-message-trump-not-acquitted/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking

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China: Video Out Of Wuhan Hospital Shows

The Truth Of The Coronavirus’ Horrifying Effects

by Tim Brown

{ thewashingtonstandard.com } ~ As news continues to come out of China regarding the Coronavirus and whether it is a real threat to the population or not... and whether the Communist government there can actually contain it, a new video has surfaced from inside a Wuhan Hospital that shows just what is going on inside. The video was posted at Live Links just hours ago. Frankly, this looks like a tremendous amount of people are literally having seizures. Are we being told the truth about this? Is it really a virus or some sort of neurotoxin? We’ve also been providing our own reporting on this issue. The truth about the coronavirus is simply not being told the American people. https://thewashingtonstandard.com/china-video-out-of-wuhan-hospital-shows-the-truth-of-the-coronavirus-horrifying-effects/

VIDEO: https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=DUDN_1580431941

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'Certainly will be a standout': John Durham

appoints new criminal chief

by Daniel Chaitin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The federal prosecutor in charge of the Justice Department inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation appointed a new criminal division chief... John Durham, a U.S. attorney from Connecticut, announced on Monday that the role will be taken by Sarah Karwan, who has prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases. “I am thrilled that Sarah Karwan will lead our criminal division,” Durham said in a statement. “During her more than 12 years as an assistant U.S. attorney, Sarah has done it all, prosecuting violent criminals, drug traffickers, financial fraudsters, corrupt public officials, and a wide variety of other wrongdoers. Given the breadth of her experience and her exceptional lawyering skills, she certainly will be a standout as our new criminal chief.” Karwan replaced William Nardini, who now has a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1997 and from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2000. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2007, she spent roughly six years in the private sector specializing in securities litigation. As head of the criminal division, Karwan will oversee the violent crimes and narcotics, financial fraud and public corruption, national security and cybercrime, and major crimes program-based units. Durham has been tasked by Attorney General William Barr with conducting a review of the FBI's Russia investigation. In October, it was reported that Durham was expanding the scope of his investigation, adding agents and resources, to examine the post-election timeline up to the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel in May 2017. The "investigation into the investigators" was reported to be upgraded to a criminal inquiry later that month, which gives Durham the power to impanel a grand jury and hand down indictments. Durham's team is exploring whether a crime was committed by Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer who was found by the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to have altered a document during the FBI's efforts to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant renewal to continue wiretapping onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/certainly-will-be-a-standout-john-durham-appoints-new-criminal-chief

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How Virginia Became the Frontline

in the Fight Over Guns

By Stephen Gutowski

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Virginia became the center of the gun-control debate years before tens of thousands of gun-rights supporters amassed on the steps of the state capitol earlier this month... Gun-control activists targeted Virginia as a potential foothold in the American South as far back as 2013. The once-reliably conservative state has seen its population center shift to the Northern Virginia suburbs and university towns—developments that led to Mark Warner's gubernatorial victory in 2002 and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama's wins in the state in 2008 and 2012. During that time, however, Republican control of the state legislature blocked gun regulations and Virginia's state-level deliberative bodies became a focus of left-leaning gun-control groups. Starting in 2013 and ramping up two years later, Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety, with substantial funding from 2020 presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, flooded the state with millions of dollars. Democratic groups poured a record $13 million into the state's elections last year. Bloomberg-backed groups along outspent the National Rifle Association by an 8-1 margin, helping Democrats capture narrow majorities in both the House of Delegates and the General Assembly. The controversies that have erupted across the state since then come as the members of the newly ascendant Democratic majority find themselves caught between the campaign donors who helped them secure control in Richmond and local residents angered by the gun-control proposals offered by those groups and the Democrats they backed. Those proposals include an outright ban on AR-15s, which elicited an intense backlash. The outcome of the struggle will have an impact beyond the immediate struggles in the state that will determine the shape of a universal background check or "red flag" law in Virginia. It may well shape the gun debate nationwide for years to come...

https://freebeacon.com/issues/why-virginia-became-the-frontline-in-the-fight-over-guns/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email

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Democrats’ History Of Intimidating SCOTUS

Justices Carries Over Into Impeachment

By Erielle Davidson

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Chief Justice John Roberts’ expression was priceless after reading Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren’s garish question during the Senate impeachment trial Thursday night, a question which lacked any remote sense of self awareness... The inquiry facetiously read, “At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government, does the fact that the Chief Justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution?” The purpose of the question was stunningly obvious. It was to suggest that the only way Chief Justice John Roberts could remotely hold onto any semblance of legitimacy was to ensure the outcome favored by the Democrats came to fruition, an outcome which, given the increasingly likely failed motion, would require Chief Justice Roberts to interfere in a manner that is not explicitly written into the Constitution. As a seasoned lawyer, she knew precisely the type of question she was asking. One that reached to a sore spot for the Supreme Court and one over which they have continued to opine. The question of how much of a role public faith in the federal judiciary should play in judicial decision-making has been a topic hotly contested. It was scrutinized heavily when it reared its ugly head in Justice O’Connor’s opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, when it appeared alongside a menagerie of other factors that may be considered in the process of determining whether to overrule precedent. It wasn’t regarded as wholly dispositive, and it’s debatable whether it should be considered at all. With Sen. rino-Lisa Murkowski likely voting no on the Democrats’ motion to allow witnesses, there’s little risk of a tie any longer, meaning Roberts is thankfully off the hook – at least for now. But when it comes to Roberts’ role in “breaking a tie,” should there be one in the trial, the language of Article I, Section III of the Constitution does not make it clear whether the Chief Justice is permitted to vote. Yet, the undercurrent of dinky/liar-Warren’s question suggested that his involvement was somehow critical for the sanctity of SCOTUS’ reputation. It’s utter nonsense, but it is perfectly on-brand for the Democrats since President Trump’s election in 2016. She’s threatening to use the weight of the Democratic Party to conduct warfare on his reputation. We all know the playbook...

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/31/democrats-history-of-intimidating-scotus-justices-carries-over-into-impeachment/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=f23f965e0f-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-f23f965e0f-83771801

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Sweden: Hijab is 'Look of the Year'

by Judith Bergman

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On January 20, Iran's only female Olympic medalist, Kimia Alizadeh, defected from Iran. "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran whom they've been playing for years," she wrote... Then, last month, the Islamic Republic's female chess master, Mitra Hejazipour, 27, removed her hijab during a chess tournament in Moscow and was promptly removed from the national chess team. Hejazipour said that she had decided "not to have a share in this horrendous lie and not to play the game of 'We love the hijab and have no problem with it' anymore..." "It creates many limitations for women and deprives them of their basic rights. Is this protection? I say definitely not, it is solely and merely a limitation." For years, women in Iran have been arrested and imprisoned for refusing to wear the mandatory headscarf and even for protesting its use. Between January 2018 and August 2019, at least 12 people were given prison sentences ranging from six months to 33 years for publicly removing their headscarves and other public acts of civil disobedience against compulsory hijab and 32 people were arrested for such acts, according to Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). According to the website: "Millions of women who do not conform to the state's dictates regarding mandatory dress codes are stopped by the police each year for 'improper hijab,' and tens of thousands are referred to the judiciary in court cases each year... hijab protestors are... typically prosecuted under charges related to 'morality,' such as 'encouraging people to corruption and prostitution...'". "The Iranian authorities are employing the full machinery of the state to crush opposition to forced hijab, but with more than half the population against it, the tide is increasingly against them," said CHRI's Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi. As women in Iran protested the regime and the mandatory hijab, women in Sweden -- who are represented by "the first feminist government in the world" -- were championing the hijab on several recent occasions, illustrating the curious cultural transformations there... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15509/sweden-hijab

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The Deal of the Century

Gary Bauer

I just returned from a historic event in the East Room of the White House where President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new peace plan.

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

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

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

Jerusalem remains the undivided capital of Israel. This is essential from Israel’s stand point, and something that Pastor John Hagee of Christians United for Israel and I worked very hard to guarantee.
The Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish state.
Hamas must be disarmed, and the Palestinians must reject terrorism.
The so-called “refugee problem” will be settled outside the boundaries of Israel.
Israel will suspend construction in disputed territories for four years to give both sides time to implement various aspects of the deal.
The president pledged $50 billion of investment to provide hope and economic opportunity to the Palestinian people.

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

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

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

The Real Problem

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dershowitz vs. the Democrats

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Jefferson dramatically expanded the size of the country through the Louisiana Purchase without congressional authorization.
Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.
Franklin Roosevelt interned Japanese Americans during World War II due to concerns about national security.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaking of the Swamp…

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

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

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

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

Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 1, 2020 at 1:21pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

China vs. the Rapidly Spreading Coronavirus

Culture Beat

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Devin Nunes: “The scumbag/liar-Schiff Staff

Won’t Quit” – An Impeachment Acquittal

“Won’t End This” – “This Really is a Hoax”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes brings an uncomfortable dose of reality to a media discussion and he’s exactly correct... Appearing on Tucker Carlson Mr. Nunes highlights that a vote to acquit on the impeachment articles will not be the end of this fiasco. The Crossfire Hurricane hoax was constructed with an insurance policy to initiate the Mueller investigation, another hoax. This same network of political operatives, all of which know each-other and work together in various government factions, then morphed the Mueller hoax into the Ukraine hoax; it’s one long continuum and it will not stop with a Senate impeachment acquittal.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/31/devin-nunes-the-schiff-staff-wont-quit-an-impeachment-acquittal-wont-end-this-this-really-is-a-hoax/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIuSqxZiuY&feature=emb_title

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White House Coronavirus Task Force

Press Briefing on U.S. Response Status

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Earlier today the federal Coronavirus Task Force established by President Trump held a press conference to explain the U.S. response status and answer media questions... The task force is being led by HHS Secretary Alex Azar and includes: Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health; Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security; Matthew Pottinger, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/31/white-house-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-on-u-s-response-status-video-and-transcript/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gypd4HnltbU&feature=emb_title

Transcript at the site.

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Senators Vote to Avoid Further Witness

Testimony Now Privately Debating Next Steps

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The Senate voted 51-49 on a motion to support prior constitutional precedent and avoid further witness testimony in the Senate. Republican Senators rino-Susan Collins and rino-Mitt Romney voted with Democrats to break constitutional framework... and support witness testimony in the Senate that did not originate from House impeachment process. Senators are now recessed for dinner while holding meetings within their caucus to debate next steps. A disagreement within the republican caucus seems to be framed around Senators wishing to have debate time to present their own personal positions on the Senate floor prior to a final vote to remove or acquit President Trump. One likely scenario is a vote on a resolution tonight outlining next steps, open to amendment and voting; then recess for the evening around 9pm, and a return at 11:00am Monday. That would position a final acquittal vote for Wednesday. Friday night: A Senate vote organizing a resolution for the following:
Monday: Closing arguments by House Managers and Defense.
Tuesday: Open deliberations. Senators speak.
Wednesday: A vote on the articles of impeachment
The situation is fluid. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/31/senators-vote-to-avoid-further-witness-testimony-now-privately-debating-next-steps/

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Savaging Trump plan, Abbas warns Palestinians

will cut all ties with Israel, US

by timesofisrael.com ~ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned he would cut all ties, including security coordination, with both Israel and the US on Saturday... in a lengthy speech delivered at an Arab League meeting in Egypt’s capital denouncing the new White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We’ve informed the Israeli side…that there will be no relations at all with them and the United States, including security ties,” Abbas declared. The PA leader said he’d stated as much in letters sent to both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and CIA Director Gina Haspel. The PA currently cooperates with Israeli security services and US intelligence agencies against terrorism. Abbas has threatened to cut security ties in the past on several occasions though he has not followed through with action on the ground. The Arab League in a statement rejected the Trump proposal, calling it “unfair” to Palestinians. The pan-Arab bloc said in a statement that the plan “does not meet the minimum rights and aspirations of Palestinian people.” Arab leaders also vowed “not to … cooperate with the US administration to implement this plan.” The US plan would potentially grant the Palestinians a state with restricted sovereignty in Gaza and in parts of the West Bank, while allowing Israel to annex all its settlements and keep nearly all of East Jerusalem. The summit of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo was requested by the Palestinians, who responded angrily to the American proposal. Abbas said that he told Israel and the US that “there will be no relations with them, including the security ties” following the deal that Palestinians say heavily favors Israel. He said US President Donald Trump’s peace plan was in “violation of the autonomy accords” launched in Oslo in 1993 by Israel and the Palestinians. Israel will have to “bear responsibility as an occupying power,” Abbas said. There was no immediate comment from US or Israeli officials... https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-fms-meet-in-cairo-as-palestinians-seek-support-against-trump-plan/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-02-01&utm_medium=email

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Backing Abbas, Arab League rejects

Trump’s Middle East peace plan

by timesofisrael.com ~ The Arab League on Saturday rejected US President Donald Trump’s controversial Middle East plan, calling it “unfair” to Palestinians... The pan-Arab bloc said in a statement that it “rejects the US-Israeli ‘deal of the century’ considering that it does not meet the minimum rights and aspirations of Palestinian people.” Arab leaders also vowed “not to… cooperate with the US administration to implement this plan.”According to Channel 13 news the decision was unanimous. The US plan would grant the Palestinians a state with restricted sovereignty in Gaza and in parts of the West Bank, while allowing Israel to annex all its settlements and keep nearly all of East Jerusalem. The League warned that Israel must not act on the plan unilaterally — a reference to Israel’s stated intention to move on annexation as soon as possible. “Israel will be solely responsible for the consequences of such policies,” the bloc said. It said it would call on international powers to take steps to prevent any such action. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned at an emergency meeting of the bloc that he would cut all ties with both Israel and the US, including security coordination, over the White House plan. The summit of Arab foreign ministers in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, was requested by the Palestinians, who responded angrily to the American proposal. “We’ve informed the Israeli side…that there will be no relations at all with them and the United States, including security ties,” Abbas declared. Abbas has threatened to cut security ties in the past on several occasions though he has not followed through with action on the ground. “I will never accept this solution,” Abbas said. “I will not have it recorded in my history that I have sold Jerusalem.” He said the Palestinians remain committed to ending Israel’s control of the West Bank and establishing a state with its capital in East Jerusalem...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/backing-abbas-arab-league-rejects-trumps-middle-east-peace-plan/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-02-01&utm_medium=email

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Twenty-three nations embrace

Trump peace plan, 7 in Middle East

by Paul Bedard

{ gellerreport.com } ~ Nearly two dozen world leaders have signaled their openness to President Trump’s sweeping new peace plan for Israel and Palestine... ignoring claims in the U.S. media that it was dead on arrival to focus on it as a beefy starting point. A statement from Bahrain was typical of the reaction that has flooded into the White House since Trump unveiled the plan Wednesday. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs commends the United States of America for its determined efforts to advance the peace process,” Bahrain said. Qatar said in a statement that it “appreciates the endeavors of President Trump and the current U.S. administration to find solutions for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.” The plan has been three years in the making and is considered the most detailed ever by an American administration. It came on a very busy week that included the signing of the new North American free trade agreement, a major immigration victory in the Supreme Court, and the continued impeachment debate. With 23 governments applauding the peace plan, the world is “showing a willingness to receive our plan,” said an administration official. Some seven of those are in the Middle East. But the plan has also sparked violent protests in Palestinian areas such as the West Bank. Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan links diplomatic and economic policy in a bid to settle the border issue between Israel and Palestine and provide a path to economic wealth for citizens. The president announced it with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, leading officials in Palestine and Iran to dismiss it, but prompting nations in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to express openness to it...

https://gellerreport.com/2020/01/trump-peace-plan.html/

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China vs. the Rapidly Spreading Coronavirus

Culture Beat: With reports of more than 6,000 people infected, 132 deaths, and 50 million people now quarantined in China, fears of the new coronavirus may be spreading faster than the contagion itself. Those fears may not be entirely unfounded, as indicated by China’s sudden and massive reaction — or at least the appearance of a reaction. But there is also a sense that the fear is overblown. For perspective, China is home to 1.4 billion people. And for comparison, there have been 8,200 deaths from the flu here in the United States this season alone.

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 1, 2020 at 8:01am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

'Deal of the Century' With Israel

and the Palestinians?

Nate Jackson

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Coronavirus declared public

health emergency in US

By Alexandria Hein

{ foxnews.com } ~ Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced on Friday that the coronavirus has been declared a public health emergency in the U.S. Beginning at 5 p.m. on Feb. 2... U.S. citizens returning from Hubei province will be subject to a 14-day quarantine, while other Americans who traveled elsewhere in China will be instructed to self-monitor for possible symptoms. Azar also said that President Trump is temporarily suspending entry into the U.S. for foreign nationals who pose a risk of transmitting the virus. In the same press conference, the Department of Homeland Security announced that starting on Sunday, flights coming to the U.S. from China will be funneled through seven airports that are equipped to screen passengers for symptoms of the virus. Officials continued to stress that the overall risk to the American public remains low, but that the measures being taken are to help "focus efforts as we are dealing with unknowns." The announcement comes just hours after the CDC announced that the 195 passengers who arrived in California on a flight from China on Wednesday were being kept under a 14-day quarantine as they are continually monitored for symptoms. As of Friday, there had been more than 9,600 confirmed cases of the coronavirus with over 200 deaths. Officials confirmed that the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. remains at six, with the latest being an Illinois man whose wife was diagnosed with the virus after traveling to Wuhan, which is considered the epicenter of the outbreak.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-declared-public-health-emergency-in-us

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6128591539001#sp=show-clips

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liar-Pelosi Defies Senate's Authority, Says

Even if Senate Votes To Acquit, Trump

Won't Actually Be Acquitted

By Carmine Sabia

{ westernjournal.com } ~ The Democratic Party is so deep in its Trump Derangement Syndrome that the things its leaders say and do often defy reason... House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi stood in front of microphones on Thursday and declared that if President Donald Trump is acquitted by the Senate a likely scenario, he will not actually be acquitted. liar-Pelosi was responding to a reporter who had asked what she would do in the case of the president’s acquittal. The speaker stealthily avoided the question. “We are right now prayerful and hopeful that the Senate will have the courage to hear the truth about the President’s action, and then we’ll see what we do next,” she said, according to a transcript on her website. But when another reporter asked a similar question, liar-Pelosi had one of her famous temper tantrums. “When this is over, do you think that President Trump will be chastened and understand that he’s got a Congress watching him? Or will he be emboldened because the Senate will have acquitted him?” the reporter asked. “Well, he will not be acquitted. You cannot be acquitted if you don’t have a trial, and you don’t have a trial if you don’t have witnesses and documentation and that,” liar-Pelosi replied. “I would hope that the Senators, if it comes to a tie, or if there’s a question of hearing testimony or receiving documents, would leave it up to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court – Republican‑appointed, in a Republican majority court. “I would think that they would have confidence in the Chief Justice of the United States. That’s really his title. And that’s interesting to me — that they’re afraid of breaking a tie with a Chief Justice of the United States. “Does the President know right from wrong? I don’t think so. That’s all I can say to you,” she said. The Constitution explicitly states that the Senate, not the Speaker of the House, has the sole authority to handle an impeachment trial of the president. liar-Pelosi’s work is done, but she is struggling to let go of the power she had when the House was conducting its impeachment inquiry...liar-Pelosi and scumbag-Schumer need to be replace.

https://www.westernjournal.com/pelosi-defies-senates-authority-says-even-senate-votes-acquit-trump-wont-actually-acquitted/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservative-brief-CT&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=conservative-tribune

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'Jerry, Jerry, Jerry': scumbag/liar-Nadler steals

last word from frustrated scumbag/liar-Schiff

by wnd.com ~ When House impeachment managers were asked Thursday night to give a closing argument, lead manager Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff rose from his seat, but Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler beat him to the well of the Senate... as the California Democrat called out "scumbag liar-Jerry, Jerry, Jerry." Senate staffers seated above the well covered their faces in an attempt to hide their bemusement while the Trump team also appeared to enjoy the spectacle. The question from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a Democratic presidential candidate, and several colleagues was: "Could you please respond to the question just given by the president's counsel, and provide any other comments the Senate would benefit from hearing, before we adjourn for the evening?" VIDEO: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TgpicJfpc&feature=emb_title ) scumbag liar-Nadler, who opened the trial this week by berating the senators, apparently had been demoted Thursday by scumbag/liar-Schiff. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., was seated next to the lead manager and had been given more speaking time than scumbag liar-Nadler. https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/jerry-jerry-jerry-nadler-steals-last-word-frustrated-schiff/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking

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You won’t believe which

Supreme Court Justice is about to get fired

by patriotpulse.net ~ The Supreme Court has a role to play in the impeachment hoax. One Justice overstepped their authority. And you won’t believe which Supreme Court Justice is about to get fired... For the second day in a row Kentucky Senator Rand Paul submitted a question to both the President’s lawyers and the House Impeachment Managers asking if they knew about scumbag/liar-nObama holdovers on the National Security Council Eric Ciaramella and Shawn Misko discussing impeaching President Trump back in 2017. Misko now works for scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff on the House Intelligence Committee and many in Washington, D.C. believe that Ciaramella is the alleged whistleblower. Senator Paul’s questions read: To the Manager scumbag/liar-Schiff and counsel for the President: Manager scumbag/liar-Schiff and Counsel for the President, are you aware that House Intelligence Committee staffer Shawn Misko had a close relationship with Eric Ciaramella when at the National Security Council together, and are you aware and how do you respond to reports that Ciaramella and Misko may have worked together to plot impeaching the President before there were formal House impeachment proceedings?” For the second day in a row Chief Justice John Roberts refused to read Paul’s question. Reading Ciaramella’s name out loud did not violate any laws. And if it is true that scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff does not know who the whistleblower is, there is no harm in Roberts reading Paul’s question. Instead Roberts refused to read Paul’s question. That led to cries from conservatives that it should Roberts who is in fact impeached and removed from his position. Roberts’ job is be a neutral judge presiding over the impeachment trial. https://patriotpulse.net/you-wont-believe-which-supreme-court-justice-is-about-to-get-fired/#gf_1393

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“Both Sides are Wrong” in Whistleblower Fight

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By Jack Hadfield

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Speaking to Fox News, former Representative Trey Gowdy said that “both sides are wrong” in the fight as to whether or not to call the whistleblower to testify... Senator Rand Paul recently named the alleged whistleblower in a series of tweets, as his question was rejected by Chief Justice John Roberts. Martha McCallum asked Gowdy whether it was acceptable for Senator Paul to name the alleged whistleblower. “I like Rand but I think both sides are wrong on this,” Gowdy said. “We make 4-year-olds testify in court. We make women who have been sexually assaulted testify in court. So the notion that, if you are a relevant witness, that somehow you could escape being cross-examined, we don’t do it for anyone else, why would we do it for this whistle-blower?” However, Gowdy continued, and noted that on the other hand, there is no need for the whistleblower to testify “I don’t need him,” Gowdy said. “I’ve got the transcript. Why do I care what someone who overheard the conversation felt about it or thought about it or believed about it? I can read it for myself. Yes, the whistleblower is relevant, but he’s not material. There are 20 witnesses that I think would be more probative than a whistleblower of a transcript that you and I can read for ourselves.” McCallum then asked Gowdy if he was worried with the precedent that was set with the leak of the phone call between President Trump and Zelensky in the first place. “I am, and the remedy for that is to limit the number of people who are on those calls,” he said. “There are consequences any time someone takes unprecedented acts, and if you’re going to listen to a conversation between the President and a leader of a foreign country, and then you’re going to violate that confidence and tell someone about it, the President should shrink the number of people who are on those calls!” Gowdy went on to suggest that the calls should be limited to only a select few.”...

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trey-gowdy-both-sides-are-wrong-in-whistleblower-fight/?utm_campaign=TPI01312020afternoon&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

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‘Israel’s Reaction to Trump Deal Mirrors Book

of Ezra Right Before Temple Construction’

Yehuda Glick says

By David Sidman

{ breakingisraelnews.com } ~ Rabbi Yehudah Glick, founder of the Shalom Jerusalem Foundation, reacted to U.S President Donald Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’... comparing the mixed reactions of the nation of Israel to that of the Jewish people during the days of the Prophet Ezra. The Jerusalem-based rabbi focused on one passage in the book which took place immediately following the laying of the foundation of the Second Temple. Glick began his video address by expressing his gratitude to the U.S President who: “recognizes the right of the Jewish people to implement the Israeli law on the Jewish settlements and all over Judea and Samaria.” Glick didn’t forget to thank God as well adding that Wednesday was: “another one of those days that you see the hands of the Lord guiding history and pulling the strings”. Glick then lauded Trump’s speech which recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s united capital adding that it “definitely demand us to bless him.” The Rabbi then addressed concerns regarding the Deal of the Century saying “I know that some of you and some of us and me myself are disturbed by different parts that are not yet complete.” He reminded his audience how those same mixed reactions happened right as the Jewish people bore witness to the laying of the foundation of the Second Temple by reading from the Book of Ezra which states: Many of the Kohanim and Leviim and the chiefs of the clans, the old men who had seen the first house, wept loudly at the sight of the founding of this house. Many others shouted joyously at the top of their voices. The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the people’s weeping, for the people raised a great shout, the sound of which could be heard from afar. (Ezra 3:12-13) Glick went on to explain that just as some ‘wept loudly’ while at the same time others yelled ‘shouts of joy’, the nation couldn’t “tell the difference between the voices of the shouting of happiness and the voices of the nation crying.” The rabbi, who survived a 2014 assassination attempt, reiterated that “we are in the process – yes we are in the process of redemption and in the process of redemption as we study in Psalms 126 which states: our mouths shall be filled with laughter, our tongues, with songs of joy. Then shall they say among the nations, “Hashem has done great things for them!” (Psalm 126:2) “There are tears and there’s joy but every single step in the process demands us to thank God for that step” Glick added. Glick summarized his message by reading from the Book of Hagai “who followed with prophecy these days of the building of the temple in time of Cyrus.” And Chagai, Hashem‘s messenger, fulfilling Hashem‘s mission, spoke to the people, “I am with you—declares Hashem.” (Haggai 1:13) The rabbi concluded he address by reminding his audience that we are in the process of redemption saying: “We are sure that the redemption process that we are witnessing today will continue.” He then again, expressed gratitude towards Trump and Netanyahu saying: “and yes we are praising God for the cooperation between the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and the president the United States President Donald Trump.”

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/144253/israels-reaction-to-trump-deal-mirrors-book-of-ezra-right-before-temple-construction-rabbi-glick-says/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The+sweetest+land&utm_campaign=I365+-+DAILY+-+JANUARY+31%2C+2020

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'Deal of the Century' With Israel and the Palestinians?

Nate Jackson: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined together at the White House on Tuesday to unveil a new plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, including a state for the latter. The first thing to note is the dismal history of such attempts. As Gary Bauer notes, “Almost every American president and Israeli prime minister has tried and failed to negotiate a lasting peace between Israelis and the Palestinians. The problem is not Israel or the United States. The real obstacle to peace is the refusal of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hezbollah and others to recognize the right of Israel to exist at all.” Will this be any different? We’ll see.

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

Jerusalem remains the undivided capital of Israel. (Remember, Trump finally kept a long-standing U.S. promise to move the American embassy there.)
The Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish state.
Hamas must be disarmed, and the Palestinians must reject terrorism.
The so-called “refugee problem” will be settled outside the boundaries of Israel.
Israel will suspend construction in disputed territories for four years to give both sides time to implement various aspects of the deal.
The president pledged $50 billion of investment to provide hope and economic opportunity to the Palestinian people.

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

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

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

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

Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 31, 2020 at 3:57pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The Flu and You: Perspective and Preparedness

Mark Alexander

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Senator rino-Lisa Murkowski Announces

She Will Vote “No” on Witnesses

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ After taking the night to consider the issues at hand, senator rino-Lisa Murkowski announces she will not support a call for further witness testimony... It appears the primary concern for rino-Murkowski was her ‘yea’ vote creating a 50/50 split; and she anticipates Democrats attempting to manipulate further rules forcing Chief Justice Roberts to be the deciding factor. rino-Murkowski stated: “I will not stand for nor support that effort.”Posting to her Facebook Page the Alaska Senator writes: “I worked for a fair, honest, and transparent process, modeled after the scumbag/liar-Clinton trial, to provide ample time for both sides to present their cases, ask thoughtful questions, and determine whether we need more. The House chose to send articles of impeachment that are rushed and flawed. I carefully considered the need for additional witnesses and documents, to cure the shortcomings of its process, but ultimately decided that I will vote against considering motions to subpoena. Given the partisan nature of this impeachment from the very beginning and throughout, I have come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the Senate. I don’t believe the continuation of this process will change anything. It is sad for me to admit that, as an institution, the Congress has failed. It has also become clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process, and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the Chief Justice. I will not stand for nor support that effort. We have already degraded our institution for partisan political benefit, and I will not enable those who wish to pull down another. We are sadly at a low point of division in this country.”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/31/senator-lisa-murkowski-announces-she-will-vote-no-on-witnesses/

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Impeachment Trial Day 8: Dershowitz,

scumbag/liar-Schiff, and Bolton

Nate Jackson: “If the president does something that he thinks will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Donald Trump’s defense team, told the Senate Wednesday. Predictably, his statement, which outlines his consistent defense of Trump, was mischaracterized by Democrats and the Leftmedia in service to the impeachment agenda.

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

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

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

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

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

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

President [Barack] scumbag/liar-nObama, on an open mic, says to [then-Russian President Dimitri] Medvedev, “Hey, Medvedev, I know you don’t want me to send this military money to Ukraine because they are fighting and killing your people. I want you to do me a favor, though. I want you to do an investigation of rino-Mitt Romney. And I want you to announce you found dirt on rino-Mitt Romney. If you’re willing to do that, quid pro quo, I won’t give Ukraine the money they need to fight you on the front line.”
Do any of us have any question that Barack scumbag/liar-nObama would be impeached for that kind of misconduct? Are we really ready to say that that would be okay if Barack scumbag/liar-nObama asked Medvedev to investigate his opponent and withhold money from an ally that needed to defend itself to get an investigation of rino-Mitt Romney? That’s the parallel here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Pot-Kettle-Black Impeachment

by DANIEL J. FLYNN
{ spectator.org } ~ Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff said that if Barack scumbag/liar-nObama encouraged a foreign power to investigate a political opponent, then the last president would have committed an impeachable offense... “Under no circumstances do you go outside of your own legitimate law enforcement process to ask a foreign power to investigate your rival, whether you think there’s cause or you don’t think there’s cause,” scumbag/liar-Schiff explained during the impeachment trial. “And you certainly don’t invite that foreign power to try to influence an election to your benefit.” scumbag/liar-Schiff strangely spoke as though addressing a hypothetical. Not only did the scumbag/liar-nObama administration link arms with foreigners to take down a political rival, but scumbag/liar-Schiff also ran interference for that propaganda effort by falsely claiming to know of “more than circumstantial evidence” that the Donald Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election, a charge invalidated by the Mueller Report and much else. Did scumbag/liar-Schiff really forget his raison d’être for the first two and a half years of the Trump administration? A joint operation of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign, and, ultimately, the scumbag/liar-nObama Justice Department, Christopher Steele’s opposition research — euphemistically rechristened an “intelligence dossier” in the press — peddled false information obtained by a bought foreign agent utilizing bought sources in a foreign country, i.e., Russia, to smear the Republican presidential nominee. The meddling former MI6 agent, unsurprisingly, found what he and his paymasters were looking for. In Steele’s so-called dossier, he describes Source A as “a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure,” Source B as “a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin,” and Source C as “a senior Russian financial official.” Did Barack scumbag/liar-nObama sic the Justice Department on those using foreigners to derail an ostensibly free and fair American presidential election? No, scumbag/liar-nObama’s Justice Department, which had paid Steele as a source in the past, actually authorized payments to Steele as a result of his opposition research gathered as a bought agent of the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign, which, like the DNC, laundered its funding to Steele in an end-around on Federal Election Commission transparency rules through a law firm and then an opposition research firm. This succeeded in misleading the public, the press, and a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court into imagining the “dossier” as the product of a legitimate investigation rather than one bought by the most interested party possible on the face of the earth...
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A Sin For Us Not To Support Trump’s Plan

by Caroline Glick

{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ In Israel’s early years, every time the U.S. ambassador traveled to Jerusalem to meet with government leaders, he would have his chauffeur stop his car at the entrance to the city... and replace its diplomatic license plates with regular civilian plates. The State Department refused to recognize that Jerusalem was part of Israel. The license plates were for Israel. And so, in a show of contempt and rejection of Israel’s right to its capital city, he removed his diplomatic plates before entering Jerusalem, and put them back on when he left. President Harry Truman was the first world leader to recognize the State of Israel, just moments after David Ben-Gurion declared its independence on May 14, 1948. But his recognition was skin deep. Truman, like all of his successors until Donald Trump, recognized Israel’s existence but didn’t recognize the Jewishness of Israel. He saw Israel as a refuge for Holocaust survivors and other Jews fleeing persecution, but he didn’t accept that the nation of Israel in 1948 was the nation of Israel from the Bible. He didn’t accept that the Jewish refugees in European DP camps were the descendants of the prophets or that the forefathers of the kibbutzniks in the Jezreel Valley were the priests at the Temple in Jerusalem. Israel, as far as he was concerned, was a new state, a poor state of Jewish refugees. And he treated it accordingly. Truman’s anti-historical view of the Jewish state produced a two-faced American policy towards Israel. On the one hand, the American officials spoke warmly of the Jewish homeland. On the other hand, they treated Israel like a beggar that should be thankful for scraps and loose change. This patronizing American approach changed after the 1967 Six-Day War. President Lyndon Johnson realized that a nation capable of triumphing over four enemy armies in six days and tripling its size is a nation worthy of respect and better treatment. Johnson upgraded Israel militarily and supported it diplomatically in the aftermath of the war. But America’s ambivalence towards Zionism — the liberation movement of the ancient Jewish people —persevered. The U.S.’s adamant refusal to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Washington’s opposition to all Jewish settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza attested to this fact... https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/sin-us-not-support-trumps-plan-caroline-glick

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Today is Brexit Day – The U.K Formally

Departs The European Union

by sundance

{ dailymail.co.uk } ~ I think it is fair to say: no individual has worked harder for this day than Britain’s Nigel Farage. Without his relentless work to organize voters to remove the U.K. from the European Union... and then to organize again -three years later- to break the Brexit stalemate in Parliament; this momentous day would not have arrived. Boris Johnson will deliver a plea for the country to move on from Brexit as the UK finally leaves the EU tonight. In an address to be broadcast shortly before Britain’s departure at 11pm U.K. / 6pm U.S. ET, the Prime Minister will insist that Brexit marks ‘not an end but a beginning’.And in a sign of the new Government’s changed approach, he will convene a symbolic Cabinet meeting this afternoon in Sunderland, the first city to declare for Brexit when the 2016 referendum results came out. Tonight he will stress his belief that the referendum was a vote not just to leave the EU, but also for lasting change in neglected areas of the country. Mr Johnson will describe Brexit as ‘the moment when the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act’...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7949307/A-new-dawn-UK-finally-leaves-EU-11pm-TONIGHT.html

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It’s About Corruption – Replacing a Failed

and Corrupt Political Establishment

By Brian C. Joondeph

{ americanthinker.com } ~ American presidents have their famous speeches, remembered long after they leave office. JFK said: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and told Mikhail Gorbachev to: “Tear down this wall.”... Some speeches are memorable in other ways. George W. Bush, days after 9/11, ironically announced that: “Islam is peace.” Barack scumbag/liar-nObama proclaimed himself the messiah: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” President Trump has certainly given strong speeches, such as at the recent March for Life. But he may be remembered more for his raucous rallies and hilarious tweets. Yet one speech has flown under the radar. On Oct. 13, 2016, just weeks before the election, Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Florida. Leading up to the election, he was holding several rallies each day, giving numerous speeches, but this seemingly random speech stands out. The enigmatic Q group refers to it as the speech that got Donald Trump elected. As it was one of many pre-election speeches he gave and at a Florida rally, it may have only been heard by a fraction of Trump voters before the election, but it certainly encapsulates his philosophy, both before and after the election, toward government corruption. The speech explains the resistance by the Washington, D.C. ruling class to Trump’s candidacy, election, and presidency. Trump attacked the foundation of deep state power, wealth, and corruption. Trump was indeed an “existential threat” to the cabal. Before even being elected, and years before loose lips liar-Joe Biden decided to run for president, Donald Trump was focused on corruption. Not to influence his reelection, as House Democrats accuse, since he wasn’t even president yet. But because rooting out corruption was part of his plan to make America great again. Everything that followed his election, from the Russian collusion accusations, White House leaks, special counsel investigation, and now impeachment, is a reaction to the ideas Trump explains in this 6-minute speech... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/its_about_corruption__replacing_a_failed_and_corrupt_political_establishment.html

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2qIXXafxCQ&feature=youtu.be

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Whatever Happened to the Democratic Primary?

By Matthew Continetti

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Fox News website highlights "hot topics" at the top of the page. As I write, the topics are: "Kobe Bryant dead," "Trump impeachment," and "Coronavirus." Compelling... and in the last case terrifying—stories. But something is missing: the Democratic primary. The Iowa caucus will be held in a matter of days. New Hampshire votes a week after that. Twelve Democrats are still in the race. Nobody cares. Maybe that's harsh. No doubt the candidates' mothers are paying attention. Yet in two decades of serious observation of politics I have not seen a presidential primary that exerts less of a hold on the nation's attention than this one. Why? The obvious answer is impeachment. It is all Washington cares about. The trial of President Trump hasn’t just overshadowed the campaign. It's stopped it. commie-Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, and Amy Klobuchar, who are in the game in Iowa, as well as Michael Bennet, who is not, have been strapped to their chairs. Think of all the selfies dinky/liar-Warren has missed out on. She must be despondent. Because the television camera in the Senate chamber is pointed at the rostrum, dinky/liar-Warren and commie-Sanders can't even communicate to their supporters through hand gestures. Nor have loose lips liar-Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg capitalized on the opportunity of having Iowa to themselves. They can't break through wall-to-wall coverage of senators' questions and legal maneuvers, of John Bolton's book, of Mitch McConnell's quest to end the trial as soon as possible. True, impeachment has kept loose lips liar-Biden's name in the news. But not in a way he would like. Trump's defense has drawn further attention to Hunter Biden's questionable position on the board of Ukrainian gas giant Burisma. What was Hunter being paid for? Relationship advice? His dad doesn't have a good answer. Whether he likes it or not, impeachment reinforces the impression that loose lips liar-Joe Biden is a lifelong D.C. politician whose family benefits from his connections... https://freebeacon.com/columns/whatever-happened-to-the-democratic-primary/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email

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The Flu and You: Perspective and Preparedness

Mark Alexander: Thursday, the UN’s World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concer in connection with the spread of the latest coronavirus mutations and concern about human-to-human transmission. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted, “The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries.”

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

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

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

What do you need to know — and do?

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

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

What can you do?

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

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

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

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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 31, 2020 at 12:00pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Impeachment Trial Day 7:

'Trust the American People'

Thomas Gallatin

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Trump Admin Again Grants Iran Pass to

Conduct Nuclear Work, Angering GOP Hawks

By Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Trump administration has again renewed key sanctions waivers permitting Iran to conduct sensitive nuclear work... generating anger among GOP hawks who have long called for the administration to quit giving Tehran a pass on its pursuit of an atomic weapon. Multiple lawmakers and former administration officials, including one recently departed National Security Council member who worked on Iran issues, told the Washington Free Beacon that senior officials in the administration continue to undermine President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran. At issue are sanctions exceptions that the State Department has now issued several times in recent years to the consternation of Iran hawks. The waivers permit foreign nations and businesses to partner with Iran on its nuclear work, including efforts to enrich uranium, the key component in a weapon. They also allow Iran to continue sensitive civil nuclear research at contested sites, including a covert military bunker that once housed the country's atomic weapons program. The nuclear waivers have been a key point of disagreement, both inside and outside the administration. Some of Trump's most vocal backers are now breaking ranks with the administration to express opposition to the decision. Debate over the nuclear waivers has percolated inside the administration and Congress for months. Multiple sources who spoke to the Free Beacon accused a cadre of officials in both the State and Treasury Departments of seeking to ensure that vital components of the abandoned nuclear deal remain in place against Trump's orders. "You cannot underestimate the influence of the ‘Deep State' on issues like the nuclear waivers and snapback," said Richard Goldberg, who served as the White House NSC's top Iran proliferation official until January. "Any time there's something controversial, something that upends conventional wisdom, something that would actually kill scumbag/liar-nObama's Iran Deal, there's a bureaucratic movement to save the deal."... https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-admin-again-grants-iran-pass-to-conduct-nuclear-work-angering-gop-hawks/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email

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Trump Middle East Plan:

Last Chance for the Palestinians?

by Alain Destexhe

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ President Donald Trump just unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan, "Peace to Prosperity", a strategy offering the Palestinians a state, $50 billion in international investment, and a US embassy in the newly-created state... This is a major step forward that the Palestinian Authority would be smart to accept as a starting point for discussions with Israel. President Trump made an appeal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: "President Abbas, I want you to know that if you choose the path to peace, America and many other countries will be there. We will be there to help you in so many different ways... Your response to this historic opportunity will show the world to what extent you are ready to lead the Palestinian people to statehood... Today's agreement is a historic opportunity for the Palestinians to finally achieve an independent state of their very own. After 70 years of little progress, this could be the last opportunity they will ever have." But it is Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, who oversaw the plan, which probably best describes the Palestinian mood: "It's a big opportunity for the Palestinians... they have a perfect track record of blowing every opportunity they've had in their past." He urged Palestinian leaders to "stop posturing" and accept the plan. Yet, most probably, the Palestinian leadership will prefer "posturing" and reject concrete steps forward in order to keep pursuing unrealistic demands such as the "right of return," which is at the heart of the failures of past plans. Everyone knows that the right of return for the descendants of Palestinians who left their homes in 1948 would mean the end of a Jewish state, which, of course, no Jewish party could ever accept. Maintaining the fiction that the descendants of the 1948 exiles are refugees is at the heart of the Palestinian identity and struggle. No Palestinian leader wants to give it up even though they know that this argument is far from the reality on the ground. Recognizing as "refugees" fourth-generation Palestinians living in crushing poverty in "refugee camps" that have since long become cities, while neither their parents nor often their grandparents have known the beaches of Jaffa or Haifa is pure nonsense. By supporting a specialized agency of the United Nations, UNRWA, which indirectly finances and legitimizes Hamas in Gaza, European countries and others have fostered the illusion of this right of return... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15503/trump-middle-east-palestinians

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Swing-vote GOP Sen. Alexander comes out

against witnesses, paving way

for imminent Trump acquittal

By Gregg Re

{ foxnews.com } ~ Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., announced late Thursday night that he would not support additional witnesses in President Trump's "shallow... hurried and wholly partisan" Senate impeachment trial, seemingly ending Democrats' hopes of hearing testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton and paving the way for the president's imminent acquittal as soon as Friday night. "If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist," Alexander said. "It would create the weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used against future presidents whenever the House of Representatives is of a different political party." He added: “The framers believed that there should never, ever be a partisan impeachment. That is why the Constitution requires a 2/3 vote of the Senate for conviction. Yet not one House Republican voted for these articles." On Tuesday, Trump is set to address Congress for the annual State of the Union address, which is increasingly likely to resemble a victory lap following months of quixotic Democratic calls for the president's removal from office. However, overnight, multiple congressional sources told Fox News that Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, D-N.Y., could seek to have the trial spill over into next week -- past the State of the Union address and the Iowa caucuses -- by introducing a series of motions and calling for more debate. “The Senate can only move as fast as its slowest member," one source. Asked when the trial would end, another replied, “when everyone is exhausted.” On Friday, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, told Fox News the Democrats "could throw a few Hail Marys” to drag the proceedings out, but it wouldn't change the outcome... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-republicans-do-or-die-moment-pivotal-vote-impeachment-vote

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rino-Susan Collins and rino-Mitt Romney Will

Vote “Yes” on Witnesses, Lamar Alexander “No”, rino-Lisa Murkowski Wants to Sleep on It

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ There were four key republican quisling senators who were possibilities on voting to continue the Senate impeachment trial and ask for witnesses... rino-Susan Collins, rino-Mitt Romney, rino-Lisa Murkowski and Lamar Alexander. This tentatively puts the current whip vote for possible witnesses at 49 yea and 5o nea – with one undecided. A 50/50 split should fail in the Senate but there will be massive narrative manipulation of the rules by MSM. We won’t know until actual votes on a motion to hear from witnesses are cast. However, that said, rino-Collins decision has almost guaranteed a loss for her Senate seat. In response to this vote the MAGA base will likely not support her. Therefore it’s a gift to her opponent. An unfortunate 2020 Senate seat loss for the GOP...rino-Murkowski says No.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/30/susan-collins-and-mitt-romney-will-vote-yes-on-witnesses-lamar-alexander-no-lisa-murkowski-wants-to-sleep-on-it/

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Carter Page Sues DNC Over Steele Dossier

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Democratic National Committee and the law firm that commissioned the infamous Steele dossier... and his lawyer suggests there is more litigation to come. In the lawsuit, Page accuses the DNC and its law firm, Perkins Coie, of disseminating “falsehoods” in the dossier through the media, leading to death threats and a loss of income for the former Trump aide. “The Defendants are private actors who used false information, misrepresentations and other misconduct to direct the power of the international intelligence apparatus and the media industry against a private individual, Plaintiff Carter Page, to further their political agenda,” Page’s lawyers said in the 23-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in Chicago. Page has sued the DNC and media outlets that published information in the dossier before, but those complaints were tossed out of court. The latest lawsuit is the first Page has filed through a legal team. He is represented by the firms Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht and Rathje Woodward, out of Chicago. The suit is also Page’s first since the release of a Justice Department inspector general’s (IG) report which undermined the credibility of the dossier, which the FBI cited extensively in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders against Page. John Pierce, one of Page’s lawyers, suggested that more lawsuits are in the cards based on the IG’s findings. “This is a first step to ensure that the full extent of the FISA abuse that has occurred during the last few years is exposed and remedied,” Pierce told Fox News. “This is only the first salvo.”... https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/30/carter-page-sues-dnc-steele-dossier/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11807

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CAIR’s Fight To Undermine

U.S. Border Security Continues

By David Firester

{ dailywire.com } ~ In its latest annual hate crimes report, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) vilified U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials as the nation’s greatest perpetrators of anti-Muslim discrimination... So, when as many as 60 Iranian and Iranian-American travelers were delayed for hours earlier this month at the U.S.-Canada border, CAIR was quick to accuse the federal agency of living up to its purported reputation. Has the U.S. government decided to make life difficult for Iranians living in America, as CAIR contends? Or are the nonprofit’s actions part of an enduring campaign to subvert U.S. border security? In response to a January 2 air strike which killed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a bulletin warning that Hezbollah and other Iranian loyalists could carry out homeland-based plots by targeting “critical infrastructure.” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo deployed the national guard to protect public transportation, while government officials in California, Washington, and Massachusetts ordered increased police patrols or warned citizens to remain extra vigilant. Meanwhile, the Peace Arch Border Crossing in Blaine, Washington became congested on January 4 after as many as 60 Iranian natives were allegedly selected for additional screening and detained, in some cases, for several hours. The travelers, who were returning from a pop concert in Vancouver, put a strain on CBP resources as customs agents struggled to keep up with the sudden increase in cross-border traffic. However, CAIR officials explicitly alleged that delays and mistreatment were premised solely on national heritage. Soon after, CAIR’s Washington chapter issued a press release accusing CBP officials of treating Iranians and Iranian-Americans to prolonged interrogations at the U.S.–Canada border. “A source at CBP reported that the DHS has issued a national order to CBP to ‘report’ and detain anyone with Iranian heritage entering the country who is deemed potentially suspicious or ‘adversarial,’ regardless of citizenship status,” CAIR wrote... As I have said before CAIR needs to be removed from the USA. https://www.dailywire.com/news/firester-cairs-fight-to-undermine-u-s-border-security-continues

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Impeachment Trial Day 7: 'Trust the American People'

Thomas Gallatin: On Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s defense team finished up its last day of arguments against impeachment by urging senators to “trust the American people” to decide the fate of the president. “You know what the right answer is in your heart,” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone stated. “The election is only months away. The American people are entitled to choose their president. It is time for this to end, here and now.” It was a stark and powerful contrast to Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s elitist assertion that the American people cannot be trusted to vote the right way.

It was a good move and a powerful way to sum up what this impeachment trial has really been all about: Democrats impeaching the vote of the American people. However, it doesn’t look like Trump will get an acquittal vote without witnesses being called.

While Trump’s defense team appealed to the Senate to end the Democrats’ partisan trial with a quick vote to acquit, it’s looking more likely that at the very least John Bolton will be called as a witness. In a Tuesday evening meeting with Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he didn’t have the votes needed to block witnesses or document requests. It’s a recognization that at least four Republican senators want to hear from Bolton, and a further admission that not calling witnesses will play into Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer’s twisted narrative that Republicans aren’t interested in the truth, just in covering for Trump.

If calling witnesses is a forgone conclusion, what options does the GOP have to prevent the Democrats from drawing this charade out ad nauseam? First, simply vote to call Bolton and only Bolton. Democrats would immediately wail for adding Mick Mulvaney, but McConnell might have the votes to turn that demand aside.

Otherwise, McConnell could also put forward a list of witnesses that Republicans have long been calling for, including the loose lips liar-Bidens and the whistleblower, as part of a take-it-or-leave-it package deal. That would effectively put the pressure back on the Democrats to argue against certain witnesses. Of course, if scumbag-Schumer and company agreed to this deal, then McConnell would need Trump to agree to not invoke executive privilege, as that would only complicate matters for Republicans, delaying the process and playing into the Democrats’ “cover-up” narrative.

The key for McConnell and Republicans is to prevent Democrats from dictating or dragging out this process. The probability that Bolton will present any new or damning information is low, no matter how the Democrats and their media spin machine may claim, and it might even play in Trump’s favor. Wrangling over witnesses will play out over the next couple of days, with key votes later in the week. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68217?mailing_id=4829&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4829&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday / Med-AM ~ TheFrontPage

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 31, 2020 at 10:17am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Nonstop Election Campaigns

Cal Thomas

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Friday News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

GAME OVER: Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee declared late Thursday night he will oppose calling more witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, all but dashing Democratic efforts for more testimony and pushing the Senate toward an imminent vote to acquit the president. (Associated Press)

“THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST SALVO”: Ex-Trump aide Carter Page files suit against DNC over dossier (Fox News)

Health

GROWING THREAT: WHO declares China coronavirus that’s killed more than 200 a global health emergency, prompting Delta to cancel flights (CNBC)

FOR THE RECORD: Risk from influenza is far greater than coronavirus, health experts warn (The Washington Times)

Government & Politics

PICK ME! PICK ME! Watch scumbag/liar-Schiff’s hilarious attempt to stop scumbag liar-Nadler from delivering closing remarks (Townhall)

ADDRESSING EXPLOITATION: Trump to sign executive order combating human trafficking (The Hill)

IDEOLOGY TRUMPS MORALITY: dinky/liar-Warren vows to give “young trans person” veto power over her secretary of education pick (National Review)

MEMO TO DON LEMON: Trump supporters score higher on verbal ability tests (The Volokh Conspiracy)

National Security

“TIME TO VOTE AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR”: Trump ally Matt Gaetz calls for AUMF repeal (CNSNews)

ATTACK FALLOUT: Fourteen more U.S. troops diagnosed with brain injury following Iranian missile attack, bring the total to 64 (NBC News)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Do subprime auto loans threaten the U.S. economy? (RealClearPolicy)

POLICY: Poverty stats greatly overstate how many Americans are destitute (Intellectual Takeout)

HUMOR: BREAKING: The Senate will call impeachment witness John Blasey Bolton (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68278?mailing_id=4835&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4835&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Fired Ukrainian Prosecutor Files Federal

Complaint Against loose lips liar-Biden,

Charging He 'Abused His Power'

By MATT MARGOLIS

{ pjmedia.com } ~ Multiple sources have confirmed a report by French news site Les Crises that former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin has filed a complaint with Ukraine’s National Bureau of Investigation this week... demanding an investigation be launched against loose lips liar-Joe Biden, who successfully pressured the Ukrainian government to fire him and protect Burisma Holdings, the company his son Hunter sat on the board of, making $83,000/month, despite having no experience related to their business. Shokin alleges in his filing that loose lips liar-Biden orchestrated his ouster as prosecutor general in order to prevent the completion of his investigation of the notoriously corrupt natural gas company, Burisma Holdings. During the period 2014-2016, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine was conducting a preliminary investigation into a series of serious crimes committed by the former Minister of Ecology of Ukraine Mykola Zlotchevsky and by the managers of the company “Burisma Holding Limited “Cyprus, the board of directors of which included, among others, Hunter Biden, son of loose lips liar-Joseph Biden, then vice-president of the United States of America. Shokin contends the investigation was "carried out in strict accordance with Criminal Law" and under his "personal control as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine." Owing to my firm position on the above-mentioned cases regarding their prompt and objective investigation, which should have resulted in the arrest and the indictment of the guilty parties, loose lips liar-Joseph Biden developed a firmly hostile attitude towards me which led him to express in private conversations with senior Ukrainian officials, as well as in his public speeches, a categorical request for my immediate dismissal from the post of Attorney General of Ukraine in exchange for the sum of US $ 1 billion in as a financial guarantee from the United States for the benefit of Ukraine. Shokin cited as evidence the publicly available video of loose lips liar-Joe Biden bragging about the quid pro quo, which ultimately got him fired. In his complaint, Shokin elaborated on loose lips liar-Biden's efforts to have him removed... Its about time Shokin reacted to his firing. https://pjmedia.com/trending/fired-ukrainian-prosecutor-says-joe-biden-abused-his-power-files-federal-complaint-against-him/?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

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CBO report shows Washington

in denial over entitlements

by washingtonexaminer.com ~ This week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office delivered the sort of bad news that Washingtonians routinely shrug off, even though it should make them feel like their hair is on fire... In less than 10 years, the agency projects that Uncle Sam will run annual deficits closer to $2 trillion than the current $1 trillion per year, and that’s assuming that all of the temporary tax cuts in the 2017 tax reform law are allowed to expire. There are many reasons why leaders and bureaucrats fail to take this seriously year after year. For one thing, people tend to tune out when warnings are too frequent. For another, there’s just the perception that it’s other people’s money. But, in this case, the problem is far worse than that. Some problems become so big and so intractable that people just normalize them. People learn to live with such problems, convincing themselves that the consequences are too far off to matter. What seemed like what might become a manageable problem 20 years ago — recall that George W. Bush ran for president promising to use the budget surplus to start paying off the national debt — is now one of these big and intractable problems. It’s not just that the debt and the deficits are too big; it’s also that Congress is never forced to face their cause. Entitlements, unfortunately, play no role in Congress’s annual appropriations process, and what Congress is not forced to face, it will not face voluntarily. It’s useless to blame either the recent tax cuts revenues have actually increased in the time since or the government’s garden-variety wasteful spending. The increase in the deficit and all of the nation’s future fiscal woes are tied to Congress’s inability to tackle entitlement reform. As the Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl pointed out, the annual shortfall in Medicare and Social Security costs, currently at $440 billion, will rise to $1.9 trillion by 2030. Between now and 2049, these two programs combined are projected to pay out $63 trillion more than they will take in...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/cbo-report-shows-washington-in-denial-over-entitlements?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_01/30/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

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Jay Sekulow Drops Nuke On

scumbag/liar-Schiff’s Impeachment Demands

by thegreggjarrett.com ~ Personal counsel for President Trump, Jay Sekulow, destroyed the Democrats’ demands for witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial in less than 30 seconds... Sekulow was even able to get Rep. scumbag/liar-Schiff to agree with his assessment of where the arguments now stand. Sekulow: “Well then I don’t think we need any witnesses.” Mr. Sekulow is right. If the case is proven beyond any reasonable doubt, or as Rep. scumbag liar-Nadler claimed “beyond any doubts” at all, then why do we need any additional “evidence” or “witnesses?” Additionally, the Democrats know that any of the “evidence” or “witness” accounts that they are calling for are not strong enough to impact the case in either direction. With scumbag/liar-Schiff at one point stating that new evidence, in this case, could “come to light” “every day” of the impeachment trial, and leak out after the impeachment trial ends, it is clear that the Democrats’ attempt to add more “witnesses” and “evidence” to their sham impeachment is merely an attempt to prolong the case to hurt President Trump’s election effort. Unfortunately for scumbag/liar-Schiff and the Democratic impeachment managers, it appears that their trial is going to fail, and ultimately the American people will decide if President Trump remains in office in 278 days.

https://thegreggjarrett.com/jay-sekulow-drops-nuke-on-schiffs-impeachment-demands/

VIDEO: https://thegreggjarrett.com/jay-sekulow-drops-nuke-on-schiffs-impeachment-demands/?jwsource=em

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Republican wins Texas special election

By REID WILSON

{ thehill.com } ~ Texas Republicans will hold a key suburban seat in the state House after their candidate cruised to a surprisingly easy win in the Houston area on Tuesday... Gary Gates, a businessman who spent nearly $2 million on his own campaign, scored 58 percent of the vote in the runoff election to outpace Eliz Markowitz, a Democrat and an education expert making her second run for office. Democrats had spent heavily on Markowitz's behalf in a district that seemed to be trending their way. Groups like Forward Majority and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee invested more than $600,000 in her campaign, a startling amount for an election in which the winner would not even get to serve in Austin before the next election in November. Democrats had hoped to deliver a message that Texas is in play in the presidential election, thanks to its rapidly changing suburbs. President Trump won the suburban Fort Bend district by 10 points, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R) won there in 2018 by just 3 points. Former Rep. socialist-Beto O'Rourke (D) and several presidential candidates campaigned with Markowitz. "Today, voters resoundingly rejected the Democrats' socialist ideology and took a major step toward keeping Texas red. As we look ahead to the 2020 election, we must be prepared to replicate this success across the state if we are to secure a more prosperous future for Texas," Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said in a statement. Democrats privately admitted that the election became more about socialist-O'Rourke, who ended his presidential bid in November, than about Markowitz or Gates. socialist-O'Rourke's presence was ubiquitous, pushing Republican voters to the polls...

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/480434-republican-wins-texas-special-election

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ICE Is Requiring ‘Sanctuary’ Authorities

Provide Warrants Before Transferring

Custody Of Illegal Alien

by JASON HOPKINS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ In what appears to be an interesting flip of the script, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is mandating a sanctuary jurisdiction provide two separate warrants if it wants custody of an illegal alien accused of committing a deadly hit-and-run... ICE is requiring Multnomah County, Oregon, authorities provide an arrest warrant and a judicial transport warrant if it wants to assume custody of an illegal alien currently in the agency’s custody, ICE spokesperson Tanya Roman told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Wednesday. The situation is a reversal from numerous cases where sanctuary cities that have an illegal alien in their custody refuse to hand over the individual to federal immigration authorities without a judicial warrant. The agency is forced to take this action, Roman said, because it can’t rely on sanctuary jurisdictions to return the individual back to federal immigration authorities. Authorities in Multnomah County — which encompasses the progressive city of Portland — already released the illegal alien in question once and is feared of doing so again. The situation began on April 10, 2019, when a vehicle hit Sandy Bosch, an 82-year-old Oregon woman. An off-duty police officer reported the crash and attempted to help Bosch, but she died at the scene, according to KOIN News. The vehicle that struck her drove off and never stopped. One day after the crash, local authorities located a vehicle with a smashed windshield and embedded hair that matched Bosch’s DNA. However, it wasn’t until June when authorities arrested a suspect: 42-year-old Jaime Mendoza-Chavez. He admitted to police to drinking alcohol before his involvement in the accident. The arrest sparked interest by federal immigration authorities, which led to a great deal of discovery. Mendoza-Chavez’s real name, ICE revealed, is Manuel Garcia-Ledesma, a Mexican national living illegally in the U.S. The now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service arrested him in Phoenix in April 1999 and granted him voluntary return back to Mexico. He illegally reentered the U.S. at an unknown date and has since been living in the country unlawfully...

https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/29/ice-requiring-warrants-for-illegal-alien/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11793

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Trump’s Peace Plan for Palestine

Is Doomed to Fail

by Cal Thomas

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Twenty years ago, President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat met at Camp David where Barak offered almost all of what Arafat asked for... in exchange for making peace with the Jewish state. Arafat rejected the offer. The reason was and remains that the Palestinian leadership doesn’t want to make peace with Israel. Their goal is to eliminate it. Now comes President Trump with his own peace plan, offering statehood, prosperity, and peace to the Palestinians. Has anything changed in the last 20 years, indeed, since 1948 when the Arabs rejected the idea of a Jewish state and launched the first of numerous wars, spawning terrorist attacks? Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas rejected the Trump plan before it was announced, calling the president a “dog” and another name not fit to print. The flaw in the Trump plan is that it is designed, like all the others, by people whose thinking is radically different from Arab and Muslim leaders. Let’s start with the Palestinian Charter, which says in Article Nine: “Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine and is therefore a strategy and not a tactic. The Palestinian Arab people affirms its absolute resolution and abiding determination to pursue the armed struggle and to march forward towards the armed popular revolution, to liberate its homeland and restore its right to a natural life, and to exercise its right of self-determination and national sovereignty.”... https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/30/trumps-peace-plan-for-palestine-is-doomed-to-fail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trumps-peace-plan-for-palestine-is-doomed-to-fail&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVdZMU9HUTNNVEUyWldNeCIsInQiOiJYa0o1NGJGcUpEbVBONVpLa2FGSko1elREQmRvN0IwK2hCVTE0XC9JTWFGSnRoWWZadXFsYnNMcWNXKzFVVVB2WXRlaTZxWVpWNE9uMk5JRTlLSXRTVFRCeklISEpTbHFVMTFvTjhvQVJQdlZ4WnlKeDRGTlwveXdPYXZFeUdPRktrIn0%3D

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Nonstop Election Campaigns

Cal Thomas

I love Ireland for its natural beauty, its people, its food (some of it), its music, its writers and especially its elections, which are shorter, less costly and designed to engage citizens and boost voter turnout.

On January 14, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called a general election for February 8. That means a campaign of slightly more than three weeks. In the process, the Irish Parliament was dissolved. What a delightful thought. If only the U.S. Congress could be at least occasionally dissolved. It could use some dissolving, or at least disinfecting, after the toxic impeachment and trial of President Trump.

Unlike Irish politics, U.S. election campaigns increasingly resemble endless wars. Like those wars, campaigns cost too much and never seem to resolve the conflict.

Multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg says he is willing to spend up to $1 billion of his fortune to either win the Democratic nomination, or if he doesn’t, to help the eventual nominee defeat President Trump. Recent presidential campaigns have cost over 1 billion (some estimates put the cost of 2020 ad spending alone at over $6 billion), so Bloomberg’s spending will ensure this year’s presidential campaign will set another record.

As soon — or possibly before — this election season ends, people will be talking about 2024 and 2028. It never ends and real problems are rarely solved.

The process begins with candidates establishing “exploratory committees” during which the “explorer” speaks about carefully poll-tested subjects and repeats them ad nauseum, while fundraising and appearing on TV.

Does any of this time and money spent produce real solutions to obvious problems, such as reforming entitlement programs and reducing debt? If it did, by now, wouldn’t those solutions have been implemented? The goal of too many politicians is not solving problems but getting elected and then re-elected.

All of this contributes to generally low voter turnout compared to other developed nations. This gives power to activists on both the left and right, which skews the results and gives no clear picture of where most Americans would like to see the country go. For example, consider how often the parties exchange power in Congress and the presidency. Why do we elect a liberal like President Obama and then eight years later elect President Trump, who has been enacting and promoting the conservative agenda?

Ireland isn’t the only country that has sane campaign and election practices.

In 1926, the longest Canadian election — from announcement to voting — was 10 weeks.

According to mic.com, an American internet and media company based in New York City that caters to millennials, “Election spending is strictly limited in the U.K. Each party cannot spend more than $29.5 million in the year before the election. The New York Times reported that the combined spending of both major British political parties in 2010 came out to around the same amount as the American presidential candidates spent … on expenses related to raising money in 2012.”

German political parties may not release more than one 90-second television political ad during a campaign. That would not please U.S. networks and local stations, which make a fortune from political ads. TV expenses in America are a major contributor to the escalating costs of campaigns, even though studies show the ads change few minds.

Brazilian elections are held on weekends, making it more convenient.

Not every country’s campaign and election practices may be worthy of copying in the U.S., but some are. Why can’t we learn from others to improve the process by which we nominate candidates and elect presidents? We can, but will we? A corollary question: What’s stopping us? The answer: only our lack of will. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68180?mailing_id=4827&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4827&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 31, 2020 at 7:57am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The Media Attacks

Gary Bauer

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Limbaugh reveals REAL source of coronavirus

and every American needs to take notice

By Carmine Sabia

{ wnd.com } ~ Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh sounded the alarm on the origins of new diseases as well as older ones that were thought to be eradicated but are making a comeback... All of these diseases are coming from leftist communities, both in the United States and abroad, Limbaugh noted. Take the new coronavirus that has people in fear worldwide. The disease has been reported to be coming from one particular community in Wuhan, China. The virus is believed to have originated from the sale of illegal wildlife at one seafood market in the city, the BBC reported. “The respiratory infection, which is closely related to SARS and MERS, has been spreading across China, and cases have been diagnosed in several other countries, including the United States,” WebMD said of the disease. The virus has now resulted in 132 deaths from the more than 6,000 cases that have been reported worldwide, with all of the deaths and the overwhelming majority of infections centered in China. Of the handful of cases that have been reported in the United States, at least two of the patients traveled to Wuhan. “Symptoms include a fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. They may appear 2 to 14 days after you’re exposed to the virus,” WebMD said. On his program Friday, Limbaugh talked about the coronavirus outbreak as well as other diseases that have been hitting the state of California hard. Those include typhoid fever, typhus, hepatitis A, staph and tuberculosis. “Where are all of these deadly viruses coming from?" the host asked, according to the transcript on his official website. "Communist countries. This latest virus that’s got everybody scared to death, where is it coming from? The ChiComs. "What’s happening in all of these homeless tent cities in California? Medieval diseases that had been eradicated are starting to crop up." Limbaugh continued, "Do not doubt me when I tell you that liberalism, left-wingism, socialism, communism, whatever, folks, it destroys... https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/limbaugh-coronavirus-diseases-coming-leftist-communities-not-conservative-ones/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=newsletter

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FBI Uncovers the Longest

Cross Border Tunnel in the U.S.

By Kristine Javier

{ thepatriothill.com } ~ For more than a year, the government had successfully mapped out a quarter of a mile narco tunnel. After close coordination with the FBI and the U.S. Border Patrol, government officials have uncovered a 4,309 ft. cross border tunnel... that stretches out from San Diego, California and into an industrial area in Mexico. In a statement, the CBP said: “The tunnel originates in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico in an industrial area approximately one-half-mile west of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. Following the discovery in late August 2019, Mexican law enforcement identified the tunnel entrance and members of the San Diego Tunnel Task Force (SDTTF) began mapping the tunnel from Mexico.” Based on the official statement, the tunnel was hidden by a small industrial building and winded up north and extended to 4,068 ft. away from the U.S. border. The path was extremely narrow as it only measures approximately five and a half feet tall and two feet wide. It has an average depth of 70 ft. from the surface. The path boasts a rail/cart system, forced air ventilation, high voltage electrical cables and panels, a complex drainage system and even an elevator at the entrance. The tunnel stretches over three-quarters of a mile and is considered as the longest tunnel in the U.S. This is followed by another 2,966 ft. tunnel which was also found in San Diego in 2014. The CBP credits the success to a “challenging multi-year, inter-agency investigation, utilizing technology capabilities, intelligence gathering, and community outreach.” According to an Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Cardell Morant believed that while subterranean tunnels are nothing new in the California-Mexico border, officials are still astonished by the sophistication and the efforts of criminal organizations to go into lengths for cross border smuggling... https://thepatriothill.com/immigration/2020/01/30/fbi-uncovers-the-longest-cross-border-tunnel-in-the-u-s/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=dailyhammer-fbi-01_30-mid

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Republicans Move to Block Impeachment

Witnesses, Driving Toward Acquittal

by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael D. Shear

{ msn.com } ~ The White House and Senate Republicans worked aggressively on Wednesday to discount damaging revelations from John R. Bolton and line up the votes to block new witnesses from testifying... in President Trump’s impeachment trial, in a push to bring the proceeding to a swift close. As the Senate opened a two-day, 16-hour period of questioning from senators, Mr. Trump laced into Mr. Bolton, his former national security adviser, whose unpublished manuscript contains an account that contradicts his impeachment defense. The president described Mr. Bolton on Twitter as a warmonger who had “begged” for his job, was fired, and then wrote “a nasty & untrue book.” On Capitol Hill, Mr. Trump’s aides circulated a letter informing Mr. Bolton that the White House was moving to block publication of his forthcoming book, in which he wrote that the president refused to release military aid to Ukraine until its leaders committed to investigating his political rivals. That is a core element of the Democrats’ case, which charges Mr. Trump with seeking to enlist a foreign government to help him win re-election this year. Before the trial convened, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and other Republicans signaled that they were regaining confidence that they would be able to cobble together the 51 votes needed to block new witnesses and documents and bring the trial to an acquittal verdict as soon as Friday, after the revelations from Mr. Bolton, reported Sunday by The New York Times, had threatened to knock their plans off course. Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No. 3 Senate Republican, declared that he had “heard enough” and predicted that the Senate would vote to acquit the president by week’s end. “I’m ready to vote on final judgment,” Mr. Barrasso told reporters. Asked if Republicans planned to move directly to a vote on the two articles of impeachment on Friday, Mr. Barrasso said, “Yes, that’s the plan.” By Wednesday afternoon, Democrats were sounding a note of pessimism about the prospect of witnesses and securing new evidence in the trial, even as they used their questions to make the case that an impeachment trial without additional witnesses and documents amounted to a cover-up...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-move-to-block-impeachment-witnesses-driving-toward-acquittal/ar-BBZsrL5

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Dershowitz: My Impeachment Defense Distorted

by newsmax.com ~ President Donald Trump's defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz says his headline-dominating argument against impeaching the president has been "willfully distorted."... Meanwhile, Trump's Senate trial headed into a final day of questions and answers before a vote on whether or not to call witnesses — a decision that could send the proceedings to weeks of further action or a relatively abrupt acquittal. In a day-after tweet, Dershowitz complained Thursday about the portrayal of his testimony Wednesday night that a president, if he believes his re-election is in the “national interest,” is essentially immune from impeachment for actions in support of that idea. That argument left even some of Trump's top allies backing away from the criminal attorney's claim, though Dershowitz was testifying on Trump's behalf at the Senate trial. “They characterized my argument as if I had said that if a president believes that his re-election was in the national interest, he can do anything,” the retired professor said Thursday. “I said nothing like that, as anyone who actually heard what I said can attest.” Dershowitz testified to the Senate jurors late Wednesday that the quid pro quo charge at the heart of Trump's impeachment — a trade of U.S. military aid for political favors — even if proven could not be grounds for his impeachment. "Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest," he said Wednesday night. "And if a president does something, which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment." That argument was an abrupt turnaround from Trump’s own claim of “perfect” dealings with Ukraine. One key Republican, Sen. rino-Susan Collins of Maine, said only: “Yesterday was very interesting. That’s all I’m going to say."... https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-impeachment/2020/01/30/id/951980/?ns_mail_uid=62cddd55-241d-495e-8ad9-b8a04d508a36&ns_mail_job=DM87480_01302020&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010104cwx9xj

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Hong Kong researchers

develop vaccine for coronavirus

by jpost.com ~ University of Hong Kong scientists report that they have been able to create a vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus... Daily Sabah reported on Thursday. The university’s disease expert Yuen Kwok-yung claimed in an interview with the South China Morning Post that while the vaccine has been produced, “it will take a long time to test on animals.” He said that it would take roughly a year until clinical trials could begin on humans. The university's laboratory is one of 12 labs working in China attempting to find a vaccine. Vaccination by nature is preventative, so could not be used to save those already infected. The US is also working to create a vaccine and has urged Chinese authorities to increase their cooperation with international health authorities. US secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar is leading the White House task force charged with monitoring the virus, The Hill reported. Participating in the task force are, among others, national security adviser Robert O'Brien, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Robert Redfield, top National Institutes of Health official Anthony Fauci. China granted American officials and World Health Organization officials permission to travel to China to study the virus. https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Hong-Kong-researchers-develop-vaccine-for-Coronavirus-Report-615967

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worthless-Ilhan Omar might flee the

country after the FBI’s latest announcement

by patriotpulse.net ~ worthless-Ilhan Omar can’t seem to stay out of trouble. She continues to get caught doing terrible things that jeopardize her career... And now she might flee the country after the FBI’s latest announcement.Since getting into office, Representative worthless-Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been in the spotlight constantly. But it has never been for anything good. On one of her first days in Congress, she created outrage after posting anti-Semitic Tweets, alleging those who support Israel do so simply for monetary advantage. This is all while she was the lead sponsor of the anti-Semitic BDS legislation, which calls for economic boycotts of the Jewish state of Israel, in the hopes that they cannot fund their defense against mobs of Palestinian terrorists. But her disgusting behavior didn’t end there. While speaking at an event with the Center for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), she downplayed the 9/11 terrorist attack, simply as “some people” doing “something.” This is especially insulting considering CAIR has well-established ties to Islamic terrorism. The group was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history, and is labeled a terrorist organization in the United Arab Emirates due to their ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Somehow, despite all this, worthless-Omar remains in Congress, and liar-Nancy Pelosi even allows her to remain on the House Foreign Affairs Committee... https://patriotpulse.net/ilhan-omar-might-flee-the-country-after-the-fbis-latest-announcement/#gf_1390

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The Media Attacks

Gary Bauer

Like clockwork, just after the president’s defense team decimated scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s entire impeachment case (more on that below), the two main media organs of the left, The New York Times and CNN, came rushing to the rescue.

Both outlets dropped a report that every Trump-hater is calling a “bombshell.” Here are my thoughts on the latest “revelations” allegedly from John Bolton’s upcoming book.

There are no direct quotes from the Bolton manuscript in either the CNN or New York Times story because neither outlet has actually seen the book manuscript. It was simply “described” to them by “multiple people.” This is yet another attack piece by the liberal media using anonymous sources in a desperate attempt to reverse the last election and force Trump off the ballot in the next election.
The reporters for the Times story, Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt, are well-known partisan hacks with histories of running reports later debunked as false. And the left-wing bias at The New York Times goes well beyond these two reporters.
Whatever is in Bolton’s book, how would someone have leaked what is or is not in it? The leak could have come from the publisher. The book is currently at the White House, undergoing a review process to ensure it does not violate national-security agreements that people like Bolton have to sign when they work in the administration.
That review is taking place at the National Security Council (NSC), which was expanded during the scumbag/liar-nObama years and is still filled with scumbag/liar-nObama loyalists. The so-called “whistleblower” was at the NSC. Alexander Vindman and his twin brother, Yevgeny, are at the NSC. By the way, one of Yevgeny Vindman's jobs is to review book manuscripts.
A senior NSC employee, responsible for Russia and Ukraine policy, was recently escorted from the White House and placed on leave pending a security investigation. The official had only been there for a few months, after transferring from the State Department. I have no idea what that is all about, but it does seem like a big coincidence. One reason officials are abruptly removed from the White House is that they were caught leaking.

Even if Bolton’s claims are accurate, none of it changes the basic facts, which the Trump defense team outlined very well on Saturday.

Nonetheless, the target of this Democrat Party press release disguised as a news story is a handful of Republican senators who could force so-called “witnesses” (to what?) to be called, dragging out this process and setting up a Kavanaugh-style situation with new accusations and new demands for witnesses every day.

In short, it would be a taxpayer-funded fishing expedition against the president just as the 2020 presidential campaign kicks into high gear.

By the way, many in the media are citing polling data showing that Americans overwhelmingly support calling witnesses during the Senate’s impeachment trial.

What they fail to point out is that many Republicans support calling looae lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden, as well as the so-called “whistleblower,” who has yet to face any serious public scrutiny or be crossed-examined by the president’s lawyers.

Defense Team Demolishes scumbag/liar-Schiff’s Case

President Trump’s defense team finally got the chance to make its case Saturday after scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and the other House managers exhausted all their time. The presentation by Michael Purpura, deputy counsel to the president, was particularly effective. Here’s an excerpt of his remarks:

Once you sweep away all of the bluster and innuendo, the selective leaks … the staged public hearings, what we’re left with are six key facts that have not and will not change.
First, the transcript shows that the president did not condition either security assistance or a meeting on anything. The paused security assistance funds aren’t even mentioned on the call.
Second, President Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials have repeatedly said that there was no quid pro quo and no pressure on them to review anything.
Third, President Zelensky and high-ranking Ukrainian officials did not even know … the security assistance was paused until the end of August, over a month after the July 25 call.
Fourth, not a single witness testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigations and security assistance, a presidential meeting, or anything else.
Fifth, the security assistance flowed on September 11 and a presidential meeting took place on September 25 without the Ukrainian government announcing any investigations.
Finally, the Democrats’ blind drive to impeach the president does not and cannot change the fact as attested to by the Democrats’ own witnesses that President Trump has been a better friend and stronger supporter of Ukraine than his predecessor.

By the way, you may recall that last week I questioned why scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff was leading the impeachment charge given his own serious credibility issues. I’m pleased to report that the president’s lawyers made it a point to zero in on scumbag/liar-Schiff during their opening statements.

Never Again

Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz, revealing some of the worst horrors of the Holocaust. More than one million people were systematically murdered there.

In 2005, as then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was threatening a second Holocaust by vowing to “wipe Israel off the map,” the United Nations voted to recognize January 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

President Trump issued a proclamation recognizing the significance of this day and reaffirming “our steadfast commitment to confronting the vile poison of anti-Semitism wherever and whenever it arises.”

I join President Trump and all men and women of goodwill in standing against the evil of anti-Semitism and standing proudly with the Jewish state of Israel.

Speaking of Israel, Israeli officials noted over the weekend that the country’s aviation system came under sustained cyberattack during last week’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem.

Israel fended off more than 800 attacks “aimed at disrupting the flight paths of more than 60 planes carrying heads of state, kings and presidents.” The attacks originated from Iran, China, North Korea, Russia, and Poland. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68173?mailing_id=4827&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4827&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Barbarians Have Breached The Gate

Posted by Craig Andresen on January 31, 2020 at 3:56am

Be sure to Click LIKE at the bottom of this article, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Despite the claims of liberals today, the United States is the greatest nation on Earth, and one could well argue, perhaps one of the most civilized nations in all of history.

That’s not to say that our great nation is perfect. It isn’t, and frankly, it never has been, but unlike all other countries, this country, thanks to the wisdom and foresight of its Founders and Framers, has built-in mechanisms designed for self-correction without the need to utterly destroy it in the process.

Over nearly 244 years, the United States has utilized such mechanisms countless times to right itself when at various tipping points that would lay waste to most other nations.

The very foundation of our greatness comes from our founding documents, specifically the Constitution, and its incorporated Bill of Rights, both of which are the envy of the world.

Ben Franklin once said, “What you have, is a Republic if you can keep it.”

Ronald Reagan said,

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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 30, 2020 at 4:45pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Did the Demo Deep State Just Get Deeper?

Mark Alexander

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Trump administration to renew Iran sanctions waivers amid worries over US nuclear supply

By Rich Edson

{ foxnews.com } ~ Concerns over the United States’ nuclear supply have prompted the State Department to renew sanctions waivers for companies working on Iran’s civilian nuclear program... according to senior U.S. officials. Failing to extend these waivers otherwise would expose a Russian nuclear company to American sanctions. Rosatom, a Russian state nuclear company, helps Iran operate its civilian nuclear program – but it also sells American power and medical companies a significant portion of their nuclear material. Sanctioning Rosatom could disrupt those supplies or raise prices in the U.S., senior officials said. The Trump administration will announce Thursday that it will renew those waivers for 60 days as officials say they’re seriously examining ways to eliminate them without risking the U.S. nuclear supply. President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are strongly pushing to eliminate the waivers as the “last vestige” of the Iran nuclear deal, said the officials. Rosatom supplies 20 percent of the enriched uranium the U.S. uses in its nuclear power reactors, according to The Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear industry’s trade association. Congressional Republicans opposed to the waiver extension maintained that Rosatom would comply if the administration revoked the waivers. Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., called on the administration “to rescind the remaining waivers in light of Iranian officials' definitive statements abandoning the deal,” especially as Iran is now openly violating the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement. “Enough is enough," they said... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-to-renew-iran-sanctions-waivers-amid-worries-over-us-nuclear-supply

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Media Continues Dishonesty On Dershowitz’s Argument Against Impeachment

By David Marcus

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Last week when it was announced that Alan Dershowitz was joining President Trump’s legal team, I warned in these pages that his complex argument in the alternative... in which he claims that even if proven what Democrats allege regarding Ukraine does not rise to the level of impeachment, was ripe for mischaracterization. The news media has not disappointed on that score. The first misunderstanding came just hours after the announcement of his role. Many in the news media erroneously claimed that Dershowitz, and by extension Trump’s legal team, were conceding wrongdoing, and that Republicans were moving the goalposts away from a “perfect call.” This was never true, but was too attractive a narrative for many to pass up.Yesterday the deceptive coverage of Dershowitz got even worse. What these breathless accounts of Dershowitz’s words have in common is just how wrong they are. Let’s look at the quote in question. He says, “If the president does something that he thinks will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.” The context here matters a lot, and in fairness Dershowitz could have been a bit clearer. In fact, he did clarify his remarks in the evening session of senators’ questions. Prior to this selection of his statements, Dershowitz laid out three types of motives the president could have had for his actions. First, one purely and solely concerned with the national interest, second one in which his motive also includes his electoral interests, and third one in which personal gain is his only motivation. In the quote in question, he was talking directly about that second possibility, which he would later describe as “mixed motives.”...

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/30/media-continues-dishonesty-on-dershowitzs-argument-against-impeachment/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=018df4744c-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-018df4744c-83771801

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Palestinians: Abbas Chooses Hamas

Over Peace with Israel

by Khaled Abu Toameh

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ US President Donald Trump's "Peace to Prosperity" plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians offers hope to the two million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip... which has been ruled by Hamas for more than a decade. Instead of welcoming the plan, designed to give the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip a prosperous future, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected and denounced it as the "deal of shame" and "slap of the century." Worse, Abbas has chosen to renew his ties with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the two Iranian-backed groups that are opposed to his policies and have regularly condemned his policies and decisions. Abbas, in other words, is acting not only against the interests of his people in the Gaza Strip, but also against himself by engaging the same groups that have long been seeking to undermine his rule. By rejecting Abbas Trump's plan, Abbas is denying the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip the chance of improving their living conditions. Hamas and Iran have no plans to boost the economy in the Gaza Strip. They also have no intention of creating jobs for thousands of unemployed Palestinians. The only plan Hamas, PIJ and their patrons in Tehran have is one that will bring more suffering and bloodshed to the Palestinians. That, however, does not seem to bother Abbas, who is now seeking to appease Hamas and PIJ. As the Peace to Prosperity plan accurately points out: "The people of Gaza have suffered for too long under the repressive rule of Hamas. They have been exploited as hostages and human shields, and bullied into submission. Hamas has failed the people of Gaza and has diverted money belonging to the Palestinians of Gaza, including funds provided by international donors, to attack the State of Israel, instead of using these funds to improve the lives of the people of Gaza. Under the leadership of Hamas, the residents of Gaza have suffered extreme poverty and deprivation. After years of no progress, the donor community is fatigued and reluctant to make additional investments so long as the governance structure in Gaza is run by terrorists who provoke confrontations that lead to more destruction and suffering."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15506/abbas-chooses-hamas-over-peace

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President Trump Establishes Coronavirus

Response Task Force – Headed

by HHS Secretary Alex Azar

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ In response to potential health risks; and anticipating multiple agency aspects of the U.S. government would need a unified approach; President Trump has assembled a unified task force to coordinate all response efforts across the totality of government... President Donald J. Trump announced the formation of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force. Members of the Task Force have been meeting on a daily basis since Monday. At today’s meeting, which the President chaired, he charged the Task Force with leading the United States Government response to the novel 2019 coronavirus and with keeping him apprised of developments. The Task Force is led by Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, and is coordinated through the National Security Council. It is composed of subject matter experts from the White House and several United States Government agencies, and it includes some of the Nation’s foremost experts on infectious diseases. The Task Force will lead the Administration’s efforts to monitor, contain, and mitigate the spread of the virus, while ensuring that the American people have the most accurate and up-to-date health and travel information... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/30/president-trump-establishes-coronavirus-response-task-force-headed-by-hhs-secretary-alex-azar/

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Senator Hawley: The House Managers

“Just Don’t Have a Case”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Missouri Senator Josh Hawley weighs in on the current Senate impeachment trial, and a possibility that some Democratic senators may vote to acquit.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/29/senator-hawley-the-house-managers-just-dont-have-a-case/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNWm7ec8430&feature=emb_title

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Islamic Center of Irving’s Mass Data Deletions

By Anne Christine Hoff

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Islamic religious leaders at a local Texas mosque allege that former leaders stole key files and security camera footage... According to an announcement posted on December 31, 2019, the current leaders alleged former Shura council members deleted key files and transferred files from security camera footage. On December 31, 2019, the Islamic Center of Irving (ICI) announced on its website that two members of ICI’s outgoing Shura Council had “engaged in mass data deletions, downloading, copying of thousands of documents and emails.” The announcement notes that information about lawsuits and audio/video files of Congregants were transferred from ICI’s camera and security systems. According to the announcement, the mosque’s attempts to have the information returned have gone unanswered. Later the announcement was deleted from the ICI website. While information regarding the two councils is not available on ICI’s website, ICI announced the results of the 2019 election and the current Shura Council on October 22, 2019. The announcement lists Hassan A. Hye as the current ICI president. In another announcement from October 21, 2016, Bayinnah Institute and superstar preacher Nouman Ali Khan presents himself as the former president of the Islamic Center of Irving. This information is corroborated by a photo on ICI’s Facebook page of Nouman Ali Khan at a fundraiser in his capacity as ICI President in 2017. Khan first faced scrutiny in 2017 after screenshots went pubic showing him bribing, threatening and “sexting” with different women online. Khan defended his actions by stating in a Facebook post that he had been divorced for two years and that both his and the women’s actions were based on mutual consent. Muslim American writer and lawyer Rabia Chaudry then reported on Facebook that “multiple people have had Facebook posts removed and a number of people have had their Twitter accounts suspended for criticizing Bayinnah” and also speculated that possibly Khan had threatened to bury them in legal fees. There have been two criminal incidents that brought media coverage to ICI in the last year. In May 2019, a security guard at ICI, Syed Humzah Hashmi, was arrested for aggravated sexual assault of a child. According to the arrest warrant, the male victim was in third grade and attended the Islamic School of Irving. The alleged assaults allegedly included attempted sodomy and took place at the Islamic Center of Irving from August 2016 through June 2017. A few months later, the former imam of Islamic Center of Irving, Zia ul-Haq Sheikh. Imam Sheikh was ordered to pay $2.55 million to a woman identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit alleging sexual exploitation...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/islamic_center_of_irvings_mass_data_deletions.html

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Did the Demo Deep State Just Get Deeper?

Mark Alexander: No fiction writer would plot this, because nobody would believe it, but…

As our editor Thomas Gallatin noted Monday, The New York Times published a leaked report about a soon-to-be-published book by former National Security Advisor John Bolton. The Times alleges that Bolton alleges that President Donald Trump mentioned to him that freezing aid to Ukraine was, in part, motivated by Trump’s interest in having Ukraine’s government investigate corruption suspicions regarding loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden.

The report about Bolton’s allegation re-warms the Demos’ “quid pro quo” claim that Trump used his office to threaten withholding aid in order to undermine his 2020 opponent, loose lips liar-Joe Biden. That is the centerpiece of the Democrat impeachment case. However, there is nothing illegal or impeachable about a president using his office, and the promise of U.S. aid, to insist a third-world nation clear up longstanding questions of internal corruption — particularly if tied to the actions of a former vice president and Ukrainian grossly-excessive “compensation” for his son Hunter.

Recall that loose lips liar-Joe Biden bragged on the record about how, in 2015 as VP, he coerced Ukraine to fire a prosecutor — which even The New York Times acknowledged benefited Hunter Biden, who was a target for investigation. As loose lips liar-Biden recounted, if Ukrainian officials didn’t “take action against the state prosecutor” (fire him), “I said … ‘We’re not going to give you the billion dollars. … I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars.’ … Well, son of a b—h. He got fired.”

But there is somebody whose name did not appear in The New York Times revelation’s about Bolton’s book and the source of that information: Yevgeny Leonid Vindman.

For context, Democrat Party would have no contrived case against Trump (which is actually what impacts loose lips liar-Biden’s 2020 candidacy) if not for a Soviet Union-born U.S. Army officer, Alexander Semyonovich Vindman, on the National Security Council. We believe Vindman provided the transcript of the Trump-Zelensky call to impeachment manager Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s Demo deep-state operative, Eric Ciaramella, the so-called “whistleblower.” Ciaramella’s collusion with scumbag/liar-Schiff launched the impeachment charges.

A day after The Times’ deliberately-timed “blockbuster” revelation, it is now reported that the twin brother of Alexander Semyonovich Vindman is U.S. Army officer Yevgeny Leonid Vindman. That is significant because Yevgeny Vindman is responsible for National Security Council reviews of publications by current and former NSC officials — like, say, John Bolton. Bolton submitted the transcript of his book for NSC review in December, and the NSC has not responded to requests regarding Yevgeny Vindman’s access to that review copy, or the implication that he could be in the pipeline of Demo operatives who informed The New York Times about the Bolton allegations.

Are scumbag/liar-Schiff and his dullard Demos that stupid…?

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68192?mailing_id=4827&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4827&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 30, 2020 at 2:21pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The Double Voting Problem

Hans von Spakovsky

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Trey Gowdy went on Fox News and revealed

why impeachment is bad news for

Barack scumbag/liar-nObama

by patriotpulse.net ~ Democrats are demanding Republicans provide votes to call new witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial. But Democrats should be careful what they wish for... And that’s because Trey Gowdy went on Fox News and revealed why impeachment is bad news for Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. Democrat House Impeachment Managers are demanding Republicans subpoena witnesses that scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler refused to litigate in court for the right to compel their testimony in the House impeachment inquiry. Republicans believe this will turn the trial into an endless free for all as both sides continually call new witnesses to rebut the other side. Trey Gowdy made this point in an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program. “Part of impeachment is setting a precedent for what’s going to happen in the future,” Gowdy told Hannity. Gowdy used as an example that Republicans would want to call former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama to explain what he knew about loose lips liar-Joe Biden blackmailing the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor who had been investigation a company that was paying his son over $50,000 per month or else lose out on a billion dollars in American aid. Gowdy said that event made both scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden relevant witnesses since Donald Trump’s defense against the Democrats articles of impeachment was that the President was pursuing a legitimate corruption investigation. “So, if the Vice President can make that assertion, then he is relevant as a witness, but so too is President scumbag/liar-nObama, because I would want to know whether or not he had the authority of the president at the time he made that pronouncement that there’ll be no loan guarantees unless the prosecutor is fired,” Gowdy explained. “If President scumbag/liar-nObama gave loose lips liar-Joe Biden permission to condition loan guarantees on the firing of a prosecutor, then that makes both of them potentially relevant as witnesses,” the former South Carolina Congressman concluded. https://patriotpulse.net/trey-gowdy-went-on-fox-news-and-revealed-why-impeachment-is-bad-news-for-barack-obama/#gf_1387

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Person-to-person transmission

of coronavirus reported in US, CDC says

By Alexandria Hein

{ foxnews.com } ~ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported the first case of person-to-person transmission of coronavirus in the U.S. ... In a telebriefing on Thursday, Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, said the health agency had expected to identify "some" person-to-person spread in the U.S., but that risk to the American public "remains low." The case involves a Chicago resident, who is the spouse of the first confirmed travel-related case in Illinois. Officials stressed that the woman, who is in her 60s and is said to be "doing well" and her husband, who is of similar age with underlying medical conditions, were in close contact before he developed symptoms. Officials said they believe the woman's husband was exposed to the virus while she was symptomatic. Both patients remain hospitalized, and the man is stable. He marks the sixth case of coronavirus in the U.S. and the second in Illinois. Officials said an investigative team is continuing to look into potential contacts of the couple. At this time, the CDC said it does not recommend the general public wear masks, but that those who have recently traveled to China be vigilant about reporting possible symptoms. The virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has sickened more than 7,700 people and has been linked to at least 170 deaths. https://www.foxnews.com/health/person-to-person-transmission-coronavirus-reported-in-us-cdc

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Senate Republicans see path

to ending trial this week

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Senate Republicans are optimistic they’ll vote to conclude President Trump’s impeachment trial as soon as Friday and defeat a motion to call new witnesses to testify... As of Wednesday, only three Republican senators were publicly considering a vote to call witnesses, and one of them, Sen. rino-Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, huddled in the morning with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in his Capitol office. Two other GOP lawmakers said to be weighing a vote to call witnesses signaled they would vote against the move. Sen. rino-Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, said he was “very, very skeptical,” he would see a need to vote for additional witnesses. Sen. rino-Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican up for reelection in a battleground state, announced Wednesday he wouldn’t vote to call witnesses. The vote margin is believed to be razor thin. Republican Sens. rino-Susan Collins of Maine and rino-Mitt Romney of Utah appear likely to call for additional witnesses, while rino-Murkowski’s vote is still up in the air. Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who is not running for reelection, has not indicated whether he will vote for calling witnesses and said he would decide at the end of the trial. Republicans control 53 votes. If rino-Collins, rino-Romney, and rino-Murkowski all vote for additional witnesses, it would result in a 50-50 tie, assuming all Democrats vote for witnesses. A tie vote would defeat the motion to call additional witnesses. But Democrats may move to ask Chief Justice John Roberts to intervene to break the tie, which appears to have occurred on minor votes during the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Republicans blocked a Democratic motion at the start of the trial that would have authorized Roberts to subpoena witnesses and documents... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate-republicans-see-path-to-ending-trial-this-week?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_01/29/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

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WH Tells John Bolton Not to Publish Book

Until Classified Info Removed

by JOSHUA CAPLAN

{ breitbart.com } ~ The White House has asked former National Security Advisor John Bolton to delay the release of his forthcoming book, citing “significant amounts of classified information” contained in the manuscript... In a letter dated January 23, Ellen Knight — who serves as the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Records, Access, and Information Security Management — wrote to Bolton’s attorneys that the classified information contained in The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir make it unsuitable for release and requested that the sensitive details be removed.“Under federal law and the nondisclosure agreements your client signed as a condition for gaining access to classified information, the manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information,” Knight wrote to lawyer Charles Cooper. Knight also wrote that a preliminary review found some of the upcoming book contains “top secret” information and would provide additional guidance after the NSC concluded its ongoing examination of the text. “We will do our best to work with you to ensure your client’s ability to tell his story in a manner that protects U.S. national security,” wrote the Trump official. The letter was sent to Cooper three days after the New York Times reported that Bolton’s book alleges President Trump wanted U.S. military aid to Ukraine to be conditional on inquiries into allegations of corruption against former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden. The president has denied the report as “false” and took aim at his former top foreign policy in a pair of tweets earlier Wednesday. “For a guy who couldn’t get approved for the Ambassador to the U.N. years ago, couldn’t get approved for anything since, ‘begged’ me for a non Senate approved job, which I gave him despite many saying ‘Don’t do it, sir,’ takes the job, mistakenly says ‘Libyan Model’ on T.V., and many more mistakes of judgement [sic], gets fired because frankly, if I listened to him, we would be in World War Six by now, and goes out and IMMEDIATELY writes a nasty & untrue book. All Classified National Security. Who would do this?” the president wrote.The development has prompted renewed calls from Democrats to call Bolton as a witness in the Senate impeachment trial, though several reports indicate that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has the votes to block additional witnesses from testifying. Some Senate Republicans are already signaling that the upper chamber may move swiftly to acquit President Trump as early as Friday. “That’s the plan,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) replied when asked if an aquatical vote could be quickly called if Democrats fail to clinch the votes required for more witnesses. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News on Tuesday that “the president will be acquitted, and I think it will be this week.” https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/29/wh-tells-john-bolton-not-to-publish-book-until-classified-info-removed/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20200129&utm_content=Final

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Senators charge Horowitz report '

misleading' because it conflicts with the facts

by wnd.com ~ The Republican chairmen of two key committees have charged in a letter to Attorney General William Barr that Michael Horowitz's inspector general report on FISA abuse... by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration misled the public. Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., want Barr to declassify four footnotes that contradict information in Horowitz's December report. "Specifically, we are concerned that certain sections of the public version of the report are misleading because they are contradicted by relevant and probative classified information redacted in four footnotes," the senators state. The senators did not specify what section of the report contradicts the footnotes. "This classified information is significant not only because it contradicts key statements in a section of the report, but also because it provides insight essential for an accurate evaluation of the entire investigation," they wrote. "The American people have a right to know what is contained within these four footnotes and, without that knowledge, they will not have a full picture as to what happened during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

The Federalist commented that the unprecedented letter "raises questions about whether the FBI or other U.S. intelligence or agencies deliberately classified certain evidence that could potentially show that the scumbag-Comey-led investigation against the Trump campaign was based on false premises known to the FBI and was therefore legally invalid and not properly predicated. "Horowitz concluded the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was guilty of 17 "significant errors or omissions" in its use of a bogus anti-Trump "dossier" funded by the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign to obtain warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. But despite evidence in his report, he said he found no reason to believe the administration's actions were rooted in political bias. Grassley and Johnson insinuate the contents of the four classified footnotes would provide further fuel to refute Horowitz's conclusion of no bias. "The American people have a right to know what is contained within these four footnotes and, without that knowledge, they will not have a full picture as to what happened during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation," the senators wrote. https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/senators-charge-horowitz-report-misleading-conflicts-facts/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking

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Naama is free, but our joy is mixed with tears

by VADIM KLUVGANT

{ blogs.timesofisrael.com } ~ The release of a person from prison is always a joyous moment. When you’ve put your own effort into fighting for this individual’s release and you know for sure she is innocent, the joy doubles... Which is why I certainly am genuinely happy about my client Naama Issachar’s release, her return home and reunification with her loved ones. My heartfelt congratulations to all! We have witnessed impressive solidarity with Naama on the part of Israeli society, lawyers, journalists, the diplomatic corps, and the government, including the highest-ranking officials. This is an inspiring example of effective collaboration between civil society, professional communities and the authorities. The story also deeply touched Russian journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, public figures, and ordinary people who simply cared. All of this instills the most genuine respect and appreciation. It was impossible not to free Naama: her sentence was blatantly unjust, and we clearly exposed that fact at the hearing in the court of appeal, which received close international attention and interest, both public and non-public. The response given by the court of appeal was emblematic of the injustice that characterized this entire case: it contains 20 pages of the defense’s contentions regarding the irrefutable flaws in the sentence, and one page — a meaningless declaration — on why the defense’s claims were dismissed, without the slightest attempt to provide any substantive arguments. And this is the very drop of poison that turns today’s simple joy into joy mixed with tears. Yes, Naama is free. But her case was a travesty of justice. She spent nine and a half months in detention, branded as a drug offender, an utterly bogus charge devoid of factual or legal grounds. Is that fair? Is that legal? Is that just? Despite the President’s assurance, everything is not okay. Why should an act of mercy at the country’s highest level, a presidential pardon, be required to counteract and whitewash the damage done by the heartless, ignorant act of law enforcement agents who fabricated a case and effectively took a foreign girl hostage? Why was the court relieved of its sole and exclusive duty to carry out justice, and permitted to ignore the patent absurdity of the charges against Naama. And finally, as a Russian citizen and lawyer, I ask why my country’s reputation was made to suffer so badly, becoming the object of growing fear and contempt, due to this miscarriage of justice. These troubling questions keep us from considering Naama Issachar’s case settled and a thing of the past, let alone forgotten. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/naama-is-free-but-our-joy-is-mixed-with-tears/?utm_source=The+Blogs+Weekly+Highlights&utm_campaign=blogs-weekly-highlights-2020-01-30&utm_medium=email

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The Double Voting Problem

Hans von Spakovsky

It’s 2020, which means election year is upon us. And although Washington is currently preoccupied with the impeachment melodrama going on in the Senate, we should not lose sight of problems in our voter registration and election process that imperil the integrity of upcoming local, state, and federal elections.

When our citizens exercise their right to choose their leaders, their votes shouldn’t be diluted or stolen through fraud or administrative errors.

Unfortunately, that remains a problem, as demonstrated by the proven cases in The Heritage Foundation’s election fraud database. We recently added 18 instances of election fraud to the database, which contains a sampling of almost 1,300 fraud cases from across the country.

There are other cases the database does not yet include but that should concern everyone.

Paul Pate, the Iowa secretary of state, recently referred nine Iowans to Polk County prosecutors for double voting in the 2018 election — that is, voting in Iowa and another state in the same election. Another 27 suspected occurrences of double voting are under investigation.

These problems were discovered through the state’s participation in the Electronic Registration Information Center program. Currently, 25 states and the District of Columbia are enrolled in the program, which allows states to compare voter registration information.

Unfortunately, not enough states are participating in either the Electronic Registration Information Center program or the similar Interstate Crosscheck program. New York and California, the states with the largest voting populations, are not in either program. Some states that do participate don’t do anything with the reports they receive on possible double voters. So it is still relatively easy to vote illegally in more than one state without getting caught or prosecuted.

As Pate correctly said, “One fraudulent vote is too many. It nullifies a legally cast vote. Iowans take the integrity of our elections very seriously, and we will not stand for people trying to cheat the system.”

If you think these incidents in Iowa are isolated, look at a recent entry from Heritage’s database.

Charles Eugene Cartier Jr. of New Hampshire just pled guilty to double voting in the 2016 general election, voting first in New Hampshire and then again in neighboring Massachusetts. He was the fourth person found guilty of duplicate voting in New Hampshire just in the last year.

Iowa and New Hampshire aren’t the only states to uncover instances of duplicate voting. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has referred 18 cases of duplicate voting in his state to appropriate prosecutors — all discovered through the state’s participation in the Electronic Registration Information Center.

But can one vote actually affect the outcome of an election?

Absolutely! From 2013 to 2017, 56 elections in Ohio resulted in a tie vote and 86 were decided by only one vote.

The problems in Ohio don’t stop with duplicate voting, either. LaRose also found 77 noncitizens who cast ballots and 277 aliens who were on the voter rolls.

Similarly, Illinois recently was forced to admit it had mistakenly registered 574 aliens through its new “automatic voter registration” system, 16 of whom cast votes in the 2018 election. State officials minimized the problem by saying the glitch in the system that caused this has been fixed.

But Illinois has long had a problem with aliens registering and voting, and election officials there never have had any interest in doing anything about it. It has no checks in place to verify that individuals registering to vote are citizens. The U.S. Justice Department prosecuted dozens of aliens for voting in the 1982 election in Chicago, and the U.S. attorney in Chicago at the time, Dan Webb, estimated that there were thousands of aliens registered and voting in Chicago.

In 2012 and 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit issued decisions involving three different aliens who illegally registered and voted in Illinois, two of whom did so through the DMV. This wasn’t prevented by the DMV or detected by Illinois election officials; the aliens were caught only when they applied for a change of status with the Department of Homeland Security.

Still think we don’t have a problem with alien voting? Last year, Pennsylvania officials admitted that more than 11,000 aliens had registered to vote in the state, also through a glitch in their DMV system.

Over the past few years, the Public Interest Legal Foundation has issued a series of reports on aliens who self-reported to election officials that they were registered. That included:

— 86 aliens registered to vote in Philadelphia.

— 5,556 aliens in Virginia who were removed as registered voters but not before a third of them had cast ballots.

— More than 1,000 aliens in 11 counties in New Jersey.

— Almost 5,000 aliens in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, sanctuary jurisdictions in seven states, 11 townships in Michigan, and Palm Beach, Florida, many of whom had voted before they were removed.

These aliens were removed only because they contacted election officials to inform them that they were not U.S. citizens. There is no telling how many more aliens are illegally registered and voting who are not being detected by election officials.

The stakes of the 2020 election are high for all involved. But the stakes are even higher for the voting public who have a right to fair and secure elections.

Combating election fraud head-on is the only way to secure our elections, and in turn, the sanctity of the democratic process. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68148?mailing_id=4825&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4825&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thurs/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 30, 2020 at 10:25am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Red China's Infection of US Classrooms

by Michelle Malkin

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Thursday News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

GETTING CLOSER: Trump signs USMCA trade deal; next up is Canada’s ratification (National Review)

ACQUITTAL IMMINENT? Trump could be acquitted in impeachment trial as early as Friday, according to No. 3 Republican Sen. John Barrasso (Reuters)

Government & Politics

“SOME … INFORMATION IS AT THE TOP SECRET LEVEL”: White House seeks to block classified material in John Bolton’s book (The Hill)

WHO’S READY FOR MORE DEBT? House Democrats release $760 billion “green” infrastructure plan (National Review)

SELF-AWARENESS FAIL: Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” dinky/liar-Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading voting disinformation online (CNBC)

“I DID NOT LIE TO THEM”: Michael Flynn takes on “egregious” FBI misconduct, little-known FBI agent in guilty-plea withdrawal (Fox News)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER: New York Times hires BuzzFeed News editor who green-lighted the publishing of bogus Steele dossier (Fox News)

Culture & Heartland

BEYOND IDIOTIC: Convicted of sex crimes as a man, felon no longer deemed threat because of gender change (Storm Lake Times)

SLOW BUT STEADY: Fourth-quarter GDP rose only 2.1% and full-year 2019 posts slowest growth in three years at 2.3% (CNBC)

APEX REACHED? Drug deaths fall for first time in nearly 20 years, buoying U.S. life expectancy (Washington Examiner)

National Security

THOUSAND TALENTS PLAN: Acclaimed Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China (NPR)

OPEN BORDERS: MS-13 gang member deported five times found in U.S. again (The Daily Wire)

WHEN THEY CAN’T GO OVER THEY GO UNDER: Feds expose longest illicit cross-border tunnel ever discovered on southwest border (The Daily Wire)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Do we even need a FISA Court? (Issues & Insights)

POLICY: Monopoly power isn’t why hospital prices are so high (E21)

HUMOR: dinky/liar-Warren wears her ancestral headdress while vowing to criminalize election “disinformation” (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68243?mailing_id=4832&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4832&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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John Bolton Busted

by Jeffrey Lord

{ thejeffreylord.com } ~ So suddenly there was the Bolton book. Ohhhhhh the humanity. The New York Times headlined their “scoop” this way... Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says - The story said, in part, this: President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the loose lips liar-Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the former adviser, John R. Bolton.” - The predictable media frenzy ensued. Then, several days into the frenzy, with media-types and Democrats still in the midst of high-fiving that finally, at long last, they have nailed Trump the Road Runner, the hammer falls on the Wylie Coyote media industrial complex. An August 2019 Bolton television interview with Radio Free Europe surfaces, in which the then-national security adviser says the complete opposite of the now-famous phone calls between President Trump and the Ukrainian president. ( https://thejeffreylord.com/john-bolton-busted/?jwsource=em ) Unsurprisingly – if amusingly to his supporters – President Trump pounced. Bolton was busted.Over at Real Clear Politics, the headline was this: Trump Tweets Video of Bolton Praising “Warm and Cordial” Ukraine Call: “Game Over!” - And sure enough, there was Bolton himself, on camera, calmly saying the exact opposite of what his book now allegedly says. Here is the money quote from the interview- with bold print supplied: “I will be meeting President Zelensky. He and President Trump have already spoken twice. The president called to congratulate President Zelensky on his election and on his success in the parliamentary election. They were very warm and cordial calls. - We’re hoping they’ll be able to meet in Warsaw for a few minutes together, because the success of Ukraine, maintaining its free, its system of representative government, a free-market economy, a free of corruption, and dealing with the problems of the Danbass in the Crimea are high priorities here, obviously, but high priorities for the United States, as well.” Got that? Bolton appeared not only totally unperturbed but quite casually observed that the calls were “very warm and cordial” – something that in fact is borne out by the transcript of the actual call. In other words? Game over indeed. Bolton has been busted. By himself. https://thejeffreylord.com/john-bolton-busted/

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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff Claims

‘I Don’t Know Who the Whistleblower Is’

by thepoliticalinsider.com ~ On Wednesday, House Intelligence Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff insisted that he did not know the identity of the so-called “whistleblower”... who filed the original complaint about President Donald Trump that led to the impeachment trial. - ‘I don’t know who the whistleblower is’ - “First of all, I don’t know who the whistleblower is, I haven’t met them or communicated with them in any way,” scumbag/liar-Schiff said Wednesday during the Senate impeachment trial. What scumbag/liar-Schiff failed to mention was that the “whistleblower” approached a House Intelligence Committee aide with supposed details about Trump’s phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The New York Times reported that a scumbag/liar-Schiff committee staffer told the “whistleblower” to meet with the inspector general and file a whistleblower complaint. - scumbag/liar-Schiff Denies His Staff Did Anything to Help Whistleblower - Yet scumbag/liar-Schiff is still denying that any member of his staff did anything to help the “whistleblower.” “The committee staff did not write the complaint or coach the whistleblower what to put in the complaint,” scumbag/liar-Schiff said. scumbag/liar-Schiff condemned what he called a “conspiracy theory” that someone on his committee staff allegedly “colluded” with the whistleblower to craft a complaint that launched the impeachment investigation. A spokesman for scumbag/liar-Schiff told the NYT that the whistleblower, “contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community.” scumbag/liar-Schiff said his staff has shown “complete professionalism,” adding that members of his staff had become subject to threats on social media thanks to “smears” committed by President Trump and his allies...

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/adam-schiff-claims-i-dont-know-who-the-whistleblower-is/?utm_campaign=TPI01302020morning&utm_source=criticaimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

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Rand Paul Vows to Fight after Justice John

Roberts Blocks Question Naming Whistleblower

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by Rusty Weiss

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Tensions were on the rise Wednesday evening as Chief Justice John Roberts blocked a question from Senator Rand Paul that would have identified the alleged whistleblower at the center of the impeachment trial... Roberts’ actions prompted shouting from the Kentucky Senator as he vowed to “fight for recognition.” Sean Davis, a co-founder of the Federalist, reported that Roberts, at the behest of Democrats, “previously vowed to ban any questions about the whistleblower whatsoever, named or not.” “Roberts’ arbitrary and unilateral censorship of senators and Senate business raises serious questions about whether he would similarly ban any and all motions to subpoena by name the whistleblower … to compel his testimony,” Davis said. GOP senators previously suggested having the whistleblower testify should witnesses be approved for the trial. After Republicans threatened a vote to rebuke Roberts on the record, the Chief Justice retreated and said the actual name of the whistleblower would be the only thing earning a block. Even that should be challenged...

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/showdown-rand-paul-vows-to-fight-after-justice-john-roberts-blocks-question-naming-whistleblower/?utm_campaign=TPI01302020morning&utm_source=criticaimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

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GOP senators believe they have

the votes to block witnesses

By ALEXANDER BOLTON

{ thehill.com } ~ It was clear to Senate Republicans on Wednesday after a morning meeting between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. rino-Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that the question of having additional witnesses is settled... and the Senate will vote Friday to wrap up the impeachment trial of President Trump. There was no discussion of witnesses at a Senate GOP lunch meeting Wednesday, which was held a couple hours after McConnell and rino-Murkowski met for about 20 to 30 minutes. That was seen as a sign by several senators that Democrats will fail to convince four Republicans to join them in calling for witnesses. Without a vote to hear from witnesses, the trial could end as soon as Friday. “We’re going to get it done by Friday, hopefully,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said following the meeting. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), emerging from the lunch, said, “I think I can say the mood is good.” Braun expressed confidence that McConnell will be able to keep his conference unified enough to defeat a motion to consider subpoenas for additional witnesses and documents. “If I had to guess, no witnesses,” he said. “We’ll be in a place where I think everyone is going to have their mind made up and I believe that we’ll be able to move to a verdict, and the witness question will be clear at that point,” Braun added... https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/480526-gop-senators-believe-they-have-the-votes-to-block-witnesses

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Flynn Case Update – Flynn Files Motion to

Dismiss, Declaration of Plea Reversal – DOJ

Files Revised Sentence Recommendation

for Probation Only

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Lawyers representing Lt. General Michael Flynn have filed a motion to dismiss citing “government misconduct”... Additionally Mr. Flynn has filed a declaration requesting to remove his prior guilty plea and take the case to trial. Hours later the DOJ revised their sentencing memo, dropped their request for jail time and offered probation. Within the motion to dismiss Flynn’s legal team point out several issues with the prosecution of Mr. Flynn and highlight the recent findings, admissions and briefs amid the IG report, DOJ notifications to the FISA Court, and FISC orders therein. NOTE: FBI Supervisory Special Agent Joseph Pientka III, the FBI agent with his finger in the majority of the corrupt FBI activity, has an ongoing protective court order upon his personage requiring the redaction and/or removal of his name from any government or case document. No-one has publicly stated the reason for the protective order...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/29/flynn-case-update-flynn-files-motion-to-dismiss-declaration-of-plea-reversal-doj-files-revised-sentence-recommendation-for-probation-only/

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The Israeli Army Is Unprepared for a

Ground War with Iran and Hezbollah

by Michael Peck

{ nationalinterest.org } ~ If Israel has to go to war tomorrow against Iran or its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, there’s a problem. The Israeli mechanized division that would defend Israel’s northern border, or enter Syria or Lebanon to eject Iranian and pro-Iranian forces, are in bad shape... The 319th Division, stationed in northern Israel, is short of equipment such as tanks, and the equipment it does have is in poor condition, according to an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) audit cited by Israeli news site Ynet. “According to the audit's findings, 52 percent of combat vehicles are unfit for use and there is a 20 percent shortage of weapons and night-vision equipment for soldiers,” Ynet said. “The auditors found that many armored vehicles were lacking during proper maintenance checks, with 68 of them sitting uncovered and unprotected against the elements. Dozens of other vehicles were found unusable due to faulty tires and broken engines, and only 34 percent of oil tankers and more than 33 percent of cranes were also found to be unusable. The Ynet article was accompanied by photographs that showed vehicles in a dilapidated condition or unprotected by tarps against the elements. Auditors found that the problem extended to the 319th Division’s support units, as well. “The Northern Command's logistics unit, upon which the 319th Division relies in times of war, has a shortage in communications equipment and vehicles for medical evacuation, and the division's medical unit hasn't had a commanding officer or lieutenant for almost a year.”... https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/israeli-army-unprepared-ground-war-iran-and-hezbollah-117691?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=491a1c02d1-MEF_Peck_2020_01_30_12_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-491a1c02d1-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-491a1c02d1-33703665&mc_cid=491a1c02d1&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12

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Red China's Infection of US Classrooms

by Michelle Malkin

{ townhall.com } ~ Dangerous menaces are spreading from mainland China to the United States. Surgical masks and Big Pharma vaccines, however, won't protect this nation from its infiltration. The problem doesn't lie with bats. It lies with America's batty pursuit of globalization at all costs.

Chinese Communist Party agents are using our suicidal pathologies -- blind worship of "diversity," naive exaltation of "cultural exchange" programs, and reckless surrender of our education system -- against us for economic espionage, intellectual property theft and world dominance. While Beltway blowhards rail against foreign interference in our elections, Beijing's hijacking of our classrooms ensues with hardly a peep of political resistance.

On Monday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston announced that the chairman of Harvard University's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, along with two Chinese nationals, have been "charged in connection with aiding the People's Republic of China." Acclaimed Harvard chemist and nanoscientist, Dr. Charles Lieber, had served as a "strategic scientist" at Wuhan University of Technology for the past nine years and is accused of lying about his role as a "contractual participant" of China's infamous Thousand Talents Plan.

Last fall, after years of intel warnings, a bipartisan Senate committee blew the whistle on TTP's systematic recruitment of an estimated 7,000 academics who have agreed to "transmit the knowledge and research they gain here to China in exchange for salaries, research funding, lab space, and other incentives." Lieber reportedly received $50,000 a month plus living expenses and more than $1.5 million for a Chinese research lab, all while soaking up $15 million in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health and Defense Department.

It is unknown how many Chinese nationals worked in either Lieber's America-based or China-based labs. But the two Chinese nationals charged with Lieber were cancer researcher Zaosong Zheng, 29, whom Harvard sponsored on a J-1 work-study exchange visa and Yanqing Ye, 29, whom Boston University sponsored on a J-1. Prosecutors allege Ye is a CCP member and top military lieutenant. Zheng is accused of attempting to smuggle "21 vials of biological research" aboard a flight destined for China.

Those are just a few who got caught. In 2018-2019, China sent the most international students from around the world 369,548 out of nearly 1.1 million to study in U.S. institutions. More than 71,000 Chinese students headed to Massachusetts; 6,222 of them embedded at Harvard and 10,598 of them enrolled at Boston University. Those figures don't include their spouses and children, who are also welcomed through their own special visa programs. And the national security risks of the untold tens of thousands of Chinese nationals on the H-1B tech worker visa is a whole 'nuther story.

China has cunningly exploited America's alphabet soup of temporary visa programs, which are overwhelmed by out-of-control mass migration and are operated by open borders ideologues who put the alleged economic benefits of admitting 1 million international students into the country every year over the national security risks. Top administrators at Harvard and other prestigious universities have continually denounced the Trump administration for increasing vetting of foreign student visas and inconveniencing their wealthy clientele.

But mum's the word on the treachery taking place under the guise of "cultural" enrichment:

--Last July, the FBI indicted Chinese F-1 student visa beneficiary Weiyun "Kelly" Huang in an alleged visa fraud scheme that allowed more than 2,500 Chinese foreign students on F-1 -- including a purported spy for the Chinese government -- to extend their stays by claiming employment with a phony internet front she created. The ruse allowed the scammers to take advantage of the uncapped Optional Practical Training program allowing F-1s to stay an extra three years to work. Ji Chaoqun, an F-1 who received a master's degree in electrical engineering in 2015 from an unspecified U.S. university, paid for Huang's services and was arrested in 2018 for alleged spying and recruitment of academics and engineers under the direction of the People's Republic of China.

--In September, the FBI arrested Chinese national Zhongsan Liu in New Jersey for operating a fraudulent J-1 visa racket that imported PRC operatives to staff a New York front group recruiting scientists, academics and engineers to work in China. Liu targeted seven American universities for the scheme, including the University of Massachusetts Boston.

--Just last week, the University of Missouri at Columbia announced it was terminating its partnership with a Chinese government-funded language and cultural program called the Confucius Institute amid widespread national security concerns. The Institute's teachers were pouring into local K-12 schools through the J-1 visa program unsupervised. The U.S. Government Accountability Office identified more than 500 "Confucius Institutes" worldwide, with 96 located at colleges and universities in the United States as of December 2018 -- the vast majority of them publicly funded institutions. A PRC propaganda outfit called Hanban has provided funding ranging from $900,000 to $1.7 million for "model" Confucius Institutes.

While several universities have closed their programs, several Chinese language charter schools and entire school districts, including K-12 public schools in Broward County, Florida, Houston and Seattle, operate "Confucius Classrooms" approved and co-operated with the Chinese government.

Where's a nationwide public health emergency declaration when you need one?

https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2020/01/29/red-chinas-infection-of-us-classrooms-n2560290?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/29/2020&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 30, 2020 at 8:54am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump Stands for Life

Gary Bauer

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ISIS: Now Going After Israel

by theteapartydaily.com ~ If Iran was not enough terror for the world to handle, there are groups like insane ISIS to help make the world an unsafe place to live... Islam has factions within their ranks that are considered extreme. So extreme that they are willing to kill and terrorize people all in the name of religion. ISIS has announced that they are going to move onto another “stage” with their ways of terror. They are calling on all of their demonic followers to attack Israel every chance that they have. This move by ISIS is just another way to say that they no longer have the ability to attack other nations that are far away from them. So, they must turn to people that they hate that are close to home. The very fact that their leader Abu Hamza al Qurayshi had to announce such an endeavor goes to show that they no longer have the ability to effectively communicate with the broken-down factions. President Trump has dealt them a death blow in recent months to the point that they are struggling to survive. Their leader went on to show more of their sad state when he told everyone to use whatever weapons they could find. His unwise speech let the world know that they no longer have the ability to provide adequate weapons to their absurd followers. They have become a toothless organization with an old microphone yelling for help wherever they can find it. Funny that no one is really listening anymore. The targets that he wants to attack are hard to get to. All of their efforts in the past have been met with little to no success in the world of terrorism. Israel is just too much for them. And now that the United States is closing in to destroy them, they are feeling the pressure. They are feeling the pressure of meaningless words and defeat that is knocking on their door. Their witless leader stated “Today we have begun a new stage in our war against you. Go for the Israeli settlements and marketplaces. Turn them into lands for testing your weapons and chemical rockets and other types of weapons.” It is like he is trying to say something, but no one is listening. Israel is not scared of ISIS and neither is the United States. They have become a cell group that no longer has any teeth to their threats... https://theteapartydaily.com/isis-now-going-after-israel/

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Senators’ Letter Stirs Mystery Over

4 Classified Footnotes In FISA Report

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Republican chairmen of two Senate committees asked Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday to declassify information in four footnotes in a Justice Department inspector general’s report... on the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. The senators said the redacted information is “essential” for the public to fully understand what went wrong in the probe. “The American people have a right to know what is contained within these four footnotes and, without that knowledge, they will not have a full picture as to what happened during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson wrote to Barr. “This classified information is significant not only because it contradicts key statements in a section of the report, but also because it provides insight essential for an accurate evaluation of the entire investigation,” they continued. The letter stirs mystery over what is behind the redactions and suggests that the inspector general’s report is even more damning for the FBI than already known. The 434-page report blasted the FBI for providing inaccurate and incomplete information to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in four applications to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The report said FBI agents failed to disclose information that undercut the bureau’s theory that Page was working as a Russian agent and that he conspired with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election. FBI agents also failed to inform the FISC that the main source for former British spy Christopher Steele disputed information in a dossier that the bureau cited in its warrant applications to the FISC. The errors and omissions were so egregious that the FISC issued a public order reprimanding the FBI... https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/28/mystery-footnotes-fisa-carter-page/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11778

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‘An Act Of Treachery’: Joe diGenova Did Not

Mince Words When Asked About

The John Bolton Book Leaks

by STEPHANIE HAMILL

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Joe diGenova, former U.S. district attorney for D.C., did not mince words when discussing the recent leaks from former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s upcoming book... during an interview with the Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill. “This is out of character. You wouldn’t publish this book about a president for whom you worked for while he’s still a president or at least until the re-election is over. To release it now is an act of treachery,” said diGenova. The New York Times reported Sunday that a manuscript of Bolton’s forthcoming book claims that President Donald Trump told him in an August 2019 conversation that he was withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to force officials there to cooperate with investigations into loose lips liar-Joe Biden and other political opponents. He also rated Trump’s defense team’s performance and explained why the Senate should be asking more about the loose lips liar-Bidens.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/28/joe-digenova-reacts-bolton-book-leaks/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11778

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw2VKL-Fpvo&feature=emb_title

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Why Bolton’s Testimony on

'Quid Pro Quo' is a Waste of Time

by Joseph Klein

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The New York Times leaked what President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton allegedly claimed in his forthcoming book about an August 2019 meeting he held with President Trump regarding Ukraine... Bolton is said to have written that President Trump “wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the loose lips liar-Bidens.” Senate Democrats and a few Republicans such as Senator rino-Mitt Romney would like to hear Bolton’s first-hand testimony. However, it is much ado about nothing. Bolton's testimony would prove nothing of relevance to the Senate impeachment trial. One legitimately can be skeptical about the timing of the leak, which happened contemporaneously with the Amazon product page for the book going live. One can argue, as Robert Spencer has done, that Bolton sold the president out because “Trump represents a strong challenge to the foreign policy establishment views that have failed again and again, and of which Bolton is a foremost exponent.” But it does not really matter. Even if, for the purest of reasons, Bolton wants to tell what he knows at the Senate trial about his direct interactions with President Trump concerning the temporary hold on the release of the security assistance, it would not be worth prolonging the Senate trial to hear him. John Bolton, a long-time neo-conservative hawk, left office following sharp disagreements with President Trump on a variety of foreign policy issues. Keeping security aid to Ukraine flowing without even a temporary pause was just one of those issues that Bolton felt strongly about. Bolton aired his opinions to the president, as he was obliged to do as the presidentially appointed national security adviser. President Trump rejected Bolton’s advice, as the duly elected president is entitled to do. Policy differences, whether between the president and his subordinates or between the president and members of Congress, are not impeachable offenses. Whether Bolton and members of Congress were right, and the president was wrong, does not turn a policy difference into an impeachable offense. And whether the president saw any political benefit in deciding to hold up the release of the security aid temporarily in order to satisfy himself that the supposedly anti-corruption reformist Ukraine government was truly serious about investigating allegations of corruption does not turn his mixed motives for taking an official action into an impeachable offense. Former Harvard law professor and constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz exploded any pretense of relevance as to what Bolton might have to say. It would add nothing of constitutional significance regarding the decision that the Senate must make in dealing with the rabidly partisan House Democratic majority’s fatally flawed articles of impeachment. The abuse of power article rests on assessing the president’s “real” motives for withholding the security aid and allegedly pressuring Ukraine to announce the opening of investigations into reported Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election and into the loose lips liar-Bidens’ activities in Ukraine. Bolton, the Democrats argue, would provide an invaluable first-hand account of the linkage between the hold on the assistance and the president’s improper political motivations that their case lacks so far...

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/john-boltons-testimony-quid-pro-quo-waste-time-%C2%A0-%C2%A0-joseph-klein

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US. Attorney General Bill Barr Destroys

Bolton’s Claims Made Against Trump

by Nick Arama

{ thebeardedpatriot.com } ~ As I said, with claims like these, apply the 48-hour rule. People always jump on them and go crazy, then find out later they are nothing or some twisted version of the facts... The NY Times made several claims about what was in the draft of John Bolton’s book including a claim that President Donald Trump wanted to trade aid for investigations. But there were several immediate problems with the claims, including that they didn’t even have any quotes from the book, which means that, at best, it’s them paraphrasing what they think was said. While Bolton hasn’t disputed them, he also has not confirmed the report. Office of Management and Budget head Mick Mulvaney has already disputed what they claimed about him as has the President. Now the DOJ is disputing the part that referenced Attorney General Bill Barr. According to the New York Times, Bolton’s book manuscript alleged he told Barr he had concerns about comments the President made to the leaders of Turkey and China and that it might appear he had had influence on investigations. Didn’t happen, says the DOJ. “While the Department of Justice has not reviewed Mr. Bolton’s manuscript, the New York Times’ account of this conversation grossly mischaracterizes what Attorney General Barr and Mr. Bolton discussed. There was no discussion of ‘personal favors’ or ‘undue influence’ on investigations, nor did Attorney General Barr state that the president’s conversations with foreign leaders was improper. If this is truly what Mr. Bolton has written, then it seems he is attributing to Attorney General Barr his own current views — views with which Attorney General Barr does not agree.” So it sounds like basically what you have is Bolton’s thoughts about things with his own interpretations or projections, put in a blender with the New York Times’ interpretation, to pop out their current “facts” trying to influence the narrative on impeachment. Senators and the public should recognize this for what it is, an effort to influence the vote on witnesses.

https://thebeardedpatriot.com/us-attorney-general-bill-barr-destroys-boltons-claims-made-against-trump/

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GOP Senators Are Fired Up

by rightwing.org ~ Republicans are flaring up over recent developments with the Senate impeachment proceedings. First off, we have Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) who struck down the notion of calling in witnesses to testify... In his eyes, Democrats haven’t brought a convincing case by failing to provide enough proof to convict Trump of anything. However, if the Dems want to go down that road, Cruz said, “I think at a minimum, the most important witness for the Senate to hear from, is now Hunter Biden.” Cruz also railed against the loose lips liar-Bidens in a segment captured on C-SPAN. At the same time, Sen. rino-Mitt Romney (R-UT) said he was open to calling in witnesses. He said, “I think it’s very likely I’ll be in favor of witnesses, but I haven’t made a decision finally yet, and I won’t until the testimony is completed.” Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) called him out saying that rino-Romney just wants to appease the Left. Tensions are high as Democrats attempt to put pressure on the Senate. At the end of the day, this impeachment farce is just another dishonest trick in the leftist book.

https://www.rightwing.org/gop-senators-are-fired-up/?utm_source=rw-aw-cf&utm_placement=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=RWnewsletter

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Trump Stands for Life

Gary Bauer

Yesterday was one of my favorite days of the year — the annual March for Life. Every year hundreds of thousands of people come to Washington, DC — in January! — to march for the sanctity of life. That tells you something about the dedication of the pro-life movement.

Usually the “mainstream media” totally ignores the march. But it couldn’t ignore this year’s march because President Trump made history by becoming the first sitting United States president to address the March for Life! Here are a few excerpts of the president’s remarks:

We’re here for a very simple reason — to defend the right of every child, born and unborn, to fulfill their God-given potential. For 47 years, Americans of all backgrounds have traveled from across the country to stand for life. And today as president of the United States, I am truly proud to stand with you…
All of us here today understand an eternal truth — every child is a precious and sacred gift from God. Together we must protect, cherish and defend the dignity and the sanctity of every human life. When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God’s creation… As the Bible tells us, each person is wonderfully made…
To all of the moms here today, we celebrate you and we declare that mothers are heroes. Your strength, devotion and drive is what powers our nation. And because of you our country has been blessed with amazing souls who have changed the course of human history…
We know this: Every life brings love into this world. Every child brings joy to a family. Every person is worth protecting. And above all, we know that every human soul is divine and every human life, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of Almighty God.

If you missed the president’s March for Life address, you can watch it here.

And the president is continuing to lead on this critical issue. Yesterday, the Trump administration formally notified the state of California that it is violating federal conscience laws by mandating abortion coverage in all health-insurance policies.

The state’s abortion mandate was challenged by an order of Catholic nuns and Skyline Wesleyan Church. The state has 30 days to repeal the mandate or risk losing federal funds.

In related news, the Trump campaign announced its “Pro-Life Voices for Trump” coalition yesterday. Having dedicated my entire adult life to defending the sanctity of life, I am proud to be an advisory-board member of “Pro-Life Voices for Trump.” This president has proudly stood for the unalienable right to life, and I am proud to stand with him!

Pro-Life America

A new Marist poll released this week finds overwhelming support for pro-life policies. For example:

70% of those surveyed support significant limits to abortion.
Only 21% support abortion on demand.
60% oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.
75% oppose the use of their tax dollars to perform abortions overseas.
62% believe the Supreme Court should allow states to regulate abortion.

In the coming weeks, the court will have an opportunity to do just that when it considers a challenge to a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to meet certain health and safety standards.

The Louisiana law is similar to Texas law the high court struck down in 2016 in a 5-3 vote after Justice Scalia had passed away. But the Supreme Court has changed significantly since then. President Trump nominated Justice Neil Gorsuch to replace Scalia and Justice Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy, who was the deciding fifth vote in the Texas case.

The Deep State Scandal

Late Thursday there was breaking news that the Justice Department informed the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that it was wrong to renew the last two warrants to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Better late than never, I guess.

Many media outlets glossed over the news, often with tepid headlines that downplayed the importance of the story. We’ve just been told that the Deep State effort to investigate, undermine, and delegitimize a duly elected president, by spying on an innocent American who was part of the campaign, was illegal!

Every citizen should be outraged by this gross abuse of power and the gross politicization of our intelligence agencies. Once again, we’re seeing that President Trump was right to fire scumbag-James Comey, that all the hype about Russian collusion was an absurd hoax, that the Mueller investigation was a colossal waste of $30 million.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for Rachel Maddow or scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff to apologize for misleading the country or accusing the president of being a Russian asset.

The Wuhan Virus

A few folks have asked me this week how concerned they should be about the coronavirus from Wuhan, China. For now, I think the answer is that we haven’t been told enough yet to know how concerned we should be.

Chinese communist authorities are notorious for hiding the truth. We don’t know for certain how many people are infected and how many have died. We don’t know enough yet to know for certain if this is just another random flu or another Spanish flu, which killed 50 million people worldwide in 1918.

Rising additional concern is that communist China’s reaction to this outbreak seems over the top based on what we know so far. To shut down travel and isolate Wuhan, a city of 11 million people and bigger than New York City, does not seem like a reasonable reaction if just a variant of the flu is going around. According to the latest news, Beijing has now imposed restrictions on more than 30 million people.

Here’s another curiosity: China announced that it is immediately constructing a new hospital — just for the people stricken with the “Wuhan virus.” It also closed 70,000 movies theaters across the country in order to discourage crowds. That makes sense if this is a “killer virus."

On the other hand, thousands of people may have contracted the virus but never got sick enough to go to the hospital and have since recovered. If that ends up being true, then this is just another viral flu.

~The Patriot Post

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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 29, 2020 at 4:34pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The New Rules of Impeachment

Michael Reagan

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British Airways suspends all flights

to China amid coronavirus fears

By David Aaro

{ foxnews.com } ~ British Airways ceased all of its direct flights to and from mainland China amid the coronavirus outbreak -- with the decision coming after the United Kingdom advised against "all but essential" travel to the rest of the country on Tuesday... When logging into BA.com, the official website for the airline, it currently shows no direct flights to the country -- with a posted notice, "Sorry, there are no direct flights for this route, flights with connections are below." “We apologize to customers for the inconvenience, but the safety of our customers and crew is always our priority,” BA said in an emailed statement to Reuters on Wednesday. “Customers due to travel to or from China in the coming days can find more information on BA.com.” The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said the decision to advise against traveling to the rest of mainland China not including Hong Kong and Macao was due to the restrictions of movement placed by the government in response to the outbreak. "It may become harder over the coming weeks for those who wish to leave China to do so," the FCO said. "If you feel that you may want to leave China soon, you should consider making plans to do so before any further restrictions may be imposed." Multiple countries have started evacuating their citizens from China because of the deadly virus, which has killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000 on the mainland and abroad. China has cut off access to Wuhan -- the epicenter of the virus -- as well as 16 other cities in Hubei province to prevent people from leaving and spreading the virus further. The United States, Japan, and South Korea have also planned evacuations. The U.S. has reported five infections since the outbreak started, according to the CDC. Several countries have confirmed cases of the virus, with most of them being Chinese visitors, people who visited Wuhan or family members in close contact with the sick. Japan's six confirmed cases include a tour bus driver who drove visiting groups from Wuhan. Germany says four workers at an auto parts company possibly were infected when a colleague from Shanghai visited.

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/british-airways-suspends-all-flights-to-china-amid-coronavirus

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Three rockets make 'direct hit'

on US Embassy in Baghdad

by Tim Pearce

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Three rockets have hit the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Three Katyusha rockets hit inside the compound while as many as five others landed in the area surrounding it, according to reports... American defense officials said that no one was killed in the attack, but some were wounded. It is unclear how severe the injuries are. A U.S. official told CNN that one rocket hit the embassy's dining facility, causing damage but no fatalities."We are aware of reports of rockets landing in the International Zone. We call on the Government of Iraq to fulfill its obligations to protect our diplomatic facilities," a Department of Defense representative told the Washington Examiner. "We will not comment further on the security situation in Baghdad." Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi condemned the rocket attack and ordered Iraqi security forces to "deploy, search, and investigate to prevent the recurrence of such attacks, and to arrest those who launched these rockets so that they can be punished." The strike comes after a similar attack on Jan. 20, when three Katyusha rockets fell near the U.S. Embassy. No injuries were reported in that incident. Tension in the Middle East has escalated in recent weeks since top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani orchestrated a violent protest outside of the American Embassy in Baghdad. The United States responded with a drone strike on Jan. 2 that killed Soleimani. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/three-rockets-make-direct-hit-on-us-embassy-in-baghdad-report

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Russian President Putin signed

decree to pardon Naama Issachar

By LAHAV HARKOV

{ .jpost.com } ~ Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned Naama Issachar hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to fly from Washington to Moscow on Wednesday... Netanyahu said: “I thank my friend President Putin for granting a pardon to Naama Issachar.” The prime minister added that he expects to discuss US President Donald Trump’s peace plan and other diplomatic developments in his meeting with Putin on Thursday. Issachar, 26, is an American-Israeli who was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison in Russia after 9.5 gr. of cannabis were found in suitcase during a stopover in Moscow en route home to Israel from a trip to India. Issachar’s mother, Yaffa Issachar, said she had been waiting for this moment for almost a year. “It has been a long journey that I would not wish upon anyone,” she said. “Now, all I want is to hug my daughter Naama. I thank Prime Minister Netanyahu from the heart for his diplomatic determination and great efforts... I also thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for showing mercy.” A senior Israeli source said Issachar’s release “was a gesture by President Putin to the prime minister. There was no deal with Russia.” “The state acted on Naama’s case not only because of mutual responsibility that was true in other cases, but out of a desire to resolve a matter that could have hurt sensitive relations between Israel and Russia, and in light of an evaluation that the state’s stance on another matter hurt Naama,” the source said. The other matter is likely Israel’s extradition of hacker Alexei Burkov to the US. Issachar has been in prison in Moscow since mid-2019, and her case has garnered public attention in Israel...

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Naama-Issachar-to-be-released-from-Russian-prison-615827

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GOP develops aggressive 'Plan B' in

impeachment trial, as several Dems appear

to support acquittal: source

By Gregg Re

{ foxnews.com } ~ With several Democrats openly floating the possibility they might vote to acquit President Trump, congressional Republicans are planning an aggressive "Plan B" strategy in the event some Republicans break off... and demand additional witnesses in the president's impeachment trial, Fox News has learned. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., privately said early Tuesday that he wasn't sure there were enough Republican votes to block more witnesses, given that some moderates in the GOP's 53-47 Senate majority were wavering. Any witness resolution would likely require four Republican defections in the Senate, because in the event of a 50-50 tie, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts is highly likely to abstain rather than assert his debatable power to cast a tiebreaking vote. Late Tuesday night, a Senate leadership source told Fox News that Republicans were specifically assessing the viability of two alternative options. One plan is to amend any resolution calling for a particular witness to also include a package of witnesses that assuredly wouldn't win enough support in the Senate. For example, if the Democrats seek to call former National Security Advisor John Bolton, Republicans might subpoena Hunter Biden over his lucrative board position in Ukraine, and Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., over his inconsistent statements concerning his panel's contacts with the whistleblower at the center of the impeachment probe." After listening to the Dems’ 20+ hours of argument and the rebuttal arguments from @realDonaldTrump, I’ve got lots of questions for the Dems," tweeted Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday. "Like this one: Why did scumbag/liar-Schiff lie about his contact with the 'whistleblower'? More to come!" The "package deal" proposal could afford moderate Republicans the political cover of supporting more witnesses in theory, while ultimately rejecting a witness package they deem flawed. Even if a witness package passed, the resolution could be written such that the witness phase of the trial ends immediately if a key witness, such as Hunter Biden, defies his subpoena.The Federalist senior editor and Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway observed that in the House impeachment proceedings, Democrats allowed themselves to call significantly more witnesses than they afforded to their Republican colleagues -- raising the possibility Republicans could reasonably insist on an equally favorable "ratio" in the Senate trial when putting together a prospective package of witnesses. A lopsided ratio in favor of the GOP also could lead some Democrats to oppose a witness package...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-mulls-aggressive-plan-b-if-moderates-continue-to-demand-witnesses-in-impeachment-trial

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6127434507001#sp=show-clips

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Why The Senate Shouldn’t Call

More Impeachment Witnesses

By Elad Hakim

{ thefederalist.com } ~ The impeachment trial of President Trump is in full force, and congressional Democrats are already blaming Republicans for their alleged unwillingness to allow additional witnesses... While this ploy was not unexpected, and Senate Republicans have not entirely ruled out permitting additional witnesses, there are various reasons additional witnesses should not be permitted. To begin, there is a very compelling argument that the impeachment has been a sham from the start. The president was not afforded the right to due process, Republican members of the House were not permitted to call or question witnesses i.e., the whistleblower, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, loose lips liar-Joe or Hunter Biden, and the resolution passed in the House gave scumbag/liar-Schiff the final say as to who was ultimately permitted to testify.Tangentially, there was no evidence of a crime, let alone an impeachable offense, despite the fact that Democrats were in control of the entire process while it was in the House. Given the foregoing, there is no reason to permit any additional witnesses to testify, as this would merely prolong, and legitimize, this sham process. A second reason additional witnesses should not be permitted is because House Democrats had the chance to call them during their inquiry. According to scumbag/liar-Schiff, “What Senator rino-Collins and the other senators need to realize is we did try to get these witnesses in the House. We subpoenaed many of these witnesses. And because of the President’s obstruction, they ignored those lawful subpoenas. Donald Trump’s Justice Department is in court saying the House cannot go to court to enforce its subpoenas.” What scumbag/liar-Schiff is really saying is that various witnesses refused to comply with House subpoenas and the House did not want to issue the necessary subpoenas or wait until a court ruled on their enforceability or any objections thereto. Rather, scumbag/liar-Schiff and his Democratic colleagues rushed to vote on the articles of impeachment without following the proper procedure to secure the testimony of these various witnesses or obtain the requested documents. Although House Democrats “botched” the process, they are now blaming Republicans in the Senate, who are opposed to, or apprehensive about, permitting additional witnesses from being called during trial. Additionally, while some Democrats are also accusing Republicans of refusing to hold a “fair trial,” Senate Republicans have every right to prevent any Democratic efforts to call additional witnesses...

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/29/why-the-senate-shouldnt-call-more-impeachment-witnesses/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=9e050d1f6f-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-9e050d1f6f-83771801

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Democrat Just Accidentally Admitted House Impeachment Case Is Evidence-Free

By VICTORIA TAFT

{ pjmedia.com } ~ There was an unintended moment of levity during a break at the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump on Tuesday... Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, one of the designated "spin doctors" sent to the microphones to clean up any damage to the Democrats' message caused by President Trump's impeachment attorneys, dropped an unintentional truth bomb during a media interview. C-SPAN broke away from the proceedings in time to hear Blumenthal say this about the Trump defense lawyers: It was a fact-free summation of a case bereft of evidence – we need the evidence. We need the witnesses and documents... They may have the votes at this moment, but I hope my colleagues will look themselves in the mirror ... What we want is the truth, not some quid pro quo on the witnesses... Look what he said about the case. Was he really accusing the Trump lawyers of having a case that was "bereft of evidence"? Look at the next sentence. Blumenthal said, "we need evidence." The Trump defense team did provide additional information to the Democrat House Managers during the trial, but, while it's politically smart, the burden of proving the case is certainly not on the president's team. It's up to the Democrat House Managers to make their case, which, by Blumenthal's lights, is "bereft of evidence." Blumenthal's plea for witnesses and documents — "we need the evidence" — only underscores how hastily the House put their "bereft of evidence" case together. ABC News captured the first part of Blumenthal's remarks, which go after the Trump team: His Freudian slip is a pretty funny comment about a deadly serious event. And, let's face it, we could use a laugh right about now. https://pjmedia.com/trending/lol-democrat-just-accidentally-admitted-house-impeachment-case-is-evidence-free/

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The New Rules of Impeachment

Michael Reagan

I must have said it a dozen times since the Democrats’ impeachment miniseries took over our televisions, but I’ll say it again.

The Democrats and their allies in the liberal media think history began this morning when they rolled out of the left side of their beds.

It happened again during the Democrats’ opening impeachment tirades in the Senate.

Democrats are still wasting our time — and ignoring their jobs — trying to prove that President Trump should be impeached because he abused the power of his office and because he obstructed Congress by claiming executive privilege.

The obstruction charges against Trump are for refusing to let administration officials testify before the impeachment hearings in the House and for withholding documents the House had requested.

Well, if using or threatening to use executive privilege for those reasons are impeachable crimes, George Washington and every president since JFK, including my father, is guilty — often on multiple counts.

In 1962, for example, JFK used executive privilege to order his military adviser General Maxwell Taylor to refuse to testify before a congressional committee investigating the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

Between 1980 and 2012 it was used 25 times.

President scumbag/liar-Clinton, the all-time modern leader, asserted executive privilege 14 times to try to keep his staff from appearing before various grand juries and congressional committees.

George W. Bush used it six times, including in 2008 when he told his Attorney General to assert executive privilege in response to a congressional subpoena for documents related to an investigation into who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative.

Meanwhile, President scumbag/liar-nObama employed executive privilege so many times that even the liberal media of the day questioned the legitimacy of invoking it.

The prime example was the infamous “Fast and Furious” case in 2012, when Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder used executive privilege to shield documents from Congress that were related to the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s program to let illegally purchased guns flow across the Mexican border.

Congress obviously didn’t rush out and impeach those pre-Trump presidents for obstructing Congress or for posing an existential threat to the U.S. Constitution.

They let the legitimacy of invoking executive privilege in each case be decided in the courts, where it belonged. That’s why we have three branches of government.

But now, thanks to the Democrats’ blind hatred of President Trump, the bar has been lowered to where if a president doesn’t immediately roll over and give Congress whatever people or documents it wants, he’ll get impeached.

It’s been frustrating having to watch the first three ridiculously long, tedious days of the Senate impeachment hearings, which Democrats are cynically using as a weapon to stain Trump ahead of the 2020 election and hurt some Republican senators who face tight races in the fall.

Everyone has known for months what the outcome of the House Democrats’ impeachment show trial will be — the Republican Senate will never find Trump guilty.

I’m starting to really feel sorry for the members of the Senate who are trapped at their desks for twelve-hours at a time without their smartphones.

They have to sit in silence as scumbag/liar-Schiff and his solemn crew say over and over again how the U.S. Constitution and our national security were put at risk by a phone call our treasonous president made to the president of Ukraine last summer.

All those poor senators are allowed to drink is milk and water. The rest us watching the hearings on TV are lucky.

We can always get up and do a few Jello shots or drink some tequila to pass the time and ease the pain. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68139?mailing_id=4825&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4825&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 29, 2020 at 1:23pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Five Craziest Things Iowa Voters

Should Know Before the Caucus

Media Editors

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Impeach liar-Pelosi/scumbag/liar-Schiff

/scumbag liar-Nadler for Abuse of Power

By William L. Gensert

{ americanthinker.com } ~ For three years, Democrats accused the president of having stolen the 2016 election. Now, they maintain, he is trying to steal the 2020 election... In reality, it was scumbag/liar-Hillary and members of the scumbag/;liar-nObama administration and probably scumbag/liar-nObama himself who tried to steal the 2016 election and it is liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff, and scumbag liar-Nadler who are trying to steal 2020. liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff, and scumbag liar-Nadler are using the power of their offices to erase the 2016 election, steal the 2020 Presidential Election, and damage Republican senators in purple states enough to flip the upper chamber to Democratic Party control. Running on the issues against the successful Trump administration does not appeal to them. Instead, they are using impeachment as the means to rig the election to get control of the presidency and the Senate. Should Republicans win a majority in the House this November -- not an entirely unlikely prospect with polls showing the public turning against the amorphous impeachment effort -- one of the first orders of business for the new majority leader should be to initiate Articles of Impeachment against scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff. The charge should be “Abuse of Power.” After that, Republicans can do the same to liar-Pelosi and scumbag liar-Nadler. If Democrats were honest I know, dream on, they would admit to the world they are impeaching Donald J. Trump for purely personal and political reasons. Democrats, as a party, were unable to believe that, since they were on the side of all that is good and just, Donald J. Trump won the presidency fair and square. For liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff, and scumbag liar-Nadler, however, it’s personal. We know this because just as they can look into Trump’s soul and know his motivations, so can we do the same to see theirs. liar-Pelosi is an important person. Did you know, she’s third in line for the presidency, immediately after Pence? No conflict of interest there. As liar-Speaker of the House, she considers herself to be the equal of the president and not merely a partisan in control of one half of one branch of the three branches of government. She demands respect and Trump refuses to give it to her. liar-Nancy made up her mind when Trump left her standing on the tarmac surrounded by her luggage and 62 of her closest friends when he yanked her USAF plane in a budget dispute. Most people aren’t aware that liar-Pelosi travels almost exclusively on United States Air Force jets whenever she wants, to wherever she desires, and with whomever she wants along. That particular junket was a “fact finding” tour of Europe. Did I mention her transports always have catered meals and an open bar?...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/impeach_pelosischiffnadler_for_abuse_of_power.html

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That Trio of RINO Rebels

By Janice Shaw Crouse

{ americanthinker.com } ~ You’ve got to hand it to the Democrats -- they can hold their caucus together for the flimsiest of causes. The GOP, though, has all these RINOs who have to establish their independence... they’re willing to break party unity when it serves their own ambitions. Three senators – rino-Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, rino-Susan Collins of Maine, and rino-Mitt Romney of Utah – are rumored to be willing for witnesses to be called in the impeachment trial now underway in the Senate. Obviously, such a slowdown benefits the Democrats, who want the impeachment to headline news reports as long as possible. Further and more importantly, it was the House’s responsibility to build its case by compiling evidence and presenting it to the Senate for a trial; it is not the Senate’s responsibility to gather evidence. The Democratic case lacks “overwhelming evidence” as Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa said, calling the whole process “a political exercise.” Ernst and others, like Lindsey Graham, are unwilling to extend the trial and accomplish the Democrat’s goal of dominating headlines in the run-up to the November elections. The question is whether the three RINOs mentioned above will put the good of the country above their own emotional needs or self-interest. Take Senator rino-Mitt Romney. Remember when he needed endorsements when running for President? He went to New York to ask for Trump’s endorsement. He got it. Remember, after he lost the Presidency, he ran for senator from Utah. He sought and received Trump’s endorsement. Typically, such political favors generate appreciation and are reciprocated. Not so with rino-Romney. With the usual caveats of being “deeply concerned” and finding it “very troubling,” rino-Romney turned against Trump over the Ukraine farce, calling the President’s actions illegal and unpresidential. Now that the impeachment circus has moved to the Senate for trial, rino-Romney is joining with those demanding witnesses. Digging deeper, it turns out that one of rino-Romney’s top advisors is a former high-ranking CIA official Joseph Cofer Black who, it just happens, is on the board of Burisma Holdings, the same company that has been so generous to Hunter Biden. There is little question that rino-Romney will ultimately do what benefits him most when it comes to his votes in the impeachment trial. Senator rino-Susan Collins is following the trial very closely and is taking copious notes. She reacted strongly to House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler’s accusation against the Republican senators; he claimed they voted “for a cover-up when they opposed subpoenas at the trial.” She sent a note to Chief Justice John Roberts and granted an interview to Politico complaining about the accusation. In this election year, Senator rino-Collins is between the proverbial rock and a hard place. She has to hold on to independent voters to win her fifth six-year term in November. She is showing the stress of the pressures to get her to push for witnesses and additional evidence. George Conway Kellyanne’s husband and well-known Anti-Trump tweeter who has founded a super-PAC opposing the president is demanding that rino-Collins “do her job” instead of “covering” for the president. Already, rino-Collins has shown her willingness to break ranks with the GOP; she voted as the lone Republican “for one of the 11 amendments proposed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer” even though the amendment was doomed for defeat. It remains to be seen what she will consider in her personal best interest as the trial moves forward... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/that_trio_of_rino_rebels.html

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Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, UAE

welcome Trump peace plan

By OMRI NAHMIAS

{ jpost.com } ~ Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE on Tuesday issued statements welcoming the Trump administration's peace plan... "The Kingdom reiterates its support for all efforts aimed at reaching a just and comprehensive resolution to the Palestinian cause," said the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs."The kingdom appreciates the efforts of President Trump's administration to develop a comprehensive peace plan between the Palestinian and the Israeli sides, and encourages the start of direct peace negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, under the auspices of the United States," the statement reads. It also called to resolve any disagreements with aspects of the plan through negotiations, "to move forward the peace process to reach an agreement that achieves legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad Bin Salman told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that "our position towards the Palestinian issue has not changed, all the Arabs and we are with you. The establishment of a just and comprehensive peace must be worked for. Peace is a strategic choice, which will bring a permanent solution that will fulfill the rights of the Palestinian people," according to Channel 13. The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a similar statement, calling the sides to consider the plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."The Arab Republic of Egypt appreciates the continuous efforts exerted by the US administration to achieve a comprehensive and just settlement of the Palestinian issue, thereby contributing to the stability and security of the Middle East, ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict," the ministry said Tuesday. "Egypt recognizes the importance of considering the US administration's initiative from the perspective of the importance of achieving the resolution of the Palestinian issue, thus restoring to the Palestinian people their full legitimate rights through the establishment of a sovereign independent state in the Palestinian occupied territories in accordance with international legitimacy and resolutions," the statement reads...

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Saudi-Arabia-Egypt-Qatar-UAE-welcome-Trump-peace-plan-615752

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Trump signs USMCA, paving way

for job market boom

By Jonathan Garber

{ foxbusiness.com } ~ President Trump signed the historic United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, replacing the scumbag/liar-Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement that he called a “disaster.”... The USMCA, which is the biggest trade deal of all-time, covers more than $1.3 trillion of commerce, and is the second major trade deal secured by the Trump administration this year. The agreement has already been ratified by Mexico, but not yet by Canada. "You're going to see more jobs all across the economy, in the automobile sector, in the agricultural sector and of course in the energy sector as well," Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday. The USMCA requires 75 percent of automobile components be manufactured in the United States, Canada or Mexico in order to avoid tariffs. By 2023, some 40 to 45 percent of automobile parts must be made by workers who earn at least $16 an hour. The agreement is expected to create 80,000 new jobs tied to the auto industry and bring in up to $30 billion of new investment in the sector. The pact will also open new markets for American wheat, poultry and eggs, among other things. "This is a colossal victory for our farmers and ranchers," Trump said at the signing ceremony. "Everybody said this was a deal that could not be done," he added, "but we got it done." Once fully implemented, the USMCA is expected to lift U.S. gross domestic product by as many as 1.2 percentage points and create up to 589,000 jobs, according to the International Trade Commission. After the trade deal was approved by the Senate on Jan. 16, by a vote of 89 to 10, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, hailed it as a "major achievement for President Trump and a very big win for the American people." The signing of the USMCA comes nearly two weeks after Trump inked an initial trade deal with China. Combined, the two agreements encompass more than $2 trillion worth of trade and could add as much as 1.7 percentage points to U.S. economic growth. The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.1 percent pace in the three months through September. https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/trump-signs-usmca-job-market-boom

VIDEO: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6127795083001/#sp=show-clips

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Escalation with Iran: Outcomes and implications

for US interests and regional stability

by Danielle Pletka

{ aei.org } ~ Mr. Chairman, Mr. Wilson, good morning. It’s always an hour to testify before this Committee, and the topic before us is an important one... The title of this hearing, I believe, misplaces what should be the appropriate focus on the Islamic Republic of Iran. Without overstating the case, I believe this is not a moment of “Escalation with Iran;” more likely, we are in for a short period of de-escalation in terms of direct conflict, and some escalation in the use of Iran’s proxies against US and allied targets. But that in some ways is a return to status quo ante in Tehran’s long shadow war against the Great Satan. And over-emphasizing that proxy war shifts focus from what is different about this moment. Iran is in a period of flux and stress unlike many we have seen in recent years. Internally, next door in Iraq and in Lebanon, home to Iran’s most important proxy Hezbollah, the regime is under enormous pressure. In conjunction with Qassem Soleimani’s death and the likely transition ahead after the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, those pressures create an opportunity for the United States. The key questions are what we do with that opportunity, what the actual policy of the United States is towards the Islamic Republic, and how the “maximum pressure” campaign will impact our aims. Read the full testimony here. ( https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HFAC-testimony-1.28.20-final-00000002.pdf )

https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/escalation-with-iran-outcomes-and-implications-for-us-interests-and-regional-stability/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRsbVlUQTFNMlUzTnpNMyIsInQiOiJTS05mMDVHVXpuZTFhQ3l5d29iMzVLOFVOMXRXRzgyK3prZW1FbXhHNGVQdWRRc2NKMkFwXC9rUnJ3akJ2V1AyN1luWkdLalwvMVprVlhvcERia1RCTzJoNjAxVlVLWTJZWVcxaEJ6K0F2QThvZVdGZkM3U1wvd01vT1ZxN1ZGd0lQdyJ9

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

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Arabian Gulf Citizens and Changing Views

by Najat AlSaied

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Since General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed by an American airstrike... it has become even clearer that the Middle East is divided. We find some here were supportive of the strike that rescued the world from a most dangerous terrorist; others were completely outraged. Is the Middle East, then, on the verge of new alliances and further fragmentation? The reactions of the Arab Gulf countries, including their citizens -- especially Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain -- are the same as Israel's. Other Arab countries and the Palestinian territories -- mainly Hamas, which is a client of Iran -- have responded quite differently. Arab Gulf societies often differ from other Arab and Muslim societies on their views about Israel. Lately, however, the most hostile rhetoric has disappeared, especially among the younger generations. It has, in fact, been largely replaced by a more moderate tone and a desire better to understand Israeli society. Many writers and political analysts from the Arab Gulf have written about the different political doctrines and perceived enemies among Arab Gulf countries and other Muslim countries, mainly from the Levant. A recent article by Kuwait's former minister of information, Saad Al-Ajmi, explains these differences. Arabs, he states, particularly the Palestinians, have been attributing all the problems in the region to Israel. As the Iranian regime has formally declared their occupation of four Arab capitals -- Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, and Sanaa -- many of its members see only the supposed Israeli "occupation" and do not think about all the Arab and Muslim blood spilled by Iran and its proxies. To many Arabs and Muslims, only the Palestinian people seem to have been important. Sadly, this concern has often appeared to be less about the Palestinians' well-being, over which they do not seem unduly distressed -- having preferred to let them languish as second class citizens in Jordan, Lebanon or Kuwait. Rather, expressions of concern often appear to have been a way of deflecting attention from the problems of governance at home... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15500/arabian-gulf-citizens-israel

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Five Craziest Things Iowa Voters Should Know

Before the Caucus

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How Dare You Do Nothing After a Speech Like That?

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The Difference Between Antifa and the 2A Rally

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Is Gun Ownership a Right?

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25,000 Nukes on Hair Trigger and the Miracle of Survival

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