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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 21, 2019 at 6:54am
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 Portland Maine Students Vote With Their Feet
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Tom McLaughlin  
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Will Democrats Get the Impeachment 
Recession They Want?
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by Mark Alexander
{ patriotpost.us } ~ Three months ago when stock prices were at record highs, The Washington Post’s Beltway elitists declared, “A record-breaking market doesn’t matter to most Americans.”... Really? More than half of Americans own stocks and other types of investments, including their homes, the values of which are dependent on a strong economy. More than one-third of corporate stock value is held in lower- and middle-income Americans’ retirement plans, such as IRAs and 401(k) accounts, and the value of their equities is down significantly this year. Of course, the WaPo was lamenting the fact that most of the value of equities held by Americans is in the hands of 20% of investors. Ironically, a sizable chunk of that is held by Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest individual in the world. Ironic because Bezos, who owns the WaPo, is a charter member of the mega-rich Archenemies of Liberty Club — leftists who use their wealth to fund Democrats and socialists and their free-enterprise wrecking-ball policies. For the record, Bezos has an estimated worth in the $130 BILLION range. Or, to put it another way, Bezos makes more money in 10 seconds than his average Amazon employee makes in a year. Additionally, much of his newspaper’s elite Beltway readership lives in five of the nation’s richest counties. The Bezos/WaPo hypocrisy notwithstanding, the wealth created in equity ownership is reinvested in companies and creates jobs for all Americans — which is to say, all Americans have an interest in a strong economy reflected in stable equity prices. But that report was from August. Now, according to financial analysts: “Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 are on pace for their worst December performance since 1931, when stocks were battered during the Great Depression. The Dow and S&P 500 are down 7.8 percent and 7.6 percent this month, respectively. December is typically a very positive month for markets.”...  https://patriotpost.us/alexander/60157-will-democrats-get-the-impeachment-recession-they-want   
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 Businesswoman forced to close shop over 
rampant homelessness, demands answers 
from Gov. scumbag-Newsom
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By Joshua Nelson  
{ foxnews.com } ~ A Sacramento, Calif., business owner was forced to pack up her salon and move out of the state capital because of a growing wave of homelessness... And she’s not happy with the Democrats who run the Golden State. Elizabeth Novak appeared Monday on “Fox & Friends” to say the matter is entirely “disheartening.” “I am angry about it as well,” Novak said. “I wouldn’t be relocating if it wasn’t for this issue.” In a video that went viral, the beauty salon owner blasted Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom for his inaction on a growing problem in the state. In Los Angeles’ Skid Row, tents line entire city blocks and while the media largely ignores this failure of Democratic policy, videos of this are commonplace on social media. But Novak’s business was in the seat of the state government — a Democrat-led state government. “When I come into work, I’m never sure what I am going to walk into,” she told the Fox News early crew. “I’ve been broken into, I have had my glass broken, I clean up human excrement off of my doorstep every week, cups of urine, things like that.” And it’s not like she doesn’t feel for those living on the street...
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How slavery doomed limited 
government in America
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by Philip Klein
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The New York Times' “1619 Project,” which aims to chronicle the history, legacy, and modern ramifications of slavery on the 400th anniversary of the first African slaves being brought to the colonies... has generated a ton of controversy this week. But I wanted to approach the topic from another angle: How slavery doomed the possibility of achieving limited government in the United States. I will say at the outset that the Times project has triggered a predictable mix of overheated as well as fair criticism. The initial articles in the series were published right after the executive editor Dean Baquet signaled that the Times was going to pivot from Russia coverage to focusing on race in the run up to the 2020 election. The Times also declared it “aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.” A number of conservatives reacted to the project by branding it as anti-American. But I don’t think that’s fair, at least based on the lead essay I read from Nikole Hannah-Jones. In fact, her piece is quite the opposite. Sure, it chronicles the brutality of the institution of slavery and the century of oppression, institutionalized discrimination, and racist terrorism that followed. Yet the piece is ultimately about how she reconciles that history with her patriotism and comes to understand her own father’s love of a country that treated him so poorly. In her telling, black patriotism is rooted in appreciation for the contributions that their ancestors made to the nation even through exploitation and pain, especially in their valiant fights to make America more faithfully live up to its founding principles of liberty. This is something that can be seen in Frederick Douglass’ iconic The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro address, in which he shamed whites to confront the horrid contradiction between a celebration of the liberation of one segment of the population from tyranny even as millions of Americans were in bondage. Nearly a century later, Martin Luther King Jr. would famously convey his dream “that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. "It’s important to acknowledge that the experience of American descendants of slaves is unique. That is, even when other immigrant groups have faced prejudice, at the end of the day, they all came here of their own volition. For descendants of slaves, knowing that your ancestors were stolen, sold, and transported here in chains and forced to perform hard labor in captivity is totally different. And of course, the persecution did not magically end at Appomattox. As I noted on Twitter, I did take issue with Hannah-Jones for making this bold claim without adequately presenting supporting evidence: “One of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.” You can follow the replies to my Twitter thread on the subject for a bit more on this. Also, a number of people have raised objections to another contribution to the series, which I have not yet read, about the connection between slavery and modern capitalism, which is based on historical studies that have been challenged by academics. Whatever one’s sentiments about the Times project, however, I do think it is important to examine the implications of slavery that live with us until this day. One implication that I think of constantly is the extent to which the legacy of slavery effectively made it impossible to limit the size and scope of the federal government...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/how-slavery-doomed-limited-government-in-america?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_08/20/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
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How Can We Safeguard Our Election Process?
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By Hans von Spakovsky
{ cnsnews.com } ~ In the freest nation in the world, our system of government and our very liberty depend on free and fair elections... Whether they’re selecting a mayor or the president of the United States, every American must be able to trust the process, or the democratic system itself breaks down. When someone commits voter fraud, the process is no longer fair, everyone’s vote gets diluted, and in some cases, election results are changed. Contrary to the claims of many on the left, voter fraud is a very real problem. As the Supreme Court noted when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, flagrant examples of voter fraud have been documented throughout this nation’s history. The National Commission on Federal Election Reform has said that in many close elections, fraud can absolutely change the outcome. Cases of local elections getting overturned because of fraud have occurred in New Jersey, Indiana, and other states. Although hundreds of people have been convicted in recent years, voter fraud often goes undetected. And even when it’s discovered, overburdened prosecutors rarely prioritize these cases. Fraudsters can steal votes and change election outcomes in several ways, including: voting in someone else’s name, registering in multiple locations to vote multiple times in the same election, voting even though they’re not eligible because they’re felons or noncitizens, or paying or intimidating people to vote for certain candidates. Unfortunately, many on the left are attempting to make election fraud easier by fighting laws that require an ID to vote. They’ve pushed to get noncitizens and jailed inmates to vote. And they’ve sued states that have tried to purge their voter rolls of people registered in multiple states...
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‘We’re in distress’: NYPD union boss blasts 
decision to fire Daniel Pantaleo over 
Eric Garner’s death
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by gopusa.com ~ In the shadow of an upside down department flag, the head of the city’s largest police union blasted the city’s top cop Monday for firing the officer whose chokehold resulted in the death of Eric Garner... A fiery Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association, said the department was “frozen” and “rudderless” in the wake of Police Commissioner James O’Neill’s decision to kick Officer Daniel Pantaleo off the force — and used the upside down flag to emphasize his point. “We’re in distress,” Lynch said during a lower Manhattan news conference that followed O’Neill’s long-awaited announcement. “Our police officers are in distress — not because they have a difficult job, not because they put themselves in danger, but because they realize they are abandoned. The captain has jumped ship. The mayor has told him to do it, and the streets are falling into chaos.”The angry union boss even hinted at a work slowdown, urging his rank-and-file to use the “utmost caution” when executing arrests, especially if a suspect resists. He said cops should back each other up, call for a supervisor when making an arrest and request an ambulance when touching a member of the public. “The people of New York City will not accept any work slowdowns by any public servants,” said Mayor scumbag-de Blasio. “I want to believe that there are some limits that even a union leader who often has been willing to be divisive, understands. It’s not legal to suggest a work slowdown. And I believe the men and women of the NYPD do not think that way. They’re here to do their job.” During an appearance on NY1 on Monday night, scumbag-de Blasio called Lynch’s denunciation of O’Neill “reprehensible.”...  http://www. http://www.gopusa.com/were-in-distress-nypd-union-boss-blasts-decision-to-fire-daniel-pantaleo-over-eric-garners-death/?omhide=true  /were-in-distress-nypd-union-boss-blasts-decision-to-fire-daniel-pantaleo-over-eric-garners-death/?omhide=true  
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Portland Maine Students Vote With Their Feet
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Tom McLaughlin
 
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ School choice is a good thing, and it is highlighting problems in Portland, Maine. The city has two large high schools and students can attend whichever one they choose. The Portland Press Herald ran a series of articles over the summer indicating why so many students and their parents are choosing Portland High School over rival Deering High School. Most cited student discipline, or lack thereof.  
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They like Portland High School because, as Meg Baltes — president of the rising junior class at Portland High School — put it to Press Herald reporter Rachel Ohm: "I think things are handled very swiftly and very aggressively at Portland. Any kids who get into trouble are dealt with pretty immediately. It’s a very no-nonsense policy. I know students see that and that helps a lot with problems being diverted.”  
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It’s a different story at Deering. As former math teacher Tim Eisenhart put it in the same article, “There’s a weird lack of discipline inside the building. The administration is too soft and what ends up happening is kids do whatever they want.” Eisenhart resigned mid-year and went back to his engineering career. “I think you will find there’s a lot of shoveling it under the carpet, because administrators didn’t do anything. They send kids back to class less than 15 minutes later with a cupcake without doing anything.”  
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As a retired teacher with two years teaching delinquent high school students in Lowell, Massachusetts and thirty-three years in Maine public schools, those two quotes sum it up. If teachers aren’t backed up by building administrators when disciplining a students, everything breaks down. If I sent a student to the office which I rarely did and a principal sent him back with no consequence, I’d send him out again and inform the principal that he was not allowed in my classroom until an appropriate consequence was enforced, and I would not continue teaching otherwise.  
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Projected enrollment for the freshman class in Portland next month is 272, while at Deering, it’s only 127. Nine years ago the numbers were roughly equal with Deering at 245 and Portland at 232. Clearly things have changed at Deering. As Meg Baltes went on to say: “A lot of students at Deering feel the administration is chill and relaxed. They feel they can talk to them and have a more honest relationship, but it also means there’s less discipline and a feeling they can get away with stuff.” 
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Neither Deering Principal Gregg Palmer nor Assistant Principal Abdullahi Ahmed would answer specific questions from the Press Herald. Principal Palmer did, however, perform in Deering’s Gender Sexuality Alliance 2nd Annual Drag Show dressed as a woman. “This is all about them [the students],” Palmer said. "They are brave and they encourage the rest of us to be brave,” as he told the Press Herald. Too bad that bravery didn’t enable Palmer to back up teachers dealing with his problem students. One parent said to the Press Herald: “I think they’re too scared to discipline students in a way that would have an impact, so they just let things go a lot of the time without even a slap on the wrist.”  
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Deering administrators referred all the Press Herald’s discipline questions to Superintendent Xavier Botana who tried explaining it away as a lack of communication regarding violent incidents at Deering last year. Then he indicated that, “He plans to start a conversation with the school board about capping the number of students that can attend each school.” In other words, Superintendent Botana wants to limit school choice. He doesn’t want students voting with their feet because that’s making his job difficult.  
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Even if Superintendent Botana were to pressure his administrative team at Deering to toughen up, he may not be backed up by his school board. Board Chairman Roberto Rodriguez told the Press Herald: “It’s difficult to change the expectations of what discipline truly means. If we have an old-school expectation of what discipline is, something like zero-tolerance, then yes, you’re not going to see that today. That’s not how we want to discipline our students.”

Really Mr. Rodriguez? How would you do it? It looks like Deering is in for another tough year.
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Complicating all this are changing demographics. Though it used to enroll the poorest kids in the city a generation ago, Portland High School is located on Portland’s peninsula where real estate values have skyrocketed. The Deering neighborhood used to be more prosperous but has lately absorbed a high concentration of so-called “refugees” and “asylum seekers,” many of whom speak no English. The Press Herald reports: “In 2018-2019, minority students accounted for about 47 percent of the Deering student body. Twenty percent were English language learners and 57 percent were economically disadvantaged, according to school district data.”   
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Big city problems have arrived in once-placid Portland, Maine.  
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Tuesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 20, 2019 at 3:50pm
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~ Featuring ~ 
  Have We Entered a New Arms 
Race With Russia?
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Brian Mark Weber 
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Illegal immigrants are arrested after they tried 
and FAILED to climb over a newly installed 
barrier at the Mexico-U.S. border
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by EMILY CRANE 
{ dailymail.co.uk } ~ Two illegal immigrants have been arrested after they unsuccessfully tried to climb over a newly installed section of a border wall in California... U.S. Customs and Border Protection said they caught the two men trying to illegally cross over into San Diego from Mexico. Surveillance footage taken from the border showed the men trying and failing to scale the border wall. The two men could then be seen trying to flee back towards Mexico but were forced to hide when border agents responded to the scene.They appeared to be hiding in some crates when they were cornered by the border agents. Officials said the newly installed primary border barrier thwarted the men's attempts to enter the U.S. and gave agents time to respond to take them into custody.  'Unable to scale the new primary border barrier and flee back to Mexico, two men who entered the U.S. illegally near San Diego were arrested by Border Patrol,' the CBP San Diego tweeted on Monday. 'Barriers give agents the time they need to respond and contain illicit activity at the immediate border.' It comes after crews completed the primary border wall project earlier this month...  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7373803/Illegal-immigrants-arrested-San-Diego-trying-climb-new-border-wall.html  
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When, If Ever, Can We Lay This Burden Down?
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by Pat Buchanan
{ townhall.com } ~ Friday, President Donald Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is negotiating with the Taliban to bring about peace, and a U.S. withdrawal from America's longest war... U.S. troops have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, in a war that has cost 2,400 American lives. Following the meeting, Trump tweeted, "Many on the opposite sides of this 19 year war, and us, are looking to make a deal -- if possible!" Some, however, want no deal; they are fighting for absolute power.
Saturday, a wedding in Kabul with a thousand guests was hit by a suicide bomber who, igniting his vest, massacred 63 people and wounded 200 in one of the greatest atrocities of the war. ISIS claimed responsibility. Monday, 10 bombs exploded in restaurants and public squares in the eastern city of Jalalabad, wounding 66. Trump is pressing Khalilzad to negotiate drawdowns of U.S. troop levels from the present 14,000, and to bring about a near-term end to U.S. involvement in a war that began after we overthrew the old Taliban regime for giving sanctuary to Osama bin Laden. Is it too soon to ask: What have we gained from our longest war? Was all the blood and treasure invested worth it? And what does the future hold? If the Taliban could not be defeated by an Afghan army, built up by the U.S. for a decade and backed by 100,000 U.S. troops in 2010-2011, then are the Taliban likely to give up the struggle when the U.S. is drawing down the last 14,000 troops and heading home?...
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Border Patrol alarmed by spike 
in drug seizures on California highway
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by Anna Giaritelli
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Border Patrol agents in southeastern California are seeing an uptick in the number of drug seizures they are making inside the United States... after the narcotics have been illegally smuggled into the country, a senior agent told the Washington Examiner. Most of the drugs being seized are being stopped at one of the region's three immigration checkpoints on local highways. The checkpoints are permanent fixtures meant to stop the smuggling of people and contraband that made it over the border. Federal agents from the El Centro sector, or region, are seeing a spike in the number of drug smuggling incidents, as well as the amount of dope they are finding in seizures since Aug. 1. "It's something that we certainly have brought to the attention of our stakeholders, headquarters and lawmakers in the area," Joshua Devack, assistant chief patrol agent for Border Patrol's El Centro Sector, told the Washington Examiner in a phone call late Monday. On Aug. 1, agents arrested two U.S. citizens near Calexico, California, suspected of accepting $475,000 worth of cocaine and methamphetamine from an ultralight aircraft other personnel saw drop the load on the American side of the border. That same day, a 32-year-old Mexican man was arrested at the Highway 86 checkpoint after agents found $2.5 million worth of cocaine, meth, and heroin in the back of his truck. Agents at the same checkpoint found $96,000 worth of meth in the gas tank of a 19-year-old U.S. man on Aug. 5. That same day, checkpoint personnel detected $43,000 worth of fentanyl and heroin on another 19-year-old U.S. man who tried to take a taxi cab through the stop. On Aug. 7, a 41-year-old U.S. man was arrested after Highway 86 checkpoint agents found $158,000 worth of black tar heroin and fentanyl in a false car battery. The next day, agents at the highway stop arrested a 24-year-old U.S. man because they found $63,000 worth of meth hidden inside his vehicle door. The majority of the arrests were announced by the El Centro Sector locally, but not published on Customs and Border Protection's main website. CBP spokesman Ralph DeSio shared with the Washington Examiner another recent incident took place Aug. 16, when agents from Salton City, California, discovered $637,000 worth of fentanyl and liquid meth during a standard stop at its Highway 86 checkpoint Aug. 16. An American woman driving a white Ford F-150 had attempted to pass through the vehicle inspection booth when a Border Patrol K9 that is trained to smell for narcotics alerted his handler to the truck...
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How Common Core And Screen Overdoses 
Are Ruining American Kids’ Intelligence 
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By Auguste Meyrat
{ thefederalist.com } ~ By every metric SAT, ACT, and even IQ, the intelligence and aptitude of American students has declined in recent years... As Joy Pullmann documents in an article about the results of using Common Core, student performance on state standardized tests has also gone down — that is, when the scoring isn’t changed to show better results. Before casting blame on who’s responsible, it’s important to understand what these numbers actually mean. All of these tests attempt to measure higher-order thinking skills as they relate to abstract scenarios, nothing more or less. They do not measure the level of practical skills people might have, their emotional intelligence, or even their actual knowledge of things. Rather, they assess students’ critical thinking the ability to analyze, problem solving, and knowledge application. People who have these higher-order thinking skills are generally more adaptable to any kind of learning, particularly the kind of learning that happens in higher education. Higher-order thinking is also important in a time most activities are computerized and information comes in abstract forms such as images and text. American students who lack these skills will struggle much more when most jobs and other domains in life communication, management, choosing a lifestyle, etc. demand this of them.  Debate abounds about whether higher-order thinking skills are a product of nature or nurturing, which explains the general responses about the decline revealed on aptitude tests. Those who believe high-level thinking come from genes and parenting attribute the recent decline to more dumb parents having children than smart ones — the “idiocracy hypothesis,” as Michael Knowles discusses and debunks on his podcast. This usually follows from the feeling that raw intelligence to which people equate higher-order thinking when it is left undefined cannot be taught.  Others believe, rightly, that changes in nurturing have led to the decline. Higher-order thinking is not raw intelligence, but more a habit of mind, and the children who practice it more can generally do it better. Scores on all these tests, including the IQ test, will change based on the person’s habits. When people read and listen more and have more leisure time for using their imaginations, they will improve in higher-order thinking, as they did for much of the 20th century...
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CAIR: An Islamic Trojan Horse
By Amil Imani
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Since its foundation in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has become a powerful organization that has widely represented itself as a Muslim American "civil rights organization."... Ironically, there is another powerful organization, similar to CAIR called, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a staunch lobbyists' group of the Islamic Republic of Iran, falsely portraying itself as the "voice of Iranian Americans and promoting greater understanding between the American and Iranian people." For now, let us focus on CAIR and its mission in the United States. How did an organization that has ties to Hamas, and is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, gain so much power in the United States?  Why are so many institution within the U.S. establishment so terrified of this group and hesitant to invite Islamic scholars to give speeches? Recently, the U.S. War College canceled an Islam scholar after pressure from CAIR and another radical Islamist, Linda Sarsour. It is hard to believe that these incidents happen in the land of the free, America! Let's be clear about one thing: as Anti-CAIR.net put it, "CAIR is not in the United States to promote the civil rights for Muslims — CAIR is here to make Islam the dominant religion in the United States and convert our country into an Islamic theocracy." Moreover, "CAIR receives direct funding from Islamic terrorist-supporting countries." CAIR's true face came to light during the largest terrorism financing trial in the nation's history: the 2007–2008 Holy Land Foundation prosecution. "The Dallas trial charging the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) for Relief and Development with providing material support for Hamas produced extensive evidence that IAP — CAIR's parent — played a central role in the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee. Much of that evidence relates to Mousa Abu Marzook, now deputy political chief of Hamas, who served on the board of directors of IAP in 1989."  CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas support trial of the Holy Land Foundation... CAIR must be removed from the USA.
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Have We Entered a New Arms Race 
With Russia?
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Brian Mark Weber:  A deadly explosion last week in Russia spread radiation across a broad area, endangering the lives of citizens and fueling questions about the superpower’s intent to spark a new arms race with the U.S.
 

Information about the explosion has been reminiscent of the secret cloak that surrounded the infamous Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

NBC News’s Alexander Smith reports that “authorities have drip-fed details of the incident to the public. But Monday, Vyacheslav Solovyov, scientific director of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center, confirmed that at the time of the blast, nuclear scientists at the Nyonoksa military range were working on ‘small-sized energy sources using radioactive fissile materials.’”

Smith adds, “Another factual morsel came when Russia’s state nuclear agency, Rosatom, said the accident happened while testing ‘isotope power sources within a liquid propulsion system.’”

Facts about the blast are minimal due to Soviet-style misinformation, but President Trump didn’t waste time in offering some insight of his own. The president seems to think the failed test relates to Russia’s secret nuclear weapon called Skyfall, a guided missile with the capability of evading detection by U.S. missile defense systems.

After the explosion, the president said: “The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia. We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian ‘Skyfall’ explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!”

Initially, it seemed as though the impact of the incident was minimal.

Jake Rudnitsky and Stepan Kravchenko write at Bloomberg.com that “Norway said it had stepped up radiation monitoring after the incident but hadn’t detected anything abnormal. On Monday, Norway’s Nuclear Safety and Environmental Protection department said its local and European monitors hadn’t shown any increase in radiation levels.”

But emerging information points to a situation more dire than first realized, with Russian officials ordering the evacuation of a nearby village just two days ago.

In fact, The New York Times reported that “Russian officials have released a flurry of misleading or incomplete statements playing down the severity of the accident,” adding “that pattern of murkiness continued on Tuesday, as news reports and official statements offered only the vaguest explanation for the evacuation, and hours later seemed to indicate that it had been called off.”

What’s interesting about this latest Russian nuclear disaster is that the explosion came just days after the U.S. pulled out of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty due to concerns over Russia violating the ban on ground-based nuclear weapons, a carryover from the Cold War era.

So what’s the concern over Putin’s new Skyfall weapon?

NBC News reports that the weapon “would not only be nuclear-armed but also nuclear powered, carrying a relatively small reactor to heat the air in its jet engine. It would fly at a lower and on a less predictable trajectory than an intercontinental ballistic missile, making it theoretically capable of evading U.S. missile defenses.”

So why is Putin so dedicated to pursuing these new weapons? He claims the U.S. plan to deploy missile defense systems in eastern Europe is a direct threat to Russian national security. In a speech earlier this year, Putin made that crystal clear. National Review’s Mairead Mcardle recalls that “Russian president Vladimir Putin warned during his State of the Nation speech in February that while Russia does not seek aggression, the country’s nuclear weapons would be pointed toward the U.S. if the White House deployed missiles in Europe.”

And Putin has more than one weapon in his laboratory.

CNSNews.com’s Patrick Goodenough writes that in addition to Skyfall, Putin’s announcement in 2018 revealed “a heavy ICBM which he said would be capable of reaching targets via both the North and South poles; a ground-based laser weapon; a hypersonic air-borne ballistic missile; a submarine-launched hypersonic missile; and fast, unmanned submersible vehicles able to carry conventional or nuclear warheads, boasting ‘unlimited range.’”

Does Putin’s desire to develop new weapons signal the beginning of a new era?

The editors of The Wall Street Journal think “the reality is that Russia under Mr. Putin is breaking out of arms-control restraints to develop new weapons and the means to deliver them. He can’t be trusted to follow new treaties, as his violations show. The salient question is whether the U.S. will also develop the weapons and defenses to prevent Mr. Putin from gaining a military advantage.”

Some experts may assume that the explosion of Skyfall along the coast of the White Sea is an indicator that Russia still has a long way to go in matching America’s own military technology. But the fact that these weapons are being developed in the first place might make that assumption dangerous. What this signals, if nothing else, is that the period of nuclear control has come to an abrupt end.

More startling is the fact that we may very well have entered a new arms race with Russia.  ~The Patriot Post

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 20, 2019 at 11:21am
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Red Flag' Laws Are a Scam
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Arnold Ahlert    
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ICE offices, workers hit by wave of violence and threats: ‘We know where all your children live’
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By Adam Shaw 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workers are facing a rapidly escalating series of threats, including protesters menacing their children and shots being fired at their offices... amid a rising tide of anti-ICE rhetoric from the left fueled by congressional Democrats, media voices and presidential hopefuls. Footage published Tuesday by Breitbart News shows protesters in Florida from groups such as Never Again Action and Black Lives Matter Alliance of Broward County  threatening workers and former employees of the GEO Group, a private contractor used by ICE. One protester threatened the family of GEO Group’s former general counsel, John Bulfin. “We know where all your children live throughout the country … John Bulfin you have kids in bleeped out, you have kids in bleeped out,” the protester yelled. “We know everything about you and you won’t just be seeing us here.” “We know where you sleep at night,” another protester shouted. “We know what kind of dog food you buy your dogs.” “We’re not actually joking,” the protester said before shouting the location of where Bulfin lives. “John Bulfin you go to bleeped out, you go to church on bleeped out, you live on bleeped out the road. We are not joking.” Another can be heard yelling: “When immigrant bodies are under attack, what do we do?” "Fight back,” other protesters responded. Breitbart reports that the footage was taken a day before shots were fired early Tuesday at an ICE office and GEO Group office in San Antonio, Texas, in what the FBI has called a “targeted attack.”...
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commie-Bernie Sanders Tells Union Worker: I’d ‘Absolutely’ Take Away Your Health Care Plan
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by JUSTIN CARUSO
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Independent Vermont Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful commie-Bernie Sanders told a worker in Iowa... that he would “absolutely” take away his union’s right to bargain for health care plans Monday.  “Okay. All right, Somebody tell me why I’m crazy,” the Vermont politician said while interacting with a crowd in Iowa. commie-Sanders: “I want to be frank I don’t want to…oh I guess the guy could tell me why I’m crazy. All right, there’s a Cubs fan…” Audience member: “Wouldn’t the Medicare health care plan … wouldn’t that take away our right to bargain for our — our medical benefits?” commie-Sanders: “Yeah, absolutely it would. It’s not a bad thing.” commie-Sanders is currently running for the Democratic nomination and has built his campaign around democratic socialist proposals on health care and the environment. The senator, himself a millionaire, has also proposed that illegal immigrants be included in his “Medicare For All” plan. “When I talk about health care being a human right, last time I heard that undocumented people are human beings as well,” he said in June. Medicare For All has become the key issue in the Democratic primary. California Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris initially supported a commie-Sanders-style universal health care program, but recently backtracked, telling a group of wealthy donors that she has “not been comfortable” with commie-Bernie Sanders’ health care plan...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/19/bernie-sanders-union-worker-absolutely-take-away-health-care-plan/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9759  
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“More Than 10 Million” Illegals in California Alone
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by Lloyd Billingsley
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ More than 22 million people are illegally present in the United States, according to a recent study by scholars at MIT and Yale... Pew Research pegged the figure at 11 million, and for years it stood as the official count for media and government. It now emerges that 11 million is more like the number illegally present in California alone. “California is home to over 10 million immigrants,” reads a chart displayed by California attorney general Xavier Becerra and governor Gavin Newsom as they announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s public-charge rule. “Immigrants,” is California code for “illegals,” a term the state’s ruling class has banned. As Rachel Bovard notes at American Greatness, even a legal immigrant’s ability “to stay off the welfare system must be taken into account when considering qualifications for a green card.” California heaps welfare benefits on those illegally present, including nearly $100 million for health care in the recent budget. Many of those 10 million illegals came to California specifically to get those taxpayer-funded benefits. It disturbs Becerra and Newsom that this disqualifies the recipients from any future legal status, but there’s more to it. As attorney Madison Gesiotto explains  in The Hill, voting must also be taken into account. “Voting as an illegal alien in federal elections is a crime punishable by fine, imprisonment, deportation, or inadmissibility.” According to a State Department investigation, false-documented illegals have been voting in federal, state and local elections for decades. In 1996, illegals cast 784 votes against Republican Robert Dornan in a congressional race Democrat Loretta Sanchez won by only 984 votes. If Newsom and Becerra are certain that more than 10 million people illegally reside in the state, they doubtless know how many voted in 2016. Trouble is, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla refused to release any voter information to a federal voter-fraud probe. Back in 2015, Padilla told the Los Angeles Times, “At the latest, for the 2018 election cycle, I expect millions of new voters on the rolls in the state of California,” with “new voters” code for ineligible voters. True to form, by March, 2018, more than one million “undocumented” immigrants received driver’s licenses from the state Department of Motor Vehicles, which automatically registered them to vote under the “Motor Voter” program...
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Environmentalists Killed More Europeans 
than Islamic Terrorists
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by Daniel Greenfield
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ "Do Americans Need Air-Conditioning?" a New York Times piece asked in July. Air conditioning, it argued, is bad for the environment and makes us less human... It ran quotes suggesting that, "first world discomfort is a learned behavior", and urging "a certain degree of self-imposed suffering". If environmentalists ruled the world, air conditioning wouldn’t exist. And there’s a place like that. 90% of American households have air conditioning. As do 86% of South Koreans, 82% of Australians, 60% of Chinese, 16% of Brazilians and Mexicans, 9% of Indonesians and less than 5% of Europeans. A higher percentage of Indian households have air conditioning than their former British colonial rulers. Temperatures in Paris hit 108.6 degrees. Desperate Frenchmen dived into the fountains of the City of Lights with their clothes on. Parisian authorities announced that they were deploying heat wave management plan orange, level three, which meant setting up foggers in public parks and distributing heat wave kits. The kits consist of leaflets telling people to go to libraries which have air conditioning.  France24, the country’s state-owned television network, advised people suffering from temperatures rising as high as 110 degrees to take cold showers and stick their feet in saucepans of cold water. A 2003 heat wave killed 15,000 people in France. And, in response, the authorities have deployed Chalex, a database of vulnerable people who will get a call offering them cooling advice. The advice consists of taking cold showers and sticking their feet in saucepans of cold water. Desperate Frenchmen trying to get into any body of water they can have led to a 30% rise in drownings. The dozens of people dead are casualties of the environmentalist hatred of air conditioners. Only 5% of French households have air conditioning. Even in response to the crisis, the authorities are only deploying temporary air conditioning to kindergartens...
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Chris Wallace becomes Trump era's 
'equal opportunity inquisitor'
By BRETT SAMUELS
{ thehill.com } ~ Chris Wallace was nearing the end of a tense interview last year with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki... where the “Fox News Sunday” anchor had won the mercurial leader's attention by handing him an indictment implicating Russian agents in U.S. election meddling and engaging him on the country’s nuclear weapons and its role in Syria’s civilian massacres. "I thought, 'I’ve really got a great interview here now, but I have one great question left.' And I'm thinking, 'Should I ask it or not?’ And I thought to myself, 'What the hell?'" Wallace recalled in an interview with The Hill. "I said, 'Why is it so many of the people who oppose Vladimir Putin end up dead?' And again, it was an audible gasp in the room from the Russians." But it paid off. Late last month, Wallace was nominated for an Emmy for his interview with Putin, marking the first-ever nomination for the Fox News Channel at the annual television awards. The Putin interview is one of several sit-downs Wallace has conducted in the Trump era that have garnered headlines or resulted in viral moments. In an increasingly partisan and siloed news environment, and with President Trump and other leaders stoking distrust in the media, Wallace has carved out a reputation as a tough but fair interviewer who has gotten the best of members of both parties. "People come up to me at airports or restaurants or whenever I’m out in public and praise me a lot for being fair," Wallace, 71, said in an interview. "While on the one hand I appreciate it, on the other hand it kind of depresses me because when I started out in the business being fair was the baseline — that you tried to be as fair, as objective, as even-handed as you could be." Even with the rise of cable news, the internet, commentators and partisan media outlets, Wallace said he approaches his job the same way he did decades ago. He likened his preparation to that of a cross-examiner trying to predict how a subject might respond to a given question and how to get them off script...
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Red Flag' Laws Are a Scam
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Arnold Ahlert:  “We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding ‘interest-balancing’ approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government — even the Third Branch of Government — the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all.” —The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the Second Amendment.

Following the three mass shootings in El Paso Texas, Dayton, Ohio, and Gilroy, California, Democrats are yet again exploiting tragedy to push for gun control. And this time weak-kneed Republicans, and possibly President Donald Trump, will join them in adopting a federal grant program aimed at encouraging states to embrace so-called “red flag” laws that would take guns away from people believed to be dangers to themselves or others.

Believed by whom? “State laws vary, but most stipulate that only specific people — usually family or household members — may petition a court for an extreme risk protection order,” the Associated Press reports.

Not exactly. In Colorado, which became the 15th state to adopt such a law — without a single Republican vote — family, household members, or law-enforcement officials can petition a court to have guns seized or surrendered based on a “preponderance of the evidence.” That is a civil standard whereby the individual whose guns are being seized is deemed more likely than not to be a threat.

Eagle County, Colorado, Sheriff James van Beek, who slammed the law, explains the implications. “In other words, there is just over a 50/50 chance of accuracy,” he writes, further warning that someone’s guns could be seized even without a mental-health professional making a determination of any kind. “Like the flip of a coin. Couldn’t that apply to just about anything a person does?”

It gets worse. A subsequent court hearing could extend a gun seizure for as long as 364 days. To prevent that from happening, gun owners must demonstrate the much higher standard of “clear and convincing evidence” they are not a threat.

Thus, gun owners are “guilty until proven innocent,” van Beek asserts.

Denver-based physician Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. makes it even clearer. “These laws usurp the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms, the Fourth Amendment’s protection from unreasonable searches and seizures, and the Sixth Amendment’s right of the accused to a speedy and public trial,” he states.

Moreover, unlike so many of his fellow Americans who simply want to do something that amounts to little more than virtue signaling, he sees the long-term agenda of an American Left well versed in employing incrementalist tactics to get its way. “How long will it take before states, or the federal government, if a red flag law becomes nationalized, start to view any and all Trump supporters as ‘posing a danger’ based on their skin color, gender, religion, and opposition to open borders?” he asks.

Fordham University professor Mark Naison knows the answer. “We are a country with a few million passionate white supremacists — and tens of millions of white supremacists by default,” he told CNN in 2017 following the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

And despite President Trump condemning that violence, the mainstream media took a single phrase from his speech — “you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides” — and used it to propagate one of the most contemptible hoaxes in modern history to paint the president and his followers as white supremacists.

A hoax it’s still pushing two years later.

The racist viewpoints of white supremacists are abhorrent. But are they sufficient, solely in and of themselves, to precipitate the confiscation of guns based on a preponderance of evidence? If so, what other political viewpoints would trigger such a law? In 2016, Bill Nye, the so-called “Science Guy,” expressed an openness to jailing people who didn’t believe in climate change.

Should so-called “science deniers” be targeted for confiscation?

Presidential candidate scumbag-Corey “Spartacus” Booker doesn’t think red-flag laws go far enough. “We need far more bolder action to make our nation safe,” he asserts. “Red-flag laws, yes, they’re important, but they’re nowhere near enough to stop these rising levels of mass shootings.”

America certainly needs bolder action to make it safer. But that would require addressing the nation’s genuine  problems with regard to gun violence — of all kinds, not just mass shootings. It would require addressing the reality that it is virtually a way of life in American cities like Chicago, where seven people were killed and 46 others were wounded in a single weekend, and Baltimore, where the murder rate is higherthan the nations of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras — despite the fact that both cities have strict gun-control laws.

Such action might also require addressing the uncomfortable and oh-so-inconvenient correlation between gun violence and fatherlessness, courtesy of a Democrat-led “war on poverty” that eviscerated the nuclear family, or the seemingly orchestrated indifference  toward the number of mass murderers on, or just coming off, psychiatric medications.

It might also require solutions based on hard evidence, such as the reality that data obtained between 1970 and 2017 revealed that red-flag laws “had no significant effect on murder, suicide, the number of people killed in mass public shootings, robbery, aggravated assault, or burglary,” or that countries such as France, Finland, Russia, and Switzerland, many of which have much stricter gun-control laws than America, have higher  murder rates from mass public shootings.

Yet what America will be subjected to instead is exemplified by a quote courtesy of former scumbag/liar-nObama administration chief of staff and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

An opportunity to eviscerate the Constitution, perhaps?

Regardless, red-flag laws have their conservative  defenders. “If legislatures compose red-flag laws with sufficient due process rights, it would be unreasonable to oppose them,” asserts Andrew McCarthy.

Why? Because “if reasonable action is not taken, it will become increasingly difficult to stave off unreasonable restrictions — which are favored by many Democrats and much of the judiciary,” he adds.

It’s precisely that kind of organized unreasonableness that precipitated the inalienable right to self-defense codified by the Founding Fathers, Mr. McCarthy — all the “interest balancing” efforts of a fascist-wannabe, exploit-a-crisis American Left and its GOP collaborators notwithstanding.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64853?mailing_id=4473&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4473&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 20, 2019 at 9:05am
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Dems' Political Strategy: Straw Man Trump
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Tuesday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Government & Politics


BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: National Review reports, “Planned Parenthood will refuse all Title X funding rather than comply with the Trump administration’s restrictions governing the discussion of abortion at clinics that participate in the program, the group announced Monday.” Erick Erickson called the development “a massive, massive victory for the pro-life cause” while also dolefully observing that Planned Parenthood “has no interest in helping poor women if it cannot offer to sacrifice their children to Moloch.”

MORE TAX RELIEF? “Several senior White House officials have begun discussing whether to push for a temporary payroll tax cut as a way to arrest an economic slowdown,” The Washington Post reveals. However, “Even though deliberations about the payroll tax cut were held Monday, the White House released a statement disputing that the idea was actively under ‘consideration.’”

WARRANTLESS SEARCHES: Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reaffirmed that “border officials may conduct suspicionless manual searches of cell phones.” But as Reason’s Damon Root uneasily writes, “The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized a ‘border search exception’ to the Fourth Amendment’s normal warrant requirement. But the Court has yet to address whether that exception deserves to hold sway in the current era of smartphones and related high-tech devices.”

CHIEF OF PRISON BUREAU REPLACED: “Attorney General William Barr announced Monday the appointment of a new director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons following the shocking suicide of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein inside a federal lockup earlier this month. … The change in leadership comes amid the fallout from the death of Epstein, 66, who hanged himself in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy.” (Fox News)

MORE WHITEWASHING: “Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren’s (D., Mass.) presidential campaign removed her DNA test ancestry video on Monday as her campaign attempts to put the issue behind her. The dinky-Warren campaign scrubbed their launch video where it showed dinky-Warren talking about a DNA test which was supposed to counter President Donald Trump’s ‘attacks’ on her heritage. The release of dinky-Warren’s DNA test results was not well received, as the test revealed she could be anywhere from 1/64th to 1/1024th Native American.” (The Washington Free Beacon)

Around the Nation


ANTITRUST PROBE: “A group of states is preparing to move forward with a joint antitrust investigation of big technology companies, according to people familiar with the situation, adding another layer of scrutiny to an industry already under a federal spotlight. The effort involving state attorneys general is expected to be formally launched as soon as next month, the people said. It is likely to focus on whether a handful of dominant technology platforms use their marketplace powers to stifle competition.” (The Wall Street Journal)

SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS PREVAIL: “New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo has been fired, five years after he was filmed putting his arms around Eric Garner’s neck while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes,” according to The Daily Wire. This despite the Justice Department opting not to charge the officer last month. Our Mark Alexander analyzed this case in 2014, ultimately concluding, “The case isn’t exactly black and white.”

VILLAGE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM: “Only half of all Americans now have a positive view of colleges and universities, according to a new survey from Pew Research,” Reason’s Robby Soave reveals. “The number of people who take a negative view has increased from 26 percent in 2012 to 38 percent in 2019. The change largely reflects a growing dissatisfaction on the right with the culture of college campuses. The percentage of Republicans who see value in higher education has collapsed in recent years, from 53 percent in 2012 to just 23 percent in 2019.” One explanation is because, as Campus Reform observes, “Social justice majors and other social justice-themed activities are becoming an increasingly regular occurrence on college campuses.”

National Security


SHOW OF FORCE: “The U.S. military conducted the first test of a ground-launched cruise missile since the United States withdrew from the landmark 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia this month.” (The Washington Free Beacon)

ISIS RESURGENCE: “Five months after American-backed forces ousted the Islamic State from its last shard of territory in Syria, the terrorist group is gathering new strength, conducting guerrilla attacks across Iraq and Syria, retooling its financial networks and targeting new recruits at an allied-run tent camp, American and Iraqi military and intelligence officers said.” (The New York Times)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: How the U.S. should approach talks with the Taliban (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: Solar energy: Good for virtue signaling and not much else (Issues & Insights)

HUMOR: commie-Bernie Sanders arrives in Hong Kong to lecture protesters on how good they have it under communism (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64937?mailing_id=4481&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4481&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
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Don’t Fall For worthless-Omar And 
worthless-Tlaib’s Lies About Israel
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By David Harsanyi
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Nearly everything Democratic Reps. worthless-Ilhan Omar and worthless-Rashida Tlaib said in their two-woman production of “Israel is Evil” on Monday was untrue... Let’s, for now, focus on one of the duo’s central claims. worthess-Omar and worthless-Tlaib contend they were denied entry into the Jewish state because of their faith, while fellow sitting members of Congress were not. It’s simply untrue. Both worthless-Omar and worthless-Tlaib could easily have joined a group of 70 of their colleagues and met with Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials—if a trip is supposedly part of their “duties,” as they assert, to learn about the situation on the ground. Instead, they planned a separate trip to “Palestine” with an itinerary designed by Miftah, a group that has long praised suicide bombers and, as any good antisemites do, claimed that “Jews use the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover.” You know, we hear a lot these days about how the GOP is infested with white supremacists, but I have yet to run across a single instance of an elected Republican member of Congress allying himself with group that spreads blood libel. I imagine such a pairing would be a pretty notable story. Even then, worthless-Tlaib, who hadn’t visited her poor Sity for 13 years before her election to Congress, had asked to see her on humanitarian grounds. Israel granted the request as long as worthless-Tlaib, now travelling as a private citizen, refrained from antisemitic BDS public protests during her stay. No country is under a moral obligation to issue visas to foreigners who actively engage in efforts to harm its citizens, much less abet their activities. And BDS’s goal is to bring economic ruin to the democratic Jewish state—not only to Netanyahu or to Likud voters or to “settlers,” but to every citizen in the country, including the nearly two million Arabs who live there. worthless-Tlaib must have agreed, because she signed a letter acquiescing to those terms on congressional stationary. Only once granted permission by Israel did she break into her performance mode, claiming that visiting her family without being able to engage in activism amounted to “oppressive conditions.”...
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ICE Requested A Detainer On Illegal Alien 
Accused Of Rape – Authorities In Democratic 
County Released Him Anyway
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by JASON HOPKINS
{dailycaller.com} ~ A Maryland detention center ignored a detainer request by ICE and released an alleged rapist from custody... the latest run-in between federal immigration authorities and the county since it enacted a “sanctuary city” executive order.   Rodrigo Castro-Montejo, a 25-year-old Salvadoran national, was arrested by local authorities in Montgomery County, Maryland on August 10 and charged with second-degree rape and second-degree assault. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed a detainer request on him on August 12 because Castro-Montejo is living in the U.S. illegally, an agency spokeswoman told the Daily Caller News Foundation.  However, the Montgomery County Detention Center ignored the request and released him the following day. News of Castro-Montejo’s release marks the latest national headline for the liberal enclave since County Executive Mark Elrich, a Democrat, signed an executive order that largely prohibits local law enforcement from interacting with ICE. The executive order forbids police from asking people about their immigration status, and it also prohibits them from cooperating with federal immigration authorities under most circumstances. The order, known formally as “The Promoting Community Trust Executive Order,” builds on sanctuary policies already established in the county. However, in just a month since the order was signed by Elrich, the Democrat-run county has attracted national attention for the arrests of illegal aliens accused of rape...I wonder how these dems would react if one of their family's got raped. 
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Politics vs. Protocol
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by Tzvi Kahn
{ fdd.org } ~  On the night of January 31, 2018, Mossad agents broke into a nondescript warehouse in Tehran’s Shorabad district... Over the course of six-and-a-half hours, the Israeli spies – using torches that burned at temperatures of least 3,600 degrees – cut through safes that contained Iran’s clandestine nuclear archive, removing 55,000 pages as well as 183 compact discs that held another 55,000 files. They fled the scene by 5 a.m., just before the morning shift of Iranian guards would begin at 7 a.m. According to American and British intelligence officials, the files are genuine. In an April 2018 press conference, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency had conducted a raid on a warehouse in Iran the previous January removing a half-ton of files cataloguing Tehran’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. The covert archive contained a wealth of new information that contradicts longstanding assumptions about Iran’s nuclear program. While a 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate judged “with high confidence” that Iran “halted its nuclear weapons program” in 2003, the archive shows that the program continued, albeit in a more circumscribed and diffuse manner. Specifically, the archive identifies additional nuclear facilities, equipment, and activities previously unknown to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN body tasked with monitoring Iran’s nuclear program and verifying its key nuclear-related commitments. Israeli officials estimate that the Jewish state seized only 20 to 50 percent of the archive’s contents, suggesting that the IAEA’s knowledge base likely has additional gaps. The IAEA harbors an obligation to remedy these gaps by securing prompt access to the facilities, equipment, and materials described in the archive. This responsibility stems directly from the IAEA’s legal mandate, as established by the multiple non-proliferation agreements that Iran has concluded. A careful review of these accords shows that the IAEA has no pretext for inaction or delay. Further investigation of Iran’s nuclear program remains necessary to ensure that no covert nuclear activity persists today. This report assesses that the IAEA, despite its clear duty, has not demonstrably satisfied its mandate. In the years since the finalization of the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the IAEA has provided insufficient transparency and clarity about its inspections in Iran. This opacity raises questions about the diligence of the IAEA’s investigations – particularly its probe of sites, equipment, and activities documented in the archive. The agency’s approach also invites criticism that political considerations have interfered with its obligation to serve as an objective, technical body. In fact, the actions and public statements of IAEA leaders convey a hesitation to scrutinize key Iranian activities that potentially violate the JCPOA, lest the resulting evidence undermine the accord’s viability...
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UN agency for Palestinians is too corrupt to save
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By DAVID MAY
{ thehill.com } ~ The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which is dedicated exclusively to assisting Palestinians, has begun to lose the support of some of its most loyal donors... Following reports of widespread corruption and abuse at the highest levels of the organization, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium have suspended their contributions. This action may signal the readiness of other countries to pull their support if a full investigation confirms the initial allegations. What may be emerging is a rare opportunity to dismantle a wasteful organization whose ties to the Palestinian cause have protected it until now. An internal UNRWA ethics report leaked by the press in late July contained shocking allegations of “sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority, for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent, and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives." UN investigators are now reviewing these initial findings. The internal ethics report found that UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl created a senior advisory role for Maria Mohammedi, with whom he was romantically involved, allowing her to take business class flights with him across the globe. Krahenbuhl, Mohammedi and others circumvented regular decision channels and created a toxic work environment, according to the report. While Krahenbuhl is holding on, UNRWA’s deputy commissioner-general and chief of staff have resigned as a result of abuses separate from those allegedly committed by their boss. The corruption allegations come only a year after the U.S. decided to zero out its $360 million annual contribution to UNRWA, which covered around one quarter of the agency’s $1.2 billion budget or all of its original 1950 budget, accounting for inflation. There was ample cause for this action. As Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has warned, UNRWA is exacerbating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by turning millions of Palestinians into permanent refugees. European leaders have traditionally brushed off such criticism, but the current investigations seem to be opening their eyes to UNRWA’s serious flaws. One way that UNRWA worsens the Palestinian refugee problem is by granting the descendants of the original Palestinian refugees inherited refugee status in perpetuity, a practice unheard of in other conflicts. Of course, increasing the number of refugees increases the amount of work for UNRWA and the size of the donations it can justify. Moreover, UNRWA has stifled Palestinian development and resettlement through aid dependency...
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Denmark: How to Deal with Integration?
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by Judith Bergman
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Earlier this year, in his New Year's speech, Denmark's prime minister at the time, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, mentioned that religious parallel societies constitute a problem... and that immigrants need to learn to "put secular laws over religious ones". What, however, if, in the community involved, there seems no desire to do that? "When I was in high school", Rasmussen continued "there were around 50,000 people with a non-Western background in Denmark. Today, there are almost half a million. In one generation, our country has changed". Just how great are the problems was revealed in a recent survey, Integrations Barometer 2018, published by the municipality of Copenhagen. The Integration Barometer -- which measures the degree of integration in the municipality among young people with a non-Western background -- showed that almost one third of 18-29 year-olds (31%) believe that "religious and cultural laws must be adhered to, even though they may be contrary to Danish law". The issue, then, is whether these young people believe that Islamic sharia law should take precedence over Danish law. The statistic represents an increase from 2016, when a similar survey showed that 24% wanted sharia law. In addition, the number of youths who view democracy in a positive light has fallen from 86% in 2016 to 79% in 2018. "It worries me a lot that an increasing number of young Copenhageners do not support our democracy", said Cecilia Lonning-Skovgaard, Copenhagen's Mayor of Integration and Employment, to TV 2 Lorry. "I also think that it shows a general tendency for young people to question democracy, and that there are some environments in a big city like Copenhagen that draw the young people into another direction and try to influence them in a bad way". Those "environments" may have been unwittingly helped on their way by the Danish authorities themselves...
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Dems' Political Strategy: Straw Man Trump
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Political Editors:   The straw-manning of a political opponent has long been the tactic applied by those who’s know their own position lacks the merits to defeat their opponent’s position. Over the years Democrats have increasingly applied this malicious tactic in their efforts to foist their socialist big-government agenda upon the American people. By claiming that Republicans and conservatives are motivated by nefarious ulterior motive for their policy positions, Democrats seek to convince Americans not to believe their own ears and eyes. Democrats and their Leftmedia cohorts continuously maintain that they are the only ones who can be trusted to tell the “truth” about what conservatives and Republicans really believe and want. And with President Donald Trump’s election victory this straw man tactic of the Democrats’ has gone into overdrive.
 

One of the latest examples comes from Democrat presidential candidate Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris (CA) who unabashedly played the “Trump is a hate monger” straw man when she stated, “[Trump’s] been fueling the flames of hate and I’ve said recently, you know, on the issue of El Paso, you know, when people ask me is he responsible for those killings, well, no, I mean he obviously didn’t pull the trigger, but he’s sure been tweeting.” She further added, “that whenever and wherever that hate presents itself, that we will all speak out and speak up.”

However, lowlife-Harris is far from the only Democrat presidential candidate to play this game, as socialist-Beto O'Rourke blasted Trump as “a racist” who “stokes racism in this country” and agreed that responsibility for the El Paso attack fell “at the feet of” Trump. When questioned as to how Trump bears responsibility socialist-O'Rourke, like many of Democratic colleagues and the Leftmedia parroted intentionally misleading and inaccurate talking points, such as “Trump called Mexicans a bunch of rapists and criminals,” or “Trump told Congressional women of color to ‘go back to where they came from’” or “when Trump called Baltimore ‘rat infested’ he was actually referring to poor blacks.”

Based upon their fallacious straw man representations of Trump, Democrats indignant in their self-righteousness, loudly claim that Trump is threatening democracy and dividing the country. When in reality it is Democrats who have done nothing but preach division and stoke the fires of political hatred all because they are not in power. Democrats complain about a lack of civility all while labeling anyone who voted for Trump as having been motivated by hatred and fear. When Democrats, unwilling to honestly and accurately address the challenges facing the nation, label those who disagree with their socialist policy proposals as being only motivated by racism and xenophobia, is it any wonder so many Americans want nothing to do with them?  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64850?mailing_id=4473&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4473&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 20, 2019 at 6:52am
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 An Act of Violence': 
Texas ICE Offices Fired Upon
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Gary Bauer  
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PragerU v. YouTube
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by Attorney Eric George
{ prageru.com } ~ Free speech is in jeopardy. Big Tech behemoths like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are putting their thumbs on the free speech scale, “restricting” conservative content they don’t like... PragerU is fighting back with a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company, Google. The real winner or loser will be the American public.  In this video, Attorney Eric George, who is representing PragerU, lays out our case. Be the jury.
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Each American Is $240,000 in Debt Because of Excessive Government Spending
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by Benjamin Paris
{ dailysignal.com } ~ As Americans, we are greatly indebted not only to the men and women who have fought and died for our country, but also to the thinkers, statesmen, innovators, and ordinary people who gave us our founding principles... This debt is paid back not with money, but with a commitment to the active and vigilant self-government of our republic in keeping with the principles and virtues of our forefathers. Yet, our forefathers would shudder at our current $22 trillion in gross national debt. By the end of 2019, the debt will be close to $23 trillion. That amounts to a credit card bill of $69,200 for every man, woman, and child in America. But that’s only the money that the government has explicitly borrowed. It doesn’t include any measure of “unfunded obligations”—money the government doesn’t have, but nonetheless promised to spend. Unfunded obligations are often considered problems for future citizens, but with Medicare and Social Security both running cash flow deficits and running out of money in 2026 and 2035, respectively, these future obligations have become a current burden. Social Security’s unfunded obligations alone amount to $13.9 trillion. This means that, over the next 75 years, the government has promised to pay out $13.9 trillion more than it expects to collect in payroll taxes. At $42,200 per person, Social Security’s shortfall alone is about as much as the average person earns in a year. It’s enough to buy a new sedan and pay for a year’s rent in a median-rent two-bedroom apartment. If Social Security’s shortfall wasn’t bad enough, it pales in comparison to Medicare’s $42.3 trillion in unfunded obligations. At $128,500 per person—a whopping $514,000 for a family of four—America’s runaway Great Society program, lauded by socialists as a model for the future of health care, is already breaking America’s bank...
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Video of Foxes on Temple Mount Has Some 
Pointing to Lamentations 5 Prophecy
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By JARED HARRIS
{ westernjournal.com } ~ A seemingly normal video of foxes in the Holy Land has some referencing an Old Testament prophecy... The video, uploaded to a Hebrew-language YouTube account in early August, shows several foxes running around the area of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. For many, the video brought Lamentations 5:18 to mind: “Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.” While the King James version maintains the animal as a fox, other translations list a jackal as the animal. While most videos on Western Wall News’ YouTube page have less than a hundred views, over 90,000 people have watched these foxes seemingly fulfill a biblical prophecy. And to some of those viewers, this video is about more than a few animals scurrying across ancient ruins. The ruins of the Temple complex can still be seen in Jerusalem, and they serve as a stark reminder of what Jews have faced for most of recorded history. Even in modern times, God’s chosen people still find persecution. Some of that destruction is captured in the book of Lamentations, a collection of grief poetry, reflections and, you guessed it, lamentations for Israel and her people. Although the somber verses in Lamentations often focus on the destruction and desolation of Jerusalem, the apparent completion of a prophecy has given some hope that other events are on the way. Reactions to the video on Twitter and other sites ranges from doomsday prophecies to outright dismissal. While some commenting on the matter were overjoyed simply to see a moment from the Bible in their lifetime, others think that the animals indicate a rebuilding of the Temple is imminent. The importance of the moment was not lost on Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites Shmuel Rabinowitz, who  commented on earlier photos of the creatures. “One cannot refrain from crying,” he said, “at the site of the fulfillment of the prophecy of ‘foxes will walk on it.”    https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/foxes-temple-mount/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance  
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First-Hand Report: Why is the 
World Ignoring This Genocide?
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By Mario Alexis Portella
{ clarionproject.org } ~ At least 1,200 people were killed and close to 200,000 were displaced in northeast Nigeria in 2018 alone due to the brutal and genocidal campaign being waged by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram... To date, nearly 30,000 have been killed and two million displaced. The group, which literally means “secular education is forbidden,” is indiscriminate in its mission, targeting Christians as well as Muslims they do not agree with.  Elsewhere in Nigeria, killings by Muslim herdsmen against Christian farmers have been occurring for decades, leaving at least 1,600 people dead and another 300,000 displaced in 2018.  Clarion Project contributor Mario Alexis Portello, a Catholic priest based in Florence, recently visited Nigeria. The following is his report: An unreported tragedy ignored by both the Western media was recent killing of Father Paul Offu in Enugu southern Nigeria at the hands of Islamic Fulani herdsmen. The former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote an open letter to current President Muhammadu Buhari, warning him of the risk of a “Rwandan-style genocide” of Christians in Nigeria if the government does not take immediate measures to stop the violence. Buhari has yet to have condemned the Fulani militants as terrorists he stems from the same tribe, making it appear that this is all part of a well-organized operation to exterminate Christians in Nigeria altogether. Last month I had the opportunity to visit Christians in Nigeria who are being persecuted by Islamist fundamentalists, specifically Boko Haram, in the Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri northeast Nigeria. As I traveled through the mostly 51,000 square mile terrain, I spent some time with a woman whose husband, Yohanna, had been kidnapped by Boko Haram just two days prior. While she was very much comforted by her fellow parishioners, who were praying and hoping against hope that he would be released, regrettably, just hours after spending some time with her, Yohanna’s dead body was found. Like Father Offu’s murder, this is just one of many tragic stories that go unreported. While the West and NGOs contend that they can conquer Islamist terror with arms — just like they tried to do ISIS in Syria and Iraq — they fail to get at the root of the problem – the ideology that continues to be indoctrinated in the youth, as with the Almajiri boys...
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The Unmasking of BDS
by ZIVA DAHL
{ spectator.org } ~ After fourteen years of being lulled by propagandists into believing that their boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign (BDS) is a human rights movement, we’re finally waking up to the deception... The U.S. House last month overwhelmingly passed a bill opposing BDS efforts to target and delegitimize the State of Israel. Last February, the Senate passed a bill, never taken up by the House, legalizing the right of state governments and employee benefit plans to refuse to do business with companies boycotting Israel, thereby protecting the 27 states with anti-BDS legislation. Concerned about BDS similarity to Nazi boycotts and incitement of anti-Semitism becoming “the breeding ground for escalations to violence,” the German parliament recently passed a resolution declaring BDS anti-Semitic. The Western world is acting, albeit slowly, to unmask BDS for what it is — a dangerous 21st century iteration of the age-old scourge of Jew-hatred. Anti-Semitism is a mutating cancer, evolving and adapting, intent on destroying Jews in their host communities. Our State Department definition of modern-day anti-Semitism identifies expressions of hatred, including when disguised as Israel-bashing and anti-Zionism, the hallmarks of BDS. The BDS movement was founded by left-wing socialists and Marxists in 2001 explicitly to undermine Israel’s sovereignty, skillfully exploiting the language of peace, justice, and human rights to appeal to Western audiences. Adopted by Palestinian extremists in 2005, BDS misleads civic and cultural organizations, governments, and individuals into believing that its goal is merely to establish a Palestinian state living peacefully beside a Jewish state. Using sophisticated subterfuge to hide its linkage to Palestinian terror groups, it obscures its extremist endgame — the destruction of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and the creation of yet another Arab-majority state. People who should know better have bought into this “Big Lie,” conforming to their ideological predisposition and antipathies toward Israel, Jews, and the West. BDS founder Omar Barghouti calls for the destruction of Israel. He explained that a Jewish state “contravenes the basic rights of the land’s indigenous Palestinian population.… Ending the occupation doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t mean upending the Jewish state itself.” BDS is the latest version of a history of boycotting European Jews. Arabs boycotted Jews in the British Mandate of Palestine. The Arab League formalized this policy in 1945, three years before Israeli statehood.
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An Act of Violence': Texas ICE Offices 
Fired Upon
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Gary Bauer:  Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices in San Antonio, Texas, were attacked around 3:00 AM Tuesday morning. Multiple gunshots were fired into a building that houses administrative and executive offices for ICE. Another nearby building, which houses a firm that contracts with ICE, was also shot at around the same time.
 

FBI Special Agent Christopher Combs told reporters that the shots were fired by “an unknown number of individuals in an unknown number of vehicles.” Combs added that the attack was “very targeted” and that federal employees were nearly killed.

“We will vigorously go after those who are responsible,” Combs said. “To fire indiscriminately into any building, let alone a federal facility, is not an act of protest. It’s an act of violence.”

ICE Field Director Daniel Bible said:

Political rhetoric and misinformation that various politicians, media outlets and activist groups recklessly disseminate to the American people regarding the ICE mission only serve to further encourage these violent acts.

ICE officers put their lives on the line each and every day to keep our communities safe. This disturbing public discourse shrouds our critical law enforcement function and unnecessarily puts our officers’ safety at risk.

These incidents mark at least four violent attacks against ICE facilities so far this year.

In addition to the protests in Aurora, Colorado, where the U.S. and Blue Lives Matter flags were taken down and defaced, there was the attempted firebombing of an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington, by a deranged Antifa member.

He also had a manifesto. But you have not heard much about that because it doesn’t fit the narrative the media wants to talk about.

As Director Bible suggested, attacks on ICE facilities appear to be a relatively recent phenomena. They did not happen during the scumbag/liar-nObama years, when his administration was deporting more people than Donald Trump. Nor did they happen during the scumbag/liar-nObama years, when his administration built the cages for children that so many now decry.

One has to assume that the attacks were not happening during the scumbag/liar-nObama years because no one then was calling the president a “racist.” No one then was calling ICE agents “fascists.” No one then was calling detention facilities “concentration camps.” But that’s all we are hearing today.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64856?mailing_id=4473&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4473&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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Monday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 19, 2019 at 3:38pm
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~ Featuring ~  
 Senate Dems Give SCOTUS 2A Ultimatum
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Jordan Candler 
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Lindsey Graham: FISA Abuse Report Will Be 
‘Ugly And Damning’ For DOJ, FBI
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by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said he expects the inspector general’s report into FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign will be “ugly and damning”... for the agency and the Department of Justice. “I want it all out. I want people to see how off the rails this investigation got, and I want people to be held accountable,” Graham said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.” Since March 2018, Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz has investigated whether the FBI and DOJ misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in applications for wiretap warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Horowitz told Congress June 25 he had completed the investigation and was in the process of writing a report of his findings. Some Republican lawmakers said the report is likely to come out shortly after Labor Day. The FBI relied heavily on the unverified and Democrat-funded Steele dossier in four applications to surveil Page. The special counsel’s report dealt the dossier a heavy blow, by undercutting the document’s core claim that the Trump campaign and Page were part of a “well-developed conspiracy of co-operation” with the Russian government. “I believe the Horowitz report is going to be ugly and damning regarding the Department of Justice handling of the Russia probe,” Graham said Sunday, adding he wants as much of the report as possible to be declassified...
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How the Democrats’ Social Security 
Plan Could Finance a Tax Cut
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By ANDREW G. BIGGS
{ nationalreview.com } ~ Social Security reform hasn’t seen this much activity since President Bush’s ill-fated efforts in the mid 2000s. But this time, the action is on the Democratic side... with near-unanimous support among House Democrats for the Social Security 2100 Act, which would make Social Security solvent by increasing payroll taxes and taxing high earners more heavily. But what most people don’t know is that the Social Security 2100 Act would actually make Social Security’s funding less progressive, because those payroll-tax increases would replace an even more progressive source of funding that the one the program now relies upon. This opens some opportunities for conservatives, who currently are rudderless on Social Security reform, to expand the field for coming to a deal. Thanks to the aging of the population, Social Security faces a future with more beneficiaries and fewer workers to support them. Based on current trends, Social Security’s trustees project it will be unable to pay full promised benefits beginning in 2035. Social Security reform plans would address that looming insolvency by raising taxes, cutting benefits, or both. Social Security 2100 is on the far end of the progressive spectrum, in that it not merely fully funds promised benefits, but actually expands benefits across the board. To pay for these benefits, the Social Security 2100 Act gradually raises the payroll-tax rate from 12.4 percent to 14.8 percent in annual increments of 0.1 points. At the same time, while Social Security taxes currently apply only to earnings up to $132,900 — and benefits are based solely on those capped earnings — Social Security 2100 would also tax earnings above $400,000, with an untaxed “doughnut hole” in between. Since the new $400,000 threshold is not indexed while the $132,900 current-law wage ceiling rises annually with wage growth, the gap would shrink over time, such that by 2048 all earnings would be taxed by Social Security. On paper, this looks like the usual progressive playbook of pushing the tax burden upward, even for a program like Social Security that historically has sought not to appear like a “welfare program.” But there’s another perspective, from which the Social Security 2100 Act would be a regressive change that would make Social Security’s funding less progressive. That perspective takes into account the massive amounts of income-tax revenues that will be funneled into Social Security in the years leading up to its insolvency...    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/how-democrat-social-security-plan-could-finance-tax-cut/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1RM09HWm1OV0UyWXpWaCIsInQiOiJ1SFwvTHltU3pXMmQrK3RQeFV0MnRMaWhWRE1xMmZtQStWUEVFblp2XC91RjQ5c0pYOXZ6UkNab0NFY1FIaEJWa0x4dTNKNW9Nb0tsb1NWeGhQWU14SHVselpFXC85S1RNaUVLRzZIcUdiXC9vYXA3a1p0N1p5eGRxRXV0WGVTRjBNcmkifQ%3D%3D    
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Spain: Law on Citizenship for 
Sephardic Jews Ends in Failure
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by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ A piece of much-heralded legislation to grant Spanish citizenship to up to 3.5 million descendants of Jews expelled from the country in 1492 is about to end in failure... fewer than 10,000 Jews have been awarded Spanish passports ahead of an October 1, 2019 deadline. Spanish leaders promised that the law — which entered into force on October 1, 2015 for a period of three years and was extended for one additional year — would "right a historic wrong" and demonstrate that more than 500 years after the Inquisition began, Jews are once again welcome in Spain. The legislation, however, introduced so many cumbersome bureaucratic hurdles to obtain Spanish citizenship that most prospective hopefuls appear to have been deterred from even initiating the application process. Also known as the "Right of Return" for Sephardic Jews  Sepharad means "Spain" in Hebrew, the law purported to grant Spanish citizenship to anyone able to meet two seemingly straightforward requirements: prove Sephardic heritage and demonstrate a "special connection" to Spain. In practice, however, the process has been far more complicated. The legislation's main barriers to Spanish citizenship have been obligatory exams on Spanish language and socio-cultural history, the need to travel to Spain and exorbitant fees and costs. Although prospective applicants do not need to be practicing Jews, they must prove their Sephardic background through a combination of factors, including ancestry, surnames and spoken language either Ladino, a Jewish language that evolved from medieval Spanish, or Haketia, a mixture of Hebrew, Spanish and Judeo-Moroccan Arabic...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14737/spain-jews-citizenship   
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Hong Kong Demonstration Draws Crowd Of
More Than 1.7 Million Against
Government Orders
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by AUDREY CONKLIN
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Hong Kong protest organizer Civil Human Rights Front estimates more than 1.7 million people gathered in the rain Sunday... for the city’s 11th consecutive week of demonstrations. Government officials told protesters to stay in Victoria Park, but the large, pro-democracy crowd eventually took to the streets to protest an extradition bill that would allow suspected criminals in Hong Kong to be tried in China, the  South China Morning Post reported. “The most important thing currently is to restore social order as soon as possible,” a government spokesman said, according to SCMP. “When everything is calm, the government will conduct a sincere dialogue with the public to repair strains and rebuild social harmony.”  Protesters were also responding to reports of police brutality during demonstrations that took place last week at a subway station and Hong Kong International Airport.  They chanted, “Go, Hongkongers!” and played the song, “Do you hear the people sing?” from the musical Les Misérables on loud speakers. Many walked two miles into Hong Kong’s financial district, blocking off major roads, and thousands occupied several lanes of public highway space by nightfall, The Wall Street Journal reported...
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Supreme Court clamps down on 
'excessive fines' by states
By LYDIA WHEELER 
{ thehill.com } ~ The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that states must adhere to the Constitution's ban on excessive fines... a decision that will likely limit the ability of states to impose certain fees and seize property. In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the Eighth Amendment guards against abuses of the government’s punitive or criminal law-enforcement authority, and that it extends to fines.“This safeguard, we hold, is ‘fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty,’ with ‘deep roots in our history and tradition,’” she said, quoting Supreme Court precedent. Ginsburg, who returned to the bench for oral arguments Tuesday for the first time since undergoing surgery in December, was joined in the ruling by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Justice Clarence Thomas filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. The case centered on Tyson Timbs, who pleaded guilty in Indiana state court to dealing in a controlled substance and conspiracy to commit theft. When Timbs was arrested, police seized the Land Rover he had purchased, for $42,000, from an insurance policy he received when his father died. The state then brought a  civil forfeiture suit against Timbs for his vehicle because it had been used to transport heroin. The trial court denied the state’s forfeiture request. Since Timbs had recently purchased the vehicle for more than four times the maximum $10,000 monetary fine he can be charged for the drug conviction, the court said the forfeiture violated the Eighth Amendment. The Indiana Supreme Court ultimately reversed that ruling, holding that the Excessive Fines Clause constrains only federal action and is inapplicable to state impositions. The high court vacated that ruling Wednesday.   https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/430742-supreme-court-clamps-down-on-excessive-fines-by-states  
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Senate Dems Give SCOTUS 2A Ultimatum
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Jordan Candler:  In 1833, Joseph Story touched on the importance of the judicial system when he noted: “Personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.”

The judicial system is obviously profoundly important — and also extremely susceptible. It’s under constant siege by those who abhor the Rule of Law, which is why Thomas Jefferson in 1819 wrote, “The Constitution … is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”

The Supreme Court is the last line of defense — or, in social activists’ minds, the last line of offense — which makes it extremely powerful, for good or ill. Thomas Jefferson was especially concerned about the latter. In 1821, he wrote, “It has long, however, been my opinion … that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body … working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.”

Whether in the past or in the present, too many jurists have used their roles not to enforce constitutional rights but to implement their own objectives — the consequences of which are plainly obvious. Such dereliction is especially true of leftist judicial activists who think of our charter as a “living constitution.” In fact, upholding the Rule of Law is considered unfashionable by their standards. Ironically, it’s those who defend the Constitution who are most viciously assailed today.

This was intimated with scary brazenness this week. According to Fox News, “Several high-profile Senate Democrats [Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, scumbag-Richard Durbin, and Kirsten Gillibrand] warned the Supreme Court in pointed terms … that it could face a fundamental restructuring if justices do not take steps to ‘heal’ the court in the near future.”

Fox News adds, “The Democratic senators’ brief was filed in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York, which dealt with legal limitations on where gun owners could transport their licensed, locked, and unloaded firearms. They are urging the court to stay out of the case brought by the NRA-backed group, claiming that because the city recently changed the law to ease restrictions, the push to the Supreme Court is part of an ‘industrial-strength influence campaign’ to get the conservative majority to rule in favor of gun owners.”

The brief fumes, “Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be ‘restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.’” But as Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw  observes, “What [its] actually threatening to do is the most politically driven and drastic action imaginable in this scenario.” It wreaks of political malfeasance. How else can you parse the demand to, as The Daily Wire’s Paul Bois says, “vote liberal or else have conservatives rotated off the court”?

The Second Amendment is the palladium of liberties, therefore the Left rightly sees it as the biggest hindrance to the rule of men. So expect Democrats to use whatever “influence of politics” they can in their attempt to encroach on it — including by overhauling the Supreme Court for protecting the all-important Second Amendment.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64846?mailing_id=4473&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4473&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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The Social Ranking That's Being Created By The Democrat Internet Guru's For Your Everyday Life

Posted by James Allan on August 19, 2019 at 2:43pm

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Yes, I've been shadow banned on Facebook and Twitter to no end. Twitter just outright hid my posts from others and Facebook shadow banned me through their new algorithm that automatically ranks people through activity.

I just found out I most likely was shadow banned because I post my articles like this one in about 40 groups or so and when the algorithm picks this up I automatically get shadow banned. Most likely this happens to many media organizations when people share a certain post. Lets say a member of a social media site shares a "Fox News" link and the link gets repeatedly shared by (Click Link Here Or Picture To Read Full Article) 

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Monday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 19, 2019 at 11:55am
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China, Tariffs, and Recession 
Fears Amid Strong Economy
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Thomas Gallatin    
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New goal for New York Times: 'Reframe' 
American history, and target Trump, too
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by Byron York
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Perhaps when you think of the founding of the United States, you think of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers... Now, the New York Times wants to "reframe" your understanding of the nation's founding. In the Times' view which it hopes to make the view of millions of Americans, the country was actually founded in 1619, when the first Africans were brought to North America, to Virginia, to be sold as slaves. This year marks the 400th anniversary of that event, and the Times has created something called the 1619 Project. This is what the paper hopes the project will accomplish: "It aims to reframe the country's history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are."Another, more concise statement from the Times: "The goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history." The basic thrust of the 1619 Project is that everything in American history is explained by slavery and race. The message is woven throughout the first publication of the project, an entire edition of the Times magazine. It begins with an overview of race in America — "Our democracy's founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true." — written by Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, who on Twitter uses the identity Ida Bae Wells, from the crusading late 19th-early 20th century African American journalist Ida B. Wells. The essays go on to cover the economy "If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.", the food we eat "The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the 'white gold' that fueled slavery.", the nation's physical health "Why doesn't the United States have universal healthcare? The answer begins with policies enacted after the Civil War.", politics "America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.", daily life "What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot.", and much more... The NYT are fools and shouldn't be looked at or read.
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Hunter loose lips liar-Biden Named After Republican Discover He Bought American Company Ran By Chinese Communists-
loose lips liar-Joe Is TOAST
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by  JonDougherty
{ rightwingtribune.com } ~ Hunter loose lips liar-Biden, son of former VP loose lips liar-Joe Biden, now a leading 2020 Democratic presidential contender... has been named as a source of a potential conflict of interest in a probe initiated by Sen. Chuck Grassley involving the purchase of an American company that made anti-vibration technologies by a state-owned Chinese aviation company and an investment firm with ties to the Communist Party. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dated Aug. 14, Grassley said he wants a copy of the National Security Threat Assessment linked to the sale and transaction. In addition, the Iowa Republican is seeking details about the approval timeline while inquiring about whether the White House was briefed on the relevant deliberations. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which has its origins in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, approved the transaction when loose lips liar-Joe Biden was still serving as vice president. Grassley cites several examples which suggest that conflicts of interest may have tainted the approval process. In an early example, Hunter and loose lips liar-Joe Biden flew to China in December of 2013, one month after the merger involving the Hunter Biden-founded firm which created Bohai Harvest RST. During the trip, Hunter loose lips liar-Biden helped arrange a meeting between Jonathan Li, the CEO of Bohai Capital, and then-Vice President loose lips liar-Biden. Hunter loose lips liar-Biden then had a private meeting with Li. After the trip, the business license of Bohai Harvest RST was approved. A year later, in December of 2014, Bohai Harvest RST invested in China General Nuclear Power Corp. Roughly five months later, the Department of Justice charged China General Nuclear Power with conspiracy to develop special nuclear material outside the United States...
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Multiple Attacks Caught On Video 
During Antifa Demonstration In Portland
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by SCOTT MOREFIELD
{ dailycaller.com } ~ A series of Saturday clashes between Antifa and right-wing groups were caught on video and posted to Twitter by journalists Andy Ngo, Elijah Schaffer and others... Portland’s Rose City Antifa comprised one of the leftist groups there to oppose right-wing demonstrators from various organizations, including Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, and Three Percenters.  President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday morning that the city was “being watched very closely” with consideration “being given to naming Antifa” a terrorist organization. TheBlaze reporter Elijah Schaffer documented interactions throughout the day, including Antifa being joined by “about 300 other people from generic liberals, the NAACP, dog fetish sex costumes, the lgbtq community and much much more.” Schaffer posted a photo of a shirtless man “leading Antifa.”Then, the action got underway...
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‘It needed to be done:’ Seattle police chief 
doubles down on criticism of city council
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{ q13fox.com } ~ In July, Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best took a rare dive into the political fray... accusing city council members of failing to support her officers at a time of already low staffing. “We need them to stand up for the work that the officers and men and women have been doing in this organization,” Chief Best said during a press conference July 15. “We are losing good people and we know it’s because they feel like they’re not supported by public officials, and we need to have that done.” In a lengthy interview, Chief Best spoke with Q13’s Brandi Kruse about what prompted her to speak out about the city’s political climate, and whether it could lead to a public safety emergency.  They have been resigning in droves, and many of the officers who have left.  https://q13fox.com/2019/08/16/it-needed-to-be-done-seattle-police-chief-doubles-down-on-criticism-of-city-council/  
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Report to Congress on Defense Spending 
Under Continuing Resolution
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by news.usni.org ~ This report provides a basic overview of interim continuing resolutions (CRs) and highlights some specific issues pertaining to operations of the Department of Defense (DOD) under a CR... DOD has started the fiscal year under a CR for 13 of the past 18 years (FY2002-FY2019) and every year since FY2010 excluding FY2019. The amount of time DOD has operated under CR authorities during the fiscal year has tended to increase in the past 10 years and equates to a total of more than 39 months since 2010. As with regular appropriations bills, Congress can draft a CR to provide funding in many ways. Under current practice, a CR is an appropriation that provides either interim or full-year funding by referencing a set of established funding levels for the projects and activities that it funds or covers. Such funding may be provided for a period of days, weeks, or months and may be extended through further continuing appropriations until regular appropriations are enacted, or until the fiscal year ends. In recent fiscal years, the referenced funding level on which interim or full-year continuing appropriations has been based was the amount of budget authority that was available under specified appropriations acts from the previous fiscal year. CRs may also include provisions that enumerate exceptions to the duration, amount, or purposes for which those funds may be used for certain appropriations accounts or activities. Such provisions are commonly referred to as anomalies. The purpose of anomalies is to preserve Congress’s constitutional prerogative to provide appropriations in the manner it sees fit, even in instances when only interim funding is provided. The lack of a full-year appropriation and the uncertainty associated with the temporary nature of a CR can create management challenges for federal agencies. DOD faces unique challenges operating under a CR while providing the military forces needed to deter war and defend the country. For example, an interim CR may prohibit an agency from initiating or resuming any project or activity for which funds were not available in the previous fiscal year i.e., prohibit the use of procurement funds for “new starts,” that is, programs for which only R&D funds were appropriated in the previous year. Such limitations in recent CRs have affected a large number of DOD programs. Before the beginning of FY2018, DOD identified approximately 75 weapons programs that would be delayed by the FY2018 CR’s prohibition on new starts and nearly 40 programs that would be affected by a restriction on production quantity...
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China, Tariffs, and Recession Fears Amid Strong Economy
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Thomas Gallatin:  On Tuesday, the markets were up on the news that President Donald Trump’s third round of tariffs on $300 billion more of Chinese goods would be delayed until December. Added to this was the positive news of a restart of U.S.-China trade talks. However, the U.S. markets on Wednesday had one of their worst days in over a decade. Stocks fell 3% over bad economic news out of Germany and China, sparking fears of a possible global recession. Then came Thursday morning, with news of U.S. retail sales in July increasing well above economists’ expectations, once again propelling the markets skyward, relieving recession fears.

The truth of the matter is that market ups and downs are normal and to be expected. Furthermore, if properly managed, massive negative impacts on the economy can be avoided. A future recession is inevitable; the questions revolve around when it comes and how bad it will be. Interestingly, unlike the last two major recessions to hit the U.S., The Wall Street Journal notes that “with unemployment low, incomes rising and household saving rates higher than in the late 1990s or mid-2000s, many consumers are in better shape to weather a storm.”

Politically speaking, Democrats are hoping a recession comes sooner rather than later, as they know a strong economy makes the possibility of defeating Trump that much slimmer. Others have criticized Trump for walking a dangerous line with his tariff levies against China. As we have regularly noted, Beijing would love to wait Trump out with the hopes that he loses in 2020. The question is, can China afford to wait?

With the weeks-long Hong Kong protests — which are capturing more and more of the world’s attention — showing no signs of ending, coupled with China’s slowing economic growth, Beijing is clearly feeling the pressure. China’s communist government relies on a strong economy to placate the masses and dissuade civil unrest. If the Chinese economy further slows, Hong Kong’s freedom movement could easily spill out into the mainland.

Going forward, expect more interest-rate cuts from the Federal Reserve and the real possibility of Trump getting a trade deal worked out with China before the year is up.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64865?mailing_id=4473&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4473&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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   Socialism Never?
Cal Thomas 
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Monday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Government & Politics


ANTI-SEMITIC SPONSORS: National Review’s David French highlights more nefariousness behind the banning of Reps. worthless-Ilhan Omar and worthless-Rashida Tlaib from Israel: “The most important element of the story is the fact that two American congresswomen shunned a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel to go on an independent trip to Israel sponsored by vicious anti-Semites. Another important element of the story is that, as of today, the mainstream media have whitewashed worthless-Omar and worthless-Tlaib’s vile associations.”

JUDICIAL ACTIVISM QUASHED: Fox News reports: “A federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration on Friday in the legal battle over its efforts to limit asylum claims from Central America — blocking, for now, a nationwide injunction that blocked the implementation of the rule. … The San Francisco federal appeals court for the 9th Circuit on Friday ruled that the injunction imposed by the California federal judge can only apply in states within the court’s jurisdiction in the western U.S.” Our own Arnold Ahlert explains why nationwide injunctions are tyrannical.

commie-SANDERS RACE BAITS: “Declaring the criminal justice system ruined by pervasive racism and ‘corporate profiteering,’ Sen. commie-Bernard Sanders proposed a massive overhaul Sunday that would free many drug convicts, abolish the death penalty and solitary confinement, and promote an unarmed ‘civilian corps’ to replace the police for lower-level calls.” (The Washington Times)

dinky-FAUXCAHONTAS PANDERS: “Presumably as a way to deflect from criticism over her checkered past of claiming Native American ancestry, [Elizabeth] dinky-Warren posted a lengthy proposal on Medium Friday morning in which she vowed to fix some of the problems pertaining to tribal nations,” according to The Daily Wire. “Throughout her lengthy post, dinky-Warren makes several proposals, from making Native Americans a national concern, to affordable housing, to economic opportunities for tribal people, and to respect for native veterans.” Meanwhile, The Washington Times reveals  that dinky-Warren’s binge spending “total[s] more than $5 trillion over a decade. That sum does not include other high-priced items on the liberal wish list such as … government-run health care.”

Culture & Heartland


NAZI SYMPATHIZERS: “A group of high-school students in Southern California gave a Nazi salute and sang a Nazi song during an awards ceremony last year, according to video reviewed by The Daily Beast. The video shows about 10 members of the boys’ water polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, California, throwing the salute once used to greet Adolf Hitler while singing a Nazi marching song played for German troops during World War II. It’s the second such incident in the region in the year.” (The Daily Beast)

ANTI-JEW ATTACK THWARTED: “An Ohio man has been arrested for making threats toward a local Jewish community center in New Middletown. … On Friday, the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force raided [the man’s] house and seized a cache of weapons and ammunition, including dozens of round[s] of ammo, multiple semi-automatic weapons, a gas mask and bulletproof armor. … [The suspect] is an avowed anti-Semite and white nationalist and attended the deadly ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017… During the raid on his house on Friday police also discovered anti-Semitic and white nationalist propaganda.” (ABC News)

Around the World


FRACTURED BUT NOT BROKEN: According to the Associated Press, an Islamic State jihadi bombed a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan, over the weekend, killing 63 and wounding 182. “The emergence of the Islamic State affiliate in recent years might be the greatest threat to Afghan civilians as the U.S. and Taliban seek an agreement to end nearly 18 years of fighting,” the AP reports. “While the U.S. wants Taliban assurances that Afghanistan will no longer be used as a launch pad for global terror attacks, there appear to be no guarantees of protection for Afghan civilians.”

BURGEONING SPECTACLE: “Hong Kong protest organizer Civil Human Rights Front estimates more than 1.7 million people gathered in the rain Sunday for the city’s 11th consecutive week of demonstrations. … What started as peaceful protests in June, including a June 9 demonstration that drew an estimated 1 million people, has since escalated, raising concern of potential Chinese military intervention.” (The Daily Caller)

THE SUSPENSE GROWS: “Two Russian nuclear monitoring stations — specifically designed to detect radiation — ‘went silent’ in the days following an explosion of what many believe was a nuclear-powered missile earlier this month during tests at a remote base, a nuclear official said in an email Sunday. … The Guardian reported that radiation levels in Severodvinsk, a nearby city, increased 20 times above normal for about a half hour after the explosion. It has been reported that residents in the area have been stocking up on iodine, which helps reduce the effects of radiation exposure.” (Fox News)

IRANIAN MALFEASANCE: “An Iranian supertanker with $130 million worth of light crude oil that the U.S. suspects is tied to a sanctioned organization has left Gibraltar and was heading Monday east into the Mediterranean Sea, with its next destination reported to be Greece. … The vessel left Gibraltar late on Sunday after having been detained for a month in the British overseas territory for allegedly attempting to breach European Union sanctions on Syria. Gibraltar authorities rejected attempts by the U.S. to seize the oil tanker again, arguing that EU regulations are less strict than U.S. sanctions on Iran. And Tehran on Monday warned Washington against any effort to grab the vessel again.” (CBS News)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Greenland deserves the attention Trump is giving it (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: How the government creates wealth inequality (National Review)

HUMOR: #scumbag/liar-ClintonBodyCount trending on Twitter even though the scumbag/liar-Clintons never did anything wrong (NPC Daily)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64918?mailing_id=4479&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4479&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
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The Extinction of Christians in the Middle East
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by Giulio Meotti
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Convert, pay or die. Five years ago, that was the "choice" the Islamic State (ISIS) gave to Christians in Mosul, then Iraq's third-largest city... either embrace Islam, submit to a religious tax or face the sword. ISIS then marked Christian houses with the Arabic letter ن (N), the first letter of the Arabic word "Nasrani" ("Nazarene," or "Christian") . Christians could often take no more than the clothes on their back and flee a city that had been home to Christians for 1,700 years. Two years ago, ISIS was defeated in Mosul and its Caliphate crushed. The extremists, however, had succeeded in "cleansing" the Christians. Before the rise of ISIS, there were more than 15,000 Christians there. In July 2019, the Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need, disclosed that only about 40 Christians have come back. Not long ago, Mosul had "Christmas celebrations without Christians". This cultural genocide, thanks to the indifference of Europeans and many Western Christians more worried about not appearing "Islamophobic" than defending their own brothers, sadly worked. Father Ragheed Ganni, for instance, a Catholic priest from Mosul, had just finished celebrating mass in his church when Islamists killed him. In one of his last letters, Ganni wrote: "We are on the verge of collapse". That was in 2007 -- almost ten years before ISIS eradicated the Christians of Mosul. "Has the world 'looked the other way' while Christians are killed?" the Washington Post asked. Definitely. Traces of a lost Jewish past have also resurfaced in Mosul, where a Jewish community had also lived for thousands of years. Now, 2,000 years later, both Judaism and Christianity have effectively been annihilated there. That life is over. The newspaper La Vie collected the testimony of a Christian, Yousef the name has been changed, who fled in the night of August 6, 2014, just before ISIS arrived. "It was a real exodus", Yousef said. "The road was black with people, I did not see either the beginning or the end of this procession. There were children were crying, families dragging small suitcases. Old men were on the shoulders of their sons. People were thirsty, it was very hot. We have lost all that we have built for life and nobody fought for us". Some communities, such as the tiny Christian pockets in Mosul, are almost certainly lost forever", wrote two American scholars in Foreign Policy...
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Progressive Candidates are Carving a Path 
to the Senate in 2020, No Thanks to 
scumbag-Chuck Schumer
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by Ryan Grim, Akela Lacy and Aída Chávez
{ theintercept.com } ~ Its's hard to imagine things going much worse for Senate Minority Leader scumbag-Chuck Schumer in 2019... As he preps for the election he has long hoped will make him the majority leader, his prized recruits across the country have spurned him. In Texas, Colorado, and Montana, his top choices have so far turned down Senate runs in exchange for presidential bids. In Georgia, worthless-Stacey Abrams eluded him, her eye still on the governor’s mansion or possibly the vice presidency. In North Carolina, the popular  Democratic attorney general took a pass. In Iowa, scumbag-Schumer tried to coax former Gov. Tom Vilsack into the race, but that fell through. In Kentucky, scumbag-Schumer successfully recruited failed House candidate Amy McGrath into the race, and she immediately imploded. In Maine, Sara Gideon, the statehouse speaker, is running against Susan Collins, but Ady Barkan, the activist who raised some $4 million in pledges for whoever becomes the Democratic nominee, deserves as much credit for that as scumbag-Schumer. During a roundtable interview in July, scumbag-Schumer was asked if he had been having trouble with recruiting. “I have,” he conceded. But along the way, a bevy of new progressive Senate challengers have launched their own highly credible campaigns outside scumbag-Schumer’s orbit, with others threatening to do so. If Democrats do manage to seize the Senate chamber and make scumbag-Schumer the majority leader — gaining four seats, or three seats and the presidency — it will be in large part due to the work of an organized left. But before they can help scumbag-Schumer become majority leader, first they’ll have to get past scumbag-Schumer and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. In state after state, the fight at the heart of the Democratic Party is playing out: What kind of candidate is most likely to appeal to voters? In most but not all states, the preferred establishment candidate is white and leans moderate, while the left is in most cases though not all organizing around progressive candidates of color. This is the same battle we saw in the House Democratic primaries in 2018 — one that is also playing out in the 2020 presidential race — and its outcome will shape what kind of party takes power, or doesn’t, in 2021... This would be a very big bad mistake if this happens.  https://theintercept.com/2019/08/15/senate-democrats-2020-chuck-schumer/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=cdf606a4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-cdf606a4a2-131896129   
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What European Countries Sacrifice
for Free College
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{ nationalreview.com } ~ The higher-education system in Finland is supposedly every American progressive’s dream. The Finnish government pays 96 percent of the total cost of providing young Finns with a college education... almost all domestic students at Finnish universities pay nothing in tuition. Indeed, Finland subsidizes its universities more than any other country in the developed world. American advocates of free college say that if Finland can do it, so can we. But there’s a catch to the Finnish model, and it’s not just higher taxes. Finland offers a nice deal for students only if they are lucky and talented enough to get in. In 2016, Finnish institutions of higher education accepted just 33 percent of applicants. That’s the degree of selectivity we’d expect from an elite college in America, yet that is the admissions rate for Finland’s entire  university system. There is a price to pay for that kind of selectivity: Finland ranks in the bottom third of developed countries for college-degree attainment. Meanwhile, the tuition-charging United States ranks in the top third, thanks to open-enrollment policies at many of our colleges and universities, along with private financing and plenty of spots offered through a diverse range of institutions. The Finnish example reveals a reality often glossed over by politicians and activists who advocate mimicking European-style free-college regimes in the United States: government budgets are finite, even when taxes are high. If a government elects to pay for a greater share of each student’s college education, something else has to give. Perhaps the university system will accept fewer applicants and produce fewer graduates, as is the case in Finland. Or maybe it will spend fewer resources per student, potentially lowering the quality of education. Finland is evidence that such tradeoffs are not mere theory or a false choice manufactured by miserly conservatives. Nor is Finland the only country where such stark tradeoffs are on display. In a new report for the American Enterprise Institute, we compare the performance of 35 developed countries on three aspects of their higher-education systems: how many college graduates the system produces, how much funding is available per student overall, and what share of that funding comes from government sources. In a world of finite resources, these three qualities are inherently in tension with one another, and a government that tries to prioritize one quality usually has to sacrifice one of the others...  https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/what-european-countries-sacrifice-for-free-college/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdVM05UbG1ZalUzTUdVeSIsInQiOiIyN3dieXZJeE5WQWJFTHRWMGZHXC84V1wvcElpUitEY3FldVo3NkpWVzBNVnB5SHZkdU9pTDZRcDFlWDl0TFBqUmFLYU9RSzZwbTFrcXErMm9TSmVjdXNocFwvejRXYmxwZkl0bGdWQ0FLcGNEbkFUdHBxZFZISzFMbzcwS09RbUZLTiJ9  
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Europe Poised to Put Warning 
Labels on Jewish-Made Products
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by Adam Kredo 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The European Union is poised to mandate that Israeli products made in contested territories carry consumer warning labels... a decision that could trigger American anti-boycott laws and open up what legal experts describe as a "Pandora's box" of litigation, according to multiple sources involved in the legal dispute who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice recently issued non-binding opinion arguing that EU law requires Israeli-made products to be labeled as coming from "settlements" and "Israeli colonies." The decision was seen as a major win for supporters of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which seeks to wage economic warfare on Israel and its citizens. Pro-Israel activists, as well as the Jewish businesses involved in the legal dispute, see the decision as an ominous warning sign that they say is reminiscent of Holocaust-era boycotts of Jewish businesses. With the EU court's 15 judge panel now poised to issue its own binding judgment in the case, legal experts are warning that a potential decision mandating such labeling could pave the way for goods from any disputed territory to receive such treatment. The decision also could trigger U.S. anti-boycott laws meant to stop Israeli-made goods from being singled out for unfair treatment on the international market. Brooke Goldstein, a human rights lawyer and executive director of the Lawfare Project, which is involved in the legal dispute, described the EU court's initial decision as "frankly outrageous."...
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MSNBC Host, Analysts Speculate About 
Removing Trump From Office
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by Graham Piro 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ An MSNBC panel speculated Friday afternoon about potentially removing President Donald Trump from office due to his mental state... pointing to reports he is exhibiting "signs that were similar to the early stages of Alzheimer's." "He attacked a man who turned out to be one of his own supporters," host Nicolle Wallace said. "I don't know where there are many schools in America you can bully somebody like that and not get suspended."  Wallace  referenced a supporter who was removed from a Trump rally after the President made fun of his weight. Afterward, the supporter said Trump had nothing to apologize for and that "he's the best thing that ever happened to this country." "Trump repeated points he had already made earlier in the evening as if he did not remember already making them," Wallace said. "David Brooks reported in 2017 that a bunch of Republicans came out of a meeting where Donald Trump explained some signs that were similar to the early stages of Alzheimer's." She continued that "in and out of the rooms people, either disparagingly or affectionately, are saying at an increased clip, he's crazy." "You know, there's pervasive reporting in this regard and if it was grandpa, you would probably take him to see a neurologist or someone who specializes in geriatric medicine. That hasn't happened here that we know of," said Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney. "The remedy is the 25th Amendment and that requires an intact cabinet, which Trump does not have. Whether by design or by accident, most of the cabinet is acting. We don't know what the mix would look like in a vote, and there's no will to take that on in any event."...  Nicolle Wallace your hatred stands alone on this.   https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-host-analysts-speculate-about-removing-trump-from-office/  
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Socialism Never?

Cal Thomas
 

President Trump has repeatedly promised, “America will never be a socialist country.” Since Franklin Roosevelt began expanding government in the 1930s, the United States has increasingly adopted big-state policies associated with socialism.

We may not be at the stage commie-Bernie Sanders would advocate, but more millennials appear to favor a system under which they have never lived. Free stuff is appealing until one realizes its costs.

In an attempt to reach Generation Z — those in their teens and 20s — a new organization is starting this month to combat socialism’s appeal.

It’s called Young Americans Against Socialism" (yaas.org), according to its site, a nonpartisan nonprofit “dedicated to exposing socialism’s failures to young Americans by creating viral educational videos for social media.” Its founder, Morgan Zegers, worries that “more than half of young people believe socialism should be implemented in America.” The reason, she says, is because many of them know little about it. Her campaign will be largely on social media where she notes young people spend hours every day.

“Yaas is taking the Left’s tactics of injecting emotion into everything,” she says, “and throwing it right back in their faces.” One Yaas video includes statements by two men. One, Raydel Armas, says he escaped Cuba by “windsurfing for 10 hours.” The other, Daniel Di Martino, a Venezuelan, challenges Sanders’ promotion of socialism.

commie-Sanders is shown in a video from the ‘70s in which he calls food lines in some countries “a good thing,” presumably referring to non-socialist countries. “The rich,” he claims, “get the food and the poor starve to death.” Daniel Di Martino responds, “It wasn’t that I was rich; it was because politicians like him destroyed my country.”

Armas suggests young people who wear Che Guevara T-shirts are ignorant of history and of the number of people Guevara killed during and after the Cuban revolution. Surveys back him up.

In a 2017 opinion column for The New York Post, Karol Markowicz cited a 2014 report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress that showed “an abysmal 18 percent of American high school kids were proficient in U.S. history. When colleges such as Stanford decline to require Western Civilization classes or high schools propose changing their curriculum so that history is taught only from 1877 onward … it’s merely a blip in our news cycle.”

Markowicz also noted a 2012 story in Perspectives on History magazine by University of North Carolina professor Bruce VanSledright, who found that “88 percent of elementary school teachers considered teaching history a low priority.”

While the reasons are varied, she says, “VanSledright found that teachers didn’t focus on history because students aren’t tested on it at the state level. Why teach something you can’t test?”

When history is taught, especially at many liberal universities, there is often a bias against America because of slavery and the “invasion” of white Europeans who killed and displaced Native Americans. Markowicz concluded, “We talk often about how fractured our country has become. That our division increases while school kids are taught less and less about our shared history should come as no surprise.”

In her video, Zegers says, “Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system.” Even China, though still officially communist and socialist, has had to adopt more of the principles characteristic of capitalism to lift large numbers of people from poverty.

Socialism has long needed pushback in America from those opposed to it. President Trump has begun pointing out how harmful it is elsewhere. Zegers hopes to target young Americans with testimonies from people who have lived under the reality of socialism.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64843?mailing_id=4473&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4473&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Monday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 19, 2019 at 7:05am
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~ Featuring ~
    Leftists Inciting Violence Against 
Trump Supporters
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Louis DeBroux
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California has curriculum modeled more 
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By JONATHAN BUTCHE
{ thehill.com } ~ The California state seal declares “Eureka,” originally a Greek word that means “I found it,” and with good reason... After James Marshall discovered gold in the territory in 1848, the rush was on. By 1852, two years after California gained statehood, the population skyrocketed from 14,000 to 250,000. But times have changed, and people are now leaving. California is the second most expensive state to live in and has the second worst overall tax burden, according to the Tax Foundation. As if that is not enough, California lawmakers want the district schools to focus on progressive grandstanding instead of serving as a ladder of opportunity for children. The state is neglecting the responsibility of public schools to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need for the future. To wit, while 57 percent of black fourth grade students and half of hispanic fourth grade students cannot read at even a basic level, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law in 2016 that required the state board of education to create a model ethnic studies curriculum, a project that is awash in ambiguous ideas and historical inaccuracies. Start with the definition. The draft materials define ethnic studies as “the disciplinary, loving, and critical praxis of holistic humanity.” Confused? There is a helpful footnote that says, “Throughout this model curriculum, language is used that deliberately offers an alternative to traditional wording that could have a particular context within the dominant culture. More information about these terms can be found in the glossary.” Parents will not know what their child is learning because the state is making up words, but at least there is a glossary. More harmful are the few intelligible ideas. As William Evers, a former member of the California Academic Content Standards Commission, recently pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, the model curriculum says capitalism is a “form of power and oppression” and such systems “dehumanize” people...
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Seth Rich’s Family P.I. Confirms Our Worst Fears
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By Tori McNabb
{ redrightvideos.com } ~ Since DNC staffer Seth Rich was murder in Washington, no solid answers have been found. No motive, nothing… until perhaps now... Rich was shot and killed in Northwest D.C. and police labeled it as a botched robbery. However, the online conspiracy theorist would let it go and have continued to tie his death to his work at the DNC. Now we’ve gotten word that there’s new information which may, in fact, prove the conspiracy theorists right! Seth Rich’s family hired P.I. Rod Wheeler to start digging for answers into his death. And Wheeler believes there is tangible evidence on Rich’s own laptop. And this evidence confirms he was communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death! With this newfound discover, many questions are being asked. Among them, why did the D.C. police insist that it was a robbery gone bad when there was no evidence of that? Wheeler, a former police homicide detective, is running his own parallel investigation at the families request. Wheeler believes there’s a cover-up and the local police were told to back down…“The police department nor the FBI have been forthcoming,” said Wheeler. “They haven’t been cooperating at all. I believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or either at the FBI. I have been told both.”When asked if his sources have told him there is information that links Rich to Wikileaks, he said, “Absolutely. Yeah. That’s confirmed.” Wheeler also told the Fox affiliate in D.C., “I have a source inside the police department that has looked at me straight in the eye and said, ‘Rod, we were told to stand down on this case and I can’t share any information with you.’ Now, that is highly unusual for a murder investigation, especially from a police department. Again, I don’t think it comes from the chief’s office, but I do believe there is a correlation between the mayor’s office and the DNC and that is the information that will come out Tuesday.
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Trey Gowdy Takes On The Clintons: 
“Trust Me When I Tell You This”
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{redrightvideos.com} ~ Trey Gowdy was on Fox News last night and said, on the scumbag/liar-Clintons, “entanglements” with the Dept. of Justice run much deeper than the average viewer knows... A little cryptic, he told Martha McCallum that “history will be much kinder to scumbag-Jim Comey than the July press conference than the Dems. were”.  “I think he had access to information that, because he is a stand-up guy he’s not gonna disseminate classified information though God knows everybody else is…so all your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac,” he explained. “scumbag-Jim Comey had access to additional information that I am convinced left him with no other choice but to make the decision he made in July,” Gowdy said. Host McCallum then asked if Gowdy was implying if scumbag-Comey was pressured into clearing scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing. “No…he wanted to safeguard the integrity of the investigation, the integrity of the process, and I probably ought to just leave it right there,” Gowdy replied.“Trust me when I tell you this, Martha — I know what it was and I have been a critic of scumbag-James Comey in the past. But he made the only decision he could have made with respect to appropriating that decision away from the Department of Justice and making the decision himself.” “I only take away from that that you are suggesting that there were more entanglements between the scumbag/liar-Clintons and perhaps the Justice Department than everyone understands,” McCallum guessed. “You’re very perceptive,” Gowdy confirmed. I hate that Gowdy doesn’t plan to run again… he’s a force of nature that’s much needed on the hill these days.
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scumbag/liar-nObama National Security adviser comes under heightened scrutiny for the 2017 unmasking’ of Trump officials
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by Jerry McCormick
{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ In the final days of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s presidency, numerous Trump campaign officials were “unmasked” by then-National Security adviser liar-Susan Rice... Now, it seems quite clear that the move was both unprecedented and politically motivated, according to One America News Network (OAN). Typically, during investigations as elaborate and secretive as the one into alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign team and Russia, the identities of individuals being probed are protected. This is done to protect the individual from being scrutinized prior to the investigation being completed, and to prevent them from being falsely accused, particularly if no indictment ever materializes. Generally speaking, the number of people who can “unmask” a protected individual is kept to a minimum. However, during the latter part of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, all of those protocols seemed to change. Not only were more officials given the authority to “unmask” the subjects of federal probes, but Trump officials were also unmasked for what seemed to be political reasons, according to OAN. At the time of the unmasking by liar-Rice, the scumbag/liar-Obama administration was investigating back-channel communications between the Trump campaign and the United Arab Emirates. Suspicions had started to arise when Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan came to New York in December 2016. Since UAE diplomats did not notify the United States of his travel, as is customary, everyone’s ears went up. So in early 2017, liar-Rice requested that Americans in a related classified report be unmasked. The overall concern was that the UAE was setting up back-channel communications between Russia and the Trump campaign. But based on the reports of UAE officials, who stated the meeting was nothing more than getting the president-elect’s “view of the region and what the U.S. role should be,” liar-Rice’s unmasking seems completely inappropriate. Now the question remains: What else did the scumbag/liar-nObama administration do wrong?  https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/obama-security-adviser-comes/  
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scumbag/liar-Hillary’s 30,000 
deleted ‘yoga’ emails found
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by wnd.com ~ Copies of nearly all of the emails scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton sent and received while she was secretary of state – including the infamous missing 30,000 messages... were stored at a cryptically named Gmail address, according to a new Senate report. The Daily Caller News Foundation reported the newly disclosed finding means that copies of classified and deleted emails likely existed on Google’s U.S.-based servers. The FBI, according to the Senate report, was aware of that fact and the suspicious explanation for it but did not alert other intelligence agencies or the public. The suspicious Gmail address was set up by an IT aide, Paul Combetta, who worked for a company that managed scumbag/liar-Clinton’s unauthorized server, Platte River Networks, according to the FBI. It was Combetta who used the software program BleachBit to permanently erase copies of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails after they were subpoenaed by the House. Combetta misled the FBI about his actions and was given immunity from prosecution, the Daily Caller noted. He refused to cooperate with the Justice Department Inspector General and with the authors of the Senate report about his use of the Gmail address. He previously pleaded the Fifth before Congress in September 2016 about his deletion of emails. The investigative team of Charles McCullough, the intelligence community inspector general, found that every one of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails except four were secretly copied to the the Gmail address,  CarterHeavyIndustries@gmail.com, according to the report. McCullough investigator Frank Rucker told Senate investigators that when he brought the findings to Peter Strzok, the anti-Trump FBI agent seemed uninterested and did not ask any follow-up questions. A redacted and paraphrased version of the interview transcript was released Wednesday...
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Leftists Inciting Violence Against 
Trump Supporters
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Louis DeBroux:  Democrat politicians are going to get people killed, and they don’t seem to care.
 

In the aftermath of mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, anyone standing between a Democrat politician and a TV camera would have been trampled to death in the stampede to publicly blame the shootings on President Trump.

One after another, they blamed the shootings on Trump’s “rhetoric” and his supposed racism, despite the fact that the Dayton shooter was a hard-core Elizabeth dinky-Warren supporter, and the El Paso shooter’s manifesto was comprised of a litany of left-wing grievances.

If Democrats are to be believed, Trump’s insisting that our borders be secured incites violence from the Right (which never seems to appear). But when will Democrats take responsibility for their coarsening of the public discourse, which has led to actual violence?

In the last few weeks, we have seen Democrat activists swarm Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s house screaming death threats, Democrat Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar celebrating a violent attack on Sen. Rand Paul, and ads for a movie in which liberal elites hunt down and kill Trump supporters for sport. We’ve also seen Democrat Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refer to ICE detention centers as “concentration camps”, shortly after which an antifa activist firebombed an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington.

Not to mention the violent physical assaults against Trump supporters that have been occurring with increasing regularity around the country, as you can see here, here, here, here, and here.

In light of these escalating tensions, it is unconscionable that a sitting Democrat congressman would intentionally incite violence against fellow Americans over political differences. Yet that is exactly what occurred last week.

Democrat Rep. Joaquin Castro (TX), brother of Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro, posted on Twitter the names and employers of 44 San Antonio residents who donated the maximum allowable amount ($5,600) to President Trump’s reelection campaign, claiming, “Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.’” Among these donors were not only local business owners but retirees and homemakers.

Ironically, of the 44 doxxed donors, six had donated to the political campaigns of Juan and Julio Castro. One of those donors, William Greehey, a philanthropist who spent $100 million to fund a homeless campus project that serves mainly Hispanics, was furious, saying “he’s calling me a racist because I’m supporting Trump. I mean, this is just ridiculous… There’s a lot of things you don’t like about the president and his tweeting, but here Castro is doing the same thing with his tweeting.”

San Antonio real-estate developer Donald Kuyrkendall, who also previously donated to Julian Castro’s mayoral campaign, expressed concern for the safety of his wife and children and wondered what Castro’s goal is in outing Trump donors. He asked, “Were his intentions to incite people to picket Bill Miller’s barbecue or to come to Don Kuyrkendall’s house, you know, assault my wife, make nasty comments?” He continued, “This kind of silliness is not good for anybody, especially with the climate we have right now with two mass shootings in a weekend. There’s just no reason to highlight individuals and their companies… I don’t even know what he thinks we are — bad guys, because we support Republicans?”

Following the backlash over his despicable act, Castro disingenuously claimed he wasn’t trying to stoke harassment or violence against the outed donors. What, then, was the goal of the tweet? What did he want his supporters to do with that information?

As Trump campaign director Tim Murtaugh asked “How low have Dems sunk? This is Joaquin Castro, Congressman & chair of his brother’s campaign. Naming private citizens & their employers, targeting them for political views and exercising 1st Amendment rights,” and correctly noting, “At the very least, @Castro4Congress is inviting harassment of these private citizens. At worst, he’s encouraging violence.”

USA Today editor David Mastio called this a “dangerous escalation,” and political commentator Stephen Miller asked “What the [expletive] is this? Democrat candidates are openly targeting private businesses on social media now? … Would love the logic of telling people to give up their guns squared with these same people inciting a mob to attack a private business.”

One wonders if Castro would think this type of doxxing is still benign if the NRA posted a list of Castro’s donors with the caption, “Their contributions are fueling a campaign to strip you of your 2nd Amendment rights, leaving you defenseless!” Or if the National Right to Life doxxed donors to pro-abortion Democrats with the message, “Their contributions are fueling a campaign of death, paying for the murder of a MILLION babies last year!”

The political Left uses doxxing as a tool to intimidate, threaten, and destroy their political enemies. In 1958, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, upheld the right of the NAACP to keep its membership records (i.e., its donors) private, despite a subpoena from the state of Alabama. The reason should be obvious to any intelligent person.

We must now extend those same privacy protections to political donations and strip these disgusting thugs of a tool that is used to suppress free speech, facilitate political extortion, and threaten public safety.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64822?mailing_id=4470&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4470&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Jeffrey Epstein…Suicide or Suicided?

Posted by Craig Andresen on August 18, 2019 at 2:41pm

Investigative Report

By:Craig Andresen and Diane Sori / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

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“We will get to the bottom of what happened. There will be accountability.”

– Attorney General William Barr on heating of Jeffrey Epstein’s untimely death

The timing and the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death was perfect…Hollywood itself could not have staged it any better. And the Democrats are happily wallowing in that timing as it took the public’s attention off the much needed wall, the what is a “trade war” with China, mass shootings, as well as the circus that is the entirety of the Democrats presidential contenders…where by the way there is not a decent one in the bunch. And the timing put the spotlight back on sex…after all sex and sex scandals sells papers and bumps up media ratings better than any other news story can.

And Jeffrey Epstein’s story in itself would make a great movie if it wasn’t such a travesty from the get-go…if it wasn’t such an obvious case of “this guy needs to be permanently silenced” before he can squeal on those in high places in order to save his own sorry self.

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Barry Donadio Releases His Second Book, And Its A Good One

Posted by Barry Donadio | Celebrity Author on August 18, 2019 at 2:21pm

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Barry Donadio published his 2nd book on August 18th, 2019. This time, the celebrity author released an action fiction book.

Barry Donadio gained fame when he published his book “TWA Flight 800 First Responder Witness Account” in September of 2013. Since then, he has been busy when he entered politics and by leading his private security firm. He has also sanctioned himself as an advocate for military veterans and he is vocal with his support of the second amendment.

Donadio’s new book “That Day When Hell Froze Over” is a fiction that takes place over a thousand years ago in present-day Afghanistan and Iran. It is a mystical depiction of warfare of that time with interesting characters. An elite force of newly created catholic knights are created by the Pope. They are ordered by him to drive deep into enemy territory on a secret mission. They are sent as far as modern-day Iran. The knights were the best trained and most discipline that the Vatican had at the time. They encounter many dangers along their expedition. The most dangerous thing that they encounter is a small group of female virgins from the region of Afghanistan. The Knights are forced to battle the dammed of Hell, including Satan himself.

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New Book Release by Barry Donadio “That Day When Hell Froze Over” August 18th, 2019

After some setbacks in a battle against some of Satan’s demons, the Angel Gabriel appears and arms the knights with modern weapons and the knowledge to use them. Satan becomes gravely concern as his demons begin to fall in numbers at the hand of the Pope’s knights.

Donadio published his new book in the form of paperback and ebook through is firm Public Security LLC.

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             “That Day When Hell Froze Over” released by Barry Donadio on August 18th, 2019

The book can be purchased on Amazon and will also available in all online book stores in the coming weeks.

“That Day When Hell Froze Over”, has been assigned ISBN:9781731512833

Keep updated by visiting Barry Donadio’s official website Barry Donadio’s Facebook page or his official Twitter page

#barrydonadio #donadio #book #thatdaywhenhellfrozeover #publicsecurityllc #amazon #catholic #knights #ebooks #2019 #newbooks

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Saturday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 17, 2019 at 5:02pm
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 SCOTUS Sales-Tax Ruling Negatively
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22 states sue Trump over repeal of scumbag/
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By REBECCA BEITSCH
{ thehill.com } ~ A coalition of mostly Democratic-led states has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing its rules for addressing power plant pollution are so weak they violate federal law... Attorneys general from 22 states and several major cities including New York City and Los Angeles argue that the Trump administration's rule violates the Clean Air Act by having virtually no impact on carbon emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had finalized the rule in June to repeal and replace a capstone scumbag/liar-nObama-era carbon pollution regulation they say exceeded agency authority. The new replacement rule to the Clean Power Plan (CPP), deemed the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, aims to give states more time and authority to decide how to implement the best new technology to ease net emissions from coal-fired plants. “Besides ignoring the science of climate change – the text of the ACE rule barely mentions climate change, much less recognizes the dire threat it poses to people’s health, the economy, and the environment – the rule disregards requirements of the federal Clean Air Act,” which requires regulators to use the “best system of emission reduction,” New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) said in a press release. The suit is the second against the rule, following one filed in July from the American Lung Association. "The ACE plan is trying to reduce the progress California and other states are making and keep failing coal pants on life support," California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols said while standing alongside California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is also joining the suit...  https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/457252-22-states-sue-trump-over-repeal-of-obama-era-power-plant-rules   
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Renewable Energy Hits the Wall
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By Norman Rogers
{ americanthinker.com } ~ If the official definitions of renewable energy were logical, renewable energy would be defined as energy that does not emit CO2 and that is not using a resource in danger of running out anytime soon... But the definitions written into the laws of many states are not logical. Hydroelectric energy is mostly banned because the environmental movement hates dams. Nuclear is banned because a hysterical fear of nuclear energy was created by environmental groups. Both nuclear and hydro don't emit CO2. Hydro doesn't need fuel. Nuclear fuel is cheap and plentiful. A large number of prominent global warming activists, such as James Hansen, Michael Shellenberger, and Stewart Brand have declared that nuclear is the only solution for the crisis that they imagine is approaching. For those of us who don't take global warming seriously, there is nothing wrong with using coal and natural gas to generate electricity. The CO2 emitted helps plants to grow better with less water, a great help to agriculture. In approximately thirty states that mandate renewable energy, the only scalable forms of renewable energy allowed are wind and solar. California mandates that 60% of its electricity come from renewable energy by 2030. Nevada mandates 50% by 2030. There are other types of official renewable energy, but they can't be easily scaled up. Examples are geothermal energy, wave energy, and garbage dump methane. Wind and solar are erratic sources of energy. The output depends on the weather. Solar doesn't work at night. Because they are erratic, there have to be backup plants, generally natural gas plants, that balance the erratic flow of electricity from wind or solar. The backup plants increase output when renewable energy output declines and vice versa. Because both wind and solar are subjected to periods of near zero output, the backup system has to be able to carry the entire load of the electric grid without the wind or solar. Neither wind nor solar can replace conventional plants. If you hear that a utility is replacing fossil fuel plants with wind or solar, that can't happen. The most that can happen is that the fossil fuel plants will use less fuel when the wind or solar is generating electricity. For a natural gas plant, the gas to generate a megawatt-hour of electricity costs about $20. That $20 is the economic value of each megawatt-hour generated by wind or solar. Unsubsidized, wind or solar electricity, either one, costs about $80 a megawatt-hour to generate. The difference between $80 and $20 is the subsidy that has to be paid in order to use wind or solar. As long as the percentage of electricity that comes from wind or solar is small, the grid can handle the erratic nature of that electricity. But if the penetration becomes large, severe problems start to emerge. Solar power is strongest in the middle of the day and weakens toward the end of the day. But the late afternoon and early evening, when solar is dying, are when power usage peaks in many locations. The graph below shows how the sun's strength varied in Las Vegas for July 2018...
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Europe faces security threat from the 
rise in Chinese military power
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By GARY SCHMITT
{ thehill.com } ~ During the Cold War, the European allies of the United States were overwhelmingly focused on the strategic threat posed by the Soviet Union... When it came to the Middle East, the European powers had ceded responsibility for maintaining stability there to the United States following the 1956 Suez Crisis. Similarly, when it came to East Asia, China could be an irritant, but Beijing breaking with Moscow and the American web of security ties in the region meant Europe had little to be concerned about as a security matter when it came to the Asia Pacific arena. Today, that has all changed. Although Russia remains a strategic problem, the European powers are now deeply enmeshed in the power plays of the Middle East. China, once thought of as mostly an untapped market into which Europe could invest and to which it could export, has also become a matter of strategic concern. Last week, on a visit to Australia, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview that, while there were many reasons for the alliance to be in conversation with its Asian partners, there was a specific “need to assess the security consequences for all of us of the rising military power of China.” He added that this was not about NATO expanding its military presence in Asia, but rather about dealing with the fact that China was “coming closer” to Europe. Stoltenberg is right that the rapid growth in Chinese military power has consequences for NATO and Europe more generally. At a fundamental level, a rising and ambitious China must be deterred from undermining the security and stability of the Asian Pacific region. With security pledges and ties throughout the region, doing so falls mainly on the United States. The reality is, with Chinese military advancements, the ability to carry out that deterrent task is no longer a sure thing. For the Trump administration to successfully carry out its national security strategy, the United States will need to beef up its military presence in Asia and to modernize its forces to deal with the complicated array of defensive and offensive weapons that China has been putting in place since the late 1990s. The problem is that the United States military is only scaled in size and capabilities to handle a single major contingency, with little left over if that crisis becomes a conflict. For NATO, this means a fight in the East leaves the United States with no surge capacity to handle at the same time a Russian threat. Given the improving but still underperforming conventional capabilities of most of the major European NATO allies, this has created a strategic “black hole” that should worry military planners both in the Pentagon and at NATO headquarters in Brussels...
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How scumbag-Al Sharpton 
Abandoned Africa’s Slaves
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By Charles Jacobs
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The eminent African-American economist Glenn Loury recently wondered in the New York Times why leading Democrats would defend scumbag-Al Sharpton, a man who is a blatant anti-Semite, an anti-white racist, and to many, a simple con man... loose lips liar-Joe Biden calls him “a champion in the fight for civil rights.” Elizabeth dinky-Warren says “he has dedicated his life to the fight for justice for all,” and lowlife-Kamala Harris lauds him as a man who “has spent his life fighting for what’s right.” Records show that President scumbag/liar-nObama had scumbag-Sharpton visit his White House 118 times. This, after scumbag-Sharpton’s many outrages: the Tawana Brawley rape hoax of 1987, the anti-Jewish Crown Heights riots of 1991, and the firebombing of a Jewish-owned Harlem fashion boutique in 1995. Loury suggests that any one of these things should have disqualified scumbag-Sharpton from national platforms, along with any praise by Democratic Party leaders. But there’s something else, something no less repugnant, and perhaps even more shocking, that should obliterate once and for all the perception of scumbag-Al Sharpton as a tough guy who never buckles when it comes to defending his race. scumbag-Al Sharpton is betraying black people currently enslaved in Africa. He went there. He spoke to them. He promised the slaves he met that he would awaken American blacks to their plight, but then he abandoned them. He abandoned them, I believe, because they are enslaved by Arab Muslims. A review of just how this came about should be instructive. In 2001, as scumbag-Sharpton contemplated a run for president in the 2004 election, he made a trip to Sudan to verify reports of the ongoing enslavement of Christian blacks there by Arab Muslims. Reports were emerging of Arabs from northern Sudan raiding black Christian villages in the south of Africa’s then-largest country, killing the men and enslaving the women and children. Full disclosure: At the time, I headed a movement to educate the public about modern-day slavery. We worked with the human rights organization Christian Solidarity International, which over the years redeemed tens of thousands of slaves in Sudan who were returned to their villages. To be fair, scumbag-Sharpton’s 2001 trip to Sudan required courage. He flew with CSI leaders into a war zone on one of CSI’s regular slave redemption missions to see and talk to the slaves. The mission was protected by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), a black militia defending southern villages against an onslaught that had over the years killed millions and enslaved tens of thousands, an onslaught that the Islamist rulers in Khartoum designated a jihad. scumbag-Sharpton was appalled. He said it was “outrageous that no nationally known civil rights group has gone over to Africa to criticize what is happening there.” He met with slave women, who showed him their scars from being beaten and raped. One asked him if the world knew of her people’s suffering; scumbag-Sharpton replied, “They don’t know now, but they will soon.”...
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Do the Democrats Have an Issue?
By Steve Feinstein
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The poor Democrats: As the Russia collusion/Mueller investigation issue disappeared into nothingness like so much skywriting wisping away into the winds, so too did the surefire issue with which the Dems thought the White House would automatically be theirs in 2020... The candidate himself was irrelevant, an afterthought. We have it in the bag, the Dems thought. It's just a matter of to which person we bestow the privilege of the presidency this time around. Let's pick a good one: a woman. No, a woman of color. No, a gay. No, a Hispanic.  Perhaps an American Indian. But that slam-dunk Russia issue is gone. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler and scumbag-Adam Schiff are still flailing about, trying to collect their "undeniable" Russian collusion evidence and convince the rest of the Democratic caucus to initiate impeachment proceedings. It looks doubtful that that's going to come to pass. So the "president's a crook" angle apparently is not going to deliver a greased downhill slide into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the Democrats. It appears — at this juncture, at least — that the Democrats will actually have to come up with a convincing policy platform in order to win the White House.  They'll have to identify substantive issues of actual importance and persuade enough undecideds that the Democratic Party will improve their lives and make the country safer and more prosperous. What are their issues? What are the candidates putting forth thus far? Does any of them seem like a game-changer, the lynchpin to electoral victory? One policy they've all put forth, in one form or another, is a single-payer government-run health care system, sometimes referred to as Medicare for All. Almost all the Dems propose the elimination of the private insurance industry in favor of a European-style system. After all, health care is a "right," not a "privilege." Ah, but the devil is in the details. How, in actuality, do we get rid of the insurance industry? What happens to those millions of workers? How do we set up the federal health care bureaucracy? How long will that take? Medicare currently covers 80% of the Part B expenses — where will other the 20% come from that is currently funded by private insurance programs? Or will this new Medicare for All now cover all 100%? Has that been figured into the cost estimates? No Democratic candidate ever says. They probably haven't thought it through that far; they probably don't even know. Getting rid of the private insurance industry is a pipe dream, a hollow talking point. It will simply never happen. Never, and the Dems know it...
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SCOTUS Sales-Tax Ruling Negatively Impacting Small Biz
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Political Editors:  Last year in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in South Dakota v. Wayfair that states could collect sales taxes on purchases made online from a vendor whose “physical presence” was not within the state of purchase. One of the prevailing arguments made in favor of states to tax online out-of-state purchases was that it would serve to protect small mom-and-pop businesses that were subjected to in-state sales taxes. That rational was dubious at the time, and the Court’s ruling has proven to most negatively impact these small businesses.

The Wall Street Journal reports that “states have since enacted disparate rules, which as we warned are straining small business. As a case in point, the Kansas Department of Revenue will now require all out-of-state retailers to collect sales tax no matter how much business they do in the state. This includes college students selling used textbooks on eBay and retirees hawking a few hand-made greeting cards on Etsy .”

Following the Court’s ruling, Investor’s Business Daily predicted that online retailers “will soon have to comply with nearly 10,000 different tax jurisdictions across the country in the 45 states that impose taxes. That means different rates, varying definitions of products, and a variety of exemptions. The resulting complexity is mind-boggling.” Well, prediction is now reality.

Evidence is now revealing that the real losers from this ruling are those same small businesses the online-interstate tax advocates claimed they were seeking to protect. While Justice Anthony Kennedy, who voted with the majority, asserted that “the physical presence rule … has limited States’ ability to seek long-term prosperity,” he seems to have ignored the fact that this prosperity comes at the expense of small business. Now, these businesses are accountable for paying taxes not only within the state of their physical presence but in all the states. So much for federalism.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64830?mailing_id=4470&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4470&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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

Posted by Jake Martinez on August 17, 2019 at 2:00pm

Please Read Part 103M:

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103M)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 2, 2019:

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

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that the CEO of Overstock recently claimed that 'AG Barr is allegedly finally set to break open the biggest political scandal in the history of American Spygate'-You Decide:

Image: CEO of Overstock claims that AG William Barr FINALLY set to break open the biggest political scandal in the history of America: Spygate

CEO of Overstock claims that AG William Barr FINALLY set to break open the biggest political scandal in the history of America: Spygate!-Posted on Natural News-By JD Heyes-On August 13, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-08-13-ceo-of-overstock-claims-ag-william-barr-to-finally-break-open-spygate.html

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

Image: ANALYSIS BUFFET: 25 urgent things you need to know about spygate, Epstein, China, financial collapse, mass shootings and civil war

ANALYSIS BUFFET: 25 urgent things you need to know about spygate, Epstein, China, financial collapse, mass shootings and civil war!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On August 13, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-08-13-urgent-things-you-need-to-know-about-spygate-epstein-china-civil-war.html

Judicial Watch Finds Documents Showing Fusion GPS Working Directly With Obama's DOJ to Frame Trump!-Posted on Townhall-By Katie Pavlich/@KatiePavlich-On August 14, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/08/14/judicial-watch-finds-documents-showing-fusion-gps-working-directly-with-doj-to-frame-trump-with-ties-to-russia-n2551685

Former FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 8, 2017, before the Senate Intelligence Committee, on the alleged Russian interference of the 2016 U.S. elections.

Judge rejects FBI plea to keep Comey memos redacted!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Jerry Dunleavy-On August 14, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/judge-rejects-fbi-plea-to-keep-comey-memos-redacted

Video: Ep. 1044 Explosive New Revelations Emerge. The Dan Bongino Show 8/14/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx5He_MEwQo

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 8/14/19 [Full] | BREAKING Fox News August 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEs2hguWmtY

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 8/14/19 - FOX BREAKING NEWS LIVE | Fox News Today August 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZeiC-4_wI

Video: Sean Hannity 8/14/19 - FOX BREAKING NEWS LIVE | Fox News Today August 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjWmU9mjOcA

Video: The Ingraham Angle 8/14/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News August 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August  14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUioIve1Tds

Video: Ep. 1045 People Who Make the World Worse. The Dan Bongino Show 8/15/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 15, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKR-Jyp34sQ

FBI reportedly ‘dismissive’ of possible foreign hack of Clinton servers; State Dept staffers provided cover!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Frieda Powers-On August 15, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/15/fbi-reportedly-dismissive-of-possible-foreign-hack-of-clinton-servers-state-dept-staffers-provided-cover-785783

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Son Of Clinton Preacher Worked For Intel Agency And Was Suspected To Be A Mole In Hillary Email Probe — Now He Works For Trump’s ODNI!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Luke Rosiak, Daily Caller-On August 15, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/son-of-clinton-preacher-worked-for-intel-agency-and-was-suspected-to-be-a-mole-in-hillary-email-probe-now-he-works-for-trumps-odni/

Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks about White Nationalism during a campaign press conference on August 7, 2019 in Burlington, Iowa. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Senate Finance Committee Probes Biden-Linked, Chinese Military-Boosting Tech Sale!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Haris Alic-On August 15, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/08/15/senate-finance-committee-probes-biden-linked-chinese-military-boosting-tech-sale/

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 8/15/19 - FOX BREAKING NEWS LIVE | Fox News Today August 15, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August 15, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk7tsMDTipc

Video: Sean Hannity 8/15/19 - FOX BREAKING NEWS LIVE | Fox News Today August 15, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August 15, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0k30DAebKo

Gregg Jarrett Implicates Obama in FBI Counterintelligence Operation into Trump Campaign!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 15, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/15/gregg-jarrett-implicates-obama-in-fbi-counterintelligence-operation-into-trump-campaign/

Video: The Ingraham Angle 8/15/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News August 15, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August  15, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT2HP8zcDz8

Video: Ep. 1046 The Mystery Deepens. The Dan Bongino Show 8/16/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZxptCzQq7k

Hillary’s IT Guy Created An Encrypted Gmail Account And Sent All Of Clinton's Emails There!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/ @mvespa1-On August 16, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/08/16/hillarys-it-guy-created-encrypted-gmail-account-and-sent-all-of-clintons-emails-n2551806

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 8/16/19 - FOX BREAKING NEWS LIVE | Fox News Today August 16, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUQ07x2yUKs

Video: Sean Hannity 8/16/19 - FOX BREAKING NEWS LIVE | Fox News Today August 16, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Z7Qm-i6EQ

Video: The Ingraham Angle 8/16/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News August 16, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August  16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrdut_BoEv8

Video: Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update-Topics: Epstein Death Questions; FBI/Ohr Docs Detail Coup Cabal against Trump; and Court Victory in Maryland!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On August 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajfrLXexKk8

Video: Justice With Judge Jeanine 8/17/19 FULL | Jeanine Pirro Fox News August 17, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxa6iqQSIMU

Video: Ep. 1047 Disturbing Leftist Violence Erupts. The Dan Bongino Show 8/19/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 19, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfEz9pE_L_k

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 8/19/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News August 19, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By  US Politics-On August 19, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFJ9DD0WoSc

Video: The Ingraham Angle 8/19/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News August 19, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By US Politics-On August  19, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC5lP298DnY

Mock assassination of Trump staged at Illinois Democrat’s fundraiser!-Posted on Daily Christian News-By Ben Marquis-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.dailychristiannews.com/mock-assassination-trump-fundraiser/

Scalise Calls out Dems for Their Lack of ‘Outrage’ Over Mock POTUS Assassination Photos!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Madison Summers-On August 20, 2019:

https://ijr.com/scalise-dems-lack-outrage-mock-potus-assassination-photos/

Actor Jon Voight

Jon Voight Slams Radical Left, Praises Trump as Man of Truth, Love!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Zoe Papadakis-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/jon-voight-trump-democrats/2019/08/20/id/929222/

Flynn, Papadopoulos to speak at event preparing 'social media warriors' for 'digital civil war'

Flynn, Papadopoulos to speak at event preparing 'social media warriors' for 'digital civil war'!-Posted on The Hill-By John Bowden-On August 14, 2019:

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/457384-flynn-papadopoulos-to-speak-at-event-preparing-social-media

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Voting Every Two Years Won’t Cure the Cancer!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On August 19, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/voting-every-two-years-wont-cure-the-cancer/

10 declassified Russia collusion revelations that could rock Washington this fall!-Posted on The Hill-By John Solomon, opinion contributor-On August 20, 2019:

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/458173-10-declassified-russia-collusion-revelations-that-could-rock-washington-this

Video: Ep. 1048 We Own The Story Now. The Dan Bongino Show 8/20/219!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQbaq1YM5Dw

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 8/20/19 [Full] | BREAKING Fox News August 20, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fidelia Zelda-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KMccsMc41U

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 8/20/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News August 20, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Seven News C.H.A.Y-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4tWycUfR2I

Video: Sean Hannity [FULL] 8/20/2019 -BREAKING FOX NEWS August 20,2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Hannity-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1ZRlBHvcTs

Dan Bongino: ‘Cut the B.S.: Liberalism Is a Cancer…It Destroys Every Single Thing It Touches’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On August 21, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/dan-bongino-cut-bs-liberalism-cancer-it-destroys-every-single-thing-it-touches

Video: The Ingraham Angle 8/20/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News August 20, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By PalkanVjq-On August  20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X33IOSWHBg

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DNC Holds Mexico Fundraiser Hosted by "Refugee" Clinton Donor!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274690/dnc-holds-mexico-fundraiser-hosted-refugee-clinton-daniel-greenfield

Video: Ep 1049 Stunning New Revelations About What’s Ahead. The Dan Bongino Show 8/21/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 21, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNWmCG8F10g

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NY Times: Giuliani 'Pretty Confident' of Ukraine Probe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Eric Mack-On August 21, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rudygiuliani-investigation-election-meddling/2019/08/21/id/929503/

Image: Google is a direct threat to human freedom, and it must be dismantled or we will be forever enslaved

Google is a direct threat to human freedom, and it must be dismantled or we will be forever enslaved!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On August 21, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-08-21-google-is-an-direct-threat-to-human-freedom-and-it-must-be-dismantled-or-we-will-all-be-forever-enslaved.html

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 8/21/19 [Full] | BREAKING Fox News August 21, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Share Market in Malayalam-On August 21, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SczQrBtVy6Q

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 8/21/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News August 21, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By US POLITICS-On August 21, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6yymX8j7MM

Radical Liberal Says ‘America Deserved 9/11’ — Then Viciously Mocks War Hero Dan Crenshaw!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On August 22, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/radical-liberal-says-america-deserved-9-11-then-viciously-mocks-war-hero-dan-crenshaw/

Video: The Ingraham Angle 8/21/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News August 21, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Seven Chay-On August  21, 2019:

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

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Slavery Deniers!-Posted on Restoring Liberty-By Biff Spackle, Summer Intern-On August 21, 2019:

http://joemiller.us/2019/08/the-new-york-times-slavery-deniers/

Video: Ep. 1050 Trump’s Bold Move. The Dan Bongino Show 8/22/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbYYOL2lac

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 8/22/19 [Full] | BREAKING Fox News August 22, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Share Market in Malayalam-On August 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW-FJX5ln1w

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Facebook Pulls Trump Campaign Ads Over Alleged Policy Violations!-Posted on PJ Media-By Matt Margolis-On August 21, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/facebook-pulls-trump-campaign-ads-over-alleged-policy-violations/

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 8/22/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News August 22, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Share Market in Malayalam-On August 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVtLZtl_eD8

After Years Denouncing 'Excessive' Wealth, Obamas Buying $15 Million Martha's Vineyard Estate!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On August 22, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/years-denouncing-excessive-wealth-obamas-buying-15-million-marthas-vineyard-estate/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=ct-breaking&ff_content=western-journal

“Cashing In” on Ineligibility? Was Obama’s “Presidency” A Smokescreen?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 24, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/24/cashing-in-on-ineligibility/

Fox News Channel Checks Out “Birth Certificate” Coverage: Featuring It’s Own!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 22, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/22/fox-news-channel-checks-out-birth-certificate-coverage/

Video: The Ingraham Angle 8/22/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News August 22, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Share Market in Malayalam-On August  22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUqpwFA_az4

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 8/23/19 [Full] | BREAKING Fox News August 23, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Share Market in Malayalam-On August 23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGUgxEF5BDE

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 8/23/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News August 23, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Share Market in Malayalam-On August 23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu4d5evryeM

Watch CNN Welcome Former FBI Official Andrew McCabe As 'Newest Member of the CNN Team'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On August 23, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/watch-cnn-welcome-former-fbi-official-andrew-mccabe-newest-member-cnn-0

Video: Sean Hannity [FULL] 8/23/2019 -BREAKING FOX NEWS August 23, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By USA Politics-On August 23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du8Gvp-5UF4

Video: The Ingraham Angle 8/23/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News August 23, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Share Market in Malayalam-On August  23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbPqSkdLM2o

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Dr. Robert Epstein confirms he is ‘not suicidal’ after Hillary Clinton bashes his study!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-By Jerry McCormick-On August 23, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/i-am-not-suicidal/

Video: The Ingraham Angle 8/26/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News August 26, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By US Politics-On August  26, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHm2Ok0oWS4

65 Million Hearts Break After Poll Reveals Percentage of Americans Who Believe Trump Wins 2020!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On August 22, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/65-million-hearts-break-after-poll-reveals-percentage-of-americans-who-believe-trump-wins-2020/

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Video: The Globalist Takeover of America -Mike Adams- CSS!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On August 23, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/globalist-takeover-america-mike-adams-css

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Video: You Say You Want a Revolution? Doug Hagmann Interviews Dave Hodges and Ted Broer!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On August 24, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/you-say-you-want-revolution-doug-hagmann-interviews-dave-hodges-and-ted-broer

genocide

Paul Craig Rogerts, Mike Adams, Lisa Haven, and Dave Hodges-THE GENOCIDE IN AMERICA'S NEAR-TERM FUTURE!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On August 24, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/paul-craig-rogerts-mike-adams-lisa-haven-and-dave-hodges-genocide-americas-near-term-future

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Your TV is spying on you; globalists are child-traffickers; Google is targeting conservatives; and other truths we’ve long warned about that are all coming true!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On August 26, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/your-tv-spying-you-globalists-are-child-traffickers-google-targeting-conservatives-and-other-truths

Please Read Part 103P:

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103P)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 27, 2019:

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

Please Read Part 104:

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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-...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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/

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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-...

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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-...

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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...

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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

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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/

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

4063590393?profile=originalA Republic, If You Can Keep It!

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

4063360053?profile=originalThe Fightin Side of Me!

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

4063359977?profile=originalWhen Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

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

“Food for Thought”

4063359991?profile=originalHello: 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!

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.
Semper Fi!
Jake
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Saturday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

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  Trump Delays New Round of China Tariffs
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Thomas Gallatin  
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Repeal of the Cadillac Tax Would Be a 
Strategic Mistake for Both Parties
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By James C. Capretta 
{ realclearpolicy.com } ~ On July 17th, the House voted 419 to 6 in favor of repealing the so-called “Cadillac tax.” This is the levy, enacted in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and now scheduled to go into effect in 2022... which imposes a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost employer-sponsored insurance plans. The Senate may soon follow the House by supporting repeal too, perhaps as part of a larger package of provisions extending tax breaks that might otherwise expire. Both parties are making strategic mistakes by supporting repeal of this tax. For Democrats, the rush toward repeal is particularly perplexing. This is a tax that was instrumental to the passage of the ACA. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration and many House Democrats were adamant that the ACA would not only extend insurance enrollment to many millions of uninsured Americans, it would do so while also reducing the federal budget deficit over ten years and the long-term. At the time of enactment in March 2010, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that the bill would reduce the government’s ten-year and long-term budget deficits. The Cadillac tax was an important reason why CBO projected the law’s taxes would exceed the costs of subsidizing coverage for the uninsured. Further, the Cadillac tax was part of the “kitchen sink” approach to cost-control promoted by scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials. The authors of the ACA claimed they were willing to include in the legislation any and all good ideas for reining in spiraling health-care costs.  President scumbag/liar-nObama was sold on the need for the tax as a cost-control device for private coverage despite the fact that he had attacked Senator rino-John McCain in the 2008 presidential race for supporting the taxation of health benefits for “the first time ever.” CBO and other analysts expect the tax will work to control costs by encouraging companies to seek out less expensive coverage to avoid the tax federal revenue rises when this happens because employers substitute higher cash wages, which are taxable, for untaxed fringe benefits. The president took a lot of heat for this flip-flop, but he and his advisers believed the benefits of the tax were sufficient to justify the political turbulence it would, and did, generate. Perhaps most damaging for Democrats is what repeal will do to their fiscal credibility. Democrats have spent the past two years denouncing the $1 trillion, ten-year tax cut passed in 2017 as a reckless giveaway for corporations and upper income households. But repeal of the Cadillac tax would also drain the Treasury, by $200 billion over ten years, according to CBO, including a $35 billion reduction in payroll taxes for the Social Security trust funds...
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Secret Service Clears Streets Near Israeli
Embassy Following Reports of ‘Suspicious
Person, Vehicle’
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by Adam Kredo 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The U.S. Secret Service confirmed Friday morning that it has shuttered the streets surrounding the Israeli embassy in downtown Washington, D.C. ... following reports "of a suspicious person and vehicle," a Secret Service spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon. "This morning at approximately 8:00 a.m. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers responded to the report of a suspicious person and vehicle near the Embassy of Israel," the official said. " Uniformed Division officers initiated road closures to vehicular and pedestrian traffic and MPD EOD responded to the scene and cleared the vehicle. Road closures remain in effect and will be lifted at the conclusion of the investigation." Multiple sources confirmed early Friday that the streets had been shutdown and Secret Service was on the scene investigating. The incident follows a week of controversy over a now suspended visit to Israel by Reps. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and worthless-Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.). The Israeli government denied both representatives entry to the country due to their support for the virulently anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. Israel reversed its decision to block worthyless-Tlaib from entering the country, authorizing worthless-Tlaib to visit on humanitarian grounds. worthless-Tlaib declined to visit...
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Israel Bans Jew-Haters worthless-Ilhan Omar 
and worthless-Rashida Tlaib
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by DOV FISCHER
{ spectator.org } ~ When I initially heard reports a few weeks ago that Israelis were going to allow Jew-haters worthless-Ilhan Omar and worthless-Rashida Tlaib into their country, I was quite surprised... Over the decades Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demonstrated that, whatever flaws he may have, he is no idiot. His ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, is equally perceptive. They both know that worthless-Tlaib and worthless-Omar are not that different from Nazis. Who allows Nazis into Israel — except to put them on trial? I could not believe that Netanyahu had lost his mind. Yes, he just had emerged from a national election in April that he and the Israeli right had won outright, but that was effectively nullified when the leader of one of the parties in the new right-wing coalition, hoping to double his party’s strength in the short term, pulled out last-minute in an effort to force a whole new election in September. So that can make someone nuts. And Israel’s politics — democracy on steroids, with 32 different political parties now registered to contend in next month’s Do-Over Election — can make anyone nuts. But Netanyahu has survived decades of craziness. Could he really have gone so nuts as to allow those two Jew-hating spigots into Israel? Like, what — Israel does not have enough terrorist supporters within her borders already? So it was refreshing indeed to hear Thursday’s news that worthless-Ilhan Omar and worthless-Rashida Tlaib, who seem to represent a long-underrepresented constituency of terrorist supporters and America-haters, will be barred from setting foot in Israel after all. Looks like worthless-Rashida Tlaib, to cope, will have to satisfy herself with her sense that the Holocaust was calming. And with Benjamin Netanyahu having made the decision to bar her, worthless-Ilhan Omar can tweet, “See, I told you it was about the Benjamins, baby.” Every country with even a rudimentary level of self-respect bars from her borders those non-citizens who publicly despise her and further seek to destroy her. America does. We even have banned Boy George, Amy Winehouse, and former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim from setting foot here. England does. The United Kingdom has barred more than 100 people from entering her borders, including 20 Americans — including even Martha Stewart. All self-respecting countries have such bans. So it is normal for Israel to bar Jew-haters. There are plenty of neighboring Jew-hating countries with similar weather and topography where they can visit. Israel finally passed legislation a few years ago  barring from her borders those who advocate “BDS” — Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel. Good for Israel. Thus, Israel likewise bans extreme-left self-hating Jews who promote BDS. It was long overdue for Israel to keep such people out, and no one appreciates more than do mainstream normative Jews when Israel acts publicly to tell False Jews, Phony Jews, and anti-Jewish Jews that they are not welcome...
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America Can Stop China from Dominating 
Artificial Intelligence--And Should
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by Gordon G. Chang
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Artificial intelligence permits machines to mimic human functions such as driving vehicles, recognizing spoken words, and playing games of skill like chess and Go... Especially Go, the Chinese game of strategy. If China had an "AI Sputnik moment," it occurred in March 2016 when AlphaGo, developed by Alphabet Inc.'s DeepMind, took four out of five games from an 18-time champion in a challenge match in Seoul. By the following year, Beijing was pouring even more money into AI research. Beijing in 2017 supplemented the AI component of its Made in China 2025 initiative with its "Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, a three-part effort to lead global AI by 2030. Furthermore, Beijing made sure its determination to dominate the field was shared across society. Business chieftains and policy analysts in China are much more focused on AI than those in the West, surveys show. The nationwide effort, Webb tells us, paid off. China, for instance, now publishes more AI machine learning papers than the United States. The West should be seriously concerned: whoever wins at AI will both dominate the global economy and field the most destructive conventional military force. To borrow a phrase, we are witnessing the "Rise of the Machines." What if those "machines" are Chinese? We need to ask what would happen if the world's most dangerous regime were to dominate the world's most powerful technology. We are getting a hint what will occur in what Beijing calls the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. There, facial recognition systems, powered by AI, are helping China's leaders to continually track inhabitants...
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Is the Palestinian Authority Preparing 
for a New Intifada?
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by Bassam Tawil
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The Palestinian Authority (PA) spent the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha this week inciting against Israel because of Jewish visits to the Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif in Arabic, in Jerusalem... The site is also sacred to Jews and Christians: it is where the First and Second Temples had stood before being destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BCE and by the Romans in 70 CE. The Western Wall, or so-called Wailing Wall, sacred to Jews, an ancient retaining wall of the Temple Mount, is all that remains of them. Depicting the peaceful visits as "incursions by Jewish settlers and extremists," PA officials and media outlets accused the Israeli government of repeatedly carrying out "provocations and assaults against holy sites in Jerusalem, particularly Al-Aqsa Mosque." Mahmoud Habbash, religious affairs adviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, went as far as describing the Jews visiting the Temple Mount as "terrorists." Habbash, who also serves as Supreme Shari'a Judge, also accused the Jewish visitors of "defiling the Haram al-Sharif and provoking the feelings of Muslims." He further  appealed to all Muslims to "defend Al-Aqsa Mosque against Israeli conspiracies and barbaric violations." Habbash was  echoing Abbas's notorious statement that Palestinians won't allow Jews with their "filthy feet" to "defile our Al-Aqsa Mosque." Abbas's statement came during a meeting with a group of Palestinians from east Jerusalem in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas even encouraged  Palestinians to engage in violence by saying: "We bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for Jerusalem, which is clean and pure blood, blood spilled for Allah, Allah willing. Every shahid (martyr) will reach Paradise, and everyone wounded will be rewarded by Allah. We will do everything in our power to protect Jerusalem." A few days after Abbas made his statement in September 2015, Palestinians launched the "Knife Intifada" against Israel – which included a wave of terror perpetrated by individuals inspired by vicious  incitement in the Palestinian media and urged on by Palestinian leaders. In the first 12 months of the terror attacks, mostly by stabbings and car-rammings, 40 Israelis were killed...
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Trump Delays New Round of China Tariffs
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Thomas Gallatin:  On Tuesday, the United States Trade Representative office said that it was delaying the implementation of a third round of tariffs against China — tariffs that President Donald Trump had announced two weeks ago. The White House noted that the 10% tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods would now be put off until Dec. 15th, with the rational given of seeking to prevent Americans from having to pay higher prices on gift purchases prior to the Christmas holiday season.

While that explanation was certainly part of the calculation, as tariffs on foreign goods most impact consumers, in all likelihood the main reason for Trump’s tariff delay has much more to do with the recent news of an agreement to restart the stalled trade talks with China. It appears that both China and the U.S. are eager to get a trade deal done in the hopes of staving off a recession, fears of which have produced increasing volatility in the markets this month.

China is also clearly feeling pressure from the growing freedom movement in Hong Kong. The last thing Beijing wants is for these protests to spill out into mainland China, hence the recent movement of troops to the Hong Kong border. While China would love nothing more than to see Trump gone from office in 2020, with trouble growing in Hong Kong, Beijing can ill afford more economic contractions by putting off trade talks. Meanwhile, the tricky path Trump will have to navigate is to both vocally support Hong Kong’s freedom movement while at the same time work to secure a fair trade deal with China.  ~The Patriot Post

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Sat/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 17, 2019 at 9:16am
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Leftmedia Brands Trump a 'Racist'uDKZIeOxKEp15frFG_Q0YyMrFgvTLlAYgmitY9oxWT_CWkDCwSFEm6Rqx8fXYEIOczR6xNaQ517L32QklIplpPvKsC7M_Wv9sKWJTC8FyKwM55fyS4XH8VWWCiyrG6B-c0Swkd5FzDmoJXEOuT8YKAGizIs8ObqxGTaBIqI=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=?profile=RESIZE_710x

Jordan Candler  

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School board has last-minute change of 
heart over George Washington mural
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by Zachary Leeman
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ The San Francisco school board voted this week to cover a George Washington mural at a local high school that depicts images of slavery and the death of a Native American... The 13-panel mural is called “Life of Washington” and though it will be preserved, it will be covered by panels that show “the heroism of people of color in America, how we have fought against, and continue to battle discrimination, racism, hatred, and poverty.” The school board voted 4-3 on the issue and the board president suggested the new panels. The board previously voted in June to paint over the mural. “I brought it back so if you’re upset with somebody, you can be upset with me,” school board president Steve Cooke said of the new plan. “I think we all agree that the murals depicts a history of the country that is hard to see and everyone agrees that that history is racist,” Cook said to KPIX. “I think where we disagree is if it’s appropriate for a school site.”“Lethal Weapon” actor and political activist Danny Glover, who is a San Francisco native, had previously spoken to the press about the issue and he actually wanted the mural to remain up, saying art is meant to make people “uncomfortable” sometimes. “You have to feel uncomfortable to sense what the past is and how the past is connected to the future, the present and the future,” the actor said. In a public statement, the actor compared covering up or removing the mural to “book burning.” “To destroy them or block them from view would be akin to book burning,” he said. “We would be missing the opportunity for enhanced historic introspection this moment has provided us.”...
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Ignoring the Debt Will Come Back to Bite Us
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by Romina Boccia
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Shrinking the national debt would do a world of good for the country. For one, it would allow us to ensure a strong national defense in the face of rising global threats... It would allow us to preserve and build on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to keep taxes low and unleash further investment. It would also boost incomes. A new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office found that shrinking the debt back down to its average historical level could boost incomes by $5,500 per person in 30 years. But rather than seize that opportunity, Washington keeps adding to the debt. The U.S. national debt just reached $22.3 trillion. When the debt limit was raised as part of the Mnuchin-liar-Pelosi budget deal recently signed by President Donald Trump, the debt took a big jump to account for the Treasury’s borrowing via loopholes “extraordinary measures” since it was last bound by a debt limit. That Mnuchin-liar-Pelosi deal will add $320 billion in new spending over the next two years, catapulting annual budget deficits well past the $1 trillion mark. Such wide deficits haven’t been seen since the years immediately following the Great Recession. Worse than previous budget deals agreed on during President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s tenure, the deals cut under the Trump administration ignore the excessive and worsening spending problem the nation faces and neglect to take deficits and debt seriously by failing to offset new spending with spending cuts elsewhere. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that over the next 10 years, this latest budget deal will increase deficits by $1.7 trillion...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/14/ignoring-the-debt-will-come-back-to-bite-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ignoring-the-debt-will-come-back-to-bite-us&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1dSak1EQXpNRFUyWXpJdyIsInQiOiJJVlVIVDhXVCtpTjdrb0NpK3o3TU9XQWlvcGNFWk9zRE9oaEZSRGVkb3pVU05KXC9NTGlqQTJabE5IUUJqeG9ZcEh1dzNcL1pDUE0xZVFyMWhpZzR3cnV5dTJWV2paOFA1TkRtWUNVcG9ZR1ZhR0wrbHNINEhjSm1ndThlS2FFK215In0%3D  
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Daily Caller Exposes Reality v. Democrat 
Delusion of Border Security
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by bongino.com ~ The Daily Caller sent a reporter to, ya know, actually report on the situation at our border with Mexico. Liberal media take note... Instead of just running soundbites of your Democratic leaders who support open borders and no consequences for criminal activity, and publicizing photos or videos of young, even dead children, with zero background information, you should send a reporter to do their job. The video put together was incredibly eye opening, especially for the majority of the citizens of the United States who do not live on or nearby the border. It is easy to ignore reality at the border when one can easily flip the channel or read COSMOPOLITAN instead of legitimate news sources. One elderly man shows how easy it is to crawl under a weak wire fence and cross into Mexico and says he has had as many as 17 drug-packers standing in his front yard. A man who works with the Arizona border recon scrolls through dozens of articles referencing violent crimes such as rape that occurred at the hands of illegals. All of these are enraging to see paired with clips of presidential hopefuls Julian Castro painting a picture of a peaceful and secured border with plenty of security and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand saying, “they’re not criminals.”
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Broken neck bone found in Epstein 
autopsy fuels more questions
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by Victor Rantala 
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ The Washington Post reported on Thursday that the autopsy on Jeffrey Epstein found the sex offender sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones... according to two people familiar with the findings. Among those broken bones was the hyoid bone near a man’s Adam’s apple — an injury most often found in homicides where victims are strangled. The Post article stated however, “such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, particularly if they are older, according to forensics experts and studies on the subject.” A hyoid can be broken in various ways but it is more commonly associated with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging, according to Jonathan L. Arden, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners. Arden told the Post that a finding of a broken hyoid requires pathologists to conduct more extensive investigation. Such an investigation would include analysis of the location of the noose, how narrow the noose is, and if the body experienced any substantial drop in the course of the hanging. He said that age is also an important factor, as the hyoid can break more easily after middle age. The details are the first to leak about the autopsy results. The office of Barbara Sampson, New York City’s chief medical examiner, completed the autopsy on Epstein’s body on Sunday, but the cause of death remains listed as pending. Sampson said in a statement that no single piece of evidence can be conclusive about a cause of death. “In all forensic investigations, all information must be synthesized to determine the cause and manner of death. Everything must be consistent; no single finding can be evaluated in a vacuum,” she said. The report adds to the controversy surrounding Epstein’s death while in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan on Saturday...
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scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler Tries To Mislead
A District Court Judge And The DOJ,
Gets Clobbered
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by Elizabeth Vaughn
{ redstate.com } ~ Americans have moved on from the Russian collusion hoax, but House Democrats just can’t seem to let go... House Judiciary chairman, scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, has two goals at the moment. He would like former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before his committee. Additionally, he is seeking the secret grand jury information from the Mueller investigation. In order to prevent “attempts to game the system by shopping” for a friendly judge, cases are assigned to judges randomly. If two cases are related, it is sometimes possible to link them. This would be advantageous if a sympathetic judge had been assigned to the first case and the plaintiff believes the judge would rule favorably on the second case. However, the cases must be related. scumbag liar-Nadler tried to link the two above mentioned cases. The first, regarding the subpoena for Don McGahn, is a civil case and the second, their request to view grand jury material is a federal case. The House Judiciary panel claims the cases are related because they are both part of their “impeachment investigation” of Trump. They identify McGahn as the “most important witness, other than the President, to the key events that are the focus of the Judiciary Committee’s investigation.” In a one-two punch, scumbag liar-Nadler’s request was torpedoed by both the DOJ and the Washington, D.C. District Court Chief Judge, Beryl Howell. In a Tuesday court filing, the DOJ alleged that scumbag liar-Nadler and the other Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee were trying to exploit this exception. They argued:  The panel improperly sought to connect the McGahn case to the grand jury case simply because they’re both part of their investigation of President Trump. This later-filed, subpoena-enforcement suit involves no issues of fact or law common to the earlier Grand Jury application, nor does it focus on a common event or transaction such that the matters would be ‘related.’...
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Leftmedia Brands Trump a 'Racist'uDKZIeOxKEp15frFG_Q0YyMrFgvTLlAYgmitY9oxWT_CWkDCwSFEm6Rqx8fXYEIOczR6xNaQ517L32QklIplpPvKsC7M_Wv9sKWJTC8FyKwM55fyS4XH8VWWCiyrG6B-c0Swkd5FzDmoJXEOuT8YKAGizIs8ObqxGTaBIqI=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=?profile=RESIZE_710x

Jordan Candler:  Notwithstanding the cockamamie idea of impeaching Donald Trump, there are two primary strategies Democrats are using in the lead-up to the 2020 election: seeding a politically induced recession, and personifying Trump as an unmistakable racist.

The Washington Post went full throttle this week with the latter method, unashamedly asserting that Trump “is vexed by a branding crisis of his own: how to shed the label of ‘racist.’” The Post pontificates, “As the campaign takes shape about 15 months before voters render a verdict on his presidency, Trump’s Democratic challengers are marking him a racist, and a few have gone so far as to designate him a white supremacist.” The article then claims:

Throughout his career as a real estate magnate, a celebrity provocateur and a politician, Trump has recoiled from being called the r-word, even though some of his actions and words have been plainly racist. Following a month in which he used racist remarks to attack four congresswomen of color, maligned a majority-black Baltimore district as a “rat and rodent infested mess” and saw his anti-immigrant rhetoric parroted in a statement that authorities believe was written by a mass shooter, the risk for Trump is that the pejorative that has long dogged him becomes defining. … Trump recently called himself “the least racist person anywhere in the world,” but his history is littered with racist and racially charged comments and actions. [Emphasis added.]

Importantly, the Post isn’t accusing Trump of having used racist language. It’s effectively saying with certitude that he has and is using racist language. Which effectively makes him a racist. We won’t debunk every incident provided by the Post, but some reflection on the first assertion — that Trump “used racist remarks to attack four congresswomen of color” — provides all we need to know about its universal lack of impartiality.

Recall that Trump stated, “Why don’t [Reps. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, worthless-Ilhan Omar, worthless-Ayanna Pressley, and worthless-Rashida Tlaib] go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came[?] Then come back and show us how it is done.” To which our Nate Jackson  responded, “Trump said what he said poorly, leaving himself wide open for the very assault he’s facing. He said what we think he meant far better in defending himself later. ‘These are people that hate our country,’ he said. ‘If you’re not happy in the U.S., if you’re complaining all the time, very simply, you can leave.’”

Jackson concluded: “Buried under Trump’s garbled prose is a legitimate point, and it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with loving or hating America and the political party guilty of the latter.” But the Post isn’t interesting in making that point, nor are any of the other Leftmedia outlets whose only agenda is portraying Trump as a racist to bolster support for Democrats in 2020 — the same strategy that’s behind the Left’s seeding a politically induced recession.

Amazingly, the Post in a separate piece claimed, “From race to plastic straws, Trump dials up culture wars in divisive play for 2020 votes.” It was the Left that dialed up the culture wars to obtain more votes. And it’s now steadfastly using the “racist” label to obtain even more votes.  

~The Patriot Post

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Saturday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 17, 2019 at 7:23am
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Abusing the Impeachment Process
Hans von Spakovsky  
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Israel to bar US Congress members 
worthless-Omar, worthless-Tlaib from visiting 
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by timesofisrael.com ~ Israel has decided to bar US congresswomen worthless-Ilhan Omar and worthless-Rashida Tlaib from entering the country... following fierce debates on the matter in the Prime Minister’s Office, Channel 12 reported on Thursday. The unconfirmed report, which did not cite a source, said the final decision was being drafted and passed around for revisions before the move is publicly announced. The reason cited for the move is reportedly “suspected provocations and promotion of BDS,” a reference to the anti-Israel boycott movement. Meanwhile an unnamed government official told AFP that was “a possibility that Israel will not allow the visit in its current proposed format.” The official said “Professional teams and legal counsel in various government ministries are continuing to examine the decision. According to Israeli law, the authority lies with the minister of the interior.” The official, however, added that “if Congresswoman worthless-Tlaib makes a humanitarian request to visit her family, the decision on her matter will be considered favourably.” The planned visit of the two controversial freshman lawmakers has made headlines in recent days after it was reported that US President Donald Trump was disappointed by Israel’s decision not to bar them from coming. Israel’s laws allow border authorities to turn away supporters of the anti-Israel boycott movement...
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A Fourth ICE Facility Has Been Attacked
by JOHN JIANG
{ spectator.org } ~ Democrats’ rhetoric on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has come under increasing scrutiny following attacks across the United States against facilities associated with the agency... The latest attack came early Tuesday morning, when armed perpetrators shot at ICE offices in San Antonio, Texas, in what the FBI has described as a “targeted attack.” Though no one was injured, FBI Agent Christopher Combs said in a news conference that “had the bullets gone two inches in another direction, we could be here today talking about the murder of a federal official.” The number of perpetrators, their identity, and their motives are all currently unknown. According to Combs, however, all of the fired shots were directed at floors of the office complex allotted to ICE, indicating that the perpetrators had done research beforehand. The timing of the attack also suggests that it may have been intended to intimidate, rather than harm, ICE employees. This incident is only the most recent entry in a growing list of direct actions against immigration enforcement officials. A similar attack occurred on July 14, when a man associated with Antifa attempted to assault an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington, while armed with a rifle and “incendiary devices” and was fatally shot by police. The episode came just over a day after a mob of protestors descended on another ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado, on July 12, pulled down an American flag, and raised a Mexican one in its place. Then, on July 16, ICE headquarters in D.C. was the site of a large protest in which 10 people were arrested for unlawfully entering the building. It has become fashionable again, in the aftermath of the mass shooting by a white separatist in El Paso, Texas, to ascribe blame for political violence to President Trump and his allies. The knife cuts both ways. The national conversation has been awash with talk of “concentration camps” ever since the members of “the Squad” were elected to Congress, transforming a comparatively sedate status quo on immigration into hysterics about fascism and genocide. No doubt some of the ICE employees targeted by these attacks have been with the agency since the Bush presidency or the scumbag/liar-nObama era, when record numbers of immigrants were deported and children were kept in cages. Yet it is only now that the life and limb of these public servants are threatened, having been compared to Nazi camp guards by elected officials on Capitol Hill...  https://spectator.org/a-fourth-ice-facility-has-been-attacked/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=98f1f66cb5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_15_02_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-98f1f66cb5-104608113  
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It’s Time To Officially Acknowledge That
Qatar Is A State Sponsor of Terrorism 
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By Jordan Cope
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Qatar boasts the world’s second-largest gross domestic product per capita. The wealthy oil emirate operates Qatar Airways, one of the world’s largest airlines... It hosts one of the world’s most influential state-sponsored news sources, Al Jazeera, and maintains significant influence in higher American education, donating more than $1.5 billion to some of America’s most well-known universities: the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina, Northwestern, Texas A&M, and Cornell. For all its “contributions,” however, Qatar also has a dark side. It openly supports and harbors terrorists to a disproportionate and unparalleled degree for its size. Qatar’s actions prompted President Trump to recognize Qatar’s terror funding as being “on a very high level.” Despite this recognition, American administrations, even those as critical as Trump’s, have sidestepped the truth about this terrorism-sponsoring country. Instead, they have tended to celebrate the tens of billions of dollars that Qatar spends on American military and commercial equipment, as well as Qatar’s hospitality in allowing the stationing of thousands of U.S. troops. Regardless of its economic and military incentives, Qatar has long challenged American security interests, sustaining Hamas and other terrorist groups. In response to this reality, the State Department must finally designate Qatar as a state-sponsor of terror, as it has done for others that have “repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.” First and foremost, Qatar’s ties to Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group that avows Israel’s destruction, are overwhelming. As one of Hamas’s largest funders, Qatar has provided the terrorist organization more than $1.1 billion since 2012. While Qatar often justifies its funding as humanitarian, the course of its funding, as well as the current emir’s statements, suggest different true motives. Qatar’s emir refuses to regard Hamas as a terrorist organization and supported Hamas on the record. During a CNN interview, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani proclaimed, “Qatar supports ‘all Palestinian people. We believe Hamas is a very important part of the Palestinian people.’” Considering its support for Hamas, Qatar has often digressed from its supposed humanitarian cause, having explicitly funded the Hamas hierarchy...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/15/qatar-state-sponsor-terrorism/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=ffc9231ed0-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-ffc9231ed0-83771801  
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US makes last-minute move to seize Iranian supertanker detained in Gibraltar
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By Greg Norman 
{ foxnews.com } ~ The U.S. has a made a last-minute move to seize an Iranian supertanker that was captured in Gibraltar last month by authorities... who suspect the vessel was trying to provide crude oil to Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime in violation of European Union sanctions. Gibraltar’s government announced Thursday that its Supreme Court adjourned a scheduled decision on whether to release the Grace 1 ship until later in the day after it received notice that the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to extend its detention. The Iranian vessel has been held in the British territory since July 4 and officials from the Islamic Republic have been demanding its release, signaling that if Gibraltar parts with the ship, they may free the U.K.-flagged Stena Impero – an oil tanker captured in the Strait of Hormuz two weeks later. "The U.S. Department of Justice has applied to seize the Grace 1 on a number of allegations which are now being considered," the Gibraltar government said in a statement, adding that the matter would be reviewed by the court at 4 p.m. local time (10 a.m. ET).The Gibraltar government has said it was seeking to "de-escalate" the situation over the Grace 1, the Associated Press reports. Signaling preparations for the expected release of the ship Thursday before the U.S. intervened, the captain, an Indian national, and three officers of the Grace 1 had been released from detention, a Gibraltar government spokesman said...  https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-moves-to-seize-iranian-supertanker-detained-in-gibraltar  
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Angela Merkel ignores NATO defense pledge, snubbing U.S. demands to spend more GDP
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by Benjamin Weinthal
{ fdd.org } ~ The leader of Germany, Europe’s wealthiest country, has once again rejected U.S. requests to keep a promise to spend 2 percent of its GDP on defense to ensure the continued viability of the NATO alliance... Chancellor Angela Merkel’s alleged freeloading on the backs of the U.S. and other NATO member states that have contributed the 2 percent of gross domestic product might cause the U.S. to relocate its troops stationed on German soil to Poland. “We said we want to achieve 1.5 percent by 2024. And that is our common will,” Merkel said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell told Fox News on Wednesday: “The Wales Pledge was made in 2014 and it gave a 10-year runway to get to 2 percent by 2024.” In 2014, members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization pledged, at the Wales Summit, to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense. Merkel has indicated, however, that her interpretation of that is “toward 2 percent,” not an obligation. Speaking on Tuesday in Stralsund, Germany, she said: “So this means in the direction of 2 percent, and we will continue to go in this direction also after 2024.” Critics see Germany playing with semantics regarding its obligation. Last week Grenell suggested the U.S. should pull its troops from Germany if the country does not increase its required spending...  https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/08/14/angela-merkel-ignores-nato-defense-pledge-snubbing-us-demands-to-spend-more-gdp/   
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Abusing the Impeachment Process

Hans von Spakovsky
 

On three separate occasions, Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, has introduced a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump. Each time, the House of Representatives has voted it down.

And with good reason. Consider Green’s latest resolution. No matter how much one opposes Trump, it would have been a serious misuse of the House’s impeachment power. The 95 members who voted for it either do not understand or do not care about the purpose and proper use of this procedure.

Green’s resolution said that the president should be impeached because he is “unfit to represent” American values of “decency and morality” and “respectability and civility.” It also cited Trump’s criticism of four Democratic House members.

There is no doubt that Green deplores Trump and disagrees with his policies on many important issues. The question, however, is whether such matters are properly the basis for seeking to nullify the last election by removing the president from office. They are not, as we explain in a new research paper on the history of impeachment.

In drafting the Constitution, America’s founders provided for impeachment not as a partisan political weapon, or as an alternative to elections, but as a way to address serious misconduct by the president or other federal officials — conduct that betrays the public trust, breaks the law, or otherwise renders them unfit for office.

The 1787 convention that produced the Constitution carefully defined the conduct that warranted impeachment. The delegates rejected broad, vague language such as “malpractice or neglect of duty” as well as a narrow category limited only to treason and bribery. Instead, they chose the phrase that appears today in Article II, Section 4: “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

This phrase had been in English law for centuries, and the founders knew what it meant. It designates behavior that, as Professor John McGinnis puts it, is “serious objective misconduct that bears on the official’s fitness for office.”

To date, neither Green nor any other representative has made the case that the president has engaged in such misconduct. In fact, Green’s resolution doesn’t attempt to do so. It is simply an expression of outrage at the personality, character, behavior and speech of the president.

America’s founders were clear about the meaning and proper use of impeachment, and American history counsels against abusing this power. In the 19th century, radical Republicans impeached President Andrew Johnson because they disagreed with his plans to implement President Abraham Lincoln’s conciliatory policies towards the Southern states. The impeachment articles claimed that even Johnson’s speeches amounted to “high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

Historians have condemned the Johnson impeachment as rash, reckless, and unwarranted. House members improperly turned Johnson’s legitimate decisions as president into impeachable offenses simply because they disagreed with those decisions. With rhetorical excesses similar to those directed today against Trump, radical Republicans tried to portray Johnson as a “wild-eyed dictator bent on overthrowing the government.”

Shortly before the Johnson impeachment, C.M. Ellis addressed “the causes for which a president may be impeached.” Neither the House nor Senate, he wrote in The Atlantic, may act arbitrarily. Rather, they must be guided by rules about the proper purpose and use of impeachment. That counsel is needed just as much today as it was in 1867.

The arbitrary, partisan use of impeachment represented by the Green resolution is at odds with the nature of impeachment as it was practiced in England and understood by those who drafted and ratified the Constitution. It is incompatible with the republican form of government guaranteed by the Constitution. It would allow 285 members of Congress — a simple House majority and two-thirds of senators — to remove a duly elected president for partisan reasons or over matters of personality and style.

This should not be laughed off as just partisan fun and games. It’s a dangerous, anti-democratic maneuver that flouts the principles on which our republic was founded and threatens its stability.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64799?mailing_id=4468&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4468&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 15, 2019 at 11:33am
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  Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding 
the Wicked War on ICE?
Michelle Malkin
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The Longest-Lasting Conspiracy Theory
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ How often have we seen commentaries concerning the situation in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, made with intensity, even passion, which purport to tell readers the "facts" about Israel?... They often narrate falsehoods that might put to shame a string of fraudsters, conmen and conspiracy theorists. It seems, at times, that there is no limit to anti-Semitic modern fantasies about the Jewish state of Israel that overwhelm the even older libels about Jews controlling world affairs, as in the totally fraudulent forgery of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Today, we are given to believe that it is Muslim Palestinian children who are slain by sneering Zionists and that the government of Israel works hand in hand with a global network of Christians and Jewish bankers, politicians, and media bosses. It is not surprising to see ordinary folk taken in by anti-Semitic meanderings and anti-Israel fiction. A 2015 study by Chicago political scientists, J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, provided evidence that belief in conspiracies and other falsehoods is widespread even in the United States: Using four nationally representative surveys, sampled between 2006 and 2011, we find that half of the American public consistently endorses at least one conspiracy theory and that many popular conspiracy theories are differentiated along ideological and anomic dimensions. In contrast with many theoretical speculations, we do not find conspiracism to be a product of greater authoritarianism, ignorance, or political conservatism. Rather, the likelihood of supporting conspiracy theories is strongly predicted by a willingness to believe in other unseen, intentional forces and an attraction to Manichean narratives. These findings both demonstrate the widespread allure of conspiracy theories as political explanations and offer new perspectives on the forces that shape mass opinion and American political culture. Human beings are by nature gullible and willing to take on board all manner of bunkum before breakfast. How else to explain the popularity of arch-conspiracists such as Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin? Of course, dictators like Hitler and Stalin can enforce their twisted notions by threats and force. In democracies, however, regardless of the open availability of verifiable information from libraries, universities, colleges, and government agencies, large numbers of people fall for any number of fantasies promulgated by internet trolls, the tabloid press, and, not infrequently, politicians with axes to grind...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14412/conspiracy-theory   
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Can Nuclear Power Be Saved?
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By JONATHAN LESSER
{ nationalreview.com } ~ Whither nuclear power? That question has become more important as energy policies evolve to emphasize emissions-free “green” energy and an increased electrification of the U.S. economy... Some environmentalists consider nuclear power to be crucial to reducing carbon emissions; others continue to vehemently oppose nuclear power and believe that our energy must come solely from renewable sources.  The public, encouraged into hysteria by dramatizations of nuclear-plant accidents such as the film The China Syndrome and HBO’s Chernobyl, is split. Meanwhile, the nuclear-power industry itself is in a parlous state for a variety of tangled reasons. In a recent Manhattan Institute report, I broke them down into four categories: (i) decades of construction cost overruns and plant delays because of poor designs, lack of manufacturing expertise, and changing regulations; (ii) political squabbling over spent-nuclear-fuel disposal; (iii) energy policies, including renewable-energy subsidies and mandates, that have distorted electric-power markets and made it harder for nuclear plants to compete; and (iv) lower natural-gas prices and more efficient gas-fired generators. In the past few years, threatened plant closures have led state policymakers to award subsidies to eleven existing plants. More such subsidies are likely forthcoming, if for no other reason than some nuclear-plant owners wanting their share of the subsidy pie. “Nice plant you got there,” they seem to be saying to local economic stakeholders. “Be a shame if something happened to it.” Nevertheless, nuclear power provides valuable benefits. It is highly reliable and emissions-free. It provides generation diversity, which can reduce the adverse effects of fuel-price shocks. It does not require backup and storage, unlike wind- and solar-power generation. And new designs for nuclear plants promise lower costs and improved safety. Then again, the nuclear industry has long promised lower costs — and failed to deliver. When actual construction begins, costs always seem to balloon, owing to a combination of poor manufacturing and changing safety regulations. SCANA Corporation’s partially built and now abandoned Santee Cooper nuclear plant, which led to that company’s purchase by Dominion Energy, and Southern Company’s delayed Vogtle plant, are just the latest examples...
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In North Philly standoff, alleged cop shooter 
Maurice Hill has a long criminal history
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by Samantha Melamed, Jeremy Roebuck, Dylan Purcell and Craig R. McCoy
{ inquirer.com } ~ Police sources identified the gunman in a standoff at a Tioga apartment building that left six police officers injured as Maurice Hill, 36... a Philadelphia man with a lengthy history of gun convictions and of resisting attempts to bring him to justice. The police sources declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak. Reached by phone about 9:30 p.m. Thursday evening, Shaka Johnson, the lawyer who most recently represented Hill, confirmed that Hill had a connection to the standoff. “My client is requesting me to come to the scene,” he said. The standoff began Wednesday about 4:30 p.m. when a Narcotics Strike Force unit attempted to serve a search warrant at a house on the 3700 block of North 15th Street. For the next few hours, police used bullhorns and phone calls, trying to get him to surrender.  https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-shootings-six-shot-suspect-maurice-hill-20190815.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar   
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Navy Issues Draft Request for Proposal for 
Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle
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By: Sam LaGrone
{ news.usni.org } ~ The Navy has put a call out to industry to send in ideas for its planned fleet of corvette-sized unmanned surface vehicles...  according to a draft request for proposal announced on Wednesday. The draft RFP for the Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle program starts the work of transitioning the effort from the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office two-hull Ghost Fleet into a full-fledged shipbuilding program. The draft comes ahead of a final RFP due out later this year. “The LUSV will be a high-endurance, reconfigurable ship able to accommodate various payloads for unmanned missions to augment the Navy’s manned surface force,” read a summary of the program. “With a large payload capacity, the LUSV will be designed to conduct a variety of warfare operations independently or in conjunction with manned surface combatants. The LUSV will be capable of semi-autonomous or fully autonomous operation, with operators in-the-loop controlling remotely or on-the-loop enabled through autonomy.” A USNI News questions for additional details on the general requirements for the program was acknowledged by a Naval Sea Systems Command spokesman but not immediately answered. As part of the fiscal year 2020 budget, the Navy asked for $400 million to build two LUSVs that are about 200 to 300 feet in length with a displacement of about 2,000 tons as a research and development program, officials told USNI News earlier this year. An unmanned surface industry day earlier this year drew almost 80 companies interested in the work, USNI News has learned. The plan is for the first two LUSVs to closely follow the SCO’s two Ghost Fleet ships developed for the unmanned Ghost Fleet Overlord program. The initial hulls are based on designs similar to Offshore Support Vessels that have been used by the oil and gas industry...  https://news.usni.org/2019/08/14/navy-issues-draft-request-for-proposal-for-large-unmanned-surface-vehicle?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=3bcd8d5755-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-3bcd8d5755-231491269&mc_cid=3bcd8d5755&mc_eid=3999f18767   
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Say What? Dems Deem Old Glory Racist, 
Redesign Flag With No Stars & Stripes!?
by Roger Forsberg  
{youtube.com} ~ Even the American Flag is problematic in today’s Democrat party.  
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Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding the Wicked War on ICE?

Michelle Malkin
 

All the gun control zealots out in full force last week have apparently gone to the beach. An alarming shooting took place at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in San Antonio on Tuesday. Local media reported that “multiple shots were fired on two floors targeting ICE officials.” But the Second Amendment saboteurs were AWOL.

Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Federal government workers are under literal fire for enforcing our immigration laws and protecting America. But the left-wing Moms Demand Action ignored the story. So did the anti-gun Brady Campaign agitators. And the usual stampede of camera-hogging Democratic presidential candidates lost their unquenchable thirst for the spotlight to blame “hate speech” for inducing violence.

The vacuum is bipartisan. With few exceptions, Beltway Republicans have also lost their tongues when they should be relentlessly smashing the open borders wall of silence about this escalating anti-ICE terror campaign. The San Antonio attack comes just one month after an antifa extremist ambushed an ICE detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, armed with a rifle and incendiary devices. The vengeful antifa gunman had assaulted a police officer last year at the same location, received a wrist slap, and then published a manifesto that declared: “I strongly encourage comrades and incoming comrades to arm themselves.”

The Tacoma terrorist had also invoked the incendiary ICE-bashing rhetoric of commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her diatribes on ICE centers as “concentration camps” were, in turn, borrowed from and amplified by rent-a-mobsters who demonized Homeland Security employees at a string of summer demonstrations against ICE facilities the past two years — from the lawless hellhole of Portland to the D.C. swamp to the Big Apple criminal sanctuary to my adopted home state of Colorado, where the American flag was ripped from its post and replaced with the Mexican flag by still-unidentified vandals on the loose.

The same hysterical demagogues who are blaming me for the El Paso shooting because my first book on immigration in 2002 was titled “Invasion” are silent about the climate of hate wrought by:

–The New York Times op-ed page’s brazen call to target ICE and Border Patrol agents and their families.

–WikiLeaks’ “ICE Patrol” personal information and location database targeting more than 9,000 ICE employees, from auditors to young research assistants and interns, electricians, IT analysts, field intelligence officers, translators, anti-terrorism experts and detention and deportation agents.

–Twitter’s publication of bloody hate speech by antifa and Abolish ICE thugs, including Occupy Wall Street’s graphic cartoon advising followers on how to stab an ICE agent in the chest “and pull out his still beating heart.”

Who’s funding the wicked war on ICE? For starters, open borders billionaire scumbag-George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, his son Alex’s Jewish social justice nonprofit Bend the Arc, scumbag-Soros-backed CREDO Action, and the scumbag-Soros-funded Center for Popular Democracy, United We Dream and Make the Road New York have all subsidized and stoked hatred of ICE and the Border Patrol.

This is not anti-Semitism, white nationalism or white supremacy. It’s fact.

And it’s not a conspiracy “theory” that scumbag-Soros’ money has fueled dangerous immigration anarchy. It’s conspiracy truth.

Even more shocking is how much of the toxic propaganda undermining the men and women on our Homeland Security frontlines is being underwritten by unsuspecting taxpayers, churchgoers and consumers.

In the coming weeks, I will be exposing the global financiers and government programs promoting the campaign to “melt ICE,” turn the Border Patrol into the “diaper patrol,” open the floodgates to every last unvetted Muslim refugee and unassimilated, low-wage Central American laborer, and erase the America my legal immigrant parents taught me to cherish.

My seventh book, “Open Borders, Inc.: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction,” will be released on Sept. 10, 2019. I’ve compiled nearly 500 pages and 12 appendices and maps tracing tens of billions of dollars spent or received by 400+ nonprofits, religious charities, legal organizations, political lobbying groups, businesses and government contractors, backed up by 1,600-plus footnotes to educate my fellow citizens.

Border security and restored sovereignty start with defunding the funders of America’s destruction, and then prosecuting them as criminal open borders racketeers. Follow the money; find the truth.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64826?mailing_id=4470&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4470&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 15, 2019 at 9:05am
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~ Featuring ~   
American INF Withdrawal Will 
Help Contain China
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Harold Hutchison 
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Thursday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Government & Politics


PROTECTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: “The Labor Department on Wednesday announced a new rule to grant the ‘broadest protection permitted by law’ to religious organizations contracting with the federal government. The proposed rule to clarify civil rights protections for religious groups will be added to the Federal Register on Thursday, but is now open to public comment.” (The Daily Signal)

FAUX FAUXCAHONTAS POLL, OR LEGIT HEADWAY?  “loosev lips liar-Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth dinky-Warren are polling within just one percentage point of each other as dinky-Warren catches up to the former vice president, who has led the pack of Democratic presidential candidates nationally for weeks. loose lips liar-Biden stands at 21 percent support, while dinky-Warren is right behind him at 20 percent, up four points from last week, according to the latest national  Economist–YouGov poll.” (National Review)

CONSTITUENTS MIA: “Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has outraised all other freshmen representatives so far in 2019, but nearly all of her reported contributors to her reelection campaign live outside her congressional district… commie-Ocasio-Cortez’s reelection campaign has reported receiving contributions from just 10 individuals living within her district in the first half of 2019, according to its Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.” (The Daily Caller)

COLLUSION: “Nellie Ohr kept tabs on dozens of Trump associates and Russian businessmen as part of her work for Fusion GPS, according to government documents released Wednesday. Ohr’s husband, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, provided the documents to the FBI for its investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.” (The Daily Caller)

scumbag-COMEY MEMOS UNTETHERED: “A federal judge ruled against the FBI’s efforts to keep some redacted documents related to former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey’s memos hidden from the public. The ruling comes after the FBI asked Judge James Boasberg to reconsider a district court ruling earlier this year that CNN and other media organizations and watchdog groups were entitled to information related both to scumbag-Comey’s memos and to how those memos were used in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation, which concluded earlier this year. But the FBI battled against disclosure.” (Washington Examiner)

SUBTERFUGE REJECTED: “A federal judge on Wednesday rejected House Democrats’ attempt to try to pick the judge who will hear their lawsuit to compel former White House lawyer Don McGahn to testify, arguing the case is different from Democrats’ other impeachment-related lawsuits.” (The Washington Times)

National Security


ICEBREAKERS: “The FBI is investigating a ‘targeted attack' in which shots were fired into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office and another facility associated with the agency in San Antonio, Texas early Tuesday. … Last month, a man was killed by Washington state authorities when he threw incendiary devices at both an immigration center and nearby propane tanks. In Colorado, protesters demonstrating outside an ICE facility replaced the American flag with the Mexican flag.” (Fox News)

NO DEAL: “A Guatemalan immigration agreement signed with the Trump administration won’t work because the Central American nation does not have the resources, the country’s new president-elect says. Alejandro Giammattei, a conservative who was chosen overwhelmingly by voters in a weekend runoff election, said … that Guatemala is too poor to tend to its own people, let alone those from other countries.” (Associated Press)

THE CONSEQUENCES OF OPEN BORDERS: “Two illegal immigrants have been charged with second degree rape of the same 11-year-old girl in Maryland. Montgomery County Police arrested Mauricio Barrera-Navidad, 29, of Damascus, Maryland, and Carlos Palacios-Amaya, 28, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, for allegedly raping the same under-aged girl on multiple occasions.” (The Daily Caller)

Other Notables


STOCK MARKET REBOUNDS: “Stocks rose on Thursday, gaining back some of the steep losses in the previous session. … Thursday’s session follows the Dow’s 800-point loss on Wednesday amid a recession signal from the bond market. The stock market took a huge hit in the previous session with the Dow plunging 800 points in its fourth-largest point drop ever to a two-month low. The Dow’s 3% drop was the worst this year. The S&P 500 also fell nearly 3%.” (CNBC)

OFFICERS DOWN: According to Fox News, “The suspect linked to Wednesday’s hours-long standoff in Philadelphia surrendered to authorities just after midnight Thursday, exiting the residence with his hands in the air and with a police light shining on him, surrounded by a cloud of tear gas. The dramatic shootout in Philadelphia stretched on for hours as six officers were shot — and two officers and three hostages were later freed, apparently unhurt.” Fox News also reports, “Onlookers were seen taunting and throwing things at Philadelphia police Wednesday night amid a wild shootout and subsequent standoff … and video posted online shows one woman shoving a police officer making his way to the scene.” This New York Post report reveals what these kind of anti-police attitudes can lead to: “A veteran cop became the ninth NYPD officer to commit suicide this year when he shot himself in the head at his Queens home Wednesday evening.”

Closing Arguments


POLICY: No, wages are not rising because of minimum-wage laws (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: Can nuclear power be saved? (National Review)

HUMOR: America offers to trade all of its communists for democratic protesters in Hong Kong (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64863?mailing_id=4473&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4473&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body    

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At least 6 Philadelphia officers wounded 
in shootout; police warn of active scene
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By Vandana Rambaran 
{ foxnews.com } ~ At least six Philadelphia police officers were shot, one reportedly grazed in the head, in an ongoing shootout in the city's Nicetown neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon... that has been unfolding for almost four hours. Three officers were rushed to Temple University Hospital, officials told Fox 29. Three other officers were taken to Einstein Hospital, at least one of them was shot in the arm. All six officers were in stable condition and being treated for non-life threatening injuries. "Fortunately, everybody is going to be okay," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross told reporters on Wednesday, even as the shooter refused to surrender to officers during ongoing negotiations. Two other officers, including a police sergeant, were injured in an accident related to the emergency response and were being treated for non-life threatening injuries. High-ranking police officials said two officers with the Narcotics Strike Force were serving a warrant at a multifamily home -- in what may have been a drug-related offense -- when a shooter opened fire at the home. The two officers were barricaded in separate rooms with as many as four suspects. Hostage negotiators and a SWAT team were on the scene. "Officers are attempting to communicate with the shooter; imploring him to surrender and avoid further injuries," Philadelphia Police Department Sgt. Eric Gripp tweeted...
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Mike Pompeo inches closer to Kansas U.S. 
Senate run and seeks advice
from Steve Bannon...
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By EMILY GOODIN 
{ dailymail.co.uk } ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is said to be inching closer to running for Senate in Kansas and has reached out to Steve Bannon as he contemplates his next move... Pompeo spoke to the former White House counselor about the contest, according to the Washington Examiner, as Bannon's feud with Donald Trump has calmed down. Bannon 'claimed that Pompeo was leaning towards a run,' according to the newspaper. Pompeo - a former congress man from Kansas who served as Trump's CIA director before moving to the State Department - has given mixed messages about his future plans. In February, Pompeo publicly ruled out a Senate run. But he told a Kansas radio station last month: 'I always need to be open to the possibility that something will change and my path in life will change too.' His allies have told donors to wait on him to make a final decision before adding their weight to the contest, Bloomberg News reported.  Pompeo spoke to Bannon last month shortly before Trump tweeted praise for his former adviser, with whom he's had an up-and-down relationship, particularly in the wake of Michael Wolff's 2018 book 'Fire and Fury' on the administration. 'Nice to see that one of my best pupils is still a giant Trump fan,' the president tweeted in early August along with video of an interview Bannon gave CNBC. Many Republicans, including GOP  Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, are urging Pompeo to run for retiring Senator Pat Robert's seat...
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Israel Gets Ready to Fight a Multifront War
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by Seth Frantzman
{ meforum.org } ~ Israel's Ministry of Defense has revealed a new program to design a combat vehicle for the future. Three prototypes, showing off the latest technology that will enable manned and unmanned vehicles to secure terrain... were on display in a dusty field below a series of hills. Beyond one of the hills was a fake village, constructed to resemble the kind of environment Israel might have to fight in during a battle in Lebanon. It was a fitting place for Israel to be discussing the battlefield of the future, while a simulation of the current battlefield is in the background. For Jerusalem the challenge is facing well-known adversaries, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, while looking further afield at an Iranian threat now entrenching in Syria and Iraq. The unveiling of the new program comes just a few days after a Palestinian militant fired on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) patrol near the Gaza Strip, wounding an officer and two soldiers. According to the IDF, the troops returned fire and killed the assailant. A Hamas military post was targeted in retaliation by an IDF tank. Later the same day shots were fired at Israeli forces in the West Bank. In addition, local media in Syria accused Israel of carrying out an airstrike on the Golan Heights near the armistice line. That day's activities suggest that a conflict on three or more fronts is brewing for Israel. Israeli media, officials and defense analysts have been  warning about a scenario since 2017. The IDF has been  working on the assumption that the next war could be fought simultaneously on multiple fronts. Former Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, who has said Israel struck more than one thousand  Iranian targets in Syria in the last years, asserted last year that Israel faces challenges in Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, Gaza, and in Sinai. In addition, a sixth layer should be added to this, one that includes Iraq, which is where Israeli jets reportedly  struck targets. According to this scenario, Israel sees some Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitaries, which are linked to Iran, as a threat. Potential threats include paramilitary militias that could join a future conflict by cutting through Syria to the battlefield and Iranian supplied precision-guided missiles based in Iraq. These Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitaries, such as Kata'ib Hezbollah, are linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which Washington has designated a terrorist organization. Israel hasn't faced a multifront conflict like this since 1973. At that time the war was fought between Israeli conventional forces and the armies of Egypt, Syria, as well as elements of Iraqi armored divisions and other allies of the Arab states. Today the situation is dramatically different. As a result, Israel is honing its hi-tech military to be more precise, effective, and agile using artificial intelligence, drones, and missiles that fly further than before...
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Why Blacks Should Ignore the Liberal Agenda
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by Walter E. Williams 
{ dailysignal.com } ~ There is discrimination of all sorts, and that includes racial discrimination. Thus, it’s somewhat foolhardy to debate the existence of racial discrimination yesteryear or today... From a policy point of view, a far more useful question to ask is: How much of the plight of many blacks can be explained by current racial discrimination? Let’s examine some of today’s most devastating problems of many black people with an eye toward addressing discrimination of the past and present. At the root of most of the problems black people face is the breakdown of the family structure. Slightly over 70% of black children are raised in female-headed households. According to statistics about fatherless homes, 90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes; 71% of pregnant teenagers lack a father figure; 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes; 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes; and 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions have no father. Furthermore, fatherless boys and girls are twice as likely to drop out of high school and twice as likely to end up in jail. One might say, “Williams, one cannot ignore the legacy of slavery and the gross racism and denial of civil rights in yesteryear!” Let’s look at whether black fatherless homes are a result of a “legacy of slavery” and racial discrimination. In the late 1800s, depending on the city, 70% to 80% of black households were two-parent. Thomas Sowell has argued, “The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.”...
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Senators Call for Closing “Loopholes” 
That Make Health Care Fraud Easy
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by Marshall Allen
{ propublica.org } ~ Following a detailed account of how scam artists can easily gain access to health care cash... six Democratic senators this week sent a letter to federal regulators urging them to “close loopholes” that allow “bad actors” to commit fraud. The letter came in response to a recent story by ProPublica and Vox that traced the brazen scam of a Texas personal trainer, who despite having no medical credentials was able to submit a blizzard of fake bills with some of the biggest insurance companies in the country and recoup millions. The story revealed not only how David Williams exploited weaknesses at each step, but how slowly the insurers responded to his ongoing fraud. Williams’ con, for which he was later prosecuted, was initially enabled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The federal agency issues and administers National Provider Identifiers, or NPIs, the unique numbers medical providers need to bill insurance plans. ProPublica found that Medicare doesn’t check the credentials of medical providers who apply for NPI numbers, such as whether they have valid licenses, which means scammers can lie to obtain them. Williams obtained at least 20 NPI numbers and used them to bill insurers. The insurers he scammed — Aetna, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare — then allowed his fraud to proceed for years, largely unchecked. The companies also failed to verify that Williams was a licensed physician, even as he billed them for complex, and expensive, office visits as an out-of-network provider. Instead, they paid him more than $4 million over a span of four years, despite alerts from his ex-wife and her dad about his scam. Williams was convicted of four counts of health care fraud in 2018 and sentenced to about nine years in federal prison. The insurers declined to comment on his fraud. Current and former investigators for health insurers and federal prosecutors said the simplicity of Williams’ scam, combined with weak oversight and enforcement, raises questions about what’s being done to combat rampant health care fraud. Experts estimate fraud consumes about 10% of the country’s $3.5 trillion health care tab — although the story found that large swaths of fraud are not being tracked. Those losses are eventually passed on to the public in the form of higher monthly premiums and out-of-pocket costs as well as reduced benefits...
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American INF Withdrawal Will Help 
Contain China
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Harold Hutchison:  Those who criticize the withdrawal of America from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty cite the new arms race with Russia as a big negative. The thing is, that is too small a view. There is another major power that we should be thinking about: the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
 

PRC arguably has a huge edge in sub-strategic nuclear warfare. This is because while the 1987 INF Treaty required the United States and Soviet Union to get rid of any land-based missiles with ranges between 300 and 3,000 miles, China was not a party to that deal. That meant it not only got to keep its current missiles (at the time) but it could develop and deploy more modern missiles over the 32 years that treaty was in force.

This is why American carriers now face the highly hyped Chinese DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile, among other threats. While China may not have a lot of these missiles, what it does have already forces America to make some real adjustments.

The good news: The United States Navy uses the RIM-161 Standard SM-3 missile, which has been very successful in tests. It can reliably knock down missiles like the DF-21. But that is where the good news ends for the Navy.

To take out an incoming target, it’s not always a case of firing one missile and scoring a hit. Usually, to guarantee a hit, standard operating procedure is to fire two or more missiles, as the USS Mason (DDG 97) did when fired upon by Iran’s Houthi stooges in 2016.

Suppose a hostile country had 24 of these missiles. If you assume three missiles fired per incoming missile, the initial salvo would consist of 72 missiles. While an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer has a total of 96 missile cells, those are used to do more than just shoot down ballistic missiles.

Burke-class destroyers also provide anti-aircraft defenses, which require surface-to-air missiles like the RIM-66 Standard SM-2 and the RIM-174 Standard SM-6. It will also need point-defense missiles like the RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile or the RUM-139 Vertical-Launch ASROC for anti-submarine missions. Then, of course, there is the BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile.

All of a sudden, 72 SM-3s seem like a bit much for one ship to have. That’s even before one considers the risks of putting all those eggs in one basket. There is the option to spread out the missiles among other ships (either Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers or other Burke-class destroyers), but then each ship has its other missions compromised.

The thing is, the U.S. can turn that around on the Chinese. Imagine if they could develop new ground-based cruise missiles — say, versions of the Tomahawk (or a replacement) for land-attack roles. Base those in South Korea, Vietnam, and Japan, and China would then have a whole new set of problems. In a similar vein, a ground-launched version of the Navy’s AGM-158C based on Palawan Island or near Haiphong would give Chinese ships in the South China Sea something to worry about. That wouldn’t even include the United States having mobile intermediate-range ballistic missiles deployed in the region as well.

The deployment of land-based missiles in Poland, Norway, Romania, and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania could have the same effect on Russia as it does on China — especially with the Navy having a huge shortage of hulls in the water.

The fact is, withdrawing from INF ranks as one of President Trump’s smartest moves. In today’s lawless world, arms-control treaties are increasingly just a sucker’s game that is as effective on the international stage as gun control has been in cities like Chicago and Baltimore.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64791?mailing_id=4468&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4468&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 15, 2019 at 6:48am
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~ Featuring ~ 
Signs of Summer's Eb
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Tom McLaughlin
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Judge slaps down Dem gambit in 
Trump impeachment probe
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By Ronn Blitzer 
{ foxnews.com } ~ A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday shot down an attempt by House Judiciary Committee Democrats to link their subpoena for former White House counsel Don McGahn... to a separate request for secret grand jury information from the Russia investigation after the Justice Department accused them of trying to "game the system." Normally cases are assigned to judges randomly, which the DOJ said is meant to keep parties from “attempting to game the system” by “shopping” for a judge they like. But in a Tuesday court filing, the department alleged the Democrat-controlled committee was trying to do exactly that by exploiting an exception that allows “related” cases to be heard by the same judge. In this case, the DOJ said the panel improperly sought to connect the McGahn case to the grand jury case simply because they're both part of their investigation of President Trump. "At first blush, the House Judiciary Committee's view that the related case rule applies is understandable," D.C. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell wrote in her order rejecting the bid. "Nonetheless, closer examination demonstrates that these connections between the two cases are too superficial and attenuated for the instant McGahn Subpoena Case to qualify."  Howell, who is currently assigned to the grand jury case, agreed with the DOJ's argument that the committee’s request to unseal secret grand jury information from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe has to do with the application of the law under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, while the McGahn case is a civil matter dealing with enforcing a subpoena where immunity has been asserted.  “This later-filed, subpoena-enforcement suit involves no issues of fact or law common to the earlier Grand Jury application, nor does it focus on a common event or transaction such that the matters would be ‘related,’” the DOJ argued in its court filing...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-dem-trump-impeachment-probe  
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Mollie Hemingway slams media for deceptive coverage, calls the new low a ‘turning point’
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by Frieda Powers
{ bizpacreview.com } ~Mollie Hemingway slammed the media for going “beyond journalistic responsibility” in coverage of last week’s two mass shootings... The senior editor of The Federalist spoke out on Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz” about the “turning point” for America’s media during a discussion on the accusations against President Trump, who was essentially being blamed for the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.  “There is no longer any pretense of a debate. Journalists, commentators say, as we just heard, President Trump is a racist, President Trump is a white supremacist and maybe leap into charging that he is condoning, inciting, that he’s directly responsible for mass violence,” host Howard Kurtz began on the show Sunday. “It was really horrible what we saw this week,” Hemingway agreed. “We had two horrible mass shootings and we had people in the media kind of absolve both of the shooters of their crimes in order to blame President Trump and his voters for mass murder,” the Fox News contributor added. “This is completely beyond journalistic responsibility and a real turning point for the worst in American discourse.” Kurtz wondered if the media are at “a point where the President can do nothing right, and many journalists have basically become part of the Resistance?”  Hemingway drew attention to the differences between the El Paso and the Dayton shooters.  “There was a shooter who had these anti-immigrant viewpoints and there was a shooter who was very supportive of Antifa and Elizabeth dinky-Warren and what not, it’s not like he was saying out of thin air,” she contended...
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How The Federal Government Nullified the 
Second Amendment to 'Ban' Automatic firearms
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By William Sullivan
{ americanthinker.com } ~ There are two competing theories being debated today about American individuals’ “right” to gun ownership... The original theory is that Americans enjoy a fundamental right to self-defense, in order to preserve one’s person and property against any neighbors or government agents who might act against one’s individual liberty. This is a natural right that predates our government’s formation, and was therefore enshrined in the Constitution by some very forward-thinking liberals of their time. In the words of the Second Amendment: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. It should not be difficult for anyone with a passing grasp of the English language to understand that it is the “right of the People” that is protected in that sentence, and it is clearly not the expression of a peculiar power owned by the newly-founded centralized government created by our Constitution. Such straightforward, simple language in our Bill of Rights was actually suggested by Samuel Adams and John Hancock to accommodate the antifederalists at the Massachusetts Convention of 1788 and to avoid confusion about the new government’s limited powers, meant to  guarantee that “the Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” Adams thought far too much of future generations, clearly, because a second, competing theory has emerged within the last 100 years which suggests that gun ownership is not a right, but a privilege granted by the government, and the kinds of firearms allowed to peaceable citizens depends on what neighbors and government agents would deem allowable at any particular point in time...
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A Supermassive Black Hole At Our Galaxy’s 
Center Flared Out, Astronomer Says
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by MATT M. MILLER
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy emitted a bizarre flash of light... an astronomer studying the phenomenon said. The flash likely occurred around May 13, and was uncharacteristic of the normal celestial behavior of the black hole, Sagittarius A, at the center of the galaxy,  according to Science Alert.“I was pretty surprised at first and then very excited,” Tuan Do, assistant researcher at the UCLA Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics, told Science Alert. “The black hole was so bright I at first mistook it for the star S0-2, because I had never seen Sgr A* that bright. Over the next few frames, though, it was clear the source was variable and had to be the black hole. I knew almost right away there was probably something interesting going on with the black hole,” he continued. Do and his team captured the anomaly at WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii. He tweeted a condensed time lapse of the flash. Do speculates that since the first frame taken during the observation was the black hole’s peak brightness, it could have been even brighter before they began observing it. “One of the possibilities is that the star S0-2, when it passed close to the black hole last year, changed the way gas flows into the black hole, and so more gas is falling on it, leading it to become more variable,” he added. Scientists are continuing to gather more data on the event so a solid explanation can be reached.
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Rep. scumbag-Al Green Admits That
 Impeachment is Just a Political Strategy
by restoreamericanglory.com ~ Rep. scumbag-Al Green (D-TX) has been one of the loudest voices on the left calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump... Representing a constituency that likely still believes that they voted for the legendary singer of such classics as “Take Me to the River,” scumbag-Green has proposed articles of impeachment against Trump numerous times since January 2017, only for his proposals to be knocked down time and again by his own party. But while scumbag-Green usually talks a good game about Trump’s supposed crimes and unfitness for office, this weekend he came about as close as any Democrat has come to admitting that the best part about impeaching Trump is that it would weaken him for the 2020 election. Meaning…this isn’t about carrying out a constitutional duty or protecting the nation from a wicked tyrant. It’s just about winning next November. “Fifty-one percent of the American public believes that the president is a racist,” scumbag-Green said on MSNBC this Sunday. “Fifty- one percent. It is one thing to want to defeat the president at the polls, but it’s another thing to understand that we have to impeach the philosophy that he’s perpetrating upon society. If we impeach the philosophy, we take on a broader threat to society than just defeating him at the polls.“If he is not defeated in the Senate, he will still run as an impeached president and there will be a good many people who won’t want to hold fundraisers with him — a good many people who won’t want to be in his company because he will become persona non grata to a good many of these wealthy people who are benefiting from his bigotry,” scumbag-Green continued. So, first of all, this is a ridiculous theory. If there are people who voted for and fundraised for Trump in the past, why would a Democrat-run impeachment change their minds about supporting him this time around? If anything, we imagine that this transparently political ploy to reverse the results of the election would only make his rich supporters that much more determined to see him win again. After all, wealthy Trump supporters believe in democracy, too. Second, how is this a cogent argument for impeachment? We know, we know, “impeachment is a political process.” But while that may be the cold reality of the situation, it’s really not true in a constitutional sense. Impeachment should be reserved for the actual wrongdoing of a president. High crimes, misdemeanors, and the rest, right? It shouldn’t be: Oh, we don’t like him, and hey, if we do this, maybe he’ll lose some of his donors! That’s a perversion. Nonetheless, we continue to hope that scumbag-Green gets his way. Nothing would guarantee Trump a second term like a failed impeachment attempt by this corrupt party.
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Signs of Summer's Eb
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Tom McLaughlin
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ Looking out over the yard two weeks ago I noticed spider webs on the lawn sparkling with morning dew That’s been a sure reminder that summer break is past its late-July halfway point and schools will be reopening in a matter of weeks. Today, crickets are chirping in the yard during daylight hours and that’s an August sign that fall is getting even closer. The autumn chill the past few mornings brings a certain fragrance with it and nothing brings back memories more powerfully than familiar smells.
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It’s been more than eight years since my retirement, but from ages six to sixty my life was dictated by the academic calendar as student or teacher. These distinctly New England sights, sounds, and smells will always affect me the same ways. I would feel a combination of lament for the fading summer mixed with dread and pleasant anticipation of going back to school. Soon the big yellow school bus will go by my house at 7:00 am. I’ll look up from my reading and remember all those times I’d be heading out the door to follow close behind it. Not anymore though, because I’m no longer captive to the academic calendar. Now I can choose how to spend my day. I can go anywhere, do anything.   
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For example, watching sunlight fill the day with a camera in my hand is one of my favorite things. That’s more difficult from May through July when the sun clears the horizon around five am. I’m usually up by 4:30 but I prefer to shower, exercise, dress, and drink coffee before going out. From late August through November, it is much easier to accomplish that. Being out and about at dawn is usually a solitary endeavor, but sometimes I’ll see another dawn person on my sojourns. I’ll nod to them or perhaps say good morning, but they usually enjoy their privacy as much as I do. They’ll nod back and then we’ll each go our own way.  
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Watching daylight fade at dusk is another special time. I like to be out and about then too, but so do many others. Unlike the solitude of dawn, twilight is more of a social time, especially in late summer and fall when daylight diminishes at an accelerating rate — from two minutes per day June to July — to three by end of August. By September 1st those small increments have added up to the point where daylight has diminished by two hours since school let out in June. In early August we see the first leaves turning red, usually on maples stressed by various factors like too much or two little water. Sumacs change early as well and sometimes it starts as early as July. Certain ferns turn yellow and then brown. Soon the sweetish smell of decaying vegetation can be detected after a rain.
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For months, there’s been a big pile of tree-length hardwood in my back field. It’s hard to estimate but there are probably twelve cords plus or minus, and it needs to be cut and split. I used to do that work every year at this time, and I may go out there and do a little just for old time’s sake — but that’s all. I miss the unique fragrance given off while splitting red oak and I want to experience that again, but I don’t need the wood. It’s all there because I asked someone to cut the trees beyond the field that were getting too tall and blocking some of our view. I didn’t think it would amount to that much firewood, but a former student has agreed to work it up in September.
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In a few more weeks people will be donning an extra layer as they go out in the morning. Some may even start a fire in the wood stove. Then they’ll look at their wood piles and think about adding to them. It’s hard to get motivated to do that kind of thing in August when the temperature is in the 80s every day. It makes me tired now to remember myself as a young man spending two August weeks getting out my firewood, hauling it home, and sweating off ten or fifteen pounds in the process. I’ve been heating with oil the past several years and only keep around a little wood for the fireplace. These days I’d rather go out and take pictures to sell — then pay someone else to work up all that wood.  
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Sunrise at the Eastern Prom in Portland, Maine
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