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Impeachment Insanity
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The Left Screams 'Armageddon,' 
but Is Anyone Listening?
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By Jeffrey Folks
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Liberals like liar-Nancy Pelosi are prone to using words like "Armageddon," and yet, so far, we have not yet arrived at the end. Most Americans go on living in comfortable homes with more than enough to eat, dependable utility services, and well funded retirement accounts... It has been 74 years since the conclusion of the last world war, the global economy is doing well, life expectancies continue to rise, and murder rates are down. Compared to the hardship of life a century ago, we are closer to Eden than Armageddon. So why the use of sensationalistic words like "Armageddon," and why the sense among the young that we are just a step away from what commie-Ocasio-Cortez calls "the end of the world"? Is the danger real, or is it just an escalation in rhetoric by liberals who have nothing else to offer? Is sensationalism the only way to get the public's attention, and if it is, what happens when the public becomes so jaded that it can't distinguish between mere rhetoric and a real threat, or between degrees of harm that involve very different outcomes? The use of the phrase "hold hostage," a favorite of liberal politicians, is a good example of this misguided rhetoric.  If you fail to agree with Sen. scumbag-Schumer 100% of the time on every detail, it seems you are holding somebody hostage. When scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff began his investigations into the Trump administration, the president defended himself with tweets denying wrongdoing. Just that act of defending himself was "holding the American people hostage," according to Sen. scumbag-Schumer. Nothing in Washington is what it seems. A panel of liberal economists recently charged that the president's trade policies are "holding a gun to the head" of the American economy. One of those economists, Ely Ratner, who was deputy national security adviser to Vice President loose lips liar-Biden, claimed that Trump's economic policy "has basically failed." This at a time of 3.6% unemployment. The most recent issue of Fortune magazine (Dec. 2019), with its front-page headline of "Why Trump Is Bad for Business," claims that President Trump's aggressive trade and economic policies "have left many in the business community shaking their head [sic]." Aside from the poor grammar, the coverage seems about as negative and one-sided as it could get. CEO confidence is at "the lowest level in a decade," steel shares are lower than before the election, Trump is "undermining our global leadership," Trump is "Tariff Man." That kind of cherry-picking of detail and name-calling is not what I call balanced reporting. It seems more like a political hit piece with little mention of what the president has done for the overall economy. If business confidence is so low, why has the stock market set 100 new highs since President Trump's election?...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/the_left_screams_armageddon_but_is_anyone_listening.html   
Rush Limbaugh: Despite liar-Pelosi's 
denial, Democrats DO hate Trump
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by wnd.com ~ Despite the fact that House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi snapped when a reporter asked her about "hate" for the president and her angry denial, she and her party actually do hate the president... So says talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh. liar-Pelosi was asked on Thursday about the issue. "Don't mess with me when it comes to words like that," she scolded. "As a Catholic, I resent your using 'hate' in a sentence that references me." "I don't hate anyone," liar-Pelosi charged. "We don't hate anyone." Limbaugh insisted on his show Friday that's exactly what's going on. "I want to go back to something he said. Jonathan Turley addressed this in a moment of sanity when they had those three law professors on there before the Round Mound of the Gavel’s hearing on Wednesday," Limbaugh said. "You heard him say, 'Some Democrats now are getting concerned that this is expanding, that all of a sudden, the article of impeachment may include the Mueller report.'" "liar-Pelosi said they would yesterday, in that press conference where she was asked by James Rosen, 'Do you hate the president?'" Limbaugh did his impression of liar-Pelosi: "I don't hate the president. I don't hate anybody. I'm a good Catholic except for abortion. I don't hate anybody. I don't hate the president. I pray. You understand me? I pray for the president! We don't hate him!" But they "hate his guts," Limbaugh said. "They hate you for electing him." He said the Democrats' strategy still centers on Russia. "They are never gonna be able to let Russia go because that was the grand scheme. That’s where everybody in the deep state went to work on getting rid of Trump, and they just cannot accept that it’s failed yet. So they’re gonna keep going back to it." He continued: "For crying out loud, these people are off the rails in what they’re doing, and it’s a sign of their frustration. They can’t gain any ground on Trump at all. The idea that the president going to court represents obstruction of justice? That’s the kind of mentality you get from a totalitarian. liar-Nancy Pelosi says, 'I want those documents.' You say, 'You can’t have ’em. I’m not gonna give ’em to you.' 'You better give ’em to me or we’re gonna impeach you.' You say, 'Screw you,' and you go to court to try to stop it." Limbaugh explained that for the Democrats, refusing to do what liar-Pelosi wants "is a crime."...   https://www.wnd.com/2019/12/rush-limbaugh-despite-pelosis-denial-democrats-hate-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=newsletter  
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ANALYSIS: Durham’s Russia origins 
investigation looms over Horowitz FISA report
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by Jerry Dunleavy
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The report on possible abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will be released Monday, setting up a possible conflict between Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and Attorney General William Barr... Reports suggest Horowitz, who headed the investigation, and Barr diverge on whether the FBI was justified in launching its 2016 counterintelligence inquiry into possible ties between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, later wrapped into special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Mueller  concluded Russia interfered but did not establish a criminal conspiracy between President Trump and Russia. Barr disagrees with Horowitz’s supposed conclusion that the FBI had sufficient information to justify launching its Trump-Russia investigation, according to the Washington Post, and Barr isn’t persuaded by Horowitz’s findings and believes agencies outside of the DOJ, such as the CIA, might be able to reveal details that could change Horowitz’s mind. The investigation conducted by Barr’s right-hand man, U.S. Attorney John Durham, uncovered information that could buttress Barr’s doubts,  according to a lawyer associated with Durham's team. DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec stepped in Monday evening but didn’t dispel the notion that Horowitz and Barr disagreed. “The Inspector General’s investigation is a credit to the Department of Justice, and his excellent work has uncovered significant information that the American people will soon be able to read for themselves,” Kupec said in a statement. “Rather than speculating, people should read the report for themselves next week, watch the Inspector General’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and draw their own conclusions about these important matters.”Horowitz launched his investigation in March 2018, looking into allegations that the DOJ and bureau abused the FISA process by seeking surveillance warrants beginning in October 2016 against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page, as they relied upon British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s salacious and unverified dossier in filings to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Horowitz’s report is due Monday, and he’ll testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee two days later. Separate from Horowitz’s inquiry, Trump this May gave Barr full declassification authority to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation itself and to determine whether the inquiry was properly predicated. Barr selected Durham to lead that inquiry. Barr and Durham have not said when they will release their conclusions, but Trump weighed in Tuesday when asked if he’d heard about the disagreement between Horowitz and Barr...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/analysis-durhams-russia-origins-investigation-looms-over-horowitz-fisa-report?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/07/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
What worthless-Rashida Tlaib said 
about the U.S. border will terrify you
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by patriotpulse.net ~ worthless-Rashida Tlaib and the rest of her pals in “The Squad” continue to show how much disdain they have for America. They constantly attack their own country, along with the state of Israel... And what worthless-Tlaib just said about the U.S. border will terrify you. In a recent speech, worthless-Tlaib went on a rant comparing the U.S. border to Gaza, the terrorist-occupied land along the border with Israel. Terrorists are regularly trying to cross into Israel from Gaza in order to attack the Jewish state, which they want to destroy. If this is what she thinks of the people trying to cross into the United States on the U.S.-Mexico border, it should terrify every American. “While many on the Left have compared the US practices along the Mexican border as being reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps, US Congresswoman worthless-Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) went with another controversial comparison – Gaza. “Do you know what I saw at the border? I saw Gaza,” said worthless-Tlaib on Saturday during the American Muslims for Palestine conference in Chicago, as reported by the Jewish News Syndicate. “When you think about the border, you have to got to understand how interconnected the oppression in Palestine is with the oppression taking place at the border.” She also referenced the issue of clean water in Michigan, and said she would fight for clean water there like she would fight “for clean water in Gaza.” This was far from the only controversial comment about Israel made at the event. At the same conference, Linda Sarsour – former head of the Woman’s March and current surrogate for US presidential candidate commie-Bernie Sanders – stated that supporting Israel is akin to supporting white supremacist ideologies and movements. And, like worthless-Tlaib, she also equated the situation in Gaza to the US-Mexican border. While worthless-Tlaib’s anti-Semitism may be the most troubling thing about her being in office, it will likely not be what takes her down. After all, the Democrat Party seems to be embracing it more and more as time goes by. But she could end up being forced to resign after getting caught allegedly violating Federal Election Commission rules for paying herself from her campaign account after the election ended, which is a violation.   https://patriotpulse.net/what-rashida-tlaib-said-about-the-u-s-border-will-terrify-you/#gf_1264   
American graduate student held in Iran 
on spy charges since 2016 released
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By Lucia I. Suarez Sang   
{ foxnews.com } ~ An American graduate student held in Iran has been released in exchange for an Iranian scientist held by the U.S., officials confirmed... Iran’s foreign minister and the White House both announced that Princeton University graduate student Xiyue Wang was exchanged for scientist Massoud Soleimani. Brian Hook, the U.S. special representative for Iran, accompanied the Iranian scientist to Switzerland to make the exchange and will return with Wang, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The swap took place in Zurich and Hook and Wang are now en route to Landstuhl in Germany where Wang will be examined by doctors, the official said. Hook is expected to return to the U.S. from Germany alone, as Wang is expected to be evaluated for several days. “After more than three years of being held prisoner in Iran, Xiyue Wang is returning to the United States,” President Trump said in a statement released by the White House on Saturday. “The highest priority of the United States is the safety and well-being of its citizens. Freeing Americans held captive is of vital importance to my Administration, and we will continue to work hard to bring home all our citizens wrongfully held captive overseas.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that Wang was on his way back to the United States, where he will soon be reunited with his wife and son. "The United States will not rest until we bring every American detained in Iran and around the world back home to their loved ones," he said in a statement. Officials told Fox News that doctors were examining Wang in Germany before he flys to the U.S...   https://www.foxnews.com/world/american-graduate-held-in-iran-on-spy-charges-since-2016-to-be-released  
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Pennsylvania: Muslim Democrat stole more 
than $500,000 from mental illness charity
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by Zachary Halaschak 
{ gellerreport.com } ~ A Pennsylvania state representative is accused of taking money from her own nonprofit and spending it on luxury expenses... Democratic Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, who founded Motivations Education & Consultation Associates, allegedly diverted Medicaid and Social Security disability funds from the nonprofit and spent them on designer clothing, vacations, luxury car payments, real estate purchases, and other personal expenses, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced in a press release on Wednesday. The nonprofit was created by Johnson-Harrell, who was the first Muslim woman to serve in the House, in order to help people suffering from intellectual disabilities, chronic mental illness, and substance abuse issues. It also benefited the homeless, children, and elderly people. “When corruption erodes the trust that is built between governmental entities and citizens, no one wins,” Shapiro said. “I’ve said time and time again as attorney general that no one is above the law, no matter their position of power. And today is no different.” Some of the spending allegedly included $20,000 in overdue mortgage payments, $2,000 on overdue payments for a Porsche, and $15,000 on clothing items like fox fur coats and garments from designer Ralph Lauren. The charges include theft, perjury, tampering with public records, tax fraud, and campaign fraud. After turning herself in to police on Wednesday, Johnson-Harrell said she would be resigning from the House this month. “I am saddened and dismayed by the nature of the allegations brought against me today,” she told the Associated Press. “I vigorously dispute many of these allegations, which generally pertain to before I took office and I intend to accept responsibility for any actions that were inappropriate.”
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Impeachment Insanity
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Round Two of Impeachapolooza began yesterday in the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler decided to begin the second phase of this colossal waste of time by bringing in four constitutional law professors to explain the pros and cons of impeachment. That speaks volumes about just how weak the Democrats’ case truly is.

We can all read the Constitution for ourselves to understand impeachment. But clearly Democrats don’t think they’ve made the case yet after two weeks of stacked hearings in the House Intelligence Committee. (The polls certainly show that they haven’t convinced the American people.) They still need help from so-called “experts” on the Constitution.  

And that’s not the only problem they’ve got. Some progressives are fuming that none of yesterday’s witnesses were minorities. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up!

Rep. scumbag-Al Green (D-TX) took to the House floor Wednesday morning and essentially accused Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler of racism. 

Here are some facts you should know:

  • While Democrats were pretending to appeal to the Constitution yesterday, this is a raw partisan power grab. Yesterday’s witnesses were stacked 3 to 1 against the president.

  • One of the witnesses is a rabid leftist who bought into the Russia-collusion hoax hook, line, and sinker. He also wanted to impeach Trump back in 2017 — over a tweet, of all things! Another witness is so consumed with hate that she gets triggered by the Trump Hotel.

  • As we have noted before, the left has been braying for Trump’s impeachment quite literally since the day he was sworn into office. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler has been plotting impeachment since the day he took over the Judiciary Committee.

  • In other words, yesterday’s hearings were a foregone conclusion in search of a crime. The left convicted Trump the moment he won the 2016 election and has been searching ever since for any excuse it could find to remove him. scumbag liar-Nadler thought he had it with the Russia/Mueller probe. But that turned out to be a big flop.

  • Yesterday’s lone “Republican” witness isn’t even a supporter of President Trump. George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley is an avowed liberal who voted for scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton in 1992 and Ralph Nader in 1996. He’s also an advocate for polygamy.

  • Nevertheless, Turley blasted the Democrats’ case for impeachment as “woefully inadequate,” “dangerous,” and plagued by “a scarcity of evidence.” I guess that’s one thing Turley and I agree on. But if Democrats can’t win over a liberal like Jonathan Turley, they are clearly falling short.

scumbag/liar-Schiff’s Shifty Subpoenas

Unfortunately, scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler’s impeachment hearings distracted the media and most Americans from what should be the banner story of the day — scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s shifty subpoenas.

Somehow the Democrat chairman of the House Intelligence Committee managed to get his hands on the phone records of Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, journalist John Solomon, and others.

Here we are in the middle of a national debate over what the Deep State did to spy on a presidential campaign and it appears that the Deep State used its powers to spy on a journalist, a member of Congress, and the president’s lawyer. 

This should outrage every American concerned about potential abuses by Big Brother. Perhaps Attorney General Barr should refer scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff to John Durham’s current criminal investigation.

Sadly, this is not the first time Democrats have spied on members of Congress and the media.

Think about this, my friends: If they are willing to do this now while we have a certain degree of power with the White House, just think of what the left will do if it gets power next year. Just something to remember in November.

Faith Under Fire

I was stunned Tuesday after reading a report that the Army has banned Shields of Strength from printing Bible verses on personnel dog tags. The company has been doing this for 20 years, but after one complaint from the radical Military Religious Freedom Foundation, the Army folded like a cheap tent.

How is it possible that there is still someone so dumb in the Pentagon bureaucracy that they don’t realize Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Joe Biden are no longer in the White House? 

Or did they do it intentionally just to stick their finger in the eye of this president and vice president who have been such strong advocates for religious liberty?

If it is unconstitutional to have a Bible verse on dog tags, then it must be unconstitutional to have pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams ministering to our troops. Of course, that is the ultimate goal of the militant secularists at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and their progressive allies.

The 2020 Clown Show

As we reported to you, Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris dropped out of the Democrat presidential contest Tuesday. So far, Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker and Andrew Yang have not qualified for the next Democrat debate. 

As a result, a lot of progressives are outraged that the next debate may feature only white candidates. What??? They must have forgotten about dinky/liar-Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren. (If you needed another reason to vote against Warren, just consider her devotion to Planned Parenthood.)

There’s an obvious solution to the Democrat debate debacle: loose lips liar-Biden, commie-Bernie, Bloomberg, and Buttigieg should link arms with Rev. scumbag-Al Sharpton in boycotting the Democrat debates! Or they could all just check their privilege by dropping out and letting scumbag-Cory Booker, Julian Castro, and Andrew Yang fight it out.

In all seriousness, the left’s obsession with identity politics, which Rep. scumbag-Green put on full display yesterday, will destroy this country. 

Meanwhile, loose lips liar-Joe Biden is making a big play for the nonagenarian (over 90) vote with his “No Malarkey” bus tour.

I mean, doggone it, couldn’t he come up with a better slogan than that? He’s just cruisin’ for a bruisin’ with that bus tour. I hope he doesn’t flip his wig when people criticize the name. There better not be any hanky panky going on if there’s a shindig on the bus. Biden must think he’s in fat city and has it made in the shade.

Prayers for Ed

I was saddened to hear that my good friend, former Attorney General Ed Meese, a stalwart conservative and the chief of Reaganites, has suffered a mild stroke. Please join me in praying for Ed’s full and complete recovery from any speech and mobility issues.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/67170?mailing_id=4709&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4709&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Who Really Stands Watch Over the House?
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Mark Alexander  
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Impeaching Trump for Obstructing Congress 
Would Harm Checks and Balances
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by Alan M. Dershowitz
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Among the grounds for impeachment being considered by the House Judiciary Committee is that President Trump obstructed Congress by refusing to have members of the executive branch comply with Congressional subpoenas without orders of the court... This ground was given the imprimatur of the academic experts who testified for the Democrats. These experts, however, were not only wrong; their opinions pose a real danger to civil liberties and checks and balances. Moreover, it is highly questionable that these experts would have said that citizens must always comply with Congressional subpoenas without a judicial order if the political shoe were on the other foot. I came of age during the McCarthy era, when Congressional committees issued subpoenas to suspected Communists, fellow travelers and lawyers who represented left wing radicals. Civil libertarians challenged these subpoenas in court, sometimes winning, sometimes losing. But no liberal accused them of doing anything wrong by refusing to comply with Congressional subpoenas until and unless a court ordered them to comply. Now, however, anti-Trumpers are demanding impeachment for what they would have praised during the McCarthy era. In the context of legislative subpoenas to members of the executive branch, there are reasons for concern in addition to those based on the civil liberties of ordinary citizens. There is the separation of powers and checks and balances. Unlike in parliamentary democracies, in which the legislative branch is superior to the executive and judicial branches, under our system, all three branches are co-equal and designed to check the excesses of each other. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers, the judicial branch gets to decide whether actions of the other branches comport with the Constitution. If they do not, they are void, because the constitution is the supreme law of the land. The president, as head of the executive branch, is entitled to challenge in court legislative subpoenas that demand material that may be subject to claims of privilege. He is also entitled to insist that the legislature obtain a court order before the executive branch complies. That is how checks and balances work. The president should not be impeached because he takes seriously our system of checks and balances. Even if the president were wrong in challenging these subpoenas, his being wrong would not come close to being an impeachable offense. What do the Democratic experts claim it is? Treason? Bribery? A high crime? A high misdemeanor? It is none of the above and is, therefore, not a basis for impeachment. President Andrew Johnson was impeached for refusing to comply with a statute enacted by congress which he believed was unconstitutional. Not only do many historians and legal scholars believe that was a wrongful impeachment, but the Supreme Court agreed with Johnson that the statute he violated was unconstitutional. Johnson was narrowly acquitted by the Senate, but his impeachment by the house was an abuse of power, because he had not committed any of the criteria for impeachment specified in the constitution. Congress is not above the law. It cannot simply ignore the words of the Constitution even if a majority of its members want to impeach the president. For Congress to impeach President Trump for abuse of Congress would be an abuse of power by Congress...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15247/trump-congress-checks-balances  
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Six Saudi Nationals Arrested Following Attack 
at Pensacola Naval Air Station
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Following a possible terrorist shooting early this morning at Pensacola Naval Air Station, six Saudi nationals have been arrested... Three of them were reported to have been filming the shooting. The shooter was armed with a handgun and was killed by sheriff’s deputies responding to the dawn incident at NAS Pensacola. Six Saudi nationals have been arrested after an Air Force trainee – also from Saudi Arabia – opened fire at a naval base in Florida, killing three people and injuring eight. The men were detained near the scene of the shooting, which took place at Naval Air Station in Pensacola early Friday morning. It is currently unclear why they have been taken into custody. Three of the six Saudis were seen filming the entire incident as it unfolded, a source told The New York Times on Friday evening.  No officials have yet stated whether any of them were students inside the classroom where the shooting occurred. Authorities are probing whether the incident is terror-related. The shooter, who was shot dead by police, was first identified by NBC News, citing unnamed sources, as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani. US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said the suspect was a second lieutenant attending the aviation school at the base. Military from around the globe attend the Naval Air Station in Pensacola for flight training. Congressman Matt Gaetz is the Florida panhandle representative for the district that encompasses NAS Pensacola:  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/06/report-six-saudi-nationals-arrested-following-attack-at-pensacola-naval-air-station/  
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Trey Gowdy hit Democrats with one fact about impeachment that left them a broken mess
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by patriotpulse.net ~ The Democrats worst nightmare is coming true. The public soured on their witch hunt to remove Donald Trump from office. And now Trey Gowdy hit Democrats with one fact about impeachment that left them a broken mess... Appearing on Fox News, Trey Gowdy told host Martha MacCallum that the American people were turning against the Democrats impeachment witch hunt. Gowdy believes the American people see through the Democrats clear double standard. The former South Carolina Congressman pointed to Democrats shrugging off text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that showed a clear anti-Trump bias but that did not matter because in the end they were unsuccessful in framing Donald Trump for Russian collusion but refused to extend the same courtesy to Donald Trump in the Ukraine case. “Now the Democrats are saying even though there were no investigations of the server or the loose lips liar-Bidens, and even though the aid was released, they’re now hyper-focused on the process!” Gowdy continued.  “It’s the phone call! That’s all that matters!” he exclaimed.  “So to Democrats, all’s well that end’s well if it’s Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, but if you get the aid and there’s no investigation, that’s not enough, it still may be impeachable just because we didn’t like your process,” Gowdy said. “That’s duplicity, it’s a double standard, and that’s why the American people, I think, are completely unmoved thus far by the impeachment hearings of Chairman Rep. scumnag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.),” he concluded. Trump supporters were glad to see Gowdy back in public making the case for the President. Gowdy was initially supposed to takeover as one of Donald Trump’s attorneys in the impeachment witch hunt, but lobbying rules for ex-members of Congress prevented that. But even from his perch as a television commentator Gowdy still has the ability to shape public debate by pointing out the ridiculously hypocritical and partisan nature of the Democrats impeachment witch hunt.
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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s Secret 
Subpoena Adventure Could End with 
Legal Buckshot in His Face
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by Matt Vespa
{ townhall.com } ~ Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-CA), high Chancellor of the Trump impeachment effort, might be getting away with murder... The impeachment circus that has engulfed D.C. has overshadowed the House Intelligence Committee chair’s egregious abuse of power. He executed a secret subpoenas adventure of phone records of prominent Republicans. He got their phone records and published them in the committee’s 300-page impeachment report. Now, the report is a work of fiction. scumbag/liar-Schiff is a liar, and nothing from House Democrats on this whole fiasco should be believed. This isn’t about the Constitution, or the framers, or the rule of law. It’s not about upholding the integrity of our institutions; Democrats have already perverted those with their deep state antics against this administration. It’s about the Democratic Party’s inability to grasp that it lost the 2016 election. Democrats wanted to boot Trump since day one of his presidency. The ironic twist is that their impeachment fetish could very well be what secures him a second term. This is not popular in swing states. No one cares. And the liberal media has been so wrong, so stupid, and so corrupt in their coverage of this White House, even Democrats in these states cannot believe what they hear. But let’s get back to that pencil head, scumbag/liar-Schiff. He may have opened himself up to oodles of lawsuits by those he decided to go after with these secret subpoenas. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s attorney, was included in this hit list, and we now have to factor in attorney-client privilege into this whole mess. Seldom is this cast aside concerning an investigation unless the evidence of wrongdoing is overwhelming. scumbag/liar-Schiff decided to ignore those protocols because he wants to boot Trump before the 2020 election, or at least severely damage his re-election chances. It’s funny. The man who says he’s doing this for the country and the rule of law thinks he can break the rules…because he feels he’s right. What an arrogant, self-righteous little snake, huh? Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel has a good column about how scumbag/liar-Schiff engaged in gross congressional overreach:  Fanatics can justify any action, and House Intelligence Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff this week demonstrated where that mindset leads. In his rush to paint Donald Trump as a lawbreaker, Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff has himself trampled law and responsibility. That’s the bottom line in Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff’s stunning decision to subpoena the phone records of Rudy Giuliani and others. Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff divulged the phone logs this week in his Ukraine report, thereby revealing details about the communications of Trump attorneys Jay Sekulow and Mr. Giuliani, ranking Intelligence Committee member Devin Nunes, reporter John Solomon and others. The media is treating this as a victory, when it is a disgraceful breach of ethical and legal propriety. If nothing else, Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff claims the ignominious distinction of being the first congressman to use his official powers to spy on a fellow member and publish the details. His report also means open season on members of the press. Mr. Giuliani over months has likely spoken to dozens of political figures and reporters—and the numbers, dates and length of those calls are now in Democrats’ hot little hands. Who gets the scumbag/liar-Schiff treatment next? […]  Whatever his role in the Ukraine affair, Mr. Giuliani remains the president’s personal lawyer. Law enforcement must present a judge with powerful evidence to get permission to vitiate attorney-client privilege. Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff ignored all that, and made himself privy to data that could expose the legal strategies of the man he is investigating. Mr. Giuliani did have notice that Democrats wanted some of his phone records. The Intelligence Committee sent a subpoena on Sept. 30, and gave him until Oct. 15 to comply. Yet before Mr. Giuliani even had an opportunity to respond, Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff separately moved to seize his records from a phone carrier, sending his subpoena to AT&T on Sept. 30 as well. Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff purposely kept that action secret. This guaranteed that the only entity involved with a decision over whether to release the records was AT&T. And that gave Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff all the cards, since companies fear political retribution far more than violating their customers’ privacy. Well, when it comes to “powerful evidence” to wipe away an attorney-client privilege, this Trump-Ukraine fiasco has none of that...   https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/12/06/wsj-columnist-adam-schiffs-covert-subpoena-adventure-shows-democrats-will-do-an-n2557587?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623   
scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler Appears 
To Doze Off During Impeachment Hearing
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by SCOTT MOREFIELD
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Democratic New Jersey Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler was caught on camera appearing to have some difficulty keeping his eyes open as his Judiciary Committee colleague... Republican Ohio Rep. Steve Chabot, was speaking during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing. The momentary lapse by the House Judiciary Committee chairman was posted by the Trump War Room Twitter account, which was quick to poke a little fun with some sleep-appropriate music. In fairness to scumbag liar-Nadler, staying awake during the entirety of Wednesday’s hearings would have been a monumental task for anyone. It included the testimony of four legal scholars, three of whom were invited by Democrats. The fourth scholar, Georgetown University professor Jonathan Turley, argued that, while he did not vote for the president, impeaching him based on such a faulty line of evidence and legal reasoning will create a dangerous precedent for “generations to come.” “President Trump will not be our last president, and what we leave in the wake of this scandal will shape our democracy for generations to come,” he said. “I’m concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger. I believe this impeachment not only fails to satisfy the standard of past impeachments but would create a dangerous precedent for future impeachments.”   https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/04/jerry-nadler-doze-impeachment/   
Rush Limbaugh: ‘liar-Pelosi Invokes Her 
Catholicism on Everything but Abortion
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By Maureen Mackey 
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Rush Limbaugh, conservative media icon, spoke out on “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning right after the very strong jobs numbers came out, saying... “The economy is roaring, wages are up, Trump’s approval ratings are up” — and yet House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her fellow Democrats “are devoted only to one thing: They’re almost sickeningly devoted to destroying” President Donald Trump. On Friday, Limbaugh also called out the Thursday incident during a press conference when a reporter asked liar-Pelosi if she “hated” Trump. liar-Pelosi fired back by saying she doesn’t “hate” anyone because she’s a Catholic with “love in her heart” — and that “hate” is not part of her life. The speaker actually walked back to the podium as she shared her emotional response. She said she regularly “prays” for the president. She snapped at the reporter, “As a Catholic, I resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me.” Limbaugh and many others called her out for this. He said he wanted to “remind” the speaker that abortion is the killing of unborn children — and that the church is firmly against it. “liar-Pelosi invokes her Catholicism on everything but abortion,” he aptly noted. He also said, “If you wonder what hate is, it’s on parade in this impeachment” situation against Trump that House Democrats have been involved in literally for months at this point.   https://thepoliticalinsider.com/rush-limbaugh-pelosi-invokes-her-catholicism-on-everything-but-abortion/?utm_campaign=TPI12062019afternoon&utm_source=criticailimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI  
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Did scumbag/liar-nObama-Appointed Ukraine Ambassador Intervene to Help 
Anti-Trump Ukraine Group?
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by Judicial Watch ~ As the coup abuse against President Trump accelerates, Judicial Watch focuses on the real Ukraine collusion scandal. We just sued the State Department for documents related to a reported “untouchables list”... given by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in late 2016 (Judicial Watch vs. U.S. Department of State) (No. 1:19-cv-03563). Lutsenko recently told The New York Times that Yovanovitch “pressed him not to prosecute anti-corruption activists.” Lutsenko previously reportedly said the do-not-prosecute list included a founder of the Ukraine group Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC), which was funded by scumbag-George Soros foundations and the U.S. federal government, and two members of the Ukrainian Parliament who vocally supported the scumbag-Soros group’s agenda: The implied message to Ukraine’s prosecutors was clear: Don’t target AntAC in the middle of an American presidential election in which scumbag-Soros was backing scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton to succeed another scumbag-Soros favorite, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, Ukrainian officials said. Recently, Rudy Giuliani stated that AntAC “was co-funded by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and far-left billionaire financier scumbag-George Soros,” and “was ironically under investigation for alleged corruption, namely a ‘misplaced’ $4.4 million in U.S. funds designated to ‘fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic,’ during the 2016 presidential election in America.” Reports suggest that the Ukrainian Embassy was a hotbed of anti-Trump, Deep State activism and tried to promote and protect leftist allies in Ukraine and the United States. As the coup attack on President Trump continues, this new federal lawsuit is designed to get to the real truth of the Deep State’s games in Ukraine.  
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Who Really Stands Watch Over the House?
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Mark Alexander:  Having returned from a few days of much-needed Thanksgiving respite, during which I made a point of avoiding any and all news, let me pick up where we left off.

The relentless Beltway news churn about the Democrat Party’s ongoing efforts to undermine the Trump administration never took a rest. The “scumbag/liar-Schiff Show” charade to impeach Trump is now being handed off to Demo Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler for more testimony drama this week, on its way to a full House vote for Christmas.

On the way to scumbag liar-Nadler, Republicans Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, and Michael McCaul issued a 123-page report declaring: “The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system. The evidence presented does not prove any of these Democrat allegations, and none of the Democrats’ witnesses testified to having evidence of bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor.”

The Republican report concludes: “The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry paints a picture of unelected bureaucrats within the foreign policy and national security apparatus who fundamentally disagreed with President Trump’s style, world view, and decisions. Their disagreements with President Trump’s policies and their discomfort with President Trump’s actions set in motion the anonymous, secondhand whistleblower complaint. Democrats seized on the whistleblower complaint to fulfill their years-old obsession with removing President Trump from office.”

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

scumbag/liar-Schiff then rushed out his committee’s 300-page impeachment report, declaring that Trump “solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 U.S. presidential election” and “sought to undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process.”

As I have noted, if not for double standards, Democrat politicians wouldn’t have any standards.

Regarding election interference, in 2016 it was the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign and the Democrat National Committee that colluded with Russian operatives to fabricate the fake Trump/Putin dossier, which led to the Mueller investigation.

That baseless inquiry helped give Democrats control of the House in the 2018 midterm election, which is to say Democrats, in scumbag/liar-Schiff’s words, “solicited the interference of a foreign government” and succeeded in their effort to “undermine the integrity” of that election.

The Demo report further notes the main focus of the hearings: “President Trump ordered the suspension of $391 million in vital military assistance” to Ukraine “without any legitimate foreign policy, national security, or anti-corruption justification.”

But remember, it was loose lips liar-Biden as vice president in 2015 and a group of Democrat senators in 2018 who threatened Ukraine in order to, in loose lips liar-Biden’s case, protect his son Hunter and, in the Demo senators’ case, demand dirt on Trump to assist the failing Mueller investigation.

So now it’s scumbag liar-Nadler who will endeavor to spin the Demos’ MAGA sabotage into something even bigger ahead of next year’s election. According to the Democrat Daily, a.k.a. The Washington Post, “House Democrats are debating whether to expand articles of impeachment to include charges beyond abuse of power in the Ukraine controversy.”

Who’d’ve thunk it? Oh, wait. We said this was exactly what the Democrats would do as soon as they announced their impeachment plans.

As our Managing Editor Nate Jackson wrote yesterday, “Democrats think combining the fizzled impeachment coup 1.0 (Trump/Russia) with its coup 2.0 sequel (Trump/Ukraine) is the combo to defeat Trump. Color us skeptical.”

Now, with all that out of the way, this column is really about a group of individuals who have overwatch on the House impeachment farce. No, I’m not referring to the news recyclers who report every minute of this political theater as if it were a spectator blood sport in order to support their advertising revenue. I am referring to a group of remarkable individuals above the House chamber.

You may already know about the many subtle ways in which the foundation of American Liberty — the irrevocable fact that we are endowed by our Creator with “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — is reflected symbolically around our nation’s capital.

For example, the cap on the 555-foot Washington Monument is engraved, “Laus Deo,” Latin for “Praise be to God.” The great oak doors leading into the Supreme Court chamber are engraved with the Roman numerals I through X, representing the Ten Commandments, and the relief above the mahogany bench where the Supreme Court justices sit during session is likewise marble engraved with a stone tablet and the numerals I through X. In fact, monuments and engravings honoring the Judeo-Christian foundation of American law are found all across that town.

But what you may not know is that forming a ring around the House of Representatives chamber are 23 bas-reliefs of noted law-givers — those whose principles are the foundation for our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, as well as the Rule of Law they enshrine. There is one in particular that is most noteworthy.

You have likely seen our national motto, “In God We Trust,” inscribed in large gold letters above and behind the speaker’s rostrum in the House chamber. Above those words behind the rostrum is a quote from the venerable Daniel Webster that serves as the starting point for the 23 reliefs that look down upon the room: “Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”

But it is the 28-inch reliefs above the gallery doors, surrounding and looking down upon the chamber, sculpted in white Vermont marble, that should give pause and warrant reflection upon all proceedings in that room and whether such proceedings might be “worthy to be remembered.”

In order clockwise around the chamber from Webster’s quote are the images of George Mason (Virginia Declaration of Rights), Robert Joseph PothierJean-Baptiste ColbertEdward IAlfonso XGregory IXLouis IXJustinian ITribonianLycurgusHammurabi (The Code of Hammurabi), Moses (The Ten Commandments),  SolonAemilius PapinianusGaiusMaimonidesSuleiman the MagnificentInnocent IIISimon de MontfortHugo GrotiusWilliam Blackstone  (Commentaries on the Laws of England), Napoleon and, of course, Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence). 

Now, I would argue that there are some American Founders whose reliefs should also be included within that ring of honor — most notably that of George Washington. I would further argue that the man whose life and teaching is the centerpiece of the most important and most produced (more than five billion copies) book of all time, Jesus of Nazareth, should be there.

But here is what I find most interesting about those reliefs. Of the 23, all but one are facing left or right, all gazing toward the full front relief of the singularly important relief that is centered directly across from the dais occupied by the speaker of the House. The 11 profiles in the eastern half of the chamber face left and 11 in the western half face right.

They all look toward the frontal relief of Moses, the Old Testament’s essential lawgiver.

When all the rancorous debate within the Judiciary Committee and the full House is concluded, and as liar-Nancy Pelosi gavels the House to order for the inevitable impeachment referral vote to the Senate, she should remember those who are watching and, most notably, whom she is addressing directly across the room.  ~The Patriot Post

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U.S. Is the Most Generous Country 
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Redefining ‘The Rule of Law’
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by E. DONALD ELLIOTT
{ spectator.org } ~ Our country could survive an impeachment trial of Donald Trump. We’d be wounded and I hope that calamity can be avoided, but we’d survive...The more momentous issue in the current impeachment kerfuffle is how and to what extent the administrative state can bind the president. A quiet revolution, so far bloodless, is underway to redefine “the rule of law” to give unelected officials in the administrative state control over the president. Confucius, the only philosopher I know who was also prime minister of his country, was asked what one thing he would do first to improve the political health of his country. “Get the names of things right,” he responded his statement is also sometimes translated as “the rectification of terms”. He understood the power of determining what people call things. We all agree that “no one is above the law” and we all believe in “the rule of law,” but exactly what those terms mean is now up for grabs. Recently some partisans have claimed that the “rule of law” means democratically elected officials, including the president, are bound by more than the written law duly enacted by Congress and signed by the president or enacted by supermajorities over a veto and the words of the Constitution. Their new definition of “the rule of law” would include the consensus of subordinate expert officials, the so-called “interagency consensus,” and the rules, policies, and procedures promulgated by the “deep state.” Change what “the rule of law” means, and you change who is running the country. A good example is the recent firing of Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer for refusing to abide by a legal presidential order to allow an officer acquitted of murder but convicted of the lesser offense of having his picture taken with an enemy’s dead body to keep one of his medals. This led the former Navy secretary to write a self-indulgent open letter to the press and public claiming that following the president’s order would have violated his oath to defend the Constitution. Exactly where in the Constitution it allegedly says that the commander in chief of the armed forces may not overrule his subordinates on whether or not a particular sailor gets to keep a particular medal is never specified.  Spencer’s open letter praising himself for his martyrdom on the altar of the rule of law, as he sees it, merely makes sanctimonious general noises that The rule of law is what sets us apart from our adversaries. Good order and discipline is what has enabled our victory against foreign tyranny time and again, from Captain Lawrence’s famous order “Don’t Give up the Ship,” to the discipline and determination that propelled our flag to the highest point of Iwo Jima. The Constitution, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, are the shields that set us apart, and the beacons that protect us all. Gimme a break, sir. I agree with all of your flag-waving platitudes, but exactly where does the law say that you, as secretary of the Navy, get to overrule the president rather than the other way around? The same question applies to the procession of former ambassadors and national security council staffers who traipsed up to Capitol Hill to accuse the president of the allegedly impeachable crime of refusing to follow the “interagency consensus” on how best to negotiate with Ukraine to reduce its endemic corruption. The president thought we should withhold aid until the incoming administration made a public promise to do better, but the bureaucracy thought we should give them the aid unconditionally and ask nicely afterwards. I do not purport to know which was right, but I do know that historically this kind of judgment call has been the president’s. “The buck stops here,” proclaimed the sign on Harry Truman’s desk in the Oval Office...  https://spectator.org/redefining-the-rule-of-law/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=362b6cbc54-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_06_02_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-362b6cbc54-104608113  
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The Democrat Party: An existential threat 
to the U.S. Constitution and the USA
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{ renewamerica.com } ~ There have never been such times as these in the United States of America. We the People are facing not only the growing insanity of a, seemingly, never ending search by the Socialist Democrat Party... for even more deliberately inane items of political correctness but, now they a besieging us with new attempts to weaken and destroy the US presidency and the Constitution itself. The greatest existential threat to our nation is coming not from China or Russia...but from the Democrat Party which has now turned blatantly, irrevocably and in-our-faces tyrannically Socialist.  The day after President Trump was elected, much of the "mainstream media" began talking about impeachment and naming the president as a Russian asset. In truth, it was the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign that received help and $$$ from Russia that would later add the infamous and false "dossier," which contained false and inflammatory lies about the new president. The formal investigation aka "The Mueller Report" was begun by the still scumbag/liar-nObama/scumvag/liar-Clinton FBI 17 May 2017 with the appointment of Robert Swan Mueller III as Special Counsel. The "investigators" were, virtually, all Democrats and unabashed "Trump Haters" as email evidence later confirmed. The full investigation began 31 July 2016 and continued dragged on until 22 March 2019. On April 2019, the Mueller Report was released and President Trump was exonerated of any crimes...whatsoever. That is, the entire FBI...and all of the other debauched alphabet groups within the US government...couldn't find any illegality to pin on our president. The now fiercely anti-Trump FBI, however, tried their best – which included witness intimidation and overt threats to family members think Lieutenant General Michael Flynn's con being threatened and an FBI gestapo-styled middle-of-the-night raid on Paul Manafort who chaired Trump's campaign team for 3 months in 2016 and his entire family. More threats from the scumbag/liar-nObama FBI came in the form of almost endless interrogations and the arrest of many via forced process crimes of some of the low-to-medium level people who worked on the Trump campaign. Note: This is precisely how all Communist Marxist countries throughout the world conduct business against their opposition. The style of "business" has now infected and infested the US Democrat Party...which has not been "democratic" for many years...   http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/191206 
Democrat Congressman Warns His Party: 
‘Be Careful What You Wish For’ On
Impeachment, It’s ‘Tearing The Nation Apart’
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By  Ryan Saavedra
{ dailywire.com } ~ Democrat Rep. Jeff Van Drew (NJ) responded to House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi’s decision to move forward with impeaching President Donald Trump on Thursday by cautioning his party... warning them that what they are doing is tearing the United States apart.  CNN’s Manu Raju spoke with Van Drew about liar-Pelosi’s decision, writing on Twitter: “Rep. Jeff Van Drew, one of two Democrats to vote against formalizing the impeachment inquiry, told me he plans to vote against all the articles of impeachment ‘unless there’s something that I haven’t seen, haven’t heard before.'” Van Drew told Raju that Democrats should “be careful what they wish for” because impeachment “is tearing the nation apart.” In an interview on Sunday with USA Today, Van Drew echoed similar sentiments, saying that he opposes removing the president. “My job isn’t really to like or dislike him,” Van Drew said. “My job is to exact as much goodwill and help for my district and for this nation and for this world that I possibly can while he’s president.” On the issue of impeachment, Van Drew said, “To some folks, that’s reminiscent of what was done to kings and queens many years ago. Everything our country doesn’t stand for.” Van Drew is not the only Democrat to sound the alarm bells over impeachment...  https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congressman-warns-his-party-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-on-impeachment-its-tearing-the-nation-apart   
The Empire Strikes Back on Kennedy
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by SCOTT MCKAY
{ spectator.org } ~ Tucker Carlson is rapidly becoming America’s most important television journalist, because Carlson is willing, where no others are, to call out the abject lies emanating from the mainstream Beltway spin machine... And earlier this week Carlson did the public two important services. First, he provided a measure of accountability, where virtually no one else would, in savaging “vulture capitalist” and GOP mega-donor Paul Singer for what the latter did to the town of Sidney, Nebraska, in 2015. Singer bought stock in the hunting-and-fishing-gear retailer Cabela’s, and from his fresh seat on the company’s board he cajoled its management into agreeing on the company’s sale to Bass Pro Shops. That sale hit Sidney, the home of Cabela’s corporate headquarters, especially hard. Some 2,000 jobs went away in a town of less than 10,000 people, and the economic effects of Singer’s actions there were akin to a nuclear bomb dropping on the town. Carlson spotlighted that episode in hedge-fund shame and noted that Singer has avoided any accountability for what he’s done due to massive contributions to the GOP. The story is of a piece with a not-infrequent pattern wherein major donors to the party have pushed it into policy positions that give heft to Democrat accusations that Republicans don’t care about ordinary folks. Ace of Spades offers a must-read treatment of this story in a post written just after Carlson shined a spotlight on the Singer–Sidney mess, including asking the question why Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, who seems to pride himself on being a thoughtful, caring Republican, didn’t seem to have a problem with the Cabela’s sellout coinciding, of course, with a max-out donation by Singer to his campaign. But after he was finished with that essential piece of business, Carlson landed an outstanding interview with a reporter for the Nation, a not-particularly-conservative publication. But Aaron Maté had a lot to say that strayed from the last week’s D.C. media narrative on Ukraine, which more or less consumed U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who committed the grievous error of basing his public statements on what he thought were established facts. Specifically, Kennedy had commented that there was evidence the 2016 U.S. presidential election didn’t just bear the mark of Russian meddling but that individuals in Ukraine had also left their fingerprints on the process. This wasn’t controversial all that long ago, you know. CBS News, back in 2017: It wasn’t so much the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign, per se, but a Democratic operative working with the Democratic National Committee did reach out to the Ukrainian government in an attempt to get damaging information about the Trump campaign. That operative’s name is Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American former scumbag/liar-Clinton White House aide who was tasked with ethnic outreach on behalf of the Democratic Party. As Vogel reported, she knew about Paul Manafort’s extensive connections to the pro-Russian regime of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and decided to dig deeper into possible connections between Moscow and the Trump campaign. As part of that effort, she discussed Manafort with the high-ranking officials at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, D.C. The Democratic National Committee denies that it was ever in contact with the Ukrainian government. Yanukovych was the guy Paul Manafort was working for before President Trump brought him on as his campaign manager, which probably wasn’t the best decision he ever made. But the Democrats absolutely reached out to Chalupa in an effort to politically monetize that relationship with Yanukovych’s successor Petro Poroshenko against Trump, and when Yanukovych was tossed out of power in 2014, the regime that followed was, through Chalupa, without question dancing with scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey, writing at the Week back in 2017, did a good job of chronicling what the scumbag/liar-Clinton camp was up to with Ukraine, among other things...
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Justice Department Asks Supreme Court 
To Allow Execution Of Four Child Murderers
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by KEVIN DALEY
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Monday night to clear the way for four federal executions, after a judge in Washington, D.C., put them on hold... The first of the executions is set for Dec. 9. The condemned inmate is Daniel Lewis Lee, who belonged to a white supremacist organization. A jury sentenced him to death for the 1999 murders of three people, among them an 8-year-old girl. Juries also convicted the other convicts — Alfred Bourgeois, Dustin Lee Honken and Wesley Ira Purkey — for the murders of children. Attorney General William Barr revived the federal death penalty after a 17-year hiatus in July. The attorney general directed the Bureau of Prisons to use a single-drug pentobarbital lethal injection protocol for capital punishment, clearing the way for long-stalled executions to proceed. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that “uniform procedure” violates a provision of the Federal Death Penalty Act (FDPA). That provision says federal executions must be carried out “in the manner prescribed by the law of the state” in which the death sentence issued. Though all the relevant states allow lethal injection, Chutkan said the word “manner” encompasses both the means used and the procedural particulars. The judge found there are technical differences between the Barr protocol and relevant state practices, such as how the catheter should be inserted. “‘Manner’ means ‘a mode of procedure or way of acting,'” Chutkan’s decision reads. “The statute’s use of the word ‘manner’ thus includes not just execution method but also execution procedure.  “That reading is implausible,” Solicitor General Noel Francisco countered in Monday night’s legal filing at the Supreme Court. “For virtually the entire history of the United States, beginning with the First Congress, federal statutory references to the ‘manner’ of execution have been understood — including by this Court — to refer to the mechanism for inflicting the death penalty, not to every ‘procedural detail’ that might be employed in an execution.” Elsewhere in the application, Francisco said Chutkan’s decision would allow states to “effectively veto a federal execution simply by making unavailable state officials or resources that are required by state law for the execution.” Francisco asked the justices to put Chutkan’s ruling on hold or toss it out completely. If the justices agreed, the inmates might be executed before they have a chance to fully litigate their claims. However, the administration says the public has a strong interest in the implementation of criminal penalties and the crux of the dispute is “purely procedural and likely harmless.” The Supreme Court struggled to conceal heated internal rifts over capital punishment during its last term. In one decision, Justice Neil Gorsuch led a five-justice majority that urged lower courts to avoid “unjustified delay” in executions.   https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/03/scotus-daniel-lee-death-penalty/   
scumbag-George Soros: A New Kind of Tyrant?
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By Diana Mary Sitek
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The venomous careers of Hitler and Stalin provoked the study of totalitarian regimes as the very epitome of evil, depriving their citizens of freedom and of life itself. A state captured by a demagogue is considered a sure sign of danger ahead... hence the alleged justification by the Left for their hysteria over “rabble rouser” Donald Trump’s election. Overlooked until more recently are the unelected, bloated bureaucratic fiefdoms and regulatory encroachments of both national and global government and non-governmental institutions, which have created the opportunity for a sinister, large scale violation of political power. This new abuse was foreshadowed in the career of FBI architect and director, the corrupt J. Edgar Hoover. It has been notched up to a planetary level of hyper-coordination by scumbag-George Soros as preliminary to the installation of his global Open Society. In this grandiose plan, state governments specifically the USA will be reduced to the level of relay stations for a supranational, Sauron-like centralization of power. What unites the totalitarian and the new tyrant are three personality characteristics, proposed by Professor John D. Mayer in his 1993 article, “The Emotional Madness of the Dangerous Leader.” The first is indifference. The tyrant is consumed by a single-minded, fanatical purpose and has no regard for the suffering wreaked on others during its implementation. The second is intolerance of those whose opinions differ, facilitated through control of the media, secret and insider knowledge, revenge against anyone who thwarts, and a paranoid mania to shut down all opposition. The third character trait the foundation of the previous two, is psychopathic grandiosity. The power-abuser assumes a messianic pose of unifying society under a utopian plan and persuading others to participate. The very intensity of the tyrant’s narcissism is transferred to vulnerable supporters eliciting a narcotic rush of enthusiasm. What is easily overlooked is that the sham scheme is not a political health remedy, but a device for maintaining the megalomaniac’s sense of personal omnipotence. In scumbag-Soros’ own words, “Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad. In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid.” scumbag-Soros seems disarming in his frankness. But delusions of grandeur preclude self-knowledge, as scumbag-Soros’ next statements reveal. “I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it.” scumbag-Soros has spilled  bucketloads of words proclaiming he is “amoral,” “self-interested,” and that “normal rules do not apply” to him. “I am unnatural. I am a sort of deux ex machina. I’m very comfortable with my public persona, because it is the one I have created myself.” And this from the man who controls politicians and bureaucrats like a boss giving dictation to his secretary. This is the man who has perfected the subversion of governments, who has robbed failing states, and lavishly endowed every organization and movement destructive of traditional Western society, from abolishing the Electoral College to abolishing life itself if it is in utero, drug-addicted, or senile. His ambition is without borders -- “The Soviet Empire is now the scumbag-Soros Empire.” “I’m the Pope’s boss now.” And so on, ad nauseum. Yet, like other tyrants, he is untouchable. Those he has made richer and more powerful protect him... And they are fools.
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U.S. Is the Most Generous Country 
in the World
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Culture Beat:  “That’s the conclusion of the World Giving Index, a ranking that measured how likely residents of 128 countries were to practice acts of generosity. The index, from the U.K.-based nonprofit Charities Aid Foundation, is based on Gallup’s World Poll surveys of 1.3 million people.” So reports MSN News.
 

“Between 2009 and 2018, interviewers asked respondents whether they had done the following in the last month: helped a stranger or someone they didn’t know who needed help, donated money to charity, or volunteered their time to an organization.”

“At the top of the list were the U.S., Myanmar and New Zealand. The countries that scored the lowest were Yemen, Greece and China.”

It should come as no surprise that American Spirit, driven by Christian morality, should be generous. However, there is reason for concern and a reminder that Americans must strive for vigilance against a spirit of complacency.

Market Watch reports, “Fewer Americans are giving money to charity, and their relationship with God may have something to do with it.”

“The share of U.S. adults who donated to charity dropped significantly between 2000 and 2016, according to an analysis released this month from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Vanguard Charitable.”

“By 2016, just over half — 53% — of Americans gave money to charity, down from 66% in 2000. That figure held mostly steady until the Great Recession. Then it started to drop off and took a dive after 2010, said report co-author Una Osili, associate dean for research and international programs at the Lilly School. The decline amounts to 20 million fewer households donating to charity in 2016 (the most recent year for which data was available) versus 2000, researchers said.”  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67153?mailing_id=4709&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4709&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Impeachment Is Slowly Destroying 
Democrats’ 2020 Political Hopes 
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By Mollie Hemingway
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Democratic efforts to impeach President Donald Trump were supposed to help them politically in 2020. In moments of unguarded honesty, a few Democrats admitted as much publicly... saying the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet. It’s a great example of how this particular impeachment push keeps backfiring on Democrats. They claim, without evidence, that Trump was trying to get Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election by asking for their cooperation in investigating Ukrainian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election. And they claim that this is such a dire threat that Trump must be removed from office and disqualified from running in 2020. Yet their own impeachment effort is about retaliation for 2016 and the hope that they can politically damage Trump heading into the 2020 election. Speaker of the House liar-Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she would like articles of impeachment drafted, a foregone conclusion ever since Democrats won the House in 2018. Some members, such as Rep. scumbag-Al Green had joined the media in calling for Trump’s impeachment since before he was even inaugurated. The precise reasons keep changing earlier this year, nearly 100 Democrats voted to impeach Trump for the high crime of criticizing Democratic lawmakers worthless-Ilhan Omar and commie-Alexandria Ocasio Cortez on Twitter, but the fervor to retaliate against Trump for beating scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton 2016 remains unchanged. The theory behind the 2020 impeachment push is that Trump will be so damaged by the relentless onslaught of negative discussion about him that it will make voters elect someone else. And who knows? That might happen. In practice, however, this particular impeachment push is becoming something of a worst-case political scenario for Democrats...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/05/impeachment-is-slowly-destroying-democrats-2020-political-hopes/  
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White House: scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff 
Has Wrong OMB Number
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By Philip Wegmann
{ realclearpolitics.com } ~ Who called Rudy Giuliani from the White House, and who took his calls in the administration? Those question have been buzzing around the White House after phone logs were released Wednesday... detailing how President Trump’s personal lawyer back-channeled diplomacy to Ukraine. But the phone calls, a presidential spokesperson told RealClearPolitics, were not coming from inside the Office of Management and Budget: “No one from OMB has talked to Giuliani.” The House Intelligence Committee says otherwise. In a voluminous report, the Democrat-led committee that took the lead in impeachment alleged in graphic detail how Giuliani worked with the administration to freeze $391 million in foreign aid to Ukraine to pressure the government of that country into publicly committing to opening an investigation into loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s family. The report details phone calls and texts dating from last spring and summer, including a nearly 13-minute call on April 24 from an “OMB Phone Number.” It is part of the evidence that Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff relied on to build his case for impeachment. “This is not about Ukraine. This is about our democracy, this is about our security,” scumbag/liar-Schiff said during a press conference after releasing the committee’s impeachment report. “Americans should care deeply about whether the president of the United States is betraying their trust in him.” Senior administration officials reply that no one is betraying any trust. They tell RCP that scumbag/liar-Schiff must have the wrong number. For his part, Giuliani has said publicly that he never placed a call to OMB, the agency responsible for how the White House spends money appropriated by Congress. “I don’t remember calling OMB and not about military aid never knew anything about it,” the lawyer texted Dana Bash of CNN after publicly tweeting that call logs were inconclusive. “The mere fact I had numerous calls with the White House does not establish any specific topic,” he wrote. “Remember, I’m the president’s attorney.” Apparently scumbag/liar-Schiff and his staff believe the 395 prefix that showed up on the phone records subpoenaed by House Democrats from AT&T and Verizon belongs only to phones in the OMB offices, something that Republican sources say isn’t accurate...  https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/12/05/white_house_adam_schiff_has_wrong_omb_number__141899.html   
Jim Jordan Makes SHOCK Discovery 
Alerts President Trump
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by Martin Walsh
{ explainlife.com } ~ Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan made a shocking discovery this week and alerted President Donald Trump. During an interview on Fox News with host Tucker Carlson... Jordan issued a direct message to the president and shared explosive news that Democrats won’t like one bit. Jordan pointed out this obvious: Democrats “never back up and apologize,” and that they will keep making up scandals or whatever else they can to “bring down” the president. In this case, Jordan said Democrats have gone from false accusations about Trump and Russia to another witch-hunt: Ukraine and impeachment. His discovery is also terrifying: Democrats will stop at nothing to remove the duly elected president for no reason other than the fact that they dislike him. He went on to single out House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff for leading the latest witch hunt. “Remember, he told us that there was going to be collusion,” said Jordan. “And then when it didn’t happen, what did he do? He moved on to this whole Ukraine story that we’ve now been living through for the past two months.” “You’re just not going to get that from them,” he said. “They just double down and keep pushing on. And, frankly, that’s the same we hear from — see from the Democrat Party. I mean, that’s the same thing we see from scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff.  they’re wrong. They just keep pressing forward. And it’s driven by something Speaker Pelosi said two weeks ago on a Sunday show,” he continued. Jordan ultimately wants everyone to remember one thing: Democrats are out to overturn Trump’s 2016 election victory. Jordan concluded: “When she called the president of the United States, President Trump, when she called him an impostor, that is the problem because they — they have never accepted the fact that 63 million Americans voted to make Donald Trump president of the United States in an Electoral College landslide. They have never accepted that fact, and they’re out to get him. And it just goes from one thing to the other, and they never apologize when they’re wrong.”   https://explainlife.com/just-in-jim-jordan-makes-shock-discovery-alerts-president-trump-17954/?utm_source=Explainlife.com%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email  
Reports downplaying Horowitz, Durham
reports on Russia probe are
'multiple hearsay,' 'unreliable'
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By Victor Garcia 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett dismissed reports downplaying Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's forthcoming report on potential FBI and DOJ surveillance abuses... against the Trump campaign in 2016, calling them "hearsay." "Well, it's the reports are based on leaked information from people who didn't read the Horowitz report, but were told about it from people, other people who were briefed on it who didn't read the report," Jarrett said on "The Story with Martha MacCallum" Thursday. "So we're talking about multiple hearsay. It's unreliable."The Washington Post reported Thursday that both Horowitz's report and a separate investigation into the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham "are not endorsing Trump’s chief conspiracy theory: that the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was an unfounded witch hunt." Jarrett advised viewers to hold off on drawing conclusions until Horowitz's report is released Monday. "The question is, was it Trump campaign surveillance intentional, which would be criminal, potentially, or was it reckless and sloppy errors and omissions and systemic failures?" Jarrett said, adding:  "There can be an agreement, a conspiracy, or there can be actions of like-minded people who have the same goal in the end, which is to harm Donald Trump."
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Why Are Democrats Pushing 
a Trillion Dollar Tax Cut?
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By James C. Capretta
{ realclearpolicy.com } ~ House Democratic sponsorship of a bill repealing the “Cadillac” tax — the levy on high-cost insurance plans enacted in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — is discrediting the party’s claim of being above craven and irresponsible tax-cutting... At enactment in 2010, the tax was supposed to go into effect in 2018, but it has been delayed twice by Congress and is now scheduled to take in 2022 — a full eight years after implementation of the ACA’s major benefit expansions. The tax requires employers sponsoring high-premium insurance plans to pay an additional 40 percent penalty on costs above specified dollar thresholds. Separate limits apply to individual and family coverage. On July 17th, the House passed H.R. 748, the repeal bill, by a vote of 419 to 6, with only three Democrats and two Republicans voting in opposition Justin Amash, an independent who left the Republican party, also voted against it. There is bipartisan interest in the Senate in passing repeal too. The push to get rid of the Cadillac tax is short-sighted for both parties, but particularly for the Democrats. The tax was instrumental to the successful enactment of the ACA, as it allowed the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and the congressional authors of the law to argue they were passing a fiscally responsible bill. It was also one of the very few serious cost-control provisions in legislation that otherwise was focused on expanding Medicaid and providing subsidies for enrollment in private health insurance. Abandoning the Cadillac tax along with the Independent Payment Advisory Board and the CLASS Act confirms what many critics said at the time of enactment, which is that the law’s entitlement spending commitments would prove to be irreversible while the promised offsets and cost-cutting were illusory or politically vulnerable. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) believes the Cadillac tax will have both direct and indirect effects on federal revenue if Congress allows it to take effect. Some employers would be unable to avoid crossing the thresholds and will therefore pay the penalty. Others will cut their health costs and stay under the premium limits. When employers cut their health benefits, CBO expects the government will still receive more tax revenue because firms, to remain attractive to workers, will need to shift what they were planning to spend on health coverage into cash compensation. Unlike health benefits, wages are subject to both payroll and income taxation. In its estimate of H.R. 748, CBO projects that Cadillac tax repeal would reduce federal revenue by $200 billion over the period 2019 to 2029, with more than half of the lost revenue occurring in 2027 to 2029. Over the period 2025 to 2029, the annual tax cut would grow in size at an average annual rate of 18.7 percent...  https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2019/12/05/why_are_democrats_pushing_a_trillion_dollar_tax_cut_111325.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpjM1ltWXlZVFUzWVdabSIsInQiOiJoamNWR2VXNTVWd3QwQXZcL0wzZTZFQVJvc2ZiNVZzQXp3aGtjd3haU0p5NTAyZmlxUVdtN1Y5NXBtYzlseDRObGl5TjBmUURraFB1T0l4d2Z0bklNaWY5RXRnamkrNmpJa05CQkw3UVF1NUVOaE5GbzdaYWsxQ21FWXlVN2dlVWcifQ%3D%3D   
We do not need to expand Social Security
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by Andrew G. Biggs
{ aei.org } ~ Few issues better illustrate the leftward shift of American economic policy than Social Security... In the late 1990s, moderate Democrats such as Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and John Breaux proposed fixing Social Security’s finances through a combination of tax increases and benefit cuts, including lower cost-of-living adjustments and an increased retirement age. Republicans favored fixing the Social Security deficit using benefit cuts alone. Today, President Trump’s no-cuts position is to the left of those Democrats. And even the most moderate Democratic candidate for president, former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden, speaking at an AARP Iowa forum in July, insisted that “we should be increasing, not decreasing, Social Security.” In reality, expanding Social Security is a multi-trillion-dollar solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. The shift in sentiment on Social Security reflects a shift in priorities. In the 1990s, policymakers largely saw Social Security as a budgetary challenge, with rising retirement costs pushing up taxes or squeezing out other government programs. Today, Americans are increasingly concerned that Social Security will fail to provide income stability for retirees. Seventy-five percent of Americans agree that the nation faces a “retirement crisis,” according to a National Institute for Retirement Security survey. Politicians have responded to these fears, with President Trump pledging to maintain full Social Security benefits despite the program’s looming insolvency. Progressives such as Senators Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren and commie-Bernie Sanders promise benefit increases to rich and poor alike, financed by dramatically higher taxes on high earners. Almost no one is asking whether these fears of a retirement crisis are justified and whether expanding Social Security benefits outweighs all the other competing uses for federal dollars. But new data from three trusted government agencies say that the answer to both questions is almost certainly no. While Social Security requires changes to ensure solvency and to better protect against poverty in old age, Americans’ retirement incomes and retirement savings have never been stronger. Last summer, the Congressional Budget Office released new data based on IRS tax returns that provide a more accurate view of changing household incomes. From 1979 through 2016, the salaries of working-age households grew by 39 percent above inflation. But over that same period, incomes for households whose members are 65 and older grew by 90 percent, over twice as fast. Over the past three decades, seniors have gone from being a disproportionately poor segment of the population to a rich one. By itself, this undercuts the case for across-the-board Social Security benefit increases. But working-age Americans aren’t saving enough for retirement, right? Not according to the Federal Reserve’s new Distributional Financial Accounts, which calculate households’ total retirement savings including both money saved in retirement accounts and any benefits owed from a traditional pension. Across all age groups, retirement savings have at least doubled relative to the salaries those savings must replace once Americans retire. Among households age 55 to 69, retirement savings grew from 232 percent of annual earnings in 1989 to 471 percent in 2016. For households age 40 to 54, pension entitlements rose from 88 percent to 212 percent of average annual earnings, and from 30 percent to 80 percent of earnings for households aged 40 and under...
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Trump Tightens Food-StampWork Requirements
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Political Editors:  On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced a rule change to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — a.k.a. food stamps — that will go into effect on April 1, 2020. The new rule is intended to prevent able-bodied adults from abusing the federal food-stamp program. The administration estimates that the change will affect roughly 1.1 million people, and save taxpayers $12.8 billion over the next decade, while at the same time encouraging more people to find jobs during a time of historically low unemployment and seven million unfilled jobs.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue explained, “This rule lays the groundwork for the expectation that able-bodied Americans reenter the workforce where there are currently more job openings than people to fill them.” The USDA rule applies to adults ages 18 to 49 who are able-bodied without any dependents, limiting their SNAP benefits to three months, unless they are working or training for at least 20 hours a week. This rule does not change; what does change is the flexibility states have to grant SNAP waivers.

The new rule will limit the ability of states to use loopholes to get around the SNAP requirements. Previously, states were allowed to grant waivers to the SNAP rule in areas that were experiencing unemployment rates 20% higher than the national rate. Furthermore, states were given flexibility by the USDA in granting SNAP waivers. The Wall Street Journal reports, “The new rule requires the unemployment rate to be 6% or higher for states to issue such waivers. The rule also curbs the amount of discretionary exemptions from federal work requirements that states can issue.”

“Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government,” said our Constitution’s author, James Madison. The absolute bare minimum the Trump administration can do to work toward that ideal is to require able-bodied adults without dependents to look for jobs instead of handouts.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67164?mailing_id=4709&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4709&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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The Strategy Behind the Georgia Senate Pick
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Nate Jackson  
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Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler Schedules 
Next Impeachment Hearing Dec. 9th  
Same Date IG Report is Released
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler has announced the date for the next impeachment hearing. The date is Monday, December 9th – 2019... It appears from the announcement the HJC hearing will be set up to receive the impeachment recommendations from scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and the House Intelligence Committee: The Impeachment Inquiry into President Donald J. Trump: Presentations from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and House Judiciary Committee. Monday December 9th, is also the same date that IG Horowitz is expected to release the results of the 21-month-long FISA investigation. Two days later on Wednesday December 11th, Michael Horowitz will be testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his investigation…. Therefore we can expect scumbag liar-Nadler, liar-Pelosi and Lawfare to schedule another House event for Wednesday Dec. 11th.
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Devin Nunes Responds To scumbag/liar-Adam 
Schiff “Subpoenaing” Private Phone Records
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes responds to the possibilities of how HPSCI Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff gained private phone records for use in his impeachment effort... One of the possibilities is that Lev Parnas is a foreign national. SDNY gets a subpoena from the FISA court. Rudy Giuliani is in contact with Parnas (1-hop). They then unmask and pull Giuliani’s records and get Nunes and Solomon (2-hops). The question would then be how did the unmasked information in an active investigation that started in the FISC end up being sent to the House Intel Committee to be disclosed to the public? All fingers point to scumbag/liar-Schiff.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/05/devin-nunes-responds-to-adam-schiff-subpoenaing-private-phone-records/  
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U.S. Confirms Interception of Iranian 
Weapons, Missiles Destined for Yemen
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by Adam Kredo 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Senior U.S. military commanders confirmed on Thursday that an American warship intercepted in November a shipment of Iranian-made weapons and missile components destined for Yemen... where Tehran has been arming terrorist rebel forces. Reports emerged this week of a U.S. interception that occurred late last month, and were confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon by Pentagon officials familiar with the situation. The weapons shipment represents a further escalation by Iran as it seeks to arm anti-American terrorist factions across the Middle East. The weapons and missile parts seized by U.S. military personnel are among the most sophisticated officials have seen. The smuggling operation directly violates a United Nations Security Council resolution.  U.S. military personnel are currently investigating how Tehran is smuggling arms into Yemen and other regional hotspots. "On Nov. 25, a U.S. warship conducted a flag verification boarding in the Arabian sea in accordance with international law of what was subsequently determined to be a stateless vessel, and discovered a cache of weapons and advanced missile components," Cmdr. Sean Robertson, a defense department spokesperson, told the Free Beacon. "An initial investigation indicates that these advanced missile components are of Iranian origin. A more thorough investigation is underway." The topic of Iranian smuggling operations was raised this week at a bilateral meeting in Portugal between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The first subject that I will raise is Iran, the second subject is Iran, and so is the third, and many more," Netanyahu said on Wednesday before heading into a closed-door meeting with Pompeo. "Iran is increasing its aggression as we speak even today in the region," the Israeli leader said. "They're trying to have staging grounds against us and the region from Iran itself, from Iraq, from Syria, from Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen, and we are actively engaged in countering that aggression. And I think that the Israeli-American cooperation is key to that effort that I think serves the purposes of the many, many countries in the region. That will be the first subject that I will raise, including the ability to strengthen even further our mutual defenses." Iran has also been caught sending ballistic missiles and other short-range armaments into Iraq in a bid to expand its regional military influence. Tehran's continued expansion across the region has prompted the Trump administration to consider sending another 14,000 American troops into the Middle East to combat the threat.   https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-confirms-interception-of-iranian-weapons-missiles-destined-for-yemen/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8f3eac725e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_05_07_49_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8f3eac725e-45611665   
U.S. Mulls Withdrawal From Open Skies Treaty
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by Adam Kredo 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Trump administration may withdraw the United States from a treaty with Russia that Moscow uses to conduct surveillance operations across the United States... and has repeatedly violated by denying the United States access to Russian airspace. The Open Skies Treaty, which went into effect in 2002, permits reciprocal unarmed reconnaissance flights by the participants, which include the United States, Russia, and more than 30 European partners. In recent years, the treaty has caused consternation among the highest levels of the U.S. national security community due to Moscow’s repeated and increasingly severe violations, including deploying advanced technology that can be used to conduct espionage operations. Senior administration officials told the Washington Free Beacon that the president is considering pulling out of the treaty due to Moscow's continued noncompliance. The treaty was the subject of a fiery exchange this week between Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Tex.) and Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Christopher Ford, in which Cruz highlighted a broad consensus among past and present national security officials that Russia exploits the treaty to undermine U.S. national security.  "We are allowing Russia to fly over the United States to engage in reconnaissance on our major cities, our defense infrastructure, New York City, Washington, D.C., we're making ourselves more vulnerable," Cruz said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting this week. "And we're gaining, as I understand it, little to nothing because everything we would gain from the over flights we gain from our satellite technology, and Russia is not complying with the treaty. How is it possibly in our interest to benefit the Russian military by exposing our defenses while not gaining serious actionable intelligence on the other side?" In October, Cruz and Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced a resolution calling on the United States to withdraw from the treaty. The resolution hints that the treaty enables significant bad behavior from Russia that has not become public for classification reasons, and calls on the administration to declassify some of that information. After the hearing concluded this week, the Trump administration told the Free Beacon that while it has not yet withdrawn from the treaty, the current situation will require corrective action by U.S. allies and Russia to prevent further erosion of American national security interests...   https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-mulls-withdrawal-from-open-skies-treaty/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8f3eac725e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_05_07_49_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8f3eac725e-45611665   
Valerie Plame Praises Lack of 
Details in Green New Deal
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by Cameron Cawthorne 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ New Mexico Democratic congressional candidate Valerie Plame on Wednesday praised the Green New Deal for its lack of details... "What I love about the Green New Deal is that it is an aspirational document. It doesn't lay out all the details, and how we get there of course will be contentious, but what I love is the idea it's an inspiration and that's what leadership is about," Plame told liberal podcast host Ana Kasparian during an appearance on "The Young Turks" podcast.  "That's what President John Kennedy did when he said, ‘You know we're going to go to the moon. There's going to be a man on the moon in a decade.' You set that out there and you move toward that," she added. Kasparian later asked Plame about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) turning the Green New Deal into actual legislation. "Have you read that legislation? Is it something you are supportive of?" Kasparian asked. "I'm not that familiar to be able to say what parts of it I agree with, but in general the Green New Deal is something that I think makes absolute sense not only for New Mexico, but for the nation as a whole. We have to get off our reliance on fossil fuels," Plame said. commie-Sanders rolled out his $16.3 trillion version of the Green New Deal in August. His plan, which would cost 20 times as much as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, calls for the United States to have 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 and entirely decarbonize by 2050. Plame is not the only Democrat who has compared the Green New Deal to a major historical event. Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), who first introduced the Green New Deal resolution in early 2019, compared the fight against climate change to winning World War II. She also compared people who oppose the Green New Deal to white opponents of the civil rights movement. Valerie and commie-Sanders and commie-AOC and the rest are wrong.   https://freebeacon.com/politics/valerie-plame-praises-lack-of-details-in-green-new-deal/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8f3eac725e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_05_07_49_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8f3eac725e-45611665  
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commie-AOC Mocked For Claiming Work Requirements For Food Stamps Would 
Have Starved Her Family
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By Rusty Weiss
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received criticism for claiming her family just might have “starved” if they had to endure new revisions to the food stamp program under the Trump administration... Yea, we don’t get it either. It’s so unlike commie-AOC to completely fabricate stories to make an absurd political point. The USDA on Wednesday finalized the first of a series of tighter restrictions on the Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP), limiting states from relaxing steady employment standards for able-bodied adults. “My family relied on food stamps (EBT) when my dad died at 48. I was a student,” the New York socialist claimed. “If this happened then, we might’ve just starved. Now, many people will.” “It’s shameful how the GOP works overtime to create freebies for the rich while dissolving lifelines of those who need it most.” Nay, it’s shameful that A) commie-AOC thinks her constituents would rather milk the system than obtain employment when they’re capable and B) commie-AOC would link her family story to something that wouldn’t even apply in this case. You see, the new rule applies only to childless, able-bodied individuals under the age of 50. The Heritage Foundation quickly called commie-Ocasio-Cortez out for her, um … embellishment. “The rule applies to able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 49 who do not have dependents,” they wrote. “The rule wouldn’t apply to parents with minor children, the elderly, or disabled people.” This past October, commie-AOC  introduced a set of legislation – six bills in total known as “A Just Society” – which has been  described as a “socialist nightmare” by some. In it, she seeks to take taxpayer money and give it in the form of government benefits to illegal aliens. “Notwithstanding any other provision of law,” her bill reads, “an individual who is an alien without regard to the immigration status of that alien may not be denied any Federal public benefit solely on the basis of the individual’s immigration status.” commie-Ocasio-Cortez would also like to see violent drug felons receive welfare benefits. Beyond that, she doesn’t just want everybody dependent on the government – she wants to create lies and propaganda to convince them that they need to be dependent on government.
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The Strategy Behind the Georgia Senate Pick
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Nate Jackson:  Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp appointed multimillionaire businesswoman Kelly Loeffler to replace Sen. Johnny Isakson, who is retiring to cope with his declining health. Normally, this sort of story would be worth a headline and a shrug, but this time, it involves the president and some infighting among conservatives.

President Donald Trump met with Gov. Kemp to advocate for his own choice for Isakson’s Senate seat — Rep. Doug Collins. The widely reported narrative is that Kemp “bucked” Trump by picking Loeffler instead. For our part, we suspect there was a good cop/bad cop wink and nod here. In other words, Trump gave Kemp some needed political space.

Collins is a staunch conservative who represents the Ninth District, one of Georgia’s most conservative districts; no one questions his credentials. In fact, he’s currently the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, where his task is to defend Trump against the Democrats’ absurd impeachment inquisition. Collins is needed where he is, but, in part due to his vigorous Trump defense, he’s also arguably less well-suited for a statewide Senate contest next year. The state isn’t as “red” as it used to be, primarily because of women in the Atlanta suburbs. Not only does the Senate pick have to win in 2020, but Kemp has to prove he’s not just “doing Trump’s bidding.”

We believe Kemp (and Trump) had this in mind when picking Loeffler. She is a complete unknown to grassroots Republicans, and many wonder if we’re getting a senatorial version John Roberts — acceptable on the surface but an unreliable “moderate” underneath. After all, Loeffler served on the board of Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest provider of abortions in Georgia. She’s also CEO of Bakkt, a bitcoin-focused company, and part owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream. The WNBA donates to Planned Parenthood and other feminist groups, and Loeffler’s involvement in the WNBA means she’s benefited from the cronyism that funds sports stadiums across the country.

But Kemp’s no dummy, and he’s most certainly not trying to win the approval of the Planned Parenthood Left. In fact, he’s doing his best to keep conservative support. He signed one of the most pro-life laws in the country last year despite the threats of Hollywood, which is heavily invested in the Peach State. Kemp’s stand is all the more remarkable after the previous Republican governor caved to the Rainbow Mafia and vetoed a religious-liberty bill after having promised to sign it.

Kemp stood firm against critics of his yet-to-be-announced Senate pick, too. “I stand with hardworking Georgians and @POTUS,” Kemp tweeted last month. “The idea that I would appoint someone to the U.S. Senate that is NOT pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-freedom, and 100% supportive of our President (and his plan to Keep America Great) is ridiculous.”

Our own Louis DeBroux notes, “The governor has also made some very shrewd appointments in recent months, tapping John King (law-enforcement background) to serve as interim Insurance Commissioner, becoming the first Hispanic constitutional officer in Georgia history. He also appointed the first black woman to serve as Cobb County DA, a county that used to be deep red but that Hillary won in 2016. Through June, about half of the appointments he’d made were women, and almost a quarter were black. Georgia is becoming less white every year, and while we reject the ‘demography is destiny’ mantra of the Democrats, we’d argue that if the GOP doesn’t show that minorities and women are welcomed in the party, not only as voters but as leaders, then Democrats will continue to effectively hammer them as the party of old white men.”

Meanwhile, for all the caterwauling about Kemp “bowing to the Swamp” with his pick, it’s interesting to note that he choose the self-made millionaire who isn’t beholden to any political base and who isn’t currently employed in the Beltway. As Loeffler put it, “I am not a career politician or even someone who’s run for office. Over the last 25 years, I’ve been building businesses, taking risks, and creating jobs. I haven’t spent my life trying to get to Washington.”

As for her conservative bona fides, she says, “But here’s what folks are gonna find out about me: I’m a lifelong conservative. Pro-Second Amendment. Pro-military. Pro-wall. And pro-Trump. And I make no apologies for my conservative values, and will proudly support President Trump’s conservative judges. I am strongly pro-life. The abortion-on-demand agenda is immoral. In the Senate, I look forward to voting for S. 160, Senator Lindsey Graham’s 20-week abortion ban. When it comes to protecting innocent life, I look to God because every life is a blessing. In Washington, I will work with President Trump to continue the incredible economic progress our nation has seen.”

Obviously, Loeffler’s actual track record has yet to be established and there are indeed questions — if not outright flags — about what we do know, but she checked a lot of the right boxes with her remarks. “As an outsider to Washington, I know I will have to prove it,” she admitted. “To earn your confidence and support, with my votes, my priorities, and my actions. And that’s exactly what I’ll do.” As long as that’s the case, the controversy surrounding her pick will soon be a distant memory.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67165?mailing_id=4709&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4709&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Impeachment Inquisition: 
Prof. Turley Hammers Dems
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Thomas Gallatin  
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Friday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


IMPEACH THE JOB CREATOR! Jobs growth soars in November as payrolls surge by 266,000 (CNBC)

MEANWHILE… Trump’s tax cuts reduce U.S. burden to one of the lowest in the world (Fox Business)

Government & Politics


WHERE IMPEACHMENT STANDS: House sets up Monday hearing to glean evidence on Trump impeachment (The Hill)

STRATEGY: How House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and his team tamed impeachment (Washington Examiner)

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Mueller witness bragged about access to scumbag/liar-Clintons secured with illegal campaign cash, says Justice Department (Yahoo News)

TAKING UP socialist-BETO’S MANTLE: Michael Bloomberg unveils radical anti-freedom plan attacking Second Amendment rights (The Daily Wire)

MOVING TO THE LEFT: A sign of just how far left Democrats have moved under Trump: “Moderate” loose lips liar-Joe Biden wants tax hikes twice as big as what scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton proposed in 2016 (Reason)

FOX LAWSUIT: Playboy model Karen McDougal sues Fox News for defamation over alleged Trump affair (NBC News)

National Security


SEEKING COMMITMENTS: Texas Democrats urge liar-Pelosi to press for border security as part of USMCA deal (National Review)

UPRISING: State Department Iran envoy calls protests “the worst political crisis the regime has faced in its 40 years” (National Review)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: We do not need to expand Social Security (National Review)

POLICY: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program changes promote work (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: Get 100 “Epstein” lights that don’t hang themselves for $19.99 (Genesius Times)  

~The Patriot Post
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McConnell threatens to pass ‘partisan’ 
impeachment rules if he can’t get 
scumbag-Schumer to be reasonable
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by thenationalsentinel.com ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seems to be expecting the very partisan Democrat-run House will formally return articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, so he’s already gearing up for a trial... The thing is, he obviously knows this is all a scam and that the Garbage Party has been plotting the president’s demise since the night he beat scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. As such, the Kentucky Republican doesn’t appear to be in any mood for more Democrat nonsense. He said on Tuesday that he’ll go to the GOP majority to settle on rules for a Senate trial if he can’t get any reasonable recommendations from Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer (D-N.Y.). “It would depend on what we could agree to,” McConnell said in reference to a bipartisan deal, according to The Hill. “That failing, I would probably come back to my own members and say, ‘OK, can 51 of us agree on how we’re going to handle this?’”’ And failing that, TownHall noted: Here’s where things get messy: the trial could last five to six weeks, depending on how much time the Senate gives House impeachment managers to make their case and the president’s defense team to provide a rebuttal. But if McConnell and scumbag-Schumer cannot come to a deal and the Majority Leader cannot find 51 Republicans in the conference to agree on a set of rules, a series votes on individual motions – from floor time to summoning witnesses – would take place. “My assumption is once you heard the arguments on both sides, motions would be made. My suspicion is the chief justice would not want to rule on those,” McConnell said, referencing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who would sit as the Judiciary head of any impeachment trial. “He would submit them to the Senate, and 51 of us would decide on a case-by-case basis how to go forward.” McConnell appears to be acutely aware of the hyper-partisan nature of this impeachment sham and thus figures that Democrats aren’t going to be reasonable because why would they — they haven’t been thus far. By comparison, when scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton was impeached in the late 1990s, the Senate voted quickly 100-0 on a bipartisan set of rules. My, how times have changed.   https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/12/04/mcconnell-threatens-to-pass-partisan-impeachment-rules-if-he-cant-get-an-agreement-with-schumer/   
Jonathan Turley Getting Death Threats 
After Testifying At Impeachment Hearing 
And Smashing Libs
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by Dean James
{ rightwingtribune.com } ~ If the Left-wing lunatics who populate the country’s top institutions of higher learning have anything down pat, it’s being triggered by anything politically favorable to President Donald Trump... Though all four law school professors bought in to perpetuate the Garbage Party’s impeachment sham against the president were Marxist-Leftists, only one of them — Prof. Jonathan Turley of George Washington University — played it straight. He told the House Judiciary Committee two things in no uncertain terms: President Trump has not committed any impeachable offenses; and anger at losing an election does not meet the constitutional requirement of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Oh, and he specifically said that he’s not a supporter of the president and did not vote for him. But none of that latter stuff registered with the Triggered GWU Left: On Thursday, less than 24 hours after his testimony, Turley said he has been “inundated” with calls for his ouster and death threats. Yes, threats of death — which is why we continue to shake our heads in disbelief when Democrats and their sycophantic supporters claim Trump is the Nazi authoritarian. At least the president doesn’t threaten to kill anyone or call for them to be fired if they disagree with him. “I’ll say it one more time. If you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. It’s your abuse of power. You’re doing exactly what you’re criticizing the president of doing,” the professor said. Makes perfect sense to us, but you can’t speak truth to power when it comes to dealing with the Left and their Democrat Party enablers...   https://rightwingtribune.com/2019/12/06/jonathan-turley-getting-death-threats/   
Trump's tax cuts reduce US burden 
to one of lowest in the world
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By Megan Henney 
{ foxbusiness.com } ~ President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts pushed the U.S. tax burden to one of the lowest in the world among major economies... according to a report released Thursday. In 2018, U.S. tax burdens plummeted as a result of the Republican-passed $1.5 trillion tax cuts, sending U.S. revenue lower than all but three countries in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the intergovernmental agency said in the report. Driven by the major tax reforms that Trump signed into law at the end of 2017 —  the law slashed the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent and temporarily reduced individual taxes — U.S. taxes at all levels of government fell to 24.3 percent of GDP last year, compared to 26.8 percent in 2017, 25.9 percent in 2016 and 23.5 percent in 2010. The 2.5 percentage point drop was the largest among all OECD countries, though 15 other countries experienced a decrease in taxes. Only Ireland, Chile and Mexico had a lower tax burden than the U.S., which was exactly 10 percentage points lower than the OECD average. A majority of countries recorded a tax burden of somewhere between 30 percent to 40 percent of their total GDP. Four countries — France, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden — had tax-to-GDP ratios above 43 percent, while four more, Finland, Austria, Italy and Luxembourg, saw their tax burden hovering above 40 percent. Taxes in France, which were the highest among OECD countries at 46.1 percent, and Denmark, at 44.9 percent, are nearly twice what they are in the U.S. Still, a previous OECD report found that the U.S. spends significantly less on public social programs than some European countries, including Finland, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Germany. Overall, tax revenues were little changed since 2017, the report found, ending a trend of annual increases in the tax-to-GDP ratio that began in the wake of the financial crisis. The report analyzed federal, state and local taxes, as well as contributions toward Social Security funds.  https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/trumps-tax-cuts-reduce-us-burden   
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Dem star witness' obsession 
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by wnd.com ~ In his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman declared under oath that he was an "impeachment skeptic"... until the July 25 call between President Trump and the Ukraine president at the center of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.  However, in a Vice magazine article in May 2017, noted Charlie Kirk in a tweet, Feldman said that Trump had committed impeachable acts. And the professor wrote a piece for Bloomberg  in March 2017 in which he claimed Trump risked impeachment over tweets he posted accusing President scumbag/liar-nObama of tapping his phones. On Wednesday, Feldman confirmed to the Democrats' counsel, Norm Eisen, that he had been "somewhat of an impeachment skeptic" at the time of the release of the special counsel report by Robert Mueller in April. "What's changed for you, sir?" the attorney asked. Feldman replied that it was the July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to "look into" possible corruption in Hunter Biden's receipt of more than $3 million from a Ukrainian gas firm while his father spearheaded Ukraine policy. In a Q&A in the 2017 Vice article, Feldman was asked if the president committed a crime in his White House conversation with then-FBI Director scumbag-Jim Comey. "What the president did is an outrage. It's impeachable, and obstruction of justice in the sense of being a 'high crime and misdemeanor,'" he said. During the hearing Wednesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., challenged Feldman's description of himself as an "impeachment skeptic" prior to the Ukraine phone call. Gaetz cited Feldman's contention that "wiretap tweets" by Trump were impeachable along with a "Mar-a-Lago" ad and the president's accusations of "fake news." The congressman also noted that Feldman wrote in an article in May titled "It's hard to take impeachment seriously now." In it, pointed out Gaetz, Feldman said that since the 2018 midterm election, House Democrats "have made it painfully clear that discussing impeachment is primarily or even exclusively a tool to weaken President Trump's chances in 2020." Feldman then reiterated to Gaetz: "Until this call on July 25th, I was an impeachment skeptic. The call changed my mind, sir. And for good reason."...   https://www.wnd.com/2019/12/dem-star-witness-obsession-impeachment-exposed/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking   
Pentagon mulls sending up to 7,000 additional 
forces to Middle East, officials say
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By Lucas Tomlinson 
{ foxnews.com } ~ The Pentagon is considering a plan to add up to 7,000 additional forces to the Middle East to counter what it sees as an increasing threat from Iran... two U.S. defense officials tell Fox News, but Defense Secretary Mark Esper has “not made any decision,” according to the Pentagon’s top policy adviser. “We're watching this situation where the Iranians both have conducted attacks in recent months, and we are concerned about the threat stream that we are seeing,” John Rood, the undersecretary of defense for policy, said during Senate Armed Services Committee testimony Thursday when asked about the Iranian threat. Rood replied, “yes,” when asked by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., if the Pentagon was considering deploying more forces to the Middle East, without being more specific. Rood added that the U.S. military constantly was considering options for moving troops around, not only to the Middle East, but to and from elsewhere in the world.The additional American forces being considered are not Army or Marine infantry units, but air and missile defense units, as well as additional warships, officials said. These forces would be similar to the types of reinforcements announced in May. One of a group of a Patriot anti-missile batteries was held in reserve at the time of the announcement last spring. The aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, delayed for months following an electrical problem this fall, finally went out to sea. It’s currently outside the Mediterranean and is expected to make its way eventually to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, who has been at sea in and around the Persian Gulf since May. Late last month, Lincoln entered the gulf for the first time in the past six months. Both nuclear-powered aircraft carriers Truman and Lincoln could steam together for a “show of force” to Iran a few days before Lincoln leaves for San Diego, Calif., as part of a long-scheduled port shift. Truman alone was bringing over 5,000 additional sailors and a full air wing of roughly 80 aircraft, including dozens of F/A-18 Super Hornet attack and fighter jets. Since May, the Pentagon has deployed over 14,000 additional forces — half aboard warships — to the Middle East to join over 60,000 American troops currently deployed in the region known inside the Pentagon as Central Command, an area stretching from Egypt through Afghanistan...   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-middle-east-additional-forces-considered   
Nunes Shreds scumbag/liar-Schiff 
Over Violation Of Civil Rights
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by wethepeopledaily.com ~ California Republican Devin Nunes spoke out against his Democratic counterpart, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, during an interview Wednesday night on “Tucker Carlson Tonight”... by calling what scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff has done a violation of his “civil rights.” Nunes laid into scumbag/liar-Schiff over his phone record subpoena of the GOP representative, adding that scumbag/liar-Schiff was setting a “dangerous precedent.” scumbag/liar-Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, released his committee’s impeachment inquiry report Tuesday, which revealed the acquisition of several personal phone records of conversations involving Nunes, investigative reporter John Solomon, and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. “He has subpoena power,” Nunes said to Fox News host Tucker Carlson when asked how it happened. “So when the Democrats gained control, they have subpoena power. We knew he had issued – he notified us that he had subpoenaed some phone numbers. We didn’t know who those numbers were. And, of course, because it’s … classified, we can’t talk about it.”  Tucker then asked, “subpoenaed from who?” Nunes then responded, “He subpoenaed from AT&T phone records.” “Why would AT&T give this up? Why wouldn’t AT&T say buzz off, take it to court?” Nunes answered, “That’s a very good question…AT&T should have at least went to court to see if what they were going to do was the right thing.” “Could they do that for my phone records and your phone records?” Tucker asked. “It appears like they could,” said Nunes. “If scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff now wants to go out and subpoena, they have now set a precedent where scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff can go and get any phone number he has, send it to AT&T and AT&T is going to comply.” Nunes told Carlson that he was unaware of “any previous time” where the House Intelligence Committee had subpoenaed phone numbers. “And because I had talked to Rudy Giuliani and somehow that’s now a crime, and then I make it into his report,” said Nunes. “We spent the last three years, if any Republican ever talked to any Russian at any time, even if you are Russian-American, that was a no-no. Then we were criticized. We switched to Ukraine. If you talk to any Ukrainian that’s now a crime. Now I can’t even talk to Rudy Giuliani, who I have known for 10 years. That’s supposedly a crime.” “And I’m in his report for supposedly doing something wrong. So this is — this is wrong. And what is happening, whatever is happening in this town is wrong and look, I’m going to look at whatever legal remedies I have. Because I actually have some civil rights here too.” “If they can do it to you, then what protection do we have?” asked Carlson. “They can do it to you,” Nunes said.
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Impeachment Inquisition: Prof. Turley Hammers Dems
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Thomas Gallatin:  The Democrats’ impeachment charade continued Wednesday in the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by New York Democrat scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, as four constitutional scholars opined over whether President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached. Three of the professors were called by the Democrats and, predictably, argued that Trump’s “crimes” are indeed impeachable. But the fourth actually got it right — this whole fiasco is insane.

House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi at least waited until Thursday morning to instruct the Judiciary Committee to proceed with drawing up articles of impeachment. President Trump “abused his power for his own personal political benefit,” she declared, which “strikes at the very heart of our Constitution.” To hear such melodrama from a Democrat is as amusing as it is pathetically hypocritical. But they have a Christmas deadline to keep.

So, back to the hearings. Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman claimed that the Founding Fathers “would identify President Trump’s conduct as exactly the kind of abuse of office, high crimes and misdemeanors that they were worried about. And they would want the House of Representatives to take appropriate action and to impeach.” Please. In any case, Feldman is hardly a source for unbiased analysis — he’s been calling for Trump’s impeachment for the past three years. A mere two months after Trump’s inauguration, Feldman was demanding his impeachment because he disliked one of Trump’s social-media messages. He also claimed Trump should be impeached over his use of the constitutional pardon power.

Leftist professor Pamela Karlan, who also has a history of repeatedly clamoring for Trump’s impeachment even prior to his taking office, demonstrated her profound anti-Trump bias by claiming that the president sees himself as a king as the setup for a lame and rehearsed joke about why he named his son Baron.

However, the one witness who turned the hearing on its head was the only one called by Republicans — George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley. A Clinton supporter and a Democrat, Turley reiterated that he’s not a Trump backer while he presented the most reasoned, non-biased opinion regarding this impeachment fiasco. He challenged the Democrats’ entire rationale for impeachment, noting that, unlike all prior impeachment proceedings in U.S. history, no case for an actual crime has been established.

“If the House proceeds solely on the Ukrainian allegations, this impeachment would stand out among modern impeachments as the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president,” Turley argued. He then observed, “We are all mad. Where has that taken us? Will a slipshod impeachment make us less mad or will it only give an invitation for the madness to follow in every future administration? That is why this is wrong.”

Turley also blasted Democrats for abusing their power, the very thing they’ve charged Trump with doing: “President Trump has gone … to the courts. He’s allowed to do that — we have three branches, not two. If you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. It’s your abuse of power. You are doing precisely what you’re criticizing the president for doing.”

In their desperation to remove Trump from office with this ridiculous impeachment gambit, Democrats are doing grievous damage to themselves and our governmental institutions. No wonder they have lost the attention and concern of the majority of Americans, as demonstrated by the fact that more Americans are doing online searches for a “controversial” commercial for an exercise bike than for impeachment testimony. Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed four more of Trump’s court nominees Wednesday, so at least something worthwhile was taking place on Capitol Hill.   ~The Patriot Post

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The 'Dark Money' Deluge for 2020
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Mark Alexander  
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Trump’s New FDA Nominee Advances in
the Senate—But Faces Tough
Questions About Vaping
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By Sy Mukherjee
{ fortune.com } ~ Dr. Stephen Hahn, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration  (FDA), passed a key test on Tuesday when a Senate committee advanced his nomination to the full chamber on an 18-5 vote... Hahn is a cancer doctor who serves as the chief medical executive at the renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. Currently, another oncologist, Dr. Ned Sharpless, the former director of the National Cancer Institute, serves as the agency's acting chief. Sharpless took over that interim role after the previous FDA director, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, unexpectedly exited back in March. The lopsided 18-5 vote by the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee likely means that Hahn will ultimately be confirmed by the entire Senate—a goal that HELP committee chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, said he hopes to achieve by the end of the year. But critics have pointed to the hot-button issue of vaping and e-cigarette regulation as a criticism against Hahn. One notable critic on the Senate committee who ultimately voted to advance Hahn's nomination is Republican Sen. rino-Mitt Romney of Utah. In November, rino-Romney had brought attention to the Trump administration's seeming retrenchment on stringent, anti-vaping rules for flavored e-cigarette products that could potentially target children. "While I hope the Administration will act without further delay on its prior proposal to ban flavors that appeal to kids, I will also continue to push for my legislation that bans flavors, ensures that vaping cartridges are tamper-proof, and bans e-cigarettes from schools," he wrote. While Hahn agreed that flavored e-cigarettes are "an important, urgent crisis in this country" and said he believed "we need to take aggressive action" to stop another generation of teenagers from becoming addicted to tobacco and nicotine, he dodged the issue of how the Trump administration had retrenched a bit on the flavored pods issue. “There are many issues that will come before the commissioner that are complex and engender honest disagreement,” Hahn said at the time. “When that occurs, I pledge to listen, study and assess all viewpoints.” rino-Romney repeated the criticisms on Tuesday, but voted for the FDA nominee regardless...   https://fortune.com/2019/12/03/stephen-hahn-fda-senate-vote/   
Speaker liar-Pelosi Instructs House Chairman 
to Assemble Articles of Impeachment
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ With the House calendar extended to December 20th it now appears the full House vote on articles of impeachment will take place within this year... Today, Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi announced her instructions to House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler to assemble the formal articles of impeachment to be brought to the House floor. Speaker liar-Pelosi did not provide many details; however, Democrats have said they are considering multiple articles of impeachment against Trump including abuse of power, obstruction of justice and obstruction of Congress. The House Judiciary Committee is expected to draw up articles of impeachment as soon as next week. This is the first time in History that articles of impeachment will be assembled without an official full house vote to initiate the impeachment process. This is also the first impeachment effort without the House attaining recognized  judicial enforcement authority. The vote will take place before the Supreme Court weighs-in on the legal framework for the House effort. The House judicial enforcement authority, not being recognized by the Supreme Court, likely had a strong bearing on the timing. The awakened American middle-class insurgency, led by Donald Trump, is an existential threat to the professional political class and every entity who lives in/around the professional political class. Their entire political apparatus is threatened by our insurgency. The political industry, all of corrupt governance, is threatened by our support through Donald Trump. You know why the entire apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why the corrupt Wall Street financial apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why every institutional department, every lobbyist, every K-Street dweller, every career legislative member, staffer, and the various downstream economic benefactors, including the corporate media, all of it – all the above, are united against Donald Trump. Donald Trump is an existential threat to the existence of a corrupt DC system we have exposed to his disinfecting sunlight. Donald Trump is the existential threat to every entity who benefits from that corrupt and vile system.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/05/speaker-pelosi-instructs-house-chairman-to-assemble-articles-of-impeachment/ 
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Liberal Law Professors at Hearing Fail 
to Make Case for Impeachment
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by Hans von Spakovsky
{ dailysignal.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler opened Wednesday’s impeachment hearing with testimony from three left-wing law professors who consider President Donald Trump to be evil incarnate... If scumbag liar-Nadler thought this display would somehow convince the public that the president’s actions merit impeachment, he is sure to be disappointed. The three professors simply failed to make the case. scumbag liar-Nadler’s witnesses were Noah Feldman of Harvard University, Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina, and Pamela Karlan of Stanford University. The sole Republican witness was Jonathan Turley of George Washington University. The key question was: What type of presidential misconduct justifies impeachment In drafting the Constitution, America’s Founders did not provide for impeachment as a partisan political weapon or as a response by Congress to a president who lawmakers dislike or whose policies they consider misguided. Rather, the Founders viewed impeachment solely as a remedy for misconduct so serious that it renders the president unfit to remain in office for another day. Otherwise, lawmakers could wait for the next election and let voters decide who should occupy the Oval Office. Karlan is a campaign contributor to Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, D-Mass., who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination to run against Trump. In addition, Karlan was a political appointee of President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department. I encountered Karlan several years ago when she published a law review article making patently false claims about the supposed lack of enforcement of the Voting Rights Act by the Bush administration. She started talking about impeaching Trump over his business ties in 2016—before he even took the oath of office...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/12/05/liberal-law-professors-at-hearing-fail-to-make-case-for-impeachment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=liberal-law-professors-at-hearing-fail-to-make-case-for-impeachment&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpnNFpHTXdaREEyTnpZNSIsInQiOiJLbU1sQjYxb0Z3blBxVkMrWTJVK3Z5TE92VzhvazVKRmlIMGFXdzB3cmsxTzJudTRZbXlYOTVRMWVPTzdGNHM2a2w0XC96dUtjWUdiQjZGSjNHR3phZ3p2TXpcL1V5NWlINmFFN3VZYXdYM0t2cUNSWm03Q0xCK0N1Y3RvYWJVOUxFIn0%3D
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Trey Gowdy just crushed Lisa Page for 
bashing Trump and trying to excuse 
her anti-Trump text messages
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by patriotpulse.net ~ Lisa Page, the FBI’s former top lawyer, is back in the spotlight. She’s using her recent public appearances to bash President Trump in order to excuse her anti-Trump text messages... with disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok. But Trey Gowdy wasn’t putting up with her spin and absolutely crushed her for bashing the President in this interview. Lisa Page and Peter Strzok were on the FBI team tasked with investigating not only the Trump campaign’s alleged “collusion” with Russia, but also the scumbag/liar-Clinton emails, and were on the Mueller taskforce. The two agents were humiliated when the Department of Justice exposed texts exchanged prior to the election about how they were going to “stop it,” referring to the Trump Presidency. They also called him “loathsome,” an idiot, and declared that he would be a national security disaster. Either these two agents were directly involved in sabotaging the President or a big ethical and legal line was crossed due to their blatant political bias. That’s why Trey Gowdy took Lisa Page to task for her political sabotage in this Fox News interview. And Gowdy went on to call out Lisa Page for plotting impeachment before scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff had even uttered the words! Former House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy on Monday dismissed former FBI lawyer Lisa Page’s argument that her text messages criticizing President Trump were taken out of context, saying no context is necessary to confirm her bias. “They were talking about impeachment before even scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff was talking about impeachment,” Gowdy said on Fox News, referring to the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which concluded its impeachment hearings last month. “When she says things need to be put in context, the word ‘loathsome’ really doesn’t need to be put in context,” the former South Carolina Republican congressman continued. “And when you say somebody will be a national security disaster, that doesn’t need to be put in context.” Regardless of what you think of President Trump, it is clear that Lisa Page and Peter Strzok should not have been on the team investigating the President.  This was a breach of ethical conduct and FBI protocol.   https://patriotpulse.net/trey-gowdy-just-crushed-lisa-page-for-bashing-trump-and-trying-to-excuse-her-anti-trump-text-messages/#gf_1260  
$105 Million American Tax Dollars 
Likely to End up in Hezbollah’s Hands
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by clarionproject.org ~ The Trump administration just released $105 million American tax dollars to the Lebanese army... Given the power the Iranian-proxy terror group Hezbollah has over the Lebanese government, Clarion Project Editor Meira Svirsky and Arab Affairs Analyst and Shillman Fellow Ran Meir discuss how likely it is that this money will end up in the hands of Hezbollah. This is not withstanding the fact that the aid could likely be used against America’s only ally in the region Israel, as this video shows the Lebanese army using American M-16’s and shouting “Allah Akbar! to try to shoot down Israel surveillance drones sent against Hezbollah.  https://clarionproject.org/american-tax-dollars-hezbollah-hands/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e41ab65b8e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_05_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-e41ab65b8e-6442509&mc_cid=e41ab65b8e&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5  
VOICE VIDEO:  https://soundcloud.com/clarion-project/will-millions-in-american-aid-money-for-the-lebanese-army-end-up-in-the-hands-of-hezbollah 
Attacks on worthless-Ilhan Omar: 
Which ‘Facts’ Do They Speak to?
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{ clarionproject.org } ~ It is not unusual these days for Americans who are still committed to letting facts speak for themselves to feel like they are living in a parallel universe... In their reality, past actions, comments and provable statistics matter. In the parallel universe, everything can be blamed on racism, misogyny and  Islamophobia. Take the case of Congresswoman worthless-Ilhan Omar. In a particularly disingenuous article, Emily Steward writing in Vox, says,“Want to know how awful racism can still be in America? Look no further than the vitriol directed at sworthless-Ilhan Omar … “While many progressives and proponents of diversity celebrated worthless-Omar’s victory, it has also brought to the surface a dark underbelly of American culture. A Muslim, a black woman, and a refugee, she faces Islamophobia, racism, misogyny, and anti-immigration strains in American culture, and putting that confluence of hate under the microscope is truly disturbing. Let’s for a minute put those claims under a microscope and imagine that someone, say, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali was elected to Congress. Would she have been subjected to the same? Ali, who is also a refugee from Somalia, is also black and a woman. However, unlike worthless-Omar, she is an outspoken critic of radical Islam and sharia governance, works tirelessly against female genital mutilation and is against  the anti-Semitic BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanction) movement against Israel. In contrast, worthless-Omar aligns herself and fundraises for Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamist organizations like CAIR whose goal is global sharia governance, described 9/11 as “some people did something, laughed at Americans who have a visceral reaction to the mention of al-Qaeda, subjected a fellow Muslim who asked her to use her position to speak out against FGM to a humiliating dressing down and called for the protection of a Somali company with clear and known terror connections. worthless-Omar also supports the anti-Semitic BDS movement and spews vile anti-Semitic tropes from the halls of Congress – a shocking display that has not been seen since 1924, when Congress passed the Johnson–Reed Act which effectively restricted immigration of Jews from war-torn Eastern Europe. As to worthless-Omar’s blatant outbursts of anti-Semitism, with a wink Steward underplays them as remarks that have “at times raised eyebrows … as critics say they sometimes have anti-Semitic airs” before dismissing them altogether since “she worthless-Omar has apologized.” worthless-Omar seems to have a powerful “Get Out of Jail Free Card” from the progressives considering how many times she has slurred Jews and then apologized for doing so...
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The 'Dark Money' Deluge for 2020
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Mark Alexander:  “Democratic donors have built a formidable dark money network to obscure the source of more than $600 million funneled to liberal groups and initiatives last year, tax forms show,” The Washington Free Beacon reports. “The establishment of the complex network of nonprofits marks the Democrats’ adoption of a once-derided Republican strategy: building a massive funding network that provides donors anonymity.”

It’s not just that Democrats are adopting a Republican strategy; it’s that they have mastered it. Democrats created the current campaign-finance system that limits contributions directly to political candidates, thus favoring their special-interest groups who raise millions for their political objectives. They may claim to hate the influence of political action committees and the like, but they created the “monster.” After all, money is like water — it will find all the cracks.

Democrats pontificate about “getting money out of politics,” as if that will make their cause pure as the wind-driven snow. But money also is effectively political speech itself. The First Amendment was crafted to protect political speech from congressional interference. Thus, we believe some campaign-finance restrictions run afoul of the First Amendment — particularly those that flood the political landscape with an endless flow of “anonymous” cash.

However, we believe that political donations should not allow a small group of wealthy leftists, such as scumbag-George SorosTom SteyerMichael Bloomberg, and Jeff Bezos, to dictate politics and policy for the whole nation. That is why there are and should be limits on contributions to individual candidates — that evens the playing field so that more voices can be heard, much as the Electoral College does not allow a few large states to dictate policy for the nation. But Democrats don’t want a level playing field, not in electoral donations or the Electoral College.

Of course, Democrats head to the fainting couch whenever the name of a wealthy Republican donor is mentioned, but they have no problem accepting hundreds of millions of dollars each year from leftist billionaires. Of such hypocrisy I have observed, “If not for double standards, Democrat politicians would have no standards.”

On a final note, in an age when leftists sic the wrath of the mob on conservatives who fund what is good and right, it’s understandable why some would desire anonymity. (See Chic-fil-A.) And the word “dark” implies something sinister — when the purpose of this leftist graft is to foist socialism on the American people, it doesn’t get any more sinister.  

~The Patriot Post

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Progressive, Feminist Culture Is Toxic, 
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Louis DeBroux
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Democrats Argue that scumbag/liar-nObama 
Should Have Been Impeached
By Tom Trinko
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Democrats are saying that Trump should be impeached because he solicited foreign interference in the 2020 election. That's essentially the core complaint in the hyper-partisan impeachment report coming out of scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff's witch hunt... By that criterion, scumbag/liar-nObama should have been impeached, because he specifically promised Putin that he, scumbag/liar-nObama, would go easy on Putin if Putin helped scumbag/liar-nObama get re-elected. While the fake news media have done all they can to make sure you never heard of scumbag/liar-nObama's quid pro quo with Putin, we know that it happened because of what scumbag/liar-nObama was heard to say to outgoing Russian president Medvedev, with the intent that Medvedev pass that on to incoming Russian president Putin, in 2012, when he thought the microphones were off. "On all these issues, particularly on missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him Putin to give me space," scumbag/liar-nObama said.  "This is my last election.  After my election, I have more flexibility.”" What scumbag/liar-nObama was doing is clear. He was offering to be more "flexible" in doing what Putin wanted if Putin agreed to leave scumbag/liar-nObama and the U.S. alone until after the election was over. This is precisely what the Democrats are accusing Trump of having done: offering a bribe to a foreign leader to induce that leader to help scumbag/liar-nObama get re-elected. The "space" that Putin gave scumbag/liar-nObama played a major role in the 2012 election. A big point in the 2012 election was when scumbag/liar-nObama mocked rino-Mitt Romney for rino-Romney's concern about Russia.  scumbag/liar-nObama said: Gov. rino-Romney, I'm glad you recognize al-Qaeda is a threat, because a few months ago, when you were asked what is the biggest geopolitical group facing America, you said Russia, not al-Qaeda. You said Russia. And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.  Because the Cold War has been over for 20 years. If Putin hadn't been giving scumbag/liar-nObama "space" in return for scumbag/liar-nObama's promise to be good to Putin, rino-Romney would have been able to eviscerate scumbag/liar-nObama for saying something so wrong. But precisely because scumbag/liar-Obama had reached out to Putin and bribed him with the promise of U.S. policy being what Putin wanted it to be, rino-Romney was left unable to show what everyone now, even Democrats, agrees is the case: Putin is a threat to the U.S. After being re-elected scumbag/liar-nObama held up his end of the bargain by canceling the last phase of a European missile defense system that Russia "fiercely" opposed, according to...wait for it...the New York Times! scumbag/liar-nObama tells Putin — via Medvedev — in early 2012 that if Putin gives scumbag/liar-nObama "space," thereby helping scumbag/liar-nObama get re-elected, he, scumbag/liar-nObama, will have more flexibility on missile defense, and then, voilà: once scumbag/liar-nObama is safely re-elected, he cancels the missile defense program that Putin wanted canceled. Doesn't get much clearer than that. scumbag/liar-nObama colluded with Putin to win the 2012 election...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/democrats_argue_that_obama_should_have_been_impeached.html   
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 Mic Drop: Fired-Up Matt Gaetz 
Demolishes Anti-Trump Witnesses
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By Ben Marquis 

{ westernjournal.com } ~ The House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry resumed Wednesday with a public hearing in the Judiciary Committee featuring four purported law professor “experts” on impeachment and the Constitution... Three of those witnesses were quite obviously and overtly biased against President Donald Trump and in favor of impeachment, and one of them — Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan — even took an underhanded and unwarranted shot at the president during her testimony by referencing the name of his youngest son, Barron. Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz would have none of it. Gaetz ferociously called her out for “bullying” the young son of the president while noting that none of the witnesses had firsthand knowledge of an impeachable offense committed by President Trump. The snide remark from Karlan about Barron Trump came while she was answering questions from Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. The professor argued President Trump viewed himself as being akin to an all-powerful monarch, as evidenced by his son’s name — a lame joke that prompted chuckles from Jackson Lee and some in the audience. “I’ll just give you one example that shows the difference between him and a king, which is, the Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility,” Karlan said of Trump. “So while the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron.” Later, when Gaetz had the opportunity to ask questions, he took Karlan to task for that unnecessary reference to the president’s son as a means to attack the president. Referencing prior statements from Karlan that were disparaging of conservatives, and noting how such things from law professors in “ivory towers” like her strained their credibility with the American people, Gaetz was interrupted by Karlan as she attempted to launch another attack on the president, but he wasn’t going to allow that to happen. “Excuse me, you don’t get to interrupt me on this time,” Gaetz said. “Now let me also suggest that when you invoke the president’s son’s name here, when you try to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument.” “It makes you look mean. It makes it look like you’re attacking someone’s family, the minor child of the president of the United States,” he continued. Then Gaetz displayed just how meaningless the testimony of the “witnesses” truly was, and said, “If you have personal knowledge of a single material fact in the scumbag/liar-Schiff report, please raise your hand.” When not a single hand was raised, the congressman called for the official record to reflect as much. Rep. Gaetz was absolutely right to call out Karlan for her bully-like attack on the president’s son, using him as a vehicle to smear Trump...  https://www.westernjournal.com/mic-drop-fired-matt-gaetz-demolishes-anti-trump-witnesses/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativebyte&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance  

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Citizen Revolt: Resist Refugee 
Resettlement Dumps
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by Michelle Malkin
{ townhall.com } ~ Should U.S. citizens have input into whether their neighborhoods are fundamentally and permanently transformed into United Nations refugee camps full of welfare dependents and tax burdens?... Government-funded charities that profit mightily from the federal refugee resettlement program say: "Hell, no!" But President Donald Trump and growing numbers of informed Americans across the heartland are raising their voices to say: "Heavens, yes!" This week, an extraordinary revolt took place in Bismarck, North Dakota, where an overflow crowd of residents braved subzero temperatures to register their opposition to allowing the Lutheran Social Services to dump any new refugees in their backyard. Thanks to an executive order signed by Trump in September, local communities now have explicit opt-in rights to stem the lucrative tide of refugees coming largely from Third World countries and jihadist breeding grounds. Open borders legal groups are, of course, challenging the order in court. These zealots object to states and localities exercising self-determination when it comes to rejecting refugees because it would undermine "national immigration policy," yet they promote illegal immigrant sanctuary policies in states and localities that create uncontrollable criminal anarchy. While GOP Gov. Doug Burgum signaled his support for increased importation of refugees, Brian Bitner, chairman of the Burleigh County Commission, echoed the concerns of his constituents. "North Dakota is already the highest per capita state for refugee resettlement in terms of number of citizens, so in the absence of any sort of number, there's no way we could know the cost to the state or the county, and I simply can't support that," Bitner told local media at the Bismarck protest. Similar outbreaks of resistance have taken place in Maine, New Hampshire, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Vermont, Wyoming and Tennessee over the years. But many Americans remain alarmingly clueless about the four-decade-old, tax-funded racket lining the pockets of nine privileged, nonprofit contractors and scores of their subcontracting partners like Bismarck's LSS:--Church World Service--Ethiopian Community Development Council--Episcopal Migration Ministries--Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society--International Rescue Committee --U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants--Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services--United States Conference of Catholic Bishops--World Relief Corporation. As I report in "Open Borders Inc.," the U.S. State Department pays each agency $2,125 per refugee for initial reception and placement; the nonprofits can take up to a 45% cut and use the rest for the initial resettlement costs. Subsidies for management costs are negotiated separately. Unknown thousands more per head are collected for post-placement services...
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Will The FISA Report Address Whether 
Christopher Steele Lied To The FBI, 
As GOP Senators Said?
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by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Two Republican senators leveled a bombshell allegation nearly two years ago that Trump dossier author Christopher Steele may have lied to the FBI... about his contacts with journalists before the 2016 presidential election. Whether Steele indeed lied to the bureau is one of the many unresolved questions looming over the Russia probe. But it could be settled Monday, when the Justice Department’s inspector general releases a much-anticipated report that will dive into the FBI’s relationship with Steele. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina referred Steele on Jan. 4, 2018 to the Justice Department for investigation into whether he falsely denied sharing details of his Trump investigation with journalists. The Republicans pointed to the FBI’s Oct. 21, 2016 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application against former Trump aide Carter Page, which said Steele said he only shared his Trump-related information with the bureau and his client, Fusion GPS. “Source #1 provided the results of his research to the business associate, and the FBI assesses that the business associate likely provided this information to the law firm that hired the business associate in the first place,” reads the FISA application footnote.  “Source #1,” or Christopher Steele, “told the FBI that he/she only provided this information to the business associate and the FBI,” it said. The claim is false, asserted Grassley and Graham. They pointed to a May 17, 2017 court filing Steele submitted in the United Kingdom in which he said he had contacts with multiple journalists in September 2016. It is not clear how many times Steele met with FBI agents in 2016 or when he would have told the FBI he did not have contact with the press...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/04/christopher-steele-fbi-journalists/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11175  
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The Real Purpose of the 
scumbag liar-Nadler Impeachment Hearing
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by DAVID CATRON
{ spectator.org } ~ Anyone holding out hope that Wednesday’s impeachment hearing by the House Judiciary Committee would consist of thoughtful testimony from impartial constitutional scholars was destined to be disappointed... Four witnesses appeared, three of whom were chosen by Democratic Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, who restricted the Republican committee members to a single voice of reason crying in the congressional wilderness. All of scumbag liar-Nadler’s choices were vehemently pro-impeachment, including two longtime Democratic donors who contributed to the presidential campaign of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and a regular columnist for a “news service” owned by Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. Even the solitary Republican witness freely admitted he had voted for scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. That was Jonathan Turley, of the George Washington University Law School. Turley’s presentation, his personal political leanings notwithstanding, counseled against impeachment. His fellow law professors, Harvard’s Noah Feldman, Stanford’s Pamela Karlan, and the University of North Carolina’s Michael Gerhardt, all but shouted that the president must be removed. Never mind that the crimes of which Trump is accused in the impeachment inquiry report  released by scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s Intelligence Committee remain unproven and that he has been denied due process. These academics insist he must go. Indeed, in the regular column he writes for  Bloomberg, Professor Feldman warned the Democrats not to get bogged down in pesky legal arguments in their attempt to oust the president: House Democrats will shift this week from closed-door evidence-gathering to public impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump. The single most dangerous pitfall they face is allowing too much legal talk to obfuscate the fundamental wrongness of Trump’s conduct… Tactically, Democrats need to avoid legalism in impeachment because too much discussion of legal rules will give Trump’s defenders the chance to change the whole sordid Ukraine affair into a lawyerly argument about whether the inherent authority of the presidency allows a president to do whatever he wants in dealing with foreign countries. The president, as Feldman knows, is the sole organ of the nation with regard to foreign relations. He can’t “do anything he wants,” but nothing Trump said in his July phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky has been shown to exceed his legitimate powers. But the point of Feldman’s “tactical” advice has nothing to do with what the president did. It is about creating the false illusion of a fair process. It appears that Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler and the other Democrats on the Judiciary Committee staged Wednesday’s hearing for that purpose. Yet all three Democratic witnesses, without having read the scumbag/liar-Schiff report that outlines his alleged crimes, say Trump must be impeached. Professor Karlan, who has consistently donated money to Democrats including scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, put it thus: I believe the evidentiary record shows … a president who delayed meeting a foreign leader and providing assistance that Congress and his own advisors agreed served our national interest in promoting democracy and limiting Russian aggression. And it shows a president who did this to strong arm a foreign leader into smearing one of the president’s opponents in our ongoing election season. That is not politics as usual — at least not in the United States or any other mature democracy. It is, instead, a cardinal reason why the Constitution contains an impeachment power. Put simply, a candidate for president should resist foreign interference in our elections, not demand it...   https://spectator.org/the-real-purpose-of-the-nadler-impeachment-hearing/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=086898873c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_05_03_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-086898873c-104608113   
Senate Confirms Pro-Life Trump 
Nominee Sarah Pitlyk as Federal Judge
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by MICAIAH BILGER
{ lifenews.com } ~ Pro-life leaders celebrated Wednesday when the U.S. Senate confirmed conservative Sarah Pitlyk to a federal court position. Nominated by President Donald Trump in August, Pitlyk will replace U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry in the Eastern District of Missouri... The U.S. Senate voted 49-44 to confirm her Wednesday afternoon. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was the only Republican to oppose her nomination, and no Senate Democrats broke ranks to support her. Pitlyk is a strong human rights advocate and defender of religious freedom. Her work at the Thomas More Society, a leading pro-life legal group, prompted strong opposition from abortion advocacy groups and pro-abortion Democrats. “We congratulate Sarah Pitlyk on her well-deserved confirmation and are confident she will serve with distinction on the federal bench,” said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “With her world-class education, extensive legal expertise, and commitment to fairness and integrity, we are pleased to see Ms. Pitlyk prevail over partisan obstruction.” Dannenfelser thanked President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the pro-life senators who voted to confirm her. Andrew Bath, Thomas More Society executive vice president and general counsel, praised Pitlyk as a strong Constitutional conservative with a towering intellect. He said she will be a fair and wise judge. “She’s done terrific legal work over the years on some of the Thomas More Society’s biggest cases, and that, together with her service as a law clerk for now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has prepared her well for her time on the bench,” Bath said...  https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/04/senate-confirms-pro-life-trump-nominee-sarah-pitlyk-as-federal-judge/  
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Progressive, Feminist Culture Is Toxic, 
Not Masculinity
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Louis DeBroux:  The “progressive” Left is waging a very dangerous war on the very foundation of civil society, seeking not only “equality” for women, but the destruction or feminization of men, which accomplishes the same thing. The war is waged against the foundational elements of society, such as marriage, gender roles, and even the concept of gender (or, more correctly, “sex”) itself.
 

And boys and men are taking the brunt of the attacks.

The American Psychological Association, once a respected scientific organization, has exchanged the pursuit of knowledge for the promotion of leftist ideological propaganda. Earlier this year, it released new guidelines for psychologists on how to work with men and boys. The new guidelines treat masculinity as a disease, declaring that “traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful.”

The goal of mental-health treatment for men, according to the APA, is to teach men and boys that what makes them who they are is, by definition, bad and harmful, and in need of eradication.

Is it any wonder men are nearly four times more likely to commit suicide than women?

Men are also being bombarded with harmful and contradictory messages. Our education system pushes to have boys diagnosed as ADD/ADHD and drugged simply because they are more rambunctious and active, which is their nature. They are bombarded with pornography and sexualized images in media at every turn, corrupting the natural goodness of the sex drive, but then mocked when they adhere to a code of morality and chastity. (See: Pence, Mike.)

Leftists shame any male who exhibits typical masculine behavior, now dubbed “toxic masculinity.” They shame boys into abandoning their masculine nature and adopting feminine traits. When gender confusion occurs, boys are told they are girls trapped in boys’ bodies, needing surgical genital mutilation and hormone treatments to suppress puberty and the development of masculine traits.

This, combined with Democrat programs and policies that erode the importance of men — and especially fathers — in society, has created a witch’s brew of social ills.

The Left treats aggression as a disease to be cured, but aggression is a trait, not a behavior. If aggression is channeled into bullying as a child and domestic abuse as an adult, then that aggression has become anti-social and criminal. But if that aggression is channeled into protecting and defending the weak, then it should be applauded and encouraged.

But when you declare that men are “monsters to be constantly feared” (tweeted by a NYT writer), you are teaching women that the other half of the human race are, by their very nature, inhuman, evil creatures. And what does this do to boys? It creates men who are either feminized, weak, and self-loathing, or men who are angry and resentful at being declared evil from birth.

This view of men as monsters also makes it nearly impossible for women to see men in a loving, healthy light, and that has a direct impact on society as a whole. What woman in her right mind would make a lifetime commitment to a monster?

And deprived of any identity as a husband, father, protector, and provider, young men now increasingly shun marriage in favor of cohabitation. Despite claims that this makes no difference, cohabitation is a recipe for failed marriages and misery.

Is it any wonder so many of the mass shooters of the last decade or more are socially awkward, outcast, angry young men without fathers in their lives? We’ve known for decades that the lack of a father in the home is the single greatest predictor of criminal activity, yet we continue to denigrate, disparage, and dismiss manhood and fatherhood (try to think of a prime-time TV show where the husband/father is not portrayed as an adulterous lech or a hapless dimwit).

For thousands of years, across virtually every society and civilization, men have taken boys through rites of passage into manhood, teaching them how to be men, how to be husbands and fathers, providers, protectors, and defenders. Without a father, without this training and these rites of passage, boys are left aimless and angry, and their masculine traits, rather than being channeled into good and productive activities and behaviors, instead lead to crime, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and suicide.

Speaking of masculine rituals, writer and academic Belinda Brown [noted(https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/women-can-make-children-but-only-men-can-make-men/), “Through this process, young men are inserted into a social order which transcends the particularistic concerns of their individual families. They are subordinated to the rules of their elders while their elders are the servants of a divinity which is representative of, and greater than, the whole. And yes, this is a patriarchy. But it is not a patriarchy which subordinates women. Rather, it is a patriarchy which tames and subordinates men].”

Or, as cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead noted, “Women make children, but only men can make men.”

The War on Men has resulted in declining birth and marriage rates, shorter life expectancies, and broken families.

If we want to achieve respect and equality for women, strong families, and a stable society, the solution is to raise strong, healthy men, rather than teaching men that they are defective women.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67138?mailing_id=4703&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4703&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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'scumbag/liar-Schiff Show' Roundup:
 Democrat Fiction
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Nate Jackson
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Pamela Karlan’s Long,
Biased Record of Anti-Trump Prejudices
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by DOV FISCHER
{ spectator.org } ~ On December 27, 2013, it was reported that Pamela Karlan would join the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. She initially had been a leading scumbag/liar-nObama preference for the Supreme Court... but her name was not submitted because it was determined that she never would pass Senate confirmation owing to her extreme leftist leanings. Karlan is so left-wing that scumbag/liar-nObama instead selected Sonia Sotomayor as a less extreme nominee. 2. After representing Edith (Edie) Windsor in attacking the scumbag/liar-Clinton administration’s Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Pamela Karlan boasted that she gave Edie “a mug with pictures from the argument.… It’s got a photo of the White House lit up in the rainbow colors on the second anniversary of the decision in United States v. Windsor, when the Supreme Court issued its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges making marriage equality the law of the land.” 3. Speaking at the 2014 LGBT Pride Month Celebration, Pamela Karlan said, “Sometimes, as I work here at the scumbag/liar-nObama Civil Rights Division for the equality of LGBT people, but also for the rights of people of color, of Muslims, of First Americans and of immigrants, I actually think we’re pretty lucky.… If only people who are unconnected with other civil rights struggles could one day wake up to discover that their children are black, their relatives are undocumented, or their friends are poor, just as they wake to find that those folks often are gay, what a different world this might be.” 4. On January 3, 2013, George Will — the ultimate NeverTrumper — published a blistering attack on Pamela Karlan: Today’s American public does not share Karlan’s nostalgia for the Warren court, which she says was “optimistic about the possibility of politics.” Karlan subscribes to the progressive axiom that the cure for the ills of democracy is democracy, meaning elections. She sees little need for courts to protect against what the Founders feared — liberty-threatening excesses of majorities. With a true progressive’s impatience with the crux of the Constitution, the separation of powers, Karlan wants the court to consider Congress “a full partner in seeking to address the nation’s pressing problems.” But often our institutions preserve liberty by being rivals rather than collaborators. She abhors the conservative justices’ “combination of institutional distrust — the court is better at determining constitutional meaning — and substantive distrust — congressional power must be held in check.” Clearly she thinks Congress would be “better” at judging the limits of its own power. This fits her assumption that restraints on its power are presumptively anti-democratic. She concludes, “For if the justices disdain us, how ought we to respond?” Her pronoun radiates democratic sentimentality — “us” conflates the citizenry and Congress. Today, just 18 percent of the citizenry approves of Congress’ performance. What becomes of Karlan’s argument when the conservative justices’ distrust of Congress, for which she disdains them as anti-democratic, is exceeded by the public’s distrust of Congress?...
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Relics of New England on the Nadler Committee
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by BEN STEIN
{ spectator.org } ~ To begin at the beginning, my alter ego and braino super pal Judah M. Friedman and I are riding around glorious Los Angeles in the rain. In our woolly Jewish heads, we’re trying to digest some things... Two heads are sometimes better than one, and this just might be such a time. The MSM keeps answering GOP criticism of the scumbag liar-Nadler Committee hearings by saying, “They’re just investigative hearings. They’re just elected representatives seeking the truth and whether or not that truth contains an impeachable offense. It’s an election year and legitimate candidates are running for high office. Why shouldn’t Mr. scumbag liar-Nadler and his goons go on the attack, especially if it helps a distinguished POTUS candidate like the estimable loose lips liar-Joe Biden?” Well, here from our highly partisan but still secretly independent brains come a few thoughts about why it’s not so darned right. For one thing, is loose lips liar-Joe Biden really a legitimate candidate? I mean, we mean, he’s obviously a nice guy. He’s from one of my favorite states, Delaware. But there’s some wiring missing. He nibbles on his wife’s finger while waiting to speak. He confuses New Hampshire and Vermont relative to where he’s speaking in the next few minutes. He had a hard time knowing what to say, for example telling a lengthy anecdote about how, where he lived as a youth and when he lived there, young boys and girls would swim up to his lifeguard tower and rub themselves against his legs and stroke his leg hair. I cannot imagine if Mr. Trump recalled such incidents about his youth, how long it would take the MeToo-ers to go after him with a pitchfork and a vat of boiling tar. But when a Democrat “progressive” or whatever he is goes into such stories, it’s all “boys will be boys” and “give the guy a break.” So what’s wrong with that? The better question is, according to my colleague, Judah, “What’s not wrong with that?” Why isn’t he being investigated and tormented the way Judge Kavanaugh was? Politics works in mysterious ways. Or take the hearings today, Wednesday, December 4, 2019. The witnesses were four major hitter legal scholars from top-drawer law schools. But even though liar-Nancy Pelosi had promised that the hearings would be nonpartisan, three of the four witnesses were and are Democrats. The fourth was supposedly independent but said he had voted Democrat for president since he was a lad. He was, by the way, a fine witness. Name is Turley. The other three were eating up Trump’s escargots for lunch and dinner. When Professor Turley made the absolutely unexceptionable point that Mr. scumvag liar-Nadler was rushing things, he was blasted to atoms by the MSM. So much for thoughtful scholarship. What’s right with this portrait of the legal system and the courts? Not a thing. It’s all a partisan witch hunt, and we’ve seen way too many of those since November 2016. We’ll be keeping track, and we’ll get back to you with more of these relics of New England in another era.
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5 Assumptions That Lead To Garbage
Conclusions In scumbag/liar-Schiff’s
Impeachment Report 
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By Adam Mill
{ thefederalist.com } ~ House intelligence committee chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff has released a 300-page Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry report. It’s what you would expect of a rushed report after two weeks of hearsay and opinion testimony... full of unsupported conclusions based upon faulty assumptions. Garbage assumptions lead to garbage conclusions. Below is a list of several key assumptions scumbag/liar-Schiff totally failed to support in the report. 1. If You Believe Ukraine Interfered in the 2016 Election, You Must Believe Russia Didn’t scumbag/liar-Schiff wrote, “The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations … into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election.” scumbag/liar-Schiff presented no evidence supporting the assumption that believing Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election requires one to believe Russia didn’t. scumbag/liar-Schiff attributed this finding to the intelligence community, writing, “The U.S. Intelligence Community had unanimously determined that Russia, not Ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election to help the candidacy of Donald Trump.” When did the intelligence community unanimously conclude that Ukraine didn’t interfere in the 2016 election? scumbag/liar-Schiff provides no evidence for that claim because it simply is not true. 2. Ukraine Election Interference Is a ‘Discredited’ Theory scumbag/liar-Schiff wrote, “Witnesses unanimously testified that President Trump’s claims about former Vice President loose lips liar-Biden and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election have been discredited.” Of course, these witnesses generally lacked firsthand knowledge or claimed to and couldn’t really confirm or refute the allegations. scumbag/liar-Schiff simply declared the Ukrainian interference theory to be “discredited” without addressing any specific evidence of that. Actually, several operations to support scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton in 2016 originated in Ukraine. According to New York Times reporting, a Ukraine court ruled that Ukrainian prosecutors illegally leaked “that a pro-Russian political party had earmarked payments for Mr. Manafort from an illegal slush fund. Mr. Manafort resigned from the campaign a week later.” Politico reported: Ukrainian government officials tried to help scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped scumbag/liar-Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found. A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia. 3. Trump Pursued an Investigation into a ‘Discredited’ Claim About the loose lips liar-Bidens ...4. Trump Wanted to Investigate Ukraine’s 2016 Election Interference to Help Him Win 2020 ...5. The Only Reason Trump Wanted to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens Was to Help Him Win Reelection — Which Is Impeachable...
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Israel, Czech Republic sign 
multi-million air defense radar deal
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By ANNA AHRONHEIM
{ jpost.com } ~ Israel and the Czech Republic have signed a security agreement to sell advanced aerial radar systems in a deal worth over NIS 400 million... The multi-million shekel deal worth some $125 million signed for the Czech Mobile Air Defense Radar (MADR), will see IAI/ELTA systems provide eight ELM-2084 multi-mission radar (MMR) systems with air surveillance, air defense, and artillery capabilities. The production of the systems will be a joint Israel-Czech project with 70% of the system made in Israel and the other 30% by from Czech industries which will apply to design, manufacturing, assembly, integration, testing and life-time maintenance of the systems. Certain security components will be manufactured locally, including advanced Gallium Nitride (GaN) radar modules, as well as auxiliary sub-systems such as trucks and camouflage nets. “The Israeli party will transfer state-of-the-art technology and know-how. The program also includes a substantial contribution from Czech industries, amounting to 30% of the contract value,” read a statement by Israel’s Defense Ministry. The radar system allows for the monitoring, tracking and interception of several airborne projectiles simultaneously at an altitude between 100 meters to 3,000 meters (330 to 10,000 feet) and cover a wide area of about 250 kilometers. “The MMR radar is based on state-of-the-art technologies and significantly improves the reliability of aerial image and situational awareness and is able to effectively address a wide range of targets,” said Yoav Turgeman, CEO of ELTA and vice president of IAI. The deal was signed at the Ministry of Defense in Prague on Thursday by Czech Defense Minister Lubomir Metnar, Deputy Minister of Defense Filip Říha and Head of SIBAT, Israel’s Ministry of Defense Export & Defense Cooperation Division Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yair Kulas. The ELM-2084 MMR system is an integral part of the IDF’s aerial defense systems including the David’s Sling and Iron Dome anti-missile defense systems. They will be adapted to operate in accordance with Czech and NATO command and control systems can be incorporated into the command and control systems belonging to the United States...
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Once Again, Ukraine President Denies 
Any Quid Pro Quo
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by patriotnewsdaily.com ~ As the Democrats continue their quest to impeach President Donald Trump on high crimes and misdemeanors, the supposed victim of said crimes is once more telling the press that…no crime was ever committed... In an interview with TIME magazine this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that whatever issues there were with U.S. military aid, they did not involve any pressure from President Trump to provide “something for something.” “Look,” he said, “I never talked to the President from the position of a quid pro quo. That’s not my thing. I don’t want us to look like beggars. But you have to understand. We’re at war. If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us. I think that’s just about fairness. It’s not about a quid pro quo. It just goes without saying.” Not long ago, Zelensky told German magazine Der Spiegel the same thing: “I did not speak with U.S. President Trump in those terms: You give me this, I give you that.” On Twitter, President Trump said that Zelensky’s statements should put the matter to bed. “Breaking News: The President of Ukraine has just again announced that President Trump has done nothing wrong with respect to Ukraine and our interactions or calls. If the Radical Left Democrats were sane, which they are not, it would be case over!” wrote Trump on Monday. This impeachment inquiry isn’t just an investigation in search of a crime, it’s an investigation in search of a victim! At least with the Mueller deal, you had the DNC claiming that Russia had hacked into their servers. You had scumbag/liar-Hillary whining about how Putin and the Trump campaign conspired to steal the election away from her. That allegation turned out not to be true, but at least there was a claim of victimhood. In this one, the very person who was supposed to have been victimized by President Trump’s unlawful behavior – he says it never happened! How silly can this thing get?! At this point, only the Democrats – who want Trump out of the way so that one of their losers can win in 2020 – and these Deep State officials – who want Trump out of the way so they can get back to their idiotic version of foreign policy – claim that any crime was committed here. Is that really enough to throw a president out of office? Let’s hope not, or our system is forever broken.
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Explosion strikes Iranian weapons depot in Syria 
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By TZVI JOFFRE
{ jpost.com } ~ Large explosions were reported at an Iranian base in Al-Bukamal in eastern Syria after unidentified aircraft targeted a weapons depot at the site... according to the Step news agency. A correspondent for Step reported that Iranian militias fired anti-aircraft fire at a reconnaissance aircraft that was spotted shortly before the attack. Shortly afterwards, unidentified aircraft attacked the weapons depot and large explosions were heard and fire could be seen from a distance. No information about the extent of the damage or any casualties has been reported. During a visit to Lisbon, Portugal on Wednesday in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Netanyahu pointed to Iranian activity in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza and Yemen, and said that Israel is “actively engaged in countering that aggression.” When asked about the recent explosions heard in a Syrian weapons facility, Netanyahu chose to evade the question by saying "I don't comment on these kinds of things." Sites controlled by Iran in the Al-Bukamal area have been targeted multiple times by airstrikes in recent months. A strategic border crossing between Iraq and Syria is located in the border town. In November, the IDF struck tens of targets in Damascus, west of Damascus and the Syrian Golan Heights, belonging both to the regime of Bashar Assad and the Quds Force, within minutes in response to rockets that were launched towards Israel. All the targets were located within 80 km. of Israel’s border. According to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), 23 people, including 16 non-Syrians, most likely Iranians, were killed in the Israeli airstrikes. A senior Israeli defense official acknowledged that there were wounded and a number of Iranian fatalities. Numerous others were wounded, including a young woman who was wounded by shrapnel that hit the suburb of Qudsaya, west of Damascus...
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'scumbag/liar-Schiff Show' Roundup:
 Democrat Fiction
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Nate Jackson:  House Intelligence Committee Democrats released their 300-page report on their impeachment inquisition so far. It’s riveting reading if you like works of fiction very loosely “based on a true story.” The far more accurate version is the Republican prebuttal.
 

“President Trump’s scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign,” argue Adam scumbag/liar-Schiff and other House Democrats in their report. Moreover, they aim to bolster their case on “obstruction” by saying, “It would be hard to imagine a stronger or more complete case of obstruction than that demonstrated by the President since the inquiry began.”

Democrats proceed to base their gripes in their longstanding narrative that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. They argue that his Ukraine endeavors were the same kind of corrupt conduct. “In making the decision to move forward, we were struck by the fact that the President’s misconduct was not an isolated occurrence, nor was it the product of a naïve president,” the preface to the report asserts. “Instead, the efforts to involve Ukraine in our 2020 presidential election were undertaken by a President who himself was elected in 2016 with the benefit of an unprecedented and sweeping campaign of election interference undertaken by Russia in his favor, and which the President welcomed and utilized.”

In conclusion, Democrats argue, “The president placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States, sought to undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process, and endangered U.S. national security.”

Baloney. Trump’s only “real” sin is having defeated scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. The fact that he’d like to win again in 2020 is utterly unconscionable to Democrats.

As for “bribery”? George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley is testifying today before the House Judiciary Committee, and he argues that the Democrats’ expansive definition of bribery is historically ignorant and mendacious.

In other news, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff obtained Rudy Giuliani’s phone records, which include conversations with Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, as well as journalist John Solomon and others. Clearly, Democrats hope to discredit Nunes with this revelation. Still, The Resurgent’s Erick Erickson puts it in perspective: “I don’t find it outrageous at all that the Democrats got these records. It suggests a level of competence and thoroughness I did not think they possessed. [But] it is remarkable the Democrats have not been able to advance the ball and are flailing about given what all they had.”

Maybe scumbag/liar-Schiff’s phone records would reveal that it wasn’t just his staff colluding with the whistleblower

And finally, speaking of Nunes, he filed a $435 million defamation lawsuit against CNN Tuesday over its “demonstrably false hit piece” alleging that the congressman had traveled to Vienna in 2018, where he supposedly met former Ukrainian chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin in a bid to dig up dirt on loose lips liar-Joe Biden. None of that is true. “CNN is the mother of fake news,” says the lawsuit. “It must be held accountable.”  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67139?mailing_id=4703&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4703&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Thursday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


NEXT STAGE: House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi asks scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler to proceed with drafting articles of impeachment (National Review)

GETTING ACTUAL BUSINESS DONE: The Senate confirmed four federal judges while the House heard impeachment testimony (The Daily Caller)

Impeachment Inquisition


THREE OUT OF FOUR, ANYWAY: Professors make impeachment case (Associated Press)

THE FOURTH PROF? “The current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but … dangerous” (CNSNews.com)

AWKWARD: scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler dozes off during impeachment hearing (PJ Media)

Government & Politics


ADIOS: Trump cancels NATO press conference, heads back to DC after being mocked by Justin Trudeau (The Daily Wire)

HARD PILL TO SWALLOW: liar-Pelosi drug-pricing plan could keep 100 new medicines from reaching patients (The Washington Free Beacon)

THE CATALYST? A BUTTERFLY SANCTUARY: Judge temporarily halts construction of a private border wall in Texas (The Hill)

Other Notables


RUSSIANS CHARGED: Two Russian hackers charged in sweeping malware attack on U.S. (NBC News)

KEY WITNESS AN “IMPOSTER”? George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin’s family for $100 million in damages (NBC News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Principled inaction in the face of climate-change extremism (Human Events)

POLICY: The surprising role of high-income families in student debt trends (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: House hears testimony from renowned, unbiased legal scholar Hillga Clintonheimer (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/67178?mailing_id=4709&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4709&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Devin Nunes Discusses Impeachment and 
scumbag/liar-Schiff’s New Found Authority – Congressional Subpoenas for 
Private Phone Records
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Devin Nunes appeared on Tucker Carlson to discuss the impeachment events of the day. However, thankfully they also discussed the revelation that HPSCI Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff randomly started issuing subpoenas for telephone information... That’s the part I find very troubling. Notice how the media simply ignores it? This is a pretty big damn deal.  Under what authority can congress arbitrarily send subpoenas for the private phone records of citizens, journalists, and fellow politicians? Can Nunes now start sending subpoenas for the phone records of Michael Isikoff around the time of the Flynn phone call leak?… and can congress publish those call records as a part of some possibly inquiry into the leak… and we can cross reference to identify the FBI leaker?   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/04/devin-nunes-discusses-impeachment-and-schiffs-new-found-authority-congressional-subpoenas-for-private-phone-records/
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Is The Washington Post, New York Times 
and CNN Now Declaring Professor Mifsud 
is *NOT* A Russian Asset?
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The CIA primarily leaks PR spin to the Washington Post. The FBI primarily leaks PR spin to the New York Times; and the State Dept. primarily leaks PR spin to CNN... This narrative distribution model is the one constant in an ever changing universe. Cue the audio visual… Obviously the prior Washington Post effort to conflate the Durham investigation with the Horowitz investigation didn’t get the desired result. As a consequence it only took a few days before the Washington Post was back at it Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett again to try obfuscation 2.0; this time with Joseph Mifsud. For three years the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN have sold the FBI claim that Professor Joseph Mifsud was a Russian operative passing information about scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails to George Papadopoulos. That essential point underpins their defense of the predicate for the CIA and FBI to open the July 31st investigation of the Trump campaign. Again, for three years Joseph Mifsud was sold as a Russian operative; working on behalf of Russian interests. That “Mifsud is a Russian asset” claim is the fulcrum of Crossfire Hurricane. Mifsud has to be a Russian asset, or else… George Papadopoulos talking to Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer about Mifsud is simply political gossip without merit, value or bearing. The key point is Mifsud has to be a Russian operative in order for all of the downstream FBI activity to be justified. If Mifsud ain’t Russian, the CIA and FBI have a problem...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/04/is-the-washington-post-new-york-times-and-cnn-now-declaring-professor-mifsud-is-not-a-russian-asset/ 
Secretary Sonny Perdue Discusses Return
 to Prior Guidelines for SNAP Assistance
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The U.S. government limits the amount of time adults aged 18-49, who do not have dependents or a disability, can receive food stamps to three months in a 36-month period unless they meet certain work requirements... However, during tough economic times the Dept. of Agriculture has provided waivers to extend the limits. With a strong economy and low unemployment the Trump administration has now finalized a rule tightening guidelines on when and where states can waive federal limits on how long certain residents can receive benefits. The changes will move more “able-bodied” adults into the workplace, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue explains: Common sense spending reform is a key part of MAGAnomics. Under the America First economic program the economy expands, tax receipts increase, and the federal government has no need to provide supplemental benefits. The treasury takes in an extra dollar and has no need to spend a dollar, the savings are doubled.
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2 Victims, Shooter Dead in Pearl Harbor 
Naval Shipyard Shooting
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{ news.usni.org } ~ A shooter who killed two shipyard workers and injured a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii is dead, Navy officials confirmed to USNI News... The shooter, a U.S. sailor, shot the three civilians near Dry Dock 2 at the shipyard before turning the gun on himself on Wednesday, Rear Adm. Rob Chadwick commander of Navy Region Hawaii told reporters. NCIS is now leading an investigation into the shooting, Chadwick said. The nuclear attack submarine USS Columbia (SSN-771) was in the dry dock being repaired. The shooter was attached to Columbia. Following the shooting, “one of the victims was taken to the Tripler Army Medical Center, one to Pali Momi Medical Center and a third to the Queen’s Medical Center,” reported Hawaii News Now “Honolulu EMS sent multiple ambulances to the scene, and Honolulu Fire responded with six units, including almost two dozen firefighters,” reported ABC. One witness told the news station they heard loud pops from their office at the shipyard. “I kind of recognize that as gunshots,” one witness told the network. “I looked out in time to see the shooter, who I assume was a sailor because he was in uniform … shoot himself.” The more than 100-year-old shipyard is one of four major repair facilities operated by the Navy to service ships and submarines throughout the fleet. Thousands of sailors and civilians work in and around the facility that’s adjacent to the U.S. naval base and Pacific Fleet headquarters near Honolulu. Officials at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam report the shooting incident at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard has been secured. One person is confirmed dead. The shooter has been tentatively identified as a U.S. Sailor. The sailor reportedly shot and injured three Department of Defense civilian workers before shooting themself. The incident took place this afternoon at the vicinity of the shipyard’s Dry Dock 2. The base is no longer in lockdown. Base security and Navy investigative services are currently investigating. The names of the victims will not be released until the next of kin have been notified.
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Germany: All EU Members Must Take in Migrants
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has unveiled a new plan to reform the European asylum system... A draft of the proposal leaked to the media shows that all member states of the European Union would be required to take in illegal migrants. Countries in Central and Eastern Europe are opposed to mandatory relocations on the basis that decisions about the granting of residence permits should be kept at the national level. They have noted that by unilaterally imposing migrant quotas on EU member states, unelected bureaucrats in Brussels are seeking to force the democratically elected leaders of Europe to submit to their diktat. Indeed, the continuing debate over migration is, at its core, about European federalism and the degree to which the European Union will be allowed to usurp decision-making powers from its 28 member states. Seehofer presented his four-page plan to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) to the new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels on December 2. She is expected to unveil her migration proposals in February 2020, ahead of Germany's six-month presidency of the European Council which begins in July 2020. The new plan is aimed at replacing the European Union's Dublin Regulation, a law that requires people seeking asylum in the EU to do so in the first European country they reach. Southern European countries — especially Greece and Italy — have complained that, in the context of mass migration from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the current system places an unfair and disproportionate burden on them. They say that all EU member states should take equal responsibility for migrants reaching European shores. At the height of Europe's migration crisis in September 2015, some EU member states voted to relocate 120,000 migrants from Italy and Greece to other parts of the bloc. This number was in addition to a July 2015 plan to redistribute 40,000 migrants from Italy and Greece...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15245/eu-migrants-relocation-quota 
FBI Uncovers Even More 
scumbag/liar-Clinton Emails
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by TOM FITTON
{ breitbart.com } ~ The government malfeasance in the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal is seeming never-ending. The State Department just confessed to a court that FBI found more scumbag/liar-Clinton emails that were then Turned over to State for review... In the November 15, 2019 filing, the State Department informed the court that the FBI located additional scumbag/liar-Clinton emails that potentially had not been previously released: The Federal Bureau of Investigation “FBI” recently sent the State Department additional documents as part of the ongoing inter-agency consultation process in connection with other FOIA litigation. The State Department is working to determine whether that set of documents includes any responsive, non-duplicative agency records that have not already been processed. The State Department will promptly update Judicial Watch and the Court once that initial review is complete. The FBI filed this court ordered joint status report in response to our May 6, 2015, FOIA lawsuit Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)). Our FOIA lawsuit seeks all emails sent and received by scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and other records about her non-governmental email account. Earlier this year, Judicial Watch announced that it received 756 pages of emails that were among the materials scumbag/liar-Clinton tried to delete or destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted over her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system.  This production was supposed to be the final production of scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Judicial Watch estimates that the FBI being only able to recover or find approximately 5,000, including classified material, of the 33,000 government emails scumbag/liar-Clinton removed and tried to destroy. The FBI uncovered 72,000 pages of documents scumbag/liar-Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. Now again, it appears the FBI has uncovered more scumbag/liar-Clinton email documents. You may recall that last week we released FBI emails showing that the FBI’s top lawyer gave deferential treatment to the attorney representing scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s top aides implicated in the mass deletion of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails. So it is astonishing news that the FBI mysteriously found more scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Were they on Anthony Weiner’s laptop? At scumbag-James Comey’s house? Or on Peter Strzok’s cell phone? This disturbing development further highlights how the fix was in on the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal and why a criminal investigation needs to be reopened by Attorney General Barr...
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Chickening Out
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It is a truism that a blackmailer is rarely satisfied. Once the payoffs start, there often is no end to them.

The Chick-fil-A fast-food chain is about to learn this hard lesson, far too late, as many victims of blackmail and extortion generally do.

For conservatives and evangelical Christians, Chick-fil-A has been a model company that has consistently stood against the “anything goes” spirit of the age. It’s founder, the late S. Truett Cathy, ordered that his restaurants be closed on Sundays to allow employees to attend church and spend time with their families.

When LGBT activists learned the company donated to charities that supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman and declared a boycott of the restaurants, others demonstrated their support by strongly patronizing them.

Without any noticeable new pressure, Chick-fil-A announced it would no longer be donating to Christian charities like The Salvation Army, an organization not known for political activism. A company spokesman said future donations would go to charities in support of education, the homeless and ending hunger.

If this weren’t enough, the restaurant chain also announced it is sending a $2,500 donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing organization that lists some Christian ministries as “hate groups.” Among them is the Family Research Council, which describes itself as a “pro marriage and pro-life” lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C.

As reported by The Washington Times, “In 2012, gunman Floyd Lee Corkins shot building manager Leo Johnson after storming the FRC building in Washington, D.C., carrying 50 rounds of ammunition and a backpack of Chick-fil-A sandwiches. The shooter later told the FBI that he found FRC on the SPLC’s list of ‘anti-gay groups.’”

Upon hearing of Chick-fil-A’s donation to the liberal organization, FRC President Tony Perkins said, “Not only has Chick-fil-A abandoned donations to Christian groups, including the Salvation Army, it has donated to one of the most extreme anti-Christian groups in America.” Perkins called on conservatives to seek a fast-food alternative, but boycotts are rarely successful and besides, the sandwiches taste good.

Appeasement doesn’t work when there is a shooting war between enemies and it doesn’t work in a culture war in which the left takes no prisoners. Each time an inch is given by any conservative individual or group, it merely whets the appetite of the secular progressives for more concessions. When conservative people stand on principle, their adversaries usually find another target. Most Christians are familiar with the verse “resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7). It can similarly work with earthly adversaries.

Individuals and organizations are free to contribute to any group they wish, but Chick fil-A’s donation to the SPLC is as strange as a pro-life organization donating money to Planned Parenthood.

What has gotten into them is anyone’s guess since management has not explained its decision. It is unlikely, though, that S. Truett Cathy would have approved.

The newly “converted” rapper Kanye West dropped a music video last week from his latest album, “Jesus Is King.” The fourth track is titled “Closed on Sunday” and is meant as a tribute to Chick-fil-A. The lyric includes “Closed on Sunday, you’re my Chick-fil-A/Hold the Selfies, put the ‘Gram away/Get your family, y'all hold hands and pray/When you got daughters, always keep 'em safe.’”

Let’s see if the same LGBT activists that have attacked the restaurant chain come after West and if they do whether he can prevail against the pressure.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/67108?mailing_id=4701&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4701&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Thurs/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
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Thursday Top News Executive Summary
Media Editors:  Above the Fold


NEXT STAGE: House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi asks scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler to proceed with drafting articles of impeachment (National Review)

GETTING ACTUAL BUSINESS DONE: The Senate confirmed four federal judges while the House heard impeachment testimony (The Daily Caller)

Impeachment Inquisition


THREE OUT OF FOUR, ANYWAY: Professors make impeachment case (Associated Press)

THE FOURTH PROF? “The current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but … dangerous” (CNSNews.com)

AWKWARD: scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler dozes off during impeachment hearing (PJ Media)

Government & Politics


ADIOS: Trump cancels NATO press conference, heads back to DC after being mocked by Justin Trudeau (The Daily Wire)

HARD PILL TO SWALLOW: liar-Pelosi drug-pricing plan could keep 100 new medicines from reaching patients (The Washington Free Beacon)

THE CATALYST? A BUTTERFLY SANCTUARY: Judge temporarily halts construction of a private border wall in Texas (The Hill)

Other Notables


RUSSIANS CHARGED: Two Russian hackers charged in sweeping malware attack on U.S. (NBC News)

KEY WITNESS AN “IMPOSTER”? George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin’s family for $100 million in damages (NBC News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Principled inaction in the face of climate-change extremism (Human Events)

POLICY: The surprising role of high-income families in student debt trends (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: House hears testimony from renowned, unbiased legal scholar Hillga Clintonheimer (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/67178?mailing_id=4709&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4709&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Devin Nunes Discusses Impeachment and 
scumbag/liar-Schiff’s New Found Authority – Congressional Subpoenas for 
Private Phone Records
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Devin Nunes appeared on Tucker Carlson to discuss the impeachment events of the day. However, thankfully they also discussed the revelation that HPSCI Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff randomly started issuing subpoenas for telephone information... That’s the part I find very troubling. Notice how the media simply ignores it? This is a pretty big damn deal.  Under what authority can congress arbitrarily send subpoenas for the private phone records of citizens, journalists, and fellow politicians? Can Nunes now start sending subpoenas for the phone records of Michael Isikoff around the time of the Flynn phone call leak?… and can congress publish those call records as a part of some possibly inquiry into the leak… and we can cross reference to identify the FBI leaker?   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/04/devin-nunes-discusses-impeachment-and-schiffs-new-found-authority-congressional-subpoenas-for-private-phone-records/
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Is The Washington Post, New York Times 
and CNN Now Declaring Professor Mifsud 
is *NOT* A Russian Asset?
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The CIA primarily leaks PR spin to the Washington Post. The FBI primarily leaks PR spin to the New York Times; and the State Dept. primarily leaks PR spin to CNN... This narrative distribution model is the one constant in an ever changing universe. Cue the audio visual… Obviously the prior Washington Post effort to conflate the Durham investigation with the Horowitz investigation didn’t get the desired result. As a consequence it only took a few days before the Washington Post was back at it Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett again to try obfuscation 2.0; this time with Joseph Mifsud. For three years the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN have sold the FBI claim that Professor Joseph Mifsud was a Russian operative passing information about scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails to George Papadopoulos. That essential point underpins their defense of the predicate for the CIA and FBI to open the July 31st investigation of the Trump campaign. Again, for three years Joseph Mifsud was sold as a Russian operative; working on behalf of Russian interests. That “Mifsud is a Russian asset” claim is the fulcrum of Crossfire Hurricane. Mifsud has to be a Russian asset, or else… George Papadopoulos talking to Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer about Mifsud is simply political gossip without merit, value or bearing. The key point is Mifsud has to be a Russian operative in order for all of the downstream FBI activity to be justified. If Mifsud ain’t Russian, the CIA and FBI have a problem...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/04/is-the-washington-post-new-york-times-and-cnn-now-declaring-professor-mifsud-is-not-a-russian-asset/ 
Secretary Sonny Perdue Discusses Return
 to Prior Guidelines for SNAP Assistance
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The U.S. government limits the amount of time adults aged 18-49, who do not have dependents or a disability, can receive food stamps to three months in a 36-month period unless they meet certain work requirements... However, during tough economic times the Dept. of Agriculture has provided waivers to extend the limits. With a strong economy and low unemployment the Trump administration has now finalized a rule tightening guidelines on when and where states can waive federal limits on how long certain residents can receive benefits. The changes will move more “able-bodied” adults into the workplace, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue explains: Common sense spending reform is a key part of MAGAnomics. Under the America First economic program the economy expands, tax receipts increase, and the federal government has no need to provide supplemental benefits. The treasury takes in an extra dollar and has no need to spend a dollar, the savings are doubled.
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2 Victims, Shooter Dead in Pearl Harbor 
Naval Shipyard Shooting
By: Sam LaGrone
{ news.usni.org } ~ A shooter who killed two shipyard workers and injured a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii is dead, Navy officials confirmed to USNI News... The shooter, a U.S. sailor, shot the three civilians near Dry Dock 2 at the shipyard before turning the gun on himself on Wednesday, Rear Adm. Rob Chadwick commander of Navy Region Hawaii told reporters. NCIS is now leading an investigation into the shooting, Chadwick said. The nuclear attack submarine USS Columbia (SSN-771) was in the dry dock being repaired. The shooter was attached to Columbia. Following the shooting, “one of the victims was taken to the Tripler Army Medical Center, one to Pali Momi Medical Center and a third to the Queen’s Medical Center,” reported Hawaii News Now “Honolulu EMS sent multiple ambulances to the scene, and Honolulu Fire responded with six units, including almost two dozen firefighters,” reported ABC. One witness told the news station they heard loud pops from their office at the shipyard. “I kind of recognize that as gunshots,” one witness told the network. “I looked out in time to see the shooter, who I assume was a sailor because he was in uniform … shoot himself.” The more than 100-year-old shipyard is one of four major repair facilities operated by the Navy to service ships and submarines throughout the fleet. Thousands of sailors and civilians work in and around the facility that’s adjacent to the U.S. naval base and Pacific Fleet headquarters near Honolulu. Officials at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam report the shooting incident at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard has been secured. One person is confirmed dead. The shooter has been tentatively identified as a U.S. Sailor. The sailor reportedly shot and injured three Department of Defense civilian workers before shooting themself. The incident took place this afternoon at the vicinity of the shipyard’s Dry Dock 2. The base is no longer in lockdown. Base security and Navy investigative services are currently investigating. The names of the victims will not be released until the next of kin have been notified.
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Germany: All EU Members Must Take in Migrants
by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has unveiled a new plan to reform the European asylum system... A draft of the proposal leaked to the media shows that all member states of the European Union would be required to take in illegal migrants. Countries in Central and Eastern Europe are opposed to mandatory relocations on the basis that decisions about the granting of residence permits should be kept at the national level. They have noted that by unilaterally imposing migrant quotas on EU member states, unelected bureaucrats in Brussels are seeking to force the democratically elected leaders of Europe to submit to their diktat. Indeed, the continuing debate over migration is, at its core, about European federalism and the degree to which the European Union will be allowed to usurp decision-making powers from its 28 member states. Seehofer presented his four-page plan to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) to the new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels on December 2. She is expected to unveil her migration proposals in February 2020, ahead of Germany's six-month presidency of the European Council which begins in July 2020. The new plan is aimed at replacing the European Union's Dublin Regulation, a law that requires people seeking asylum in the EU to do so in the first European country they reach. Southern European countries — especially Greece and Italy — have complained that, in the context of mass migration from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the current system places an unfair and disproportionate burden on them. They say that all EU member states should take equal responsibility for migrants reaching European shores. At the height of Europe's migration crisis in September 2015, some EU member states voted to relocate 120,000 migrants from Italy and Greece to other parts of the bloc. This number was in addition to a July 2015 plan to redistribute 40,000 migrants from Italy and Greece...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15245/eu-migrants-relocation-quota 
FBI Uncovers Even More 
scumbag/liar-Clinton Emails
by TOM FITTON
{ breitbart.com } ~ The government malfeasance in the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal is seeming never-ending. The State Department just confessed to a court that FBI found more scumbag/liar-Clinton emails that were then Turned over to State for review... In the November 15, 2019 filing, the State Department informed the court that the FBI located additional scumbag/liar-Clinton emails that potentially had not been previously released: The Federal Bureau of Investigation “FBI” recently sent the State Department additional documents as part of the ongoing inter-agency consultation process in connection with other FOIA litigation. The State Department is working to determine whether that set of documents includes any responsive, non-duplicative agency records that have not already been processed. The State Department will promptly update Judicial Watch and the Court once that initial review is complete. The FBI filed this court ordered joint status report in response to our May 6, 2015, FOIA lawsuit Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)). Our FOIA lawsuit seeks all emails sent and received by scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and other records about her non-governmental email account. Earlier this year, Judicial Watch announced that it received 756 pages of emails that were among the materials scumbag/liar-Clinton tried to delete or destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted over her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system.  This production was supposed to be the final production of scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Judicial Watch estimates that the FBI being only able to recover or find approximately 5,000, including classified material, of the 33,000 government emails scumbag/liar-Clinton removed and tried to destroy. The FBI uncovered 72,000 pages of documents scumbag/liar-Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. Now again, it appears the FBI has uncovered more scumbag/liar-Clinton email documents. You may recall that last week we released FBI emails showing that the FBI’s top lawyer gave deferential treatment to the attorney representing scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s top aides implicated in the mass deletion of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails. So it is astonishing news that the FBI mysteriously found more scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Were they on Anthony Weiner’s laptop? At scumbag-James Comey’s house? Or on Peter Strzok’s cell phone? This disturbing development further highlights how the fix was in on the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal and why a criminal investigation needs to be reopened by Attorney General Barr...
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Chickening Out
 

It is a truism that a blackmailer is rarely satisfied. Once the payoffs start, there often is no end to them.

The Chick-fil-A fast-food chain is about to learn this hard lesson, far too late, as many victims of blackmail and extortion generally do.

For conservatives and evangelical Christians, Chick-fil-A has been a model company that has consistently stood against the “anything goes” spirit of the age. It’s founder, the late S. Truett Cathy, ordered that his restaurants be closed on Sundays to allow employees to attend church and spend time with their families.

When LGBT activists learned the company donated to charities that supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman and declared a boycott of the restaurants, others demonstrated their support by strongly patronizing them.

Without any noticeable new pressure, Chick-fil-A announced it would no longer be donating to Christian charities like The Salvation Army, an organization not known for political activism. A company spokesman said future donations would go to charities in support of education, the homeless and ending hunger.

If this weren’t enough, the restaurant chain also announced it is sending a $2,500 donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing organization that lists some Christian ministries as “hate groups.” Among them is the Family Research Council, which describes itself as a “pro marriage and pro-life” lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C.

As reported by The Washington Times, “In 2012, gunman Floyd Lee Corkins shot building manager Leo Johnson after storming the FRC building in Washington, D.C., carrying 50 rounds of ammunition and a backpack of Chick-fil-A sandwiches. The shooter later told the FBI that he found FRC on the SPLC’s list of ‘anti-gay groups.’”

Upon hearing of Chick-fil-A’s donation to the liberal organization, FRC President Tony Perkins said, “Not only has Chick-fil-A abandoned donations to Christian groups, including the Salvation Army, it has donated to one of the most extreme anti-Christian groups in America.” Perkins called on conservatives to seek a fast-food alternative, but boycotts are rarely successful and besides, the sandwiches taste good.

Appeasement doesn’t work when there is a shooting war between enemies and it doesn’t work in a culture war in which the left takes no prisoners. Each time an inch is given by any conservative individual or group, it merely whets the appetite of the secular progressives for more concessions. When conservative people stand on principle, their adversaries usually find another target. Most Christians are familiar with the verse “resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7). It can similarly work with earthly adversaries.

Individuals and organizations are free to contribute to any group they wish, but Chick fil-A’s donation to the SPLC is as strange as a pro-life organization donating money to Planned Parenthood.

What has gotten into them is anyone’s guess since management has not explained its decision. It is unlikely, though, that S. Truett Cathy would have approved.

The newly “converted” rapper Kanye West dropped a music video last week from his latest album, “Jesus Is King.” The fourth track is titled “Closed on Sunday” and is meant as a tribute to Chick-fil-A. The lyric includes “Closed on Sunday, you’re my Chick-fil-A/Hold the Selfies, put the ‘Gram away/Get your family, y'all hold hands and pray/When you got daughters, always keep 'em safe.’”

Let’s see if the same LGBT activists that have attacked the restaurant chain come after West and if they do whether he can prevail against the pressure.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/67108?mailing_id=4701&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4701&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

Read more…

Thurs/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
.
Thursday Top News Executive Summary
Media Editors:  Above the Fold


NEXT STAGE: House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi asks scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler to proceed with drafting articles of impeachment (National Review)

GETTING ACTUAL BUSINESS DONE: The Senate confirmed four federal judges while the House heard impeachment testimony (The Daily Caller)

Impeachment Inquisition


THREE OUT OF FOUR, ANYWAY: Professors make impeachment case (Associated Press)

THE FOURTH PROF? “The current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but … dangerous” (CNSNews.com)

AWKWARD: scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler dozes off during impeachment hearing (PJ Media)

Government & Politics


ADIOS: Trump cancels NATO press conference, heads back to DC after being mocked by Justin Trudeau (The Daily Wire)

HARD PILL TO SWALLOW: liar-Pelosi drug-pricing plan could keep 100 new medicines from reaching patients (The Washington Free Beacon)

THE CATALYST? A BUTTERFLY SANCTUARY: Judge temporarily halts construction of a private border wall in Texas (The Hill)

Other Notables


RUSSIANS CHARGED: Two Russian hackers charged in sweeping malware attack on U.S. (NBC News)

KEY WITNESS AN “IMPOSTER”? George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin’s family for $100 million in damages (NBC News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Principled inaction in the face of climate-change extremism (Human Events)

POLICY: The surprising role of high-income families in student debt trends (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: House hears testimony from renowned, unbiased legal scholar Hillga Clintonheimer (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/67178?mailing_id=4709&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4709&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Devin Nunes Discusses Impeachment and 
scumbag/liar-Schiff’s New Found Authority – Congressional Subpoenas for 
Private Phone Records
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Devin Nunes appeared on Tucker Carlson to discuss the impeachment events of the day. However, thankfully they also discussed the revelation that HPSCI Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff randomly started issuing subpoenas for telephone information... That’s the part I find very troubling. Notice how the media simply ignores it? This is a pretty big damn deal.  Under what authority can congress arbitrarily send subpoenas for the private phone records of citizens, journalists, and fellow politicians? Can Nunes now start sending subpoenas for the phone records of Michael Isikoff around the time of the Flynn phone call leak?… and can congress publish those call records as a part of some possibly inquiry into the leak… and we can cross reference to identify the FBI leaker?   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/04/devin-nunes-discusses-impeachment-and-schiffs-new-found-authority-congressional-subpoenas-for-private-phone-records/
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Is The Washington Post, New York Times 
and CNN Now Declaring Professor Mifsud 
is *NOT* A Russian Asset?
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The CIA primarily leaks PR spin to the Washington Post. The FBI primarily leaks PR spin to the New York Times; and the State Dept. primarily leaks PR spin to CNN... This narrative distribution model is the one constant in an ever changing universe. Cue the audio visual… Obviously the prior Washington Post effort to conflate the Durham investigation with the Horowitz investigation didn’t get the desired result. As a consequence it only took a few days before the Washington Post was back at it Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett again to try obfuscation 2.0; this time with Joseph Mifsud. For three years the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN have sold the FBI claim that Professor Joseph Mifsud was a Russian operative passing information about scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails to George Papadopoulos. That essential point underpins their defense of the predicate for the CIA and FBI to open the July 31st investigation of the Trump campaign. Again, for three years Joseph Mifsud was sold as a Russian operative; working on behalf of Russian interests. That “Mifsud is a Russian asset” claim is the fulcrum of Crossfire Hurricane. Mifsud has to be a Russian asset, or else… George Papadopoulos talking to Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer about Mifsud is simply political gossip without merit, value or bearing. The key point is Mifsud has to be a Russian operative in order for all of the downstream FBI activity to be justified. If Mifsud ain’t Russian, the CIA and FBI have a problem...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/04/is-the-washington-post-new-york-times-and-cnn-now-declaring-professor-mifsud-is-not-a-russian-asset/ 
Secretary Sonny Perdue Discusses Return
 to Prior Guidelines for SNAP Assistance
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The U.S. government limits the amount of time adults aged 18-49, who do not have dependents or a disability, can receive food stamps to three months in a 36-month period unless they meet certain work requirements... However, during tough economic times the Dept. of Agriculture has provided waivers to extend the limits. With a strong economy and low unemployment the Trump administration has now finalized a rule tightening guidelines on when and where states can waive federal limits on how long certain residents can receive benefits. The changes will move more “able-bodied” adults into the workplace, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue explains: Common sense spending reform is a key part of MAGAnomics. Under the America First economic program the economy expands, tax receipts increase, and the federal government has no need to provide supplemental benefits. The treasury takes in an extra dollar and has no need to spend a dollar, the savings are doubled.
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2 Victims, Shooter Dead in Pearl Harbor 
Naval Shipyard Shooting
By: Sam LaGrone
{ news.usni.org } ~ A shooter who killed two shipyard workers and injured a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii is dead, Navy officials confirmed to USNI News... The shooter, a U.S. sailor, shot the three civilians near Dry Dock 2 at the shipyard before turning the gun on himself on Wednesday, Rear Adm. Rob Chadwick commander of Navy Region Hawaii told reporters. NCIS is now leading an investigation into the shooting, Chadwick said. The nuclear attack submarine USS Columbia (SSN-771) was in the dry dock being repaired. The shooter was attached to Columbia. Following the shooting, “one of the victims was taken to the Tripler Army Medical Center, one to Pali Momi Medical Center and a third to the Queen’s Medical Center,” reported Hawaii News Now “Honolulu EMS sent multiple ambulances to the scene, and Honolulu Fire responded with six units, including almost two dozen firefighters,” reported ABC. One witness told the news station they heard loud pops from their office at the shipyard. “I kind of recognize that as gunshots,” one witness told the network. “I looked out in time to see the shooter, who I assume was a sailor because he was in uniform … shoot himself.” The more than 100-year-old shipyard is one of four major repair facilities operated by the Navy to service ships and submarines throughout the fleet. Thousands of sailors and civilians work in and around the facility that’s adjacent to the U.S. naval base and Pacific Fleet headquarters near Honolulu. Officials at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam report the shooting incident at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard has been secured. One person is confirmed dead. The shooter has been tentatively identified as a U.S. Sailor. The sailor reportedly shot and injured three Department of Defense civilian workers before shooting themself. The incident took place this afternoon at the vicinity of the shipyard’s Dry Dock 2. The base is no longer in lockdown. Base security and Navy investigative services are currently investigating. The names of the victims will not be released until the next of kin have been notified.
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Germany: All EU Members Must Take in Migrants
by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has unveiled a new plan to reform the European asylum system... A draft of the proposal leaked to the media shows that all member states of the European Union would be required to take in illegal migrants. Countries in Central and Eastern Europe are opposed to mandatory relocations on the basis that decisions about the granting of residence permits should be kept at the national level. They have noted that by unilaterally imposing migrant quotas on EU member states, unelected bureaucrats in Brussels are seeking to force the democratically elected leaders of Europe to submit to their diktat. Indeed, the continuing debate over migration is, at its core, about European federalism and the degree to which the European Union will be allowed to usurp decision-making powers from its 28 member states. Seehofer presented his four-page plan to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) to the new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels on December 2. She is expected to unveil her migration proposals in February 2020, ahead of Germany's six-month presidency of the European Council which begins in July 2020. The new plan is aimed at replacing the European Union's Dublin Regulation, a law that requires people seeking asylum in the EU to do so in the first European country they reach. Southern European countries — especially Greece and Italy — have complained that, in the context of mass migration from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the current system places an unfair and disproportionate burden on them. They say that all EU member states should take equal responsibility for migrants reaching European shores. At the height of Europe's migration crisis in September 2015, some EU member states voted to relocate 120,000 migrants from Italy and Greece to other parts of the bloc. This number was in addition to a July 2015 plan to redistribute 40,000 migrants from Italy and Greece...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15245/eu-migrants-relocation-quota 
FBI Uncovers Even More 
scumbag/liar-Clinton Emails
by TOM FITTON
{ breitbart.com } ~ The government malfeasance in the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal is seeming never-ending. The State Department just confessed to a court that FBI found more scumbag/liar-Clinton emails that were then Turned over to State for review... In the November 15, 2019 filing, the State Department informed the court that the FBI located additional scumbag/liar-Clinton emails that potentially had not been previously released: The Federal Bureau of Investigation “FBI” recently sent the State Department additional documents as part of the ongoing inter-agency consultation process in connection with other FOIA litigation. The State Department is working to determine whether that set of documents includes any responsive, non-duplicative agency records that have not already been processed. The State Department will promptly update Judicial Watch and the Court once that initial review is complete. The FBI filed this court ordered joint status report in response to our May 6, 2015, FOIA lawsuit Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)). Our FOIA lawsuit seeks all emails sent and received by scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and other records about her non-governmental email account. Earlier this year, Judicial Watch announced that it received 756 pages of emails that were among the materials scumbag/liar-Clinton tried to delete or destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted over her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system.  This production was supposed to be the final production of scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Judicial Watch estimates that the FBI being only able to recover or find approximately 5,000, including classified material, of the 33,000 government emails scumbag/liar-Clinton removed and tried to destroy. The FBI uncovered 72,000 pages of documents scumbag/liar-Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. Now again, it appears the FBI has uncovered more scumbag/liar-Clinton email documents. You may recall that last week we released FBI emails showing that the FBI’s top lawyer gave deferential treatment to the attorney representing scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s top aides implicated in the mass deletion of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails. So it is astonishing news that the FBI mysteriously found more scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Were they on Anthony Weiner’s laptop? At scumbag-James Comey’s house? Or on Peter Strzok’s cell phone? This disturbing development further highlights how the fix was in on the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal and why a criminal investigation needs to be reopened by Attorney General Barr...
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Chickening Out
 

It is a truism that a blackmailer is rarely satisfied. Once the payoffs start, there often is no end to them.

The Chick-fil-A fast-food chain is about to learn this hard lesson, far too late, as many victims of blackmail and extortion generally do.

For conservatives and evangelical Christians, Chick-fil-A has been a model company that has consistently stood against the “anything goes” spirit of the age. It’s founder, the late S. Truett Cathy, ordered that his restaurants be closed on Sundays to allow employees to attend church and spend time with their families.

When LGBT activists learned the company donated to charities that supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman and declared a boycott of the restaurants, others demonstrated their support by strongly patronizing them.

Without any noticeable new pressure, Chick-fil-A announced it would no longer be donating to Christian charities like The Salvation Army, an organization not known for political activism. A company spokesman said future donations would go to charities in support of education, the homeless and ending hunger.

If this weren’t enough, the restaurant chain also announced it is sending a $2,500 donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing organization that lists some Christian ministries as “hate groups.” Among them is the Family Research Council, which describes itself as a “pro marriage and pro-life” lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C.

As reported by The Washington Times, “In 2012, gunman Floyd Lee Corkins shot building manager Leo Johnson after storming the FRC building in Washington, D.C., carrying 50 rounds of ammunition and a backpack of Chick-fil-A sandwiches. The shooter later told the FBI that he found FRC on the SPLC’s list of ‘anti-gay groups.’”

Upon hearing of Chick-fil-A’s donation to the liberal organization, FRC President Tony Perkins said, “Not only has Chick-fil-A abandoned donations to Christian groups, including the Salvation Army, it has donated to one of the most extreme anti-Christian groups in America.” Perkins called on conservatives to seek a fast-food alternative, but boycotts are rarely successful and besides, the sandwiches taste good.

Appeasement doesn’t work when there is a shooting war between enemies and it doesn’t work in a culture war in which the left takes no prisoners. Each time an inch is given by any conservative individual or group, it merely whets the appetite of the secular progressives for more concessions. When conservative people stand on principle, their adversaries usually find another target. Most Christians are familiar with the verse “resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7). It can similarly work with earthly adversaries.

Individuals and organizations are free to contribute to any group they wish, but Chick fil-A’s donation to the SPLC is as strange as a pro-life organization donating money to Planned Parenthood.

What has gotten into them is anyone’s guess since management has not explained its decision. It is unlikely, though, that S. Truett Cathy would have approved.

The newly “converted” rapper Kanye West dropped a music video last week from his latest album, “Jesus Is King.” The fourth track is titled “Closed on Sunday” and is meant as a tribute to Chick-fil-A. The lyric includes “Closed on Sunday, you’re my Chick-fil-A/Hold the Selfies, put the ‘Gram away/Get your family, y'all hold hands and pray/When you got daughters, always keep 'em safe.’”

Let’s see if the same LGBT activists that have attacked the restaurant chain come after West and if they do whether he can prevail against the pressure.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/67108?mailing_id=4701&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4701&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


NEXT STAGE: House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi asks scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler to proceed with drafting articles of impeachment (National Review)

GETTING ACTUAL BUSINESS DONE: The Senate confirmed four federal judges while the House heard impeachment testimony (The Daily Caller)

Impeachment Inquisition


THREE OUT OF FOUR, ANYWAY: Professors make impeachment case (Associated Press)

THE FOURTH PROF? “The current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but … dangerous” (CNSNews.com)

AWKWARD: scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler dozes off during impeachment hearing (PJ Media)

Government & Politics


ADIOS: Trump cancels NATO press conference, heads back to DC after being mocked by Justin Trudeau (The Daily Wire)

HARD PILL TO SWALLOW: liar-Pelosi drug-pricing plan could keep 100 new medicines from reaching patients (The Washington Free Beacon)

THE CATALYST? A BUTTERFLY SANCTUARY: Judge temporarily halts construction of a private border wall in Texas (The Hill)

Other Notables


RUSSIANS CHARGED: Two Russian hackers charged in sweeping malware attack on U.S. (NBC News)

KEY WITNESS AN “IMPOSTER”? George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin’s family for $100 million in damages (NBC News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Principled inaction in the face of climate-change extremism (Human Events)

POLICY: The surprising role of high-income families in student debt trends (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: House hears testimony from renowned, unbiased legal scholar Hillga Clintonheimer (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/67178?mailing_id=4709&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4709&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Devin Nunes Discusses Impeachment and 
scumbag/liar-Schiff’s New Found Authority – Congressional Subpoenas for 
Private Phone Records
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Devin Nunes appeared on Tucker Carlson to discuss the impeachment events of the day. However, thankfully they also discussed the revelation that HPSCI Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff randomly started issuing subpoenas for telephone information... That’s the part I find very troubling. Notice how the media simply ignores it? This is a pretty big damn deal.  Under what authority can congress arbitrarily send subpoenas for the private phone records of citizens, journalists, and fellow politicians? Can Nunes now start sending subpoenas for the phone records of Michael Isikoff around the time of the Flynn phone call leak?… and can congress publish those call records as a part of some possibly inquiry into the leak… and we can cross reference to identify the FBI leaker?   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/04/devin-nunes-discusses-impeachment-and-schiffs-new-found-authority-congressional-subpoenas-for-private-phone-records/
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Is The Washington Post, New York Times 
and CNN Now Declaring Professor Mifsud 
is *NOT* A Russian Asset?
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The CIA primarily leaks PR spin to the Washington Post. The FBI primarily leaks PR spin to the New York Times; and the State Dept. primarily leaks PR spin to CNN... This narrative distribution model is the one constant in an ever changing universe. Cue the audio visual… Obviously the prior Washington Post effort to conflate the Durham investigation with the Horowitz investigation didn’t get the desired result. As a consequence it only took a few days before the Washington Post was back at it Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett again to try obfuscation 2.0; this time with Joseph Mifsud. For three years the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN have sold the FBI claim that Professor Joseph Mifsud was a Russian operative passing information about scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails to George Papadopoulos. That essential point underpins their defense of the predicate for the CIA and FBI to open the July 31st investigation of the Trump campaign. Again, for three years Joseph Mifsud was sold as a Russian operative; working on behalf of Russian interests. That “Mifsud is a Russian asset” claim is the fulcrum of Crossfire Hurricane. Mifsud has to be a Russian asset, or else… George Papadopoulos talking to Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer about Mifsud is simply political gossip without merit, value or bearing. The key point is Mifsud has to be a Russian operative in order for all of the downstream FBI activity to be justified. If Mifsud ain’t Russian, the CIA and FBI have a problem...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/04/is-the-washington-post-new-york-times-and-cnn-now-declaring-professor-mifsud-is-not-a-russian-asset/ 
Secretary Sonny Perdue Discusses Return
 to Prior Guidelines for SNAP Assistance
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The U.S. government limits the amount of time adults aged 18-49, who do not have dependents or a disability, can receive food stamps to three months in a 36-month period unless they meet certain work requirements... However, during tough economic times the Dept. of Agriculture has provided waivers to extend the limits. With a strong economy and low unemployment the Trump administration has now finalized a rule tightening guidelines on when and where states can waive federal limits on how long certain residents can receive benefits. The changes will move more “able-bodied” adults into the workplace, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue explains: Common sense spending reform is a key part of MAGAnomics. Under the America First economic program the economy expands, tax receipts increase, and the federal government has no need to provide supplemental benefits. The treasury takes in an extra dollar and has no need to spend a dollar, the savings are doubled.
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2 Victims, Shooter Dead in Pearl Harbor 
Naval Shipyard Shooting
By: Sam LaGrone
{ news.usni.org } ~ A shooter who killed two shipyard workers and injured a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii is dead, Navy officials confirmed to USNI News... The shooter, a U.S. sailor, shot the three civilians near Dry Dock 2 at the shipyard before turning the gun on himself on Wednesday, Rear Adm. Rob Chadwick commander of Navy Region Hawaii told reporters. NCIS is now leading an investigation into the shooting, Chadwick said. The nuclear attack submarine USS Columbia (SSN-771) was in the dry dock being repaired. The shooter was attached to Columbia. Following the shooting, “one of the victims was taken to the Tripler Army Medical Center, one to Pali Momi Medical Center and a third to the Queen’s Medical Center,” reported Hawaii News Now “Honolulu EMS sent multiple ambulances to the scene, and Honolulu Fire responded with six units, including almost two dozen firefighters,” reported ABC. One witness told the news station they heard loud pops from their office at the shipyard. “I kind of recognize that as gunshots,” one witness told the network. “I looked out in time to see the shooter, who I assume was a sailor because he was in uniform … shoot himself.” The more than 100-year-old shipyard is one of four major repair facilities operated by the Navy to service ships and submarines throughout the fleet. Thousands of sailors and civilians work in and around the facility that’s adjacent to the U.S. naval base and Pacific Fleet headquarters near Honolulu. Officials at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam report the shooting incident at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard has been secured. One person is confirmed dead. The shooter has been tentatively identified as a U.S. Sailor. The sailor reportedly shot and injured three Department of Defense civilian workers before shooting themself. The incident took place this afternoon at the vicinity of the shipyard’s Dry Dock 2. The base is no longer in lockdown. Base security and Navy investigative services are currently investigating. The names of the victims will not be released until the next of kin have been notified.
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Germany: All EU Members Must Take in Migrants
by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has unveiled a new plan to reform the European asylum system... A draft of the proposal leaked to the media shows that all member states of the European Union would be required to take in illegal migrants. Countries in Central and Eastern Europe are opposed to mandatory relocations on the basis that decisions about the granting of residence permits should be kept at the national level. They have noted that by unilaterally imposing migrant quotas on EU member states, unelected bureaucrats in Brussels are seeking to force the democratically elected leaders of Europe to submit to their diktat. Indeed, the continuing debate over migration is, at its core, about European federalism and the degree to which the European Union will be allowed to usurp decision-making powers from its 28 member states. Seehofer presented his four-page plan to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) to the new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels on December 2. She is expected to unveil her migration proposals in February 2020, ahead of Germany's six-month presidency of the European Council which begins in July 2020. The new plan is aimed at replacing the European Union's Dublin Regulation, a law that requires people seeking asylum in the EU to do so in the first European country they reach. Southern European countries — especially Greece and Italy — have complained that, in the context of mass migration from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the current system places an unfair and disproportionate burden on them. They say that all EU member states should take equal responsibility for migrants reaching European shores. At the height of Europe's migration crisis in September 2015, some EU member states voted to relocate 120,000 migrants from Italy and Greece to other parts of the bloc. This number was in addition to a July 2015 plan to redistribute 40,000 migrants from Italy and Greece...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15245/eu-migrants-relocation-quota 
FBI Uncovers Even More 
scumbag/liar-Clinton Emails
by TOM FITTON
{ breitbart.com } ~ The government malfeasance in the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal is seeming never-ending. The State Department just confessed to a court that FBI found more scumbag/liar-Clinton emails that were then Turned over to State for review... In the November 15, 2019 filing, the State Department informed the court that the FBI located additional scumbag/liar-Clinton emails that potentially had not been previously released: The Federal Bureau of Investigation “FBI” recently sent the State Department additional documents as part of the ongoing inter-agency consultation process in connection with other FOIA litigation. The State Department is working to determine whether that set of documents includes any responsive, non-duplicative agency records that have not already been processed. The State Department will promptly update Judicial Watch and the Court once that initial review is complete. The FBI filed this court ordered joint status report in response to our May 6, 2015, FOIA lawsuit Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)). Our FOIA lawsuit seeks all emails sent and received by scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and other records about her non-governmental email account. Earlier this year, Judicial Watch announced that it received 756 pages of emails that were among the materials scumbag/liar-Clinton tried to delete or destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted over her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system.  This production was supposed to be the final production of scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Judicial Watch estimates that the FBI being only able to recover or find approximately 5,000, including classified material, of the 33,000 government emails scumbag/liar-Clinton removed and tried to destroy. The FBI uncovered 72,000 pages of documents scumbag/liar-Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. Now again, it appears the FBI has uncovered more scumbag/liar-Clinton email documents. You may recall that last week we released FBI emails showing that the FBI’s top lawyer gave deferential treatment to the attorney representing scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s top aides implicated in the mass deletion of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails. So it is astonishing news that the FBI mysteriously found more scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Were they on Anthony Weiner’s laptop? At scumbag-James Comey’s house? Or on Peter Strzok’s cell phone? This disturbing development further highlights how the fix was in on the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal and why a criminal investigation needs to be reopened by Attorney General Barr...
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Chickening Out
 

It is a truism that a blackmailer is rarely satisfied. Once the payoffs start, there often is no end to them.

The Chick-fil-A fast-food chain is about to learn this hard lesson, far too late, as many victims of blackmail and extortion generally do.

For conservatives and evangelical Christians, Chick-fil-A has been a model company that has consistently stood against the “anything goes” spirit of the age. It’s founder, the late S. Truett Cathy, ordered that his restaurants be closed on Sundays to allow employees to attend church and spend time with their families.

When LGBT activists learned the company donated to charities that supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman and declared a boycott of the restaurants, others demonstrated their support by strongly patronizing them.

Without any noticeable new pressure, Chick-fil-A announced it would no longer be donating to Christian charities like The Salvation Army, an organization not known for political activism. A company spokesman said future donations would go to charities in support of education, the homeless and ending hunger.

If this weren’t enough, the restaurant chain also announced it is sending a $2,500 donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing organization that lists some Christian ministries as “hate groups.” Among them is the Family Research Council, which describes itself as a “pro marriage and pro-life” lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C.

As reported by The Washington Times, “In 2012, gunman Floyd Lee Corkins shot building manager Leo Johnson after storming the FRC building in Washington, D.C., carrying 50 rounds of ammunition and a backpack of Chick-fil-A sandwiches. The shooter later told the FBI that he found FRC on the SPLC’s list of ‘anti-gay groups.’”

Upon hearing of Chick-fil-A’s donation to the liberal organization, FRC President Tony Perkins said, “Not only has Chick-fil-A abandoned donations to Christian groups, including the Salvation Army, it has donated to one of the most extreme anti-Christian groups in America.” Perkins called on conservatives to seek a fast-food alternative, but boycotts are rarely successful and besides, the sandwiches taste good.

Appeasement doesn’t work when there is a shooting war between enemies and it doesn’t work in a culture war in which the left takes no prisoners. Each time an inch is given by any conservative individual or group, it merely whets the appetite of the secular progressives for more concessions. When conservative people stand on principle, their adversaries usually find another target. Most Christians are familiar with the verse “resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7). It can similarly work with earthly adversaries.

Individuals and organizations are free to contribute to any group they wish, but Chick fil-A’s donation to the SPLC is as strange as a pro-life organization donating money to Planned Parenthood.

What has gotten into them is anyone’s guess since management has not explained its decision. It is unlikely, though, that S. Truett Cathy would have approved.

The newly “converted” rapper Kanye West dropped a music video last week from his latest album, “Jesus Is King.” The fourth track is titled “Closed on Sunday” and is meant as a tribute to Chick-fil-A. The lyric includes “Closed on Sunday, you’re my Chick-fil-A/Hold the Selfies, put the ‘Gram away/Get your family, y'all hold hands and pray/When you got daughters, always keep 'em safe.’”

Let’s see if the same LGBT activists that have attacked the restaurant chain come after West and if they do whether he can prevail against the pressure.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/67108?mailing_id=4701&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4701&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Historians Rebuke '1619 Project'
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Lewis Morris  
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Impeachment Witness: scumbag/liar-nObama Refused To Give Evidence To Congress
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by DAVID KRAYDEN
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Georgetown University professor Jonathan Turley said during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing that former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama withheld information from Congress over the disastrous “Fast and Furious” program... Operation Fast and Furious was a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, overseen by former Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder and the Department of Justice. scumbag-Holder allowed thousands of guns to be sold to the Mexican drug cartels by people illegally trafficking firearms. It resulted in the death of a federal agent, among others. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Turley was asked by ranking member Republican Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, if the House of Representatives is abusing its power “if we just say the facts don’t matter.” “I think so,” Turley responded. “Part of the problem is that to bring a couple of these Articles of Impeachment, you have to contradict the position of President scumbag/liar-nObama. President scumbag/liar-nObama withheld evidence from Congress in “Fast and Furious,” an investigation, a rather moronic program that led to the death of a federal agent. President scumbag/liar-nObama gave a sweeping argument that he was not only not going to give evidence to this body but that a court had absolutely no role in determining whether he could withhold the evidence.” After hearings before the House Intelligence Committee, led by its chairman, Democratic California Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, the impeachment inquiry has moved to the judiciary committee under Democratic New York Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler.Nadler opened Wednesday’s testimony by stating “The facts before us are undisputed,” in reference to the claim that Trump has committed impeachable offenses. The proceedings have been sharply polarized, not only because of the divide between Republicans and Democrats, but by the testimony of the witnesses. Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan said Wednesday in her opening statement that she was “insulted” by Republican suggestions that she had not read all the impeachment testimony from previous witnesses.  https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/04/impeachment-witness-jonathan-turley-obama-refused-congress/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11171  
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Judiciary Democrats Block Motion 
to Subpoena the ‘Whistleblower’
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By Jim Hayek
{ americantruthtoday.com } ~ Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted to block a motion to subpoena the “whistleblower,” whose complaint prompted Democrats to launch the impeachment inquiry... During the committee’s first impeachment inquiry hearing, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) moved to subpoena “the individual commonly referred to as the ‘whistleblower.’” After his motion, Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D-NY) gaveled him down and asked, “Do I hear a motion to table” — or postpone consideration of the motion to subpoena the “whistleblower.” A Democrat congresswoman then said, “I move to table the motion.” The vote fell predictably along party lines, with 24 Democrats voting to table the motion, and 17 Republicans voting against tabling it. House Democrats have not allowed the whistleblower to testify, despite his role in launching the impeachment inquiry. Democrats on the Judiciary Committee earlier in the hearing voted down another Republican motion to call House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. Ranking Member Doug Collins (R-GA) made the motion to require the attendance and testimony of scumbag/liar-Schiff before the House Judiciary Committee, transmitting a letter requesting the same. House Intelligence Committee Republicans had requested scumbag/liar-Schiff testify during the initial phases of the impeachment inquiry, due to revelations the whistleblower who kickstarted the House Democrats’ launch of an impeachment inquiry went to scumbag/liar-Schiff’s committee before filing his complaint. The New York Times reported the whistleblower went to scumbag/liar-Schiff’s aide before filing a complaint, and that the aide instructed the whistleblower to obtain legal counsel and then file a formal complaint with the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG). The Times also reported that the aide passed on the “outlines” of the whistleblower’s complaint to scumbag/liar-Schiff...   https://americantruthtoday.com/left-news/2019/12/04/judiciary-democrats-block-motion-to-subpoena-the-whistleblower/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=dailyhammer-block-12_4-mid   
Dems’ Impeachment Trickery
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{ spectator.org } ~ On Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) takes over as ringmaster for the ongoing impeachment show... He’s billing his opening act as an inquiry into the “historical and constitutional basis of impeachment” and “the Framers’ intent.” scumbag liar-Nadler claims he’ll be looking into what the Constitution’s authors meant by “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Don’t be fooled by scumbag liar-Nadler’s scholarly posturing. He isn’t planning a civics lesson. Democrats are hell-bent on impeaching Trump, so scumbag liar-Nadler has to rewrite American history and massage the meaning of the Constitution’s impeachment clause to fit the pile of non-evidence scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s Intelligence Committee has produced. Count on scumbag liar-Nadler to come loaded with a bag of legal tricks. Trick No. 1 is the bait and switch. Dems have already laid the bait. They swear they’re reluctant to drag the nation into impeachment, but their duty to defend the rule of law requires it. “Our job is to follow the facts” and “apply the law,” says committee member Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). “No one is above the law,” House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi insists. Now get ready for the switch: At the hearing, Democrats and their hand-picked legal experts will argue that a president can be impeached without breaking a law. Suddenly impeachment isn’t about upholding the rule of law. The grounds are broader. Wide enough to drive a truck through. Why the switch? Because Dems don’t have the goods to show Trump has committed a crime, even after three years of the Mueller investigation, followed by scumbag/liar-Schiff’s televised spectacle. Expect more deceptive claims from scumbag liar-Nadler, including these: No. 2: The Framers wanted impeachment to apply broadly. Sorry, but the record is airtight on this one. At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the Framers considered grounds for impeachment. On September 8, George Mason suggested that bribery and treason were too narrow and proposed adding “maladministration.” But James Madison objected, explaining that “so vague a term will be equivalent to” saying the president serves at the pleasure of the Congress. The Framers did not want to duplicate the British system, which made the executive dependent on Parliament. Mason’s idea was dropped, and the Framers instead agreed to the more specific term, “high crimes and misdemeanors,” in which “high” meant offenses committed while in high office, such as embezzling public funds. The Framers couldn’t specify federal law violations because there were no federal laws yet. But today, it’s hard for any citizen to steer clear of the tangled web of federal laws. Still the impeachers can’t find a law Trump’s broken. No. 3: Impeachment is political.  No. 4: Congress has a duty to impeach. No. 5: Trust left-wing law professors to decide what’s impeachable...  https://spectator.org/dems-impeachment-trickery/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=b8561d9bb6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_04_03_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-b8561d9bb6-104608113  
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'Not how an American president should be impeached': GOP witness Jonathan Turley 
to launch Trump defense
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by Jerry Dunleavy
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Jonathan Turley, the lone Republican legal expert selected for Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, will condemn the Democrat-led process. “This is not how an American president should be impeached,"... he will say, according to a copy of his prepared remarks obtained by the Washington Examiner. Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, will appear in front of the House Judiciary Committee alongside three Democrat-selected witnesses in its first Ukraine-related impeachment hearing. Turley will argue in his 53-page prepared remarks that the impeachment process, led mainly by the House Intelligence Committee, has been rushed and incomplete, based on assumptions, missing key witnesses, and fueled by anger. “I get it. You are mad. The president is mad. My Republican friends are mad. My wife is mad. My kids are mad. Even my dog is mad … and Luna is a golden doodle, and they are never mad. We are all mad, and where has it taken us?” Turley will say. “Will a slipshod impeachment make us less mad, or will it only give an invitation for the madness to follow in every future administration?” Turley criticized Democrats, who for two years “have declared that criminal and impeachable acts were established for everything from treason to conspiracy to obstruction,” and yet “no action was taken to impeach” until “suddenly, just a few weeks ago, the House announced it would begin an impeachment inquiry and push for a final vote in just a matter of weeks.” During the July 25 phone call that led to an August whistleblower complaint spurring the impeachment proceedings, President Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "to do us a favor" by looking into the CrowdStrike conspiracy theory  and allegations of Ukrainian election interference in 2016. Trump also urged Zelensky to investigate “the other thing,” referring to allegations of corruption related to loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden.The former vice president is the front-runner in the Democratic primary to challenge Trump in 2020. Hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid to Ukraine were held up for weeks in what Democrats call a “quid pro quo.” Turley will note the military aid was eventually released and say the relatively small number of impeachment witnesses who spoke to the Intelligence Committee had largely second-hand information...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/this-is-not-how-an-american-president-should-be-impeached-gop-witness-jonathan-turley-to-launch-trump-defense?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_12/04/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261  
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scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler Is Caught 
in His Own Quid Pro Quo
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by DOV FISCHER
{ spectator.org } ~ Life is interesting, isn’t it? And when the Democrats roll out “the Resistance,” their pathetic public corruption of our social contract, life also takes on aspects of shamefulness and hypocrisy... Take, for example, Act Two of their seasonal theatrical production, the Phantom of the Congress. We the audience now return from intermission to find scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, the villain of Act One, missing and replaced by scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, who seems less despicable because, beneath the surface, he is oh-so-vulnerable, oh-so-compromised, and oh-so-neutered. We wonder what has transpired during the period that the intermission passed over: Legislation to reduce the cost of prescription drugs and to get control over health care? Passage of the USMCA Trade Agreement among Mexico, Canada, and the United States? Military funding authorizations? Nope. None of it. It turns out that the intermission happened in real time, like Jack Bauer’s 24  television series. And nothing happened during intermission. Meanwhile, the stage hands have changed the scenery from the House Intelligence Committee to the House Judiciary Committee, while borrowing some of the props from the previous scene, including the big leather chair. And now we find scumbag liar-Nadler presiding over the “judicious” contemplation of the Intelligence Committee Report, comprised of a scumbag/liar-Schiff-load of malarkey derived from hearings — some “star chamber” secret and some public — that were tailored to deny Republicans the right to call critical witnesses, interrupted and cut off Republicans sometimes mid-sentence, and ultimately defaulted to resting on hearsay, innuendo, guessing, and presumptions. None of that kind of secondhand guessing matters as evidence or testimony in a real justice system, only in a corrupt sham of a proceeding. Most Americans are not aware of a secret known only to a limited number of law academics and professors — and to those of their students who took good notes and remembered what they learned even after final exams. To wit: There is a legal principle known as the “legislative privilege.” Under that rule, any legislator can say in the Senate or in the House of Representatives any darned thing he or she feels like saying, and the law shields the legislator from being sued for defamation. Thus, Harry dinky-Reid can lie on the Senate floor and say that rino-Mitt Romney failed to pay his income taxes for 10 years, with dinky-Reid knowing full well that he is outright lying through his teeth, and rino-Romney cannot do a thing about it. In the same way, scumbag/liar-Schiff can lie all he likes while in the House chamber, and he cannot be sued. Same with all the others. Same in the Senate. Democrat senators can lie about Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearings, and they cannot be sued. Even Blasey Ford could fry-whisper all her lies and cannot be sued based on what she testified in the Senate chamber. That’s the “legislative privilege,” and the protection applies to all who speak inside the House or Senate, even witnesses. Did you know that? Heckuva thing, no? In the same way that elected representatives can lie without consequence when they stay in their playground facility, they can also make corrupt and deviant rules without consequence. In a real court of law, for example, hearsay is inadmissible. There is a reason, and one does not need to be an attorney to understand this. In all your own life, did it ever happen that someone told you something bad about someone else the “target” behind that other person’s back, and then you reported it back to the targeted person or demanded that the targeted person take responsibility for the wrong he or she did — and then that person came back at you and said, “What in the world are you talking about?” And then you told the person what you had been told secondhand, and that targeted person not only denied it but also demanded that you and he together now go to the initial gossiper and confront him or her. And then you went back to the source, the original tale-bearer, with the targeted person standing alongside you, and the gossiper then suddenly said, “I never said that!”...  https://spectator.org/jerrold-nadler-is-caught-in-his-own-quid-pro-quo/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=b8561d9bb6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_04_03_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-b8561d9bb6-104608113   
Fox’s backstabber-Napolitano Calls Trump Impeachment Strategy ‘Very Unwise’
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By Connor Mannion
{ mediaite.com } ~ Fox News analyst backstabber-Andrew Napolitano struck out at President Donald Trump’s decision to not send lawyers to an upcoming impeachment hearing... calling the move “very unwise.” “I am curious what you make of the fact that the president might want to skip out on this Judiciary Committee opening hearing and maybe others to follow, because it is essentially a Kangaroo court or it’s not fair,” Neil Cavuto said on Your World Monday. “The rules about which the president are complaining were written by a Republican House of Representatives in 2015. The president would be very unwise not to send lawyers there,” backstabber-Napolitano responded. “The Democrats are not doing anything that the Democrats did not do to Nixon or the Republicans didn’t do the scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton. But I think he makes a mistake when he refuses to participate. It is a valid vote by the House of Representatives that authorized this,” he continued. “He also loses the argument that it’s unfair if he doesn’t take the opportunity to participate himself.” backstabber-Napolitano again defended his belief that Trump’s actions have merited impeachment. “In my view, it is clearly impeachable because it involves two potential crimes,” backstabber-Napolitano said. “The crime of bribery … which is defined as the failure to do an official act, release the $391 million, until a favor comes your way: not conduct an investigation, announce the existence of an investigation of loose lips liar-Joe Biden. The other crime is asking for campaign aide from a foreign national. That’s a crime in and of itself, just asking.” “They are free to say that’s not an impeachable offense, but they are not free to say it didn’t happen, because the evidence that it happened is overwhelming,” he said.  https://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-napolitano-calls-trump-impeachment-strategy-very-unwise-cant-argue-process-is-unfair-if-he-doesnt-send-lawyers/   
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Historians Rebuke '1619 Project'
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Lewis Morris:  Leftists have long relied on misinformation and propaganda to advance their agenda. They use outright lies and the rewriting of history to sway the young and impressionable to their cause because the facts are just not on their side.

True to form, earlier this year The New York Times, one of the Left’s most influential propaganda organs, gave us the 1619 Project, which seeks to “reframe” the year 1619 as the “true” founding of America in an attempt to cast America as fundamentally racist to its core.

What do leftists find so special about the year 1619? According to the Times, that’s when slavery was introduced in the New World. Fake news! Once again, leftists get it wrong. Some Native American tribes practiced slavery for centuries before that, and the Spanish enslaved Native Americans a hundred years earlier. But this isn’t about slavery itself. This is about making the claim that America was founded not for the cause of Liberty but to establish a slave-ocracy.

The project leans hard into identity politics at the core of the Democrat Party and the Left in general. Leftists often claim that every institution in modern America is inherently racist, from our schools to our economy, even the roads on which we drive. With the 1619 Project, the revisionists now equate these supposedly racist institutions with the slavery of America’s past so that they can say we haven’t changed, and nothing short of a “fundamental transformation of the United States” will save us. In other words, vote Democrat. (Just forget while you do that Democrats were the party of slavery and lynching.)

The 1619 project is a broadside attack on American history and how it is taught. Don’t be complacent about the reach of the New York Times just because its readership consists primarily of people who already believe the muck that it prints every day. Much of America’s print news media still takes its cues from the Times, reprinting its articles and often using the Times itself as a source for reporting. Worse, public schools across the country are encouraged to insert the 1619 Project into their already feeble American history curriculums. There are also regular features in the Sunday Times magazine, a website, a podcast, and other assorted 1619 propaganda.

Fortunately, many of America’s preeminent history scholars have spoken out against the 1619 Project for lacking context and being factually incorrect. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Brown University professor  Gordon Wood points out, “Slavery existed for thousands of years without substantial criticism. And the first real anti-slave movement takes place in North America. And it’s a massive movement that is unprecedented in the history of the world.”

Fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson, who has written extensively about the Civil War, said, “I think it lacks context. [It] lacks perspective on the entire course of slavery and how slavery began and how slavery in the United States was hardly unique.”

Award-winning writer James Oakes also criticized the 1619 Project. “These are really dangerous tropes. They’re not only ahistorical, they’re actually anti-historical.”

None of these historians were consulted for the 1619 Project, and Wood notes that he is unaware of any of his colleagues who were approached. That is because the 1619 Project is not a work of history, it is a political propaganda constructed by journalists and leftist opinion writers. The real goal of the 1619 project is nothing short of rewriting American history to tear down our institutions and convince young people to hate this country.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67115?mailing_id=4701&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4701&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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'scumbag/liar-Schiff Show' Roundup:
Republican Rebuttal
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Nate Jackson  
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The Dems' Lose-Lose Situation
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By William L. Gensert
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Having forced the nation to endure weeks of himself pretending to be god and trumpeting hearsay testimony as "revelatory," scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff has retired to his candlelit study to write in his own carefully drawn blood his “Impeachment Report.”... From there it goes to scumbag liar-Nadler, who will concur. After that, liar-Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have a decision to make as to how they will proceed. And none of their options are good. Unlike the desperately difficult to find “win-win” situation, they have created for themselves a “lose-lose” proposition. Democrats find themselves in quite the quandary. They have been planning Donald Trump’s impeachment since the second Wednesday of November 2016. The more manipulative among them, those of the “insurance policy,” were taking precautions even before then Lisa Page’s recent profession of purity of heart notwithstanding. Yet, despite their solipsistic insistence that they are the “thinking” party, the party of “science,” and of candidates with a thousand plans and ideas, Trump always seemed to have the Democrats flummoxed. The day after they took Robert Swan Mueller III away from watching the Weather Channel and propped him up like Elvis Presley’s coat to testify in front of “House Colostomy Bag” scumbag liar-Jerrold Lewis Nadler’s committee and he showed himself to be a mere figurehead more interested in what was for lunch than what was in his own report, they rolled out the “new charges, same swamp” faux “whistleblower," Eric Ciaramella, a nice Italian boy. They could have shown some humility and let it drop, after having wrongly and relentlessly publicly chased the man for more than three years only to be reduced to claiming that an innocent man screaming, “I’m innocent” was obstructing justice. Confident that Americans hated Donald Trump, and with the next election less than two years away, they could have concentrated on their jobs -- you know, as legislators -- but they just couldn’t pull the trigger on doing the right thing. Because, despite always calling Republicans, “haters,” their hatred of Trump was not only their prime but absolute motivation. Yet, as much as it motivated, it blinded. They just had to take another shot at the king. And so, we had the embarrassingly unfair impeachment inquiry.  Even then, after all their plans, all their ideas, all their machinations in designing a made-for-TV pseudo-impeachment where all the rules were stacked against the president and his supporters on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, they still failed. This is scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s committee and it’s important to note that a committee on “intelligence:" is headed by not only a known moron, but a most dangerous of morons, a moron who doesn’t know he’s a moron. Just as dinky/liar-Warren is 1/1024 Native American, scumbag/liar-Schiff is 1/1024 genius. liar-Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat House Majority Leader, is decidedly no idiot. She is an effective Majority Leader, who unlike Republican Majority Leaders, has a unique ability to hold her caucus together when it counts.  Think scumbag/liar-nObamaCare. Well, liar-Nancy was trepidatious about impeachment from the get-go. She knew and said that any impeachment would need to have broad bipartisan and public support. What changed?...
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Professor Jonathan Turley
 Opening Statement – Video and Transcript
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor and not a supporter of President Trump, warned House lawmakers today against impeaching a President without merit... Mr. Turley said that to impeach Trump based on the current evidence “would be to expose every future president to the same type of inchoate impeachment.” Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler, ranking member Collins, members of the Judiciary Committee, my name is Jonathan Turley, and I am a law professor at George Washington University where I hold the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law. It is an honor to appear before you today to discuss one of the most solemn and important constitutional functions bestowed on this House by the Framers of our Constitution: the impeachment of the President of the United States.Twenty-one years ago, I sat here before you, Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler, and other members of the Judiciary Committee to testify on the history and meaning of the constitutional impeachment standard as part of the impeachment of President scubag/liar-William Jefferson Clinton. I never thought that I would have to appear a second time to address the same question with regard to another sitting president. Yet, here we are. Some elements are strikingly similar. The intense rancor and rage of the public debate is the same. It was an atmosphere that the Framers anticipated. Alexander Hamilton warned that charges of impeachable conduct “will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.” As with the scumbag/liar-Clinton impeachment, the Trump impeachment has again proven Hamilton’s words to be prophetic...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/04/professor-jonathan-turley-opening-statement-video-and-transcript/  
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Is it Time to Designate CAIR 
as a Terrorist Organization?
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By Mario Alexis Portella
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Last week's stabbings by Usman Khan, a devout Muslim who murdered two people and injured three others on London Bridge, by far overshadowed the arrest of Zachary Clark, 40, of Brooklyn, New York, the day before Americans celebrated Thanksgiving... Clark, who faces up to forty years in prison, was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS, and one count of distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction. The arrest, as U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman for the Southern District of New York stated, was made possible through surveillance by the Joint Terrorist Task Force. The force included cops mainly Muslims themselves going undercover in Muslim areas to become more familiar with them and gain background info for future investigations or leads on possible attacks. While there is nothing wrong with such practices in defense of innocent lives, Islamic advocacy groups such as the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), with headquarters in Washington, D.C., have publicly opposed such programs, ranting that they are religiously and racially motivated to discriminate against Muslims. And there is a reason for this: CAIR is linked to Islamic terrorist groups. CAIR’s mission is “to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.” Yet, as detailed at length by the Center for Security Policy, since its founding in 1993, CAIR has presented itself publicly as a benign Muslim American "civil rights organization." But from that time to this, the United States government has known that CAIR actually is an entity founded by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian franchise: Hamas, a group officially designated since 1994 as a terrorist organization. Evidence of CAIR’s true character as a U.S.-based instrument for political warfare and fundraising for Hamas -- and the federal government’s certain knowledge of the truth -- did not come to light until the largest terrorism financing trial in the nation’s history: the 2007-2008 Holy Land Foundation prosecution. In the course of that trial, FBI Agent Laura Burns testified about the wiretap and surveillance transcripts of two planning sessions held in Philadelphia in October 1993 and leading up to the organizational meeting of CAIR. Specifically, she presented proof that CAIR’s mission was to assist “Sister Samah,” its founders’ hardly opaque code-name for Hamas, as the prospect of its terror designation loomed. Some of its employees and board members have also been charged with terrorism, such as Randall "Ismail" Royer. An American convert to Islam, Royer served as CAIR's communications specialist and civil rights coordinator. Today he sits in jail on terrorism-related charges...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/is_it_time_to_designate_cair_as_a_terrorist_organization.html 
Supreme Court shows little appetite for 
expanding gun rights in arguments 
over repealed New York regulation
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by Tucker Higgins
{ cnbc.com  } ~vThe Supreme Court seemed unlikely to deliver a major win for gun-rights activists during arguments on Monday in the first significant Second Amendment case the justices have heard in nearly a decade... The case was challenging a New York City gun regulation that barred the transport of handguns outside of the city, even to a second home or firing range. After the court agreed to hear the case, though, the city did away with the regulation and the state passed a law that prevented the city from reviving it. While court conservatives including Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito seemed eager to use the case to address the reach of the Second Amendment, it appeared likely after an hour of arguments that Chief Justice John Roberts would side with the court’s liberals to dismiss the matter altogether as moot in light of the repeal of the regulation. The dispute had one of the highest profiles of the court’s term. The court has not addressed gun legislation since deciding two landmark cases in 2008 and 2010, which held that the Second Amendment protected the individual right to keep guns for the purpose of self-defense in the home. A decision in thew New York case is expected by July, in the midst of the 2020 presidential election. The nation’s gun laws have become one of the key issues in the Democratic race amidst an uptick in mass-shooting deaths and youth-led activism, though substantive new legislation is seen as all-but-impossible for the foreseeable future under divided government. Paul Clement, who argued on behalf of three gun owners in New York and a state affiliate of the National Rifle Association, argued that the case was still active because the city had not been required to say the regulation was unconstitutional. Clement also argued that even under New York’s new regulations, gun owners could still be penalized if they did not travel with their handgun directly to a firing range or home outside the city, such as if they stopped for coffee...  https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/02/supreme-court-shows-little-appetite-for-expanding-gun-rights.html   
MSM Now Compares Trump 
Supporters to ISIS Followers
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By Meira Svirsky
{ clarionproject.org } ~ The latest trope against American people who support President Trump is to say they are like ISIS followers, as pointed out by The Daily Caller... “True believers” said with a depreciating and knowing chuckle, a catch-phrase of the mainstream media to indicate they are akin to members of a cult – “dead enders.”  Watch MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance on “Hardball with Chris Matthews” say that Trump supporters and ISIS followers are “very similar”: “I’ve seen a lot of phenomenon in my life. I’ve seen a lot of operations. You know, the behaviors that I am seeing here, and this is anecdotal, are very similar to the way that ISIS members are,” Nance says. “They are true believers — and this is their reality and they will not surrender it. You know, they’re dead-enders.” Afterwards, Matthews agrees, saying, “Malcolm, I love your attitude. As we say in Philly … you got it. Thank you for coming on tonight.” At the same time, other media outlets were pumping out the comparison of Trump supporters to cult members. CNN’s Brian Stelter, among others, pushed a new book written by “mental health counselor” Steven Hassan, the author of “Cult of Trump,” who contends that Trump supporters are you guessed it part of a “destructive cult.” Hassan, whose credentials include being a former member of “The Moonies,” opines that the president is using mind control over his “loyal and dependent and obedient followers.” MSNBC host Joy Reid also pushed the cult trope, saying “There’s a lot of evidence that is a racial and religious cult of personality, in which his base is solidly among the white evangelicals that almost worship him and say that he’s the chosen one of God.”... MSM are totally sick and wrong.  https://clarionproject.org/msm-now-compares-trump-supporters-to-isis-followers/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=afdfad3987-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_04_02_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-afdfad3987-6442509&mc_cid=afdfad3987&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5 
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'scumbag/liar-Schiff Show' Roundup:
Republican Rebuttal
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Nate Jackson:  “The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system.” That’s the summation of a 123-page report issued by House Republicans Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, and Michael McCaul. “The evidence presented does not prove any of these Democrat allegations, and none of the Democrats’ witnesses testified to having evidence of bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor.”

“The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry paints a picture of unelected bureaucrats within the foreign policy and national security apparatus who fundamentally disagreed with President Trump’s style, world view, and decisions,” the report concludes. “Their disagreements with President Trump’s policies and their discomfort with President Trump’s actions set in motion the anonymous, secondhand whistleblower complaint. Democrats seized on the whistleblower complaint to fulfill their years-old obsession with removing President Trump from office.”

That pretty well sums it up. The Republican report is a “prebuttal” of sorts for the report expected later today from House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, who will attempt to make the case for impeachment as a layup to House Judiciary Committee hearings that begin tomorrow. scumbag/liar-Schiff says he’s rushing his report because of the dire circumstances: “This is a threat to the integrity of the upcoming election, and we don’t feel it should wait, in particular when we already have overwhelming evidence of the president’s misconduct.”

We pause to note that scumbag/liar-Schiff’s report waited while Democrats took a week-long Thanksgiving break.

Meanwhile, Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler finally released his first list of witnesses.  According to The Wall Street Journal, “The Judiciary panel’s impeachment hearing on Wednesday will be its first on the matter, and it will hear from a group of experts on what constitutes an impeachable offense. Four academics are scheduled to testify on the opening day: Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School; Pamela Karlan of Stanford Law School; Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina School of Law; and Jonathan Turley of George Washington University Law School.”

Finally, in a development that would be no surprise whatsoever, “House Democrats are debating whether to expand articles of impeachment to include charges beyond abuse of power in the Ukraine controversy,” reports The Washington Post. “Members of the House Judiciary Committee and other more liberal-minded lawmakers and congressional aides have been privately discussing the possibility of drafting articles that include obstruction of justice or other ‘high crimes’ they believe are clearly outlined in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report — or allegations that Trump has used his office to benefit his bottom line.”

Translation: Democrats think combining the fizzled impeachment coup 1.0 (Trump/Russia) with its coup 2.0 sequel (Trump/Ukraine), is the combo to defeat Trump. Color us skeptical.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67116?mailing_id=4701&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4701&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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liar-Pelosi Sends Climate
Alarmist Virtue Signal
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Thomas Gallatin
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Democrats Are Watering Down 
Impeachment into a Mere Recall Effort
By Peggy Ryan
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Days before Donald Trump was to be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, Representative scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters called for him to be impeached for dubbing his opponent, "Crooked scumbag/liar-Hillary" during his campaign... Since name-calling doesn't qualify as high crimes or misdemeanors, the impeachment call fizzled, seen as another crazy scumbag/mad-Maxine rant. That was a mistake. Just 19 minutes after President Trump was sworn in, the Washington Post announced, "The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun," this time for being rich. Every day since, networks breathlessly report new impeachment calls for tweeting, for unspoken words, for being an "inciter" of "hatred." There are 98 reasons to date. In fact, the term "impeach" has been so overused that it's losing its authority. It is seen no longer as a pivotal event in our country's history, but rather just as another political battle. The Left has effectively recast impeachment as a recall. In a recall, a public official may be removed from office before his term expires, often for any reason or no reason at all. Conversely, the Constitution specifies that impeachment is only for treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Now, I know the Constitution wasn't written for uneducated rubes like me. One needs a law degree, political office, or a spot on cable TV to be qualified to interpret the "real" meaning of the Constitution. Nevertheless, I'll weigh in. Note the wording: impeachment for  "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Thus, evidence of one of the aforementioned conditions legal jargon inserted for credentialing must exist to trigger impeachment — in other words, evidence of a crime before, not after the impeachment process. But lack of cause is not an issue because, as Gerald Ford posited, "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." No, Gerald, impeachment is a constitutional tool to remove a president who behaves in a manner deleterious to public welfare, not to remove a political enemy. "The Framers meant for the phrase 'high crimes and misdemeanors' to signify only conduct that seriously harms the public and seriously compromises the officer's ability to continue. If the phrase is given a less rigorous interpretation, it could allow Congress to influence and control the President and the courts." —Neil J. Kinkopf Oh, so serious. Don't these constitutional scholars know that Congress is like a grand jury, can impeach a ham sandwich should it so desire? But this impeachment sham is serious, deadly serious. Democrats' creeping tyranny is how elected dictators take control of their country. They get elected, take control of media, warp, rewrite, then dispense with the country's constitution. Then they're free to arrest and incarcerate political enemies without cause, without representation, without an actual crime...
Trump-Critic Impeachment Witness To 
Democrats: Sorry, You Just Don’t 
Have The Evidence To Impeach
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By  James Barrett
{ dailywire.com } ~ George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley has been “highly critical” of President Trump and has consistently voted for Democratic presidents... but he has a strong warning for the House Judiciary Committee on the first day of its impeachment hearings: While President Trump’s July 25 phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart was “anything but perfect,” the Democrats have simply failed to obtain the adequate evidence to make a case for such a serious action as removing the sitting president of the United States. To push this impeachment forward, Turley warns, is “dangerous.”  The four impeachment witnesses for the Judiciary Committee-led hearing Wednesday are all law professors, and three of them, selected by Democrats, are expected to heartily endorse the Democrats’ impeachment effort. Only the lone Republican-selected witness allowed by the Democrats to testify Wednesday, Turley — a self-described Trump critic and Democratic voter — will push back agains the Democrats’ impeachment campaign. The impeachment “is not wrong because President Trump is right,” says Turley in his 53-page opening statement. While Trump’s famous call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “anything but perfect,” Turley argues, and a case for impeachment “could be made,” “it cannot be made on this record,” as all of the evidence has been second-hand at best. After explaining that he’s been “highly critical of President Trump, his policies, and his rhetoric, in dozens of columns,” and voted against him in the 2016 election — and for both scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama before that — Turley makes the case that what the Democrats are doing by pushing forward with the partisan impeachment of Trump is actually “dangerous”: I would like to start, perhaps incongruously, with a statement of three irrelevant facts. First, I am not a supporter of President Trump. I voted against him in 2016 and I have previously voted for Presidents scumbag/liar-Clinton and scumbag/liar-nObama. Second, I have been highly critical of President Trump, his policies, and his rhetoric, in dozens of columns. Third, I have repeatedly criticized his raising of the investigation of the Hunter Biden matter with the Ukrainian president. These points are not meant to curry favor or approval. Rather they are meant to drive home a simple point: one can oppose President Trump’s policies or actions but still conclude that the current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but in some respects, dangerous, as the basis for the impeachment of an American president. To put it simply, I hold no brief for President Trump. My personal and political views of President Trump, however, are irrelevant to my impeachment testimony, as they should be to your impeachment vote. Today, my only concern is the integrity and coherence of the constitutional standard and process of impeachment. President Trump will not be our last president and what we leave in the wake of this scandal will shape our democracy for generations to come. I am concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger. If the House proceeds solely on the Ukrainian allegations, this impeachment would stand out among modern impeachments as the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record, and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president. That does not bode well for future presidents who are working in a country often sharply and, at times, bitterly divided...
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“Shifty” scumbag/liar-Schiff 
Won’t Force Bolton to Testify
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by unitedvoice.com ~ House Intelligence Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-CA) said in an interview Sunday that the Dems won’t take John Bolton to court to force him to testify... scumbag/liar-Schiff said that he hopes the former national security adviser will have the “courage” to testify and if he doesn’t, “He will have to explain one day if he maintains that position, why he wanted to wait to put it in a book instead of telling the American people what he knew when it really mattered to the country.” Bolton has been mentioned numerous times over the past two weeks of impeachment hearings. scumbag/liar-Schiff claims that there is already enough evidence without Bolton having to speak officially on his dealings with President Trump and Ukraine. It’s interesting that scumbag/liar-Schiff said he hopes that Bolton has the “courage” to testify when he doesn’t have this courage himself. There have been many requests by Trump and other Republicans for scumbag/liar-Schiff to testify on whether he met with the whistleblower to make up accusations. scumbag/liar-Schiff has denied knowing who the whistleblower is, but he also said he doesn’t want to testify. What could he be hiding? Shifty get the whistleblower to testify.  https://www.unitedvoice.com/shifty-schiff-wont-force-bolton-to-testify/?aff_id=1262&utm_placement=reliable-news  
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Trump hits back after Trudeau 
appears to mock him in NATO summit
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By Joseph A. Wulfsohn 
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday as "two-faced" after video surfaced of some of the world's top leaders at the NATO summit in London appearing to laugh at his expense... Asked about the video during a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Trump said of Trudeau, “he’s two-faced.” Trump then abruptly canceled a planned news conference with reporters in London. "When today’s meetings are over, I will be heading back to Washington," Trump tweeted. "We won’t be doing a press conference at the close of NATO because we did so many over the past two days. Safe travels to all!" In a video shared by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), Trudeau, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and French President  Emmanuel Macron are seen with others, including Princess Anne, having a conversation at a reception at the Buckingham Palace about a press conference earlier in the day. Trump had made an impromptu conference and weighed in on the ongoing impeachment inquiry as well as the fiery exchange he had with Macron over France not taking back any ISIS fighters. "Is that why you were late?" Boris smirked to Macron. "He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top — 'Oh, ya, ya ya,'" Trudeau said, later adding, "You just watched his team's jaws drop to the floor." The video went viral on social media, many assuming the world leaders were talking about Trump. "Can’t get over this video, both for the fact that POTUS hates the thought of anyone laughing at him and for the fact that he long used “other countries are laughing at us” as an attack against his predecessors," New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reacted. "This happens at every NATO summit with Trump. Every G7. Every G20. The US President is mocked by US allies behind his back," political commentator Ian Bremmer wrote...   https://www.foxnews.com/media/trudeau-johnson-macron-appear-to-be-mocking-trump-at-nato-summit-in-surfaced-video  
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scumbag/liar-Schiff somehow obtained phone records of Nunes, Solomon, Giuliani
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{ independentsentinel.com } ~ As part of the impeachment inquiry, hard-left scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff obtained Rep. Nunes’ phone records. He also obtained his aide’s Derek Harvey’s phone records... Additionally, scumbag/liar-Schiff and Democrats obtained phone records for President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and investigative reporter John Solomon. How is this constitutional? It sounds like a serious violation of the President’s civil rights, the civil rights of Giuliani, Solomon, and Harvey, and it’s an abuse of power. This is really outrageous and worthy of a KGB. Why aren’t the Republicans or Attorney General Bill Barr intervening? This is insane. scumbag/liar-Schiff won’t say how he got these records. Call this scumbag/liar-Schiff character into a hearing and demand that he explain where he obtained these private records. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff is trying to say these phone records prove Nunes is colluding with the President. Democrats want to get Nunes because he’s a fighter. “It is deeply concerning that at a time when the president of the United States was using the power of his office to dig up dirt on a political rival, that there may be evidence that there were members of Congress complicit in that activity,” scumbag/liar-Schiff said on Tuesday of Nunes’ communications with Ukrainian-American Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani. How do these calls prove anything? We don’t even have evidence the President misused his office... scumbag/liar-Shfiff has not legal right to obtain phone records.  https://www.independentsentinel.com/schiff-somehow-obtained-phone-records-of-nunes-solomon-giuliani/   
Fighting for Control & Concessions
Hamas Pauses Border Riots to Quell Dissent
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by investigativeproject.org ~ Since March 2018, Hamas has held near-weekly violent protests on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. It sent busloads of Palestinian men to the Israeli border, dispatched operatives to launch incendiary devices... and encouraged rioters to infiltrate Israel and carry out attacks. But for the past three Fridays, the Israel-Gaza border has been unusually calm. Reports indicate those protests will resume this week. But the question remains, why did Hamas decide to halt violent demonstrations this past month? Before exploring some potential explanations, it's worth noting that it is now an open fact that Hamas plans these violent protests, controls their tempo, and decides when they stop. When weekly demonstrations first broke out, outside observers were duped into believing the protests were peaceful, spontaneous expressions of popular Palestinian discontent. More than a year later, we can fully put that narrative to rest. A Hamas-run committee, the High National Commission for the March of Return and Breaking the Siege, recently met to discuss whether protests should be toned down in light of the latest escalation of violence between Israel and mainly Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists. Deliberations included potentially "rolling back the marches to once a month or during national occasions," a Hamas committee member told the Hizballah-affiliated al-Akhbar daily on Nov. 22, the Times of Israel  reported. No decision has been reached. Similar deliberations about the Gaza border protests took place earlier this year. After a temporary lull in protests, a Hamas source, cited in al-Akhbar, threatened to re-start the terrorist group's arson terrorism campaign, sending incendiary kites and balloons toward Israeli communities. Another senior Hamas official said the "return marches" would start increasing in severity and that "non-violent" means, including arson terror campaigns, would be reignited if Israel failed to comply with Hamas demands...   https://www.investigativeproject.org/8191/fighting-for-control-concessions-hamas-pauses 
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liar-Pelosi Sends Climate Alarmist 
Virtue Signal
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Thomas Gallatin:  As the Democrats’ effort to convince the country that President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached falters and is on the verge of backfiring, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi decided it was time to change the subject. So, with a delegation of House Democrats in tow, liar-Pelosi jetted off to the UN’s latest climate summit, known as COP25, in Madrid, Spain. She declared that, despite the fact that Trump  initiated our official withdrawal from the dubious 2015 Paris Agreement, the U.S. is “still in.” liar-Pelosi asserted, “By coming here we want to say to everyone we are still in. The United States is still in. Our delegation is here to send a message that Congress’s commitment to take action on the climate crisis is ironclad.”
 

The Democrats’ favorite boogieman is “climate change,” but they clearly don’t believe it’s real based upon their behavior and proposed “solutions.” Nevertheless, they love to ring the alarm bells, virtue signaling their “commitment” to “save the planet.” Of course, as we have repeatedly noted, the solutions Democrats offer would do nothing to mitigate climate change and in fact would cause greater local ecological damage, while at the same time destroying the American economy — which is their real agenda.

The reality is that since 2007, CO2 emissions have fallen in the U.S. by 14%, thanks in large part to the natural-gas boom from shale fracking, which the ecofascists and Vladimir Putin want to shut down. Furthermore, as of 2017, America’s emissions were 5% lower than in 1990, despite a population increase of at least 75 million. And a majority of Americans recognize that the climate alarmists’ proposed solutions would only lead to less freedom and more government interference in their lives, followed by more suffering. They simply aren’t buying the Democrats’ “solution.”

Hence the climate alarmists’ push to rebrand “climate change” into something that sounds much more dire and imminent. “Global meltdown” or “global melting” are a couple of terms proposed by climate activist Aaron Hall. He explains, “After the global climate strike this past September, I found myself thinking about the terms ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming.’ Are these scientific terms too neutral? Do they do enough to grab attention and inspire people to take action?” While his proposed alternative terms sound silly, liar-Pelosi has clearly bought into the concept, as she emphasized that climate change was a “crisis.” In fact, the term “climate crisis” has increasingly gained traction with the mainstream media. And former Secretary of State hanoi-John Kerry continues the half-century leftist obsession with treating domestic concerns as warfare, insisting, “We’ve got to treat this like a war.”

The truth is, the Democrats’ problem isn’t with “climate change” or whatever new alarmist term they adopt; it’s with capitalism. This is demonstrated by their continual refusal to praise and recognize the American free-market economy as the most effective means of producing practical solutions to tackle the challenges caused by climate change, all while they turn a blind eye to the planet’s largest polluter, communist China.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67118?mailing_id=4701&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4701&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Impeachment into a Mere Recall Effort
By Peggy Ryan
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Days before Donald Trump was to be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, Representative scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters called for him to be impeached for dubbing his opponent, "Crooked scumbag/liar-Hillary" during his campaign... Since name-calling doesn't qualify as high crimes or misdemeanors, the impeachment call fizzled, seen as another crazy scumbag/mad-Maxine rant. That was a mistake. Just 19 minutes after President Trump was sworn in, the Washington Post announced, "The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun," this time for being rich. Every day since, networks breathlessly report new impeachment calls for tweeting, for unspoken words, for being an "inciter" of "hatred." There are 98 reasons to date. In fact, the term "impeach" has been so overused that it's losing its authority. It is seen no longer as a pivotal event in our country's history, but rather just as another political battle. The Left has effectively recast impeachment as a recall. In a recall, a public official may be removed from office before his term expires, often for any reason or no reason at all. Conversely, the Constitution specifies that impeachment is only for treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Now, I know the Constitution wasn't written for uneducated rubes like me. One needs a law degree, political office, or a spot on cable TV to be qualified to interpret the "real" meaning of the Constitution. Nevertheless, I'll weigh in. Note the wording: impeachment for  "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Thus, evidence of one of the aforementioned conditions legal jargon inserted for credentialing must exist to trigger impeachment — in other words, evidence of a crime before, not after the impeachment process. But lack of cause is not an issue because, as Gerald Ford posited, "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." No, Gerald, impeachment is a constitutional tool to remove a president who behaves in a manner deleterious to public welfare, not to remove a political enemy. "The Framers meant for the phrase 'high crimes and misdemeanors' to signify only conduct that seriously harms the public and seriously compromises the officer's ability to continue. If the phrase is given a less rigorous interpretation, it could allow Congress to influence and control the President and the courts." —Neil J. Kinkopf Oh, so serious. Don't these constitutional scholars know that Congress is like a grand jury, can impeach a ham sandwich should it so desire? But this impeachment sham is serious, deadly serious. Democrats' creeping tyranny is how elected dictators take control of their country. They get elected, take control of media, warp, rewrite, then dispense with the country's constitution. Then they're free to arrest and incarcerate political enemies without cause, without representation, without an actual crime...
Trump-Critic Impeachment Witness To 
Democrats: Sorry, You Just Don’t 
Have The Evidence To Impeach
By  James Barrett
{ dailywire.com } ~ George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley has been “highly critical” of President Trump and has consistently voted for Democratic presidents... but he has a strong warning for the House Judiciary Committee on the first day of its impeachment hearings: While President Trump’s July 25 phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart was “anything but perfect,” the Democrats have simply failed to obtain the adequate evidence to make a case for such a serious action as removing the sitting president of the United States. To push this impeachment forward, Turley warns, is “dangerous.”  The four impeachment witnesses for the Judiciary Committee-led hearing Wednesday are all law professors, and three of them, selected by Democrats, are expected to heartily endorse the Democrats’ impeachment effort. Only the lone Republican-selected witness allowed by the Democrats to testify Wednesday, Turley — a self-described Trump critic and Democratic voter — will push back agains the Democrats’ impeachment campaign. The impeachment “is not wrong because President Trump is right,” says Turley in his 53-page opening statement. While Trump’s famous call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “anything but perfect,” Turley argues, and a case for impeachment “could be made,” “it cannot be made on this record,” as all of the evidence has been second-hand at best. After explaining that he’s been “highly critical of President Trump, his policies, and his rhetoric, in dozens of columns,” and voted against him in the 2016 election — and for both scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama before that — Turley makes the case that what the Democrats are doing by pushing forward with the partisan impeachment of Trump is actually “dangerous”: I would like to start, perhaps incongruously, with a statement of three irrelevant facts. First, I am not a supporter of President Trump. I voted against him in 2016 and I have previously voted for Presidents scumbag/liar-Clinton and scumbag/liar-nObama. Second, I have been highly critical of President Trump, his policies, and his rhetoric, in dozens of columns. Third, I have repeatedly criticized his raising of the investigation of the Hunter Biden matter with the Ukrainian president. These points are not meant to curry favor or approval. Rather they are meant to drive home a simple point: one can oppose President Trump’s policies or actions but still conclude that the current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but in some respects, dangerous, as the basis for the impeachment of an American president. To put it simply, I hold no brief for President Trump. My personal and political views of President Trump, however, are irrelevant to my impeachment testimony, as they should be to your impeachment vote. Today, my only concern is the integrity and coherence of the constitutional standard and process of impeachment. President Trump will not be our last president and what we leave in the wake of this scandal will shape our democracy for generations to come. I am concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger. If the House proceeds solely on the Ukrainian allegations, this impeachment would stand out among modern impeachments as the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record, and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president. That does not bode well for future presidents who are working in a country often sharply and, at times, bitterly divided...
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“Shifty” scumbag/liar-Schiff 
Won’t Force Bolton to Testify
by unitedvoice.com ~ House Intelligence Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-CA) said in an interview Sunday that the Dems won’t take John Bolton to court to force him to testify... scumbag/liar-Schiff said that he hopes the former national security adviser will have the “courage” to testify and if he doesn’t, “He will have to explain one day if he maintains that position, why he wanted to wait to put it in a book instead of telling the American people what he knew when it really mattered to the country.” Bolton has been mentioned numerous times over the past two weeks of impeachment hearings. scumbag/liar-Schiff claims that there is already enough evidence without Bolton having to speak officially on his dealings with President Trump and Ukraine. It’s interesting that scumbag/liar-Schiff said he hopes that Bolton has the “courage” to testify when he doesn’t have this courage himself. There have been many requests by Trump and other Republicans for scumbag/liar-Schiff to testify on whether he met with the whistleblower to make up accusations. scumbag/liar-Schiff has denied knowing who the whistleblower is, but he also said he doesn’t want to testify. What could he be hiding? Shifty get the whistleblower to testify.  https://www.unitedvoice.com/shifty-schiff-wont-force-bolton-to-testify/?aff_id=1262&utm_placement=reliable-news  
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Trump hits back after Trudeau 
appears to mock him in NATO summit
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn 
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday as "two-faced" after video surfaced of some of the world's top leaders at the NATO summit in London appearing to laugh at his expense... Asked about the video during a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Trump said of Trudeau, “he’s two-faced.” Trump then abruptly canceled a planned news conference with reporters in London. "When today’s meetings are over, I will be heading back to Washington," Trump tweeted. "We won’t be doing a press conference at the close of NATO because we did so many over the past two days. Safe travels to all!" In a video shared by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), Trudeau, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and French President  Emmanuel Macron are seen with others, including Princess Anne, having a conversation at a reception at the Buckingham Palace about a press conference earlier in the day. Trump had made an impromptu conference and weighed in on the ongoing impeachment inquiry as well as the fiery exchange he had with Macron over France not taking back any ISIS fighters. "Is that why you were late?" Boris smirked to Macron. "He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top — 'Oh, ya, ya ya,'" Trudeau said, later adding, "You just watched his team's jaws drop to the floor." The video went viral on social media, many assuming the world leaders were talking about Trump. "Can’t get over this video, both for the fact that POTUS hates the thought of anyone laughing at him and for the fact that he long used “other countries are laughing at us” as an attack against his predecessors," New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reacted. "This happens at every NATO summit with Trump. Every G7. Every G20. The US President is mocked by US allies behind his back," political commentator Ian Bremmer wrote...   https://www.foxnews.com/media/trudeau-johnson-macron-appear-to-be-mocking-trump-at-nato-summit-in-surfaced-video  
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scumbag/liar-Schiff somehow obtained phone records of Nunes, Solomon, Giuliani
By M. Dowling
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ As part of the impeachment inquiry, hard-left scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff obtained Rep. Nunes’ phone records. He also obtained his aide’s Derek Harvey’s phone records... Additionally, scumbag/liar-Schiff and Democrats obtained phone records for President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and investigative reporter John Solomon. How is this constitutional? It sounds like a serious violation of the President’s civil rights, the civil rights of Giuliani, Solomon, and Harvey, and it’s an abuse of power. This is really outrageous and worthy of a KGB. Why aren’t the Republicans or Attorney General Bill Barr intervening? This is insane. scumbag/liar-Schiff won’t say how he got these records. Call this scumbag/liar-Schiff character into a hearing and demand that he explain where he obtained these private records. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff is trying to say these phone records prove Nunes is colluding with the President. Democrats want to get Nunes because he’s a fighter. “It is deeply concerning that at a time when the president of the United States was using the power of his office to dig up dirt on a political rival, that there may be evidence that there were members of Congress complicit in that activity,” scumbag/liar-Schiff said on Tuesday of Nunes’ communications with Ukrainian-American Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani. How do these calls prove anything? We don’t even have evidence the President misused his office... scumbag/liar-Shfiff has not legal right to obtain phone records.  https://www.independentsentinel.com/schiff-somehow-obtained-phone-records-of-nunes-solomon-giuliani/   
Fighting for Control & Concessions
Hamas Pauses Border Riots to Quell Dissent
by investigativeproject.org ~ Since March 2018, Hamas has held near-weekly violent protests on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. It sent busloads of Palestinian men to the Israeli border, dispatched operatives to launch incendiary devices... and encouraged rioters to infiltrate Israel and carry out attacks. But for the past three Fridays, the Israel-Gaza border has been unusually calm. Reports indicate those protests will resume this week. But the question remains, why did Hamas decide to halt violent demonstrations this past month? Before exploring some potential explanations, it's worth noting that it is now an open fact that Hamas plans these violent protests, controls their tempo, and decides when they stop. When weekly demonstrations first broke out, outside observers were duped into believing the protests were peaceful, spontaneous expressions of popular Palestinian discontent. More than a year later, we can fully put that narrative to rest. A Hamas-run committee, the High National Commission for the March of Return and Breaking the Siege, recently met to discuss whether protests should be toned down in light of the latest escalation of violence between Israel and mainly Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists. Deliberations included potentially "rolling back the marches to once a month or during national occasions," a Hamas committee member told the Hizballah-affiliated al-Akhbar daily on Nov. 22, the Times of Israel  reported. No decision has been reached. Similar deliberations about the Gaza border protests took place earlier this year. After a temporary lull in protests, a Hamas source, cited in al-Akhbar, threatened to re-start the terrorist group's arson terrorism campaign, sending incendiary kites and balloons toward Israeli communities. Another senior Hamas official said the "return marches" would start increasing in severity and that "non-violent" means, including arson terror campaigns, would be reignited if Israel failed to comply with Hamas demands...   https://www.investigativeproject.org/8191/fighting-for-control-concessions-hamas-pauses 
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liar-Pelosi Sends Climate Alarmist 
Virtue Signal
Thomas Gallatin:  As the Democrats’ effort to convince the country that President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached falters and is on the verge of backfiring, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi decided it was time to change the subject. So, with a delegation of House Democrats in tow, liar-Pelosi jetted off to the UN’s latest climate summit, known as COP25, in Madrid, Spain. She declared that, despite the fact that Trump  initiated our official withdrawal from the dubious 2015 Paris Agreement, the U.S. is “still in.” liar-Pelosi asserted, “By coming here we want to say to everyone we are still in. The United States is still in. Our delegation is here to send a message that Congress’s commitment to take action on the climate crisis is ironclad.”
 

The Democrats’ favorite boogieman is “climate change,” but they clearly don’t believe it’s real based upon their behavior and proposed “solutions.” Nevertheless, they love to ring the alarm bells, virtue signaling their “commitment” to “save the planet.” Of course, as we have repeatedly noted, the solutions Democrats offer would do nothing to mitigate climate change and in fact would cause greater local ecological damage, while at the same time destroying the American economy — which is their real agenda.

The reality is that since 2007, CO2 emissions have fallen in the U.S. by 14%, thanks in large part to the natural-gas boom from shale fracking, which the ecofascists and Vladimir Putin want to shut down. Furthermore, as of 2017, America’s emissions were 5% lower than in 1990, despite a population increase of at least 75 million. And a majority of Americans recognize that the climate alarmists’ proposed solutions would only lead to less freedom and more government interference in their lives, followed by more suffering. They simply aren’t buying the Democrats’ “solution.”

Hence the climate alarmists’ push to rebrand “climate change” into something that sounds much more dire and imminent. “Global meltdown” or “global melting” are a couple of terms proposed by climate activist Aaron Hall. He explains, “After the global climate strike this past September, I found myself thinking about the terms ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming.’ Are these scientific terms too neutral? Do they do enough to grab attention and inspire people to take action?” While his proposed alternative terms sound silly, liar-Pelosi has clearly bought into the concept, as she emphasized that climate change was a “crisis.” In fact, the term “climate crisis” has increasingly gained traction with the mainstream media. And former Secretary of State hanoi-John Kerry continues the half-century leftist obsession with treating domestic concerns as warfare, insisting, “We’ve got to treat this like a war.”

The truth is, the Democrats’ problem isn’t with “climate change” or whatever new alarmist term they adopt; it’s with capitalism. This is demonstrated by their continual refusal to praise and recognize the American free-market economy as the most effective means of producing practical solutions to tackle the challenges caused by climate change, all while they turn a blind eye to the planet’s largest polluter, communist China.   ~The Patriot Post

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Attorney General Barr Outrages the Left 
by Standing Up for the Constitution 
and Our Republic
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Wednesday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


IMPEACHMENT REPORT UNVEILED: House Democrats vote to adopt Trump impeachment report, blast scheme to “solicit foreign interference” in 2020 race (Fox News)

lowlife-HARRIS OUT: lowlife-Kamala Harris ends bid for president: “I can’t tell you … that I have a path forward” (USA Today)

Government & Politics


CNN SUED: Devin Nunes slaps CNN with $435 million defamation lawsuit (The Washington Times)

SKETCHY: scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff obtained phone records of Nunes, journalist, and others (Power Line)

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Husband of Democrat in impeachment hearings took $700K from firms tied to Ukrainian oligarch “accused of ordering contract killings” (The Daily Wire)

GOOD COP, BAD COP: Georgia governor appoints Kelly Loeffler to Senate in defiance of Trump (National Review)

Military


INTOLERANCE: Army says faith-based group can no longer put Bible verses on dog tags after complaint (Fox News)

HISTORIC CONTRACT: “Generational leap”: Navy to pay $22 billion for nine nuclear-powered submarines (The Washington Times)

Business & Economy


COMMONSENSE REFORM: Trump administration to close food-stamp eligibility loopholes for able-bodied adults (The Daily Signal)

PUSHBACK: Hospital groups sue to block price-transparency rule (The Wall Street Journal)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Here are four pieces of great news for America and President Trump (PJ Media)

POLICY: Hong Kong shows Taiwan what unifying with China really means (Hudson Institute)

HUMOR: “My mom said you guys have to let me play,” defiant Colin Kaepernick tells kids playing flag football at park (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
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House Judiciary Committee – Academic “Groundwork” Hearing on Impeachment 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ At 10:00am ET the House Judiciary Committee will hold an “impeachment groundwork” hearing with a panel of left-wing resistance academics scheduled... to help democrats justify their urgent partisan efforts to remove President Trump from office. HJC Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler will be aided by contracted Lawfare attorney Norm Eisen for the effort. Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler promised his peers he will be very aggressive toward any opposition questioning that seeks to undermine the predetermined enterprise. The academic panel is scheduled to begin testifying to Mr. Eisen at 10:00am ET.
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House Republican Leadership Hold an 
Impeachment Rebuttal Press Conference 
DC Media Ignore
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The republican leadership from the U.S. House of Representatives held a press conference today as a rebuttal to the democrat impeachment inquiry report... House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins joined GOP leadership to discuss the significant issues with the impeachment process. Everything We The People ever needed to know about media bias is completely visible at the end of the press conference. Few DC media attended. Apparently the republican rebuttal message is antithetical to the DC media objective.
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Turkey Is Trying to Take over the 
Mediterranean, through Libya
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by Seth Frantzman
{ meforum.org } ~ One of the governments in Libya controls only a small percentage of the country and the capital of Tripoli, but in need of Turkish support it signed a bizarre deal with Ankara over who controls the Mediterranean... Turkey says the deal that it signed is historic and that it has "proven its capabilities to the world in a manner that is compatible with international law but also signaled its future intentions in the region." Greece is outraged, threatening to take the dispute to international bodies and complain to NATO. It has larger ramifications also for Egypt, Cyprus and Israel as Turkey seeks a vast swath of sea to control as an economic zone. Turkey met with Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of the Presidential Council of Libya's Government of the National Accord in Tripoli. Sarraj was in Istanbul, but it is understood that his weak government has been in discussions with Turkey for some time about an agreement that would give Turkey access to an economic zone across the Mediterranean. Turkey's Daily Sabah says this deal is "mutually beneficial. "The real story is buried in the report. Turkey is trying to assert itself across the swath of Iraq, Syria and now all the way to Libya, with its eyes set on having power not seen since the Ottoman Empire more than 100 years ago. The reports claim that Turkey now sees its control of the Mediterranean from the "three-dimensional viewpoint" and this "maximizes the country's maritime boundaries and shows that Turkey's border districts of Marmaris, Fethiye and Kas are actually neighbors with Libya's Derna, Tobruk and Bardiya districts." Turkey calls this the "blue motherland," or "Mavi Vatan" in Turkish. It has launched major naval exercises in the last year to show off its power. Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has referred to this "motherland" as the 462,000 square kilometer area from the Black Sea to Aegean. Turkey openly says in its media, which is all pro-government, that it is deploying naval assets as a "show of force" and that it is angered by drilling being conducted by other states. In short, it will begin more drilling and more pushing out its boundaries. Future deals are in the cards. The Mediterranean policy is part of increased pressure on Cyprus that Turkey has brought and also Ankara's view of the Tripoli government of Libya as a key part of its agenda. For instance Fahrettin Altun, the communications director for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, tweeted that "security and military cooperation" is a key part of support for one of Libya's governments...   https://www.meforum.org/60023/turkey-is-trying-to-take-over-the-mediterranean?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=d42c641099-MEF_Frantzman_2019_12_04_03_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-d42c641099-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-d42c641099-33703665&mc_cid=d42c641099&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12 
Media coverage likely wrong about 
medical impact of sanctions in Iran
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By DAVID ADESNIK and SAEED GHASSEMINEJAD
{ thehill.com } ~ Iranians have poured into the streets in over 100 cities to vent their anger at the deprivation that is now part of their daily lives... Even though harsh American sanctions have inflicted substantial damage on Iran’s economy, protesters are directing their anger at their own government, not at Washington.This might seem puzzling, since foreign correspondents in Tehran have consistently warned that Iranians are nationalists who would unite behind their government in the face of American pressure. This expectation reflects the tendency of Western correspondents to present the hardships they witness as the result of sanctions, despite substantial evidence that corruption and mismanagement bear much greater responsibility. The American media’s coverage of pharmaceutical shortages in Iran illustrates this trend. Saeed Namaki, the Iranian minister of health,  warned lawmakers that corrupt networks are selling drugs on the black market, “hoarding medicines in warehouses, and distributing counterfeit drugs.” Despite sanctions, however, Iran has “no major problem” procuring medicines from abroad, Namaki reported.U.S. media coverage is directly at odds with Namaki’s assessment.  ABC, CBS, CNN, the Associated Press, and The  Washington Post have all reported that U.S. sanctions are responsible for dangerous shortages in Iran, even though humanitarian goods, including food and medicine, are clearly exempt under U.S. law. Reportedly, sanctions have a “chilling effect” that scares exporters away from doing legitimate business because they are so afraid of unintentionally violating sanctions. Human Rights Watch  published a 40-page report in late October that purported to document this chilling effect...  https://thehill.com/opinion/international/472420-media-coverage-likely-wrong-about-medical-impact-of-sanctions-in-iran  
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Police thwarted ISIS 
terror attack in Jerusalem - WATCH
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By ANNA AHRONHEIM
{ jpost.com } ~ The Israeli Police released footage on Wednesday of the arrest of two east Jerusalem resident who have been indicted on terrorism charges after they allegedly planned terrorist attacks... on military and civilian targets on behalf of the Islamic State  terrorist group in Jerusalem on Independence Day.  The two east Jerusalem residents from the neighborhood of Jebel Mukaber, 21-year-old Ahmed Jabbis and 19-year-old Basel Abidat, were arrested based on concrete intelligence as part of a planned raid.  “On the night of October 28, 2019, dozens of Border Police officers raided two houses simultaneously in the village of Jebel Mukaber,” said an undercover border police officer who oversaw the operation. "This was a planned operation, we had information about the location of the accused and as soon as conditions allowed, we detained them.” The two were indicted in a Jerusalem court on Sunday. According to the indictment, the two were active on ISIS-affiliated websites beginning in 2016, which spread the group’s religious and political messages as well as provide instructions on how to assemble bombs to carry out attacks. In July, Abidat attempted to enter the Sinai Peninsula via Jordan in order to join with ISIS operatives, but was prevented from crossing the border by Jordanian security officials. Jabbis is said to have raised some NIS 2,000 that he transferred to a second party in order for it to be given to ISIS. In September 2019, the two suspects discussed where they could carry out a terrorist attack in Jerusalem or against an IDF army base in the Jordan Valley with the aim of killing as many civilians or military personnel as possible. The two discussed getting hold of an automatic weapon and carry out a shooting attack at Safra Square in Jerusalem, as well as against an event marking  Independence Day at the Sultan’s Pool. In the event that the two failed to acquire guns, they chose to carry out a stabbing attack as a backup plan...
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Conservative Media Isn’t ‘Stoking’ 
The Culture War, It’s The Left 
By Emily Jashinsky
{ thefederalist.com } ~ A recent Voxsplainer aimed at breaking down the “War Against Thanksgiving” to bespectacled urbanites referred, mostly in passing, to the “culture war-stoking conservative media.”... This is adorable, and for two particular reasons. First, because its matter-of-fact presentation demonstrates how deeply this notion is embedded as conventional wisdom on the center-left. Second, because it’s so obviously stupid. Of course, it’s the Fox-guzzling conservative rubes stoking the culture war, those reactionary pitchfork wielders who burn Howard Zinn books and listen to Blake Shelton sing about trucks. Or perhaps it’s the fault of cynical Beltway operators who exploit the anxieties of Flyover simpletons for profit and power. The “culture-war stoking conservative media” is a liberal trope because it neatly comports to basic elite stereotypes about conservatism as a misguided ideology of blind rage and ignorance. The culture war itself is seen as a lowbrow battleground for reactionaries and the Brooks-Brothers elites who mine their concerns for clicks. This brings me to the second reason Vox’s descriptor is amusing. The progressive movement is waging this war on culture by its own admission. By the essence of their mission and the definition of their moniker, progressives are on offense. There would be no cultural battles were it not for changes demanded by the left. Those of us so-called “culture war-stoking” conservatives in media are on defense. Almost always. We focus heavily on culture because it’s what our audience finds useful. It’s what our audience finds useful because they, too, are on defense—and that’s because the left is focused even more heavily on culture. This kind of coverage is entirely a response to the left’s broad and deliberate cultural offensive, which honest progressives should fully own. The left raises proposals or demands, more often for cultural change. In response, we stand athwart history yelling “Stop!” Or we’re supposed to, at least...   https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/03/conservative-media-isnt-stoking-the-culture-war-its-the-left/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=d33e32f55b-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-d33e32f55b-83771801   
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Attorney General Barr Outrages the Left 
by Standing Up for the Constitution 
and Our Republic
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The progressive left are outraged over two recent landmark speeches given by Attorney General William Barr. But their howls of complaint serve only to illustrate just how right Barr was about their contempt for the Constitution, the rule of law and religious freedom.

What first set them off was Barr’s Oct. 11 speech at the University of Notre Dame, in which he affirmed the importance of religion in our nation’s history and noted that religious freedom is under attack.

The speech was an important reminder of the role the Framers envisioned for religion in our nation. It also served as a warning to those who would try to violate others’ religious freedom. Clearly, the nation’s chief legal officer is on the case and prepared to fight for the First Amendment rights of all Americans.

Barr began his speech by observing that religion serves a necessary purpose in our republic. The Constitution guarantees individual liberty, and religion prevents liberty from devolving into licentiousness. Religion, he noted, reins in “the unbridled pursuit of personal appetites at the expense of the common good” because it teaches the people to “want what is good.”

That’s why John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Barr continued by noting that secularists and moral relativists are attacking the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our country by ostracizing, ridiculing and suing those who publicly practice their religious beliefs.

This is not “live and let live,” Barr argued, but rather “organized destruction” with an eye to “compel people to violate their conscience.”

Predictably, left-wing commentators attacked Barr, accusing him of saying that atheists have no place in the country and suggesting that he is trying to set up “witch hunts” and “pogroms” against non-Christians.

Barr did nothing of the sort. His summary of religion’s role in our country’s history echoes the views of the Framers of the Constitution. Sentiments like the one above by John Adams are common among the Framers’ writings.

Barr was warning the nation about the misuse of the law to subdue religious expression and to force individual Americans to participate in practices that violate their religious faith. And his Justice Department has put action to his words, defending the religious rights of not just Christians, but also Muslims, Jews, Native Americans and others.

Of course, not all the Founders were deeply religious. Still, they recognized what Barr reiterated: that the Christian tradition teaches the people to be moral, and individual morality is needed in a society that guarantees individual liberty.

But rather than responding to Barr’s substantive arguments and engaging in an intelligent debate about a principle that was fundamental to the founding of this nation, the left hurled invective.

Barr’s second speech came Nov. 15 at the Federalist Society’s annual convention. There, he spoke about the unitary executive—the constitutional doctrine that simply says that the powers of the executive branch must “be exercised under the president’s supervision.” Again, heads spun.

Barr’s theme was that the federal courts and Congress have damaged the president’s authority by usurping his power. This, he argued, has endangered the freedom, liberty and security of the American people.

The Framers wanted an executive who could “act with energy, consistency and decisiveness,” he noted, yet Trump’s opponents have pursued an explicit strategy to use “every tool and maneuver available to sabotage the functioning of his administration.” This self-styled “Resistance” acts as if Trump is “an occupying military power” and that his administration is “not legitimate,” which Barr thinks is a very dangerous development. He labeled it an “incendiary notion to import into the politics of a democratic republic.”

Much of this speech detailed related misbehavior in Congress and the courts. He argued that it is the president’s critics who are “shredding” the Constitution and “waging a war on the rule of law,” not President Trump. He concluded by urging the nation to put aside the political “passions” of the moment, lest they “cause us to permanently disfigure the genius of our constitutional structure.”

There seems little doubt that these are two of the most significant speeches given by an attorney general since Edwin Meese’s 1985 speech to the American Bar Association on the importance of originalism in interpreting the Constitution. That speech also outraged liberals, but almost 35 years later, that presentation is recognized as one of the most important landmarks in the fight to preserve the Constitution and our Republic.

There is no doubt in our minds that Barr’s two speeches will also withstand the test of time and will be seen as a wake-up call.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/67090?mailing_id=4699&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4699&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Tom McLaughlin
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House Democrats vote to adopt Trump 
impeachment report, blast scheme to 
'solicit foreign interference' in 2020 race
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By Ronn Blitzer and Gregg Re  
{ foxnews.com } ~ The Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee late Tuesday voted to adopt and issue its scathing report  on the findings from the panel's impeachment inquiry... accusing President Trump of misusing his office to seek foreign help in the 2020 presidential race. The 13-9 party-line vote on the 300-page report was a necessary step before it could be transferred to the House Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to begin taking up the case with its first formal impeachment hearing Wednesday morning. However, a senior member of Democratic House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi's leadership team told Fox News in the evening that it seems unlikely the House can vote on impeachment before Christmas, saying it's "too complex" a process." President Trump’s scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign," the Democrats' report said. It asserted the inquiry "uncovered a months-long effort by President Trump to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election." White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham swiftly hit back in a statement slamming the nature of the Intelligence Committee's inquiry and claiming it failed to prove any wrongdoing on Trump's part. “At the end of a one-sided sham process, Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff and the Democrats utterly failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump,” Grisham said. "This report reflects nothing more than their frustrations. Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff’s report reads like the ramblings of a basement blogger straining to prove something when there is evidence of nothing.” The Intelligence Committee, led by Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., conducted extensive interviews with witnesses connected to the Trump administration’s relationship with Ukraine, after an anonymous whistleblower filed a complaint alleging that during a July 25 phone call, Trump tried to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to help Rudy Giuliani investigate Democratic activities in 2016 as well as former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter." The President engaged in this course of conduct for the benefit of his own presidential reelection, to harm the election prospects of a political rival, and to influence our nation’s upcoming presidential election to his advantage," the report said. "In doing so, the President placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States, sought to undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process, and endangered U.S. national security."... Why are these dems in congress they have no idea or understanding of what the rule of law is
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Nunes sues CNN over 
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by Byron York
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, has filed a $435 million defamation suit against CNN over a story that alleged Nunes met with a fired Ukrainian prosecutor... in an effort to dig up dirt on Democratic presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden. The story — "Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on loose lips liar-Biden" — was published Nov. 22. It was based on the words of Joseph Bondy, the attorney for Ukrainian-born Lev Parnas, who worked closely with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in pursuing allegations of Ukrainian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election as well as allegations of corruption in Ukraine involving loose lips liar-Biden's son Hunter. Parnas is currently under indictment on campaign finance charges. CNN reported that Bondy said Parnas was "willing to tell Congress" that in December 2018, Nunes traveled to Vienna to meet with Viktor Shokin, the top Ukrainian prosecutor who was famously fired in 2016 under pressure from the United States, represented by loose lips liar-Biden, who said Shokin did not do enough to prosecute corruption in Ukraine. CNN cited congressional travel records showing Nunes and a few aides traveled to Europe between Nov. 30 and Dec. 3, 2018. Quoting Bondy, the CNN report said, "Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December." Shortly after the report was published, Nunes said it was "demonstrably false" but declined to elaborate. In the lawsuit, Nunes has provided the details. Nunes did travel between Nov. 30 and Dec. 3. The lawsuit says that on those dates, Nunes was in Libya and Malta. Nunes traveled to Libya to "discuss security issues with General Khalifa Haftar," the suit says. In Malta, Nunes "met with U.S. and Maltese officials, including Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, and participated in a repatriation ceremony for the remains of an American World War II soldier missing in action," according to the suit.The lawsuit provides photos of Nunes with Haftar, with Muscat, and at the repatriation ceremony...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nunes-sues-cnn-over-demonstrably-false-ukraine-report?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_12/03/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261   
The Amnesia of Samantha Power
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by SCOTT MCKAY
{ spectator.org } ~ Some members of Congress believe that the time has come to ratchet up sanctions on Iran. They argue that this is the most effective way to achieve the goal of getting Iran to give up its nuclear program... We in the administration believe that, at this time, increasing sanctions would dramatically undermine our efforts to reach this shared goal.” That’s what Samantha Power, who held the position of UN ambassador during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, said in a 2015 congressional hearing amid debate about whether or not to impose sanctions on the theocratic Iranian regime. That regime had, after all, just six years earlier conducted a series of massacres of its own people for the sin of demanding a better government and more human rights. That administration then negotiated a largely secret nuclear arms deal with the Iranian regime, complete with shipping that regime some $150 billion in pallets of cash with zero controls on what the money could be used for, and never bothered submitting that deal to Congress. Shortly after Donald Trump took office in January of 2017, amid what appears to be a full-on campaign of sabotage of his presidency including the illegal unmasking of American citizens caught on FISA wiretaps, which included some fairly definitive participation by one Samantha Power in that activity, the scumbag/liar-nObama Iran deal was canceled. And when it was, this was what Samantha Power said: Trump has demolished America’s credibility & paved the way for Iran to re-start its nuclear program. Trump has done the unthinkable: isolated the US & rallied the world around Iran. It’s since been proven that Iran never stopped its nuclear program, and the Iranians have stepped up efforts, unsuccessfully, to provoke a war with the United States as those sanctions strangle their economy. Unsurprisingly, amid a far more successful application of pressure in this administration than that Power and scumbag/liar-nObama managed, the Iranian citizens are once again demanding a better government and more human rights. And also unsurprisingly, the Iranian regime Power and scumbag/liar-nObama thought was worth airdropping $150 billion on has resorted to violence and suppression in response. This greatly offends Samantha Power:  Everyone must hear about this. Every outlet in the world should publicize how the murderous Iranian regime is mowing down protesters. Yes, Samantha. We know. We knew 10 years ago when the administration you worked in sat on your hands and did nothing when Iranians took to the streets to reclaim their freedom and dignity from an enemy, rogue regime that had been in a declared state of war with the United States since 1979 and committed countless acts of war against us...
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Trey Gowdy explains why Americans 
don't care about the impeachment hearings  
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by Carlos Garcia
{ theblaze.com } ~ Former congressman Trey Gowdy angrily denounced the Democrats for what he saw as hypocritical outrage over complaints from the FBI agent who resigned after her anti-Trump texts were uncovered... He made the comments to Martha MacCallum on her Fox News show Monday evening. Gowdy was responding to Lisa Page complaining  that she was made a scapegoat over her texts to former FBI official Peter Strzok that were critical of President Donald Trump. "The broader point is this. Keep in mind, Strzok and Page, and the Democrat and the DC media's argument is, 'yeah they were biased, yeah they said terrible things, but it had no impact on the outcome.' In other words, Trump was treated fairly in the end," said Gowdy. "Now contrast that with what Trump's gone through with impeachment," he said. "Now the Democrats are saying even though there were no investigations of the server or the loose lips liar-Bidens, and even though the aid was released, they're now hyper-focused on the process!" Gowdy continued. "It's the phone call! That's all that matters!" he exclaimed. "So to Democrats, all's well that end's well if it's Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, but if you get the aid and there's no investigation, that's not enough, it still may be impeachable just because we didn't like your process," Gowdy said. "That's duplicity, it's a double standard, and that's why the American people, I think, are completely unmoved thus far by the impeachment hearings of Chairman Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)," he concluded. Gowdy could have been referring to polling that has shown support for impeachment waning among Americans as the impeachment inquiry dragged on...
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scumbag/liar-Schiff hired former colleague 
of alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella 
the day after Trump-Ukraine call
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by Kerry Picket
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff hired a former National Security Council aide who worked with alleged Ukraine whistleblower Eric Ciaramella... at the NSC during the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administrations the day after the phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It was previously reported by the Washington Examiner that public records indicated Sean Misko, 37, started work on scumbag/liar-Schiff’s committee in August as a professional staff member. A specific start date was not available until this week when the latest congressional quarterly disbursements were released. The new records show that Misko’s official hire date was July 26. Misko was the director for the Gulf States at the NSC between 2015 until the first half of 2018. The Washington Examiner has established that the whistleblower is a CIA officer who was on the NSC during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and worked on Ukrainian issues with loose lips liar-Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic candidate, when he was vice president. Ciaramella, 33, is a career CIA analyst and was the Ukraine director on the NSC from 2016 until the summer of 2017. In October 2016, he was loose lips liar-Biden's guest at a State Department banquet. Before joining the NSC, Misko worked in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration at the State Department for deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, who went on to become scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's senior foreign policy adviser during her 2016 presidential campaign. Both Ciaramella and Misko started their tenures during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and left during the first year of the Trump administration. The Washington Examiner was told by a former senior White House official that both had a close, “bro-like” relationship while working at the NSC together...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-hired-former-nsc-colleague-of-alleged-whistleblower-eric-ciaramella-the-day-after-trumps-ukraine-call?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/03/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
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Tom McLaughlin
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ There are jobs for anyone who wants to work here in Maine but nearly every small contractor and small business person I hear from tells me they cannot find enough help. It’s true in western Maine and in the Portland area as well. South Portland’s famous Scratch Bakery recently opened a branch facility in a converted gas station down the street from our South Portland home. Called "The Toast Bar," it was packed with customers. Then, suddenly, it closed.
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Why? The Portland Press Herald reported last month that the new bakery couldn’t get enough people to work there. Further out in Cape Elizabeth, a recently-built restaurant called the Bird Dog Roadhouse shut its doors for the same reason. My wife and I drove by and noticed the empty parking lot as well as a sign on the door saying:

Due to an acute ongoing staffing shortage, we’ve reluctantly hit the “pause button” here at BDR. We are not closing. We have a beautiful restaurant, a wonderful location, and fantastic guests. Our business is sound. All of our employees and vendors are paid. We are simply pausing restaurant service operations until proper staffing levels can be achieved…
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The economy is booming and wages are rising, so what’s going on? Lots of things; for one, people just aren’t having babies like they used to. Last Saturday, Forbes reported CDC data showing fertility rates in the USA at a record low for 2018. Just to keep the population stable, each woman must have 2.1 children in her lifetime. In the US, however, that rate has declined to just over 1.7 and is still going down. It’s the lowest since the 1970s when Roe V Wade was enacted and abortion skyrocketed. Their headline read: “Another Record Low: Will The U.S. Fertility Rate’s Collapse Ever End?”  
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Not unless and until marriage rates increase, according to economist and researcher Lyman Stone. His 2018 research study called: “No Ring, No Baby: How Marriage Trends Impact Fertility” makes a solid case that married women of child-bearing age have by far the most children, but fewer and fewer young women are getting married. He cites several possible reasons including student loan debt, but also that women now are generally more educated than men, making it harder for them to find compatible mates.  
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The biggest factor, Stone hints, is: “Changing cultural norms and values about sex, family, and religion may have reduced the value of the marriage proposition and tightened the criteria for ‘eligibility’ for marriage.” Is he saying that young people today lack the values of their parents and grandparents? Not explicitly, but he hints strongly at it. Unless you live in a cloistered religious community and never watch television, you'll see the evidence. I’ve written several times on this subject a sampling here (http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/search?q=dogs+not+children ) and I’m not hopeful that the trend will reverse anytime soon.  
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If I’m right, it would seem that the only way to avoid economic decline would be to increase immigration. It has been increasing, but most of the unskilled, nearly-illiterate, illegal variety, or of “asylum-seeking” Africans, most non-English-speaking, coming over our southern border. Unable to support themselves, they tend to be more of an economic drain than a boost. If we simply returned to pre-1965 immigration policies that required immigrants to be sponsored and ineligible for social services, and then we eliminated chain migration for relatives who were not self-supporting, our country would be much better served.  
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As it stands now, every 2020 Democrat running for president is pro-abortion. The last pro-life Democrat candidate was Jimmy Carter in 1976. For more than forty years now, preserving Roe V Wade seems to be the most important issue for the Democrat party. Since the Roe V Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973, there have been more than a million abortions every year in the United States. That’s about 50 million Americans who were never born. If they had been allowed to live they would have had at least another 50 million children of their own. Even if Roe V Wade were repealed by Trump-appointed judges, the legality of abortion would simply revert back to the states and not be likely to decline very much.  
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Although most would deny it, open borders is now the Democrat’s second most important issue. Every 2020 Democrat presidential candidate claims getting rid of President Trump is their biggest goal, but then what have Trump’s priorities been? Appointing conservative pro-life judges and stopping illegal immigration are highest on his agenda. That’s what got him elected and if present trends continue, those issues may well propel him into another term.  
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Chick-fil-A Funded Anti-Christian Group Tied 
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Georgia GOP Gov. Kemp: Swamp Creature
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by JEFFREY LORD
{ spectator.org } ~ Amazing. But typical. So the news emerges that with the forced retirement for health reasons of Georgia GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson, the Republican governor of Georgia... Brian Kemp, is set to replace the conservative Isakson with financial executive Kelly Loeffler. In fact, by the time you read this, the appointment may already have been made. And what, exactly, does Kelly Loeffler believe? As noted over here at Breitbart, conservatives in Georgia are up in arms about the idea of the appointment. Breitbart reported this: Conservatives across the Georgia Republican base have sounded the alarm over Gov. Brian Kemp’s potential appointment of Kelly Loeffler as an interim Republican senator. Georgia conservative activist Debbie Dooley called her a “country club Republican” in an interview with Breitbart News. As evidence the article includes the wealthy Loeffler’s contribution history, which has two notable examples: Dooley said Loeffler “gave $750,000 to rino-Mitt Romney in 2012; she gave zero to Donald Trump in 2016.” Got that? Here you have a prominent wealthy Republican who went out of her way to give a cool three-quarters of a million bucks to establishment GOPer rino-Mitt Romney in 2012. But in 2016 when Donald Trump was taking on the establishments of both the Republican and Democratic parties, Loeffler “gave zero to Donald Trump in 2016.” Say again? That figure was — zero. Worse, now that she is suddenly on the verge of a Senate appointment — there is this: A few weeks ago, she gave $100,000 in contributions to Donald Trump, but that was only because her political consultants said, “You need to do this.” Let’s get straight to the point here. This is exactly the reason Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in the first place. Republican voters were — and are — sick and tired of establishment Republicans who fold like a cheap suit when it comes to standing up for conservative principle. And oh, yes, there’s this from that  Breitbart  story: Loeffler is the co-owner and co-chairman of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Atlanta Dream. After the Trump administration announced plans in 2018 to cut family planning funding from abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood, WNBA President Lisa Borders said that she and the league “stands with Planned Parenthood.” Yes indeed. You read that right. Loeffler stood with Planned Parenthood. The surprise here comes in the news that the idea of appointing conservative champion and Georgia Republican Congressman Doug Collins has been resisted by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. Yes, that would be the self-same Brian Kemp for whom conservatives rallied in last year’s touch-and-go gubernatorial election against left-wing Democrat Stacey Abrams...   https://spectator.org/georgia-gop-gov-kemp-swamp-creature/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=b8002f8141-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_03_03_58&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-b8002f8141-104608113   
liar-Pelosi Chooses Climate Change 
over USMCA Jobs
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By Daniel John Sobieski
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Ever notice that climate change conferences are never held in places like Somalia or Bangladesh or perhaps one of those islands that are going to be under water the day after tomorrow?... They are always held in places like Copenhagen (2009) or this time in Spain, places where the elites can fly in on private jets, stay in five-star hotels, and explain why they must control every aspect of our lives lest we all die in the  next dozen years. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi has spent all of President Trump’s first term producing no legislation benefitting the American people while concentrating on impeachment, but who has no time to work on the U..S.-Mexico Danada Agreement (USMCA) on trade, led a Congressional delegation of Democrats on a trip to Spain where they can emit carbon dioxide bloviating about planetary climate doom. As Brietbart News reports: House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will fly out Sunday with a large delegation of congressional Democrats heading 3,781 miles across the Atlantic to the United Nations COP25 climate change conference in Madrid. A key element of the conference will seek to place financial penalties on global commercial aviation to stop people flying and making “unnecessary contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide pollution.” The liar-Pelosi delegation will join almost 25,000 people and 1500 journalists flying into the Spanish capital to attend the meeting. liar-Pelosi’s absence from Washington, DC, will cast doubt on the possibility of passing an updated North American trade deal by the end of 2019, a departure from her previous characterization of the deal as “imminent.” Of course, flying in 25,000 attendees is considered by the elites as a necessary contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide pollution. Climate change supporters, not Trump supporters, are  a true cult, creating a climate religion they demand we must worship. The goal is to use climate change as a means to increase government power over every aspect of our lives -- what we make, how we make it, what energy we use, what cars we drive, even what food we eat. The scientific record, as Investor’s Business Daily recently noted, shows that climate change is a scam: …a paper published recently in the journal Global Environmental Change found that carbon dioxide emissions are essentially self-regulating and that after countries reach a higher GDP level, CO2 emissions either stabilize or even decline, without the need for carbon taxes or carbon capture technology. Here in the U.S., the fracking revolution has released from our vast shale formations vast natural-gas deposits that have done more to reduce carbon emissions than any IPCC report...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/pelosi_chooses_climate_change_over_usmca_jobs.html 
AG Barr Disagrees With Key Finding 
In Watchdog’s Trump-Russia Report
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by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Attorney General William Barr disagrees with a key conclusion from the Justice Department inspector general’s investigation regarding the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, according to a new report... The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, reports that Barr has told associates that he does not believe that the FBI had enough information to justify opening a counterintelligence investigation into Trump campaign associates in July 2016.  Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, reportedly determined that the bureau had a solid legal basis to launch the investigation, which initially focused on four Trump campaign associates. Peter Strzok, the former FBI counterintelligence official who was fired last year over anti-Trump text messages, opened the investigation on July 31, 2016 after the FBI received information from the Australian government regarding an Australian diplomat’s May 10, 2016 meeting with George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser. The counterintelligence investigation initially looked at whether Papadopoulos and three other Trump campaign advisers — Carter Page, Michael Flynn, and Paul Manafort — were conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 election.  Former FBI officials who took part in the investigation have defended the decision to open the probe. But the special counsel’s team was unable to establish evidence of any conspiracy between Russia and members of the Trump campaign. There was also no evidence that the Trump associates acted as Russian agents, according to the special counsel’s report. Any disagreement regarding Horowitz’s conclusions is sure to renew allegations that Barr is acting in a partisan manner to support President Donald Trump. Democrats and liberal media pundits criticized Barr’s handling of the release of the special counsel’s report. Barr has also faced criticism for tapping U.S. attorney John Durham to lead an investigation of his own into the origins of the Russia investigation. Barr told lawmakers on April 10 that he believed that “spying” occurred against the Trump campaign...   https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/02/william-barr-disagree-horowitz-report/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11144   
Forget ‘Michelle for President’
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By Eric Georgatos
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Our betters in the MSM, and related ruling-class mouthpieces, have set the narrative: the lackluster, too-crazy pack of Democrat presidential candidates, even with a few token billionaires, will ultimately give way to the entry of Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama into the race... The former First Lady, author of an apparently best-selling memoir, will inject palpable blue energy throughout the nation, return black America to a 95+% Democrat voting bloc, consolidate the scumbag/liar-nObama voting coalitions that won two presidential elections, and the evil interloper Trump will be sent packing. Don’t buy this narrative. In a country of 320+ million people, there is always a sizable segment who will not be willing or able to discern or question anything beyond what they are told by the MSM, and will follow the narrative. That segment is actually becoming smaller every year; the reality of fake news has diluted the MSM’s influence to a far greater degree than they understand. But that’s not why I’m not buying the narrative. Here’s why: ‘scumbag/liar-nObama’ is how we got Trump. For all the gigabytes devoted to explaining how Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, the simplest two-word explanation has always been: Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. Most Americans never agreed with the radical left-wing policies that President scumbag/liar-nObama instituted, nor did they appreciate his subtle, persistent denigration of America’s character, identity and place in the world. But Americans did salute to the notion that we should be especially careful not to criticize America’s first black President. In short, the absence of strong criticism of President scumbag/liar-nObama and his policies was not due to their popularity, but rather due to a surrender to the political reality enforced in great degree by the MSM that any such criticism would be labeled as racist. His policies and view of America were in fact alarming to many Americans, who silently bided their time until he was out of office. The truth is that Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was and is a radical leftist ideologue who in his own words sought to fundamentally transform America. A few observers saw this agenda from the beginning of scumbag/liar-nObama’s appearance on the national scene, but they were voices in a wilderness dominated by a sycophantic media. The American people never supported a fundamental transformation of their country -- in leftist terms, a shredding of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage in favor of a godless, scumbag-George Soros-vision of an Open Society, directed and controlled by almighty secular government -- and the more they understood the truth of who scumbag/liar-nObama was and what he was trying to do, the angrier and more resentful they became. Donald Trump was the anti-scumbag/liar-nObama for one simple reason:  he loves America. And so…the “Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama riding on the residual goodwill of the scumbag/liar-nObama name!” campaign narrative, doesn’t resonate...
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Suspected Cartel Members Kidnap Hospital 
Patient, Apparently Dismember Him
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by MATT M. MILLER
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Suspected members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel stormed a Mexican hospital in Guanajuato armed with assault rifles... before kidnapping and apparently dismembering a patient. The cartel members kidnapped the patient at gunpoint after taking a security guard hostage. The patient was later found killed and dismembered on the side of the road.
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Trump-Hating Democrats are the Real Cult
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By Fletch Daniels
{ americanthinker.com } ~ There has been an outbreak of cult-watchers among Democrats, as they all parrot the same talking points that President Donald Trump’s supporters are part of a cult and that he is a cult leader... A rogue’s gallery in leftist groupthink rushed to get in on the action; Dan Rather, Ana Navarro, Brian Stelter, Dana Milbank, Joy Reid, and even the Mooch, along with an entire constellation of dimbulbs. It’s a noticeable shift away from direct attacks on the president as the spears are turned on Americans who have the audacity to support him. This is perhaps because the president is such an effective counterpuncher that the attacks on him have only bound him tighter to everyday Americans while making the Democrats look foolish. So it’s now open season on Trump supporters in an evolution of the bitter-clinger and deplorable attacks. But, as scumbag/liar-Hillary learned, insulting more than sixty million Americans is not the smartest political play. The cult attack is ludicrous on its face but at least it has produced a few funny moments, such as Brian Stelter sympathetically asking his deranged guest and author of The Cult of Trump, “You say the president is using mind control. But how is it provable?” If only Democrats could end the mind control, Americans would all go back to supporting globalist America-lasters and Marxist madmen. The war on billionaires could start in earnest and we could open the Ministry of Merciful Reeducation. If there really was a cult leader and members, I would expect them to try a few of the following tactics:  ...Implement institutionalized spying on political foes and the media. Even the New York Times admitted that Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s administration spied on reporters.  And as for spying on political foes, scumbag/liar-nObama’s administration practically built a new industry out of it. If, as nearly every liberal believes, Trump is the worst type of dictator, he would indeed be the most inept dictator in history in the sense that he shows no tyrannical qualities ...Cult supporters might create a giant baby balloon of a political foe and then believe that protecting that balloon was more important than protecting the president himself ...A cult leader might talk in Messianic language and say, non-ironically, that “this (his election) is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” He might be declared a “sort of God” who is standing above the world as Newsweek editor Evan Thomas once declared of scumbag/liar-nObama to noted leg-tingler, Chris Matthews. A cultlike leader might tell black Americans that Republicans want to put them back in chains, as loose lips liar-Joe Biden once did ...Cult followers might produce plays depicting the assassination of a hated political leader or a picture of a celebrity holding that leader’s severed head ...A cultlike media organization might produce nothing but “Orange Man Bad” the med covers. Perhaps Time would devolve so badly into cultlike babblings that it might produce a cover with a picture of a melting orange head. Or perhaps  Newsweek could produce a cover of a cheeto-eating president in a lounge chair with the statement, “Donald Trump is bored and tired. Imagine how bad he’d feel if he did any work.”  For that matter, a cultlike magazine might claim that the president was golfing and tweeting when he was visiting American troops in Afghanistan ...Cult followers might elevate a silly first-world boutique concern like climate change into a religion and then declare that the only way to address it is to destroy the global economy ...Cult members might demand a commitment to human sacrifice while obsessing over straws. Kirsten Gillibrand caught the zeitgeist of the party when she noted that Democrats should be “100 percent pro-choice, and it should be nonnegotiable.”  Moloch and Chemosh approve of that message ...Cult members might form an intolerant Marxist-inspired violent extremist organization under the guise of opposing fascists...  
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Chick-fil-A Funded Anti-Christian Group Tied 
to Attack on Family Research Council
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In 2012, domestic terrorist Floyd Corkins stormed the headquarters of the Family Research Council armed with a semiautomatic pistol, 100 rounds of ammunition, and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches.

“I wanted to kill the people in the building and then smear a Chick-fil-A sandwich in their face,” the gunman told the FBI.

Corkins had been enraged by the nationwide Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day and he selected the Family Research Council as a target based of a “hate” map created by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The massacre was averted when Leo Johnson, the building’s manager, tackled the rampaging gunman. Johnson’s arm was shattered by a bullet and he suffered serious injuries in the attack.

Corkins later pleaded guilty to three charges including committing an act of domestic terrorism while armed.

Now comes word that in 2017, Chick-fil-A donated money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the same organization that created a map that nearly led to the slaughter of innocent Christians at the Family Research Council headquarters in Washington, DC.

Townhall.com published an IRS 990 form that shows the Chick-fil-A Foundation contributed $2,500 to the SPLC.

Why would Chick-fil-A donate money to an anti-Christian group like the Southern Poverty Law Center? Company officials did not return my calls seeking a comment.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins told the “Todd Starnes Radio Show” he was stunned by the news.

“It’s time for Christians to find a fast-food alternative to Chick-fil-A,” he said.

“Tax reports have now exposed Chick-fil-A for funding the anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization linked in federal court to domestic terrorism after their smear campaign of Christian organizations resulted in a shooting in which the gunman planned to smear Chick-fil-A sandwiches in the faces of his victims,” Perkins said.

Perkins then revealed a shocking revelation about what happened in the aftermath of the 2012 attack.

“Dan Cathy, nor anyone with Chick-fil-A, inquired about the well-being of Mr. Johnson or any of the FRC team members, but they made a donation to the SPLC which was linked in federal court to this act of domestic terrorism,” Perkins said. “Chick-fil-A has seriously lost their way.”

Chick-fil-A recently made national headlines by ending its charitable giving to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army. Both organizations had been labeled as hate groups because of their positions on traditional marriage.

“Not only has Chick-fil-A abandoned donations to Christian groups including the Salvation Army, it has donated to one of the most extreme anti-Christian groups in America,” Perkins told me. “Anyone who opposes the SPLC, including many Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and traditional conservatives, is slandered and slapped with the ‘extremist’ label or, even worse, their ‘hate group’ designation.”

Over the years, millions of Christians mobilized to fight for Chick-fil-A. They defended the company from a militant mob of LGBT activists and their supporters in the mainstream media and the Democrat Party.

The Family Research Council was one of Chick-fil-A’s most vocal defenders. So you can imagine its surprise when it discovered the company it had been fighting for all these years had been quietly giving money to an anti-Christian group that wanted to destroy FRC.

Mr. Cathy has an obligation to come forward and set the record straight for the millions of people who supported his family’s company.

And while he’s at it, perhaps he could pick up a telephone and call Mr. Johnson — a man who nearly lost his life in the culture war. It’s the decent thing to do.

But until that happens, I just cannot in good conscious spend a single penny at a fast-food restaurant that supports anti-Christian organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Farewell, Chick-fil-A.   ~The Patriot Post

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