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Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 19, 2019 at 9:14am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Social Justice Summer Camp

Arnold Ahlert

Wednesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: 2020 VISION: “President Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign Tuesday night before a jam-packed crowd in Orlando’s Amway Center arena, and quickly unloaded on the media organizations and government actors he said tried their hardest with ‘everything they had’ to bring down both his candidacy and presidency,” Fox News reports. The Washington Examiner offers advice on curating a winning message.

PATRICK SHANAHAN EXITS: According to National Review, “Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn from the confirmation process after being nominated to continue in his role on a permanent basis.” The report adds that “Shanahan’s confirmation process was slowed by an unusually lengthy FBI background check. The delay was likely related to a 2011 domestic-violence incident in which Shanahan’s then-17-year-old son hit his mother in the head with a baseball bat.” Mark Esper will replace Shanahan for the foreseeable future.

EPA’S REGULATORY ROLLBACK: The Washington Post reports that the EPA “finalized its biggest climate policy rollback Wednesday, requiring the U.S. power sector to cut its 2030 carbon emissions 35 percent over 2005 levels.” The Post laments that “The Affordable Clean Energy rule … demands much smaller carbon dioxide reductions than the industry is already on track to achieve, even without any federal regulation.” So why is it complaining?

NEW YORK’S REGULATORY ENLARGEMENT: Meanwhile, “Gov. scumbag-Andrew Cuomo (D) said … he has reached an agreement with legislative leaders over a bill to slash New York’s greenhouse gas emissions, setting the stage for one of the most significant state climate victories since President Trump took office,” E&E News reveals. “The legislation calls for reducing emissions by 40% from 1990 levels by 2030 and 85% by 2050. The remaining 15% of emissions would be offset, making the state carbon neutral. The bill would also require that all electricity generation come from carbon-free sources by 2040.”

TRADE TALKS REKINDLED: “China and the United States are rekindling trade talks ahead of a meeting next week between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, cheering financial markets on hopes that an escalating trade war between the two countries would abate.” (Reuters)

BORDER DEAL: “The top members of the Senate Appropriations Committee have struck a deal on President Trump’s request for more funding tied to the U.S.-Mexico border after weeks of stalemate… The deal … would provide Trump more than $4.5 billion for the border funding package.” (The Hill)

BORDER COURTS: “The Trump administration, looking for ways to alleviate the crush of asylum-seeking migrants at the United States’ southern border without being granted additional resources, is considering opening a series of ‘immigration courts’ at key border checkpoints to speed the asylum process by offering quick adjudication of asylum claims.” (The Daily Wire)

DRUG BUST: “Federal authorities seized 15,000 kilos of cocaine, worth as much as $1 billion, at a Philadelphia shipping port, officials said Tuesday.” (NBC News)

DEMS REPUDIATE TRANSGENDER TROOP BAN: “The House voted Tuesday to block the Pentagon’s new transgender troop policy, taking a swipe at President Donald Trump’s move to ban transgender service in the military. During debate on a $1 trillion spending package, lawmakers voted 243-183 to adopt an amendment from Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) to block funding to implement the new policy.” (Politico)

MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO: “The House on Tuesday rejected an amendment that would have limited the government’s ability to collect Americans’ personal communications without a warrant. … Congress last year reauthorized Section 702 of FISA with few alterations after a bitter battle between privacy activists and security hawks in both chambers.” (The Hill)

POLICY: Can Trump really deport millions of illegal immigrants? (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: Sorry, banning plastic bags won’t save our planet (Bjorn Lomborg)

HUMOR: Harvard teaches incoming students valuable life lesson that people can never change (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63748?mailing_id=4343&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4343&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Sources say Trump surveillance scandal appears 'even worse than we originally thought'

by Daniel Chaitin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Fox News host Sean Hannity said the "investigation into the investigators" is shaping up to be more of a bombshell than previously expected... During his evening show, Hannity played up what the Justice Department has already uncovered in its examination of the Russia investigation's origins and potential misconduct by Justice Department and FBI officials. "The single biggest abuse of power scandal in American history is about to be laid bare for all to see," Hannity said Tuesday. "Sources tonight are confirming to me that things are most likely even worse than we originally thought." Hannity pointed to a DOJ letter written to House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., outlining the scope of its investigation into surveillance of President Trump's 2016 campaign. The letter said that Attorney General William Barr's review, led by U.S. Attorney John Durham, is "broad in scope and multifaceted" and includes a look at actions both by the U.S. government and by foreigners.The DOJ made it clear that they weren’t just looking to see if policies were violated, they’ll be looking at whether any laws were broken, too, and its review team has already asked certain intelligence community agencies to preserve records, make witnesses available, and start putting together documents that the DOJ would need to carry out its inquiry... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sean-hannity-sources-say-trump-surveillance-scandal-appears-even-worse-than-we-originally-thought?fbclid=IwAR2J9rPV3XL2ZQa6p7lPjn2lEoAQEEWaVHvUJT545uzQywpqY6VWXcKHPAw

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSs6s314j8

California Embodies Everything Wrong

With scumbag/liar-nObamacare

by Christopher Jacobs

{ thefederalist.com } ~ In recent days, California lawmakers have finalized their budget. The legislation includes several choices regarding health care and scumbag/liar-nObamacare, most of them incorrect ones... Doling out more government largesse won’t solve rising health costs, and it will cause more unintended consequences in the process. This move has drawn the most attention, as the budget bill expands Medicaid coverage to illegally present adults aged 19-26. California will pay the full share of this Medicaid spending, as the federal government will not subsidize health coverage for foreign citizens illegally present in the United States. Sad as it may sound, expanding coverage to “only” some law-breaking foreigners represented a compromise. Liberal lawmakers originally wanted to expand Medicaid to all illegal residents, at a cost of $3.4 billion. But California Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom objected to the price tag, so lawmakers agreed to fund benefits solely for the 19-26 population, and delayed its implementation until January 1, 2020. As to those who disagree with this move, one can study the words of none other than scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. In 1993, she testified before Congress in opposition to giving illegal residents full health benefits, because “illegal aliens” were coming to the United States for health care even then: We do not think the comprehensive health care benefits should be extended to those who are undocumented workers and illegal aliens. We do not want to do anything to encourage more illegal immigration into this country. We know now that too many people come in for medical care, as it is. We certainly don’t want them having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to have. If scumbag/liar-Clinton’s words don’t sound compelling enough, consider one way that California may finance these new benefits: By reinstating scumbag/liar-nObamacare’s individual mandate. To put it another way, people who obey the law i.e., the mandate will fund free health coverage for people who by definition have broken the law by coming to, or remaining in, the United States unlawfully. This issue faces multiple questions on both process and substance. First, the budget bill includes about $8 million for the state’s Franchise Tax Board to implement an individual mandate, but doesn’t actually contain language imposing the mandate. The bill that would reimpose the mandate, using definitions originally included in the federal law, passed the Assembly late last month, but faces opposition in the Senate...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/18/california-embodies-everything-wrong-obamacare/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=8c7cde7078-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-8c7cde7078-83771801

Solar Power to Hit the Wall in Nevada

by Norman Rogers

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Solar power and wind power are the dominant methods of generating electricity that are acceptable to the extreme left. The left calls its acceptable methods of generating electricity “renewable energy.”... The definition of renewable energy, enshrined in renewable portfolio laws in many states, tells us what the left likes and doesn’t like. It is very arbitrary. The general idea of renewable energy is that it doesn’t use fuel that could run out and it doesn’t emit CO2. But the left breaks its own rules as is convenient. For example, nuclear power doesn’t emit CO2 and running out of fuel is strictly theoretical. Nuclear is also reliable with steady delivery of electricity. The prospects for new technology in the nuclear universe are very bright. Yet, nuclear is arbitrarily banned in renewable portfolio laws. Incredibly, most renewable portfolio laws effectively ban hydroelectric power too, because the environmental left does not like dams. Geothermal power, utilizing hot rocks underground as a source of energy, is accepted as renewable, even though the “fuel” can and does run out as the rocks cool under the pressure of removing the heat to make electricity. Geothermal only works if rare good sites are found. Solar power and wind power are loved by the left, but have the serious problem of erratic delivery of power. Wind dominates solar except in places with poor wind and good sunshine, such as Nevada, where I live. In states where a lot of solar has been installed, such as California and Nevada, solar is running into a wall that is related to the time delivery of solar power versus when the electrical grid’s need for power. Nevada has a renewable portfolio law that demands that by 2030 half the electricity come from renewable sources. The promoters of green power are even trying to put the renewable power quota into the Nevada Constitution. As a practical matter that quota requires greatly increasing solar electricity. Nevada does have fairly good geothermal resources, but those are expensive and slow to develop. The solar industry is facing the problem that at a certain point, in some places, it will be running into a wall and no more solar installations can be built. They have a solution. They want to add batteries to solar installations. The batteries will store excess power at midday and release the stored electricity in the early evening when the power is needed. The problem is that batteries to do this are very expensive. The cost of a solar installation with batteries would nearly double the cost and the batteries will probably wear out periodically. The promoters of solar have a solution for that -- have the federal government subsidize the cost of the batteries. Solar installations are approximately 70% subsidized by the federal government and by state energy quotas that energize favorable financing. As a consequence solar power that really costs $70 to $80 per megawatt hour, can sell for as little as $25 to $30 per megawatt hour due to the subsidies. But if a nonsubsidized battery system is added to the installation, the energy cost is likely to balloon to $80 or $90 per megawatt hour. To prevent this high cost and in order to pass beyond the wall, the solar promoters have an intense lobbying campaign to add battery systems to the list of things receiving huge green subsidies. Even if they get the subsidy, the combined solar plus battery system will probably deliver power for about $50 per megawatt hour...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/solar_power_to_hit_the_wall_in_nevada.html

Trump Says US to Begin Removing

Millions of Illegals

by libertyheadlines.com: The United States will start removing “millions” of illegal migrants next week, President Donald Trump said Monday... adding that Guatemala is preparing to sign a safe third country deal. “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States. They will be removed as fast as they come in,” Trump said on Twitter, referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. He added that “Guatemala is getting ready to sign a Safe-Third Agreement,” an apparent reference to a pact in which migrants entering Guatemalan territory would have to apply for refugee status there, not in the United States. The US is facing a surge in migrant arrivals from Guatemala and other Central American countries.The numbers have overwhelmed the ability of US authorities to temporarily shelter and process them. Trump has called it “an invasion,” and has made the fight against illegal migration a central plank of his administration. Earlier Monday the US said it would not offer any more aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras unless they take “concrete actions” to deter undocumented migrants from heading for the US. For fiscal 2019, $370 million initially planned will be allocated to other foreign policy priorities, the State Department said, and all future aid is now conditional...

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/trump-removing-millions-illegals/

Houthi rebels shoot down U.S. aircraft

by Jerry McCormick

{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ The tensions between Iran and the United States got kicked up another level due to some new information about the downing of a U.S. drone... On Sunday, military officials confirmed a U.S. drone had been shot down by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. The fact of significance here is that the U.S. had been flying its drones at heights the Houthis have not been able to attack for some time. Their ability to carry out a successful attack against the drone shows that their offensive capabilities have improved. This more than likely means they have been getting support from Iran, something that creates a major concern for our military leaders in the Middle East. The drone itself was shot down on June 6, but there was apparently another attempted attack against a second drone. That strike happened on the same day two oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman.U.S. officials believe that was a pre-emptive strike to curb surveillance of the area while Iran carried out the strikes. While some presidential candidates have accused the Trump administration of goading Iran into a war, that is far from the case. The administration on all fronts has been adamant that it would much rather come to a peaceful solution than get involved in yet another conflict in the Middle East. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated: “The United States is going to make sure that we take all the actions necessary, diplomatic and otherwise, that achieve that outcome.” Pompeo further stated our intelligence teams are putting together significant evidence to show Iran as the clear aggressor. The hope is to put public pressure on Iran to stop these actions as well as paint a truthful picture for Americans that are being fed a false narrative by Democrats and the liberal networks supporting them.

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/rebels-shoot-us-drone/

Social Justice Summer Camp

Arnold Ahlert: “Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” —Vladimir Lenin

From August 12-23, a Portland, Oregon, group called Budding Roses, self-described as a “volunteer-run collective of educators, students, and activists” will be working to plant an activist seed in children entering fourth through eighth grade next fall.

Their vehicle? Social Justice Summer Camp.

“Our goal is to provide a free, safe and encouraging space for youth to learn, express themselves, and engage critically with the issues they encounter individuals and as a group,” the Budding Roses website states. “We strive to help them cultivate the necessary tools to be active members of our communities through experiences of collective decision-making and democratic education. At camp, youth of all ages play a leadership role alongside adult counselors and make collective decisions about the activities and format of the day. Each day opening and closing assemblies provide a space for youth and counselors to democratically plan activities for the day, resolve conflicts, and build interpersonal leadership skills.”

Really? Here’s the digital flier being sent out by the camp:

PJ Media’s Jeff Reynolds, who received one these fliers, spells out the real intentions of these anarchist recruiters. “The first thing that struck me, before anything else, was the mask-clad, fist-raising elementary school kids in the illustration,” he writes. “Teaching incoming 4th-8th-graders how to riot, become members of antifa, and join a communist revolution seems a bit much — even for Portland, Oregon. Notice the star on the mask and the raised fist. Classic imagery from the USSR, China, and other violent Marxist revolutions in the 20th century.”

Note that there’s no charge for attending the camp. That’s because Budding Roses gets funding from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation, a group that bills itself on its website as an “organization of revolutionaries who share common visions of a new world — a world where people collectively control their own workplaces, communities and land and where all basic needs are met.”

And from whom do they draw their inspiration? Again according to the website, “As those actively seeking to construct this vision we are inspired by the traditions of anarchist-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, especifismo, platformism, feminism, queer liberation, black liberation, abolitionism, anti-racism and their history of global struggle for liberation.”

Note that their graphic is virtually identical to the one used by the camp:

Note further that while the Social Justice Summer Camp is held at St. Peter & Paul Church, Budding Roses makes sure to point out that they are not affiliated with the Church. Rather they are “an explicitly non-religious” organization.

Anyone still remember that Communists in both the Soviet Union and China either banned religion outright or put it in total service to the state when they attained power?

Even more germane, does anyone remember when summer camp was about playing sports, doing crafts, horseback riding, swimming etc.? Undoubtedly for this bunch, such pursuits are either secondary or irrelevant to molding an American equivalent of China’s Red Guard, or Lenin’s very own All-Union Pioneer Organization. Lenin’s organization was also tailored for young children (ages 9-15), and also used summer camps to indoctrinate them.

Daily activities at the camp will include “a combination of community-building activities, discussions on social justice topics, interactive workshops, movies, arts, games, and free time. Workshops and discussions are often held in collaboration with local activists and community organizations.”

In the previous two summers, those community organizations included Critical Resistance PDX, a group that bills itself as a “small group of dedicated prison industrial complex abolitionists;” Deep Undergound (DUG), described as an open-mic collective whose “work is dedicated to creating spaces that provide a sense of safety and freedom for the black and brown community in this city;” the Transformative Lenses Collective, described on Facebook as “a group of organizers working to provide support to survivors of gendered violence, abuse, & its intersecting oppressions;” and the Burgerville Workers Union whose members see their union as “part of a larger vision for a world that centers human need over the pursuit of profit.”

In other words, campers will be marinated in a stew of progressive politics, courtesy of those whose contempt for America’s foundational principles is undisguised.

What is also undisguised is the reality that leftists must teach children — the younger the better — what to think, not how to think. That’s because the latter approach would be tantamount to political suicide. The historical wreckage wrought by Godless collectivism in search of a utopia — and utterly antithetical to human nature — is impossible to ignore. Thus, history — along with reality itself — must be completely obscured by a relentless barrage of politically correct groupthink. Groupthink that must be endlessly reiterated, lest an independent idea rear its “ugly” head.

“Just think how formidable these children will be by the time they reach high school,” writes columnist Elizabeth Vaughn.

Formidable? Angry and miserable is more like it, if this effort to inculcate a permanent sense of victimhood takes hold.

Yet like so many leftist efforts, the Achilles Heel is baked into the mix. Few things are more time consuming — and ultimately exhausting — than maintaining the hubris, the anger, and the arrogance that radical leftist ideological purity demands, especially when those demands are continually expanding. Today’s social justice warrior can become tomorrow’s social pariah in the proverbial blink of an eye, even for the slightest and/or unconscious infraction.

China’s Red Guard self-destructed for exactly that reason, and one suspects even the historically illiterate generations of younger Americans know the Soviet Union has ceased to exist.

What they might not know is that the Berlin Wall was broken down from the inside, not the outside.

The cracks in the progressive wall are impossible to ignore. Their hate, their hysteria, and their need to denigrate rather than debate — when they’re not engaged in full-blown censorship — are indications of many things.

Confidence isn’t one of them.

Nothing confirmed that better than the 2016 election, when leftists themselves destroyed the facade of self-promoted tolerance they had enjoyed for decades. In the frenzy that has ensued ever since, they revealed they are only interested in tolerance — along with fairness, decorum, decency, and the Rule of Law itself — when it is wholly compatible with their worldview. Otherwise, the nation must endure their contempt for “racist,” “deplorable,” “toxic,” “privileged,” “bitter-clinging” Americans, as well as open borders, sanctuary cities, activist judges, rule by unelected bureaucrats, and an attempted coup d'etat.

Social Justice Summer Camp? Good luck, comrades. You’re going to need it. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63678?mailing_id=4338&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4338&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 19, 2019 at 6:57am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The Asylum Seeker Racket

Tom McLaughlin

Trump Admin to Sanction

Iran’s Last European Lifeline

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Trump administration is considering new sanctions on Iran to stop it from using backdoor financial methods as a means to skirt U.S. economic sanctions on its business dealings with leading European nations... according to multiple U.S. officials who told the Free Beacon that Tehran is operating a "nuclear racket." The new sanctions would directly target Iran's Special Trade and Finance Institute (STFI), an alternate financial body established by Tehran to ensure it can continue engaging in lucrative trade deals with Europe in the face of heavy U.S. sanctions. The STFI was meant to replace the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (ISTEX), which France, Germany, and the United Kingdom created in January to facilitate trade with Iran. The Trump administration is already said to be examining sanctioning the STFI, which it views as a front for the Central Bank of Iran, an entity sanctioned by the United States for its role in Iran's nuclear program and the funding of regional terror operations, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Administration allies in Congress are working toward a similar goal, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) having already filed a new measure that would, in addition to any potential White House action, formally sanction the STFI vehicle and make it impossible for Europe to continue engaging in business with Iran, congressional sources confirmed to the Free Beacon. The issue of these financial bodies has emerged as a crucial tension point in the debate over Iran, as traditional American allies such as Germany, France, and Britain seek to use the STFI to skirt Trump's sanctions. With Iran giving Europe a 10-day deadline provide it with cash windfalls from the landmark nuclear deal or face increased uranium enrichment, any new sanctions would disrupt Europe’s efforts to keep the door open to future business with Tehran... https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-admin-to-sanction-irans-last-european-lifeline/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=28274fd79f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_17_08_41_COPY_204&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-28274fd79f-45611665

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXCXS6gHscg

New Photos Are ‘Smoking Gun’ Proving

Iranian Involvement in Tanker Attack

by Sam LaGrone

{ news.usni.org } ~ New imagery released by the U.S. on Monday makes the strongest case yet that sectarian Iranian forces attacked at least one petrochemical tanker in the Gulf of Oman... a long-time naval analyst told USNI News on Monday. Taken from a Navy MH-60R Seahawk, the new photographs show a similar scene as a grainy black and white video U.S. Central Command released on Thursday. In them, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy fast attack craft come alongside the Japanese-owned petrochemical tanker M/V Kokuka Courageous and removed what CENTCOM said is a limpet mine. “Limpet mines are attached to a vessel via magnets and/or nails and detonated by a timer,” read a statement from U.S. Central Command. “Following the attack, sailors from the Kokuka Couragous discovered a second, unexploded, limpet mine on their vessel and abandoned ship.” After the crew left the ship, CENTCOM said a Gashti Class patrol boat approached the Kokuka Courageous and recovered the unexploded mine. Additional detailed images shot from alongside Kokuka Courageous taken from the crew of USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), show a greenish-grey base attached to the hull, what CENTCOM says is the remains of the removed mine...

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/17/analyst-new-photos-are-smoking-gun-proving-iranian-involvement-in-tanker-attack?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=f5eea9b303-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-f5eea9b303-231491269&mc_cid=f5eea9b303&mc_eid=3999f18767

China Continuing Cyberattacks

on Government, Private Networks

by Bill Gertz

{ freebeacon.com } ~ China is continuing cyberattacks against government and private sector networks aimed at obtaining intellectual property to support China's military buildup and economic modernization... White House National Security Adviser John Bolton says. Bolton said that as a result, the United States is going on the attack against Chinese and other foreign hackers using new authorities outlined in a recently signed presidential memorandum. Asked if China has lessened intellectual property theft through cyberattacks, Bolton said: "No. I think this is one of the reasons why one of our priorities here was to replace PPD-20 with what we call NSPM-13, National Security Presidential Memorandum-13, which dramatically changed the oversight and approval process for offensive cyber operations." The scumbag/liar-nObama administration directive, Presidential Policy Directive-20, was signed in October 2012 and made public by renegade National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The 20-page order, labeled "top-secret," created a restrictive approval process for conducting cyberattacks, such as requiring presidential approval and obtaining foreign government approval for operations. Bolton said the new order gives greater authority to operators in the military and intelligence community and will help establish deterrence against foreign cyberattacks. "You can't get to a system of deterrence, in cyberspace or anywhere else, unless you convince your adversaries that they will pay a higher price for engaging in their offensive cyber operations than they ever hope to gain," Bolton said in an interview in the White House West Wing. "And we have started that in late 2018 when we got NSPM-13 adopted."... https://freebeacon.com/national-security/bolton-china-continuing-cyberattacks-on-government-private-networks/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=28274fd79f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_17_08_41_COPY_204&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-28274fd79f-45611665

China: The Perfect High-Tech Totalitarian State

by Judith Bergman

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The 30th anniversary on June 4 of the Chinese regime's 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square served to highlight the extreme censorship in China... under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and President Xi Jinping. The Tiananmen anniversary is referred to euphemistically in mainland China, as 'the June Fourth Incident'. The regime there evidently fears that any talk, let alone public commemoration, of that historical event will stir up anti-regime unrest, which could endanger the Chinese Communist Party's absolute power. The internet in China is under control of the Chinese Communist Party, especially through the rigorous censorship practiced by the party's top internet censor, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), established in 2014. In May 2017, according to a Reuters report, the CAC introduced strict guidelines requiring all internet platforms that produce or distribute news "to be managed by party-sanctioned editorial staff" who have been "approved by the national or local government internet and information offices, while their workers must get training and reporting credentials from the central government". Freedom House, in "Freedom on the Net 2018," its 2018 assessment of freedom on the internet in 65 countries, placed China dead last. Reporters without Borders, in its 2019 worldwide index of press freedom, ranked China 177 out of 180 countries, surpassed only by Eritrea, North Korea and Turkmenistan. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at the time of its 2018 prison census, counted at least 47 journalists jailed in China, but according to the CPJ, the number could be much higher: "authorities are deliberately preventing information from getting out". In March 2019, the CPJ was investigating at least a dozen additional cases, including the arrests in December 2018 of 45 contributors to the human rights and religious-liberty magazine, Bitter Winter, which China targets as a "foreign hostile website". On 'sensitive' occasions such as the Tiananmen anniversary, entire websites are blocked. Since April, ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary, Wikipedia had been blocked in all languages. Wikipedia's Chinese-language site has been blocked by China since 2015. Websites such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other websites have also long been blocked in China. Search terms are also blocked on such 'sensitive' occasions. In the past, even common, innocuous words such as 'today' or 'tomorrow' have been blocked... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14365/china-totalitarian-technology

Private Firms Not Bound by First Amendment

by Charles Fain Lehman

{ freebeacon.com } ~ A private corporation that runs a public "forum" is not bound by the First Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled Monday morning... The case, which nominally concerns a public access channel in New York, has attracted attention as a potential vector for regulation of social media firms facing charges of viewpoint bias. The basic details of Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck are mundane. New York City designated Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), a private nonprofit corporation, operator of a public access channel. Respondents DeeDee Halleck and Jesus Papoleto Melendez produced a film critical of MNN, which MNN agreed to air. The corporation subsequently removed their film and suspended the pair, claiming that they had made threats against MNN employees. Halleck and Melendez sued, claiming that MNN had violated their free speech rights under the First Amendment. The case made its way to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which is where it got interesting. Normally, to assess a First Amendment claim, a court would first determine whether or not the alleged violator was a state actor. But in this case, taking its cues from an opinion of now-retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Second Circuit instead ruled that, while MNN was a private entity, its fulfillment of certain roles made it a "public forum," and therefore subject to the requirements of the First Amendment.The question before the Supreme Court, then, was whether or not what the Second Circuit had done was legitimate. Or, as Halleck and Melendez put it in their initial filing, "whether the Second Circuit erred in rejecting this Court's state actor tests and instead creating a per se rule that private operators of public access channels are state actors subject to constitutional liability." "Under what circumstances," they ask, "can a private entity here a private operator of a public access channel be deemed a state actor, subject to claims under the First Amendment?"... https://freebeacon.com/issues/scotus-private-firms-not-bound-by-first-amendment/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=28274fd79f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_17_08_41_COPY_204&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-28274fd79f-45611665

The Asylum Seeker Racket

Tom McLaughlin

{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ It says: “Comments are disabled on some stories about sensitive topics” at the bottom of articles about hundreds of African “asylum seekers” coming into Portland, Maine on buses from San Antonio, Texas. That tells me The Portland Press Herald, Maine’s largest newspaper, knows illegal immigration is unpopular with Mainers and millions of other Americans across the country. The paper wants only its view presented and restricts opposing views.

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Press Herald coverage amplifies anecdotes about the hardships endured by African families from Angola, Congo, and Cameroon who travel to Brazil, then Central America, and through Mexico to arrive at the Texas border demanding asylum. There’s no investigation, however, into who supported them on that long journey. Who paid their passage across the Atlantic? Who fed, clothed, and housed them on their months-long journey? Who told them to ask for asylum immediately after crossing the border and then ask to be bussed to Portland, Maine? Photographs of them arriving in Portland don’t depict people worn out after a harrowing journey. They’re well-dressed and some appear overweight.

A Swiss journalist named Urs Gehriger tried to interview these “asylum seekers” on the streets of San Antonio about how they got there. According to Fox News: “…he met hostility from people who didn’t want to share details about their experiences … and had rolls of $100 bills. They offered conflicting answers and contradicted each other.” They had crossed the Rio Grande illegally but immediately became “legal” after asking border officials for asylum because of the federal law congressional Democrats refuse to change. So, we can expect “asylum seekers” to just keep coming and they’re not illegal aliens; they’re “asylees.” Gehriger believes the illegals were coached on giving answers to authorities. “I had the impression that somebody told them not to speak about it,” and acting like “now we’re here, you have to help us, give us money,” he said.

Hundreds of Africans have arrived and as many as 1500 more are expected. There’s no hint in the PPH coverage about Mainers who believe Democrats support open-borders and who are unhappy about spending their tax money on people from anywhere in the world who make their way to Maine claiming “asylum.” How do “asylees” know that in little Portland, Maine they can get free food, medical care, housing, and education? When they arrive in Texas, they ask to be bussed here. Government officials in San Antonio also know Portland offers more free stuff for “asylum seekers” than almost anywhere else in the country.

When Democrats controlled Maine prior to 2012 and Portland gave illegal immigrants and “asylum seekers” General Assistance welfare, the state reimbursed the city for 90% of it. Then former Republican Maine Human Services Director Mary Mayhew said in 2015: “For too long, legislators in Augusta have taken Maine citizens’ tax dollars and prioritized welfare dollars for illegal aliens over aid to elderly and disabled Maine citizens.” Former Governor LePage also Republian cut off state reimbursement for payments to illegal immigrants and “asylum seekers” in spite of efforts by then-Attorney General Janet Mills a Democrat to stop him. Now Democrats are back in control of Maine’s government and Janet Mills is governor. Expect them to restart the gravy train very soon.

It looks like Democrats are willing to pay for any number of people from anywhere in the world, yet they deny they support open borders. Yes, it’s nice to help people who are fleeing war and oppression, but is that the case with all of them? Many Mainers doubt it. Life in America is better than most places in the world and, according to a Gallup poll, a hundred fifty million more would like to come here.How many of those should we pay for? A million? Ten million? Fifty million? Ask a Democrat official and you won’t get a straight answer. Portland’s social services infrastructure cannot handle the ones we have already so local officials reach out to surrounding communities like South Portland where I’m also a taxpayer.

According to the Washington Examiner, Catholic Charities pays to bus the “asylum seekers” around the country. A ticket to New York for a family of five to seven cost $2000. Why would they do that? Is it because most of their budget comes from the federal government for resettling refugees and asylum seekers? American Catholic bishops support open borders and, according to newsmax.com: “Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services in the USA received $202,000,000 and $426,943,000 respectively in 2016.”

There are at least 3000 asylum seekers in Maine who wait two years for their cases to be heard by an immigration court. However, US Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan reported earlier this month that 90% of asylum seekers in the country never show up. Is that because their asylum claims are phony? After defaulting on their court appearances they all become illegal aliens again and McAleenan says very few will ever be deported.

Quite a racket, huh? Expect to read none of this in the Portland Press Herald.

https://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-asylum-seeker-racket.html

Tuesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 18, 2019 at 4:09pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Why Trump's Latest Polling Numbers Matter

Thomas Gallatin

State Dept. Suspends $200 Million Enhanced Aid

for El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

Pending Illegal Migration Enforcement

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ While previously pledged support for the Northern Triangle region related to Homeland Security and combating organized crime will continue, the State Department suspends any further financial assistance ($200 million) until the migration crisis is resolved... “Next, I have a quick update for you on U.S. foreign assistance to the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. As you know, in March, the President concluded these countries have not effectively prevented illegal migrants from coming to the United States.” “At the Secretary’s instruction, we continue to implement the President’s direction regarding foreign assistance for El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. We completed a review, and previously awarded grants and contracts will continue with current funding. State Department assistance in support of priorities of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security priorities to help the Northern Triangle governments take actions that will protect the U.S. border and counter transnational organized crime will also continue. We will not provide new funds for programs in those countries until we are satisfied the Northern Triangle governments are taking concrete actions to reduce the number of illegal migrants coming to the U.S. border... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/17/state-dept-suspends-200-million-enhanced-aid-for-el-salvador-guatemala-and-honduras-pending-illegal-migration-enforcement/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGKuGdCblAE

Supreme Court Upholds Double Jeopardy Rule

That Might Weaken Reach Of Trump’s Pardons

by Kevin Daley

{dailycaller.com} ~ The Supreme Court left undisturbed Monday a legal rule that allows state and federal governments to prosecute individuals for the same conduct despite the Constitution’s ban on double jeopardy... The case was closely watched because of its possible ramifications for President Donald Trump, given continued speculation that he could pardon confidants facing criminal convictions like Paul Manafort. The pardon power authorizes the president to grant clemency for federal crimes, but does not reach state matters. The Fifth Amendment’s double jeopardy clause prohibits multiple prosecutions for the same offense. An exception to this rule called the separate sovereigns doctrine allows state and federal governments to bring successive prosecutions for the same crime. Monday’s decision leaves the doctrine in place, meaning any person Trump pardons remains exposed to state prosecutions. Former special counsel Robert Mueller was working with the New York attorney general to build a case against Manafort as of August 2017. Other Trump associates, like Roger Stone and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, face purely federal charges. The case was one for unexpected ideological bedfellows. Justice Samuel Alito delivered Monday’s opinion for a seven-justice majority, while Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Neil Gorsuch dissented. “All told, the evidence does not establish that those who ratified the Fifth Amendment took it to bar successive prosecutions under different sovereigns’ laws — much less do so with enough force to break a chain of precedent linking dozens of cases over 170 years,” the Court’s decision reads...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/17/supreme-court-double-jeopardy/?utm_medium=email

Ho-Lee-Cats, is it Happening? – Chairman Xi Announces Visit to North Korea

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korea for two days from Thursday, state media in both countries reported on Monday, making him the first Chinese leader to visit in 14 years... Neighboring China is reclusive North Korea’s only major ally, and the visit comes amid renewed tensions between the United States and North Korea over efforts to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons. “Both sides will exchange views on the Korean peninsula situation, and push for new progress in the political resolution of the peninsula issue,” China’s official broadcaster CCTV said in a lengthy report that led the evening news. The possibility here is one most CTH readers will immediately recognize. Is this the predictable face-saving approach Chairman Xi Jinping has selected? For two-and-a-half years U.S. President Trump has been working on two connected objectives: (1) removing the threat posed by North Korea by severing the ability of Beijing to use the proxy province as a weapon Kim is hostage to China; and (2) deconstructing the growing economic influence of China... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/17/ho-lee-cats-is-it-happening-chairman-xi-announces-visit-to-north-korea/

Congress shirks its duty at the southern border

by washingtonexaminer.com: The Trump administration is doing just about everything it can to slow the flood of undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans coming to the U.S. and claiming asylum... But alleviating our growing border crisis is impossible unless Congress changes our immigration laws. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, was right when he said Tuesday during a congressional hearing on border security that there is “absolutely no justification whatsoever for Congress to sit on the sidelines and watch as this crisis continues to unfold.” The emergency on the border is “getting worse and worse as Congress sits on its hands and does absolutely nothing” to help. The border pandemonium is literally fatal. Since December, six migrants have died while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Five were children. This isn’t the fault of the Trump administration's policies that aim to stanch the stream of illegal immigrants. It’s the result of a border patrol collapsing under the weight of hundreds of thousands of migrants making a dangerous and debilitating journey to the U.S. and needing urgent medical care as soon as they arrive. In fiscal 2018, border agents apprehended nearly 106,000 “family units,” meaning families that made their way illegally onto U.S. soil and, more often than not, claimed asylum. We’re only halfway through this year, and that number has tripled to more than 316,000. Why is this happening? It is because everyone south of the border knows that to secure indefinite legal protection to stay in the U.S., they need simply to arrive with children, who by law must not be detained for more than 20 days. When the child is released by border patrol, as it inevitably will be, so too is the person who came with them. That’s why the number of apprehensions of supposed families dwarfs apprehensions of single adults. News media and Trump's critics blame administration cruelty for the crisis. They've started referring to detention centers as "concentration camps." But the crisis is caused by our nonsensical asylum laws, which are well intentioned but incapable of dealing with the sort of massive run on the border we're seeing today. Our laws act as a magnet for illegal immigrants, encouraging migrants to make dangerous journeys with children, across Mexico, and enter our country without documentation... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/congress-shirks-its-duty-at-the-southern-border?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_06/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

What in the World Does

John Dean Have to Do With Anything?

by restoreamericanglory.com

Liberals online were pumped about former White House Counsel John Dean testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Monday. And why wouldn’t they be? Dean, who was a central character in the Watergate scandal of the 1970s... has since become a liberal activist, publishing entire truckloads of books and articles that play right into the Democrat agenda. And, you know, since Richard Nixon was a president and there was an investigation and almost an impeachment…well, obviously Dean will have a lot to testify about. Because, um, yeah. Reasons. At this point, scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler might as well call Rachel Maddow to testify. Why not? She has as much personal knowledge of the Trump investigation as Dean does. And she would undoubtedly be even more willing to talk all about the many so-called crimes that Trump and his associates have committed. If Democrats are determined to stage stunt show spectaculars on C-Span, why stop at unrelated figures in government? Call Maddow. Call Jennifer Rubin. Put Ana Navarro at the witness table. Hell, why don’t we just sit scumbag liar-Nadler himself down there and let his fellow Democrats ask him questions?Seems to us, we could save a lot of time and money if the Democrats would just carefully read the Mueller report, line by line, and absorb the conclusions. There was no collusion with Russia. That’s the big takeaway. That’s the invalidation of their years-long propaganda campaign against the president and his supporters. If they would just take a moment, breathe deeply, and come to grips with that exclamatory point, we could move on as a country past this dark episode in American history. But no, they have convinced themselves that it isn’t true. Or, at least, they have convinced themselves that they can convince the public that it isn’t true. That if Trump wasn’t guilty of collusion, he must still be guilty of something. Obstruction? Sure, why not. And if not that, then cheating on his taxes. And if not that, then being really mean to migrants. Something, anything. Because they just can’t simply drop it and resolve to beat Donald Trump politically in 2020. They just don’t believe they can do it.

http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/what-in-the-world-does-john-dean-have-to-do-with-anything/

Why Trump's Latest Polling Numbers Matter

Thomas Gallatin: We are 17 months out from the 2020 presidential election, so why should anyone care that recent polling (including from President Donald Trump’s own pollsters) shows him far behind his Democrat opponents in several key states? Because pollaganda is real and effective. It’s how the Leftmedia shapes and moves public opinion, all while gauging its success. In other words, polling more often than not is a reflection of the effectiveness of the media’s messaging as people simply report back what they’ve been fed.

For the entirety of Trump’s presidency, 90% of the mainstream media’s reporting on him has been negative. No previous president has had to contend with such an onslaught of media antagonism on a daily basis, and yet in spite of this Trump has seen remarkable success in implementing his America First agenda. The question is, how many Americans are aware of this? How many realize that the strong economy they are now enjoying is largely due to Trump’s policies?

But there are also important caveats regarding the White House’s internal polling. Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale explained, “These leaked numbers are ancient, in campaign terms, from months-old polling that began in March before two major events had occurred: the release of the summary of the Mueller report exonerating the President, and the beginning of the Democrat candidates defining themselves with the far-left policy message.”

Yet, as everyone knows and as the 2016 election proved, the only real poll that ultimately matters is on Election Day. And 2020 Election Day is still a long way off, with Trump just this week set to formally announce his reelection bid in Orlando, Florida. Moreover, Trump’s Democrat challenger has yet to be determined, with that challenger sure to be bloodied by the time they face off against Trump. Speaking of the Democrat field, the current frontrunner, loose lips liar-Joe Biden, has seen his big lead weaken while a new CBS poll shows hard-leftist Elizabeth dinky-Warren moving into second, overtaking the fast-fading socialist commie-Bernie Sanders.

One final note: At this same point in his presidency, Ronald Reagan polled nationally at 35% favorability; Trump is currently at 37%. Reagan went on to win the 1984 election in a 49-state landslide. Why? Many historians point to Reagan’s economic turnaround, which likewise may prove to be the trump card that gets Trump reelected. However, Democrats and the Leftmedia will do everything in their power to convince Americans that voting for Trump will bring about the end of the country, and they’re pushing a recession to make their predictions come “true.”

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63689?mailing_id=4338&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4338&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tues/Med PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 18, 2019 at 1:43pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

HBO Drags Disney Star Into the Gutter
L. Brent Bozell & Tim Graham

McConnell Plans Vote on $4.5 Billion

Bill to Address Humanitarian Crisis at Border

by Mairead Mcardle

{ nationalreview.com } ~ Senator Mitch McConnell said Monday that he plans to hold a vote on a bill that would allocate $4.5 billion toward mitigating the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.–Mexico border... “I’m going to bring it up freestanding next week and see if they really aren’t interested in dealing with this mass of humanity that we have to take care of at the border,” the majority leader said in an interview with Fox News, referencing Democrats’ opposition to funding for President Trump’s border wall. “What’s the objection? This is not about the wall but about the humanitarian crisis.” The bill includes $3.3 billion to care for unaccompanied minors, improve shelters, and process new arrivals. Another $1.1 billion would go toward increasing the number of detention beds and funding more investigative work, both of which goals have sparked controversy among Democrats. “I think it’s safe to say the president is getting more cooperation out of Mexico than he is out of congressional Democrats,” McConnell said, adding that his colleagues across the aisle “reflexively” oppose any policy Trump supports... Mitch what about the homeless in America?

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-plans-vote-to-address-humanitarian-border-crisis/

Why is the FEC Ignoring scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's $84 Million Campaign Finance Scandal?

by Dan Backer

{realclearpolicy.com} ~ One year and two months. That’s how long it’s been since a formal complaint was filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), alleging scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign orchestrated an $84 million campaign finance scandal... the largest in U.S. history. Yet the FEC has done nothing to hold the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign, dozens of Democratic officials, and hundreds of six-figure Democratic mega-donors accountable for breaking the law. Let’s start at the beginning. Last December, the Committee to Defend the President filed a complaint with the FEC, centered on $84 million in allegedly excessive six-figure contributions laundered through the scumbag/liar-Hillary Victory Fund to dozens of Democratic state parties acting as straw men, over the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and into the hands of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s campaign. The straw man contributions were made by liberal elites from Hollywood to Wall Street and everywhere in between, including fashion icon Calvin Klein, “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, the owners of New York City media giants and their landlords, and countless others. Don’t just take my word for it: Meticulously documenting the “unprecedented, massive, nationwide multi-million dollar conspiracy,” the 101-page complaint is built entirely on FEC reports filed by Democrats, memos authored by scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook, and public statements from former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile, among others. After the FEC refused to act on the complaint within a statutory 120-day timeframe, the Committee sued the agency to force action, claiming the FEC’s failure to act is “arbitrary, capricious, contrary to law, and an abuse of discretion.” This week, the Committee targeted the FEC again, pointing out how the agency has sat on the Committee’s initial complaint from last December. The Committee urges the FEC do its due diligence and ramp up its investigation — well over a year after the story first broke. Quite frankly, inaction is unacceptable. As President Trump’s election proved, the American people are fed up with political figures like the scumbag/liar-Clintons getting away with scandal after embarrassing scandal... https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2019/02/20/why_is_the_fec_ignoring_hillary_clintons_84_million_campaign_finance_scandal_111066.html

IPT Report Exposes ICNA's

Radical Domestic Agenda

by Abha Shankar

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ Most religious groups exist to provide fellowship for their members and help them with spiritual needs... The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) stands apart, both for its close ties to South Asian Islamist radicals, and for its overt and repeatedly stated ambitions to convert the world to Islam, a new report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) finds. ICNA has been described as "openly affiliated" with the Sunni revivalist movement Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). In addition to advancing a rigid interpretation of Islam, the Islamist movement has provided an ideological platform and recruiting base for South Asian terrorist groups. In many ways, ICNA's ideology echoes the JI, which was created in 1941 by Islamist ideologue Maulana Syed Abdul Ala Maududi in Lahore, Pakistan, which was then part of British India. Muslims, Maududi preached, "wherever you are, in whichever country you live, you must strive to change the wrong basis of government, and seize all powers to the rule and make laws from those who do not fear God. You must also provide leadership to God's servants and conduct the affairs of their government in accordance with God's law, remaining fully conscious of living in God's presence and being accountable to Him in the Hereafter. The name of this striving is Jihad." ICNA, in turn, was set up to establish "Iqamat Deen," the Islamic system of life, in North America with the ultimate goal of founding a global Islamic state or Caliphate. "Wherever the Islamic movement succeeds to establish true Islamic societies, they will form coalitions and alliances. This will lead to the unity of the Ummah and step towards the reestablishment of Khilafah Caliphate," writes former ICNA President Mohammad Yunus in the August 2000 issue of the organization's flagship publication, The Message International... https://www.investigativeproject.org/7952/ipt-report-exposes-icna-radical-domestic-agenda

Netanyahu urges world to reimpose

sanctions if Iran ramps up nuclear enrichment

by timesofisrael.com: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged the international community to immediately snap back sanctions on Iran if it goes ahead with its threat to enrich uranium... beyond the levels set by a landmark nuclear pact. Iran said earlier Monday that it would break the uranium stockpile limit set by the 2015 accord in 10 days, and warned that Iran could enrich uranium up to 20 percent — just a step away from weapons-grade levels. Netanyahu, one of the agreement’s most vociferous critics, said Israel was not surprised by the threat. “In the event it acts upon its threats and violates the nuclear deal, the international community must immediately impose the sanctions that were set previously. Israel will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon,” he said at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, during a ceremony that commemorated Israeli presidents and prime ministers who have passed away. The nuclear deal has steadily unraveled since the Trump administration pulled America out of the accord last year and re-imposed tough economic sanctions on Iran, deeply cutting into its sale of crude oil abroad and sending its economy into freefall. The Monday announcement by Behrouz Kamalvandi, timed for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, put more pressure on Europe to come up with new terms for the nuclear deal. Europe has so far been unable to offer Iran a way around the US sanctions, and Netanyahu has urged other powers to follow the lead of the US and pull out of the deal as well. Kamalvandi made the announcement during a press conference with local journalists at Iran’s Arak heavy water facility that was carried live on Iranian state television... https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-urges-world-to-reimpose-sanctions-if-iran-ramps-up-nuclear-enrichment/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-06-17&utm_medium=email

Chinese dissidents are being executed for their organs, former hospital worker says

by Steven W. Mosher

{ nypost.com } ~ Qiaozhi — we will call him George — still has nightmares. He was interning at China’s Shenyang Army General Hospital when he was drafted to be part of an organ-harvesting team... The prisoner was brought in, tied hand and foot, but very much alive. The army doctor in charge sliced him open from chest to belly button and exposed his two kidneys. “Cut the veins and arteries,” he told his shocked intern. George did as he was told. Blood spurted everywhere. The kidneys were placed in an organ-transplant container. Then the doctor ordered George to remove the man’s eyeballs. Hearing that, the dying prisoner gave him a look of sheer terror, and George froze. “I can’t do it,” he told the doctor, who then quickly scooped out the man’s eyeballs himself. George was so unnerved by what he had seen that he soon quit his job at the hospital and returned home. Later, afraid that he might be the next victim of China’s forced organ-transplant business, he fled to Canada and assumed a new identity. First-person accounts like George’s are understandably rare. The “transplant tourists” who come to China are naturally told nothing about the “donors” of their new heart, liver or kidney. And those who are executed for their organs tell no tales. Experts estimate that between 60,000 and 100,000 organs are transplanted annually in China. Multiply that number times the cost of a liver transplant $170,000 or a kidney transplant $130,000, and the result is an eye-popping $10 billion to 20 billion. And where do these hundreds of thousands of organs come from? George was told nothing about the background of the young man whose kidneys he fatally removed except that he was “under 18 and in good health.”...

https://nypost.com/2019/06/01/chinese-dissidents-are-being-executed-for-their-organs-former-hospital-worker-says/

HBO Drags Disney Star Into the Gutter

L. Brent Bozell & Tim Graham

The programmers at HBO pride themselves in setting the tone for the rest of television, especially when it comes to the absence of taste, from Bill Maher’s “Real Time” talk-show tantrums to Lena Dunham marching around undressed on “Girls.”

Every time HBO hits the bottom of the gutter, it finds a way to go deeper still. It is really headed into the gutter, and it knows it. A new HBO series about teenagers and sex and drugs called “Euphoria” is starting June 16, starring 22-year-old Zendaya, another former Disney Channel star desperately seeking to keep her career alive in the eyes of Hollywood casting agents and limiting herself to one name in the pursuit of that.

The show’s creator, Sam Levinson, gleefully predicted to The Hollywood Reporter, “There are going to be parents who are going to be totally f—ing freaked out.”

This is how The Hollywood Reporter began its story: “Thirty penises in one episode? Zendaya’s new series, filled with graphic nudity, violence and drug use among young people, is so extreme that one star quit mid-shoot, but the network hopes that authenticity will help the show break through.”

Ah, “authenticity.” That’s the word HBO uses when it makes a wildly over-the-top series. Levinson claimed the point of the show is to “expose an adult audience to the challenges of growing up in 2019,” and that many of the scenes come directly from Levinson’s life. “It may seem boundary-pushing, and the idea of putting them on TV may be, but somebody lived them.” Levinson, born in 1985, is the son of top Tinseltown filmmaker Barry Levinson.

Many “somebodies” have navigated through dramatically sinful lives, but that doesn’t mean they’re all going to be exploited by HBO. If the company just loves “authenticity” for its own sake, can we expect it to run “Gosnell” on its channels, or “Unplanned”? Or is the authentic ugliness of the abortion industry just too tawdry?

Casey Bloys, HBO programming president, claimed the show is “not sensational to be sensational.” There is zero authenticity in that claim.

Levinson says HBO executives have been supportive, but they did push back on two scenes. He wanted to start the whole series with a camera shot focusing on the birth of Zendaya’s character that came from “behind a doctor and went straight between her mother’s legs and into her vagina,” the Reporter says. In the actual version, her character narrates over a clip of herself in utero, saying, “I was repeatedly crushed over and over by the cruel cervix of my mother.”

The network also protested a scene in the second episode featuring dozens of naked high school boys. How responsible. “What made it to air is a trimmed-down version of the original shot, which included ‘like, 80 more’ penises,” the Reporter says. It never ceases to amaze that HBO is now the first destination for new “Sesame Street” programming. The executives cravenly cashed in.

Parents Television Council President Tim Winter made the most salient point to the Hollywood Reporter. This show “appears to be overtly, intentionally marketing extremely graphic adult content — sex, violence, profanity and drug use — to teens and preteens.”

HBO makes its way into millions of American homes, and not just on the television anymore. Children can easily stream a perverted show like this on their laptops or iPads or even cellphones. Parents should be alerted that this smutty show will be bubbling up from the bottom of the sewer.

Until HBO goes deeper still. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/63638?mailing_id=4334&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4334&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 18, 2019 at 11:28am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

A Hub of Political Correctness Gets

Hit With a Big Judgment

Hans von Spakovsky

National Debt: Who Cares?

by Brian Riedl

{prageru.com} ~The U.S. national debt is massive—so massive that most Americans cannot comprehend it, much less solve it... But a crisis is looming, and a day of reckoning that will affect every American is coming. The Manhattan Institute's Brian Riedl explains how we got here and what you can do about it.

https://www.prageru.com/video/national-debt-who-cares/

FBI Never Saw CrowdStrike’s Entire Hacking of

DNC Report: But Used It As Primary Source Anyway

by J.E. Dyer and Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ American Thinker’s Thomas Lifson highlights a significant find by Conservative Treehouse in the discovery information from the Roger Stone trial... the FBI never had a complete copy of the CrowdStrike report on the hacking of DNC server. But if they never had the full report, why did they use it as a primary piece of evidence to blame Russia for the hacking? It may be even worse than that. As a refresher, the DNC server reportedly ransacked by the Russians in 2016 was never turned over to the FBI for hands-on analysis, a Russiagate Fact everyone is now familiar with. The Bureau’s determination that it was the Russians who hacked the DNC was based instead on the report of the firm CrowdStrike, which was hired by the DNC to analyze what the heck happened. The intrusion into the DNC server has always figured as a vital pillar of the Russiagate narrative. Skeptics have, equally, always questioned the basis for the certainty about this, given that we’ve known from the beginning the FBI never had the server in-hand; therefore they could never do its own forensic probe. Both the FBI and the Democratic Party admitted that the crime-fighting agency based its decision to blame Russians for hacking into the DNC computers on a report commissioned by the DNC and generated by CrowdStrike. Yes, our intelligence agencies agree it was all the Russians fault. But can one trust the veracity of that determination when the FBI relied exclusively on information from a report by Crowdstrike who were being paid by the Democratic Party? Especially if they’ve never seen the entire report? CrowdStrike may have a prejudice against Russia. In March of 2017, the Voice of America VOA caught CrowdStrike creating a bogus and unrelated hacking charge against Russia, and making up the facts to prove its veracity. It seems that CrowdStrike is as politically motivated as everyone else in Washington, D.C. The VOA caught Crowdstrike lying about a claim of Russian hacking damaging Ukrainian technology. There was no hacking to blame on Russia or anyone else. The company who the DNC and FBI relied upon not only made up a crime that didn’t exist, but they blamed it on Putin’s Russia. Shouldn’t that call into question Crowdstrike’s report? At the very least that should have motivated the FBI to get a copy of the entire report about the DNC and investigate whether it was accurate?... https://lidblog.com/crowdstrike-dnc/

Border Patrol agents fall prey to illnesses

plaguing migrant holding centers

by Anna Giaritelli

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Some Border Patrol agents in Texas are concerned about exposure to Ebola by a migrant fleeing the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the United States... But more of them are worried about other illnesses frequently popping up among detainees at stations across the southern border, according to union representatives. Border Patrol’s holding facilities in the Del Rio and El Paso sectors, or regions, are inundated with sick detainees, as well as sick agents. Jon Anfinsen is a National Border Patrol Council vice president and based in Del Rio, which includes Eagle Pass, where most Congolese are arriving. Anfinsen represents approximately 1,000 agents who are based out of 10 regional holding stations. Anfinsen has been an agent 12 years and said the number of people in custody and subsequent illnesses among that population is “unprecedented.” “Scabies, chickenpox — we had one case of the mumps here in Uvalde. I wanna say we had measles — plenty of the flu, plenty of colds, body lice, just assorted. And some of these things, they spread like wildfires when you get into a cramped holding cell. It happens,” Anfinsen said. The continuous breakouts — in part caused by the overcrowded conditions in facilities and difficulty quarantining each sick person — are taking both a physical and mental toll on agents...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/border-patrol-agents-not-immune-to-onslaught-of-illnesses-plaguing-migrant-holding-centers?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_06/16/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

19 Arrests Later, a Texas

Town Is Torn Apart Over Voter Fraud

by Fred Lucas

{ dailysignal.com } ~ The story that thrust a Rio Grande Valley city into the national spotlight is hardly a new anomaly, say residents such as Richard Monte... “Down here, voter fraud is not all that unusual,” says Monte, a city planning consultant in a brown suit jacket, sitting with other activists at a table in Coffee Zone on McColl Road. “It’s unusual when they get prosecuted.” Now, for this south Texas town, that unusual moment has arrived. A November 2017 mayoral election has been under scrutiny from local and state officials, and 19 arrests have been made over alleged voter fraud. The mayor—and winner of the 2017 election—was indicted earlier this month, along with his wife. Only 8,400 votes were cast in the mayoral election, and Mayor Richard Molina’s final vote count was more than 1,200 votes ahead of the No. 2 candidate, 14-year incumbent Richard Garcia. From what’s known now, the election result couldn’t have been changed by the number of suspicious votes identified. But Molina reportedly is the first elected official in Texas to face a felony charge under a 2017 statute against vote harvesting, casting the midsize city into the national debate over election integrity. The mayor denies the charges. “Some people are unfortunate in that they are caught,” Monte tells The Daily Signal. Across the nation, officials made more than 60 formal findings of voter fraud in 2017 alone, according to The Heritage Foundation’s voter fraud database, and six of those cases were out of Texas. And 2018 saw more than 50 official findings of voter fraud. “Many of the cases in our database are in small towns,” said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. “That’s because, one, those kind of races are often decided by a very small number of votes. So it’s easier to commit fraud when you don’t have to fake as many votes.”...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/17/19-arrests-later-a-texas-town-is-torn-apart-over-voter-fraud/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=19-arrests-later-a-texas-town-is-torn-apart-over-voter-fraud?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1NNU1HWTJNekpoT1dKbSIsInQiOiJqTnNQUmlhNGFINTNGN3BXTk9oT3lsQUZpVVNOb1h0U2c0THpKSFNIMkN3VVQ3Y2htRzRUZExUekVyNXNkWXZjTzRqc2VDVzdhU0FnTlRTUWNQQnlMZW1mdFJsODEwRTVTYjFPcEVaTzZOQXNVclh5SFd5UDdkemJCeUZQdHdoRSJ9

Americans Praising Hezb'allah

and Iran are a Security Threat

by Hesham Shehab

{ americanthinker.com } ~ American citizens who praise the Iranian regime and glorify a terrorist organization that killed and kidnapped Americans abroad are doing something that comes to the brink of treason... These people should be considered a national security threat. Don't think they aren't around. A group that calls itself the Al-Quds Committee organized the International Quds Day Rally held in Dearborn, Michigan on May 31, 2019, in front of the Henry Ford Centennial Library. An unidentified speaker said that “Hamas, Hezb'allah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC now blacklisted as a terrorist organization, and anybody else fighting against Israel have a God-given right to resist.” The speaker added that “only economic sanctions and ‘political arrogance’ are maintaining America's standing in the world. He cursed America and the world powers for "wishing for the masses to remain silent" and abandon Palestine …." The speaker also said, "‘our beloved Leader’ Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei the Supreme leader of Iran said that Israel will crumble in less than 25 years,” describing the Jewish state as a "cancer." It is difficult to know where to begin, when writing about Hezb'allah. The best description of that organization was made by former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who branded Hezb'allah as “the 'A-Team of Terrorists.'” Indeed, many Americans were killed and kidnapped by Hezb'allah, a terrorist organization second only to al-Qaida. In 1987, I myself was kidnapped by Hezb'allah at gunpoint, as a Sunni Muslim then, hogtied for a few hours, to be tortured and executed, but I was able to talk my way out. Terrorists attacks against U.S. citizens in Lebanon began in 1983, when four founding members of Hezb'allah -- Hassan Nasrallah, Imad Mughniyeh, Mustafa Badreddine, and Husayn al-Musawi -- planned and perpetrated a suicide bombing that killed 241 U.S. service personnel stationed at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon. According to a document disclosed by U.S. intelligence, on Oct. 25, 1983, two days after the bombing, the four terrorists planned the attack at the office of the Iranian ambassador in Damascus, Ali Akbar Mohtashimi. The U.S. forces were part of a three-nation Multinational Force (MNF) commissioned to stabilize Lebanon, following the devastating Israeli invasion in 1982...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/americans_praising_hezballah_and_iran_are_a_security_threat.html

A Hub of Political Correctness Gets Hit With

a Big Judgment

Hans von Spakovsky

In what is hard to characterize as anything other than poetic justice, Oberlin College and its former vice president and dean of students, Meredith Raimondo, has been hit by an Ohio jury with a multimillion-dollar judgment for libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress against a local family business, Gibson’s Bakery and Candy, which led to a boycott of the bakery over false charges of racism.

What began as a simple shoplifting incident took on a life of its own because of the bakery’s proximity to one of the country’s preeminent institutions of political correctness and progressive thought.

It demonstrates the dangers of jumping to conclusions before the facts are in and the damage done by false charges of racism.

Gibson’s Bakery is a century-old business owned and operated by three generations of the Gibson family.

On Nov. 9, 2016, the day after President Donald Trump’s electoral victory, a black Oberlin student shoplifted two bottles of wine from Gibson’s after he first tried to buy them with a fake ID. He was chased out of the store by the Gibson grandson.

This was the 41st shoplifting incident in five years (40 adults had been arrested previously, including six African Americans).

When the grandson tried to take a picture of the shoplifting student with his phone, he was knocked down and assaulted by the student and two of the student’s friends.

When police arrived on scene, “they [found] Gibson on his back, with [the three undergraduates] punching and kicking him. All three were charged, [the thief] with robbery and his friends with assault.”

Ordinarily, stealing from a private establishment would not merit a national news story or a libel lawsuit, but because the Gibson family is white, and the student black, Oberlin’s ceaselessly “woke” campus erupted with cries that the bakery was engaged in racial profiling of the student and was a “racist” establishment.

We know this is not true because the shoplifting student and his pals eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges, including attempted theft, aggravated trespassing, and underage purchase of alcohol.

As part of their plea bargains, they admitted committing the crimes and that the actions of the baker had not been racially motivated, i.e., no discrimination had occurred.

But the students and administrators at Oberlin College weren’t interested in the facts. Instead, they immediately acted against Gibson’s.

For example, a flyer was distributed making the false claim that the bakery was a “RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION” and urging an economic boycott.

The president of Oberlin, along with its vice president and dean of students, sent out an email trying to excuse the students’ behavior by blaming it on the outcome of the presidential election.

They were “deeply troubled because we have heard from students that there is more to the story than what has been generally reported.”

Oberlin ignored the findings of the police investigation that found no evidence of racism.

Instead, Oberlin suspended its long-time business relationship with Gibson’s.

Oberlin’s faculty and administration helped students copy and distribute flyers against the bakery, orchestrated and attended protests against the bakers, and actually gave students academic credit for skipping class and participating in the boycott campaign.

An Oberlin trustee paid the legal retainer for a criminal defense attorney for the shoplifting student, and the university provided the student with a limo to transport him to meet the lawyer.

In a private meeting with the Gibsons, the college demanded that the bakery institute a policy of not filing criminal charges against first-time student shoplifters or call the police.

According to the complaint, a Facebook rant was posted by Oberlin’s Department of Africana Studies claiming that the bakery had been “bad for decades, their dislike of Black people is palpable. Their food is rotten and they profile Black students. NO MORE!”

The Washington Post writes that court documents also “revealed how Raimondo and another administrator shared a sense of outrage after a professor spoke against the [school’s] boycott. ‘[Expletive] him … I’d say unleash the students if I wasn’t convinced this needs to be put behind us.”

Expletive-laced comments from the vice president and dean of students at what U.S. News and World Report ranks as the country’s 30th-best liberal arts school.

All of these actions “'devastated’ the bakery’s revenue, which forced staffing cuts.” At least six members of the Gibson family were forced to work without pay for months, just to keep the business afloat.

Social justice fervor is nothing new on Oberlin’s campus. In the past five years, students have protested against the cultural inauthenticity of dining hall cuisine, requested trigger warnings for storied works of Western civilization, and submitted a 14-page letter to the school’s board and president with 50 nonnegotiable demands that are the essence of political correctness.

That letter claimed that Oberlin “functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy.” And it demanded that the college offer “guaranteed tenure” to an African American professor who claims that the U.S. and Israel planned the 9/11 attacks.

Student complaints about the cultural appropriation of food centered around using incorrect ingredients, such as substitutions for a traditional Vietnamese bánh mì of ciabatta bread, pulled pork, and coleslaw instead of a crispy baguette with grilled pork, pate, pickled vegetables, and fresh herbs.

Even today, the facts apparently don’t matter. In late April, The Oberlin Review wrote that “a black student attempted to make a purchase at Gibson’s Bakery and was accused of shoplifting. The student ran outside the store … and [the son of the owner and the student] got into a physical altercation.”

That phrasing makes the shoplifting seem like an innocuous misunderstanding between a student and rash shopkeeper, rather than a century-old, family-owned bakery being looted in an undergraduate’s attempt to subvert state drinking laws.

And, according to the lawsuit, guides giving campus tours sponsored by Oberlin have continued to tell prospective students to boycott the bakers because it is a “racist establishment” that “assaults students.”

Just as the student body still views the case as a sign of racism, presumably in an effort to divert attention away from their fellow undergraduates’ culpability, so too the school refuses to take responsibility, even after the recent verdict.

In an email to the school’s alumni association, Oberlin claimed it was not responsible for the actions of its students, denying the reality of the college’s participation in, and instigation of, the unfair actions taken against the bakery.

The jury awarded $11 million in compensatory damages and $33 million in punitive damages. The college certainly has the ability to pay the judgment. Oberlin’s endowment is just under $890 million, and tuition is $52,762 per year as of 2018.

This case shows how much damage false claims of racism can cause. And it shows just how infected school administrators and many students are with the absurd victimization culture that predominates in academic culture, and how ridiculous claims of “imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy” are poisoning their minds. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/63647?mailing_id=4334&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4334&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tues/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 18, 2019 at 9:00am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Flag Day and U.S. Army Birthday

Mark Alexander

Tuesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: ENFORCING THE LAW: “President Trump late Monday announced on Twitter that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin the process of ‘removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the U.S.,’ but did not elaborate on what new measures will be taken. ‘They will be removed as fast as they come,’ Trump said.” (Fox News)

ABOVE THE LAW: “The State Department revealed Monday that it has identified ‘multiple security incidents’ involving current or former employees’ handling of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s emails, and that 23 ‘violations’ and seven ‘infractions’ have been issued as part of the department’s ongoing investigation.” (Fox News)

FOREIGN-AID ULTIMATUM: Via CBS News: “The U.S. government officially announced on Monday it would cut millions of dollars in foreign aid to Central America, warning governments in the region that assistance will only resume when they do more to prevent their citizens from migrating.” Meanwhile, “Mexico apprehended nearly 800 illegal migrants Saturday, an indication that its government is stepping up immigration enforcement amid pressure from President Donald Trump,” The Daily Caller reports.

MEMO TO IRAN: “The United States is sending 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East, amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran,” ABC News reports. “The decision follows last week’s attack on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman that the U.S. blamed on Tehran.” On that note, The Washington Times reveals, “The limpet mine has become Iran’s weapon of choice as it ramps up a bombing campaign on oil tankers in the region.”

SUPREME AMBIGUITY: According to Fox News, “The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a ruling against two Oregon bakers who refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.” That’s welcome news for Melissa and Aaron Klein. Unfortunately, there is also a downside. The justices “sent the Klein case back down to a lower court ‘for further consideration in light of’ their Colorado decision.” That decision, you’ll recall, was narrow. Given the Rainbow Mafia’s relentless agenda, SCOTUS will eventually be compelled to chime in on the overarching issues.

FREE TO STIFLE SPEECH: “A private corporation that runs a public ‘forum’ is not bound by the First Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled Monday morning. The case, which nominally concerns a public access channel in New York, has attracted attention as a potential vector for regulation of social media firms facing charges of viewpoint bias.” (The Washington Free Beacon)

QUASI-CITIZENSHIP: “Gov. scumbag-Andrew Cuomo on Monday night signed legislation granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants — shortly after the controversial measure passed the state Senate.” (New York Post)

LEFTIST EDUCATION COMPLEX: “On Monday, Parkland survivor and outspoken conservative Kyle Kashuv announced that Harvard University had withdrawn his admission from the school over the revelation of racist, offensive, idiotic posts written on a private Google document with friends when he was sixteen years old.” (The Daily Wire)

POLICY: How Trump’s tax cuts are helping the middle class (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: What Congress can do to cut waste and debt (The Daily Signal)

HUMOR: Democrats to debate their complete agreement with one another (The Daily Wire)

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63715?mailing_id=4340&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4340&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The CIA Is Running Scared

by Jed Babbin

{ spectator.org } ~ Last Wednesday the intelligence community launched its first attack on Attorney General William Barr’s investigation into its illegal acts and abuses of power during the 2016 election... In a New York Times article entitled “Justice Department Seeks to Question CIA in its Own Russia Investigation,” the IC makes clear its fear of the results of Barr’s investigation of their spy operation on candidate Trump in 2016 that continued through his early presidency. The article, obviously written at the behest of its intelligence community sources — “current and former American officials” — is the first of many concerted attacks on Attorney General William Barr’s investigation of the joint CIA/FBI spy operation. Many other articles, based on carefully crafted leaks to the media and Congress, are sure to follow because current and former high-ranking officials of those agencies and probably the NSA as well have a lot to lose. John Durham, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, is running the investigation under Barr’s direction. From the Times report, we can easily deduce the fact that those who ran the spy op — including CIA Director Gina Haspel — are running scared from the Durham investigation. Start with the sourcing: “current and former American officials.” That includes all of the people who were in the scumbag/liar-nObama White House, scumbag-Comey’s FBI, scumbag/commie-Brennan’s CIA, and everyone else who’s ever held a government job in, for example, the scumbag/liar-nObama White House... https://spectator.org/the-cia-is-running-scared/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=15fe843ef0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_17_11_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-15fe843ef0-104608113

Election Commissioner: scumbag/liar-Clinton

Can Get Info From Foreigners, But How

Dare Trump Think About It

by Adam Mill

{ thefederalist.com } ~ If you want to understand American election law, you need only start with one underlying principle that explains seemingly contradictory interpretations over the last year... The purpose of election law is to punish Donald Trump’s allies for 2016 and prevent his victory in 2020. Don’t believe me? Consider this public statement: “Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election….This is not a novel concept,” partisan Democrat and Perkins Coie law firm alumnus Ellen L. Weintraub, who sits on the Federal Election Commission, wrote in a statement. Was she writing about the October 25, 2017 complaint filed against the Democratic National Committee and scumbag/liar-Hillary for America that pointed to scumbag/liar-Clinton using Perkins Coie to use foreigners to help the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign defeat Trump? Of course not! You see, when scumbag/liar-Clinton uses foreigners to meddle in elections, all the really smart people argue it’s perfectly legal. When Trump hypothetically entertains the same idea in a recent ABC News interview, he’s an “enemy of the state.” Weintraub recently joined the dogpile after the president was asked whether he would accept opposition research from a foreigner during the next election campaign cycle. As Politico noted, “Trump‘s comments garnered fierce backlash from Republicans, Democrats and former law enforcement officials…. Trump made the comments while responding to attention over his son Donald Trump Jr., who met in Trump Tower with Russian nationals offering dirt on then-Democratic candidate scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton in the lead-up to the 2016 election.” As I have repeatedly noted, both of the Russians with whom Donald Trump Jr. met at Trump Tower had a longstanding history with opposition research group Fusion GPS, and Fusion GPS provided the handouts the Russians brought to the meeting. After Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS on behalf of the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS appears to have enlisted the help of these two additional foreigners to frame the Trump campaign. But again, it’s only a violation of election law, in Weintraub’s view, if it’s done to help Trump...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/17/election-commissioner-worked-hillarys-law-firm-foreign-meddling-fine-clinton-not-trump-thinks/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=c586c17cf4-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-c586c17cf4-83771801

Will Roberts Get Rolled on Census Case?

by David Catron

{ spectator.org } ~ Sometime during the next two weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down its ruling on whether the Census Bureau may include a question in the 2020 census asking if the person filling out the form is a U.S. citizen... If you think that’s a sensible question to ask in a nation whose population swells every year with immigrants from all over the planet, that means you’re in step with 60 percent of registered voters. It does, however, put you at odds with the Democrats, various leftwing activist groups, and an scumbag/liar-nObama-appointed judge in New York. Enter SCOTUS. The Supreme Court took up the case early this year and heard oral arguments on April 23. It’s always difficult to predict a SCOTUS ruling by analyzing the questions asked by the justices during these hearings, but most Court watchers came away with the impression that the “conservative majority” would rule in favor of the Trump Commerce department. At which point, the Democrats did what they always do when they fear they are about to lose a Supreme Court Case — they sought some way to intimidate Chief Justice John Roberts. The ACLU came to their rescue: The ACLU asked the Supreme Court to wait until the fall to decide if it will reject or allow the Trump administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. We requested the Supreme Court send the case to a lower court to consider new evidence showing the question was added for political purposes. The “new evidence” consists of some information found on the hard drive of a Republican consultant named Thomas Hofeller. This fortuitous discovery allegedly shows that advisers to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross discussed the citizenship question with Hofeller and is thus inconsistent with the sworn testimony of department officials concerning the real purpose of the census question. Never mind that it isn’t unethical or unusual for political appointees to consult with outside experts. The idea is to make Chief Justice Roberts worry about appearances. The Washington Post did its bit to support that effort in a Sunday article titled, “Chief justice assures the Supreme Court is apolitical. He’s facing his next big test.” The author, Robert Barnes, inevitably reminds us that Roberts admonished President Trump last fall for criticizing an “scumbag/liar-nObama judge.” Adopting his most schoolmarmish tone, the Chief Justice fumed, “We do not have scumbag/liar-nObama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or scumbag/liar-Clinton judges.” Barnes suggests that Roberts will have failed to live up to his own prim standards if he doesn’t adopt the role of a centrist...

https://spectator.org/will-roberts-get-rolled-on-census-case/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=15fe843ef0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_17_11_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-15fe843ef0-104608113

Iran announces it will reach allowed

enriched uranium limits in 10 days

by Yonah Jeremy Bob

{ jpost.com } ~ Iran announced that it will reach allowed enriched-uranium levels within ten days, the country's nuclear spokesperson announced on Monday... Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said that, "there are two scenarios. One is to increase the enrichment up to 5% for use in Bushehr power plants, or to increase it up to 20% for the Tehran reactor." Iran is expected to announce further steps to reduce its compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal after halting aspects of its compliance in May. A year after the US started a maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic republic and pulled out of the deal, saying that holes in the agreement meant it was not viable, Tehran has turned up the heat. Under the deal, Iran was prohibited from accumulating more than 300 kilograms of enriched uranium to the 3.67% level and from enriching uranium beyond that level, such as to the 20% level it had done before the deal. It was also prohibited from accumulating more than 130 metric tons of heavy water used in the plutonium path to a nuclear weapon. To date, Iran has only said that it would start to ignore the 300 kilogram and 130 metric ton limits, and the IAEA recently confirmed that Tehran has been violating these limits. But Iran has not yet broken the 20% enrichment limit and has not started to reinstall some 13,000 disassembled centrifuges to add them to the around 6,000 permitted centrifuges for enriching uranium...

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-to-further-scale-back-compliance-with-nuke-deal-592783

The US must deploy a sub-launched

low-yield nuke

by Bradley Bowman and Andrew Gabel

{ fdd.org } ~ In its annual consideration of the defense policy bill this week, the House Armed Services Committee narrowly rejected efforts to permit the Department of Defense to deploy low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missiles or SLBM... The committee’s decision sets up a likely fight with the Senate later this year — the outcome of which could impact Moscow’s potential use of low-yield nuclear weapons in a future conflict. To address an important gap in America’s nuclear deterrent, the U.S. should deploy without delay a submarine-launched low-yield nuclear ballistic missile. In its fiscal 2020 budget request, the Trump administration requested funding to deploy a low-yield SLBM in order to deter Russia’s potential employment of a low-yield nuclear weapon. Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, testified in February 2019 that this capability was “necessary to our strategic deterrence mission and will serve to disabuse any adversary of the mistaken perception they can escalate their way to victory.” Sometimes characterized as “escalate to de-escalate,” Moscow has developed a war-fighting strategy and doctrine that emphasize the first use or threat of use of low-yield tactical nuclear strikes against conventional military targets. Such an approach would aim to coerce the U.S. and its NATO partners into backing down and accepting Moscow’s new gains achieved through aggression. The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review assessed that this Russian nuclear strategy increases the chances of “dangerous miscalculation and escalation.” The bipartisan National Defense Strategy Commission specifically addressed a scenario in which Moscow used false reports of atrocities against Russian populations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to justify an invasion of these NATO member countries under the guise of a “peacekeeping” mission. In this scenario envisioned by the commission, “As U.S. and NATO forces prepare to respond, Russia declares that strikes against Russian forces in those states will be treated as attacks on Russia itself — implying a potential nuclear response.”... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/06/14/the-us-must-deploy-a-sub-launched-low-yield-nuke/
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Flag Day and U.S. Army Birthday

Mark Alexander: Today is Flag Day, celebrating the anniversary of the adoption of our flag by the Second Continental Congress on June 14th, 1777.

Our flag is a beacon of Liberty, a symbol of hope for all people who “hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed — that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it…”

On this Flag Day, we as American Patriots display and pay honor and homage to our national flag. We believe the celebrity protests against our flag — and by extension our nation — are a frontal offense against the honorable service of all who have served under our banner and their families.

Take time to read about the history of our flag and learn more about proper flag etiquette and protocol.

We encourage you to obtain copies of “I’m Your Flag” for elementary school children in your family and community. As Medal of Honor recipient Leo Thorsness noted, “It is a fitting tribute to our national banner and a great resource for young Americans.”

Flag Day serves as an annual reminder to replace your flag with the highest-quality American-made U.S. flags, available from our Patriot Post Shop.

Today, we also observe the founding of the United States Army in 1775. As the Army and its fellow service branches continue to lead the way defending Liberty, join us in prayer for our Patriots standing in harm’s way and their families awaiting their safe return. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63636?mailing_id=4334&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4334&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 18, 2019 at 7:16am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Impeach Already!' Leftists Demand

Political Editors

2019 budget results indicate deterioration,

not improvement

by James C. Capretta

{ aei.org } ~ The 2017 tax cut will boost growth and incomes over the next decade, which should be sufficient to justify its passage by Congress... But many of law’s defenders go a step further and claim the law will pay for itself by raising growth enough to offset the federal revenue loss from lower rates. This was always an implausible argument. Now, actual budget data for 2019 is beginning to refute it. During the first eight months of fiscal year 2019 October through May, federal revenue was $2.275 trillion, or $50 billion more than was collected during the same eight month period in fiscal year 2018. That’s an increase of 2.3 percent. The largest source of higher revenue is tariffs, which are up $20 billion, or 81 percent, over their level in 2018. Without higher tariffs, federal revenue would be up only 1.4 percent compared to 2018. So far this year, individual income tax collections are up 1.5 percent, payroll taxes are up 4.5 percent, and corporate income taxes have fallen by nearly 9 percent. The slow growth of revenue this year comes after a year of essentially no revenue growth. The government collected $3.329 trillion in revenue during all of fiscal year 2018, only $14 billion, or 0.4 percent, more than was collected in 2017. Taking into account inflation, revenue growth over the last year and a half has been even less impressive. In nominal terms, revenue to this point in fiscal year 2019 is up 4.8 percent over the same eight-month period in 2017, but inflation since the mid-point of fiscal year 2017 has been 4.3 percent. In other words, real growth in revenue over a two-year period has been about 0.5 percent, which is far below the 2 or 3 percent increase that would be expected during a strong expansion. Meanwhile, federal spending on the nation’s largest entitlement programs is surging. Outlays for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are up 5.7 percent, 8.6 percent, and 3.7 percent, respectively, compared to the same period in fiscal year 2018. Combined, spending on just these three programs has grown $80 billion — or 6.2 percent — so far in 2019 compared to 2018 after adjusting for some timing shifts, which means they have more than consumed the small increase in federal revenue that has occurred through May. Total federal outlays are up $161 billion, or 5.8 percent, in the first eight months of fiscal year 2019 compared to 2018 the increase in spending is $257 billion before adjustments for timing shifts. Spending on the military is up 9.8 percent during that period, due in large part to appropriations spending increases agreed to in the 2018 bipartisan budget deal...

http://www.aei.org/publication/2019-budget-deterioration-not-improvement/

Department Of Education Going After Elite

Colleges For Allegedly Taking And

Hiding Foreign Cash

by Luke Rosiak

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Department of Education is going after U.S universities over supposed ties to foreign governments... after some allegedly took huge quantities of foreign cash and hid it from regulators. At the top of the list are Georgetown University and Texas A&M, which have taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar, a middle eastern nation with suspected links to international terrorism. Both schools received letters from the Department of Education Thursday saying they should have disclosed that funding but their filings “may not fully capture” the activity, the Associated Press reported. The letter warned that they could be referred to the attorney general to “compel compliance.” Georgetown was also asked about possible ties to Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, as well as Saudi Arabian money. Both schools were ordered to disclose funding from Huawei and ZTE, Chinese firms suspected of spying. In February, a Senate investigative subcommittee released a bipartisan, 100-page report that found that not only had China been pouring money into the U.S. for a program linked to propaganda efforts, a huge percentage of U.S. colleges had violated the law by hiding the money. “Since 2006, the Subcommittee determined China directly provided over $158 million in funding to U.S. schools for Confucius Institutes,” the report said. “The Department of Education requires all post-secondary schools to report foreign gifts of $250,000 or more from a single source within a calendar year of receiving them. Despite that legal requirement, nearly 70 percent of U.S. schools that received more than $250,000 from Hanban failed to properly report that amount,” it continued...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/15/education-universities-foreign-cash/?utm_medium=email

Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam

Suspends Chinese Extradition Proposal

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Amid the furor from hundreds-of-thousands -perhaps millions- of protestors, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announces a ‘suspension‘ of the proposed extradition law... that would have permitted extradition of Hong Kong residents to Chinese law enforcement. Lam apologized on Sunday, for the way the Hong Kong government handled the proposal but she did not fully take the controversial law off the table. The ripple effect of the proposal itself now calls into question the autonomy of Hong Kong, and many observers foresee it is now only a matter of time before China takes a tighter grip. Currently Hong Kong is not subject to the same economic consequences within the U.S-China confrontation. As long as Hong Kong is considered ‘autonomous’ they remain detached from U.S. tariffs and other measures targeted to China. However, if China breeches the increasingly unclear barriers, judicial and legal systems intended to provide that autonomy – well, then the situation could change. Hong Kong is tenuous at best. This controversy couldn’t come at a worse time for Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping as many in the international community are beginning to question the scale of damage likely to increase as an outcome of the U.S. -vs- China confrontation. President Donald Trump is applying massive economic pressure upon China in an effort to force a complete restructuring of trade terms that will have global implications. The recent moves by Trump have significantly weakened the supply chain position of a Chinese nation that is dependent on raw materials, and the import/acquisition of technology systems..

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/16/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-suspends-chinese-extradition-proposal/
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The Palestinian Leaders'

War on Preventing Corruption

by Khaled Abu Toameh

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ A growing number of Palestinians are demanding that the Palestinian Authority (PA) take serious measures to end financial and administrative corruption among its top brass... Rather than heeding these calls, however, the Palestinian Authority has chosen to crack down on anti-corruption activists as part of an effort to silence its critics and deter others from demanding transparency and accountability. The Palestinian Authority's measures against anti-corruption activists have angered many Palestinians, who are accusing their leaders of covering up for senior officials suspected of abusing power for their own personal gain. In the past few days, the Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank arrested two prominent anti-corruption activists: Fayez al-Sweiti, Mohammed Ayesh and Saed Abu al-Baha. Sweiti, who heads a not-for-profit anti-corruption organization, was arrested after he shared on his Facebook page a document accusing senior Palestinian official Hussein al-Sheikh, head of the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs and member of the Fatah Central Committee, of exploiting his job for personal gain. Although the Palestinian Authority insists that the document is forged, several Palestinians say they have good reason to believe it is authentic. Sweiti's son, Saeb, said that more than 20 officers belonging to the Palestinian Preventive Security Force raided his family's home near the West Bank city of Hebron early in the morning. The officers, he said, confiscated his father's computer, mobile phone and other documents. They also informed his father that he must report to the office of the Palestinian prosecutor general later in the day. After being interrogated about the document he had shared on Facebook, Sweiti was ordered held in detention for 48 hours. He was released the following day, however, after widespread protests by Palestinian human rights and anti-corruption activists... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14390/palestinians-corruption

Even commie-AOC Is Acknowledging the

Impossible Price Tag of the Green New Deal

by americanlibertyreport.com: We’re in a weird part of the news cycle. For the most part, the left is acknowledging that President Trump didn’t collude with Russia after all... There are even thought leaders on the blue side admitting that the economy is in great shape. It seems that the American people aren’t allowing the tallest of tales to persist anymore. So, the left has to pivot. They’ve been great at that for a long time, and one of their pivots is to focus on policy. Their policies are insane, but it’s a refreshing change of pace. Because of that, we’ve reached a point where even commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is discussing some real details of her legislative proposals. Before this miracle subsides, we should dive into those details. There’s a lot in the Green New Deal that has nothing to do with climate change or environmentalism. So, for the sake of analysis, we can ignore the parts that discuss universal child care and free college. We’ll even look past the ambitious components that include retrofitting every building in the country or coast-to-coast high-speed rails. When you ignore all of the outrageous policy in the deal, you’re left with a premise: use government funding to facilitate a trend away from fossil fuels. There’s even a specific goal — getting to net-zero carbon emissions. No matter what mechanism you try to achieve this goal, it’s going to cost money. The reason we use fossil fuels is because they are more cost-effective than alternatives. It’s as simple as that. In order to maintain the level of energy production we have while achieving net-zero emissions, we’re going to have to use more expensive technologies. If that expense is subsidized by taxpayers, it’s going to cost them more money than any country has ever spent on any project in the history of the world. The true scale of this cost is hard to understand. The most conservative estimates around suggest that the US would have to spend tens of trillions of dollars every year to get away from carbon-based fuels. Plans that exclude nuclear or unreasonably favor solar get even more expensive. It’s so extreme that even commie-AOC is admitting the extreme cost. Remember, this is coming from a politician who is known for championing bumper sticker talking points over anything of substance...

https://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/even-aoc-is-acknowledging-the-impossible-price-tag-of-the-green-new-deal/

Impeach Already!' Leftists Demand

Political Editors: The Trump-hating Left (but we repeat ourselves) has grown impatient of House Democrats’ reluctance to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. And who can blame them? Democrats have pushed the impeachment narrative ever since he took office.

However, instead of taking decisive action, the Democrats have offered little to those in the throes of Trump Derangement Syndrome beyond a bunch of doublespeak. Recall House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi’s comment last week: “I don’t want to see [Trump] impeached; I want to see him in prison.” Or how about House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, who two weeks ago stated that there “certainly is” justification for impeaching Trump, only to later offer excuses: “Impeachment is a political act, and you cannot impeach a president if the American people will not support it.”

Perhaps commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was onto something when she noted that Democrats are “kind of sitting on our hands.”

Let’s get this straight: Trump deserves to be impeached and even imprisoned for “crimes” that Democrats can’t quite seem to find but assure us are there. This is partisan rhetoric, pure and simple. Robert Mueller’s exhaustive and one-sided investigation found no crime nor action on the part of Trump that justifies impeachment — and the Democrats know it. That’s why they’re playing coy.

But will their hand be forced by that hard-left base? Last week, CNN’s Chris Cuomo threw down the gauntlet: “Where it leads, how it ends, you can’t know and that should not be your guide. Do your duty. This is D-Day. We’re celebrating people making the ultimate sacrifice only out of a matter of duty.”

So Cuomo is invoking the blood our men shed on Omaha Beach to push for a bogus impeachment? And CNN wonders why no one is watching.

Tomorrow, a bunch of leftist activists will take to the streets in several cities across the country for an #ImpeachTrump Day of Action. But if history is any guide, the Left may end up regretting its absurd temper tantrum. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63635?mailing_id=4334&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4334&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 17, 2019 at 4:17pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

A Further Tangled Web

for worthless-Ilhan Omar

Michael Swartz

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo -vs- Chris Wallace

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears on Fox News Sunday to debate antagonistic DC Swamp Guard Chris Wallace... The primary topic was the recent attacks on shipping tankers by Iranian elements in the Gulf of Oman. Additionally, Secretary Pompeo discussed the protests in Hong Kong against the growing influence from Beijing; the issues with North Korea to achieve a positive outcome with Kim Jong Un; the New York Times story on U.S. active measures against Russia; and the nonsensical -hypothetical- foreign opposition research issue. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/16/sunday-talks-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-vs-chris-wallace-2/

VIDEO 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ldPN3FQYk

VIDEO 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TlwU5wWwU0

Pharma Industry Suing Trump

Administration over New Regulations

by Jack Davis

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Drug companies are suing the Trump administration, claiming a proposed new rule requiring drug prices be displayed in TV ads is a violation of free speech... The Association of National Advertisers joined three companies — Amgen, Merck and Eli Lilly — in the suit aimed at blocking the rule, which is scheduled to go into effect in July. They argued the prices the government would have them post are not what consumers actually pay. “Not only does the rule raise serious freedom of speech concerns, it mandates an approach that fails to account for differences among insurance, treatments, and patients themselves, by requiring disclosure of list price,” Amgen said in a statement, according to the Los Angeles Times. “We believe the new requirements may cause patients to decide not to seek treatment because of their perception that they cannot afford their medications, when in fact many patients do not pay anything near list price,” Merck said in its statement, The New York Times reported. The federal government fired back. “If the drug companies are embarrassed by their prices or afraid that the prices will scare patients away, they should lower them,” Caitlin Oakley, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement. “President Trump and HHS Secretary Alex Azar are committed to providing patients the information they need to make their own informed health care decisions.” The policy requires drug makers to post in their ads the list price for a 30-day supply of any drug that is covered by Medicare and Medicaid that also has a cost of at least $35 per month...

https://www.westernjournal.com/pharma-industry-suing-trump-administration-new-regulations/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

NSA Whistleblower Has Evidence DNC Was

NOT Hacked By Russia, Mueller Report

Completely Based on Lies

by americanlibertyreport.com: An NSA whistleblower claims to have evidence the Democratic National Convention (DNC) server was not hacked by Russians making the Mueller Report completely based on lies... Roger Stone’s legal defense team has requested a report, the whistleblower says undermines the basic premise of Special Counsel Muller’s investigation. Newly release court documents show that Stone’s lawyers are seeking unredacted copies of the Crowdstrike Reports. Crowdstrike is the private computer security firm that reportedly inspected the DNC server after WikiLeaks published the hacked emails about what how they cheated comkie-Bernie Sanders out of his fair shot and scumbag/liar-Hillary’s monetary takeover of the DNC. Crowdstrike announced on June 15, 2016 that it has detected “Russian” malware on the DNC computer server. The next day, self-described Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0 claimed to be a WikiLeaks source and had hacked the DNC’s server. Guccifer 2.0 posted metadata from the hacked files that indicated Russian involvement. In a Motion to Compel Unredacted Versions of The Crowdstike Reports a request is made for an unredacted version of the same report. The motion read: The defense believes that the unredacted copies of these Reports constitute Brady material because they likely contain evidence that is material as Stone’s innocence. Part of the defense team’s motion is based on the fact such a report is “not subject to redactions” or “any kind of government oversight.” The term Brady material or Brady Rule material is named after Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). That ruling requires prosecutors “to disclose materially exculpatory evidence in the government’s possession to the defense.”...

https://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/nsa-whistleblower-has-evidence-dnc-was-not-hacked-by-russia-mueller-report-completely-based-on-lies/

CAIR Snagged on Massive Fake Lawyer Scam

by Clarion Project

{ clarionproject.org } ~ The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was snagged on a massive fake lawyer scam they perpetrated on hundreds of unfortunate Muslims more than a decade ago... For the last 11 years, the case has been making its way through the courts, with “CAIR and its minions using every tactic in the book, including illegal and unethical practices, to avoid justice,” Lawyer David Yerushalmi said. Now finally, facing a trial which would have exposed the extortion scheme to the public as well as the prospect of CAIR having to pay all the legal fees of the victims if they lost, CAIR decided to settle. Although the financial terms of the settlement are confidential, the victims are “extremely happy,” according to Yerushalmi. In 2007, the U.S. government labeled CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation for financing the Hamas terrorist group. By November 2014, CAIR was designated as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates along with a host of other Muslim Brotherhood entities. The fake lawyer scam case began in 2006, when the now-closed Virginia chapter of CAIR hired Morris Days, a man purporting himself to be a lawyer, to give legal advice to local Muslims. In actuality, Days was not a lawyer, yet charged his clients fees for “pro-bono” legal advice. He led them to believe that he was filing cases for them, which was not true. Believing Days was on top of his immigration appeal, at least one client of Days was deported because of the scam. The lawsuit brought by Yerushalmi and his American Freedom Law Center in 2008 charged that by November 2007, the Virginia chapter of CAIR found out about the fake lawyer scam and proceeded to cover-up Days’ actions. The lawsuit charged that CAIR not only refused to notify the authorities about the scam, but they also offered some of the victims hush money... CAIR chapters all of them should be force to closed.

https://clarionproject.org/cair-snagged-on-massive-fake-lawyer-scam/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=69feb478e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_17_12_03_COPY_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-69feb478e0-6442509&mc_cid=69feb478e0&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

When and Why Golden Geese Take Wing

by Clarice Feldman

{ americanthinker.com } ~ My friend Lynn Chu has boiled down the basis for a just, prosperous society: “It is very easy to spend other people's money... thus eliminating all of the vital discrimination about the devils in the details which are knowable only at the level of the individual. This is the main justification for the protection of individual liberty against autocracy other than the clarity of the moral imperative of human rights as the privileges and immunities of the individual in society.” When Great Britain turned over Hong Kong at the expiration of its lease, the Chinese government promised to leave its democratic institutions and law alone. Bit by bit, that promise has been eroded until recently China pressured the local authorities to agree to an extradition treaty that would allow them to extradite from the former colony and try in China anyone, even someone merely transiting through its airport. Day after day the residents in the millions resisted, marching en masse through the streets, closing down schools and shops as employers allowed workers leave to work at home and demonstrate. Some argued that the U.S. would have to intervene, but that doesn’t immediately seem to be necessary, as the Chinese, obviously aware that more brutal crackdown efforts or even armed intervention would more seriously affect their interests. The local authorities -- clearly with China’s acquiescence -- backed down, suspending the extradition law indefinitely: Indeed, by several accounts, faced with the threat of Chinese tyranny, capital has already been fleeing the colony for elsewhere. Physical security and rule of law matter. And an independent and fair judicial system...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/when_and_why_golden_geese_take_wing.html

A Further Tangled Web for worthless-Ilhan Omar

Michael Swartz: It was only a couple of weeks ago that we profiled Minnesota freshman Democrat Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar. We did so to chronicle the simmering hatred she’s espoused since winning state office in 2016 and a U.S. congressional seat last year. And our critique seems even more justified now, as new revelations have slowly leaked out of the Twin Cities area.

worthless-Omar’s tangled web, however, doesn’t just involve the minor news item of spending campaign money on personal items. In this case, the state’s campaign-finance board ordered worthless-Omar to repay nearly $3,500, mainly spent on travel unrelated to her duties as a Minnesota state legislator. Instead, it involves worthless-Omar’s two marriages — one to Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her three children, and the other marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. worthless-Omar was married to Elmi from 2009 to 2017, but claimed that in 2011 she received a “faith divorce” from him. This distinction is important, because worthless-Omar filed her taxes jointly with Hirsi on two separate tax returns in 2014 and 2015 — though they were not legally married until last year. Minnesota doesn’t permit the filing of joint returns by two parties who aren’t married.

In a case of closing the barn door after the horse is out, worthless-Omar’s hometown newspaper is finally showing some curiosity. A Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial this week noted, “Last year worthless-Omar told the Star Tribune that she had married her partner ‘in her faith,’ and had earlier divorced her first husband ‘in her faith.’ That’s fine for religious purposes. But for tax purposes, only civil marriages qualify. It’s not known whether she benefited materially by filing jointly. That is something that voters, who are obliged to follow tax laws no matter how painful, are entitled to know.” The editorial goes on to document other issues worthless-Omar has faced in just two years in public office.

But the filing of improper tax returns only scratches the surface. Rumors have swirled around worthless-Omar’s marriage to Elmi: that it was a sham in order to allow Elmi — who, as the story goes, is worthless-Omar’s brother — to fraudulently enter the country. This is supported by the fact that no children came from the Elmi marriage, while all three of worthless-Omar’s children were born out of wedlock with Hirsi. Yet this marriage “in her faith” to Elmi includes a piece of paper that vouched for its legality.

But even if there’s nothing to these rumors, worthless-Omar is being less than cooperative about a potential case of perjury. As Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey opines with tongue firmly in cheek:

Maybe her fellow House Democrats can help pry (other tax returns) out of worthless-Omar. After all, they’re demanding full transparency from Donald Trump on his tax returns even though they can’t even point to probable cause for a crime. The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board found clear evidence of tax violations with worthless-Omar in the two years of tax returns they reviewed, on top of previous campaign-finance violations. Shouldn’t that prompt House Democrats to apply the same transparency standard to worthless-Omar?

We believe that falls into the category of “when pigs fly.”

But it’s notable how little national coverage this episode is receiving, especially when there’s a golden opportunity for an intrepid journalist to “make a difference” and help force a corrupt politician out of office. Of course, worthless-Omar is innocent until proven guilty, but we’re reminded of a recent $35 million investigation that was launched on a far weaker factual foundation than what we see here. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63654?mailing_id=4334&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4334&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 17, 2019 at 11:47am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Hypocrite Dems Cry Foul Over

Foreign Oppo-Research

Thomas Gallatin

President Trump Outwits

Chairman Xi Jinping Ahead of G20 Summit

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump has taken the leverage of economics to levels of geopolitical strategy never seen before. Nowhere is the genius strategy more clear than in the way Trump has positioned the trade reset and confrontation with China... In hindsight every move since early 2017 including: (1) the warm welcome of Chairman Xi Jinping to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate; (2) the vociferous praise poured upon Xi; (3) the November 2017 tour of Asia; (4) the direct engagement with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un; the strategic relationship with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; and a host of smaller nuanced moves have been quietly building toward a conclusion.The upcoming G-20 summit is the last chance for Trump and Xi to reconcile considerable differences and President Trump has the strongest strategic position any Chinese official has ever faced. After Beijing walked away from previous agreements between USTR Robert Lighthizer and Vice-Premier Liu He, Trump initiated a series of punishing economic consequences that had to have been well planned in advance. The economy in China is reeling from the pressure applied; and stunningly it has only been a month since the consequence phase began... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/15/president-trump-outwits-chairman-xi-jinping-ahead-of-g20-summit/

Covering Up Our Culture to

'Avoid Giving Offense'

by Giulio Meotti

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Three years ago, the Italian government made a shameful decision. It veiled its antique Roman statues to avoid offending Iran's visiting President Hassan Rouhani... Nude statues were encased in white boxes. A year earlier, in Florence, another statue featuring a naked man in Greco-Roman style had also been covered during the visit of the crown prince of Abu Dhabi. Now, one of the most famous British art galleries has covered two paintings, after Muslim complaints that they were "blasphemous". At the Saatchi Gallery in London, two works, again featuring nudes, this time overlaid with Arabic script, prompted complaints from Muslim visitors, who requested that the paintings be removed from the Rainbow Scenes exhibition. In the end, the paintings were covered with sheets. "The Saatchi is behaving like Saudi Arabia, hiding from public view artworks that blaspheme against Islam", commented Brendan O'Neill on Spiked. One expert described the paintings as "The Satanic Verses all over again". The reference was to the book by Salman Rushdie, a British citizen, published in 1988. Iran's "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 condemned Rushdie to death for writing the book. The bounty on Rushdie's head was increased to $4 million in 2016 when a group of Iranians added $600,000 to the "reward" -- with no protest from Britain. It was after Rushdie's The Satanic Verses that many Western publishing houses began bowing to Islamist intimidation. Christian Bourgois, a French publishing house that had bought the rights, refused to publish The Satanic Verses. It was the first time that, in the name of Islam, a writer was condemned to disappear from the face of the earth -- to be murdered for a bounty. Rushdie is still with us, but the murder in 2004 of Theo van Gogh for producing and directing a film, "Submission", about Islamic violence toward women; the death of so many Arab-Islamic intellectuals guilty of writing freely, the Danish cartoon riots and the many trials and attempted murders, the slaughter at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the attacks after Pope's Benedict speech in Regensburg, the books and scripts cancelled, the depictions of Muhammad closeted in the warehouses of museums, and the increasing threats and punishments, including flogging, to countless journalists and writers such as Saudi Arabia's Raif Badawi, should alarm us -- not bring us to our knees. As the Saatchi Gallery's capitulation shows, freedom of speech in Europe is now exhausted and weak. So far, we have caved in to Islamic extremists and Western appeasers. It is the tragic lesson of the Rushdie case 30 years later: no author would dare to write The Satanic Verses today; no large publishing house such as Penguin would print it; media attacks against "Islamophobes" would be even stronger, as would the bottomless betrayal of Western diplomats. Also today, thanks to social media as a weapon of censorship and implicit mass threats, any author would probably be less fortunate than Rushdie was 30 years ago. Since that time, we have made no progress. Instead, we have been seeing the jihad against The Satanic Verses over and over again. "Nobody would have the balls today to write 'The Satanic Verses', let alone publish it," said the writer Hanif Kureishi. "Writing is now timid because writers are now terrified"... For more than 30 years and now Jews and Christian have been murdered and nothing has been done to stop it. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14363/covering-up-culture

Dems eye repeal of Justice

rule barring presidential indictments

by Mike Lillis

{ thehill.com } ~ House Democrats are weighing legislation to scrap the executive guideline that bars the Justice Department from indicting a sitting president... The informal rule is decades old but has come under heavy new scrutiny since Robert Mueller cited it explicitly as the reason he declined to recommend — or even consider — bringing obstruction charges against President Trump during the course of his 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. In response to the special counsel’s report, Democrats are piecing together a package of legislation focused largely on shielding elections from foreign influence, including proposals to bar candidates from accepting foreign help of any kind, while making it mandatory that campaigns alert the FBI when such offers are extended. But some lawmakers want to press further, eying legislation to nullify the Department of Justice's (DOJ) long-standing determination that presidents cannot be charged with federal crimes while they remain in office. “It's definitely on the menu,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee. “I'm in favor of expanding enforcement tools and accountability tools, and that's definitely one of them.” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, is also signaling his support. While he has not been involved in talks about specific proposals, Jeffries said, “It strikes me as a reasonable thing to consider.”... This rule was insert while scumbag/liar-Clinton was in office and now they want to eliminate it. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/448654-dems-eye-repeal-of-justice-rule-barring-presidential-indictments

John Durham Questioning CIA Officials About Intelligence Community Assessment

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Against the backdrop of the DOJ admitting FBI investigators never had access to the DNC servers to verify a Russian hack; and with new information about the FBI receiving partial and redacted analysis from Crowdstrike... the review by U.S. Attorney John Durham toward the downstream assessment/claims of the CIA takes on new meaning. CTH has previously outlined how the December 29th, 2016, Joint Analysis Report (JAR) on Russia Cyber Activity was a quickly compiled bunch of nonsense about Russian hacking. The JAR was followed a week later by the January 7th, 2017, Intelligence Community Assessment. The ICA took the ridiculous construct of the JAR and then overlaid a political narrative that Russia was trying to help Donald Trump. The ICA was the brain-trust of scumbag/commie-John Brennan, scumbag-James Clapper and scumbag-James Comey. NSA Director Mike Rogers would not sign up to the “high confidence” claims, likely because he saw through the political motives of the report. […] Mr. Barr wants to know more about the C.I.A. sources who helped inform its understanding of the details of the Russian interference campaign, an official has said. He also wants to better understand the intelligence that flowed from the C.I.A. to the F.B.I. in the summer of 2016. During the final weeks of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, the intelligence community released a declassified assessment that concluded that Mr. Putin ordered an influence campaign that “aspired to help” Mr. Trump’s electoral chances by damaging Mrs. scumbag/liar-Clinton’s. The C.I.A. and the F.B.I. reported they had high confidence in the conclusion. The National Security Agency, which conducts electronic surveillance, had a moderate degree of confidence...more info here ( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/us/politics/russia-investigation-cia.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytpolitics )

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/15/reminder-john-durham-questioning-cia-officials-about-intelligence-community-assessment/

African migrants pass through San Antonio

and swiftly fan out across the country

by Anna Giaritelli

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Roughly 300 Congolese and Angolan citizens who arrived in San Antonio the first week of June after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border days earlier have all briskly departed the city for destinations across the country... some with fuzzy plans based partly on hope. The hundreds of family members and single adults from Central Africa first showed up June 4 at the southern border’s Eagle Pass and Del Rio towns in south-central Texas. The migrants surrendered to Border Patrol agents and claimed asylum after crossing the Rio Grande. The agency did not, as it is supposed to, turn families over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Instead, it released families onto the streets of Eagle Pass and Del Rio, according to two government and nongovernment officials with first-hand knowledge of the matter. The African migrants then bought bus tickets to either San Antonio or Austin, according to San Antonio Interim Assistant City Manager Colleen Bridger. “If — a family, the sponsor — it’s been 24-48 hours and they can’t buy the bus ticket, then we’ll buy it,” Elizabeth Nemeth, executive director of Catholic Charities' west side center, told the Washington Examiner Thursday. For a family of five to seven looking to travel by bus to New York, it will cost $2,000, she said. While many Central American families who arrive have final destinations and family members in mind who could pay for their tickets and put them up, the African families did not always have quite as clearly defined plans. “They come with a place in mind. ‘My friend told me to go to Portland, Maine, because there’s a lot of Congolese families that already live there and it’s welcoming,” said Nemeth. "And they have that plan in mind, right? But they don’t understand the geography — like where it is, how much it costs to get there. There's a lot of misconceptions. They may think, 'I have a friend there,' but they don’t have a friend's phone number … We can look into what is their last name, phone book, call shelter and ask about them, connect the dots. I wouldn’t say that we’re just putting them randomly. They have an idea."... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/african-migrants-pass-through-san-antonio-and-swiftly-fan-out-across-the-country?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_06/15/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

Hypocrite Dems Cry Foul Over Foreign

Oppo-Research

Thomas Gallatin: “Somebody comes up and says, ‘Hey, I have information on your opponent.’ Do you call the FBI? … This is someone that said, ‘We have information on your opponent.’ Oh, let me call the FBI. Give me a break. Life doesn’t work that way,” President Donald Trump stated in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton’s communications director-turned “journalist” was questioning whether Trump would immediately call the FBI should a foreigner offer information on his political opponent. Trump added, “I think maybe you do both. There’s nothing wrong with listening. If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go, maybe to the FBI.”

Once again the Democrats and their Leftmedia cohorts rushed to their well-worn fainting couches. Trump would accept foreign governments influencing America’s elections, they all shrieked. Never mind the fact that neither Trump nor Stephanopoulos ever said the opposition information was coming from a foreign government or agent. No matter; leftists simply assumed intent.

On Friday, Trump sought to clarify his statements, saying, “If I thought anything was incorrect or badly stated, I’d report it to the attorney general [and] the FBI. I’d report it to law enforcement, absolutely.” Obviously, Trump was not advocating breaking the law, and he is correct in noting that listening to someone, even a foreigner, is not a crime.

But leave it to Democrats to only see criminal intent. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi claimed this proves Trump “does not know right from wrong,” and that “everybody in the country should be totally appalled by what the president said.” Please. And of course, “It’s just one more thing that we have to justify impeachment — when and if it comes,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) vacuously insisted.

The truth is this was just Trump being Trump, speaking his mind freely as an everyman and not as a carefully honed politician. It’s what endeared him to his supporters, but it has also given his opponents ammunition to attack him.

However, what makes the Democrats’ latest conniption fit over Trump’s comments so asinine is the rank hypocrisy.

It was scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party who actually sought and paid for foreign opposition research against Trump. Foreign agent Christopher Steele was hired by team scumbag/liar-Clinton, and he was responsible for creating the infamous anti-Trump dossier that was then used by the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign. This was in turn used as the impetus for creating Robert Mueller’s investigation into the false Trump/Russia collusion narrative. And even after it was proven fallacious, it’s still being used by Democrats as an excuse to justify their calls for impeachment.

So who is it that doesn’t know right from wrong? ~The Patriot Post

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Mon/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 17, 2019 at 9:05am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Pompeo: Iran Attacked Those Tankers

National Security Desk

Monday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: HEALTH-CARE CHECKUP: “President Trump said he’ll be rolling out a new health care plan in a couple of months, saying it will be a key focus in his 2020 reelection campaign,” according to The Hill. Republicans failed to pass health-care reform even with congressional majorities, so this plan will be geared toward rallying the troops for the 2020 elections. If successful, we can only hope that Republicans have finally learned their lesson.

FUNDING FIGHT RESUMES: “House Democrats are set to move funding for most of the federal government this week, even as lawmakers have struggled to reach a budget caps deal. The two packages, known as ‘minibuses,’ will cover nine of the 12 individual appropriations bills that Congress needs to pass by Oct. 1 in order to avoid the second government shutdown of the year.” (The Hill)

IRAN DEFIES: “Amid increased brinksmanship with the United States, Iran announced Monday its intention to exceed the low-enriched uranium stockpile limit it agreed to in the 2015 nuke deal — unless certain demands are met by the pact’s remaining signatories within the next 10 days. More provocatively, the Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman warned Iran could enrich uranium up to 20 percent — just a step below weapons-grade level.” (Fox News)

ALLIES TAKE NOTE: “The United Kingdom will send elite forces to the Gulf of Oman to protect its warships amid rising tensions with Iran, according to the Sunday Times. The planned deployment follows Thursday’s attacks on two oil tankers, which the U.S. has blamed on Iran.” (Politico)

COLLUSION DELUSION: “The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said.” (The New York Times)

IMPEACHMENT LETDOWN: “MoveOn.org kicked off a nationwide campaign to impeach President Donald Trump Saturday with a series of ‘#ImpeachTrump’ rallies and a ‘Day of Action’ meant to inspire the far left to pressure Congressional legislators to undertake impeachment proceedings. … But if their intent was to create the impression that hundreds of thousands of Americans stood at the ready to impeach President Donald Trump, the effort failed miserably. Across the country, turnout was sparse, even in dedicated leftist strongholds.” (The Daily Wire)

AFRICAN MIGRANTS: According to the Associated Press, African migrants are a burgeoning source of illegal immigration. They are emigrating from places like the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Cameroon. “The explosion in immigration to the United States from sub-Saharan Africa coincides with a steep drop in the migration flow across the Mediterranean to Europe after European countries and two main embarkation points — Turkey and Libya — decided to crack down.”

DIVINE JUSTICE: “An atheist group has dropped its attempt to strip American pastors of their tax exemption for housing. The Freedom from Religion Foundation will not appeal an appeals court decision that said the federal government is allowed to exempt priests, pastors, rabbis, and other religious instructors from paying taxes on the housing they receive, ending an eight-year legal battle.” (The Washington Free Beacon)

POLICY: Trump is expanding scumbag/liar-nObamaCare … in a good way (National Review)

POLICY: Building the new privacy and security layers of the Internet (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: Elizabeth dinky-Warren promises to cure smallpox (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post

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1,000 days of continuing resolutions in 10 years

by Mackenzie Eaglen and Rick Berger

{ aei.org } ~ Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said a year ago that military had operated under 1,000 days of debilitating continuing resolutions (CR) over the past decade... Yet another continuing resolution looms again this fall. Even as Congress moves ahead with its spending bills for the Defense Department, the odds remain low that both parties can agree to an overall spending level by the start of the fiscal year still. Only about 37 legislative work days remain before September 30. This means that federal agencies, including the U.S. military, will almost certainly begin another year under a spending freeze at last year’s budget levels. The result? The military’s advantages continue to shrink. According to Mattis, “I cannot overstate the impact to our troops’ morale from all this uncertainty. The combination of rapidly changing technology, the negative impact on military readiness resulting from the longest continuous stretch of combat in our nation’s history, and insufficient funding have created an overstretched and under-resourced military.” Continuing resolutions negatively impact the military in three main ways. First, because CRs freeze individual appropriations accounts at last year’s levels, tens of billions of dollars will be misaligned. For instance, though the difference between the 2020 requested level of $750 billion and the 2019 spending level of $716 billion is only $34 billion, the actual effect of the CR is greater because the additional funding is misaligned compared to the budget request—and often at a lower level. This misalignment negatively affects all accounts, but particularly creates problems for troop training and maintenance of equipment and facilities—the core of military readiness. Near-term readiness is perishable and must be constantly maintained for the “fight tonight” or it is lost. It takes longer to rebuild readiness than to maintain it. As the former commandant of the Marine Corps explained, troops “rely on the hard, realistic training provided by these exercises to develop the individual and collective skills necessary to prepare for high-end combat, while simultaneously building the experience and leadership of the non-commissioned officers, senior non-commissioned officers, and junior officers who will lead” forces into harm’s way. The commandant continued that “although some effects can be mitigated” when training is delayed or canceled because of budget instability, “the experience lost by these units at a critical time in their preparation cannot be recouped.” Or, put another way by Secretary Mattis last year, inadequate and delayed budgets are why the military “can have young officers getting promoted to major that have not had the same flight hours that you have expected during your tenure on this committee, that a lieutenant or captain would have had. They have not had the opportunity because we have not funded for it, the aircraft are not available, the spare parts and the maintainers have not been there.” Time lost is future readiness thrown away...

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Great Lakes Reveal a Fatal Flaw

in Climate Change ‘Science’

by issuesinsights.com: Lake Erie and Lake Superior — two of the five that make up the Great Lakes — broke records for water levels this May. Lakes Michigan and Huron could follow suit... Naturally, climate change is getting the blame. “We are undoubtedly observing the effects of a warming climate in the Great Lakes,” says Richard Rood, a University of Michigan climate scientist. But just a few years ago, climate scientists were insisting that a warming climate would cause water levels to decline. In 2008, Science Daily reported on a study that attributed the decline in Great Lakes water levels to global warming. The researchers who conducted the study said that the drop “raised concern because the declines are consistent with many climate change predictions.” In 2009, Columbia University’s Earth Institute informed us that “most climate models suggest that we may see declines in lake levels over the next 100 years; one suggests that we may see declines of up to 8.2 feet.” In 2011, the Union of Concern Scientists said that “scientists expect water levels in the Great Lakes to drop in both summer and winter, with the greatest declines occurring in Lakes Huron and Michigan.” In 2013, the Natural Resources Defense Council said that “it’s no secret that, partially due to climate change, the water levels in the Great Lakes are getting very low.” That same year, Think Progress reported that “Several different climate models for the Great Lakes region all predict that lake levels will decline over the next century.” Since the Great Lakes account for 21% of the world’s surface fresh water, these stories were all wrapped in doom-and-gloom scenarios about the impact on drinking water, shipping, recreation, and so on. The very next year, however, water levels started rising...

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Trump’s Expansion of Health Reimbursement Accounts Improves Health Care Choices

by Robert Moffit

{ dailysignal.com } ~ The Trump administration unveiled this week a final rule that will dramatically improve workers’ ability to access health insurance of their choice... The new rule will significantly expand the permitted uses of tax-advantaged health reimbursement accounts, or HRAs. Today, these special employer-based accounts, in which funds can be rolled over year to year, are used by employees to cover medical expenses, including out-of-pocket costs and services uncovered by traditional insurance. But with this rule, for the first time in the history of these tax-free accounts, the administration would allow employees to use them to pay premiums for individual health insurance. This change will not only expand health insurance coverage, but will also lower health care costs. The rule is the product of the combined efforts of the U.S. departments of the Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor. It will take effect on Jan. 1, 2020.With this regulatory initiative, the Trump administration is making a major change in health care financing. Employers who do not, or cannot, offer health insurance at the place of work, would henceforth be able to deposit tax-free funds into health reimbursement accounts on behalf of employees who wish to use those funds to buy health insurance plans in the individual insurance markets. While announcing the final rule, administration officials said they expected that the new rule, within a five-year period, could encourage as many as 800,000 businesses to sponsor health reimbursement accounts to fund individual coverage for more than 11 million workers... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/14/trumps-expansion-of-health-reimbursement-accounts-improves-health-care-choices/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpSa1pEQTBNak0wTmpOayIsInQiOiJGeFV4cHVHWThxM083NENRZVR4bXlwTzJFSHRjWkhZQ1NIRDk1eWNYRlNmNXpNdG1ndmJBWEF0N1pxdytrdEg0dFprQnR0TmUzWGlmTHhwMEsrcFdrcTFxYzBvYjF0a2VUc0xNNklwekRSZ1wvYXVMVEZHSkZBSVNWazJNQTVEcEIifQ%3D%3D

Trump's 'secret' agreement with Mexico revealed

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by Zachary Halaschak

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump teased the media this week when he dangled a one-page document he said contained a "secret" deal with Mexico in front of journalists... Now that document has been released in full. The document is written in the conditional tense and references “the Joint Declaration of the Governments of the United States and Mexico of June, 7, 2019.” It says the two countries agree to begin discussions to “establish definitive terms for a binding bilateral agreement to further address burden-sharing and the assignment of responsibility for processing refugee status claims of migrants.” “If the United States determines, at its discretion and after consultation with Mexico, after 45 calendar days from the date of the issuance of the Joint Declaration, that the measures adopted by the Government of Mexico pursuant to the Joint Declaration have not sufficiently achieved results in addressing the flow of migrants to the southern border of the United States, the Government of Mexico will take all necessary steps under domestic law to bring the agreement into force with a view to ensuring that the agreement will enter into force within 45 days,” the document reads. Mexico released the full text of the page on Friday, three days after Trump first showed off the paper. “You would freeze-action it, you would stop it, you would analyze it,” Trump taunted reporters as he left the White House for a trip to Iowa. “I'm going to let Mexico do the announcement at the right time.”Journalists snapped photos of the document illuminated by the sunlight and some of the words were able to be made out. Earlier this month, Trump threatened a 5% tariff against Mexico if it didn't reduce migrant crossings. The tariff was averted after negotiations between the two parties in Washington.

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scumbag/liar-Hillary And scumbag-Adam

Schiff In Trouble After What They Did

Back In 2017 And It Gets Worse

by JonDougherty

{ rightwingtribune.com } ~ With all the phony outrage now taking place within the garbage ‘mainstream media,’ the Democratic Party, and far too many Republicans... regarding POTUS Donald Trump’s comments to scumbag/liar-Clinton water boy George Stephanopoulos earlier this week — that he would consider “looking at” any political opposition ‘dirt’ on an opponent that came from a foreign source — it became necessary to dig through our archives and those of responsible media sources to point out just how ridiculously hypocritical the outrage really is. Flashback No. 1: That time when scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, shortly after she lost to Trump, told The Daily Show on Comedy Central that, eh, you know, getting political dirt from foreign sources is so what happens, “you know,” and anyway, what’s the big deal?As reported by Rowan Scarborough at The Washington Times, Daily Show host Trevor Noah actually brought up the “Steele Dossier” — which cited sources that had links to the Kremlin — as it was just becoming known to Americans post-election. “It’s part of what happens in a campaign where you get information that may or may not be useful and you try to make sure anything you put out in public arena is accurate,” she said. “So this thing didn’t come out until after the election and it’s still being evaluated.” “When Trump got the nomination of the Republican Party, the people doing the dossier research came to my campaign lawyer, and said, would you like us to continue it,” she said. “He said yes. He is an experienced lawyer. He knows what the law is. He knows what opposition research is.” Flashback No. 2: In July 2017, just a few short months after POTUS Trump was inaugurated and special counsel Robert Mueller had been appointed and the second phase of “Spygate” — the operation to depose the president — had begun, then-House Intelligence Committee ranking member scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) actually said it was “inappropriate” for scumbag/liar-Clinton’s campaign to have received foreign political dirt. “If you are looking for an example of a campaign coordinating with a foreign country or a foreign source, look no further than the DNC... https://rightwingtribune.com/2019/06/15/hillary-and-adam-schiff/

Pompeo: Iran Attacked Those Tankers

National Security Desk: Two oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of Iran Thursday, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid the blame squarely on Iran.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred in the Gulf of Oman today,” Pompeo declared Thursday. “This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.”

Moreover, Pompeo added, “This is only the latest in a series of attacks instigated by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its surrogates against American and allied interests, and they should be understood in the context of 40 years of unprovoked aggression against freedom-loving nations.”

That unprovoked aggression may come with consequences. Pompeo said, “These unprovoked attacks present a clear threat to international peace and security, a blatant assault on the freedom of navigation, and an unacceptable campaign of escalating tension by Iran. … Iran is lashing out because the regime wants our successful maximum-pressure campaign lifted. No economic sanctions entitle the Islamic republic to attack innocent civilians, disrupt global oil markets and engage in nuclear blackmail.”

In any case, Pompeo concluded, “The international community condemns Iran’s assault on the freedom of navigation and the targeting of innocent civilians. … The United States will defend its interests and stand with our partners and allies to safeguard global commerce and regional stability.”

As for where this fits in the chronology of recent events, The Wall Street Journal editorial board observes, “The assault on the tankers validates the U.S. decision the past month, met with skepticism at the time, to send the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln into the Gulf along with destroyers and cruisers, in the expectation that Iran was planning an attack in the region. Indeed it was.”

And a footnote: One of the responding U.S. Navy vessels was the USS Bainbridge. Students of history will recall that the Bainbridge also hosted the SEALs who killed the Maersk Alabama hijackers. Seems like the Revolutionary Guard is playing with fire — especially considering they’re literally caught on video released by U.S. Central Command.

~The Patriot Post

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Monday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 17, 2019 at 7:02am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Deeper and Deeper in Debt
Cal Thomas

Barr Tells Congress They

Are Not Getting Trump’s Taxes

by Dean James

{ rightwingtribune.com } ~ U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin did not violate the law by refusing to provide President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress... because the confidentiality of returns is protected under the law, the Justice Department said in a legal opinion released on Friday. Federal law “protecting confidentiality of tax returns prohibited the Department of the Treasury from complying with a request by the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee for the president’s tax returns,” a department official said in the opinion provided to the Treasury Department. The memorandum from Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel, who heads the Office of Legal Counsel, supports the position already taken by the Treasury Department. It is likely to draw fire from Democrats in Congress who have argued the legal reasoning is misguided. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal had issued a subpoena demanding the administration turn over six years of Trump’s returns. He has said he is likely to try to enforce the subpoena by going to court. The administration has been refusing to cooperate with a number of congressional probes of Trump, his family and his presidency, with the fight over his tax returns just one example. “While the Executive Branch should accord due deference and respect to congressional requests, Treasury was not obliged to accept the committee’s stated purpose without question, and based on all the facts and circumstances, we agreed that the committee lacked a legitimate legislative purpose for its request,” Engel wrote. “This is a pretty aggressive argument from DOJ, basically saying that Congress is lying about its purpose for wanting the president’s tax returns and that as a result, the IRS need not provide them even though the statute doesn’t require Congress to have *any* reason,” USA Today reporter Brad Heath Said...

https://rightwingtribune.com/2019/06/15/barr-tells-congress/

WebMD Misleads on Agriculture

and Climate Change

by H. Sterling Burnett

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Some readers of a recent article published by WebMD titled “Will Climate Change Cause Food Sources to Dwindle?” might be fooled into thinking the author intends to carefully weigh the evidence about this important topic... But a closer look clearly reveals the purpose of the story is to promote a one-sided, sloppy, alarmist view of the purported threat posed to agriculture from climate change. Feeding the world’s hungry ranks among the greatest difficulties humankind has experienced throughout its history, and with the world’s population expected to top nine billion around 2100, this challenge could grow in the coming decades. Unfortunately, the WebMD article ignored the overwhelming amount of data and evidence that increased carbon dioxide levels and the modest warming Earth has experienced is helping feed the world, not leading to starvation or malnutrition. Below are just several of the facts WebMD ignored in its effort to scare its readers into believing their use of fossil fuels is contributing to a food apocalypse. For starters, most plant life arose when carbon dioxide levels were much higher than they are today. During the most recent ice age, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell to dangerously low levels -- just 180 parts per million (ppm). Plants begin to die when carbon dioxide reaches 150 ppm, because they are unable to use sunlight to photosynthesize food from carbon dioxide and water. After Earth emerged from the most recent ice age, carbon dioxide levels rebounded, to approximately 280 ppm, still far below the levels existing when plant life began to colonize the land. The addition of approximately 135 ppm of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by humans -- through the burning of fossil fuels, slash-and-burn agriculture, and various other actions -- has helped reduce hunger immeasurably. Since the widespread development and use of fossil fuels, world poverty and hunger have declined rapidly. Despite the addition of 3.2 billion people to the planet since 1968, poverty and hunger have plummeted at a faster rate than at any time in human history... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/webmd_misleads_on_agriculture_and_climate_change.html
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The Mullahs Promise "Demise of Israel"

and American Civilization

by Majid Rafizadeh

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The Iranian government continues to defy international standards, as it refuses to act as a rational and constructive state... even apart from its repeated malign behavior in the Gulf of Oman this week. Iran's Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who enjoys the final say in all of Iran's domestic and foreign policies, recently proclaimed to the youth in Iran that they will soon witness the demise of Israel and all of American civilization. This announcement was confirmed on the Supreme Leader's official website. Khamenei made Iran's intentions clear while meeting with students. "You young people," he declared, "should be assured that you will witness the demise of the enemies of humanity, meaning the degenerate American civilization, and the demise of Israel". Iran also recently produced a program on its state television channel demonstrating that the government is currently practicing missile attacks, with the purpose of carrying out actual attacks on Israel. The video excerpt included in the television broadcast showed how the operations the Iranians are striving to put into action will bombard Tel Aviv. The video concludes with images of Israeli citizens covered in white sheets, indicating great tragedy for Israel, and a victory for the Islamic Republic. The Deputy Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, also recently threatened on Iran's Channel 2 TV that Israel is "vulnerable and bringing itself closer to death". Salami made the strategy of the Iranian government vehemently clear by stating, "Our strategy is to erase Israel from the global political map. And, it seems that, considering the evil that Israel is doing, it is bringing itself closer to that." In addition, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently posted a Twitter tirade attacking Israel. It stated that "the Zionist regime will perish in the not so far future." Why are the Iranian leaders ratcheting up threats against Israel and the Jews at these critical times? There seem to be two major reasons... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14328/iran-threats-israel-us

VIDEO: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/watch-iran%E2%80%99s-simulated-missile-attack-israel-55752

The 630 Year-Old Reason

Eastern Europeans Dislike Islam

by Raymond Ibrahim

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Why Eastern Europeans are much more reluctant to accept Muslim migrants than their Western counterparts can be traced back to circumstances surrounding a pivotal battle, that of Kosovo, which took place today, June 15... exactly 630 years ago today in 1389. It pitted Muslim invaders against Eastern European defenders, or the ancestors of those many Eastern Europeans today who are resistant to Islam. Because the jihad is as old as Islam, it has been championed by diverse peoples throughout the centuries — Arabs in the Middle East, Moors Berbers and Africans in Spain and Western Europe, etc. Islam's successful entry into Eastern Europe was spearheaded by the Turks, specifically that tribe centered in westernmost Anatolia or Asia Minor and thus nearest to Europe, the Ottoman Turks, so-named after their founder, Osman Bey. As he lay dying in 1323, his parting words to his son and successor, Orhan, were for him "to propagate Islam by your arms." This his son certainly did; the traveler Ibn Batutua, who once met Orhan in Bursa, observed that although the jihadi had captured some one hundred Byzantine fortresses, "he had never stayed for a whole month in any one town," because he "fights with the infidels continually and keeps them under siege." Christian cities fell like dominoes: Smyrna in 1329, Nicaea in 1331, and Nicomedia in 1337. By 1340, the whole of northwest Anatolia was under Turkic control. By now and to quote a European contemporary, "the foes of the cross, and the killers of the Christian people, that is, the Turks, were separated from Constantinople by a channel of three or four miles." By 1354, the Ottoman Turks, under Orhan's son, Suleiman, managed to cross over the Dardanelles and into the abandoned fortress town of Gallipoli, thereby establishing their first foothold in Europe: "Where there were churches he destroyed them or converted them to mosques," writes an Ottoman chronicler. "Where there were bells, Suleiman broke them up and cast them into fires. Thus, in place of bells there were now muezzins." Cleansed of all Christian "filth," Gallipoli became, as a later Ottoman bey boasted, "the Muslim throat that gulps down every Christian nation — that chokes and destroys the Christians." From this dilapidated but strategically situated fortress town, the Ottomans launched a campaign of terror throughout the countryside, always convinced they were doing God's work. "They live by the bow, the sword, and debauchery, finding pleasure in taking slaves, devoting themselves to murder, pillage, spoil," explained Gregory Palamas, an Orthodox metropolitan who was taken captive in Gallipoli, adding, "and not only do they commit these crimes, but even — what an aberration — they believe that God approves them!"...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/the_630_yearold_reason_eastern_europeans_dislike_islam.html

scumbag/liar-nObama Admin Spent $4.1 Million

to Link Pollution to Eating Fast Food

by Charles Fain Lehman and Brent Scher

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Researchers were awarded more than $4 million by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency to study... whether exposure to air pollution led children to eat more fast food. The $4,146,875 grant was awarded in 2013 to fund a five-year study at the University of Southern California into whether proximity to "near-roadway air pollution" was a contributing factor in childhood obesity. In their published study, released this year in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the researchers say they were unable to prove any association between pollutant exposure and obesity in children, but were able to find a correlation between pollutant exposure and changes in fast-food consumption patterns. The study was based on interviews conducted with school-age children in twelve southern California communities in the 1990s. Diet information was based on self-reported information from the students, who were given a "food frequency questionnaire" annually until they graduated high school. Pollution levels were estimated for each student’s residential address.The recorded information was inadequate for answering the question it was paid to answer on childhood obesity, the study explains. "However, because there was no significant association between childhood air pollutant exposure and obesity or overweight in this study sample," the study explains, "the mediation effect of food pattern factor scores in the association between air pollutant exposure and obesity could not be examined under a consistent mediation model." The study did say a correlation between pollution exposure and fast-food consumption was found, but it failed to prove any causal relationship between the two... My goodness, a waste of money and time. https://freebeacon.com/issues/obama-admin-spent-4-1-million-to-link-pollution-exposure-to-eating-fast-food/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=af30258045-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_14_10_57_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-af30258045-45611665

Deeper and Deeper in Debt

Cal Thomas

There are many addictions besides drugs, sex and power. There is also our increasing addiction to debt. According to Money Magazine, reporting on figures from the New York Fed, “Americans’ debt hit a new high of $13 trillion last year, surpassing the previous record set in 2008 by $280 billion.”

On a personal level, individual American debt averages $7,800, according to the U.S. Census. Credit card debt and student loans account for a good portion of it, depending on one’s age, with people 75 and older having the least debt and middle aged and younger people having the most.

This is chump change when it comes to spending by the federal government. Citizens Against Government Waste has just published its annual Pig Book, detailing wasteful and unnecessary pork barrel spending by politicians.

To raise your outrage to its proper level, the book needs to be read in its entirety, but here are just a few of its lowlights. Remember “earmarks,” those spending additions to bills that resemble leeches on one’s body? A “moratorium” was placed on them in fiscal year 2011, but Members of Congress have been pressuring their leadership to get rid of them so that they might resume bragging to constituents how they are “bringing home the bacon.”

According to CAGW, 282 earmarks were added to spending bills in the fiscal 2019 budget, a 21.6 percent increase from fiscal 2018. That cost taxpayers $15.3 billion in additional money we don’t have and must borrow. Earmarks are added in secret, so their authors are unknown to the public. How’s that for transparency?

Seven earmarks were added for the overpriced, over budget and overdue F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (total $1.8 billion), “including eight additional planes for the Air Force, six for the Navy, and two for the Marine Corps. In development for nearly 18 years and eight years behind schedule, total acquisition costs now exceed $428 billion; nearly double the initial estimate of $233 billion. A 2019 DOD Selected Acquisition Report noted that the F-35’s lifetime operation and maintenance costs will total approximately $1.2 trillion, the most expensive weapon system in U.S. history.”

This is the Pentagon’s equivalent of California’s ludicrous $77 billion high-speed rail project, which at least has been sharply cut back. Unfortunately, when it comes to federal spending, failure is never a sufficient reason to stop.

Speaking of the West Coast, how about this one — $65 million for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund. “For the third consecutive year,” notes the Pig Book, “President Trump’s budget recommended eliminating its funding because it favors state, local, and/or industry interests, and are ‘not optimally targeted … favor certain species and geographic areas over others,’ and do not direct funds to programs and projects that have ‘the greatest need or potential benefit.’” When it comes to spending, logic never wins.

Here’s a favorite: $13.8 million for wild horse and burro management (largest amount ever). Since FY 1992, Congress has added earmarks totaling $18 million for this program. Perhaps if Congress looked at the south end of these animals they would see their own reflection, which is the image many Americans have of them.

One more (but there are many more): $12 million for the aquatic plant control program, the largest amount ever. Since FY 1994, aquatic plant control projects have been earmarked by Sen. Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). Spending is always bipartisan.

Historically, a contributing factor to the decline of great nations has been massive and uncontrolled debt. We are headed for a similar abyss. Read the Pig Book, be outraged and then vote them out of office.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/63624?mailing_id=4331&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4331&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

A Price To Be Paid For Arson

Posted by Craig Andresen on June 17, 2019 at 3:44am

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

We’ve all heard of the case, and by now, most have heard the verdict. It’s not the case of the century, but it is important.

In a politically charged environment, in a divisive culture, one can hardly think of a place more guilty of causing political divisiveness than any one of today’s asylums of higher indoctrination. From every level of public schools, otherwise known as liberal indoctrination centers, to colleges and universities, otherwise known as asylums of higher indoctrination, liberals have ruled the roost for decades. They set the agenda, (it’s no longer a curriculum) and they preach, (not teach) the ideology of socialism to students from kindergarten through grad school.

The case in question is Gibson Bros. v. Oberlin College.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

Saturday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 15, 2019 at 5:19pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

California: Rolling Blackouts

and Garbage Piles

Political Editors

Cruz Delivers Forceful Speech

Denouncing Anti-Semitism

by Charlie Hoffmann

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Texas senator Ted Cruz took to the Senate floor Thursday afternoon to denounce anti-Semitism moments before the Senate... unanimously passed his bipartisan resolution condemning all forms of anti-Semitism. "We're living in an era where the need for a strong and clear condemnation of anti-Semitism has become acute," Cruz said. Cruz then went on to discuss the uptick in anti-Semitic attacks and violence in the United States and abroad, highlighting such horrific incidents as the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh which killed eleven people. "We have seen the growth on our college campuses of movements to aggressively boycott products made by Jews in Israel," he continued, highlighting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. During his speech, Cruz pointed to the House of Representatives’ failure to pass a resolution earlier this year specifically condemning anti-Semitism after Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) made numerous anti-Semitic remarks including insinuating American Jews have a dual loyalty to Israel. "When the House tried to condemn anti-Semitism, sadly they were instead forced to water it down into a general resolution decrying bigotry of all sorts," Cruz said. "There's of course nothing wrong with condemning bigotry and hatred in general." "But anti-Semitism is a unique prejudice, with a unique history, that has led to unique horrors throughout history," Cruz added. He noted Jews are the most targeted religious group in America today according to data from the FBI. Cruz noted that American Jews have been subject to discrimination throughout the history of the United States, including being barred from certain social clubs, academic institutions, neighborhoods, and hotels... https://freebeacon.com/issues/senator-cruz-delivers-forceful-senate-speech-denouncing-anti-semitism/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=af30258045-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_14_10_57_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-af30258045-45611665

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj9IMs5VtyI
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Hezballah Isn’t Just in Beirut

It’s in New York, Too

by Matthew Levitt

{ foreignpolicy.com } ~ In recent years, Hezbollah has stepped up its activities beyond Lebanon’s borders. This uptick has been clearest in the Middle East—in Iraq, Yemen, and especially Syria—but plots have also been thwarted in South America, Asia, Europe, and now... possibly, the United States. Reports of Hezbollah activity in North America are not new, though such reporting tend to focus on the group’s fundraising, money laundering, procurement, or other logistical activities from Vancouver to Miami. But last month, the criminal prosecution and conviction in New York of the Hezbollah operative Ali Kourani revealed disturbing new information about the extent of Hezbollah’s operations and activities in the United States and Canada.Taken together, the arrests in 2017 of Kourani and another Hezbollah operative, Samer el-Debek, led the U.S. intelligence community to revisit its longstanding assessment that Hezbollah would be unlikely to attack the U.S. homeland unless the group perceived Washington to be taking action threatening its existence or that of its patron—Iran. Following Kourani and Debek’s arrests, the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center said in October 2017, “It’s our assessment that Hezbollah is determined to give itself a potential homeland option as a critical component of its terrorism playbook.” At the time, little of the underlying information leading to this new assessment had been made public, but on May 16, a New York jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts in the indictment against Kourani, including terrorist charges related to his surveillance of FBI and U.S. Secret Service offices, as well as a U.S. Army armory, all in New York City. Debek has yet to stand trial. Kourani carried out other operational activities as a long-term sleeper agent, acting on behalf of Hezbollah’s external attack-planning component, the Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO), such as identifying Israelis in New York who could be targeted by Hezbollah and finding people from whom he could procure arms that Hezbollah could stockpile in the area. Most of his activities occurred in the United States, but Hezbollah also sent Kourani to China, where the group had previously procured chemicals used to make bombs of the kind the group built in Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Thailand. The 2012 bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria, left seven people dead including the bomber and 32 wounded, and bomb-making chemicals of the same type were found in Thailand in 2012 and in Cyprus in 2012 and 2015, when plots were thwarted there. Hezbollah also sent Kourani on operational assignments to Canada. Kourani described himself in interviews with FBI agents as being part of a “sleeper cell.”... https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/14/hezbollah-isnt-just-in-beirut-its-in-new-york-too-canada-united-states-jfk-toronto-pearson-airports-ali-kourani-iran/

United Nations Agency Criticizes Carbon Offsets

by Lisa Song

{propublica.org} ~ The United Nations drew attention this week for an article published by its environment program that criticized carbon offsets a strategy the UN has supported for two decades... The headline: “Carbon offsets are not our get-out-of-jail free card.” It came three weeks after ProPublica published a widely discussed investigation into how offsets related to forest preservation have not provided the promised carbon savings and instead have given polluters a guilt-free pass to keep emitting CO₂. “Scientists, activists and concerned citizens have started to voice their concerns over how carbon offsets have been used by polluters as a free pass for inaction,” the UN article said. Niklas Hagelberg, a senior program officer at the Nairobi, Kenya-based UN Environment Programme, said ProPublica’s investigation contributed to the questions raised over offsets, capturing key challenges such as how to accurately monitor trees in protected areas and how to fund livelihoods for forest communities that don’t involve cutting down trees.The UN article addressed all types of offsets, including renewable energy, tree planting and energy efficiency. Hagelberg told ProPublica the main message is that offsets shouldn’t be used as an excuse not to act. Industries use offsets because they are usually cheaper than reducing emissions on site. However, companies should exhaust their own low-cost reductions before buying offsets from another sector, he said. For instance, it costs oil and gas companies very little to cut certain types of methane leaks, he said. “It’s almost like, fix your own house, clean your own room first.” The UN Environment Programme, billed on its website as the “leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda,” says it has been “carbon neutral” since 2008 through a mix of net reductions and offsets such as wind and hydropower projects. The offsets come from the Clean Development Mechanism, implemented under a separate UN office that handles global climate talks. Clean Development Mechanism credits have come under fire for environmental and human rights scandals. The ProPublica investigation noted a 2016 study that found 85% of the offsets had a “low likelihood” of creating real reductions. In an emailed statement, the program’s communications office said it has reduced its reliance on these offsets over time, and these credits are “rigorously managed and controlled.” When selecting offsets, they “take into consideration those which may also have additional social and environmental benefits.”...

https://www.propublica.org/article/united-nations-agency-criticizes-carbon-offsets?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter

California Set to Allow Felons to Serve

on Juries — What Could Go Wrong?

by Warner Todd Huston

{ godfatherpolitics.com } ~ The Left-wing State of California is getting closer to allowing convicted criminals serve on juries. What could go wrong... Everyone knows that there isn’t a single guilty person in prison just ask the inmates, so one has to wonder just how most convicts will vote in a jury! “From the early release of inmates through AB 109, to filling parole boards with felon friendly commissioners, to decriminalizing a litany of felonies and drug offenses with Props 47 and 57, Sacramento lawmakers are bending over backwards to dramatically reduce the state’s inmate population,” the OC Register reported. As the paper’s John Phillips wryly noted, Democrats haven’t freed enough felons, so they are “kicking tires on a new approach — rigging the jury system so no one gets convicted in the first place.” The state legislature has introduced Senate Bill 310, submitted by Berkeley Democrat Sen. Nancy Skinner. In her press release on the bill, Skinner wrote, “SB310 will help ensure that California juries represent a fair cross-section of our communities…People with felony records have the right to vote in California. There is no legitimate reason why they should be barred from serving on a jury.” Naturally, Skinner and her ilk claim that juries are all racists, so this is one way the Democrats are trying to mitigate that supposed racism. Of course, convicts are currently barred from juries because — duh — they have a serious bias against the rule of law. Juries are supposed to make their decisions in an unbiased way, but felons cannot be expected to be unbiased in this instance. But Democrats don’t care about all that...

https://godfatherpolitics.com/california-set-to-allow-felons-to-serve-on-juries-what-could-go-wrong/

JW Videos of the Week

One America News Special Edition of ‘On Watch with Chris Farrell’

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

Tom Fitton’s Video Weekly Update – June 14, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3iF_3qlXjM

Rep. Louie Gohmert Discusses the ‘Immoral, Unethical Efforts’ of Robert Mueller Targeting Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2HEJVBt7JU

California: Rolling Blackouts and Garbage Piles

Political Editors: Over the past two summers, Californians endured some of the worst wildfires in the state’s history. In Northern California, one of these massive wildfires burned millions of acres, consumed an entire town, and killed several people. The cause was blamed on power lines, which has cost power company PG&E billions of dollars, leading it to declare chapter 11 bankruptcy.

So, what solutions does the Golden State present to better combat the problem of wildfires? Rolling blackouts. That’s right — less electricity supplied during the summer months. PG&E explained, “While customers in high fire-threat areas are more likely to be affected by a PSPS [Public Safety Power Shutoff], any of PG&E’s more than 5 million electric customers could have their power shut off because the energy system relies on power lines working together to provide electricity across cities, counties, and regions.” So instead of preventing fires by properly maintaining forests, which environmentalists keep fighting, Californians will endure planned power outages.

Meanwhile, southern California is dealing with a massive trash problem that one would only expect to find in a third-world country. As the New York Post reports, “Rats running everywhere among piles of decaying garbage, these shocking images of a tent city look like a sordid third world shanty — but are actually downtown Los Angeles.” The article further notes that this makeshift trash dump covers “a sprawling 50-block area that is believed to be the base for around 4,200 homeless people.” This problem has Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez asking, “Is it the 21st century in the largest city of a state that ranks among the world’s most robust economies, or did someone turn back the calendar a few hundred years?”

Well, California has been effectively under one-party rule for decades now. Democrats have created this mess of rolling blackouts, increasing numbers of homeless, and a massive garbage problem that is threatening to spread diseases like typhoid across one of the most populous regions of the state. Maybe it’s time Californians voted in conservatives.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63617?mailing_id=4331&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4331&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Saturday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 15, 2019 at 11:54am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Golden State' Offers Free

Health Care for Illegals

Arnold Ahlert

Levin SLAMS liar-Pulosi’s Charge Of POTUS Engaging In ‘CRIMINAL COVER-UP’

by Wayne Dupree

{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ One of the biggest problems I see is that the current Democratic party and their leadership only views the Constitution as an impediment to their agenda... to the degree that they understand it at all. Conservative radio host Mark Levin felt he had to call out Rep. liar-Nancy Pulosi for making the statement that President Trump was involved in a criminal cover-up. Just two weeks ago, she claimed Trump was involved in a cover-up, so now she’s upgraded that charge to “criminal.” liar-Pulosi using the words “criminal cover-up” really puts a stain on things and ups the ante on hate rhetoric toward the Commander-in-Chief. ” As you will see in the video below, he didn’t hold back his feelings when speaking about liar-Pulosi. The one thing about Levin is that he is a very wise political commentator, always referring back to the Constitution and why it made us the greatest country in history. These Dems are the very reason the Constitution is so vitally important. It is a check and balance against them using the power of government to inflict violence on society... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/levin-slams-pelosis-charge-of-potus-engaging-in-criminal-cover-up/?utm_campaign=TMNNews06142019afternoon&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6048267776001/#sp=show-clips

Assad Survives Thanks to Iranian Oil

and Egyptian Consent

by David Adesnik

{ fdd.org } ~ The Trump administration has accomplished something extraordinary: Its aggressive sanctions have taken two million barrels a day of Iranian oil off the market without driving global prices upward... Tehran is also contending with a deep recession and 50% inflation. Sanctions, according to the architects of the Iran nuclear deal, shouldn’t have been this effective. In 2015 Barack scumbag/liar-nObama warned that if the U.S. walked away from his nuclear deal with Iran, “the sanctions system unravels.” Yet the escalating pressure on Iran has an unintended beneficiary: Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Sanctions have driven away paying customers for Iranian oil, so Tehran is employing part of its oil surplus to mitigate Syria’s dire shortages. Five tankers of Iranian crude have arrived at the port of Baniyas since early May, according to commercial satellite imagery from the analysts at Tanker Trackers. Each ship delivers about a million barrels of oil, currently worth more than $60 million. Mr. Assad’s refineries process the crude, turning out gasoline and other products the regime can provide to its armed forces or sell to civilians for cash. This Iranian oil doesn’t return to global markets, but it does fuel Mr. Assad’s atrocities. As part of his latest offensive, the Syrian dictator is again bombing dozens of hospitals and medical facilities, leading President Trump to tweet: “The world is watching this butchery. What is the purpose, what will it get you? STOP!” The president can help stop the butchery by restoring pressure on Syria’s oil supply. Last autumn the U.S. Treasury exposed networks of illicit traders and broadcast a global advisory to the petroleum shipping industry, warning of serious consequences for sanctions violators. Syrian oil supplies dried up rapidly. In the following five months, only a single tanker of Iranian crude arrived at Baniyas. Damascus residents began lining up before dawn to buy cooking gas. The regime cut gasoline rations to one gallon a day. Then, for reasons that are unclear, Iranian tankers began to breach the sanctions wall in May. The most likely scenario is that the Egyptian government allowed Iranian tankers through the Suez Canal, the pivotal bottleneck for any vessel headed to the Eastern Mediterranean from the Persian Gulf...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/06/11/assad-survives-thanks-to-iranian-oil-and-egyptian-consent/

Colorado sued over end-run

around Electoral College

by wnd.com: The state of Colorado is being sued by government watchdog Judicial Watch for refusing to turn over information... disclosing how Colorado’s secretary of state helped the state legislature in its attempted end-run around the Electoral College. The state’s lawmakers voted last winter to allow massive population centers on the East and West coasts to decide where Colorado’s modest number of Electoral College votes would be cast in presidential races. Under the Constitution, the Electoral College gets one vote for each member in the U.S. Congress, there currently being a combined House and Senate total of 538. Thus, it requires 270 votes for a win in a presidential race. But, infuriated by the 2016 election, when Donald Trump easily won in the Electoral College despite scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote, Democrats have been working on upending that constitutional process. Because a constitutional amendment is unlikely to succeed, leftist states have been adopting a “National Popular Vote” concept whereby they pledge their votes to the winner of the national popular vote. For Colorado, this would effectively amount to casting its votes in accordance with the wishes of the tens of millions of voters in California as well as large blocs of voters in New York and other massive coastal population centers, which vote predominantly for Democrats. Judicial Watch said it is suing Colorado under the Colorado Open Records Act on behalf of reporter Todd Shepherd. The action was filed against Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, who has openly endorsed abandonment of the Electoral College... https://www.wnd.com/2019/06/colorado-sued-over-end-run-around-electoral-college/

CAIR Oddly Silent About Hamas-linked

Activist's Deportation Fight

by John Rossomando

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been unusually silent about the attempt to deport Hamas-linked activist Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar... Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents placed Ashqar, 60, on an airplane to Israel last week, but he was able to return to the United States after a federal judge said Ashqar could only be sent to Jordan. Ashqar was sentenced in 2007 to 11 years in prison for obstruction of justice and criminal contempt after he refused to provide immunized grand jury testimony about his knowledge of Hamas activities. He played a leadership role in a Hamas-support network in the United States known as the "Palestine Committee." Ashqar helped organize a 1993 Palestine Committee meeting in Philadelphia that gave rise to CAIR's founding. Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad – who would become CAIR's co-founders the following year, participated in the meeting. Ahmad also helped organize the Philadelphia meeting and even called it to order. CAIR was added to the Palestine Committee's organizational roster as soon as it was formed. Evidence like that prompted the FBI in 2008 to cut off outreach work with CAIR. "Until we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner," an FBI assistant director explained in a letter to U.S. senators. The policy remains in effect. CAIR, thus far, has said nothing about Ashqar's plight, which is surprising for a case involving a Palestinian activist waging a fight against deportation. But a recent Hamas press release suggests the terror group may still consider him one of theirs...

https://www.investigativeproject.org/7945/cair-oddly-silent-about-hamas-linked-activist

Hispanics stick with Trump

despite tough border stance

by David M. Drucker

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump is poised to launch his 2020 reelection as popular with Hispanic voters as other Republicans... bucking predictions that provocative nationalist rhetoric and hard-line border policies would crater his support with this critical bloc. When Trump, four years ago Saturday, descended the escalator to the lobby of his iconic New York skyscraper and announced his first campaign, he riffed that Mexicans "with lots of problems," including rapists, were crossing the southern border. Many Republicans, establishment and otherwise, were mortified. They fretted that nominating Trump, never mind electing him, would permanently doom the GOP with Hispanics. It hasn’t worked out that way. Available polling consistently shows Hispanic support for the president at around 30% — about the same as it has been for many Republican politicians post-George W. Bush and pre-Trump. Indeed, Some party insiders focused on improving Hispanic support for the GOP now contend that he has room to grow with this cohort in next election. “He starts in a much better place for reelection than when he launched his 2016 campaign,” said Daniel Garza, a Bush administration veteran who runs the Libre Initiative, a Koch network group that encourages Hispanics to embrace conservative policies. “One would think immigration would be a major anchor for him, but he’s turned it into at least a push,” he said, suggesting his policies would neither harm nor help the president. That’s quite a turnabout for Garza. Here is what he told the Washington Examiner about Trump in August 2015: “His positions are indefensible. I would actually rise up against him.” In 2016, Trump captured 28% of the Hispanic vote, according to national exit polls. That was virtually identical to the 27% of Hispanics that Republican nominee Mitt Romney won four years earlier. In the midterm elections, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, garnered 35% of the Hispanic vote, according to statewide exit polling. That figure was in line with how Republicans have performed in Texas recently...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/hispanics-like-trump-the-same-as-other-republicans-despite-tough-border-stance?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_06/14/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

Golden State' Offers Free Health Care

for Illegals

Arnold Ahlert: What does one do when one’s state is overwhelmed by homelessness, to the point where one of its largest cities is forced to hire a “poop patrol” to remove piles of human waste from its streets? If you’re California Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom and the Democrat-controlled state legislature, you double-down: California will become the first state in the nation to offer full health care benefits … to illegal aliens.

As part of a proposed $213 billion state budget, California will dedicate $98 million to make approximately 100,000 illegals from ages 19 to 25 eligible for Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. The law would take effect in January 2020. It follows months of negotiations between scumbag-Newsom and the Legislature, which faces a June 15 deadline to pass the budget. If it does, that budget will begin taking effect in July.

“California believes that health is a fundamental right,” asserted state Sen. Holly Mitchell, a Democrat from Los Angeles who led the budget negotiations. Anthony Wright, executive director of advocacy group Health Access, agrees. “While it’s not all we sought, it will provide a real tangible difference for people, especially for those around and below poverty and for middle income families who don’t get any help under the federal law,” he said.

To help pay for it, California will begin fining citizens who don’t have health insurance — as in reviving the individual mandate penalty that existed under scumbag/liar-nObamaCare. That mandate was eliminated by the Republican-controlled Congress in 2017, when they overhauled the tax code. Lawmakers insist the mandate will fund insurance-premium subsidies for middle-income Californians, but they still added another $450 million over three years to the subsidy pie, because some of those lawmakers argued the mandate alone wouldn’t make health insurance affordable.

That the individual mandate, along with the rest of scumbag/liar-nObamaCare’s anti-free-market penalties and regulations drove insurance premiums through the roof? Progressives never let basic economic realities — or their wholly owned failures — get in the way of “compassion.”

Yet their compassion is rather suspect. scumbag-Newsom rejected a plan proposed by the state Senate to cover illegals 65 and older, because it would have been unaffordable.

The California Immigrant Policy Center wasn’t pleased. “The exclusion of undocumented elders from the same health care their U.S. citizen neighbors are eligible for means beloved community members will suffer and die from treatable conditions,” the advocacy group declared in a statement.

By contrast, Wright remained optimistic, tweeting, “We will continue to pursue steps towards the Governor’s & Legislature’s shared goal of getting to universal coverage in the next few years.”

Really? In 2017, the state’s Senate Appropriations Committee analysis concluded it would cost $400 billion — as in nearly twice the state’s currently proposed budget — to provide single-payer coverage. The state’s share of that cost was pegged at approximately $200 billion, based on the assumption it would retain the existing $200 billion in local, state, and federal funding it was receiving. And like this latest gambit, it would have included coverage of illegal aliens.

Not everyone is on board with this latest effort. As the Associated Press noted, the Republicans on the legislative committee “voted against the proposal, arguing it was not fair to give health benefits to people who are in the country illegally while taxing people who are here legally for not purchasing health insurance.”

Yet in a de facto one-party state like California, Republicans are virtually irrelevant.

Washington, DC? One suspects the Trump administration, already trying to stem the flood illegals pouring into this nation, would hardly be willing to fully fund a plan that further incentivizes them to do so.

Regardless, it seems progressives who run California are incapable of understanding the implications of such incentivization. Columnist Monica Showalter is not. “As if that $98 million is really going to cover [the plan’s costs] as migrants from Central America and beyond surge into the U.S. in record numbers, and five million from Latin America alone [are] planning to enter the U.S. with or without papers,” she writes. “California, remember, was quite convinced $39 billion would cover the cost of its famed bullet train up and down the state in 2008. The price tag now, with just a tiny portion of it out in the Central Valley to be built? $98 billion.”

California legislators also believe most people won’t see the political gamesmanship in play here. Columnist Sammy Caiola gives one a hint. “In a pie chart of California’s undocumented population, seniors make up only a sliver,” he explains.

Yet as mentioned above, covering them would be unaffordable — because they need health care the most. By contrast, illegals between the ages of 19 and 25, like their American counterparts, are the demographic that needs health care the least.

In other words, this effort reeks of political opportunism, based on three ideas. One, it is far more likely young illegals will live long enough to get some sort of “pathway to citizenship” or amnesty than older, or elderly, illegals. Two, providing them with “free” health insurance grooms them to embrace socialism.

Number three? “In a stance to distance itself from President Trump’s administration, California is set to become the first state in the country to pay for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to have full health benefits,” Fox News reports. “The move continues to stake California’s position as a bulwark against the policies of Republican President Donald Trump,” the Huffington Post echoed.

In other words, California Democrats are determined to make their state the epicenter of “The Resistance.”

At what price? As Showalter notes, California’s current illegal population “stands at a quarter of the nation’s count.”

After this bill passes? Maybe the question to ask is not whether California will be the first state in the nation to brazenly reward wholesale law-breaking at the expense of its own citizens, but whether it will be the first state in the nation where the illegal population ultimately exceeds the number of citizens.

Such a scenario may not be that far off. According to a survey by Edelman Intelligence, 53% of Californians are already considering moving out, due to the state’s steadily increasing cost of living. For the Millennial generation, the number jumps to 63%.

“There have been other signs of the California exodus,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported last February. “In December, it was revealed that one of the most frequently Googled questions in California last year was ‘Should I move out?’”

After this bill passes, it might be more apropos to wonder how many illegals will be asking themselves “how soon can I move in?”

Maybe that question has already been answered. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection website reveals that family unit apprehensions at the state’s San Diego and El Centro border sectors have seen a staggering 611% and 345% increase, respectively.

How many others slipped through? Moreover, what will California do if 100,000 eligible illegals becomes 200,000? Or 300,000?

Only a Democrat Party dedicated to the “fundamental transformation of the United States” knows for sure. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63619?mailing_id=4331&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4331&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103H)

Posted by Jake Martinez on June 15, 2019 at 7:30am

Please Read Part 103G:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103G)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On June 1, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103g

The following thought-provoking article revealed that Rep. Meadows recently stated that 'whistle blowers are allegedly currently coming forward and indictments are on the way'-You Decide:

Rep. Meadows: Whistleblowers Now Coming Forward; Indictments on the Way!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On June 13, 2019:

(CNSNews.com) - As House Democrats try to redo the Mueller investigation, Republicans are focused on the origins of that investigation -- what prompted the FBI to launch a counter intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told Fox News Wednesday night that whistleblowers are starting to talk -- and he thinks indictments are coming.

Meadows spoke on the same day the Democrat-led House intelligence committee held a hearing titled, “Lessons from the Mueller Report."

The hearing was called to "explore the significant counterintelligence threats to the U.S. democratic system posed by the numerous links and contacts between members of the Trump campaign, transition and administration, and Russia and its proxies, as documented in Volume I of Mueller’s Report."

Fox News's Sean Hannity asked Meadows and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) if U.S. intelligence officials outsourced spying on the Trump campaign to foreign allies.

Nunes, the ranking member of the iintelligence committee, said, "We don't know yet," but that's what Attorney General William Barr and Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham are trying to find out. "We have a right to know what countries were involved in this," he added.

Meadows told Hannity:

We’re getting a lot of whistle-blowers, primarily whistle-blowers are coming forward because they believe Attorney General Bill Barr and John Durham are willing to get to the bottom of it.

So people that perhaps were afraid under previous leadership to actually say, well, we knew this was wrong, they’re coming forward now.

And when we look at intelligence, we know the intelligence community shares a lot of information. What we also know…is that the Steele dossier, Christopher Steele, his dossier -- not only does it have his origins with Fusion GPS and the Democrat National Committee, but other players that are connected -- Sidney Blumenthal -- and they were shopping it to every media outlet that they possibly could and the FBI knew it.

That’s the problem, the FBI knew it prior to that first FISA and here they are using it as credible information for a FISA application? I just think that that's totally wrong.

Hannity asked both men where they see the investigation going, and who should be worried:

“People need to go to jail, people need to be held accountable and I believe indictments are on their way," Meadows said.

Nunes said former FBI agents involved in text messages should be concerned, as should "the dirty operations arms of the Clinton campaign."

Source Link:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/rep-meadows-whistleblowers-now-coming-forward-indictments-way

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the following recent articles and videos relates to and/or further supports the information revealed in the above thought-provoking article-You Decide:

McCabe: Some FBI Employees “Frustrated” Clinton Wasn’t Charged in Email Scandal!-Posted on Bongino.com-By Team Bongino-On June 14, 2019:

Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe admitted in his 2017 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee that some FBI employees were “frustrated” and “surprised” that James Comey did not charge Hillary Clinton in the criminal investigation into her private email server.

Breitbart reports:

The claim that some FBI rank-and-file workers lost confidence in Comey following his infamous press conference announcing that no charges would be brought has been in dispute.

Yet in largely unreported testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on December 21, 2017, McCabe confirmed that some FBI personnel were “surprised” and “frustrated” with the result of the Clinton email case as announced by Comey. A transcript of McCabe’s testimony was released three weeks ago by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins, R-Ga.

According to his testimony, McCabe said that while he was unaware of any negative sentiments from the team investigating the email scandal regarding the outcome, he

In his testimony, McCabe said, “..I am aware that the outcome of the case was surprising, and maybe frustrating to many people, including some of the people who work for the FBI.”

“I think, like many people around the country, they were surprised by the result in the case and the fact that we were not recommending pursuing charges,” he said.

“When I say surprise,” he added, “I’m talking about people who heard the Director’s statement on July 5 and were frustrated with that result, not people who were engaged in the investigation or the prosecutors across the street at the Department of Justice.”

McCabe was asked his opinion of Rudy Giuliani’s comments that he had heard from other former bureau agents “there’s a revolution going on” inside the FBI.

“I am not aware of a revolution,” he responded.

“As I said, there was certainly FBI personnel who were surprised and maybe frustrated by that result,” McCabe said. “Director Comey spent a lot of time, in the months following his announcement, you know, in visits to field offices and interactions with retired agents’ groups, and things like that, answering a lot of questions about why we had done what we had done.”

For the full report, click HERE.

Source Link:

https://bongino.com/mccabe-some-fbi-employees-frustrated-clinton-wasnt-charged-in-email-scandal/

Papadopoulos: Australia “Willfully Trying to Sabotage Donald Trump” in 2016: Says Transcripts Will Reveal “Fake Story!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 15, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/06/15/papadopoulos-australia-willfully-trying-to-sabotage-donald-trump-in-2016/

Video: Ep. 1000 It’s Bigger Than We Thought. The Dan Bongino Show 6/12/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On June 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCDvG17AYGE

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 6/12/19 [Full] Fox News Today June 12, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 12, 2019:

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

Video: Sean Hannity 6/12/19 [Full] Hannity June 12, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wju4WoOwuMo

The Worst Corruption Has Yet to be Exposed!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 13, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/06/13/the-worst-corruption-has-yet-to-be-exposed/

What Did the FBI Do in 2016?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 13, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/06/13/what-did-the-fbi-do-in-2016/

Comey denounces Barr after CBS interview: 'An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories'

Hannity Predicts Comey Will be “Held Responsible” for Actions Against Flynn!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 12, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/06/12/hannity-predicts-comey-will-be-held-responsible-for-actions-against-flynn/

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DOJ to interview CIA officers on Russian interference conclusions: Report!-Posted on The Hill-By Zack Budryk-On June 12, 2019:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/448286-doj-to-interview-cia-officers-on-russian-interference-conclusions

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 10: Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan arrives to testify before the Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. The intelligence heads testified to the committee about cyber threats to the United States and …

CNN Reporter: CIA ‘Operates in Their Own World,’ You Don’t Investigate Them!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joshua Caplan-On June 13, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/06/13/cnn-reporter-cia-operates-in-their-own-world-you-dont-investigate-them/

Video: The Ingraham Angle [Full] 6/12/19 | Breaking Fox News June 12, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By URGENT TRUMP-On June 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5HiBGvP6P8

Video: Ep. 1001 Trump’s Interview Has Liberals Howling. The Dan Bongino Show 6/13/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On June 13, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyaXI55wLoI

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 6/13/19 [Full] | Breaking Fox News June 13, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 13, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X10Kcpnjvfo

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 6/13/19 [Full] Fox News Today June 13, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 13, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2CiARSNNY

Video: Sean Hannity 6/13/19 [Full] Hannity June 13, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 13, 2019:

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

What Did Mueller’s Team Learn from Christopher Steele?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 14, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/06/14/what-did-muellers-team-learn-from-christopher-steele/

Video: The Ingraham Angle [Full] 6/13/19 | Breaking Fox News June 13, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Tucker Carlson Tonight-On June 13, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vyTz-tzDKY

Video: Greg Hunter - Weekly News Wrap-Up!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Greg Hunter-On June 13, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G3Z3bHIdJg

Video: Ep. 1002 Don’t Let Them Get Away With This. The Dan Bongino Show 6/14/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On June 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6t10VETic

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 6/14/19 [Full] Fox News Today June 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz4wQ0zwmjU

Video: Sean Hannity 6/14/19 [Full] Hannity June 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVHn-iQ-lY

Video: The Ingraham Angle [Full] 6/14/19 | Breaking Fox News June 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggO--x0gqms

Video: Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update-Topics: The REAL Collusion Scandal; Obama State Dept. Launders Steele Dossier; & More!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On June 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3iF_3qlXjM

Obama State At Center of Anti-Trump Coup Cabal!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On June 14, 2019:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/obama-state-at-center-of-anti-trump-coup-cabal/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tipsheet&utm_term=members&utm_content=20190617163737

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Kerry State Department Promoted Steele Dossier and Russia Collusion Fantasy: “Let’s do a movie about this!”-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274002/kerry-state-department-promoted-steele-dossier-and-lloyd-billingsley

Newt: 'Virtually Impossible' Obama Didn't Know About Trump Probe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Sandy Fitzgerald–On June 17, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fisa-abuse-warrant-investigation/2019/06/17/id/920730/

Mueller Led the FBI When Obama Forgeries Produced: How Muc of A “Straight Shooter” Can He Be?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 15, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/06/15/mueller-led-the-fbi-when-obama-forgeries-produced/

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Video: Dr. Jerome Corsi Discusses His Book "Silent No More"!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Freedom Watch-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2JNUHUSBC4

Video: Justice With Judge Jeanine [Full] 6/15/19 | Breaking Fox News June 15, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By The Five-On June 15, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPaMZjgI83g

Graham changes tune on listening to information from foreign sources: ‘Talking to people is not a crime’!-Posted on Daily Christian News-By Ben Marquis-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.dailychristiannews.com/graham-information-foreign-sources/

Buttigieg: Pursuing Legal Action Against Trump ‘Shouldn't Be Ordered Up By the President’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Millward-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/craig-millward/buttigieg-pursuing-legal-action-against-trump-shouldnt-be-ordered

Video: Ep. 1003 The Whole Case Falls Apart. The Dan Bongino Show 6/17/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jES6z3jWBc4

US Govt's Entire Russia-DNC Hacking Narrative Based On Redacted Draft Of Crowdstrike Report!-Posted on Zero Hedge-By Tyler Durden-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-16/us-governments-entire-russia-dnc-hacking-narrative-based-redacted-draft-crowdstrike?utm_source=DurdenDispatch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=jun-17

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Reports: 15 People Broke State Dept. Rules in Handling Clinton's Emails!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Cathy Burke-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-state-department/2019/06/17/id/920798/#ixzz5rCkI9zeH

Candidate Hillary Clinton

Republicans press for hearing on Hillary Clinton emails review that found 30 security incidents!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Daniel Chaitin-On June 18, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/republicans-press-for-hearing-on-hillary-clinton-emails-review-that-found-30-security-incidents

Someone from the Clinton Email Investigation is Lying, but Who?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 18, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/06/18/someone-from-the-clinton-email-investigation-is-lying-but-who/

Former FBI Chief of Staff Admits Discussions about Alleged Clinton “Special Treatment!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 19, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/06/19/former-fbi-chief-of-staff-admits-discussions-about-alleged-clinton-special-treatment/

Diana Caldon, from left, Eddie Hamilton and Stephanie Smith celebrate at an election night watch party hosted by the Nevada GOP as Donald Trump wins the presidency Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill) Diana Caldon, right, embraces Stephanie Smith in celebration at an election night watch …

Movement Re-Engages for Donald Trump Re-Election: Watch Parties Planned Nationwide for President’s Campaign Launch!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Matthew Boyle-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/17/movement-re-engages-for-donald-trump-re-election-watch-parties-planned-nationwide-for-presidents-campaign-launch/

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Biden Suggests Starting ‘Physical Revolution’ To Deal With Republicans!-Posted on The Daily Wire-By Ryan Saavedra/@realsaavedra-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/48516/biden-suggests-starting-physical-revolution-deal-ryan-saavedra

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 6/17/19 [Full] | Breaking Fox News June 17, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By URGENT TRUMP BREAKING-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doJ3vcMX0TE

Video: Sean Hannity 6/17/19 [Full] Hannity June 17, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News Live Nows-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG5pMe7NRHA

Video: The Ingraham Angle [Full] 6/17/19 | Breaking Fox News June 17, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 17, 2019:

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

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5 Times Democrats Actually Tried to Get Foreign Opposition Research on Trump!-Posted on Rusty | Featured Contributor-On June 17, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/5-times-democrats-actually-tried-to-get-foreign-opposition-research-on-trump/

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Rush Limbaugh Went on the Air and Said One Thing That Trump Wanted to Keep Secret!-Posted on Great American Daily-On June 18, 2019:

https://greatamericandaily.com/rush-limbaugh-trump-secret/

Video: Ep. 1004 The Left Can’t Make Up Its Mind. The Dan Bongino Show 6/18/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On June 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF94g-bOf90

Church Silent When POW/MIA Flag At County Vietnam Veterans Memorial Was Replaced With LGBTQ Flag!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Dennis Kelly-On June 18, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/church-silent-when-pow-mia-flag-at-county-vietnam-veterans-memorial-was-replaced-with-lgbtq-flag/

Video: Barry Sneaks Around Italy Today As Trump Implicates Him & Misfud Outed As CIA Controlled Italian Spy!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Black Conservative Patriot-On June 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTwT3aNB4Lg

Video: President Trump Exposes The Deep State Fraud!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Operation Freedom-On June 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14rbZx_2ZCI

Video: TRUMP holds 'MAGA' rally in Orlando to kick off 2020 campaign June 18, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4NhmazPPYo

Video: What Trump Just Said At Re-Election Rally Is Supported By These Docs That Were Just Declass’d Today!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Black Conservative Patriot-On June 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uheR_308Y9Q

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 6/18/19 [Full] | Breaking Fox News June 18, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By URGENT TRUMP BREAKING-On June 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWEu0Vwd3j4

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 6/18/19: TRUMP MAGA in Orlando 8PM!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 18, 2019:

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

Video: Sean Hannity 6/18/19 [Full] Hannity June 18, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News Shows-On June 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41I3t4ydwDI

Video: The Ingraham Angle [Full] 6/18/19 | Breaking Fox News June 18, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox Newst-On June 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bFtl3SgaFg

Communism Can’t Happen In America, Or Can It?-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Karen Schoen-On June 19, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/communism-cant-happen-in-america-or-can-it/

Video: Ep. 1005 It Begins! The Dan Bongino Show 6/19/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On June 19, 2019:

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

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 6/19/19 [Full] | Breaking Fox News June 19, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 19, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ooa1Q6qXM4

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 6/19/19 [Full] Fox News Today June 19, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 19, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDsUGAadAI4

Video: Sean Hannity 6/19/19 [Full] Hannity June 19, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 19, 2019:

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

Robert Mueller appears before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Byron York: Now, word of a mysterious third 'scope memo' for Robert Mueller!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Byron York-On June 19, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-now-word-of-a-mysterious-third-scope-memo-for-robert-mueller

'Everyone I Don't Like Is Hitler': Totalitarian leftists keep wrongly throwing around the "Nazi" label over any disagreement!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nat e Jackson-On June 20, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63775-everyone-i-dont-like-is-hitler?mailing_id=4348&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4348&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

General Flynn Hires Firebrand Attorney Sidney Powell!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Kelleigh Nelson-On June 20, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/general-flynn-hires-firebrand-attorney-sidney-powell/

Video: Ep. 1006 And the Worst Person of the Week is… The Dan Bongino Show 6/20/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On June 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXdxCEO9PUI

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 6/20/19 [Full] | Breaking Fox News June 20, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSzvlZ4AAnk

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 6/20/19 [Full] Fox News Today June 20, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU7ir_uX618

Video HANNITY 6/20/19 : Sean Hannity & Mark Levin Talk Show!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH1QEYK76Jg

Lisa Page and Peter Strzok-062019

Emails show Strzok-Page spat after word got out grand jury used in Clinton emails investigation!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Daniel Chaitin-On June 20, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/emails-show-peter-strzok-lisa-page-spat-after-word-got-out-grand-jury-used-in-hillary-clinton-emails-investigation

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Nunes claims second Mueller scope memo based on Steele dossier!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Jerry Dunleavy-On June 20, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-claims-second-mueller-scope-memo-based-on-steele-dossier

Video: The Ingraham Angle [Full] 6/20/19 | Breaking Fox News June 20, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Live Fox News-On June 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcCDFiTT1ys

Video: Ep. 1007 This is a Big Problem. The Dan Bongino Show 6/21/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On June 21, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkLVwdAS_A0

Please Read Part 103J:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103J)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On June 23, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103j

Please Read Part 104:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 104)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 16, 2019:

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

Note: I also believe that the extremely disturbing information revealed in the above articles and videos relates to and/or further supports my following blogs from the recent past-You Decide:

Letter to NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (Re: Mueller Report)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 27, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-nm-u-s-senator-martin-heinrich-re-mueller-report

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 91)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-91

CIA Assessment Concludes Putin Was Trying to Help Trump Win White House!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 10, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cia-assessment-concludes-putin-was-trying-to-help-trump-win-white

Obama is the Manifestation of a Multi-Generational Soviet Plot to Destroy America!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 2, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-is-the-manifestati...

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 3, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven't-been-told...

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

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-commun...

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2013:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-radica...

When A U.S. President IS Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 17, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/when-a-u-s-president-is-...

White Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Weather Underground, Barack Obama, and the Fundamental Transformation of the United States!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 28, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/white-reds-exploiting-bl...

Communists and Muslims: The Hidden Hand of the KGB!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 29, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPos...

Was Obama’s Real Job to Destroy America’s Moral & Ethical Foundations?-Posted on The Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 24, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-s-real-job-to-destroy-america-s-moral-ethical

New EPA Land Grab, Complete Control Over All Private Land in America! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 11, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-epa-land-grab-comple...

Greatest Fraud Perpetrated In American History!-Posted on WordPress.com-On June 20, 2011:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpet...

Investigators Find That Obama's Online Birth Certificate Presented To The American Public Is 'Fake'!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 15, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/investigators-find-sourc...

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!–Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 25, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

Follow-up Letter to NM Governor Martinez Requesting The Removal of President Obama From The NM 2012 Presidential Election Ballot!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on July 26, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-g...

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Congressman Martin Heinrich Regarding My Request For Full-scale Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arapio’s Cold Case Posse!–Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 26, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

CIA-Columbia Cover Up!-Posted on WordPress.com-On April 28, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/cia-columbia-obama-cover-up/

Why did a black preacher from Harlem have a 'hit' placed on his life?-Posted on WordPress.com-On October 19, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.cooinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/why-has-a-black-preacher-from-harlem...

Was Obama Pre-selected & Groomed To Be Our U.S. President & Take Down America to Usher In The NWO Due To His CIA, Communist and Muslim Connections & Influences?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 16, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-selected-groom...

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

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...

Obama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 17, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-...

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

Not Since JFK, Has a President Spit Into the Face of the Globalists, Until Now!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 21, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-since-jfk-has-a-pres...

Brainwashing in America: "WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 21, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

Is America being turned into a NARCO Nation by design?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/is-america-being-turned-...

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

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-governo...

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

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

The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-msm-conglomerates-ar...

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

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

Note: The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

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

The Fightin Side of Me!

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

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

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

“Food for Thought”

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

Saturday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 15, 2019 at 7:16am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

commie-Sanders's Socialist Snake Oil

Nate Jackson

The External Roots of Spygate

by Leo Goldstein

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Over the past three years, the MSM has done a thorough job brainwashing its captive audience into believing that Putin preferred, supported, or even colluded with Trump in the 2016 elections... Not only was this untrue, but even the idea of such a preference, much less collusion, was ridiculous in the U.S. in the spring of 2016. Russia was our ally in the fight against terror, and CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan visited FSB head Gennadiy Bortnikov in Moscow in March 2016. Not Trump, but the Democratic party and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton personally were the perfect fit for Putin. scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton started her tenure as Secretary of State by implementing a “reset” with Russia in 2009. During 2012, Russia joined the World Trade Organization, and the West bought from it hot air carbon credits. Later that year, scumbag/liar-nObama was caught on mic promising Medvedev that he would become even more accommodating towards Russia after the election. scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama sold Uranium One to Russia, organized the transfer of dual-use technology in Skolkovo, and allied themselves with Russian-funded groups against fracking and pipelines in the U.S. Allegations that Putin had a personal grudge against scumbag/liar-Hillary, and kept it for five years, are just laughable. Trump conducted a Miss Universe pageant in Russia in 2013, and that was all. As a presidential candidate, he promised a U.S. military buildup, and he said the U.S. should shoot down Russian interceptors that were reportedly harassing U.S. military planes in international airspace, after appropriate diplomatic steps. The ideation of a Putin-Trump association and of Russian interference on Trump’s behalf came from Western Europe. People of Germany, Britain, and other EU states were dissatisfied with policies robbing them of their sovereignty. European politicians wanted to crush dissent, and Russia and Putin became a convenient boogeyman. The government of Angela Merkel blamed Russia for public protests. This is how scumbag/liar-nObama advisor Ben Rhodes illustrated this attitude in his book The World as It Is: In Germany, Merkel’s spokesperson told me about how fake news impacted their politics... A rape, for instance, caused a huge outcry in a community. For days, there were protests, political fallout. ... “And we trace the story, and it started with a social media user with a German-sounding name, but something is not exactly right. The name is a little off. And the server, it is not German… Russians...” Later, scumbag-James Clapper expressed a similar sentiment, saying that the Russians are “almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever.” Peter Strzok and Lisa Page exchanged comparable texts immediately before officially launching Crossfire Hurricane. Rhodes’ quote continues: I thought about all the made-up stories about scumbag/liar-Hillary -- her ill health, her corruption, her crimes. Sorry for making you laugh amid such a serious matter. Apparently, the hysteria about alleged Russian internet operations was based on a small study of coordinated political trolling in Latvia. The study didn’t include Germany, Britain, or any other large European country, and its conclusions are inapplicable to them. But the study is clear on one point: …the influence of pro-Russian trolling on leading US media outlets demonstrated the opposite outcome to that expected...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/the_external_roots_of_spygate.html

Trump clarifies comments on foreign ‘dirt,’

says heat should be on Dems for 2016 spying

by Adam Shaw

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump on Friday sought to clarify his controversial comments indicating he would take information on political rivals from foreign countries... saying on "Fox & Friends" that he could report such conversations to the FBI -- while arguing the heat should really be on Democrats for the alleged spying on his 2016 campaign. "If I was, and of course you have to look at it because if you don't look at it you're not going to know if it's bad ... of course you give it to the FBI or report it to the attorney general or somebody like that. But of course you’d do that, you couldn't have that happen with our country," he said. Trump had said in an interview with ABC News earlier this week that he would listen to information from foreign governments, saying that "there isn't anything wrong with listening." He also gave conflicting answers on whether he'd contact the FBI, saying at one point that he would not. On Friday, he seemed to say he'd report it to the FBI, at least if he sensed something was wrong. "If I thought anything was incorrect or badly stated, I'd report it to the attorney general, the FBI, I'd report it to law enforcement absolutely." But he also noted he is in constant contact with allies, such as during his recent trip to Europe where he spoke to Queen Elizabeth II, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron. “We have many conversations, and I'm thinking gee if they say ‘we don’t like your opponent’ am I supposed to, the president of France, am I supposed to report him to the FBI?” he asked. Instead, he sought to bring attention back to the origins of the Russia probe, particularly the Democrat-funded anti-Trump dossier that was used by the FBI to begin surveillance on a Trump campaign aide. The Department of Justice is currently investigating its surveillance during the 2016 campaign, but Trump directly blamed the Democrats. "Here's the bottom line: they spied on my campaign and they got caught," he said. Saying the actions could constitute the biggest political crime in American history, he said: “They spied on the opposing party's campaign using the intelligence apparatus of the United States.”... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-iran-attack

VIDDO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6048292136001/#sp=show-clips

Democrats: The 'Post-Truth' Party

by Trevor Thomas

{ americanthinker.com } ~ In September of 2008, U.S. senator, vice presidential candidate, and Democrat loose lips liar-Joe Biden was asked his thoughts — "as a Roman Catholic" — on when life begins... Demonstrating a vast ignorance of science, along with an unflattering display of faith, he told NBC's Tom Brokaw, "Look, I know when it begins for me." A decade later, using the same "post-truth" relativism, New York mayor, presidential candidate, and Democrat scumbag-Bill de Blasio, after signing a law that allows New Yorkers to declare their chosen sex on their birth certificates, told a cheering crowd, "You be you. Live your truth. And know that New York City will have your back." Likewise, biology-denying loose lips liar-Joe Biden, more than once, has recently called "transgender equality" the "civil rights issue of our time." Recall that because of his efforts and the efforts of other post-truthers in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, among other perverse, "creepy," and ignorant things, boys started using girls' restrooms and locker rooms, and military women were declared "at least as strong as men" and officially marked for combat. Soon afterward, boys started — and continue — to take trophies from girls, and military physical standards were lowered. Also recall that loose lips liar-Joe Biden beat his buddy Barack scumbag/liar-nObama to the punch when it came time for Democrats legally to redefine the oldest institution in the history of humanity. I don't mean to pick mostly on "Uncle loose lips liar-Joe," but since he is the current frontrunner in the Democrats' race to see who can deny the most truth the fastest — and become the presidential nominee for the post-truth party — I thought it fitting to highlight his post-truth accomplishments. loose lips liar-Biden is far from alone in such thinking. Virtually every Democrat in America shares loose lips liar-Biden's post-truth views on life, marriage, sex, biology, the climate, and so on. Thus, no one should be surprised that loose lips liar-Joe Biden has now flip-flopped on the Hyde Amendment. In addition to subsidizing abortion through the federal funding of Planned Parenthood, this new position by loose lips liar-Biden would force further taxpayer investment in the killing of unborn human beings. This is where the Democratic Party now is in 2019, because moral capitulation is where post-truth thinking always leads...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/democrats_the_posttruth_party.html
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US Navy Plane Captures Damning Footage

of Iranians Removing Sabotage Evidence

by Shaun Hair

{westernjournal.com} ~ The U.S. Navy has released footage that purports to show Iranian forces in an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a branch of Iran’s armed forces Gashti-class patrol boat removing an unexploded mine... from the M/T Kokuka Courageous while it was in the Gulf of Oman. Hours before, an explosion on the Courageous forced Navy destroyer to rescue the 21 crew members. They abandoned the ship when they saw what appeared to be a “probable unexploded limpet mine on their hull” after the initial explosion, according to a report from U.S. CENCTCOM. Initially, the Navy had received “two separate distress calls at 6:12 a.m. local time from the motor tanker (M/T) Altair and a second one at 7 a.m. local time from the M/T Kokuka Courageous. Both vessels were in international waters in the Gulf of Oman approximately 10 nautical miles apart at the time of the distress calls. USS Bainbridge was approximately 40 nautical miles away from the M/T Altair at the time of the attack, and immediately began closing the distance.” Shortly after that time, U.S. aircraft observed several IRGC boats in the vicinity of the Altair. Several hours later, after the crew had abandon the ship and been rescued, “an IRGC Gashti Class patrol boat approached the M/T Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the M/T Kokuka Courageous,” U.S CENTCOM reported.The response to the attacks could not have been more clear. “The U.S. and our partners in the region will take all necessary measures to defend ourselves and our interests,” U.S. CENTCOM stated. “Today’s attacks are a clear threat to international freedom of navigation and freedom of commerce.” “The U.S. and the international community stand ready to defend our interests, including the freedom of navigation. The United States has no interest in engaging in a new conflict in the Middle East. However, we will defend our interests.”After assessing the attacks, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a statement where he asserted, “It is the assessment of the U.S. government that Iran is responsible for today’s attacks in the Gulf of Oman” Iran told the UN on Thursday that it “categorically rejects the U.S. unfounded claim” that it was involved in the latest attacks in the Gulf of Oman.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/us-navy-plane-captures-damning-footage-iranians-removing-sabotage-evidence/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune

US Army War College Surrenders to CAIR

by Raymond Ibrahim

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The U.S. Army War College (USAWC) has just surrendered to the demands of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) -- an “unindicted co-conspirator,” to quote the U.S. Dept. of Justice... in the largest terror funding case in American history. The June 19, 2019 planned lecture on my book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks was canceled due to a CAIR-induced hysteria that focused on presenting me -- a native Arabic speaker of Egyptian/Middle Eastern descent -- as a “racist” and “white nationalist” who is out to incite American soldiers to murder Muslims. Although the USAWC claims that the event has been “postponed” -- and that CAIR’s smear campaign has nothing to do with its decision -- what really happened, along with the troubling lessons learned along the way, follow: On January 4, 2019, I received an email, portions of which follow: Mr. Ibrahim: On behalf of the Director and Staff of the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC), I am honored to invite you to speak as part of the USAHEC's 2019 Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series… We would like you to speak about your new book, “Sword and Scimitar.” The Perspectives series attracts a wide audience including the U.S. Army War College students, faculty, and staff, ROTC cadets, Soldiers from regional military bases, university students and faculty, and the general public. “On a personal note,” the author of the email added, “I think your new book, and a lecture based on it, will resound very well with the primary audience of our lecture programs -- the students and faculty of the U.S. Army War College.” After I accepted the invitation, my USAWC contact reiterated: “I am excited to book you, I think your topic will be perfect for my audience.” Aside from a few more exchanges on dates and logistics, that was that -- until CAIR got wind of the event...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/us_army_war_college_surrenders_to_cair.html

commie-Sanders's Socialist Snake Oil

Nate Jackson: commie-Bernie Sanders gave what he billed as a big speech Wednesday extolling the “virtues” of democratic socialism. As Mark Alexander wrote on the centennial of the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 2017, “Between 1917 and 1991, there were almost 150 million civilian casualties of communist dictatorships.” But not to worry; commie-Bernie says they’ve all just been doing it wrong and we should trust him to get socialism right.

Given the rising popularity of whatever Americans think socialism means, particularly among young people, Patriots should absolutely take commie-Sanders seriously. Either he will prevail as the Democrat nominee or he will continue to drive the entire Democrat Party further toward socialism. His “Medicare for All” proposal, for example, set the bar for the Democrat platform.

On that theme, commie-Sanders lauded the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights — with the notable exception of the right to keep and bear arms — but utterly corrupted the word “rights” to include a laundry list of “free” stuff he wants to buy with your money. He calls it “a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights,” and he argues “you are not free” without free stuff.

Invoking Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson to argue that Americans have long supported socialism, commie-Sanders asserted, “We must take on the unfinished business of the New Deal and carry it to completion.” But Democrats’ “Better Deal” is just Marxist socialism repackaged.

commie-Sanders, the man who spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union, called for “political revolution” — which just happens to be the same thing the murderous Bolsheviks foisted on Russia in 1917. At the same time, he decried “massive attacks from those who attempt to use the word ‘socialism’ as a slur.” Heaven forbid we call it what it is.

It was particularly ironic that in the same week commie-Sanders gave his speech, two stories came out of socialist Venezuela that should serve as a warning: Gas shortages and sky-high food prices go along with the Reuters report that “Venezuela’s annual inflation dropped below 1 million percent in May for the first time since 2018.”

Remember the heady days of 2013 when commie-Bernie’s speechwriter, David Sirota, wrote an op-ed titled, “Hugo Chávez’s Economic Miracle”? Sanders would prefer you didn’t recall that, much less his own history of embracing socialist thugs. Maybe it’s just a “slur” to point it out.

What is actually a slur? Sanders arguing that the rise of the National Socialists in 1930s Germany was somehow “right wing” and akin to President Donald Trump’s brand of “America First” populism, which he labels “the forces of oligarchy and authoritarianism.”

commie-Sanders, the man who parlayed capitalism into a multimillion-dollar fortune and multiple homes all while selling socialism, attempted to distinguish himself from Trump. The president, he says, “believes in corporate socialism for the rich and powerful,” while Sanders fights for “a democratic socialism that works for the working families of this country.” Does he put his own money where his mouth is? No, he hypocritically pays lower tax rates because he only wants to be “generous” with your money.

On a final note, it is a particular affront to Liberty that commie-Sanders gave his socialist sermon at George Washington University, named for our Patriot Founding Father who led the battle against tyranny that American might be free. ~The Patriot Post

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1PaKR-PaXg

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63629?mailing_id=4331&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4331&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 14, 2019 at 4:44pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

loose lips liar-Biden's Surrender to

Pro-Abortion Radicals Has Damaged

His 2020 Prospects
Marc A. Thiessen

Did You Know the Plan to

Destroy the Beef Industry Is Underway

by independentsentinel.com: The anti-meat totalitarians, using health and environment as an excuse, are stepping up their demand that the beef industry curtail their operations... The extremists actually think it’s immoral to eat meat on a small planet, or they say that’s what they believe. They have a solution to “fix” the beef industry — “sustainable certification”. All the cattle growers have to do, they are assured, is follow a few simple rules and all will be well. The extremists involved are the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The reasons they give for having a problem with cattle is they are not sustainable. Cattle eat and drink too much, they exude too much C02, they create too much waste, they absorb too much energy, they destroy grassland, they are the root cause of lifestyle diseases, and they limit food production. According to Tom De Weese, writing for American Policy, “the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has accepted the imposition of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef.” The Roundtable is under the influence or control of the World Wildlife Fund. WWF is a leader in the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), which basically sets the rules for global environmental policy.” The U.N is not our friend and they are evil. Remember, it’s the dictator’s club and they seek our destruction. The regulations are never-ending and will continue to cost more and more over time with a needless waste of manpower. To become certified under sustainable rules, the cattle growers must agree to greatly reduce their land use and make it into a wildlife habitat. There are draconian controls over water use and grazing areas...This control over us must be stopped.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/did-you-know-the-plan-to-destroy-the-beef-industry-is-underway/

Israel slams German FM for 'dishonest

rewriting' of Anne Frank's legacy

by Benjamin Weinthal

{ jpost.com } ~ Emmanuel Nahshon, the spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, issued a powerful statement against German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas for failing to internalize the lessons of the Holocaust... by misrepresenting Anne Frank's legacy. Nahshon, one of Israel's most seasoned diplomats, wrote on Twitter: "Anne Frank’s diary is NOT a warning about wishy-washy pseudo universal values! Anne Frank’s legacy is a warning against the hatred and persecution of JEWS. The attempt to 'universalize the lessons of the Shoah Holocaust is nothing less than a dishonest rewriting of history." Nahshon's tweet on Wednesday was a response to a tweet by the German Foreign Ministry that was written in honor of what would have been Anne Frank's 90th birthday. "Foreign Minister Heiko Maas: #AnneFrank would have turned 90 today," the ministry wrote. "Her diary is more relevant than ever before as a warning against discrimination, marginalization and persecution and as a symbol of humanity. We can learn from her." Nahshon has served as the deputy chief of mission to Israel's embassy in Germany and will be Israel's next ambassador to Belgium. Maas just returned from Iran this week after meeting with the regime's leaders, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Maas, who said he went into politics "because of Auschwitz," is working on jump starting a financial mechanism to bypass US sanctions against the clerical regime in Tehran. Iran is considered by antisemitism experts to be the leading international state-sponsor of Holocaust denial and antisemitism. The US state department classifies the Islamic Republic of Iran as the top state-sponsor of terrorism. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Jerusalem Post: "Why such desperation by Germany to save serial liar genocide wannabe tyrants in Tehran? Time to use peaceful sanctions to stand up to tyrants and stand up for people of Iran."...

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Israel-rebukes-German-FM-for-dishonest-rewriting-of-Anne-Franks-legacy-592417
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It’s dangerous to cover this

but Tucker did it anyway

by S.Noble

{ independentsentinel.com } ~ It is very dangerous to cover this story but Tucker Carlson did it. Bucking scumbag-Soros gets Media Matters and the other smear merchants after you big time... In this particular segment, he dealt with the fact that scumbag-Soros is buying elections to fundamentally transform the country. scumbag-George Soros has been backing far-left prosecutors and sheriffs running for office with extraordinarily large sums of money. He is single-handedly transforming our criminal justice system to one which has no regard for the victims. scumbag-Soros has won many of these elections. Philadelphia (Krasner), Chicago (Kim Foxx), San Diego, cities in Texas, and so on. We have covered the issue 'Leftist scumbag-George Soros Continues Funding Furthest-Left Candidates in Fl.', and 'scumbag-Soros Heavily Funding Hardcore Leftist for DA in San Diego', and 'scumbag-Soros Plans to Buy Florida’s Gubernatorial Election, Funding Is Staggering', and 'In MA, You Can Deal Drugs, Threaten, Resist Arrest, Steal & It’ll Be LEGAL', and 'scumbag-Soros’s Sheriff in Arizona Releases 400 Criminal Illegal Aliens Every 10 Days', and 'scumbag-Soros Plans to Buy Florida’s Gubernatorial Election, Funding Is Staggering', we deal directly with Krasner’s first days. He should be ban from USA just like in some European countries. https://www.independentsentinel.com/soros-plans-to-buy-floridas-gubernatorial-election-funding-is-staggering/

VIDEO : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkdeEf9l6ek

Denmark's Elections

by Judith Bergman

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In Denmark's general election on June 5, the Danes gave the center-left and far left parties on the political spectrum -- the Social Democratic Party... Det Radikale Venstre (the Danish Social Liberal Party), Socialistisk Folkeparti (the Socialist People's Party), and Enhedslisten (the Red-Green Alliance) -- 91 seats in parliament, a majority out of the 179 available seats. In doing so, the Danes waved goodbye to the current liberal-conservative government. The largest party on the left, the Social Democratic Party with 48 seats, and led by Mette Frederiksen, is currently trying to form a government. A significant development in this election was that anti-immigration parties generally fared poorly. Dansk Folkeparti, (the Danish People's Party), which had become the second-largest party in the 2015 elections, when it was the only party running on a strict anti-immigration platform and where it received 21% of the votes and 37 seats, was reduced to less than half, receiving only 8.7% of the votes and 16 seats. The new anti-Islamic, anti-immigration party, Stram Kurs, which campaigned on a platform of prohibiting Islam and deporting Muslims from Denmark, did not manage to cross the election threshold of 2%. It received only 1.8 % of the votes. Led by Rasmus Paludan, who became famous for demonstrating across Denmark -- where he frequently featured a "Koran stunt" in which he would either throw a Koran around, burn it or put bacon on it -- the party only managed to qualify to run in the elections a month before they took place. Finally, a new party on the right, Nye Borgerlige (the New Right) won four seats, with 2.4 % of the vote. The party ran on a platform that demanded that no more asylum seekers be allowed into the country, that foreigners must support themselves financially and that foreign criminals be deported after their first sentencing in court. The current Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said he would not cooperate politically with either Rasmus Paludan or the New Right should they be elected to parliament. Some Danish analysts, such as the author and commentator Kasper Støvring, estimated that Danes did not vote for the anti-immigration parties this time because, "Many citizens wrongly think that the immigration issue is under control and that it can therefore safely be left to the Left. It is not under control". "Five years in a row," he added, "The crime rates have gone up among non-Western descendants; we have areas where the rule of law has de facto been suspended; we saw in the election campaign, that there are areas where you cannot gather and speak freely; when you go for a walk you nearly stumble on the concrete blocks meant to protect terrorist targets that remind us of the intrusive terror threat...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14375/denmark-elections

Afghan government unconditionally releases hundreds of Taliban prisoners

by Bill Roggio

{ longwarjournal.org } ~ In an effort to convince the Taliban to open negotiations, the Afghan government has freed hundreds of Taliban prisoners without conditions, and will free hundreds more... The Taliban has not responded to the prisoner release, and continues to refuse to negotiate with the Afghan government. The Afghan government confirmed that 490 Taliban fighters and commanders have been released since the beginning of June, TOLONews reported. A total of 887 prisoners, all members of the Taliban, are slated to be released during the observance of Eid al Fitr, National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib confirmed. The Taliban prisoners were released unconditionally. They are not required to denounce the Taliban or promise to quit the fight against the Afghan government. Historically, Taliban prisoners who have been freed from Afghan prisons have returned to the battlefield. The Taliban views the Afghan government as un-Islamic and says that only its “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” is the true representative of the Afghan people. It will settle for nothing less than the return of Taliban rule. Over the years, the Taliban has played a clever game of divide and conquer inside Afghanistan, playing off of political rivalries and the desire of civil society for an end to the war. It has consistently held to its negotiating position that it will only negotiate with the US, which it views as the real decision maker in Afghanistan. The Taliban will only consider negotiations with groups inside Afghanistan after the US and NATO withdraws their troops from the country. It has agreed to meet with members of the political opposition and various interest groups inside Afghanistan, but has refused to attend meetings if the Afghan government is represented... https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/06/afghan-government-unconditionally-releases-hundreds-of-taliban-prisoners.php

loose lips liar-Biden's Surrender to Pro-Abortion Radicals Has Damaged His 2020 Prospects

Marc A. Thiessen

For decades, Catholic Democratic politicians have been justifying their pro-choice position by telling us that they were personally opposed to abortion but could not impose their religious view on others. For most, the argument was a fig leaf to justify their shameful failure to protect innocent unborn life. But it appeared that loose lips ;liar-Joe Biden really believed it.

For more than 40 years, loose lips liar-Biden supported the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortions. In 1994, when a constituent wrote to Biden, urging him, “Please don’t force me to pay for abortions against my conscience,” loose lips liar-Biden replied, “I agree with you.” He pointed out that he had voted no fewer than 50 times against federal funding of abortions, promising, “Those of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them.” In his 2007 book “Promises to Keep,” loose lips liar-Biden wrote, “I’ve stuck to my middle-of-the-road position on abortion for more than 30 years.”

But middle-of-the-road is no longer good enough in today’s Democratic Party. So when loose lips liar-Biden recently reaffirmed his support for the Hyde Amendment, his opponents for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination pounced. “There is #NoMiddleGround on women’s rights,” Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted. “Abortion is a constitutional right.” Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris, D-Calif., chastised loose lips liar-Biden, declaring “No woman’s access to reproductive health care should be based on how much money she has. We must repeal the Hyde Amendment.” Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren, D-Mass., and a number of other Democrats also piled on, as did Planned Parenthood, NARAL and Emily’s List.

As recently as last week, the former vice president was still standing firm. It appeared this might be his “Sister Souljah moment,” when he separated himself from the extremists in his party. This was both principled and good politics: Just 36% of Americans support federal funds to pay for abortion.

But then loose lips liar-Biden gave in to the mob. He tried to justify his flip-flop at a Democratic National Committee event in Atlanta on Thursday night by declaring, “If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone’s ZIP code.” This is absurd. Americans have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, but the government is not obligated to provide weapons to poor people who cannot afford them.

loose lips liar-Biden’s surrender to the pro-abortion radicals damaged his presidential prospects. First, it made him seem weak and unprincipled. Few pro-choice voters would have abandoned loose lips liar-Biden because he opposed taxpayer-funded abortion; indeed, plenty of pro-choice voters agree with that position. But voters will abandon a politician who abandons his principles.

Second, it hurt loose lips liar-Biden with the one group he claims he can win back for Democrats: working-class voters who cast their ballots twice for him and President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, but switched to Donald Trump in 2016. These once-reliable Democratic voters are more socially conservative than the liberal elites. Abortion radicalism doesn’t appeal to them.

Third, loose lips liar-Biden’s capitulation refocused the national spotlight on abortion extremism in the Democratic Party. After Alabama passed the most restrictive abortion law in the country, Democrats thought they had the upper hand in painting Republicans as abortion extremists. But now the focus is back on Democrats and their insistence on taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand up to the moment of birth. In New York, Democrats just lit up the Freedom Tower to celebrate the passage of a new law that removes most restrictions on abortion, even in the third trimester, and in Illinois, the legislature just voted to repeal the state’s Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. As a senator, loose lips liar-Biden consistently voted against late-term abortions. Will he cave on that as well?

Democrats don’t seem to understand that most Americans — including many who identify as pro-choice — don’t see abortion as something to celebrate but as a necessary evil that should be allowed only in some limited circumstances. A Marist-Knights of Columbus poll found that just 13% say abortion should be available at any time during a pregnancy, while 80% say it should be allowed only during the first trimester; in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother; or not allowed at all. And a new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll finds that a 38% plurality believes life begins at conception, while a 75% supermajority says it begins at the point of viability at the very latest. A majority of Americans support restrictions on abortion and oppose federal funding.

Sadly, loose lips liar-Biden has aligned himself with the radical minority. He should be ashamed. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/63588?mailing_id=4328&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4328&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 14, 2019 at 11:25am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

MSM Parrots Dems' Anti-Trump

Immigration Narrative

Thomas Gallatin

Nunes Says He Has Finally

Seen Mueller ‘Scope Memo’

by Chuck Ross

{dailycaller.com} ~ California Rep. Devin Nunes said Wednesday that he has finally seen the Justice Department memo that laid out the parameters of the special counsel’s probe... Nunes, a Republican, indicated in an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity” that the Aug. 2, 2017 memo shows the infamous and unverified Steele dossier was relevant to the special counsel’s probe. “Ultimately, that Steele dossier permeated all the way through, ultimately to the special counsel,” said Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. “I was finally able to see the scope memo,” he continued. “And remember, I had these concerns that it was based upon the Steele dossier.” Nunes said he was unable to talk about what else is in the memo, seemingly because it contains classified information. Democrats have tried to downplay the significance of the Steele dossier to the Trump-Russia probe. They’ve pointed out that the dossier, which former British spy Christopher Steele wrote and Democrats funded, was not the catalyst for the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign, which started on July 31, 2016. The FBI did rely heavily on the dossier for some parts of its investigation. The bureau used the salacious document to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Carter Page, a Trump campaign aide...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/13/devin-nunes-mueller-memo-dossier/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9YaT2zdD2k

scumbag liar-Nadler warns Hope Hicks he'll

take her to court if she doesn't hand

over Trump documents

by Emily Goodin

{ dailymail.co.uk } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler warned Hope Hicks on Tuesday that he will pursue legal action against her... if she refuses to comply with a congressional subpoena and deliver documents to his committee. His threat comes after House Democrats approved a measure authorizing legal action against current and former Trump administration officials who refuse to cooperate. scumbag liar-Nadler warned Hope Hicks and former White House aide Annie Donaldson, both of whom have been subpoenaed, that he will use his new-found powers to take them to court. 'If they don't show up when they're supposed to, they will be charged,' he said. 'No one is above the law and no one is exempt from congressional subpoenas,' he added. The White House instructed Hicks, the former strategic communications director, not to give House Democrats any documents from her time serving as President Trump's right-hand woman. The order, which also covered Donaldson, the former deputy White House counsel , came on the day the House Judiciary Committee set as a deadline for complying with a May 21 subpoena. Hicks was among those former White House officials who sat for interviews with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and his report is sprinkled with her accounts of key episodes, including the PR response to news of the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7130019/House-Democrats-approve-court-action-bring-AG-Bill-Barr-Don-McGahn-testify-Congress.html

Sarah Huckabee Sanders leaving post

as White House press secretary

by Jon Brown

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump announced Thursday that Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving her post as White House press secretary... The daughter of Gov. Mike Huckabee was appointed to the position in July 2017, replacing Anthony Scaramucci. "After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas....," the president tweeted, adding, "....She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job! I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas - she would be fantastic. Sarah, thank you for a job well done!"

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sarah-huckabee-sanders-leaving-post-as-white-house-press-secretary?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications

Smaller States Are Destroying Power, Vote of

Their State by Supporting Nat’l Popular Vote

by Michael Morris

{ cnsnews.com } ~ On his nationally syndicated radio talk show “The Mark Levin Show” on Tuesday, host Mark Levin warned that smaller states are destroying the power... the vote in their state by supporting the national popular vote. “And then you have these idiots in these smaller states that go along with it,” stated Mark Levin. “They don’t even realize that they’re giving up their own autonomy. It’s incredible. They’re destroying the power of their state, the vote in their state.”Mark Levin’s comments came after Oregon’s House passed the national popular vote initiative on June, 5, 2019, according to nationalpopularvote.com. “The National Popular Vote Bill in Oregon status of SB 870 by a 37-22 vote. The bill now goes to Governor Kate Brown, who sponsored the bill when she was in the legislature, testified in favor of it while she was Secretary of State, and has recently publicly stated that she would sign the bill.” New Mexico’s legislature also passed, and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed, a national popular vote bill “status of HB 55, making New Mexico the 15th jurisdiction to have enacted the bill into law,” on April 3, 2019. Even “the Nevada Senate passed the National Popular Vote bill 12-8, and sent the bill to the office of Governor Steve Sisolak status of AB186,” but “on May 30, 2019, Governor Steve Sisolak vetoed the National Popular Vote bill status of AB186.” The National Popular Vote website explains that now “national popular vote legislation has been enacted into law in 15 jurisdictions with 189 electoral votes.”... https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-morris/mark-levin-smaller-states-are-destroying-power-vote-their-state-supporting-natl?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRSaVl6VmlNbUpsTlRZMSIsInQiOiJBMitPNWVhYnpuaVpCZUlZTHRUZmZVMlRmeWxNVnFwNGNMMFlLRGVCdFRQZkVEVzZITXhcLzlOSkR3THdZeitZWFZCdXd3RjRIMHVsTFViN3JvMWpIVk1KeTQzRUpEVlJEWnc1K3RLVjFkWFhSRUhyVjY3STg0YUNoTk5sYUpcLzdMIn0%3D

VOICE VIDEO at the site.

DHS Chief Proves Asylum Seekers

Scamming American Taxpayers

by libertyplanet.com: The acting Department of Homeland Security delivered a shocking statistic to Congress and the American public that demonstrates so-called “asylum seekers”... are nothing more than scam artists trying to gain access into the United States illegally. In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan dropped the bomb that 90 percent of asylum applicants never show up to their scheduled court hearings. The migrants simply gain a foothold on American soil and disappear like the millions of illegal immigrants employing coyotes and human traffickers to cross the U.S.-Mexico border secretly. “It depends on demographic, the court, but we see too many cases where people are not showing up,” McAleenan said in a dialogue with South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham about an immigration pilot program. “Out of those 7,000 cases, 90 received final orders of removal in absentia, 90 percent,” he said. “90 percent did not show up?” Graham reportedly asked. “Correct, that is a recent sample from families crossing the border,” McAleenan clarified. The acting secretary’s testimony painted a dark portrait of the crisis at the southern border. U.S. Border Patrol continues to be overwhelmed by increased attempts at illegal immigration, migrant caravans in the thousands, and assaults on officers. Democrat efforts to block the Trump Administration from securing the border and reform immigration policy have emerged as a magnet for Central Americans. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol apprehended nearly 150,000 migrants attempting to cross the border illegally in May, a record pace. The law enforcement agency can no longer accurately estimate how many migrants penetrate U.S. soil successfully because it has been overrun. The asylum process once stood as reputably pathway designed to support and protect those in danger of political or social violence and oppression. With liberals obstructing DHS, it has become a tool used only to deceive. “Currently due to a single district court order, we cannot obtain effective immigration enforcement results for the families arriving at our border — they cannot be held for longer than 21 days and do not receive rulings from immigration courts for years,” McAleenan reportedly said... https://www.libertyplanet.com/articles/dhs-chief-proves-asylum-seekers-scamming-american-taxpayers/

MSM Parrots Dems' Anti-Trump

Immigration Narrative

Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump is a “racist” and the proof is in the fact that he is doing … exactly what Barack scumbag/liar-nObama did. The mainstream media trumpeted the first part while failing to mention that significant fact about scumbag/liar-nObama making the same decision. Is it any wonder the vast majority of the American public has lost trust in the fake news media? Could it be any more obvious that the Leftmedia is the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party?

Case in point, with the ongoing border crisis threatening to stretch the Department of Homeland Security to the bursting point, DHS, in an effort to find more facilities to house the ballooning number of detained illegal aliens, has decided to use underutilized space on several military bases. One of these locations, Fort Sill in Oklahoma, was used as a Japanese internment camp during WWII. The situational correlation between the detaining of immigrants caught illegally crossing into the U.S. versus the interment of American citizens simply because of their Japanese ethnicity is not even remotely similar other than the location being the same. But that didn’t stop the MSM from conflating the two. Take a look at these headlines:

The Trump administration will detain hundreds of migrant children at a military base that was once used as a Japanese internment camp —Business Insider
Trump Admin to Use Army Base That Once Served as Japanese Internment Camp to House 1,400 Migrant Kids —The Daily Beast
Trump Administration to Use Former Japanese Internment Camp to House Migrant Children —Fortune
Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp —Time
Trump administration to house migrant children at Fort Sill, which once served as a Japanese internment camp —USA Today
Geronimo and the Japanese were imprisoned there. Now Fort Sill will hold migrant children — again. —The Washington Post

The truth is that scumbag/liar-nObama did the exact same thing. As the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was struggling with a surge in illegal immigration in 2014, DHS elected to house more than 7,700 migrant children on military bases, including Fort Sill. It was a temporary measure that ended a few months later.

This latest bit of propaganda harkens back to last year when the Leftmedia played the same blame game with Trump for detaining illegal-alien children “in cages,” while the MSM intentionally ignored the glaring fact that the same policy had been implemented and applied under scumbag/liar-nObama. On top of that, many of the photos circulated by the MSM at the time were actually taken during scumbag/liar-nObama’s presidency.

Once again, rather than hold Democrats to account for their lawless open-border policies that have caused and fueled the border crisis — a crisis that has increased human trafficking, especially of children — the Leftmedia instead pushes the fallacious Democrat narrative of Trump’s supposedly racist motivation behind his efforts to stop illegal immigration. If the MSM and Democrats truly cared for the plight of these migrant children, then they would be giving Trump all the funding needed to build a wall to better secure the border and enforce the nation’s immigration laws. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63628?mailing_id=4331&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4331&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Fri/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 14, 2019 at 9:01am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Caution: ATF Nominee Needs Scrutiny

Nate Jackson

Friday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: INCOHERENT ON DEBT: “Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi said Thursday that the Democratic-controlled House won’t pass must-do legislation to increase the government’s borrowing cap until the Trump administration agrees to boost spending limits on domestic program,” reports the Associated Press. So Democrats won’t agree to incur more debt until they can spend a ton more money?

PUNCHING BACK: “A defiant President Trump pushed back Thursday against the outrage over his comments that he would be open to accepting opposition research from individuals from foreign countries, arguing he should have no obligation to call the FBI in certain cases while trying to turn the tables on Democratic lawmakers over their own foreign contacts,” Fox News reports. Meanwhile, according to CBS News, “The chair of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) tweeted a statement Thursday to be ‘100% clear’ that ‘it is illegal to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election.’”

SARAH SANDERS EXITS: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving the Trump administration at the end of June, President Donald Trump announced Thursday. Sanders became the administration’s deputy press secretary after Trump took office in 2017 and was later promoted to press secretary after Sean Spicer left the role.” (The Daily Caller)

TRUMP WON’T FIRE CONWAY: “President Donald Trump said on Friday that he has no plans to fire top aide Kellyanne Conway after … the U.S. Office of Special Counsel sent a report to Trump on Thursday that said Conway repeatedly violated the Hatch Act by criticizing Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity.” (Politico)

liar-PULOSI WHINES ABOUT MCCONNELL: “House Speaker liar-Nancy Pulosi (D., Calif.) presented a visual representation of the Senate’s "legislative graveyard” at a press conference Thursday morning. She ripped Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R., Ky.) refusal to put several Democratic initiatives up for a vote in the legislative chamber.“

FACEBOOK PRIVACY: "Facebook is "worried” about emails which might link company founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the company’s “questionable” privacy practices,“ PJ Media’s Stephen Green notes. Remember all the way back in March when Zuckerberg promised to make Facebook "a privacy-focused communications platform”? Good times…

FREE SPEECH: “Author and clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson confirmed the beta testing of an upcoming free speech-friendly platform he’s created called Thinkspot, which he teased during a podcast last week.” (The Daily Wire)

A DIFFERENT SANCTUARY: “A Texas border city with a population of about 2,200 has declared itself a sanctuary for the unborn and has banned abortion.” (Fox News)

TIFF WITH IRAN: “Iran on Friday dismissed U.S. claims that its forces attacked two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, calling the allegations ‘alarming’ just hours after the U.S. Central Command released a video it said showed Iranian vessels retrieving an unexploded mine from one of the damaged ships.” (The Washington Post)

NEW ZEALAND MASSACRE TRIAL: “An Australian man pleaded not guilty Friday to 92 charges stemming from a massacre in two mosques in Christchurch three months ago and will stand trial next May.” (NBC News)

DEMO 2020 CLOWN CAR UPDATE: “The Democratic National Committee has announced that 20 candidates have qualified for the party’s first presidential debates later this month.” (Associated Press)

POLICE UNDER FIRE: “There was a riot in Frayser, Tennessee, a suburb just north of Memphis, on Wednesday night in which 36 officers and deputies were injured,” Hot Air notes. “It all started with an officer-involved shooting of a 20-year-old man named Brandon Webber.”

POLICY: A plausible blueprint for fiscal sustainability (Manhattan Institute)

POLICY: U.S. economy produces more jobs and higher wages, somehow capitalism stays broken (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: Covert Navy SEAL team really starting to regret wearing these pride month uniforms (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/63649?mailing_id=4334&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4334&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Gaza Rockets Strike South as IDF Braces

for Violence on Gaza Border

by Anna Ahronheim

{jpost.com} ~ The IDF is gearing up for violent protests along the Gaza Strip border on Friday, one day after Israel struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip following the launching of a rocket towards border communities... Rocket sirens wailed and explosions were heard in Sderot on Thursday night and in the other areas around the Gaza border, but no injuries were reported. Like every Friday since March 2018, thousands of Gazans are expected to protest and riot along the border fence, burning tires, hurling stones and marbles, and throwing grenades and improvised explosive devices some military grade towards troops. The Great March of Return border protests have seen more than 500,000 people violently demonstrating along the security fence demanding an end to the 12-year long blockade. Every Friday the rioters, ranging between several thousand to 45,000, assemble at various points along the border. The last few Fridays have been relatively calm with a significant decrease in the number of protesters clashing with troops along the fence. But tensions have risen once again following the launching of incendiary and explosive balloons towards Israeli territory, causing the IDF to impose a rare full closure of the Gaza Strip fishing zone. That in turn led to terrorist groups in the Strip to fire a rocket towards southern communities. At least eight fires raged across southern Israel on Wednesday, while two explosive balloons exploded over greenhouses in the area. The rocket, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, triggered sirens in Kibbutz Nirim in the Eshkol regional council at around 12.15 a.m. Early Thursday morning, the IDF said fighter jets “attacked an underground terror infrastructure on a military compound belonging to the Hamas terror group in the southern Gaza Strip. The attack was carried out in response to the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip earlier in the night.” According to Palestinian media reports, the strike targeted sites in the neighborhood of al-Rayyan east of Rafah and al-Zaytoun in Gaza City. “The IDF will continue to act against any attempt to harm Israeli civilians and considers the terrorist organization Hamas responsible for everything that is happening in and out of the Gaza Strip,” the IDF statement added... https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/IDF-bracing-for-violent-Friday-protests-along-Gaza-border-fence-592457

US government office finds Kellyanne Conway violated Hatch Act and recommends her removal

by Daniel Chaitin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ White House counselor Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act on "numerous occasions" and should be removed from the government, a United States federal office announced Thursday... The recommendation was made by Henry Kerner, head of the Office of Special Counsel, in a letter and report sent to President Trump recommending she be removed from federal service. Federal employees are prohibited by the Hatch Act from using their jobs to campaign for or against political candidates. The president and vice president are exempt from the Hatch Act, but employees of the White House are not. The Office of Special Counsel, led by Kerner, whom Trump nominated to the post, is charged with enforcing the Hatch Act and is not connected to now-former special counsel Robert S. Mueller's Russia investigation. Conway, 52, a longtime Republican pollster before joining Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was described as a “repeat offender" by Kerner for disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity during television interviews and on social media. “Ms. Conway’s violations, if left unpunished, would send a message to all federal employees that they need not abide by the Hatch Act’s restrictions. Her actions thus erode the principal foundation of our democratic system—the rule of law," the letter said. "The Office of Special Counsel's (OSC) unprecedented actions against Kellyanne Conway are deeply flawed and violate her constitutional rights to free speech and due process," White House spokesman Steven Groves said in a statement. "Others, of all political views, have objected to the OSC's unclear and unevenly applied rules which have a chilling effect on free speech for all federal employees. Its decisions seem to be influenced by media pressure and liberal organizations -- and perhaps OSC should be mindful of its own mandate to act in a fair, impartial, non-political manner, and not misinterpret or weaponize the Hatch Act."... Kerner needs to check reps of congress and the media on how they are reacting towards Trumps followers and the president.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/office-of-special-counsel-finds-kellyanne-conway-violated-hatch-act-and-recommends-her-removal?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_06/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Qatar on Our Campuses

by Ryan Mauro and Alex VanNess

{ clarionproject.org } ~ For years the government of Qatar has engaged in an extensive influence operation on American campuses... At the same time that the government of Qatar has supplied aid and support to al-Qaeda, the Iranian regime and Hamas, it has attempted to sway political opinion in the U.S. by spending millions of dollars each year on a vast network of lobbyists, think tanks and media outlets. As part of the same effort , it has also thrown enormous sums of money at American universities. The ties between Qatar and U.S. universities are extensive. U.S. law requires universities to disclose information about foreign gifts, as well as “any ownership interests in or control over the institution by a foreign entity.” Since 2012 the Department of Education (DOE) reports that Qatar has given close to $1.5 billion $1,478,676,069 to be exact to U.S. universities in the form of monetary gifts and contracts. These university gifts and contracts have been sent by multiple Qatari entities either owned by the government or closely connected to the Qatar royal family. They include, for example, RasGas Company Limited; Qatar Petroleum; Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) which is member of the Qatar Foundation. Qatar Petroleum is a state-owned public corporation established in 1974. It is responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry in the state of Qatar. RasGas Company Limited was a liquefied natural gas (LNG) producing company that merged with QatarGas in January 2018. QatarGas is the world’s largest LNG company. Sheikh Khalid Bin Khalifa Al Thani is the CEO of QatarGas and Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi serves as chairman of the board of directors. Saad Sherida al-Kaabi is Qatar’s current Minister of State for Energy Affairs. QNRF and its parent organization, the Qatar Foundation, are listed as two primary Qatar gift givers to American universities. The Qatar Foundation is an arm of the Qatari government, founded and led by top Qatari officials. The Qatar Foundation covers the expenses for six U.S. universities to have campuses in the country: Texas A&M (TAMU), Virginia Commonwealth, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, and Georgetown. The cost is nearly $405 million... https://clarionproject.org/qatar-on-our-campuses/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8d5df415d8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_17_12_03_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-8d5df415d8-6442509&mc_cid=8d5df415d8&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

Mass Homelessness Exposes

California’s Political Dysfunction

by Jarrett Stepman

{ dailysignal.com } ~ California’s great wealth only masks its increasing dysfunction. Nothing highlights this quite like the explosion of homelessness in the Golden State... By any measure, California’s homelessness crisis is reaching epic proportions. There are now nearly 60,000 homeless people living in Los Angeles County, a 12% increase from the previous year, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Los Angeles is hardly an outlier. “Other localities in California saw substantial increases compared with 2017, when they last conducted a count,” according to The Wall Street Journal. “In San Francisco, the number rose 17% while Alameda County, which includes Oakland, saw a 43% increase. Homelessness grew 42% in San Jose over the past two years and 31% in Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley.” San Francisco, for all of its radical politics, is a beautiful city by the bay. Yet it’s evolving into a dysfunctional, filthy mess. “Even in the good old days there was a Skid Row. Now the beggars, drug addicts, and lost souls are all over the city,” wrote San Francisco columnist Carl Nolte. How bad has it become? Nolte wrote: The city is out of control. Traffic is a mess, but it’s rare to see a traffic control officer. Trucks are double-parked everywhere. The city is dirty—a friend just back from Mexico City was astounded to find the streets there far cleaner than the ones in her native city. There is so much human waste on the streets of San Francisco the city formed a ‘poop patrol’ where workers are paid $71,000 a year, about same as the average school teacher... The hell with homeless lets help the illegals says the Gov. of Calif.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/12/mass-homelessness-exposes-californias-political-dysfunction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mass-homelessness-exposes-californias-political-dysfunction?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpnME16TmtOVGd3WkRRNCIsInQiOiJBRUYrYUNFeDB4TnBFWHBrQm1oK252R2tRYm8rVjFSMXc0KzBsU09BdDJtVzZlUWJ5c3dkNllwYjdPNUJNQzVwU29KYkJJOTVQVDM3TjAxZE5EdVB6M2hRSkV6SkY1aW5ybE1mNmJHVVRDTTdqbEcxdWZXRW13bzB3U3RMeDFJWiJ9

loose lips liar-Joe Biden: A ‘Good Guy’

Without Principle or Backbone

by Doug Bandow

{ spectator.org } ~ loose lips liar-Joe Biden, the crazy uncle that many people try to hide in the attic, so to speak, is a “good guy,” even if he didn’t have enough backbone... to defend his use of that phrase to describe Vice President Mike Pence. When the left-wing mobs came calling, Uncle loose lips liar-Joe scurried for the exit. Of course, the former senator already had run from his record in the Anita Hill hearings, during which he apparently privately acknowledged the inconsistencies of her story. Now, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in an era when truth and consequences are of no account, he apologized for not arming the anti-Clarence Thomas mob with pitchforks and torches. His latest craven surrender is on abortion funding. Uncle loose lips liar-Joe’s principle strength is his longevity. He comes from an era before the Democratic Party had turned into a left-wing hothouse. The party always included a lot of big spenders, but on culture and foreign policy many Democrats were to the right of many Republicans. Across America’s heartland many Democrats supported gun rights and opposed abortion. Indeed, the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits public funding of abortion except when the mother’s life is in danger and in cases of rape and incest, was first passed in 1976 by a Democratic House and Senate. Democratic President Jimmy Carter, elected in that year, defending the prohibition. Belief in the eternal value of the human person was not limited to the right. In 1980 Democrats purported to be the party of diversity and tolerance when they attacked the Reagan campaign for creating an abortion “litmus test” for judicial nominees. To be sure, most Dems backed the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, but they said they would never, ever impose that belief on judicial nominees. By the late 1980s and 1990s fealty to the principle of unlimited abortion was becoming a requirement for Democratic presidential nominees — which was a problem because so many leading Democrats had unclean hands, from the Left’s perspective. As a result, Richard Gephardt, scumbag-Al Gore, and scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton all tossed aside measured records on the issue in their campaign for the top political prize. Still, the latter felt the need to claim he wanted the procedure to be “rare” as well as safe and legal. Scores of congressional Democrats continued to vote pro-life... https://spectator.org/joe-biden-a-good-guy-without-principle-or-backbone/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=6d3a7cd1dd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_13_11_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-6d3a7cd1dd-104608113

Caution: ATF Nominee Needs Scrutiny

Nate Jackson: President Donald Trump has nominated Chuck Canterbury to be the first permanent director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) since 2015. Canterbury has been a police officer since 1978 and has served as president of the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) since 2003. His nomination heads to the Senate, where there is not yet a time frame for hearings.

Trump has had a good relationship with the FOP, and Canterbury in particular advised the president on criminal-justice reform last year. Nominating him for the ATF post solidifies that relationship.

But what Second Amendment defenders want to know is where Canterbury will stand on those rights.

“I want no mistake to be made,” Canterbury testified to the Senate in 2009, “I take a back seat to no one in my reverence for the Second Amendment.” But the context provides a troubling clue — he was testifying in support of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. “In fact,” he continued, “if I thought that Judge Sotomayor’s presence on the Court posed a threat to my Second Amendment right, I would not be supporting her here today.” Earlier in 2009, Canterbury also testified in support of scumbag-Eric Holder’s nomination as attorney general.

Sotomayor’s view of the Second Amendment? In 2004, she argued, “The right to possess a gun is clearly not a fundamental right.” And in 2010 she was on the wrong side in McDonald v. Chicago. We also know scumbag-Holder’s record is not only anti-Second Amendment but practically criminally so through the Fast and Furious gun-running scheme.

For that reason and Canterbury’s other policy positions (via the FOP opposing national concealed carry reciprocity and supporting “universal” background checks), both Gun Owners of America and the National Association for Gun Rights oppose Canterbury’s nomination.

On the other hand, NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox interviewed Canterbury in 2011, and the two shared a rapport about law enforcement and gun rights. The NRA has yet to make a statement one way or another on Canterbury’s nomination to head the ATF.

Notably, it was in that 2011 interview that Canterbury made an important point about the FOP’s sometimes incongruous opinions on the Second Amendment: “Many [police] department chiefs are political, and they go with the anti-gun line, especially in the big cities. But our members in the rank and file know the reality on the streets.” Indeed, police chiefs serve at the pleasure of mayors, which in big cities are most often Democrats. That skews a chief’s views far afield from rank-and-file officers, who by and large support the rights of law-abiding citizens. Perhaps Canterbury was taking the positions he thought he needed to take at the time, and he’ll be most trustworthy serving under a Republican president.

But Trump, who often shoots from the hip, last year declared, “Take the guns first, go through due process second.” He directed the ATF to ban bump stocks without Congress, and he recently expressed opposition to suppressors. So forgive us if we won’t just take on faith his nomination of anyone for the ATF. Canterbury’s nomination in particular bears watching with caution. We’d encourage Republican senators to probe for his true views on our first civil right and just maybe withhold that rubber stamp. ~The Patriot Post

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 14, 2019 at 7:09am

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90% of Asylum-Seekers Skip Case Hearings

Political Editors

Big Abortion’s Biggest Lie

by David Catron

{ spectator.org } ~ The abortion industry is nervous about the reduction in its profits that may result from state laws prohibiting the termination of a pregnancy after a fetal heartbeat can be detected... This anxiety is exacerbated by the possibility that the Supreme Court may revisit Roe v. Wade. Big Abortion has responded to these threats by filing lawsuits, pressuring politicians in Democrat-controlled states to pass preemptive statutes permitting the “abortion” of babies born alive, forcing poltroons like loose lips liar-Joe Biden to recant heretical positions, and launching a propaganda campaign to the effect that unlimited abortion liberated women from the depredations of “the patriarchy.” Of all the lies promulgated by the abortion industry, the claim that abortion on demand has improved the lives of women in general is the most pernicious. It encourages women to make uninformed choices which can and do damage their physical and psychological health. Yet, despite the absence of evidence supporting the liberation myth, it has been inculcated in young women for nearly half a century by the education system, the media, and professional feminists. A typical example of the latter, Katha Pollitt, recently repeated the lie in a New Yorker essay titled, “How the Right to Legal Abortion Changed the Arc of All Women’s Lives”: I wonder if women who have never needed to undergo the procedure, and perhaps believe that they never will, realize the many ways that the legal right to abortion has undergirded their lives.… Legal abortion means that the law recognizes a woman as a person. It says that she belongs to herself.… A woman could plan her life without having to consider that it could be derailed by a single sperm. Predictably, Pollitt neglects to mention the easiest way to avoid being thus derailed. Pollitt knows perfectly well that the very real progress that women have made during the last 100 years has virtually nothing to do with abortion. The foundation of that progress — the right to vote — was secured by genuine feminists who vehemently opposed abortion. Yet she suggests that the gains women have achieved in legal, social, and employment rights is due to their ability to murder their own children in the womb: “Without more women obtaining law degrees, would men still be shaping all our legislation?” The obvious answer is, “Of course not.” The progress that Pollitt attributes to abortion on demand was primarily the result of cultural changes that preceded Roe v. Wade by decades, and those changes were accelerated by the advent of “the Pill” in 1960. This cultural evolution manifested itself in federal and state legislation. Laws like the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 all preceded the Supreme Court’s 1974 discovery of “penumbral rights” lurking in the Constitution. In other words, the claim that the progress women have made is due to abortion just doesn’t conform with the facts...

https://spectator.org/big-abortions-biggest-lie/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=6d3a7cd1dd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_13_11_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-6d3a7cd1dd-104608113

Beating China: The New Cold War

by Elijah G. Pardo

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Far too often, pundits and politicians alike make the case that America should avoid another cold war, this time with China. There is a problem with this argument... America doesn’t get to choose whether or not to start another cold war. Just as it was not America that initiated a coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 and it was not America that brutally put down a rebellion in Hungary in 1956, it is not America that is stealing intellectual property and obstructing international waters in 2019. China chose to start this cold war; we are already in the middle of it. America doesn’t get a say unless it wants to lie down and lose. It isn’t the same type of cold war, and each side has different objectives, but it is contentious no less. If America wants to win the Second Cold War, it has to do several broad things, but for one it has first to acknowledge that it is already ongoing. The Trump administration took an excellent first step. The administration’s national security strategy admits that we are moving back into a period of great power competition and seeks to develop a plan to succeed in that environment. China is run by an expansionist totalitarian regime that aims, for the first time, to extend its influence to shift the global balance of power and international order into its favor and away from the West’s. America has to again come to the understanding that the world is competitive and to remain the global superpower; it will have to face challengers. There are many countries that would love to challenge America; China happens to be the one that has the best chance. The western structure of the international order which America has led has created an incredible global economy that has pulled endless numbers of people and even entire nations out of poverty. For instance, Poland in 1990 had a GDP per capita of $5,509 World Bank, constant 2010 US$, in 2017 it had a GDP per capita of $15,822. That's an increase of nearly 300%. A similar pattern repeats within other former communist or authoritarian states. According to the World Bank, in 1990 36% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty, 25 years later less than 10% do. The West’s emphasis on economic liberalization is working. Amongst all this, the United States has prospered too, as the international order since WWII has been structured to its benefit. U.S. GDP per capita has increased by over 300% from $17,550 World Bank, constant 2010 US$ in 1960 to $53,128 in 2017. For this progress to happen, a massive security umbrella was needed. Following WWII, the United States created that structure and has kept international markets open and shipping lanes protected. In recent years, however, amongst political strain in the United States, that umbrella has begun to show cracks...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/beating_china_the_new_cold_war.html

In Democratic Socialism Speech, commie-Bernie Sanders Predictably Lies About The Economy

by Chrissy Clark

{thefederalist.com} ~ Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders delivered a speech at George Washington University today that insisted “democratic socialism” is the only way to defeat oligarchy... commie-Sanders spouted his usual go-to lines about how everyone should have a $15 per hour minimum wage and fight the rich. With a speech writer like David Sirota, who penned an article about how Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez helped create an economic miracle, it should come as no surprise that commie-Bernie offered some pretty whack facts. During his speech, commie-Bernie said three things that weren’t just misleading, but complete lies. Not to bore you with charts and facts, but U.S. gross domestic product growth for the last quarter was an estimated 3.1 percent and recovery from the slow economic growth in 2016 remains steady. The unemployment rate as of May 2019 is at 3.6 percent. The United States hasn’t seen low unemployment rates like this since 1953. commie-Sanders says GDP rates and unemployment rates have nothing to do with understanding how good the economy is. According to commie-Sanders, the data and statistics used to gauge the well-being of world-wide economics is not an adequate reflection of the American economy. I must ask then, what data and statistics should we use to understand the economy? We can’t use a make believe feelings-meter to decide how the American economy is doing. The facts are in, and the economy has been wildly, record-breakingly successful under President Trump. This statement was a flat out lie. I’m not sure if commie-Sanders gets his data from the same place he gets his ideas, but they’re both crazy. The national average wage index, which measures changes in U.S. wages over time, was $50,321.89 in 2017, while the national index 48 years ago in 1969 was $5,893.76. This does not account for inflation, so I did the math for you... https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/12/democratic-socialism-speech-bernie-sanders-predictably-lies-economy/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=a2a49484a6-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-a2a49484a6-83771801

The DOJ Intentionally Brought Foreign

Nationals Into The US As Snitches —

Then It Lost Some: IG

by Luke Rosiak

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Department of Justice “sponsored” about 5,500 foreign nationals to come to or stay in the country between 2015 and 2017 in order to provide assistance to the DOJ in criminal cases... according to a June audit from the DOJ inspector general. Sixty-two absconded, escaping the DOJ’s monitoring, and in 18 cases, DOJ components “did not request sponsorship renewal or termination in a timely manner and therefore let the foreign nationals fall into an illegal status,” according to the report.“Failing to report instances of absconsion inhibits DHS’s ability to execute its responsibilities to locate and handle absconders. This is especially problematic for law enforcement-sponsored foreign nationals because these individuals often have criminal histories or are involved with criminal organizations,” the report said. The DOJ and its law enforcement agencies “can sponsor legal U.S. residency for foreign nationals for various law enforcement purposes such as when those individuals are confidential informants or cooperating witnesses” in cases involving major criminal activity or terrorism, the report said. Law enforcement “can benefit from the assistance of foreign nationals because of their access to criminal enterprises and ability to provide testimony in support of prosecution.” But for the same reasons, “significant risks accompany the sponsoring of foreign nationals to support law enforcement investigations because these individuals may be associated with criminal activity and motivated only by the ability to reside in the United States.” If the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), or Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) want to bring such a person in the country, it “certifies that it assumes responsibility for the control and legal status of the foreign national, including monitoring the location and activities of the individual and ensuring notification to the Department of Homeland Security upon sponsorship termination,” the report said...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/12/doj-foreign-criminal-us/?utm_medium=email

Lingering scumbag/liar-nObama-Era Move

at CFPB Now Threatens Credit Markets

by Ken Blackwell

{americanthinker.com} ~ As college graduates have their commencement celebrations, they certainly hope their hard work will pay off. After all, in the booming Trump economy and with record low unemployment... there are countless opportunities for entrepreneurship and success. Sadly, there is one reason why those dreams may never get off the ground: crushing school debt. As too many students and parents are painfully aware, there are more than 44 million borrowers in America who collectively owe $1.5 trillion. Because of these obligations, young adults are putting off essential milestones in life — such as buying a home and getting married — while not accumulating savings. They have been saddled with debt by a higher education industrial complex thanks to the assistance of the federal government. Now, thanks to some scumbag/liar-nObama administration decisions, the problem might become even worse! Before his disastrous campaign for governor of Ohio, Richard Cordray was an scumbag/liar-nObama administration holdover running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). What we are now learning is Cordray likely exceeded the scope of his authority with a proposed "consent judgment" against the National Collegiate Master Student Loan Trusts (NCMSLT) in September 2017. This decision deserves more attention, as it threatens the Trump economic boom by potentially hurting America's financial marketplace and freezing the credit industry. The NCMSLT are passive investors who own $12 billion of student loan assets, which originated in multiple banks — such as Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase — more than a decade ago. Pension plans in insurance companies subsequently financed them through securitization capital markets transactions. In laymen's terms, securitization helps the economy because it enables investors to fund consumer and student loans, which also lowers interest rates for borrowers...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/lingering_obamaera_move_at_cfpb_now_threatens_credit_markets.html

90% of Asylum-Seekers Skip Case Hearings

Political Editors: President Donald Trump’s tariff threat against Mexico has at least initially been much more successful than many mainstream media naysayers would care to admit. As we earlier noted, Trump got the Mexican government to finally act on previously agreed to terms. Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praised Trump’s action, stating, “I think the cold, hard reality is, even though almost none of my members were enthusiastic about the prospect of tariffs, you have to give the president credit — it worked. The president deserves applause — not condemnation — for the outcome, which has a good chance of solving this crisis at the border.”

Speaking of that crisis, on Tuesday, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee laid out just how problematic the current asylum situation is. McAleenan noted that 90% of asylum-seekers have been no-shows for their scheduled case hearings. Upon hearing this, Sen. Lindsey Graham questioned, “90% did not show up?” McAleenan responded, “Correct. That is a recent sample from families crossing the border.”

McAleenan placed blame for this growing problem on the Flores consent decree that prevents the government from holding a minor longer than 21 days. “Currently, due to a single district-court order, we cannot obtain effective immigration-enforcement results for the families arriving at our border,” McAleenan said. “They cannot be held for longer than 21 days and do not receive rulings from immigration courts for years,” he stated, adding that “unless you’re a single adult, it is very unlikely you’ll be repatriated.” This is chain migration on steroids. ~The Patriot Post

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