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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 19, 2019 at 5:57pm

TheFrontPageCover

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No, Voter ID Laws Do Not Suppress Voting

by Brian Mark Weber

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Socialism Has Already Hurt America

by Star Parker

{dailysignal.com} ~ President Donald Trump was principled and politically astute to address, in his State of the Union, the horrors taking place now in Venezuela, and then to declare: “Tonight we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.”... Venezuela is indeed a poster child for what happens when a nation’s economic machinery falls under political control. Over the last five years, per The Wall Street Journal, Venezuela’s economy shrank by 35 percent and poverty tripled from 48 to 87 percent. According to Gallup, 71 percent of Venezuelans say they can’t afford food, 47 percent say they can’t afford shelter, just 15 percent say they are satisfied with the availability of quality health care, and 35 percent say they are satisfied with their standard of living. Thirty-six percent of Venezuelans—51 percent of those between 15 and 29—say they would leave the country permanently if they could. But if it is so clear that socialism is a formula for economic disaster, why does the idea still conjure up support?... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/13/socialism-has-already-hurt-america/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRVMU1qbGxPRFZtTnpaaCIsInQiOiJvZ04zYjJSSEFsYldtb0N2WDFIM1RoN3pPR3lzMzVhc2laR2dwN2R6MDBjMTkwUUFaR2E4aEV4UXl1eURBNVJqMGxnSDdzakdoeHZPQ0lyNEFVMnBta0NkRjhydmhqa1hBNjRUVkxPQUlPcWVaWlE4WXlGTlFubGJTbWxiVk80XC8ifQ%3D%3D

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If Trump Invoked 'Emergency' to Build a Wall Overseas, Congress Would Not Object

by Susan Jones

{cnsnews.com} ~ "It is fundamental and essential to the idea of sovereignty and national survival to have control over who enters and doesn't enter the country," Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser in the Trump White House, told "Fox News Sunday."... In an interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," Miller defended President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency, which would allow him to tap military construction funds for his long-promised border wall. "I guarantee you this, if Donald Trump had said he's invoking the National Emergency Military Construction Authority to build a security perimeter in Iraq or Afghanistan or around a military installation in Syria, there would not have been one word of objection from Congress," Miller said. "This is defending our own country."Miller noted that Congress in 1976 passed the National Emergency Act "and gave the president authority, as a result of that, to invoke a national emergency in many different circumstances, but among them, the use of military construction funds... https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/stephen-miller-if-trump-invoked-emergency-build-wall-overseas-congress?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldRellqRXhOelZoTkdJeSIsInQiOiJYWXlybkczK0ZuM3NSREp4Sm5Ra0hGWk9YOHRKTmJMY3NacGEwRWxwQnQ1eWZIbkErV2NtTmJtZHJzc1lmRFRUZDBVcGdZRE4wN0dmd3JFbTdXcXVvNDBJTWVnTUh1Zk50dGR3bjk1UG1aU2NBVjlWdDNIQlRHZHJMdFlvcHdybCJ9

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Top European space official calls

for cooperation with China

by Joel Gehrke

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The top European Space Agency official called on Western nations to cooperate with China to develop key space technologies despite the rivalry between the United States and the Communist power... “I think we should cooperate worldwide,” ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Worner told the Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview. “Isolation, from my personal opinion, is not a good instrument to secure the future.” Worner’s openhanded posture waved away concerns about the return of a great power rivalry after 30 years of American hegemony since the end of the Cold War. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent the week leading up to the Munich Security Conference warning Central European leaders against Chinese and Russian encroachment, a call echoed by German leaders at the conference.“What we really have to do is not be afraid of what can happen but go the exactly the other way," Worner said. "Look for cooperation, because cooperation is an enabler for technology." Chinese telecommunications companies pose a far-reaching threat to the United States and NATO allies, according to U.S. officials. Huawei, one of the largest smartphone companies in the world and a pioneer of next-generation wireless technology, is regarded as a threat that could implant “backdoors” into the telecom networks or surrender sensitive data to intelligence services in Beijing... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/top-european-space-official-calls-for-cooperation-with-china?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_02/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News

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What Made George Washington Great?

by John Rhodehamel

{prageru.com} ~ There would have never been a United States of America without George Washington. John Rhodehamel, author of George Washington: The Wonder of the Age, details how Washington successfully guided the budding nation through war and nurtured her in peace.

https://www.prageru.com/videos/what-made-george-washington-great

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7FFtMlm4V0

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Nicolas Maduro-assembled ‘death squad’

has killed more than 200 Venezuelans

by Jerry McCormick

{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ As Nicolas Maduro tries to maintain power in Venezuela, shocking allegations have been made against the embattled president. A report has surfaced alleging that a private, masked “death squad” assembled by Maduro has killed more than 200 citizens... Maduro reportedly organized the Bolivian National Police Special Action Forces Group (FAES) to fight off terrorism and respond to national emergencies. But that is not exactly how the special forces unit is being used. Members of the squad wear masks when deployed, and they are believed to have special forces and weapons training. Local rights groups have claimed Maduro is using the private force as a rogue squad to issue death sentences. These groups maintain that the FAES has killed off petty criminals and citizens in low-income areas... https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/report-maduro-death-squad/

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No, Voter ID Laws Do Not Suppress Voting

by Brian Mark Weber: Need to cash a check, board an airplane, or pick up a few beers for the weekend? Better bring along your ID. Need to vote in a presidential election? No worries. Heck, you can just pretend to be someone else. Even a dead person.

The good news is that more states are starting to jump on board with voter ID laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But currently only seven states require a photo ID. Three states require identification without a photo. Another 25 states “request” an ID, but allow voters to cast a provisional ballot if they can’t provide one.

In other words, there’s inconsistency across the board when it comes to verifying the identity of voters. If nothing else, these new laws will make it easier to see just how pervasive the problem is.

It’s no wonder the Left opposes commonsense voter ID. After all, the cheaters (as we saw in Florida’s Broward County last November) tend to be Democrats. Accordingly, the Left continues to peddle the false notion that the laws are nothing more than a way for Republicans to keep minorities from voting. Unfortunately, the mainstream media has pushed this false narrative and convinced many Americans that voter ID laws are inherently racist.

A new study, however, is bad news for these false prophets.

Professors Vincent Pons of Harvard Business School and Enrico Cantoni of the economics department at Italy’s University of Bologna conducted a study issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research. They concluded, “Strict ID laws have no significant negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any subgroup defined by age, gender, race, or party affiliation.”

In fact, areas with voter ID in place may actually see more so-called disadvantaged groups on Election Day. According to The Washington Free Beacon, the study also concluded, “Paradoxically … voter ID laws might goose turnout among certain marginalized groups. This, the authors argue, is because a perceived ‘attack’ on a right (e.g., the right to vote) can mobilize voters who would otherwise fail to turn out.”

Pons and Cantoni are not alone in their findings.

The Daily Signal reports, “Various studies in recent years done by professors at the University of Missouri, the University of Delaware, [and] the University of Nebraska surveying elections from 2000 through 2016 found similar results that voter ID laws do not suppress voter turnout.”

While it’s pretty clear that voter ID laws don’t keep anyone from voting, there is inconclusive evidence as to whether such laws combat voter fraud. One of the problems is that we haven’t had a sustained effort to uncover the causes of fraud at the ballot box — a task made even harder by those states that fail to require any form of ID on Election Day in the first place.

Of course, it doesn’t take millions of fraudulent votes to tilt an election — especially in a country whose political loyalties are so evenly split. A few illegals here, a few felons there, and a handful of dead people in that other place can make all the difference. Fortunately, organizations such as The Heritage Foundation are working to show Americans that voter fraud is real.

But Democrats are committed to keeping the scales tipped in their favor. They’re aggressively campaigning against the Electoral College itself and pushing for support of both the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and the grossly misnamed For the People Act. All of these measures are designed to overturn our long-established electoral system and open up the floodgates for widespread fraud.

Leftists are always clamoring that we “count every vote.” How telling it is that they’re also doing everything they can to keep the rest of us from ensuring the integrity of our elections. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61172?mailing_id=4080&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4080&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tues Med/PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 19, 2019 at 3:24pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Amazon Pulls NYC HQ2 — evil-Cuomo

Blames commie-Ocasio-Cortez

by Business Review Board

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For the Record, scumbag/liar-nObama

Made Mincemeat of the Constitution

by Jack Cashill

{americanthinker.com} ~ Good constitutional arguments can be made for and against President Trump's evocation of emergency powers to address the crisis at our southern border. But the notion that such a declaration would encourage a future Democratic president to do something similar borders on the comic... Democrats don't need encouragement. Under President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, the Constitution was violated more wantonly than a goat at a Taliban bachelor party, and the faithful cheered every violation. In early 2014, New Yorker editor and scumbag/liar-nObama groupie David Remnick wrote about his experience accompanying scumbag/liar-nObama on a west-coast fundraising tour. At one stop, when scumbag/liar-nObama walked out on stage, "It happened again: another heckler broke into scumbag/liar-nObama's speech. A man in the balcony repeatedly shouted out, 'Executive order!' demanding that the President bypass Congress with more unilateral actions." scumbag/liar-nObama confirmed to the audience that, yes, people did want him to sign more executive orders and "basically nullify Congress." At that point, wrote Remnick, "Many in the crowd applauded their approval. Yes! Nullify it!" These were not wild-eyed tent-dwellers on Wall or some lesser street. These were potential donors. By 2014, scumbag/liar-nObama had successfully nullified any number of laws with negligible media objection. In February 2011, for instance, scumbag/liar-nObama and "wing man" Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder came willy-nilly to the conclusion that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was not "constitutional." President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law in 1996 with overwhelming support from Democrats in Congress and nearly unanimous support from Republicans... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/for_the_record_obama_made_mincemeat_of_the_constitution.html

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Senator Lindsey Graham Discusses

Andrew McCabe and the Coup Plotters

by sundance

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Interesting interview between Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham and CBS’s Margarget Brennan. The primary topic is the latest revelations of Andrew McCabe and his crew of ‘soft coup’ plotters... One of the interesting parts to this interview is the new excerpts from the 60 minutes that Brennan shows during the discussion. Remember, CBS is Team scumbag/liar-nObama Senator Graham discusses his intent to call both Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein to testify about the plan to eliminate President Trump.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/17/sunday-talks-senator-lindsey-graham-discusses-andrew-mccabe-and-the-coup-plotters/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbCle3OboFc

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Ilhan Omar To Fundraise For Islamic

Terror-Linked Palestinian Organization

by Molly Prince

{dailycaller.com} ~ Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is scheduled to raise money in March with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)... only a week after she used an anti-Semitic trope to claim Israel has paid for GOP support. Omar will be the keynote speaker at CAIR’s 4th Annual Valley Banquet on March 23 to discuss advancing justice and empowering Muslims, according to the organization’s invitation. Single tickets start at $55 per person and a table can cost upwards of $500. Hassan Shibly, the chief executive director for CAIR-Florida, will also be speaking at the event. Shibly has emphatically stated that Hezbollah and Hamas are not terrorist organizations, reported Jordan Schachtel at Conservative Review. Hussam Ayloush, the chief executive director for CAIR-LA, who is hosting the event, compared the state of Israel to the Islamic State during a speech in April. Shibley has repeatedly echoed those sentiments and spread propaganda describing U.S. armed forces as radical terrorists... Omar is unAmerican and needs to go. https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/17/ilhan-omar-cair-fundraise/?utm_medium=email

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The Trump Administration Needs To Yank

Federal Funding For Research Using

The Bodies Of Aborted Babies

by Willis L. Krumholz

{thefederalist.com} ~ New York State just passed a gruesome law that legalizes abortions up to and including the point of birth. A bill in Virginia, supported by Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, would have apparently legalized the killing of just-born infants... The pro-life movement needs to strike back, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—part of President Donald Trump’s executive branch—is the vehicle through which to strike that blow. Late last year, it was reported that the Trump administration’s HHS was launching a review of the federal government’s funding of fetal tissue research using the remains of aborted babies. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of HHS, spent $103 million on fetal tissue research in 2018. As part of the review, an audit is being conducted to determine the extent fetal tissue is used in government research by government scientists. NIH researchers were told to pause orders of fetal tissue, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was told to cancel a contract with a fetal tissue provider. In this case, the fetal tissue was being used by the FDA to develop “humanized mice”—by placing human cells obtained from aborted human tissue into mice—for testing. Non-government scientists’ use of taxpayer money for fetal tissue research is also being examined. A project by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), which sought to develop humanized mice in an attempt to find a cure for HIV, was put on hold as well—but only after pro-lifers raised awareness about that contract. After complaints from researchers who depend on these funds, HHS is now saying that the UCSF contract has not been officially cancelled, as the audit is still ongoing. Worse, the rules pausing fetal tissue research only apply to government scientists, not the tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants received by those who are not directly employed by the government... http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/18/trump-administration-needs-yank-federal-funding-research-using-bodies-aborted-babies/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=07ccfb56ae-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-07ccfb56ae-83771801

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Graham: McCabe revelations 'beyond stunning'

by Brett Samuels

{thehill.com} ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday pledged to thoroughly investigate comments from Andrew McCabeafter the former FBI deputy director told... "60 Minutes" that Justice Department officials discussed a plan to potentially remove President Trump from office. "We're going to find out what happened here and the only way I know to find out is to call the people in under oath and find out, through questioning, who's telling the truth because the underlying accusation is beyond stunning," Graham said on "Face the Nation." Graham, the chairman the of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reiterated that he intends to subpoena McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to testify before the panel if they won't agree to do so voluntarily. The senator downplayed the notion that an investigation into the FBI will further damage the bureau's credibility. "There is no organization beyond scrutiny," he said. "There is no organization that can't withstand scrutiny. And the FBI will come out stronger." "But we've got to get to the bottom of it," he continued. "What are people to think after they watch '60 Minutes' when they hear this accusation by the acting deputy — acting FBI director that the deputy attorney general encouraged him to try to find ways to count votes to replace the president? That can't go unaddressed."...

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/430386-graham-mccabe-revelations-beyond-stunning

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Amazon Pulls NYC HQ2 — evil-Cuomo Blames

commie-Ocasio-Cortez

by Business Review Board: The speculation turned out to be authentic. On Thursday, Amazon officially reneged on its New York City headquarters. The rumor that it would do so first appeared last Friday in The Washington Post, which disclosed that “Amazon.com is reconsidering its plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a new campus in New York City.” The Post elaborated, “The project … faces withering criticism from some elected officials and advocacy groups appalled at the prospect of giving giant subsidies to the world’s most valuable company, led by its richest man.” A man who, by the way, owns The Washington Post.

“After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens,” Amazon announced yesterday. Why? “A number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City.”

One of those politicians is actually Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who crowed about having “defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world.”

Democrat Gov. Andrew evil-Cuomo, already battling a revenue shortfall in the state, isn’t happy. He complained, “A small group politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community — which poll after poll showed overwhelmingly supported bringing Amazon to Long Island City — the state’s economic future and the best interests of the people of this state.” He didn’t name commie-Ocasio-Cortez, but the Millennial heartthrob was clearly one of his prime targets.

The second headquarters was to be split between Queens, New York, and the DC suburb of Crystal City, Virginia — a determination that our Thomas Gallatin previously reported was cronyistic from the get-go. “In the end, the reasoning behind this decision is obvious: direct access to the levers of financial and political power in two high-profile leftist enclaves,” wrote Gallatin. “Instead of locating the new headquarters in the most business-friendly states and environments, Amazon chose leftist power centers knowing that the company will be able to seamlessly pass on any higher costs to consumers. And the tax benefits to Amazon work out to almost $50,000 per job created. Cronyism at its finest.”

In this regard, Amazon’s backtracking is good. It’s one thing if a neighborhood decides it doesn’t want a huge corporate HQ in its backyard, but Amazon had no other choice given the prevailing political headwinds.

According to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, “We gave Amazon the opportunity to be a good neighbor and do business in the greatest city in the world. Instead of working with the community, Amazon threw away that opportunity.” The truth is New York City should not have been a finalist, especially when superior suitors were fiercely vying to be selected. Amazon says, “We do not intend to reopen the HQ2 search at this time.” Regardless, it has an opportunity to make a better business decision than it did back in November.

As the Washington Examiner saliently puts it, “In the end, the termination of this deal is a win for everyone. The socialists get to crow about keeping their neighborhoods poor. New York’s taxpayers don’t have to pay Jeff Bezos exorbitant sums to do business in their state. And Amazon, having learned its lesson about dealing with socialists, might benefit as well if, instead of seeking special handouts, it seeks in the future to create jobs in low-tax states with right-to-work protections and a friendly-but-fair business climate for everyone.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61170?mailing_id=4080&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4080&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 19, 2019 at 1:08pm

TheFrontPageCover

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Contemplating a Coup D'etat

to Take Down Trump

by Mark Alexander

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Stephen Miller -vs- Chris Wallace

by sundance

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ White House Senior Policy Advisor Stephen Miller appears on Fox News to battle the open-border advocacy of TV host Chris Wallace.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/17/sunday-talks-stephen-miller-vs-chris-wallace/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yk9Wp7wJWI

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High Stakes for Likud as

Netanyahu Indictment Looms

by David Isaac

{freebeacon.com} ~ The "Bezeq-Walla! Affair," or Case 4000 as it’s been dubbed by Israeli media, is one of three corruption cases facing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu... It’s also the most serious in that everyone, including the prime minister, believes that it will lead to an indictment in the coming weeks—an X factor that could prove fatal to Likud Party hopes in the April 9 elections. The Israeli police, who recommend indictment, say that Netanyahu helped Israeli tycoon Shaul Elovitch by pushing through the merger of two companies he owned, telecommunications firm Bezeq and satellite TV company Yes. Elovitch made $269 million on the deal. In exchange, Netanyahu and his family would receive favorable news coverage from Walla!, a news site Bezeq owned. But the closer one looks, the less things add up. According to all those involved, the merger of Bezeq-Yes was done by the book. The head of Israel’s Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council, Dr. Yifat Ben Hai Segev, who served in the position from 2014-2018, said "There wasn’t any pressure from the side of Netanyahu’s people to approve the merger." Orly Yehezkel, a current member of the council, told Israel’s Channel 20, "The discussions were professional discussions. The people were professional people. … We received all the material. We sat there hours. Paragraph after paragraph. Paragraph after paragraph. No one influenced us. No one turned to us. No one requested anything from us."...

https://freebeacon.com/blog/high-stakes-for-likud-as-netanyahu-indictment-looms/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=c269cf33fd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_17_10_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-c269cf33fd-45611665

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Rush Limbaugh Discusses

Border Security and DOJ/FBI ‘Soft Coup’

by sundance

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Influential radio host Rush Limbaugh appears on Fox News with Chris Wallace to discuss the necessity of President Trump’s border security declaration... the DOJ and FBI scheme to conduct a ‘soft coup’ against the president; and how the democrat party is positioning themselves for the 2020 election. The first half of the interview discusses the national security declaration; then the subject shifts to former FBI Deputy Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein and the ‘soft coup’; and then finishes with discussion over the Green New Deal and the likelihood of democrat success in the 2020 election.u

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/17/sunday-talks-rush-limbaugh-discusses-border-security-and-doj-fbi-soft-coup/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsANAu9lRMY

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Dems, Fearing Russia Collusion Investigation

Will Come Up Empty, Now Attacking

dirty cop-Robert Mueller

by Emily Zanotti

{dailywire.com} ~ Democrats, increasingly worried that Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller's investigation into whether the Donald Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to influence the outcome... of the 2016 presidential election will reveal nothing, have started doing something they've long criticized President Trump for: lashing out at dirty cop-Mueller over his "limited" probe. House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA) kicked off a torrent of criticism on Sunday, according to the Washington Examiner, questioning whether "dirty cop-Mueller has adequately investigated President Trump’s financial dealings with a German bank," and suggesting that dirty cop-Mueller's investigation could be so woefully incomplete that the House has no choice but to resume investigating the president themselves. “If the special counsel hasn’t subpoenaed Deutsche Bank, he can’t be doing much of a money laundering investigation,” scumbag-Schiff said. “So that’s what concerns me, that that red line has been enforced, whether by the deputy attorney general or by some other party at the Justice Department. But that leaves the country exposed.” scumbag-Schiff is referring to an alleged incident that occured late last year, reported in The New York Times. The Times reported that President Trump was ready to fire dirty cop-Mueller, until he was reassured that the Special Counsel had not, in fact, subpoenaed the Trump Corporation's financial records from Deutch Bank...scumbag-Schiff is a jerk

https://www.dailywire.com/news/43365/dems-fearing-russia-collusion-investigation-will-emily-zanotti

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Representative John Ratcliffe Discusses

McCabe’s ‘Soft Coup’ Effort

by sundance

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Representative John Ratcliffe appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the DOJ and FBI ‘soft coup’ attempt headed by Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe... Ratcliffe also discusses the outlook with newly confirmed Attorney General William Barr and what actions he hopes AG Barr will take in the wake of mounting evidence that Andrew McCabe, James Baker, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and former Acting AG Sally Yates were coordinating an effort to remove President Donald Trump. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/17/sunday-talks-representative-john-ratcliffe-discusses-mccabes-soft-coup-effort/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBQm1dvvm9k

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Contemplating a Coup D'etat to Take

Down Trump

by Mark Alexander: This week, after the Senate concluded its Trump/Russia collusion investigation determining there is not a shred of evidence of any collusion, there was a new bright light shed on the Clinton/DoJ/FBI conspiracy to entrap Donald Trump and expel him from office.

Despite all the MSM hyperbole — Left and Right — over the last two years, the latest evidence of a DoJ/FBI conspiracy against Trump illuminates a very dangerous episode in American political history — much more ominous than Richard Nixon’s concealment of the DNC/Watergate burglary.

In fact, Watergate was a wading pool compared to the deep, dark depths of the collusion between scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama operatives within the Department of Justice — all Democrat Party partisans — who contemplated two vectors for removing Trump from office.

First, they considered using the 25th Amendment provision for removing a president who is completely incapacitated. When that consideration was discarded, the same FBI and DoJ conspirators implemented a different tack to severely disable Trump and his administration — hobbling him with endless and baseless investigations. To be clear, this was not the typical obstructionist investigations fronted by opposing factions in Congress — this was a secret conspiracy by high-level government officials to oust a president.

We have covered the FBI/DoJ tactical charade in depth over the last two years, most notably in our analysis of former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey’s higher loyalty to scumbag/liar-Clinton, the firing of then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, the “dirty cop-Mueller/scumbag/liar-Clinton Collusion to Take Down Trump,” and the Department of Justice IG report on scumbag/commie-Brennan,scumbag-Comey, and scumbag/liar-Clinton as corrupt co-conspirators.

Until this week, discussions about the “25th Amendment” option had been largely dismissed as facetious, but enter Andrew McCabe again, now declaring in a CBS interview that those discussions were serious.

While the full interview has not been released, his interviewer, CBS’s Scott Pelley, says, “The most illuminating and surprising thing in the interview to me were these eight days in May when all of these things were happening behind the scenes. … There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment. These were the eight days from scumbag-Comey’s firing to the point that dirty cop-Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president.”

Regarding consideration of the 25th Amendment option, McCabe told CBS this was not facetious but in fact a repeated and serious consideration — so much so that McCabe consulted lawyers to discuss if it could be done. He also said that then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s suggestion about recording conversations with Trump to set him up for a 25th takedown was not sarcastic, as it has been portrayed.

Regarding what amounts to a brazen coup d'etat attempt, former Harvard constitutional law professor and noted liberal Alan Dershowitz observed: “The 25th Amendment is about Woodrow Wilson having a stroke. It’s about a president being shot and not being able to perform his office. It’s not about the most fundamental disagreements. It’s not about impeachable offenses. Any Justice Department official who even mentioned the 25th Amendment in the context of President Trump has committed a grievous offense against the Constitution. … To use the 25th Amendment to circumvent the impeachment provisions or to circumvent an election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power grabbing. … I challenge any left-wing person to … defend the use of the 25th Amendment. I challenge any of my colleagues who are in the ‘get Trump at any cost’ camp to … justify the use of the 25th Amendment other than for physical or psychiatric incapacity.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/61189?mailing_id=4080&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4080&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tues Med/AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 19, 2019 at 10:09am

TheFrontPageCover

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Trump Signs Funding Bill, Declares

Emergency to Secure Border

by Thomas Gallatin

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Tuesday Top Headline Summary

by Media Editors: “Today, on Presidents Day, we take President Trump to court to block his misuse of presidential power.” So stated California Attorney General Xavier Becerra yesterday during the unveiling of a lawsuit from 16 states that seeks to annul the president’s national-emergency declaration. The judicial system, as expected, is now tasked with ruling for or against the declaration. And though the initial outlook is gloomy, expect the Supreme Court to eventually chime in — with the caveat that it needs to happen before the 2020 presidential election.

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According to Bloomberg, “Elizabeth dinky-Warren proposed a universal child care plan that would limit American families’ expenses to 7 percent of income regardless of how many children they have in care — paid for by a tax on the ultra-wealthy.” The scheme “would make child care free for families with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty level, or less than $51,500 for a family of four.” The price tag is reportedly $70 billion annually and is estimated to double child-care attendance. But as with anything taxpayer-funded, this cost is likely woefully underestimated.

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According to Gallup, “Thirty-five percent of Americans name the government, poor leadership or politicians as the greatest problem facing the U.S. This is the highest percentage Gallup has recorded for this concern, edging out the previous high of 33% during the 2013 federal government shutdown.” Furthermore, “The current percentage of Americans naming government as the most important problem is nearly twice as high as the 18% recorded in November. That increase likely reflects public frustration with the government shutdown that occurred from late December through most of January.” Not surprisingly, therefore, immigration is No. 2 on the list, with 19% calling it a top problem.

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Smaller tax refunds put GOP on defensive, headlines The Hill, which then goes on to report the truth — smaller refunds mean people paid less all year. If only Americans didn’t have to wade through Dezinformatsiya headlines to learn that.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz recently revealed that “Democrats in the Judiciary Committee … voted against notifying ICE when an illegal alien fails a background check to buy a gun.” He further observed, “They hate ICE so much that they’d keep ICE in the dark when illegals try to get guns!” As Townhall reports, “Last year a record number of illegal aliens, millions of them, tried to purchase firearms in the United States. Not only is it illegal to enter the United States without permission, it’s also illegal to purchase or possess a gun.” Ironically, Democrats’ demands for gun control is demonstrably confined to lawful citizens.

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“A 45-year-old Mexican national detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection died Monday at a medical facility in McAllen, Tex., after twice seeking medical attention,” The Washington Post reports, adding, “Another death is likely to raise fresh questions for the border control organization … especially as the president crusades for a wall at the southern border.” The under reported issue is that “the unnamed adult was apprehended on Feb. 2 for ‘illegal reentry,’ which means the individual had tried to enter the country at least once before.” Moreover, the individual, who had cirrhosis of the liver and congestive heart failure, was administered health care twice upon request.

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If at first you don’t succeed… “Vermont Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders is giving it another go, launching a second campaign for the White House four years after surprising Democrats with a strong bid for the party’s 2016 nomination. … But this 2020 bid will undoubtedly be a very different presidential campaign than his quest for the Democratic nomination as an underdog in 2016. commie-Sanders enters the race as a top contender who, along with former Vice President loose lips-Joe Biden, tops most early polls, far outpacing other Democratic candidates in support and name identification.” (NPR)

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Good riddance: “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave the Justice Department in mid-March. Rosenstein’s departure was largely expected, with last week’s Senate confirmation of President Trump attorney general nominee William Barr. New attorney generals usually have at least some say in selection of deputy attorney general, whose office largely runs the Justice Department on a daily basis.” (Washington Examiner)

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“‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett, upset after a racist letter sent to the show’s studio didn’t get a ‘bigger reaction,’ is suspected of paying two men to attack him a week later, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation,” CBS Chicago reports. “‘When the letter didn’t get enough attention, he concocted the staged attack,’ a source told CBS 2 Investigator Brad Edwards. Other sources corroborated that information.” There are also reports that Smollett scouted the location and rehearsed the attack. Yet Facebook is censoring content exposing the scheme.

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WBKO reports, “A Tennessee man is in jail after being accused of pulling a gun on a Sam’s Club customer Saturday.” But why? “According to the alleged victim … a man pulled a gun on him because he was wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat. … The police report confirms that the suspect, identified as James Phillips, admitted to flipping off Pierce and Pierce’s wife because of their hats.” The mainstream media response? Crickets.

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Humor: Nation’s liberals devastated after learning hate crime didn’t actually happen (The Babylon Bee)

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Policy: “Democrats intend to save ‘democracy’ by putting themselves in charge of elections,” says The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman. “As absurd as that sounds, it really is a part of the inappropriately named ‘For the People Act of 2019,’ or H.R. 1, moving through the House of Representatives.” Read more on why this is a recipe for one-party rule.

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Policy: “Don’t look now, but China’s advances in intellectual property (IP) are beginning to catch up to the country’s rapid technological progress.” Michael Rosen explains the meaning of this at the American Enterprise Institute.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61248?mailing_id=4086&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4086&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Collusion: The Criminalization of Policy Disputes

by Andrew C. McCarthy

{nationalreview.com} ~ What a weasel word “collusion” is. In Washington, Senator Richard Burr (R., N.C.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has now seen fit to pronounce that, after two years of investigation, the panel has found no evidence of collusion... between the Trump campaign and the Russian regime. Meanwhile, in a nearby courtroom, Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s senior staffer, Andrew Weissmann, told a federal judge that an August 2016 meeting between the then-chairman of the Trump campaign and a suspected Russian intelligence officer “goes . . . very much to the heart of what the special counsel is investigating” — which sure sounds like dirty cop-Mueller’s collusion hunt is alive and well. What gives? Readers of these columns know that the “collusion” label has been a pet peeve of your humble correspondent since the media-Democratic “Putin hacked the election” narrative followed hard on the declaration of Donald Trump’s victory in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, November 9, 2016. The reason for the collusion label is obvious. Those peddling the “Putin hacked the election” story have always lacked credible evidence that Trump was complicit in the Kremlin’s “cyber-espionage.” They could not show a criminal conspiracy. Connections between denizens of Trump World and Putin’s circle might be very intriguing, and perhaps even politically scandalous. But only a conspiracy — an agreement by two or more people to commit an actual criminal offense, such as hacking — would be a reasonable basis for prosecution or impeachment. This dearth of proof was significant. The Russians apparently started hacking operations in 2014, long before Trump entered the race. The FBI first warned the Democratic National Committee about penetration of its servers in September 2015. By the time Trump won, the Bureau and U.S. intelligence agencies had been working hard to understand the nature and extent of Kremlin-directed hacking operations for two years. The investigation was so high-level, so intense, that shortly before the election, there were confrontational conversations between CIA director scumbag/commie-John Brennan and his Russian counterpart, FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov, and later between President scumbag/liar-nObama and Russian president Putin...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/trump-russia-collusion-investigation-criminalization-policy-disputes/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-02-17&utm_term=WIR-Smart

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Pretending terrorism is America's fault –

and Muslims the 'real victims'

by Jamie Glazov

{wnd.com} ~ Slam is conquering Europe through uncontrolled immigration and a sky-high birth rate, while jihadist mass-murder attacks pose an ever-present threat both in Europe, the U.K. and America... Against that backdrop, one of the most egregious examples of psychological projection in today’s politics is the ongoing campaign – by Islamic supremacists and their enablers in the progressive left, including the media – not only to deny that Islamic terrorism has anything to do with Islam, but to portray Muslims as the innocent victims of racial and religious hatred on the part of a bigoted America. Following is the introductory chapter of Jamie Glazov’s acclaimed new book, “Jihadist Psychopath: How He Is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us,” which explains this psychological and spiritual jiu-jitsu. At approximately 3:05 p.m. on Halloween afternoon, October 31, 2017, twenty-nine-year-old Sayfullo Saipov drove a rented truck onto a Manhattan bike path and slammed into nearly two dozen cyclists and pedestrians. He then crashed into a school bus and emerged from the vehicle wielding a paintball gun and a pellet gun. He screamed “Allahu Akbar” throughout the whole ordeal and succeeded in murdering eight people and wounding fifteen – until an NYPD officer shot and wounded him, dropping him to the ground. Saipov was a married Muslim father of three who had come to the United States from Uzbekistan seven years earlier on a “diversity visa lottery” program, a system that allows foreigners into the country, not through their merit, but through random games of chance. The evidence was overwhelmingly clear that this Uzbekistani immigrant was engaging in Islamic jihad during his massacre on that Halloween afternoon in Manhattan. Indeed, he was already known to law enforcement “for his direct ties to other terrorism suspects under investigation,” and the FBI quickly tracked down a second Muslim in connection with his attack. Saipov had also left a note behind in the truck, stating that the Islamic State “would endure forever” and that “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.” His cell phones contained thousands of Islamic State-related images, including about ninety videos depicting Islamic State fighters killing prisoners by running them over with a tank, beheading them, and shooting them in the face...

https://www.wnd.com/2019/02/pretending-terrorism-is-americas-fault-and-muslims-the-real-victims/

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Israel to penalize Palestinians for

terror payments by withholding tax fees

by Herb Keinon

{jpost.com} ~ Israel will deduct more than half a billion shekels it collects in tariffs for the Palestinian Authority because of payments the PA makes to terrorists and their families, the security cabinet decided on Sunday... According to a statement the Prime Minister's Office put out following the meeting, security officials told the cabinet that in 2018 the PA paid out NIS 502,697,000 ($140m) to terrorists imprisoned in Israeli jails, their families, and to security prisoners who had been released. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the security echelon to further investigate the scope of the payments, and as this information is obtained, the sum to be deducted is to be adjusted accordingly. On July 7, the Knesset passed legislation introduced by Avi Dichter (Likud) and Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid) requiring the Defense Ministry to inform the security cabinet of how much the PA pays in “welfare payments to terrorists and their families,” which will then be deducted from the amount Israel transfers to the PA each month. This legislation followed passage of the Taylor Force Act in the US, which ended most US assistance to the Palestinians unless the PA stops payments to terrorist and their families, so called “pay-to-slay.”... https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Cabinet-decides-to-deduct-money-from-Palestinian-aid-for-funding-terrorism-580947

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House Democrats CAUGHT Red Handed;

Here’s How They Spend Taxpayer Money

by Luke Rosiak

{dailycaller.com} ~ House Democrats ordered the systematic falsification of records showing how they spend their taxpayer-provided office budgets, according to lawyers for two former House information technology (IT) aides... It’s a remarkable accusation that pits sitting lawmakers against the former aides, Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and his wife Hina Alvi. Imran was arrested in July while trying to board a flight to Pakistan, and then indicted on four counts of bank fraud involving moving money to that country. Imran and Hina, who was also indicted, face a court date Friday. One of Imran’s lawyers, Aaron Page, acknowledged the invoicing discrepancy Aug. 21, telling The Daily Caller News Foundation, “This is just how things have been done for forever. This is what experienced members of Congress expect: to expedite things, they adjust the pricing.” If members or senior staff instructed IT aides to misrepresent how budgets were spent, that could potentially explain why officials have not charged the Awans with crimes related to procurement, even a full year after House authorities gathered documentation showing invoices that claimed expensive technological items cost $499 instead of their true price: potentially an open-and-shut violation. “The only reason you’re not seeing charges is because the Democrats who employed him are not cooperating,” a senior Republican congressional official with direct knowledge of the probe told TheDCNF last month. He was initially surprised by seeming recalcitrant to enforce House rules, the official said, and eventually saw it as supporting the idea that members might fear that an investigation into rogue staffers could ultimately implicate members or senior staffers in procurement misconduct...

https://dailycaller.com/2017/10/04/lawyer-for-it-aide-says-dem-congressmen-to-blame-for-falsified-spending-records/

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'Hezbollah - the most dangerous

terror group in the world'

by israelnationalnews.com: The chairman of the Israel Resilience party attacked Sunday at the Munich conference the Iranian foreign minister's words this morning at the conference. "You have just heard foreign minister Zarif... Do not be deceived by his eloquence," Gantz said. "Do not be fooled by his lies. As IDF former Chief of Staff, I saw first-hand precise information regarding what is really happening in Iran. Hence, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the regime Mr. Zarif represents is an evil one. "It publicly calls for the destruction of my nation. It Hangs gays. It oppresses women. It persecutes minorities and violates human rights. It undermines stability throughout the Middle East and sponsors terror all over the globe. It represents a grave danger to the Middle East and world order. It is the Nemesis of everything the people in this hall hold dear-and believe in. "It is no secret that Prime Minister Netanyahu is my political rival. We disagree on many issues. But make no mistakes – we are both devoted sons of the same nation. When Israel's security is under threat, there is no daylight between us. On this critical issue there is no right or left. There is no coalition or opposition. When it comes to defending Israel- we are united...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/259168

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Trump Signs Funding Bill, Declares Emergency

to Secure Border

by Thomas Gallatin: In a Rose Garden ceremony this morning, President Donald Trump signed an omnibus spending deal that includes $1.35 billion for the construction of a border barrier. He also said he’s signed the order declaring a national emergency to tap into as much as another $8 billion in funding for the border barrier. This announcement set off Democrats and some Republicans in voicing their objections.

House Speaker Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) warned, “A Democratic president can declare emergencies, as well. So the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans.” Pulosi then pointed to one of the Democrats long-running hobby horses and said, “Let’s talk about … the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That’s a national emergency. Why don’t you declare that emergency, Mr. President? … But a Democratic president can do that.” Except we have a little thing called the Second Amendment…

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) voiced constitutional concerns over Trump’s decision, stating, “We have a crisis at our southern border, but no crisis justifies violating the Constitution. Today’s national emergency is border security. But a future president may use this exact tactic to impose the Green New Deal.” But Rubio did note that he would await further details of Trump’s emergency declaration before determining whether he’d support it.

Regarding the subject of national emergencies, it’s important to note that the National Emergencies Act of 1976 was passed primarily as a means of keeping better track of the emergency powers granted to the president and determining which declarations were still in effect. Essentially, the authority to declare a national emergency grants the president special temporary power to deal with a crisis directly related to foreign threats that arise against American interests both domestic and abroad. There are currently 31 active national emergencies, the oldest being Jimmy Carter’s sanctions against the Iranian government.

In declaring a national emergency, Trump can point back to his repeated calls to Congress to act on the growing illegal-immigration crisis that has contributed to the drug-related deaths of tens of thousands of Americans and the murders of many others, costs American taxpayers billions annually in welfare services provided to illegal aliens, and hurts American workers by flooding the labor force with low-skilled illegal workers. Trump has worked to paint Democrats into a corner on this issue, demonstrating that they have no desire to protect American citizens first and foremost, which is their constitutional duty.

Recall that Democrats didn’t voice any objections when Barack scumbag/liar-nObama overreached his executive authority some 76 times, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) notes, and yet when Trump seeks to use his rightful executive authority to enforce the nation’s laws, Democrats (and a few Republicans) squeal about constitutional overreach.

While we would certainly have preferred to see Congress act to provide the full funding for the construction of a more secure border barrier and increased border security, Trump’s emergency declaration is well within his constitutional authority. However, there is no question that this battle will soon move to the courts. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61186?mailing_id=4080&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4080&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 19, 2019 at 8:03am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

How Could They?

by Cal Thomas

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scumbag-Adam Schiff On House Russian Probe:

‘You Can See Evidence In Plain Sight’

by Chris White

{dailycaller.com} ~ California Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff said Sunday morning that there is plenty of evidence suggesting the Trump campaign and Russia colluded to tilt the 2016 presidency... away from former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. “You can see evidence in plain sight on the issue of collusion — pretty compelling evidence,” scumbag-Schiff told Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Now there’s a difference between seeing evidence of collusion and being able to prove a criminal conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt,” the Democrat noted before turning his attention to Republican North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr. “Chairman Burr must have a different word for it because when you look, for example, at a meeting in Trump Tower, it was offered to the Trump campaign to the president’s own son dirt on scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton as part of what was described as the Russian government’s effort to help Donald Trump in the campaign,” he said. scumkbag-Schiff, who is heading the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling, was referring to Burr’s admission that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has been unable to find any evidence that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia...scumbag-Schiff is blind and can't see the truth. https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/17/adam-schiff-russia-trump/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/2pEP-Rnsdns via @YouTube

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H.R. 1 Is Nothing But a Power Grab

Designed to Elect Democrats

by Congressman Mark Green

{townhall.com} ~ House Resolution 1 should really be called the ‘Fill the Swamp Act.’ This crooked piece of legislation would mandate a colossal takeover of the state election process to empower big government liberals and corporate interests... So, of course, Democrats are trying to force it through. It seems every year that passes more and more power is shifted away from the people and into the hands of a wealthy, elite few in Washington. These politicians and bureaucrats love micromanaging more and more of our everyday lives. From our roads and bridges, our firearms, our relationships with our doctors, our elementary schools, our farms and even our toilets, these freedom and federalism hating politicians cannot help themselves from interfering with Americans’ choices. But now, on top of all that, they want to dictate how states run their elections? They want to tell Tennessee to enact same-day voter registration, with no time for verification? They want to tell Tennessee we cannot require IDs to be shown at the polls, increasing the likelihood of fraud? They want to tell Tennessee that some unaccountable commission must draw its districts? They want to tell Tennessee it must subsidize far-left candidates in other states with taxpayer money. How dare they try to strip Tennessee of its autonomy. H.R. 1 is nothing other than a power-grab designed to elect Democrats that will give the federal government even more power. This bill is wrong, and the American people deserve to know... https://townhall.com/capitol-voices/congressmanmarkgreen/2019/02/13/hr-1-is-nothing-but-a-power-grab-designed-to-elect-democrats-n2541459

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Finally, the Democrats openly

acknowledge their socialism

by Peter Barry Chowka

{americanthinker.com} ~ Masks are slipping away on the progressive left, as the 2020 election comes into focus. Not only do we know that a “coup” was planned by foes of President Trump, we now can openly and unreservedly speak of another unpleasant but inescapable truth that was revealed during the past year... Prior to the surprise victory of Democrat Socialist commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) last June 26 in her primary race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, it was largely frowned upon to describe the Democratic Party as “socialist.” Over the summer, the rag tag far left Occupy ICE movement gained support among elected local Democrat politicians in many cities around the country. By the fall, Democrat candidates for governor in Florida and Georgia, and for the U.S. Senate in Texas, were echoing the abolish ICE/Open Borders theme of the Occupy radicals. When the Democrats captured the House in the November Midterm elections, what was left of a moderate mask was finally torn off as Democrat leaders and newbie members of Congress alike jumped on the socialist bandwagon. In the three and a half months since the election, with full-blown socialist AOC having emerged as the most prominent and arguably the most influential Democrat politician in the country, the definition of Democrats as “socialists” can no longer be denied. This is happening at the same time that socialism’s disastrous failure in Venezuela is utterly undeniable. Millions of starving Venezuelans have fled to neighboring countries like Colombia, and the Maduro dictatorship survives solely on the basis of support from senior military officials who have been bribed and fear retribution when the “socialist paradise” they have fashioned collapses...

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/finally_the_democrats_openly_acknowledge_their_socialism.html

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Lindsey Graham Pledges Investigation Of McCabe,

Rosenstein Over ‘Bureaucratic Coup’

by Chuck Ross

{dailycaller.com} ~ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham pledged Sunday to hold a hearing to determine whether top Justice Department and FBI official discussed a “bureaucratic coup”... to remove President Donald Trump from office. Graham said in an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he is willing to subpoena Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to answer questions about an alleged discussion to use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. McCabe claims that Rosenstein brought up the idea of using the Constitution to remove Trump during a meeting of FBI and Justice Department officials on May 16, 2017, around a week after Trump fired scumbag-James Comey as FBI director. The 25th Amendment allows a majority of cabinet members to remove a sitting president. “We’re a democracy. People enforce the law — can’t take it into their own hands. And was this an attempted bureaucratic coup? I don’t know,” said Graham. “So I promise your viewers the following: that we will have a hearing about who’s telling the truth, what actually happened,” the South Carolina Republican added, noting that McCabe was fired from the FBI for making false statements about leaks he authorized to the media... https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/17/lindsey-graham-subpoena-mccabe-rosenstein/?utm_medium=email

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Washington Post Closes Its Fact-Checking Operation for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's

Green New Deal

by Noah Wall

{dailycaller.com} ~ The Washington Post’s fact-check of Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s signature Green New Deal legislation needs a fact-check of its own... The roll-out of the plan to deindustrialize the U.S. within a 10-year timeframe was a complete disaster. It began with the release of a FAQ sheet riddled with typos, grammatical errors, and radical statements about banning fossil fuels and nuclear power, making car and air travel obsolete, and getting rid of flatulent cows. The plan would require upgrading or replacing every building in the country, and provide taxpayer-funded economic security for those “unwilling to work.” It promises all Americans will have “access to nature,” whatever that means. The plan strives to achieve “net-zero” carbon emissions in ten years. Why not zero? According to the FAQ sheet, because they “aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.” Rep. commie-Ocasio-Cortez immediately tried to downplay the FAQ sheet after facing merciless ridicule on social media... https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/14/wall-washington-post/

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How Could They?

by Cal Thomas

{townhall.com} ~ My first reaction upon hearing that hundreds of leaders in the Southern Baptist church had sexually abused as many as 700 people in 400 churches, including victims as young as 3, was "how could they?" It was the same reaction I had when news of predatory priests in the Roman Catholic Church, and the cover-up that followed the sexual abuse allegations, surfaced.

I have belonged to Southern Baptist churches in the past, so I know something about their proud "independent" status. Some critics have said it is the lack of a central authority in these churches that contributed to failed oversight. The Catholic Church has a central authority. How do you explain its oversight structure?

The reporting by the Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and The Washington Post should turn any stomach. Most Baptists have had children in their Sunday school programs. What must they be thinking as they ponder whether to ask their child, who by now might be a teen or an adult, if they had ever been abused by a teacher, pastor or counselor?

The Washington Post reports: "...instead of ensuring that sexual predators were kept at bay, the Southern Baptist Convention, resisted policy changes. ...Victims accused church leaders of mishandling their complaints, even hiding them from the public."

The Post notes that while a majority of abusers have been convicted and are now registered as sex offenders, "the investigation found that at least three dozen pastors, employees and volunteers who showed predatory behavior still worked at churches."

One explanation for such behavior -- it's not the only one -- appeared in a 2018 article in Christianity Today magazine: "Most pastors have struggled with porn."

That's according to an online study of nearly 3,000 adults, teenagers and pastors by the Barna Group. The study included 432 pastors and 338 youth pastors, and was commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministry and Cru formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ.

J.D. Greear, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, tweeted, "We must admit that our failures, as churches, put these survivors in a position where they were forced to stand alone and speak, when we should have been fighting for them."

There are at least two other considerations the denomination must address. It is likely that many abuse victims will not only leave their churches, as many Catholics have done, but possibly abandon their faith altogether. If this is what God allows, they might say, I want nothing to do with Him.

The other thought is a warning. While most people probably think they are above such sin, consider the words of the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, whose diagnosis of the potential for evil is that it resides at some level in all of us and that we cannot say for certain what we would do given the circumstances: "The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? (Jeremiah 17:9, NLT)

Southern Baptist churches may wish to ponder and deliver a series of sermons on the meaning of these additional words from Jeremiah: "What sorrow awaits the leaders of my people -- the shepherds of my sheep -- for they have destroyed and scattered the very ones they were expected to care for, says the Lord." (Jeremiah 23:1, NLT).

https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2019/02/14/how-could-they-n2541426?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/14/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

The Case for the Wall – Exhibit A

Posted by Craig Andresen on February 19, 2019 at 6:50am

Be sure to Click LIKE at the bottom of this article, and share it everywhere!!

By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Just imagine having elected leaders standing in front of a bank of American flags telling the nation that they are opposed to protecting and defending not only our nation, but the American people.

You don’t have to imagine it…it happened.

Just six years ago, Nancy Pelosi supported the building of 700 miles of border wall, and she was not alone. Far from it in fact.

Back then, congressional democrats were nearly unanimous in their support of such a wall.

Six short years ago, while Hussein Obama occupied the Oval Office, no less than Chuckles Schumer and Dickie Durbin had THIS to say regarding 700 miles of border wall…“Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary [of Homeland Security] shall establish . . . the ‘Southern Border Fencing Strategy,’ to identify where 700 miles of fencing (including double-layer fencing) . . . should be deployed along the Southern border.”

Oh, my…

That was in relation to the Gang of 8 bill which also made something else quite clear…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 18, 2019 at 6:20pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The President and Chilling Free Speech

by Judge Andrew Napolitano

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Heather Nauert withdraws from consideration

for UN ambassador nomination,

State Department says

by Elizabeth Zwirz

{foxnews.com} ~ State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert withdrew her name from consideration for the U.N. ambassador nomination, the department said Saturday... “I am grateful to President Trump and Secretary Mike Pompeo for the trust they placed in me for considering me for the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations," Nauer said in the statement. "However, the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration. She went on to describe her time working in the administration as being "one of the highest honors of my life." A State Department source told Fox News that the process, on top of traveling around the world and between Washington D.C., and New York to see family, grew to be too much. Trump -- who picked Nauert to succeed Ambassador Nikki Haley in December -- will make an announcement "soon" about a nominee for the position, the State Department said...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/heather-nauert-withdraws-from-consideration-for-un-ambassador-nomination-state-department-says

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6003051670001/

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TCC Fighting Back against Pulosi and House

Liberals Who Have Launched Their

Campaign to Harass and Impeach Trump

by conservativeusa.org: Now that it's clear the radical Leftists in control of the House aim to harass, and eventually impeach President Trump, TCC supporters and other conservatives have their work cut out for them... "TCC is fighting back against the coup with everything we have, and here's why," explained TCC Chairman Peter Thomas. • Nancy Pulosi and the radical, socialist Democrats who now control the House of Representatives have made it clear they will use the levers of government power to investigate, destroy, and likely impeach President Trump.• Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Muller's witch hunt against President Trump can be expected to provide the Democrats with some excuse, however weak, to justify this impeachment drive. • The Trump-hating fake news media -- fresh off their success in helping the Left retake the House -- will be accelerating their drive to smear the President and his supporters as "racists," Nazis," "stupid," "hateful," and "selfish. • The radical left-wing mob -- funded by socialist billionaires like scumbag-George Soros and Tom Steyer and encouraged by the liberal media -- will be once again be on the march, intimidating, threatening, and physically attacking Trump supporters in public. As TCC supporters already know, in the coming weeks, the Democrat-controlled House, the radical left, the fake news media, and the scumbag/liar-nObama/scumbag/liar-Clinton Deep State will be doing all they can to depict the President as a dishonest, corrupt, and evil failure... https://www.conservativeusa.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=209&custom_49=TC4HN038&custom_48=14335#1

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President Trump is Slowly Stopping

The Exfiltration of American Wealth

by sundance

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Every element of global economic trade is controlled and exploited by massive institutions, multinational banks and multinational corporations. Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)... control trillions of dollars in economic activity. Underneath that economic activity there are people who hold the reigns of power over the outcomes. These individuals and groups are the stakeholders in direct opposition to principles of America-First national economics. The modern financial constructs of these entities have been established over the course of the past three decades. When you understand how they manipulate the economic system of individual nations you begin to understand understand why they are so fundamentally opposed to President Trump. In the Western World, separate from communist control perspectives ie. China, “Global markets” are a modern myth; nothing more than a talking point meant to keep people satiated with sound bites they might find familiar; but the truth is ‘global markets‘ have been destroyed over the past three decades by multinational corporations who control the products formerly contained within global markets. The same is true for “Commodities Markets“. The multinational trade and economic system, run by corporations and multinational banks, now controls the product outputs of independent nations. The free market economic system has been usurped by entities who create what is best described as ‘controlled markets’... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/16/president-trump-is-slowly-stopping-the-exfiltration-of-american-wealth/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmPcmh8hnY4

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There are Trillions at Stake

by sundance

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ President Trump has structured a plan to break down the multinational trade interests, and their “controlled markets.” Step-by-step President Trump is executing this plan... while his opposition, including Mitch McConnell, tries to stop him. President Trump is disrupting decades of multinational financial interests who use the U.S. as a host for their ideological endeavors. President Trump is confronting multinational corporations and the global constructs of economic systems that were put in place to the detriment of the host; the American Middle-Class. There are trillions at stake; it is all about the economics; all else is chaff and countermeasures. Familiar faces, perhaps faces you previously thought were decent, are now revealing their alignment with larger entities that are our abusers. In an effort to awaken the victim to the cycle of self-destructive codependent behavior, allow me to cue a visual example from U.S. Senator John Thune. What South Dakota Senator John Thune is showcasing here is his full alignment with big multinational corporate agriculture BIG AG. Big AG is not supporting local farmers. Big AG does not support “free and fair markets.” Big AG supports the interests of multinational corporations and multinational financial interests... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/16/there-are-trillions-at-stake/

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

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Arkansas State Director credits "unbelievable

grace of God" and "unquenchable

patriotic spirit" for victory

by Bud Cornwell

{conventionofstates.com} ~ After six years of dedicated work by our Convention of States supporters and leaders, we have passed both legislative bodies in Arkansas. Arkansas is now the 13th State to pass the Article V resolution... to rein in the federal government and give the power back to the people. The road was very hard and politically challenging for our legislators and supporters. Our leadership over a 6-year period changed many times. We had four State Directors and many district captains leave the organization causing the movement to slow drastically many times. However, a corps of dedicated patriots kept the momentum going which was a deciding factor in growing the grassroots army necessary to convince the legislators that “We the People” in Arkansas have the power. We grew from 1200 supporters in 2015 to over 17,000 in 2019, which was the determining factor to get the resolution passed. To make it over the finish line this year, Regional and District Captains performed hand written letter parties all over the state and we delivered them directly to the legislators. We also provided the legislators more hand-written letters and a printout list of their supporters in the chamber while they were voting on the resolution. We used a state slogan during presentations and meetings: "They knew it then, so we could do something now.” The Founders created and built a country based on biblical principles and the inalienable rights give to us by God. They gave us the Convention of States option in Article V of the Constitution to use in times like these, and we called attention to this fact to reach patriotic Arkansas residents and combat misinformation by those opposed to the Founders' solution...

https://conventionofstates.com/news/inside-look-arkansas-state-director-credits-unbelievable-grace-of-god-and-unquenchable-patriotic-spirit-for-victory?utm_source=Convention+of+States+Project&utm_campaign=dc05aab4ea-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_45196125c1-dc05aab4ea-214976545

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_FxPq2KmxQ

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The President and Chilling Free Speech

by Judge Andrew Napolitano

{townhall.com} ~ While the public discourse has been consumed over the realization that abortion physicians actually let viable babies who survive late-term abortions die -- as well as whether President Donald Trump or House Speaker Nancy Pulosi will blink first over the issue of congressional authorization for building a wall at the country's southern border, to say nothing of the race- and sex-infused mess at the top of the government in Virginia -- a profound free speech issue has been bubbling below the radar.

A former White House communications aide and former Trump campaign adviser who has written a blistering tell-all book about the Trump White House now finds himself in litigation about whether he can freely publish his book -- which he has already done -- and freely profit from it.

The former Trump friend and colleague is Cliff Sims, and his book is called "Team of Vipers." It makes Chris Christie's book about his bitter experiences with those around the president look as if it were written by Mother Teresa by comparison. The president and his folks, who knew of the book before it was published, apparently bristled at the stories related and allegations contained and opinions expressed in it.

This is an unhappy tale, not with regard to accuracy or fairness in reporting but with regard to the doctrine of fair comment and the natural and constitutional right to the freedom of speech. Here is the back story.

When Sims began his time as an official of the Trump campaign, he signed a nondisclosure agreement, or NDA. NDAs typically bar the revelation of information gathered during one's employment. They were nearly universal in the Trump campaign.

Sims' NDA also provided that if there was any dispute between him and the campaign over the meaning of the NDA or whether he or the campaign violated it, that dispute would be resolved in secret arbitration, not in a public courtroom in front of a judge and jury. The NDA further provided for liquidated damages -- a pre-agreed-upon amount of money that Sims would owe to the campaign if arbitrators found that he violated the NDA.

What about the freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial? The theory of an NDA is that the signer has knowingly waived those rights in return for the employment contemplated by the NDA. This is a quid pro quo. You get hired at a job you want; you get the pay and perks you sought; you agree to keep silent the secrets you learn. And if there is a dispute about what you can say and to whom you can say it, the dispute itself will be resolved in secret because you agreed to that in the NDA. If the arbitrators find that you violated the NDA, you owe a certain amount of money to the other party -- in this case, $10 million to the Trump campaign -- whether you caused damages in that amount or not.

That is at least the theory of how these NDAs are supposed to work. The courts do not favor these agreements, because they often stifle free speech -- and often it is speech in which there is a material and serious public interest. Yet as they are between private parties, NDAs are enforceable.

In this case, the speech is about Trump -- not as a candidate but as the president. So after Sims' book was published and after the folks in the West Wing, where he worked for a year, read what he wrote, the Trump campaign -- it still has a skeleton staff and lawyers on the payroll -- filed a complaint with the designated arbitration entity, demanding the liquidated damages of $10 million.

Then Sims' lawyers filed a complaint in federal district court, asking a judge to enjoin the arbitration proceeding because what Sims' wrote he learned about while working for the government, not on the campaign. The campaign will no doubt point to an NDA it claims Sims signed when he began his tenure in the West Wing and argue that it applies as effectively as the NDA he signed for the campaign. Sims recalls no NDA at the White House.

Here is the problem for Trump. The campaign is not subject to the First Amendment, but the White House clearly is. Even if Sims did sign an NDA at the White House, the First Amendment bars the government from enforcing it, and several federal statutes protect whistleblowers, no matter what they agreed not to say at the outset of their work, unless it is classified material being protected. In the West Wing, Sims worked for the federal government, not Donald Trump personally and not the campaign.

Can the government punish speech of someone who agreed to remain silent? In a word: No. It cannot deter speech, and it cannot chill speech. Chilling takes place when government behavior is so oppressive that the potential speaker is afraid to speak about what he knows.

And if the speech is comment about public people or public policy, it is protected by the doctrine of fair comment. That is a Supreme Court rubric underscoring the truism that the whole purpose of the First Amendment is to protect and encourage open, wide, robust speech about the government -- speech that sheds light on dark government corners, speech that is unafraid of and immune from the slightest whiff of government redress, speech that can be harsh in tone and discomfiting in delivery.

It is that brand of public free speech that the Framers intended to protect by the First Amendment. As one of President Trump's no-holds-barred predecessors famously said, "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

If presidents can use legal artifices to punish the speech they hate and fear, they are no longer presidents in a free society. They are princes in an empire.

https://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2019/02/14/the-president-and-chilling-free-speech-n2541415?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/14/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

Mon Med/PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 18, 2019 at 3:36pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Is evil-Cuomo Digging His

Own Political Grave?

by Jordan Candler

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House Democrats explore forcing

Trump to divulge details of Putin meetings

by Josh Siegel

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ House Democratic committee leaders have consulted with the chamber's general counsel to discuss legal options of forcing President Trump to reveal details of his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin... according to a report Saturday. Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff of California, the Intelligence Committee chairman, and Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, said they have asked House General Counsel Douglas Letter about how to compel the Trump administration to provide documents or other information related to the meetings. The Democrats, Politico reported, are considering all options, including issuing subpoenas. “I had a meeting with the general counsel to discuss this and determine the best way to find out what took place in those private meetings — whether it’s by seeking the interpreter’s testimony, the interpreter’s notes, or other means,” scumbag-Schiff said. scumbag- Schiff is referring to Marina Gross, the State Department translator who was the only other American present for a Trump-Putin meeting last July in Helsinki. Democrats are particularly interested in that meeting, after which the two leaders held a chummy joint press conference where Trump cast doubt that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Republicans in Congress condemned Trump’s performance. He mostly blamed the U.S. for Washington’s troubled relationship with Russia. Trump has previously said he "couldn't care less" if the details of his conversation with Putin in Helsinki were made public. Get anything on Trump to remove him from the presidency.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-democrats-explore-forcing-trump-to-divulge-details-of-putin-meetings?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_02/16/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News

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Premises, premises

by Cal Thomas

{townhall.com} ~ Here is the problem for Trump critics. They began with the wrong premise. They believed that scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton should have won the 2016 presidential election... Then they deluded themselves by embracing the notion that Trump was illegitimate, unstable, stupid and an offense to everything they consider normal. This led the scumbag/liar-nObama holdovers in the Justice Department and the major media to construct a Russian collusion scenario, based on evidence they had to know is false. These included Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, who was fired for lying to government investigators. In his new book and in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night, McCabe admits he was part of a coup attempt to remove Trump from office, using the 25th Amendment as the means. McCabe said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was not joking, as Rosenstein claims he was, about wearing a wire, hoping the president would say outrageous things Rosenstein could take to the vice president and the cabinet to convince them that Trump was unfit to hold public office. There's your real collusion and also a conspiracy to oust a duly elected president. On his radio program last Thursday, Rush Limbaugh said he thinks the entire Russian collusion investigation is a waste of taxpayer money and has come to nothing. About McCabe, he said: "He is bragging about his efforts to undermine and overthrow Trump. He's admitting, essentially, that he and his buddies put in motion a silent coup to get rid of Donald Trump. He admits that the talk of wiring Rosenstein to entrap Trump in an Oval Office conversation was real."...

https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2019/02/16/premises-premises-n2541594?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/16/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

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A glass quarter-full reading of

Trump's border deal

by Byron York

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ When someone says, "I'm a glass half-full person," that means he or she tries to look on the positive side of any situation, even if the reality is mixed. In the case of border security and the spending bill passed by Congress... it would be hard, from the administration's point of view, to call it a "glass half-full" result, given that President Trump won just $1.375 billion of the $5.7 billion he asked Congress to appropriate for a border barrier. On the other hand, Trump emerged from the negotiations having made significant progress — even before considering his declaration of a national emergency. For Trump, the glass is a quarter-full, and maybe more, if he moves thoughtfully in coming months. The first positive note is that the president got anything at all for a barrier. Remember that the Democratic position, expressed repeatedly by Speaker of the House Nancy Pulosi, was that Trump would get nothing for a barrier — and by "nothing," Democrats meant "nothing." That is precisely what the president got in the measure to end the government shutdown. Pulosi even famously declared Trump's wall proposal "immoral." In the end, though, the Democratic House approved — with 300 votes, including Pulosi's — enough money to build 55 miles of the president's proposed barrier. So now, after vowing to provide nothing for the barrier, Pulosi has now given her approval to 55 miles of immorality. No, it is not what the president wanted, but even those 55 miles, combined with the roughly 125 miles of inadequate, dilapidated old fence that the administration is already replacing with new barrier, are a net plus for border security... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-a-glass-quarter-full-reading-of-trumps-border-deal?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_02/16/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief

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Iran confirms second failed satellite

launch, alleges possible US sabotage

by timesofisrael.com: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed that Tehran attempted a second satellite launch earlier this month despite US criticism that its space program is helping to develop ballistic missiles... In an interview with NBC news screened Friday, Zarif said it was “quite possible” the United States was sabotaging the Iranian space program. “We don’t know yet,” he said. “We need to look into it very carefully.” Zarif said Tehran was already investigating the failed satellite launches in January and February, but was now “looking into the specifics” of a sabotage campaign following a report in The New York Times this week. Current and former US officials told the Times the Trump administration had accelerated a George W. Bush-era program to sabotage Iran’s development of rockets and missiles...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-confirms-second-failed-satellite-launch/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-02-16&utm_medium=email

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Illegal immigrant charged with four murders

in Nevada highlights border security issue

by Ben Baird

{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA) denounced President Donald Trump’s Thursday decision to declare a national emergency to fund what the House leader says is “a wall we don’t need, to address a crisis that doesn’t exist.”... But recent high-profile murders involving illegal immigrants, particularly the killings of four people in Nevada, highlight the real need for better security. The illegally-present suspect in the Nevada case will be tried immediately for the murders of two women and an elderly couple during the first weeks of 2019. Prosecutors agreed to break with legal procedure by trying 20-year-old Wilber Martinez-Guzman with four counts of murder in Reno before prosecuting the Salvadoran national with burglary and other related charges in Carson City, where he was arrested. “Generally, the jurisdiction that catches a defendant proceeds with its prosecution first,” explained Carson City District Attorney Jason Woodbury. “When we have a way to make the process a little easier on people victimized by a crime, and when those people tell us they want the murder case to go first, we absolutely listen and do our best to honor those wishes,” he said.The killings started in Gardnerville, 50 miles outside of Reno, when 56-year-old Connie Koontz was discovered dead in her home on Jan. 10. Days later, on Jan. 13, Sophia Renken was found dead in her home under similar circumstances... https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/illegal-murders-nevada-border/?utm_source=dc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc-1

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Is evil-Cuomo Digging His Own Political Grave?

by Jordan Candler: There is noteworthy disfavor in New York stemming from Gov. Andrew evil-Cuomo’s preoccupation with late-term abortion. Current polling shows that his approval rating is at a career-low 43% — a month-over-month drop of eight percentage points. Even worse, his “excellent” or “good” performance evaluation is at a paltry 35%, whereas 64% of respondents define his performance as “fair” or “poor.”

Cuomo has been governor of New York since 2011, and in the years since he’s become increasingly emboldened to force his extreme leftist ideology on the state and inspire it elsewhere. This culminated in his recent signing of a bill that not only authorizes but encourages late-term abortions. His polling slump most assuredly isn’t coincidental.

We know this because even most pro-choice advocates have a limit. YouGov/Americans United for Life has published new survey results on the matter. Sixty-eight percent of this group take issue with abortions within a day of birth, and a similar 66% assail third-trimester abortions in general. Moreover, of this same group, 77% agree with medically protecting viable children.

evil-Cuomo dug thousands upon thousands of additional graves when he signed New York’s late-term abortion law. But he’s possibly also dug himself his own political grave — and nobody should lament his downfall assuming it ever happens. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61146?mailing_id=4078&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4078&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 18, 2019 at 1:32pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Lost, Buried, Burned: Oklahoma's

Rape Kit Scandal

by Michelle Malkin

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Bob Menendez Claims Trump is a Russian Agent

by Peter Hasson

{dailycaller.com} ~ Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez made the extraordinary claim Thursday that President Donald Trump could be “an agent of the Russian Federation.”... Menendez claimed the fact that Trump hasn’t released his tax returns and isn’t more publicly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin could be signs that the president is compromised. “I’m talking about the entirely legitimate question of whether Donald Trump could be compromised by the Russian government,” Menendez said in prepared remarks on the Senate floor. “It’s more than a legitimate question. It’s the natural question that comes to mind every time we learn more about the links between President Trump, his associates and the Russian government,” he said.... Menendez is nuts. Why didn't he claim that to scumbag/liar-nObama. https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/14/bob-menendez-trump-russia/

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Judicial Watch uncovers 'chart' of

scumbag/liar-Hillary's potential violations

by wnd.com: Government watchdog Judicial Watch revealed Friday it has obtained another 186 pages of documentation from the Justice Department regarding scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, and they show evidence of a cover-up of an FBI chart of possible violations by her... “Judicial Watch caught the FBI in another cover-up to protect scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton,” said the organization’s president, Tom Fitton. “These records show that the FBI is hiding a chart detailing possible violations of the law by scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and the supposed reasons she was not prosecuted.” Judicial Watch recently released hundreds of pages of records showing former FBI General Counsel James Baker discussed the investigation of scumbag/liar-Clinton-related emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop with scumbag/liar-Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall. The latest cache of documents was obtained from the government through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Department of Justice after it failed to respond to a 2017 FOIA request seeking all communications between fired FBI official Peter Strzok and his paramour, FBI lawyer Lisa Page. It was District Judge Reggie B. Walton who ordered the FBI to begin processing some 13,000 pages of records that fall under the order. Judicial Watch found, three days after then-FBI Director scumbag-James Comey’s press conference announcing that he would not recommend a prosecution of scumbag/liar-Clinton, a July 8, 2016, an email chain showing that the special counsel to the FBI’s executive assistant director in charge of the National Security Branch told Strzok he was making a “chart of the statutory violations considered during the investigation of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s private email system, and the reasons for the recommendation not to prosecute.”...

https://www.wnd.com/2019/02/judicial-watch-uncovers-chart-of-hillarys-potential-violations/
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L.A. Skyscraper Shown Exploding

in New ISIS 'Promise Fulfilled' Threat

by Bridget Johnson

{pjmedia.com} ~ An ISIS-supporting group posted an image online depicting an explosion at the top of the third-tallest office tower in downtown Los Angeles. Though ISIS backers operating under a number of media alliances regularly craft and circulate threats and recruitment propaganda... in the form of posters and video, Los Angeles is rarely featured as a target. The online jihadists trend toward threatening New York, Washington, Las Vegas, and large European cities. The new image shows a camouflage-clad jihadist holding an ISIS flag with the evening L.A. skyline in the background and the glow of flames photoshopped coming from the hillside beneath his feet. An explosion is photoshopped onto the top of the Aon Center, the 62-story tower at 707 Wilshire Blvd. in the city's financial district. The original photo used appears to be from Shutterstock. The words above the image: "Our promise will soon be fulfilled." The city of Los Angeles routinely reminds residents that landmarks and transportation hubs -- such as Los Angeles International Airport, targeted in a foiled 2000 al-Qaeda plot -- are potential terrorist targets. Terror groups have always routinely complained about products from Hollywood making their way into popular culture in Muslim-majority nations. The U.S. Bank Tower, which is the second-tallest building in L.A., was discussed as a potential target by Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 1999 as they planned the 9/11 attacks. In 2006, President George W. Bush said that Mohammed, in October 2001, "had already set in motion a plan to have terrorist operatives hijack an airplane using shoe bombs to breach the cockpit door, and fly the plane into the tallest building on the West Coast" -- at the time, the U.S. Bank Tower, then known as Library Tower... https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/l-a-skyscraper-shown-exploding-in-new-isis-promise-fulfilled-threat/?utm_source=PJMCoffeeBreak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=February2019

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“Onward Together”: Inside scumbag/liar-Hillary’s Latest Political Tax Scandal

by Corey Lynn

{thewashingtonstandard.com} ~ Most people are aware that “Onward Together” is a political organization to raise funds for the Democratic party, but what they don’t realize, is the fact that this tax-exempt 501(c)(4) is operating ILLEGALLY, on multiple levels... IRS laws, FEC documents, and Onward Together’s tax return create one heck of a recipe, burning for an investigation. Not only does Onward Together require scrutiny, its partner organizations need a closer look as well. Perhaps “Back Together” would have been more apropos, since scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton got the band back together to form this tax-exempt political scandal. Even Huma Abedin is on the payroll. What’s most interesting is that the DNC paid nearly $2 million to Onward Together for donor list rental/acquisition produced by scumbag/liarHillary for America, while the DCCC paid more than $700,000 for the same list. Sure, politicians often sell “donor lists”, but Onward Together is not allowed to declare the payment as tax-exempt “royalty income,” nor does this political activity align with the lawful purpose of 501(c)(4) organizations. But it gets worse. In order to avoid unrelated business income taxes, some exempt organizations have attempted to classify, as royalties, payments that are in fact fees for services. The IRS, however, ignores contractual nomenclature and looks to the true nature of such transactions. For example, royalties were ruled not to include payments for personal appearances (Rev. Rul. 81-178, 1981-2 C.B. 135) or receipts from the rental of donor lists Disabled American Veterans v. United States, 650 F.2d 1178 (Ct. Cl. 1981. Additionally, if the exempt organization maintains control over or liability for the commercial enterprise, the royalty exclusion will likely be denied. Thus, payments derived from a license of property under which an exempt organization was liable for some development and operational costs were treated as unrelated income. (Rev. Rul. 69-179, 1969-1 C.B. 158)...

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/onward-together-inside-hillarys-latest-political-tax-scandal/

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Taxes on Tippy Tippy Top

by Chris Edwards

{cato.org} ~ U.S. Senator Elizabeth dinky-Warren told CNBC the other day: “I want these billionaires to stop being freeloaders … I want them to pick up their fair share.” Are billionaires freeloaders?... To get an idea, we can look at IRS data on the Top 400 taxpayers in the nation with the highest incomes. The Top 400 paid $29.4 billion in federal income taxes in 2014, an average of $74 million each. These “freeloaders” together paid enough to more than fund the budgets of NASA and the EPA that year ($26 billion). The Top 400 paid 2.13 percent of all federal income taxes in 2014. That share has trended upwards over time, as shown in the chart. Indeed, the Top 400 share of taxes has doubled from 1.04 percent in 1992, which is the first year of IRS data. This top group is just 0.0003 percent of all taxpayers yet paid 2.13 percent of all income taxes. Rather than freeloading, it seems that this “tippy tippy top” group, as dinky-Warren calls it, is paying more than its fair share...

https://www.cato.org/blog/taxes-tippy-tippy-top?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRoaVlUUmxNRFpsTURVeSIsInQiOiJZbDJ4dlhvbTRhTHRZTGNDQXhqK1Q5OXJxMlNIaXNkZjFvWDlJSUtBR3loZU9Dc0hSMnVZZEVLYTFqSU1ndEViT2ZxVWpVR0NCU2xUNFZiK1JHSW5BdEpLbzFwdjA4d0J2REZsMjBHSm5xR2JyV0RtXC9kSXBaYzVJNnJkTTlSZFIifQ%3D%3D

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Lost, Buried, Burned: Oklahoma's

Rape Kit Scandal

by Michelle Malkin

{townhall.com} ~ If you are puzzled by the nationwide rape kit testing backlog, Oklahoma provides maddening insight on the bureaucratic forces that create intolerable inertia -- and injustice.

An estimated 225,000 rape kits have gone unprocessed across the country; more than 7,200 have been neglected in Oklahoma. Last month, a woman who reported an Oklahoma City sexual assault to police back in 2011 discovered that her rape kit had gathered dust on a shelf in Tulsa's police department for seven years -- after the Oklahoma County district attorney had informed her he was dropping the case because no rape kit existed.

Police, prosecutors and politicians do not have a sense of urgency about the issue. Why? My ongoing investigation shows that status quo obstructionists don't want to clear the backlog because they don't want the public poking around government-run crime labs -- especially ones with a shameful history of forensic misconduct and a culture of destruction.

Solving the rape kit testing problem requires accountability and transparency. That means shedding light on long-buried secrets that go well beyond the usual incompetence and inattention that have led to backlogs. It's not just rape victims who suffer when criminal justice agencies shut out the public. It's criminal defendants trying to prove their innocence against charges of sexual crimes.

Consider Rayshun Mullins, who petitioned the state of Oklahoma three times for post-conviction testing of DNA evidence used against him in 2009. The Sooner State was last in the nation to adopt a post-conviction DNA testing statute in 2013. Three times he was denied. Why? Shockingly, dozens and dozens of crucial forensic items in Mullins' case have been destroyed or "lost."

Gone. Poof. Disappeared.

Oklahoma requires that criminal justice agencies "retain and preserve" biological evidence for as long as a person convicted of a violent felony offense is incarcerated. Mullins certainly meets that criteria: He is serving a whopping 1,015 years plus six consecutive life terms behind bars for multiple rapes and robberies.

There is an exception allowing destruction of biological evidence if a criminal defendant is notified in advance and given 90 days to object. But as Mullins revealed to me last week:

"They never told me that they would destroy them. I found out when I got them papers."

The papers are part of an inventory compiled by the Oklahoma County district attorney's office, which I obtained exclusively. Among the destroyed or lost pieces of evidence in Mullins' case:

--34 items collected in one victim's case, including SANE/Rape kit, clothes, buccal swabs taken from the cheek for DNA, sheets, cuttings and sexual assault trace evidence from the victim and Mullins, which were all "destroyed in 2013."

--A second victim's purse, photographs, check card, calendar book, checks and papers, which were released to Oklahoma City Det. Kim Davis. According to the documents, "their current location is unknown." Davis claimed D.A. David Prater's office had them. The D.A.'s office denies having them after a "thorough investigation."

--A third victim's swabs and trace lifters, which "were destroyed in 2013."

--A fourth victim's SANE/rape kit, swabs, buccal swabs, clothes, bedding, swabs of persons of interest, Mullins' swabs and buccal swabs, which were all "destroyed in 2013."

--A fifth victim's SANE/Rape kit, clothing, toilet paper, bedding, disc containing photographs and fingerprint cards, which were all destroyed on an unknown date.

The Oklahoma City forensic analyst responsible for analyzing evidence in Mullins' case is former crime lab employee Elaine Taylor. She is the same analyst who confessed to her OCPD supervisor Byron Boshell back in 2000 that she destroyed untold numbers of rape kits after two years at the behest of her colleague and infamous OCPD rogue chemist Joyce Gilchrist who said she was authorized to destroy evidence by former D.A. Bob Macy because "the only thing I could do was follow her orders or else pay the consequences."

Taylor was conducting tests on rape kit evidence in Mullins' case less than three years after this shocking admission. It is unknown for how long and in how many other cases this routine evidence destruction continued. What is known: Gilchrist facilitated several wrongful convictions including two exonerated death row inmates over more than a decade by falsifying blood evidence, destroying human hair evidence, concocting junk science testimony on dog hair, and lying about and destroyed semen evidence while Taylor worked under her.

Taylor is also the analyst at the center of former OCPD officer Daniel Holtzclaw's wrongful conviction, which he is appealing. Six internationally renowned scientists called for a retrial after examining Taylor's faulty work on the case. Like Mullins, Holtzclaw was charged with serial rape. Like Mullins, Holtzclaw was investigated by sex crimes Det. Kim Davis, who worked closely with Taylor for nearly 20 years.

At a recent deposition in federal lawsuits against Holtzclaw, who is represented in the civil litigation by famed exoneration attorney Kathleen Zellner, Taylor admitted she personally witnessed boxes of evidence from sex crimes, homicide and other cases being burned and shoved "in a big ole hole" down by the Oklahoma City river.

Moreover, Taylor contradicted her trial testimony, admitted the Holtzclaw forensic evidence could have been contaminated by her son-in-law and co-lead Det. Rocky Gregory, and admitted to being involved in at least six other contamination cases which Oklahoma officials, who held illegal secret hearings on Taylor's work, refuse to disclose to the public.

Lost, burned, buried, tainted: This is an alarming crisis, whether you are a rape survivor, criminal justice reformer, forensic scientist or taxpayer. And I'm certain it's not just an Oklahoma problem. Peel the layers of government intransigence enveloping a rape kit backlog and underneath you'll find much more than criminal neglect.

https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2019/02/13/lost-buried-burned-oklahomas-rape-kit-scandal-n2541398?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/13/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

Mon Med/AM ~TheFrontPageCover

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

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

One of the most outrageous

Supreme Court decisions in decades

by Stephen Carter

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Monday Top Headline Summary

by Media Editors: Eighteen million views. That’s what the Washington Examiner says has been accrued by “a video of actress Ellen Page blaming President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for the alleged assault on ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett.” There’s just one huge problem: “The number takes on new significance … as new reports says two brothers told authorities that Smollett allegedly paid them to stage the attack.” But despite the media’s cursory and knee-jerk reporting, don’t expect any major concessions. Even House Speaker Nancy Pulosi deleted a sympathetic tweet without so much as an acknowledgment or apology.

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Tone deaf: “Speaking on German soil 75 years after the U.S. and its allies prepared for D-Day, loose lips-Joe Biden described America as ‘an embarrassment’ and its trade policies ‘self-defeating.’ … The former vice president was speaking exactly three-quarters of a century after American troops were fighting against Germans at the Battle of Anzio and Allied military staffs were deep into planning for the D-Day invasion of Normandy less than 4 months later.” (Washington Examiner)

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Democrats were expeditious in instigating border-barrier lawsuits. According to USA Today, “At least two lawsuits have been filed in response to President Donald Trump on Friday declaring a national emergency to secure funding for a wall along the southern border with Mexico. The filings are expected to be part of a flurry of legal challenges to the constitutionality of Trump’s decision.” Legal challenges are also anticipated to come from citizens themselves. As Bloomberg reports, “Some landowners along the U.S.-Mexico line say they see a government land grab in their future.” But Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller this weekend pointed out, “This is a threat in our country, not overseas. And if the president can’t defend this country, then he cannot fulfill his constitutional oath of office.”

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“President Trump’s pick to be the next United Nations ambassador withdrew from consideration Saturday, the State Department said. The department’s spokeswoman, Heather Nauert, had been tapped to succeed Nikki Haley at the United Nations, but her name was never formally sent to the Senate for confirmation. … The withdrawal is related to the employment of a nanny who was in the country illegally. … But according to a person familiar with Nauert’s situation, the nanny was in the country legally. She was a Jamaican national employed by Nauert and her husband 10 years ago.” (The Washington Post)

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According to Fox News, “More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined — or attempted to join — a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country. … So what has made the area such a hotbed for such activity? And what has been Rep. Ilhan Omar’s record in addressing the issue — either before she was elected, or since? The answers matter because federal authorities say they remain ‘highly concerned’ about the terrorist connection with the Minneapolis Somalis.” Omar’s anti-Semitism could be emblematic of an even bigger problem.

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Too long coming: “Disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been expelled from the Roman Catholic priesthood after an investigation found sex abuse allegations against him were credible, the Vatican said Saturday. The church is penalizing McCarrick, the former Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and Newark, New Jersey, with ‘dismissal from the clerical state,’ it said in a statement. He will not be able to appeal the decision.” (NBC News)

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A majority of Californians are inclined to put down roots elsewhere, new polling reveals. The catalyst is cost of living, which is particularly pronounced in San Fransisco. Perhaps voters should revisit partitioning the state.

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Civics testing in the U.S. is less than mediocre. According to the Washington Examiner, “A majority in every state except Vermont has failed the U.S. Citizenship test, the latest sign that Americans aren’t very good history students. … More than half of those in every other state failed, and in Washington, D.C., 58 percent failed, said the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, which does the survey. Only one-in-four nationally passed the 20-questions.” This shouldn’t surprise us, though. Schools are more interested in “diversifying” restrooms and locker rooms than they are in fostering education.

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A tragic mass shooting occurred Friday in Aurora, Illinois, where five innocent lives were taken and police officers were injured. But like many mass shootings, it could have been prevented via existing laws. Townhall reports that the shooter “purchased a Smith and Wesson .40 caliber handgun in 2014 but was later discovered to have been convicted of an aggravated assault charge back in 1995 when he tried to apply for a concealed carry permit. As a result, he should have turned his firearm over to authorities. He didn’t.”

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Having your cake and eating it too: “The NFL and lawyers for players Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid jointly announced Friday that they had settled a complaint of collusion by the players, who claimed football team owners blackballed them,” CNBC reports. According to The Daily Wire, “All parties are prevented from revealing details of the settlement, by the settlement’s terms, but various news reports put the settlement between $60 million and $80 million split between the two players.” Furthermore, “Kaepernick’s attorney … told ESPN that he predicts Kaepernick will now be welcomed into the league with open arms.” On the contrary, why would any team want such a toxic charlatan?

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Humor: In pushing Amazon out of New York, commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declares victory over the modern-day equivalent of slavery: jobs. (The Babylon Bee)

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Policy: Read why “Amazon’s NYC Pullout Shows Economy Is Rigged, Just Not the Way Most People Think” at the Foundation for Economic Education.

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Policy: “Outsiders should regard purported hate crimes that sound like crafted narratives with skepticism until they’re proven true,” Kyle Smith suggests in National Review. “No matter what the era or who is in charge, disaster always looms, and any weird anecdote that supports the larger doom narrative is eagerly, even devoutly, believed.”

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61226?mailing_id=4084&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4084&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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7 Big Takeaways From

Andrew McCabe’s Planned Coup

by Willis L. Krumholz

{thefederalist.com} ~ If Washington, D.C. were a better place, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe would be swiftly run out of town. He was fired last year for lying to the FBI’s inspector general at least four times... regarding serious questions about multiple abuses that occurred while McCabe sat in a powerful and unelected office. These abuses included working with former FBI director scumbag-James Comey to set up former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus for obstruction charges, slow-walking and sabotaging the investigation of yet unseen scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner’s computer just before the 2016 election, and failing to report a clear conflict of interest where his wife received a political donation from a close scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton ally while he was tasked with investigating scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. Among other things, McCabe also took part in spying on the Trump campaign through a secret warrant granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court. This spying allowed obedient anti-Trump media figures to report, right before the 2016 election, that the FBI was investigating President Trump—which legitimized the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign’s talking points about Trump and Russia. Thankfully, although the establishment media cheers McCabe, he may yet face legal trouble as a result of his actions. So to save his skin, and sell his new book to help pay the lawyers—titled “The Threat: How the F.B.I. Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump”—McCabe is on the media circuit...

http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/15/7-big-takeaways-andrew-mccabes-planned-coup/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=6ffc4ac3a1-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-6ffc4ac3a1-83771801
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Sweden Prosecuting Pensioners,

Welcoming ISIS

by Judith Bergman

{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ "Violence-promoting Islamist extremism currently constitutes the biggest threat to Sweden," according to a January 15 press release from the Swedish Security Service (Säpo)... "The level of the terror threat remains elevated, a three on a five-point scale. This means that a terrorist act is likely to occur," said Klas Friberg, head of Säpo. "In order to meet the threat from terrorism, the Security Service will in future work even more strategically to limit the growth of extremist environments. It may be about dealing with omhänderta persons who constitute a security threat or, in cooperation with other authorities, working harder to ensure that these individuals are prosecuted for other crimes - or have their opportunities cut." While Säpo is assuring the Swedish public that it will do "even more" to limit the growth of terrorist environments in Sweden, the Swedish government is exacerbating the problem by welcoming returning ISIS fighters back into the country. Approximately 300 people left Sweden to fight for ISIS and it is estimated that approximately 150 Swedish ISIS fighters have returned to Sweden. Approximately 50 of those who didn't return were killed. The head of Säpo, in January, had described returning ISIS fighters as "broken people who have been traumatized by their experiences" and said that Swedish society has to "play a big role in re-integrating them"...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13651/sweden-isis-pensioners

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Florida Supreme Court: Don't be

scammed by fake letters seeking money

by orlandosentinel.com: The Florida Supreme Court is warning about email scams by fraudsters who use fake court letterhead to bilk people out of money. The scams involve fake inheritances or the paying off legal “debts”... of someone who purports to be interested in an online romance, according to a news release issued Wednesday by court spokesman Craig Waters. The ploys are the latest in a string of court-related online or telephone scams. Other deceptions include targeting Spanish-speaking people with threats of deportation, professionals over licensing issues or members of the public for allegedly missing jury duty, according to Waters. Similar scams, which Waters said “have become a significant problem” in recent years, often mention locations in Northwest Florida, such as Shalimar and Gulf Breeze. Many of the potential victims live outside the U.S. and aren’t familiar with Florida law, according to Waters. But Florida courts “never send out real legal notices by email,” Waters cautioned. “If you get an email asking for money because of some court document or saying you violated a court order or other legal obligation, you should check further before taking any action,” he said. People seeking more information about potential scams can forward copies of the emails and attachments to supremecourt@flcourts.org...

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-ne-supreme-court-scams-20190213-story.html

VIDEO: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/112835323-132.html

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Spending Bill Congress Just Passed Contains Restrictions Making It Almost Impossible

For Trump To Build Wall

by thewashingtonstandard.com: On Wednesday, the House and the Senate both passed a massive 1,159 page spending bill that they were given less than 24 hours to read. There was a concerted effort by the leadership of both parties to rush this bill through before the American people could be mobilized to oppose it... We are being told that this spending package represents a compromise, but as you will see below, the wording of the bill is so restrictive that it is going to make it just about impossible for President Trump to get anything built on the border. At this point, I think that Trump is counting on declaring a national emergency in order to get his wall built, but the moment he does that the Democrats plan to tie him up in court indefinitely. Before we get to the details of this bill, let’s talk about how ridiculous this legislative process has been. During her first term as speaker of the House, Nancy Pulosi often rushed through enormous pieces of legislation without giving anyone time to actually read what was in them, and now she is doing it again. This 1,159 page spending bill had an average of approximately 200 words per page, and as Breitbart has pointed out, a “fast reader” could get through such a document in about 40 hours. But members of Congress were not given 40 hours. Instead, they had the bill for about 18 hours before they were expected to vote on it. Needless to say, nobody that voted on this bill read the entire thing...

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/spending-bill-congress-just-passed-contains-restrictions-making-it-almost-impossible-for-trump-to-build-wall/

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commie-Ocasio-Cortez Caught Adding Her

Boyfriend To Her Staff After Denying It

by Carmine Sabia

{thefederalistpapers.org} ~ Conservatives were outraged on Friday when they found that New York Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend has an official government email address... Political consultant Luke Thompson was the first to discover the email and shared it on Twitter. “While you were having a nice Valentine’s Day, @AOC decided to put her boyfriend on staff – drawing a salary on the taxpayer’s dime. Nice to see her adapting to the swamp so quickly,” he said.“Actually this cal designation is a permission so he can have access to my Google Cal. Congressional spouses get Gcal access all the time. “Next time check your facts before you tweet nonsense,” she said. As The Daily Mail reported, her staff argued that this was common practice... It’s totally naive and inappropriate https://https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/ocasio-cortez-caught-adding-boyfriend-staff-denying/opinion/ocasio-cortez-caught-adding-boyfriend-staff-denying

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One of the most outrageous

Supreme Court decisions in decades

by Stephen Carter

{jewishworldreview.com} ~ In my 30 years of writing about religious freedom, I can't recall a case as outrageous as the one decided last week by the U.S. Supreme Court. A Muslim inmate on death row had asked to spend his last moments in the comforting presence of an imam.

The Alabama prison offered only a Christian chaplain, and the justices, by a vote of 5 to 4, refused to order the state to do any more.

In its two-paragraph order, the majority quoted an earlier decision encouraging courts to take into account " the last-minute nature of an application" in deciding whether to put an execution on hold. Well, yes. The court should indeed consider whether a death-row inmate's petition might be no more than a frivolous effort to postpone the inevitable.

This isn't that. There can be, and is, a lot of debate about the right standards for judging a claim of religious freedom. But this should have been an easy decision.

Domineque Ray committed a horrible crime, raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl. If the death penalty is ever appropriate, this would seem to be a clear case. But the question before the court wasn't whether Ray should be put to death. It was whether he should be denied the same right that a Christian inmate would have to be accompanied in the death chamber by a cleric of his own faith.

In recent decades, the justices have turned out to be most receptive to First Amendment claims that can be framed as examples of discrimination. Consider, for example, the court's 1993 decision in Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah. The suit was brought by a Santeria congregation whose practices included animal sacrifice. In response to the concerns of residents, local officials outlawed the killing of animals within the city limits. The trouble was that the ordinance included so many exceptions that it wound up prohibiting little besides the practices of the plaintiff.

The Supreme Court had no trouble striking down the law, saying it violated " the principle that the First Amendment forbids an official purpose to disapprove of a particular religion or of religion in general." The ordinance, the justices concluded, violated the constitutional rule " that laws burdening religious practice must be of general applicability."

This is the problem with Alabama's death chamber practices: a lack of general applicability. As Justice Elena Kagan notes in her dissent, joined by justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, the discrimination in the state's policies is obvious: " A Christian prisoner may have a minister of his own faith accompany him into the execution chamber to say his last rites. But if an inmate practices a different religion — whether Islam, Judaism, or any other — he may not die with a minister of his own faith by his side."

This favoring of one religion over another is permissible only in the very narrowest of circumstances, writes Kagan. Here, the state argued that the presence of a cleric other than the Christian chaplain, a prison employee who understood the execution process, would pose a security risk. That's not a strong enough claim to get around the patent discrimination.

But even were there no discrimination at all, the denial of the presence of the imam would by itself present a strong case for judicial intervention in defense of religious liberty. Imagine a state rule that no clergy from any faith could enter the death chamber. I would argue that such a ban would itself be unconstitutional, for we are speaking here not of a prisoner's access to the holy books of his faith — the denial of which the courts have struck down even in cases where prison authorities concluded that the books were not religious at all — but of spiritual comfort at the moment of death.

No one who is now alive, it almost goes without saying, can truly know what death is like. What will we find on the other side? Many insist there will be only oblivion. Others are confident that they will step into paradise. Still others fear eternal punishment. Whatever may lie beyond the threshold, however, we surely commit a great wrong when, having the chance to do otherwise, we force a person who knows he is about to die to face that great opaqueness alone.

To deny that person his chosen spiritual counselor at such a moment is the ultimate cruel triumph of our current wave of secularization. The authorities are in effect saying, " What difference does it make who's with you at the end? You'll be dead soon, and none of this will matter to you." No matter how outrageous the crime, Alabama should not be taking sides in the greatest metaphysical question before us.

What can the court's majority say in response? That the security of the death chamber is inviolate? That the petition was filed too late? Such propositions as these cannot be taken seriously when the state is about to impose the technology of death. No matter how heinous the crime — and Ray's was despicable — a civilized culture must provide those last moments of comfort for the troubled soul.

The short of the matter is that the justices handed down a terrible decision, and, I suspect, miscalculated the reaction. There's nothing to be done now, because Ray has been put to death. But the issue is bound to come up again. Next time, for all of our sakes, let us pray that the court will get it right.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/carter021319.php3

Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 18, 2019 at 8:01am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

"Coalface" and the Left's Betrayal

of the Working Class

by Daniel Greenfield

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Trump Should Just Let the

Democrats Self-Destruct

by Gary Gindler

{americanthinker.com} ~ President Trump has demanded that Ilhan Omar voluntarily resign. The idea of impeachment of another Muslim Democratic congresswoman – Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) is also being actively promoted... The events surrounding Ilhan Omar, of course, are a shame for America. The anti-Semitic focus of her recent statements is obvious. However, this does not mean that President Trump has an urgent need to intervene in the process of natural political selection and demand the resignation of an anti-Semitic congresswoman. Trump's intervention in the natural self-destruction of the Democratic Party is a strategic mistake. People who in some exceptional circumstances make not rational, but impulsive decisions, are understandable, but concerning these two brainless members of Congress and their third friend – young socialist commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York – there should be a completely different approach. By its actions, this trinity guarantees the Democratic Party a very tarnished reputation. Moreover, the longer these ladies will stay in Congress, the more chances America has for an optimistic forecast. It seems that in January 2019, someone pressed a switch and turned off the brains of the Democrats. Currently, there is chaos and confusion in their minds. For example, they shout that President Trump is a puppet of Russia which means that Trump, submitting to the Kremlin, must pursue a pro-Russian policy. However, if they really believe this, then the Democrats must demand the exact opposite – a tough stance towards Russia...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/trump_should_just_let_the_democrats_selfdestruct.html
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Another Dem Wants Our Guns

Over Trump’s National Emergency Order

by S.Noble

{independentsentinel.com} ~ Yesterday, Nancy Pulosi said that since President Trump declared an emergency to build the wall, Democrats would, in turn, declare emergencies to implement their agenda. She said they would declare gun violence an emergency... Pulosi wants to go for our guns. The Speaker said, “You want to talk about a national emergency, let’s talk about today, the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That’s a national emergency.” We now have another Democrat threatening us. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut said “100 people die from guns every day. That’s a national emergency.” They always use misleading stats. He continued, “If Trump gets away with this border emergency declaration, then a Dem President can declare a gun violence emergency and institute universal background checks and an assault weapons ban by executive action. So…” He plans to take away all semi-automatic guns that look like assault weapons, and track gun owners under the guise of background checks. We already have universal background checks. What they want is a registry...

http://www.independentsentinel.com/another-dem-wants-our-guns-over-trumps-national-emergency-order/

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DIA: China to Deploy ASAT Laser by 2020

by Bill Gertz

{freebeacon.com} ~ China's military is expected to deploy a laser weapon capable of destroying or damaging U.S. military satellites in low earth orbit in the next year, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed in a report on space threats... The Chinese directed energy weapon is among an array of space warfare tools that include ground-based anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles, electronic jammers, cyber attacks, and small satellites Beijing plans to use in attacks on U.S. satellites in a future conflict. "China likely is pursuing laser weapons to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellites and their sensors and possibly already has a limited capability to employ laser systems against satellite sensors," the unclassified intelligence report said. "China likely will field a ground-based laser weapon that can counter low-orbit space-based sensors by 2020, and by the mid-to-late 2020s, it may field higher power systems that extend the threat to the structures of non-optical satellites." It was the first time a U.S. intelligence agency disclosed details of the ASAT laser deployment plans. China's ASAT laser weapons have been known since at least 2006, when China used a ground based laser to "dazzle" an orbiting U.S. satellite in what was viewed as a test attack. The laser incident came a year before the 2007 Chinese ASAT missile test against an orbiting weather satellite that created a dangerous orbiting debris field...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/dia-china-to-deploy-asat-laser-by-2020/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6b3f4c674d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_15_08_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6b3f4c674d-45611665

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commie-Ocasio-Cortez, Castro plan

to introduce bill to block national emergency

by Rachel Frazin

{thehill.com} ~ Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) plan to introduce a bill to stop President Trump's emergency declaration... A Democratic aide confirmed that Castro reached out to commie-Ocasio-Cortez to get her on board and the pair is reaching out to others to build support. "We've got people flooding in to support this," the aide said. The timing of introduction remains up in the air. The House adjourned Friday morning and is out next week for the President's Day recess. But the chamber will be conducting pro-forma sessions next week that would allow for the introduction of bills. commie-Ocasio-Cortez confirmed the move on Twitter, writing, ".@JoaquinCastrotx and I aren’t going to let the President declare a fake national emergency without a fight."...

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/430173-ocasio-cortez-castro-plan-to-introduce-bill-to-block-national-emergency

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1096424140989358080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1096424140989358080&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independentsentinel.com%2F2-dem-socialists-announce-a-bill-to-stop-trumps-emergency-declaration%2F

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Dozens of victims rescued and hundreds

arrested in human-trafficking sting in California

by Marisa Gerber

{latimes.com} ~ Nearly 50 victims of human trafficking, including 14 minors, were rescued during a three-day sting operation across California last week, law enforcement officials announced Tuesday... State and federal agencies arrested 339 people, including 156 men on suspicion of solicitation, during the coordinated effort, which involved cyber detectives posing as teenagers. At a downtown Los Angeles news conference, Los Angeles County Assistant Sheriff Maria Gutierrez urged all parents to monitor their children’s internet use. “Predators,” she said, “operate freely in cyberspace.” In Los Angeles County, Gutierrez said, sheriff’s detectives arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with child pornography after finding several video clips showing the assault of a 6-year-old. When San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials arrested a man at a motel in Ontario, she said, the suspect, who responded to a decoy message from law enforcement, had a loaded pistol and meth in his pocket. In his vehicle, officials found seven other firearms, including assault weapons...

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-human-trafficking-task-force-20190129-story.html

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"Coalface" and the Left's Betrayal

of the Working Class

by Daniel Greenfield

{sultanknish.blogspot.com} ~ When I was growing up, the man who delivered coal to our school jokingly warned me that if I didn’t study hard and get good grades, I would also end up delivering coal.

It was a joke. But it also wasn’t.

Working with coal was hard and dirty. Even if all you had to do was deliver it. And, there, far removed culturally and geographically from America and its old minstrel shows, coal dust meant hard work.

Once upon a time, the Left romanticized coal dust and the coal miner as symbols of the oppressed working class. Then it degenerated into a movement of university bred urbanites with contempt for hard work and a calculated ignorance of the “brown energy” that makes their lives possible.

The disdain and ignorance reached a fever pitch with two media articles conflating coal dust with blackface. The Arizona Republic, ran an editorial by Rashaad Thomas, a self-described poet, essayist and Buddhist thinker, who was offended by a photo of Welsh coal miners hanging in a restaurant.

“Phoenix restaurant says this is a photo of coal miners. But I see offensive blackface,” Thomas complained. “My concern that the photograph of men in blackface was a threat to me and my face and voice were ignored. A business’ photograph of men with blackened faces culturally says to me, ‘Whites Only.’ It says people like me are not welcome.”

The photo is actually of Welsh coal miners from a century ago. And its political context is a million miles away from the case of Governor Ralph Northam in Virginia and mockery of African-Americans.

It does have a political context, but one that has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with class. The inability of Thomas and Arizona Republic editors to immediately grasp this encapsulates how detached they are from the working class.

Old lefties would have recognized and understood the political meaning of the photo. It was taken during the great coal strike of 1910 and 1911. The early twentieth saw massive strikes by coal miners both in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Tony pandy riots, which is the context for the coal miner photo, was one of the larger and more explosive confrontations which spiraled into a larger strike and culminated in Churchill, then Home Secretary, sending in the British Army as backup.

The strike would grow until one in six miners in South Wales were part of it.

The photo depicts coal miners in Cwmbach, Wales, discussing the upcoming strike. The coal boom had transformed Cwmbach, but working in the coal mines was risky with mine collapses that killed dozens. Cwmbach became part of the strike fairly early which actually started when the mines stopped allowing miners to take waste timber for their own homes. The men in the photo are relaxing in the pub, knowing that they won’t be going down into the mines again, but also that they won’t have any work.

They’re having a drink while knowing that it may be a while before they will be able to afford one again.

The significance of this is lost on the Arizona Republic’s Buddhist poet who writes, “The photograph shows coal miners’ faces covered in soot. The context of the photograph is not the issue.”

But the context is an issue. It’s just an issue that his fellow lefties once embraced, before abandoning.

The strike is still commemorated in the UK, where the romanticizing of a working class that actually worked with its hands still lingers a little, but strikes in the US invariably involve municipal workers.

Driving through Los Angeles in the rain a few weeks ago, you couldn’t escape men and women in red bellowing through megaphones outside schools to demand that their 6% raise be a 6.5% raise. And the usual teachers’ union obsession with destroying charter schools, testing and student education.

That’s what a strike looks like in 2019. And it’s very different than the dirty men in that pub.

“If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them,” scumbag/liar-nObama had boasted.

“We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton told West Virginians.

She didn’t. But coal miners helped put her out of work and put Trump in the White House. American coal miners aren’t threatened by cartels, but by environmentalists. They’re not oppressed by billionaires who own mines, but by billionaire lefties like Michael Bloomberg who don’t own mines, and don’t want any to exist. And hardly a day goes by without another proposal to replace coal mines with lavender farms, in a recent Bloomberg magazine, or a proposal to teach coal miners how to code.

In recent years, the media was full of proposals to teach coal miners to code. “Hillbillies who code,” was one of the ridiculously condescending media headlines. But when digital media ventures recently began laying off hundreds of journalists, the media insisted that telling them to “learn to code” was a hate crime. It’s one thing to suggest that coal mining is obsolete, but another to suggest that journalism is.

But the Arizona Republic and the New York Times make a compelling case for journalism’s obsolesce.

Unhappy with all the attention that the Arizona Republic was getting for conflating coal with blackface, the New York Times decided to run an op-ed accusing Mary Poppins, specifically Bert, of blackface.

“'Mary Poppins,' and a Nanny's Shameful Flirting With Blackface,” the old gray lady huffs and puffs.

The rant by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, who had amassed a PhD in English from Harvard, contends that, “Part of the new film’s nostalgia, however, is bound up in a blackface performance tradition”.

“When the magical nanny played by Julie Andrews accompanies her young charges, Michael and Jane Banks, up their chimney, her face gets covered in soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks even blacker,” he writes. “Then she leads the children on a dancing exploration of London rooftops with Dick Van Dyke’s sooty chimney sweep, Bert.”

"One of the more indelible images from the 1964 film is of Mary Poppins blacking up," claims Pollack-Pelzner, who has a chair in Shakespeare but can't tell race from class.

The scene that Harvard’s best and brightest is referring to has Bert singing about the life of a chimney sweep, “Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweepworld/Where there's 'ardly no day and 'ardly no night”, while taking middle class children out of their sheltered home and into the mysterious grime of a working class world.

A world that is both magical and dirty. And one that romanticizes the coal dust of hard work.

What was once a politically subversive scene has, much like the coal miner photo, become magically reactionary with the passage of time and the distancing of the Left from the working class.

Does Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a member of the faculty at the University of California Dickens Project, really not understand the role of the chimney sweep in British life? Or British class structure? Did he somehow manage to get a PhD in English at Harvard without ever once encountering Blake’s The Chimney Sweeper “a little black thing among the snow”? Did he think Blake was referring to blackface?

He probably isn’t that ignorant or incompetent. But he’s playing to an audience that is.

An essay on British working class life wouldn’t get you into the New York Times or Arizona Republic op-ed sections, but discovering racism lurking in Mary Poppins or a restaurant photo will.

The chimney sweep and the coal miner were powerful symbols of the working class. But the transgressive images of Mary Poppins and middle class children smeared in coal dust or coal miners enjoying a pint in a pub before the big strike are no longer politically useful.

And what isn’t politically useful swiftly becomes reactionary. Every progressive will live long enough to become his own villain as yesterday’s revolutions of social progress become tomorrow’s hate crimes.

In what some are calling, “facecrime”, media essays read hateful volumes into the quirk of a teenage boy’s lips at a pro-life rally or the coal dust on men’s faces. These exercises in theoretical physiognomy don’t reveal new truths, they are just the Rorschach inkblots that justify the bigotry of the observers.

And their ignorance.

The new obsession with racism demands ignoring the terrible damage that the Democrats have done to African-American communities with their policies through an endless search for shiny new racisms. Reading racism into movies and photos does nothing to help African-Americans in the working class, but fuels a boom in the work of academics and essayists of all races whose work is geared to the upper class.

The coal miner photo and the dancing chimney sweeps date back to an era when the Left was interested in class. Now it’s refocused all its attention on race while leaving the working class behind in the coal dust. And to the Buddhist poets and Harvard academics, coal dust doesn’t represent class, but racism.

When you don’t work for a living, then the people who do, real or fictional, are incomprehensible. Like their upper class predecessors, the Left sees the working class as ‘other’ and their dirt as moral decay.

The cultural signifiers and attitudes haven’t changed. Only the exact definition of immorality has.

The upper class of a century past thought that dirty working people were crude, indolent and savage. Our leftist upper class thinks that they’re racist.

They could benefit from joining Bert in a trip up the chimney.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/02/coalface-and-lefts-betrayal-of-working.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+Behind+the+News%29

Timothy Lynch Reviews The FBI’s First 100 years.

Posted by Eric Pearson on February 17, 2019 at 6:08pm

Timothy Lynch Reviews The FBI’s First 100 years.

In 1908, the Justice Department created the Bureau of Investigation, a small division of detectives that was responsible for investigating violations of federal law. The division was filled with incompetent and corrupt agents until a young bureaucrat by the name of J. Edgar Hoover was brought in.

Read the news article and watch the video at: http://fbi-federalbureauofinvestigation.com/timothy-lynch-reviews-the-fbis-first-100-years

Do you remember this from 2007 - FBI Allowed Several People To Be Framed For A Crime They Did Not Commit

Posted by Eric Pearson on February 17, 2019 at 6:07pm

Do you remember this from 2007 - FBI Allowed Several People To Be Framed For A Crime They Did Not Commit

Wrongly convicted by fault of the FBI.

US Representatives Stephen F. Lynch and William D. Delahunt greeted Peter J. Limone and his wife, Olly, before closing arguments yesterday. Limone served 33 years in prison before his conviction was overturned.

Read at: http://fbi-federalbureauofinvestigation.com/fbi-allowed-several-people-to-be-framed-for-a-crime-they-did-not-commit

Do you remember this from 2011 - National Security And A Less-Restrained FBI

Posted by Eric Pearson on February 17, 2019 at 6:06pm

Do you remember this from 2011 - National Security And A Less-Restrained FBI

Less than three years after the last major revision of its domestic surveillance guidelines, the FBI is preparing to loosen its restrictions on monitoring Americans. If this is not halted, we might find our privacy eroded beyond repair.

Read at: http://fbi-federalbureauofinvestigation.com/national-security-and-a-less-restrained-fbi

Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 16, 2019 at 6:03pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Are the Democrats Bent on Suicide?

by Pat Buchanan

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America desperately needs

a confirmed defense secretary

by James Carafano, Roger Zakheim and

Bradley Bowman

{thehill.com} ~ The United States confronts the most dangerous and dynamic array of threats that we have seen in our lifetimes, yet our armed forces lack a confirmed secretary of the Defense Department... The American people, including our men and women in uniform, deserve better. The coming months will bring a host of major national security events, including the management of nuclear treaty violations by Russia, the withdrawal of our troops from Syria, potential adjustments in Afghanistan, ongoing talks with North Korea over its nuclear program, the management of tensions in the South China Sea, a spate of meetings with our allies, the launch of a Space Force, and the modernization of the United States nuclear triad. Topping it off will be a highly consequential debate over defense spending that will determine whether the United States military receives sufficient resources to implement the national defense strategy, restore American military supremacy, and deter conflict with Russia and China. Both our allies and our adversaries will be straining to ascertain our commitment to various defense treaties as well as our willingness to challenge the ever aggressive expansionism of Russia and China. They will also look at our willingness to assist our neighbors in South America, should the turmoil in Venezuela start to wreak even greater regional havoc. They will of course pay special attention to our determination to invest appropriately in our armed forces still trying to recover from years of insufficient funding. A key signal to those watching our every move, and to our own public and those serving in the military, is clearly the selection of a permanent defense secretary. The selection of a defense secretary says a great deal about the agenda of the president and how he intends to implement it. The nomination also says a lot about how the president envisions the role of military affairs in foreign policy and how he intends to orchestrate the entire national security team to advance our United States interests...

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/430187-america-desperately-needs-a-confirmed-defense-secretary

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Democrats Starting Realize

The Dangers of Their Moonbat AOC

by sundance

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Democrat Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) is the representative from Long Island City where Amazon was going to put their headquarters... Along with many other Democrats Ms. Maloney is stunned at how the moonbat wing of the party has taken over. AOC and her followers think a ‘tax abatement’ is an actual bucket of pre-existing cash they can now spend to improve New York schools and infrastructure. No, seriously, they actually believe this… It’s far beyond economic dissonance, it’s Moonbattery. 70% tax rates. Free college and medicare for everyone. Cars and airplanes made illegal. A ban on cows and meat. Social justice mobs who cheer destroying jobs… commie-Alexandria Occasional-Cortex and her millions of followers is the gift that keeps on giving.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/15/democrats-starting-realize-the-dangers-of-their-moonbat-aoc/

VIDEO 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnVS-Zah54k

VIDEO 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlWCOr3MVuU

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Judge slaps gag order on Roger Stone,

attorneys in dirty cop-Mueller case

by Caitlin Yilek

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A federal judge issued a gag order Friday in special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s case against longtime Trump associate Roger Stone... In a four-page order, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson forbade attorneys for both irty cop-Mueller and Stone from “making statements to the media or in public settings that pose a substantial likelihood of material prejudice to this case.” She additionally wants "to maintain the dignity and seriousness of the courthouse and these proceedings." Berman also said Stone is not allowed to speak about the case in or around the courthouse. She has not imposed additional restrictions on Stone but left the option open in the future. Stone’s attorneys last week urged Berman not to impose a gag order, arguing he had a right to speak freely because he is a writer and commentator. Berman previously warned she would impose such an order after Stone attacked dirty cop-Mueller in the media after he was arrested last month at his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home in a pre-dawn FBI raid. Stone has pleaded not guilty to lying to Congress, obstruction of an official proceeding, and witness tampering. The judge concluded her order with some advice for Stone: "Finally, while it is not up to the Court to advise the defendant as to whether a succession of public statements would be in his best interest at this time, it notes that one factor that will be considered in the evaluation of any future request for relief based on pretrial publicity will be the extent to which the publicity was engendered by the defendant himself." Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman wryly commented on the gag order on Twitter: "For Stone, this will be cruel and unusual punishment." https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/judge-slaps-gag-order-on-roger-stone-attorneys-in-mueller-case?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_02/15/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News

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Islamic Relief Strikes Back (But Misses)

by Sam Westrop

{meforum.org} ~ Earlier this week, we broke the news that Islamist-linked congresswoman Ilhan Omar already in the news after publishing anti-Semitic tweets was due to speak at an event organized by Islamic Relief... an international aid charity accused of funding terror and extremism – alongside a senior Islamic Relief official who has published social media posts praising the killing of Jews. Our research was quickly picked up by a number of media outlets, including the Jerusalem Post, Washington Examiner, Daily Wire, JNS and others. The story went somewhat viral. Our blog post and the media articles covering our report were aggregately shared by over 70,000 people on Facebook, and another 40,000 on Twitter – reaching millions. No wonder, then, that Islamic Relief started to feel the pressure. After an initial silence, Islamic Relief decided to doctor its advertisements for the event by expunging all mentions that its leading anti-Jewish official would be speaking – even amending a glossy poster that it had previously published all over social media. Islamic Relief and one of Rep. Omar's staff then promptly set about claiming that the official was never in fact due to speak. Unfortunately for them, there were boundless copies and screenshots of the posters and event webpages available to expose this lie rather quickly...

https://www.meforum.org/57801/islamic-relief-strikes-back-misses?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=aa73c0d6df-Islamic_Relief_Strikes_Back&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-aa73c0d6df-33703665&mc_cid=aa73c0d6df&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12

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The Islamic State of Iran at 40

by Clifford D. May, Michael Ledeen and

Behnam Ben Taleblu

{fdd.org} ~ Four decades ago, Iran was convulsed by one of the great revolutions of the 20th century. The leader of that revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... would take the title: “supreme leader.” He was to be regarded, literally, as God’s “representative on Earth.” A charismatic, fire-and-brimstone cleric, he preached jihad against America and the West. When he died in 1989, his disciple, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, became the new supreme leader. He has called the Islamic Revolution the “turning point in modern world history.” His regime now influences Iraq, has military forces propping up the Assad dictatorship in Syria—where more than half a million people have been killed and millions made homeless—controls Lebanon through Hezbollah, backs the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and penetrates Latin America. Supreme Leader Khamenei also has a nuclear weapons program—perhaps delayed but certainly not ended by the deal President scumbag/liar-nObama agreed to—as well as a program to develop missiles capable of delivering such weapons to targets anywhere in the world. To learn more about what lies ahead for the Islamic Republic, host Clifford D. May is joined by FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen—who has been studying the Islamic Republic since its inception —and FDD Research Fellow and Iran expert Behnam Ben Taleblu.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/02/08/the-islamic-state-of-iran-at-40/

VOICE VIDEO: https://soundcloud.com/defenddemocracy/the-islamic-repubilc-of-iran-at-40

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Are the Democrats Bent on Suicide?

by Pat Buchanan

{townhall.com} ~ After reading an especially radical platform agreed upon by the British Labor Party, one Tory wag described it as "the longest suicide note in history."

The phrase comes to mind on reading of the resolution calling for a Green New Deal, advanced by commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and endorsed by at least five of the major Democratic candidates for president.

The Green New Deal is designed to recall the halcyon days of the 1930s, when, so the story goes, FDR came to Washington to enact the historic reforms that rescued America from the Great Depression.

Only that story is more than a small myth.

The unemployment rate when FDR took the oath in 1933 was 25 percent. It never fell below 14 percent through the 1930s. In June 1938, despite huge Democratic majorities in Congress, FDR was presiding over a nation where unemployment was back up to 19 percent.

World War II and the conscription of 16 million young men gave us "full employment." And the war's end and demobilization saw the return of real prosperity in 1946, after FDR was dead.

Yet this Green New Deal is nothing if not ambitious.

To cope with climate change, the GND calls for a 10-year plan to meet "100 percent of the power demand of the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources."

This appears to require a phase-out by 2030 of all carbon-emitting power plants fueled by coal and oil and their replacement by power plants fueled by wind and solar.

Will natural gas be permitted? Will nuclear power? There are 60 commercially operating nuclear power plants with 98 nuclear reactors in 30 states. Will they be shut down? Will the Greens agree to dam up more U.S. rivers to produce renewable hydroelectric power?

Air travel consumes huge quantities of carbon-producing jet fuel. What will replace it? Perhaps progressive Democratic candidates will set an example by not flying, and then by voting to end production of private aircraft and to ground all corporate jets. Let the elites sail to Davos.

The GND calls for an overhaul of the "transportation systems in the United States to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector ... through ... clean, affordable and accessible public transportation; and high-speed rail."

Gas-powered cars are out. How long will that train trip from DC to LA take? And if China continues its relentless rise in carbon emissions until 2030, as permitted by the Paris climate accord, while the U.S. spends itself into bankruptcy going green, where would that leave America and China at midcentury?

"By the end of the Green New Deal resolution and accompanying fact sheet I was laughing so hard I nearly cried," tweeted the Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel: "If a bunch of GOPers plotted to forge a fake Democratic bill showing how bonkers the party is, they could not have done a better job. It is beautiful."

The Green New Deal, say its authors, has as a goal "stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, the elderly, the unhoused, peoples with disabilities, and youth."

Fifty years after the Great Society, apparently half the country consists of victims of oppression.

Who are their oppressors? Guess.

Among the endorsers of this Green New Deal is Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker, who compares the battle to stop climate change to fighting the Nazis in World War II. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, lowlife-Kamala Harris and Elizabeth dinky-Warren have all endorsed it. Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, who calls climate change "an existential threat," was an original co-sponsor.

Nancy Pulosi has more sense. Interviewed last week, the speaker batted the Green New Deal aside: "It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive. The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they're for it, right?"

With her own agenda and priorities, Pulosi does not want to be dragged into having to defend a document that reads like it was written by the college socialists club.

The question, though, is why Democrats, who, if nominated, are likely to face Donald Trump in 2020, are signing on to so radical a scheme.

In a presidential election, the "out" party candidate usually has an advantage. No record to defend. He or she can choose the terrain on which to attack the incumbent, who has a four-year record.

Rarely does an out party present a fixed and stationary target as exposed as this, as out-of the-mainstream as this, as vulnerable as this.

The only explanation for the endorsement of the Green New Deal by candidates with a prospect of winning the Democratic nomination is that they are so fearful of commie-Ocasio-Cortez and the left for whom she speaks that they must endorse her plan.

That British Tory got it right. This thing reads like a Democratic Party suicide pact.

https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2019/02/12/are-the-democrats-bent-on-suicide-n2541194?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/12/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

Sat Med/PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 16, 2019 at 3:29pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Getting Easier To Be 'Green'

by Cal Thomas

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Senate to Vote Soon on Bill

Protecting Abortion Survivors

by Rachel del Guidice

{dailysignal.com} ~ Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., praised Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for green-lighting a Senate roll call vote on Feb. 25 for Sasse’s legislation protecting abortion survivors... “I want to thank the majority leader for scheduling this vote so that every American can know where their senator stands on the issue of infanticide,” Sasse said in a statement released Thursday. “A lot of senators spend a lot of time telling people how they fight for the little guy. Well, here’s the chance for them to prove it.” Sasse tried Jan. 31 to hold a unanimous consent vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in the Senate following New York legalizing abortion up to birth in January and the Virginia Legislature attempting to pass a similar bill. However, Sen. scumbag-Patty Murray, D-Wash., objected. “We’re going to have a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and everyone is going to have to put their name by their vote,” Sasse added...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/15/senate-to-vote-soon-on-bill-protecting-abortion-survivors/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRaaU9EZG1aR0ppTVRNeSIsInQiOiIzc2ZTa2dHclVFMHlKS2p3RTNPaEVJdUV5a01EWkVSdHR3NHh4SjVmZ1F6WkI2UmVaNFZ2Rm5lUmdTSUNWYUg5ZFZ3T0ZJY2VmdGpzdVwvQTNNUUlPc2lNWWY1dllTXC9ibXhhYTE4SGlaaDZQc2FcLzZCRkU2NXdyNFRzUDVZajJQaCJ9

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Our Nation ‘Is at Stake’ as ‘Lying’ Democrats

‘Bow Down’ at the ‘Altar of Open Borders’

by Kathryn Blackhurst

{lifezette.com} ~ The United States “is at stake” because the Democrats “are bowing down at the altar of open borders” and refusing to grant President Donald Trump the border wall funding necessary to secure the nation... Fox News host Laura Ingraham said Thursday night on “The Ingraham Angle.” Trump plans to sign the congressional compromise budget bill that landed on his desk on Thursday in order to avoid a second government shutdown this year. The president is also expected to declare a national emergency on Friday in order to secure $8 billion in border wall funding to address the crisis. The bill Trump received includes only $1.375 billion in border barrier funding — not the $5.7 billion he said was necessary to secure the country. Many Republicans are also frustrated by the provisions hampering immigration enforcement measures. Democrats are planning to file legal challenges to Trump’s national emergency declaration once he makes it. The “only card” Trump has left to play is the national emergency declaration, Ingraham said, because the Democrats “pushed him into this situation.” Ultimately the Supreme Court would have to decide whether or not Trump exceeded his constitutional authority by declaring a national emergency and acting accordingly... https://www.lifezette.com/2019/02/our-nation-is-at-stake-as-lying-democrats-bow-down-at-the-altar-of-open-borders/?utm_source=activeengage&utm_medium=email

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Caroline Glick is Hoping to Turn

Her Words into Reality

by LAHAV HARKOV

{jpost.com} ~ When it comes to her political views, Caroline Glick has long been an open book. She’s written countless columns that run the gamut of political issues in Israel, focusing mostly on foreign relations and national security... And now, Glick wants to take those views from the page to the Knesset, in Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s New Right Party. “The ideas I’ve been communicating for 16 years in The Jerusalem Post are the same ideas and convictions that will be informing everything I do in the Knesset, and will play a major role in determining policies in this party going forward,” she said. Speaking from her home in Efrat on Thursday, with her two dogs playing beside her and signs of her younger son’s birthday party from the day before still intact, Glick talked about why she’s decided to make this career change. “I asked myself every day, how do I bring what I have to bear as an individual in the most significant way for the country and the Jewish people?” she said. “A lawmaker can make a significant difference for the country and the Jews worldwide. That’s why I decided to take this step.” Glick hasn’t fallen into the trap of many rookie politicians who had previously found renown in other areas; she doesn’t expect to be a minister, and finds the fact that such an expectation is so common to be problematic... https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Political-Affairs-From-Column-One-to-the-Knesset-580716

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South Carolina’s Anti-Sharia Bill — a Smart Step

by SHIREEN QUDOSI

{clarionproject.org} ~ South Carolina’s anti-sharia bill is a smart step in shielding American courts against foreign law. Senator Larry Grooms introduced the bill. While it doesn’t specifically name Islamic law, it would also apply to Islamic sharia law... For Senator Grooms, a shocking case in New Jersey that cited sharia law to rule against a sexually abused woman was sufficient cause for him to see that South Carolina is protected from competing jurisprudence rooted in foreign legal systems. That case was later overturned on appeal. The step Senator Grooms is taking is a necessary preventative measure that helps ensure future debate and controversy over legal cases and competing values are kept at bay. South Carolina is making it clear that its courts will not entertain a foreign legal system. Case closed. At present, it is vital that Americans are clear about our values and initiate calm, rational and definitive steps to ensure those values are protected. The longer we deter meaningful strides to protect American values, the more we are allowing a level of paranoia to brew. Sharia law has traditionally been a bogeyman among conservative audiences which usually use the term to refer to the brutal hudud punishments. As such, a significant degree of Muslim-hatred has seeped through in that dialogue. Our conversation on sharia needs to have a deeper understanding of what sharia is exactly. During Islam’s early years, sharia was more akin to a current in an ocean and any number of currents or pathways could be taken to arrive at a decision. However, over the course of hundreds of years — as Muslims tried to build a framework for Islam — sharia become more rigid and structured. Still, sharia law differs from region to region. At the end of the day, sharia amounts to following the law of the land, which is why in the U.S., following ‘sharia’ means following American law... Sharia is not the law of USA. https://clarionproject.org/south-carolina-anti-sharia-bill/

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The border wars plot to destabilize

and transform America

by Cliff Kincaid

{renewamerica.com} The Center for a Secure Free Society held a news conference the other day about the roles of Russia, China, Venezuela, and other countries in flooding the U.S. with illegal aliens... Mario Duarte, Secretary of Strategic Intelligence for the Republic of Guatemala, spoke at the event, calling the caravans and their impact on U.S. border security the "weaponization" of refugees. The term "weaponization" was also used by NATO's top commander in Europe, Philip Breedlove, to describe what the Russians and Syrians were doing in the Middle East with the Islamic refugees there. Germany's Angela Merkel has welcomed these refugees, destabilizing Europe. Here, President Trump campaigned for office on the basis of stopping the flow of this weaponized migration into the U.S. Objectively speaking, Merkel – and not Trump – has been serving Russian interests. The popular reality TV show "Border Wars," on the National Geographic Channel, captures the determined efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, ICE, DEA, the U.S. Coast Guard, and local law enforcement to keep our nation safe. They fight terrorism and apprehend drug smugglers. They also intercept people entering the United States illegally. These illegal aliens have become a weapon of war, just like in the Middle East. A border wall would be another line of defense...

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/190214

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Getting Easier To Be 'Green'

by Cal Thomas

{townhall.com} ~ Kermit the Frog was wrong. It is now easy to be "green." The evidence is the "Green New Deal," which CNN describes as a "...10-year 'economic mobilization' that would phase out fossil fuel use and overhaul the nation's infrastructure while building whole new layers into the existing social safety net." The 14-page resolution was proposed by Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA).

Conservatives mock her for proposing, among other things, the complete transformation of every building in the U.S. and trains that would span the oceans as airplanes are phased out. commie-Ocasio-Cortez doesn't appear to know how any of this will be paid for, but when one is liberal it doesn't matter. It's the thought that counts, not the outcome.

It is helpful to remember how what once seemed extreme has now become accepted. Think of abortion, which most of the country opposed in the late 19th century. Now our elected officials advocate for it. New York Governor Andrew evil-Cuomo recently wrote a scathing op-ed in The New York Times supporting late-term abortions in his state.

Same-sex marriage, the outlawing of prayer and Bible reading in public schools and ending the Pledge of Allegiance in some schools was once thought extreme and fantastical.

Now we have the extreme Green New Deal, which even addresses flatulent cows and the methane they emit. CNBC reports the plan "aimed to have the U.S. creating 'net-zero' greenhouse gases in 10 years," lawmakers explaining: "We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast."

Question. Since there are more humans than cows, shouldn't the deal have included human flatulence, along with information on how they intend to control that?

commie-Ocasio-Cortez was quick to backtrack.

"At the time this story was published, writes CNBC, the FAQ page with the phrase 'farting cows' appeared to have been removed from commie-Ocasio-Cortez's website. Fox News' John Roberts reported that the language was tweaked to 'emissions from cows' in an update, which also appears to have been deleted."

In separate interviews, commie-Ocasio-Cortez first admitted her proposal would require "massive government intervention," but later reversed herself, claiming it is the right wing that is mischaracterizing her proposal about more government intrusion into our lives.

The left is completely transparent now. In the words of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, they do plan to "fundamentally transform the United States of America." Millennials, especially, are fine with this because they have had such nonsense fed to them in public schools and by university professors. No evidence that contradicts their doctrines can persuade them. They accept what they have been told as a cult member accepts what its leader tells them.

Need proof? Read a report by the National Association of Scholars on the state of civics education in U.S. public schools. An analysis of the 525-page document on thefederalist.com found that even in places where civics education remains, it is being "transformed into a political machine to push left-wing causes, undermine American government and incite civil unrest. ... The "New Civics" uses attractive, bipartisan-sounding works like 'civics' and 'service learning' to trick Americans and their representatives into allowing progressive political machinery to hijack public funds and young minds."

The left used to mask their agenda for fear of backlash. Now they are open about their views. The response should go beyond ridicule. What we need is pushback that contains scientific, economic and political arguments and supplants feelings with facts.

Want more proof that failed liberal policies never produce a change of direction, but a doubling down on discredited ideas? A task force created by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposes giving some Chicago families $1,000 per month with no strings attached. The idea is to break the cycle of poverty, but that assumes recipients use taxpayer money wisely. I'm sure a guaranteed check for doing nothing will be all the incentive some need to liberate themselves from an addiction to government. It has worked so well at the federal level, hasn't it?

Several Democratic presidential candidates support the "Green New Deal, though it reeks of communism. After the ridicule, opponents had better find a way to communicate the truth, or we risk becoming another Venezuela.

https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2019/02/12/getting-easier-to-be-green-n2541186?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/12/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 16, 2019 at 1:33pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Lesbian Ousted From LGBTQ Commission

for Believing in Biology

by Culture Beat

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Our National Debt Just Hit $22 Trillion.

Will Congress Finally Take It Seriously?

by Justin Bogie

{dailysignal.com} ~ Wow. $22 trillion. Let that huge number sink in. It’s the gross national debt reported Monday by the Treasury Department. The question is, now that we have crossed this inauspicious threshold, will Congress finally get serious about changing the nation’s budget course?... For years, the Congressional Budget Office has warned that America’s growing debt is unsustainable, and eventually the repercussions will affect all Americans. Unfortunately, most lawmakers haven’t been paying attention. Instead of implementing reforms to fix the debt problem, Congress largely has ignored it and gone out of its way to avoid making tough budget decisions. The impact of a breathtaking number like $22 trillion is hard to comprehend without context. At more than 107 percent of gross domestic product, as a share of the economy the gross national debt is higher than it has been since 1947. The debt has been higher only three times in U.S. history, all in the immediate aftermath of World War II... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/13/our-national-debt-just-hit-22-trillion-will-congress-finally-take-it-seriously/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRjeU5qZGhObVZqWmpOaSIsInQiOiJ3a3phOVhOa2RISzU0dHlKZmxwK0dLY1EweUZoQnVnMmYyWE1hMVdveVRUaExEVDJBbUdDUkowdkVHaDNtQjRNQlRcL1o5amhFNmQ5SCtoVzNPMFVSbVAya0pWXC9QaWIrMkkrdWtNczYzQkIwK2thOWlMM1VCZmtLaFROcFMzSFpvIn0%3D

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Jewish Leaders Aren’t Buying

Ilhan Omar’s Apologies

by Andrew

{conservativefreepress.com} ~ Not for the first time, Rep. Ilham Omar (D-MN) found herself accused of anti-Semitism this week when she insinuated that Republican politicians were being bought by Jewish lobbying groups so that they would continue to support Israel... The tweets that caused the controversy involved Omar telling journalist Glenn Greenwald that for the GOP, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby.” When asked specifically who was paying the Republican Party to support Israel, she replied: “AIPAC!” This drew condemnation from across the political spectrum, and Omar – under pressure – released what the called an “unequivocal” apology. Even so, her apology demonstrated the very definition of equivocating. After saying she was sorry for offending Jews with her “THEY CONTROL THE WORLD WITH MONEY” conspiratorial tweets, she said, “At the same time, I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be Aipac, the N.R.A. or the fossil fuel industry.” But not CAIR, we assume. In any event, President Trump was not impressed with Omar’s apology. Calling it “lame,” the president said Omar should consider stepping down. “Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress,” Trump said Wednesday. “I think she should either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the foreign affairs committee.”...

http://www.conservativefreepress.com/politics/jewish-leaders-arent-buying-ilhan-omars-apologies/

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Religion vs. Free Speech

by Denis MacEoin

{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Speaking and writing about Islam today requires discretion, sensitivity, and a good grasp of facts. Doing this is harder in most European countries than it is in the United States, where the First Amendment insists on powerful free speech rights... The need for sensitivity stems from the almost universal condemnation of "Islamophobia", a mainly good-hearted response to democratic worries that innocent Muslims may be targeted with violence or hate speech, even as many but far from all seek to integrate themselves and their families into Western society. Raw Islamophobia, like raw prejudice by and against any group, is of course racist, unacceptable and most often expressed by hate groups on the far right of politics. At the same time, it is not surprising that many people will build their attitudes towards Muslims on a perception prompted by Islamist terror attacks, radical Muslim antagonism to Western societies, or uneasiness about Muslims who choose to dress in ways that do not conform to Western norms. The confusion caused also creates problems for many people who have reasonable concerns about Islam as a religion and a political ideology. The problem is that even fair-minded and non-racist authors, websites, members of the media and others end up being tarred with the same brush and condemned as malicious racists themselves. This creates a distorted perception of what has been termed "two Islamophobias," one hateful, the other respectable. The latter, of course, is not Islamophobia at all, any more than presenting a rational critique of any other religion, political thought, or ideology is racist, hate-driven or undemocratic. That confusion between a hate-driven view of Islam and a thoughtful, unbiased criticism of it has led to restrictions on what may and what may not be written or said about Islam or Muslims, while politicians of all varieties, church leaders, and human rights activists have adopted a style of virtue-signalling that tells the world to be silent and accepting, or else they will be called racists or Islamophobes... So what, as long as the facts are shown. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13539/religion-free-speech

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Worldwide Effort To Restrict Everyone’s

Right To Travel Is Close To A Reality

by MassPrivateI

{activistpost.com} ~ According to a recently published white paper there is a worldwide effort to restrict the right to travel of everyone. And you will not believe how the U.N. is involved... A recent article at PapersPlease.org warns that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) wants to check every airline passenger’s background and send airlines an “Authority to Carry” before a passenger is allowed to board a plane. An iAPI system allows for a two-way communication in near real-time. The airlines transmit the API message on a per-person basis to the requesting authorities at the time of check-in, while law enforcement agencies have the opportunity to decide whether a certain person is allowed or not to board a plane by issuing a board/no-board message. Think about what this means; the self-proclaimed “largest regional security organization in the world” the OSCE, wants to conduct background checks of every airline passenger in the world. The work of the OSCE spans the globe, encompassing three continents – North America, Europe and Asia – and more than a billion people. Giving a private organization the ability to control the right to travel of nearly 8 billion people is horrifying. The white paper warns that the OSCE and the International Air Transport Association are working together to track every airline passenger...

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/02/worldwide-effort-to-restrict-everyones-right-to-travel-is-close-to-a-reality.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=635d6f5c00-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-635d6f5c00-387888649

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'The Road to Shariadom' in America

by Janet Levy

{americanthinker.com} ~ The Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA) is part of an international network of Muslim scholars that preaches shariah rule as a government system, even issuing a fatwa delineating sharia's "superiority" over democracy... It is one of many Muslim organizations now dangerously and politically active in the United States. They include the 25-year-old Council of Islamic Relations, CAIR, self-described as a "Muslim civil rights organization" with an Islamic perspective on American public issues. More recent organizations – created in 2015 and similarly politically dedicated – include JETPAC, the Justice, Education and Technology Policy Advocacy Center, which encourages American Muslims to get involved in local politics, and MPower Change, committed to creating a political platform for Muslim issues and organizing around it. All these politically active Muslim-American groups, prominent Muslims and other Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations within the U.S. publicly avow that they have no intention of implementing sharia in the U.S. Yet, their stated political goals, public statements and recent reports, betray their true intentions: to grow in political strength sufficient to replace our democracy with their religious governance. More than 100 top Muslim leaders belong to AMJA, which began in 2003. Imams at over 3,100 U.S. mosques look to AMJA for instructional guidance to lead their congregations. The group's name in Arabic, "The Group of Sharia Specialists in America," implies its purpose: to impel Muslims to follow its comprehensive, sharia-compliant fatwas. Many of the group's leaders attended Egypt's Al-Azhar University, the world's highest academy of Islamic learning and interpreter of the definitive sharia text – The Reliance of the Traveller... What have you done America to let this happen. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/the_road_to_shariadom_in_america.html

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Lesbian Ousted From LGBTQ Commission

for Believing in Biology

by Culture Beat: Julia Beck is a lesbian woman who was recently kicked off an LGBTQ commission for daring to acknowledge the reality of biology. In an article entitled “How I became the most hated lesbian in Baltimore,” Beck relays her brief experience on Baltimore’s LGBTQ Commission and how her refusal to use a female pronoun when addressing a “transwoman” — i.e., a man claiming to be a woman — got her thrown off.

In her article, Beck argued that treating and viewing “transgender women” as biological females was in fact dangerous to actual women. She writes, “I brought up Karen White, a convicted pedophile and rapist who was placed in a UK women’s prison, despite being legally male and undergoing no steps to socially or medically transition, where he then raped two inmates. White’s case illustrates how easy it is for men to manipulate the law, but Pipitone [a self-identified transwoman] smirked and claimed I was being performative. In delicate tones, he expressed concern with my leadership. He claimed Lesbianism and transgenderism are incongruent political forces (probably the only thing we agree on). Instead of enacting ‘lateral violence’ against transfolk by crashing ‘our parades,’ he argued that lesbians should assimilate with male lesbians to ‘punch up’ at an unnamed oppressor.”

In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Beck explained her reasoning for refusing to adopt the transgender paradigm: “I believe in the truth.” That’s debatable given her own life choices, but it’s interesting nonetheless. She added, “When we get down to it, women and girls all share a biological reality. We are all female. But if any man, if any male person, can call himself a woman, or be legally identified as female, then predatory men will do so in order to gain access to women’s single-sex spaces, and it puts every woman and girl at risk.” Hmm… that sounds a lot like the argument we’ve been making since this whole “transgender” crusade reared its twisted head.

It will be interesting to see how many more folks within the Rainbow Mafia ranks start stepping out to call foul over the obviously incongruent ideologies currently being artificially forced together under one big tent. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61149?mailing_id=4078&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4078&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 99)

Posted by Jake Martinez on February 16, 2019 at 10:30am

Please Read Part 98:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 98)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 7, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-98

The following recent thought-provoking articles reveals that 'its time for the American people to declare our own national emergency and remove dangerous Democrats from power' because it is now abundantly clear that Democrats actively seek to 'destroy America.' They cannot be reasoned with or negotiated with, and they do not operate in good faith at any level, to include, but not limited to: 1) they follow no laws, abide by no rules and honor no morals or ethics; 2) they are lawless, destructive, treacherous enemies of America bent on the complete extermination of the USA as a sovereign nation; and 3) they allegedly wouldn’t mind mass murdering all Christians, Trump supporters and white people too, if they could get away with genocide.

It also revealed that the national emergency in America today is the fact that Democrats allegedly have any political power at all and yet they run the House of Representatives, along with controlling the fascism-inspired tech giants and the social media corporate monstrosities that now control nearly all online speech. They also dominate the corporate-run media while exploiting such dominance to knowingly push fake collusion hoaxes, hate crime hoaxes and utterly fabricated news that cites 'anonymous sources" pulled out of thin air. If true, what’s wrong but not surprising about this picture?-You Decide:

It’s time for the American people to declare our own national emergency and remove destructive Dems from power!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Mike Adams-On February 15, 2019:

https://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/its-time-for-the-american-people-to-declare-our-own-national-emergency-and-remove-destructive-dems-from-power/

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

Video: Why Does Apple Want to Censor Mike Adams? It Reveals a Very Evil Agenda!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On February 15, 2019:

https://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/why-does-apple-want-to-censor-mike-adams-it-reveals-a-very-evil-agenda/

Video: Google Is Committing Treason Against the United States and Her Allies!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On February 19, 2019:

https://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/google-is-committing-treason-against-the-united-states-and-her-allies/

YouTube Adds New Guidelines that May Prevent Calling Out Hate Crime Hoaxes!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Chris White-On February 20, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/youtube-adds-new-guidelines-may-prevent-calling-hate-crime-hoaxes/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=conservative-brief-CT&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=conservative-tribune

Google Pulls Advertisers From NewsWithViews.Com For Its Conservative Content!-Posted on News With Views-By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On February 22, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/google-pulls-advertisers-from-newswithviews-com-for-its-conservative-content/

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Ex-Breitbart Editor Kassam Caught in Facebook Right-Wing Account Bans!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Oliver JJ Lane-On February 26, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/26/ex-breitbart-editor-kassam-caught-facebook-right-wing-account-bans/

Michelle Malkin: I've Been Silicon Valley Sharia'd!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Michelle Malkin-On February 27, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/michelle-malkin/michelle-malkin-ive-been-silicon-valley-shariad

Laura Loomer: Since Twitter Is Banning Me, It Should Also Ban Ilhan Omar!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On March 5, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/laura-loomer-since-twitter-banning-also-ban-ilhan-omar/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-03-06

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Facebook Bans Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov For Reporting a Muslim’s Threat: Threatening to break a kafir’s mouth is ok; it’s the kafir’s reporting of the threat that makes the community unsafe!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Frontpagemag.com-On April 17, 2018:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269905/facebook-bans-frontpage-editor-jamie-glazov-frontpagemagcom

AMAZON: The Biggest Joint CIA-Corporate Covert Operation in U.S. History!-Posted on State of the Nation-On March 6, 2019:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=117984#more-117984

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CORPORATE FASCISM: Amazon is Now Officially Banning Books: In history, we have only a few examples from which to draw guidance in this situation…none of which turned out well!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By Andrew West-On March 6, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/corporate-fascism-amazon-is-now-officially-banning-books/

LEAKED AUDIO: Google Discusses ‘Steering’ Conservative Movement!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Pamela Geller-On March 9, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/leaked-audio-google-discusses-steering-conservative-movement/

Report: Facebook Is Under Criminal Investigation over Data Deals!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On March 14, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/report-facebook-criminal-investigation-data-deals/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Image: Twitter hosted violent hate rants and photos of New Zealand mass shooter who live-streamed the killing of Muslim churchgoers

Twitter hosted violent hate rants and photos of New Zealand mass shooter who live-streamed the killing of Muslim churchgoers!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On March 14, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-03-14-twitter-hosted-violent-hate-rants-and-photos-of-new-zealand-mass-shooter.html

Nunes sues Twitter, some users, seeks over $250M alleging anti-conservative 'shadow bans,' smears

Nunes sues Twitter, some users, seeks over $250M alleging anti-conservative 'shadow bans,' smears!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Gregg Re, Catherine Herridge | Fox News-On March 18, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-files-bombshell-defamation-suit-against-twitter-seeks-250m-for-anti-conservative-shadow-bans-smears

Blankenship Is Right: Sue the Mainstream Media Out of Existence!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Gavin Wax-On March 20, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/blankenship-right-sue-mainstream-media-existence/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

Brent Bozell calls tech industry liberal bias 'the greatest threat to liberty in history'

Brent Bozell calls tech industry liberal bias 'the greatest threat to liberty in history'!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Brian Flood | Fox News-On March 21, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/brent-bozell-calls-tech-industry-liberal-bias-the-greatest-threat-to-liberty-in-history

Video: Surveilling the surveillors: Dr. Robert Epstein caught Google with its 'bias' pants down!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Glenn Beck-On March 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKHTgQs2-yk

Brent Bozell calls tech industry liberal bias 'the greatest threat to liberty in history'

Tucker Carlson sounds alarm: Does President realize “he will not be reelected” unless he deals with Google, Facebook, Twitter censorship?-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By JD Heyes-On March 23, 2019:

https://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/tucker-carlson-sounds-alarm-does-president-realize-he-will-not-be-reelected-unless-he-deals-with-google-facebook-twitter-censorship/

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the following articles and videos relates to and/or further supports the disturbing information revealed in the above thought-provoking article regarding it being 'time for the American people to declare our own national emergency and remove dangerous Democrats from power'-You Decide:

The Border Wars Plot To Destabilize And Transform America!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Cliff Kincaid-On February 19, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/the-border-wars-plot-to-destabilize-and-transform-america/

Video: President Trump Declares National Emergency After Pelosi Threatens Future Gun Confiscation!-Posted on TruNews.com-On February 15, 2019:

https://www.trunews.com/stream/tnpresident-trump-declares-national-emergency-after-pelosi-threatens-future-gun-confiscation

Pelosi Says Next Dem Prez Could Target 2A With National Emergency: Claims border crisis an illusion!-Posted on Infowars.com-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/pelosi-says-next-dem-prez-could-target-2a-with-national-emergency/

Video: Dave Janda – Globalists Win if MAGA Supporters Walk!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Greg Hunter-On February 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9TqEO-ts4

Congressional Incompetence Forced Trump’s Hand on National Emergency Declaration!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Hans von Spakovsky / @HvonSpakovsky-On February 19, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/19/congressional-incompetence-forced-trumps-hand-on-national-emergency-declaration/

Judge Jeanine defends Trump’s national emergency order: ‘Our southern border is overwhelmed’

Judge Jeanine Pirro: Trump’s border emergency shows being a leader means making the tough decisions!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Judge Jeanine Pirro | Fox News-On February 18, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-jeanine-pirro-trumps-border-emergency-shows-being-a-leader-means-making-the-tough-decisions

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Soros Groups File Lawsuits Attacking Trump’s Border Wall: Sixteen states sue to keep the nation’s southern border wide open for illegal aliens and terrorists!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Matthew Vadum-On February 19, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272915/soros-groups-file-lawsuits-attacking-trumps-border-matthew-vadum

CORRUPTION CHRONICLES

U.S. Government Media Network Fires Journalists Over Report Critical of Soros!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On March 6, 2019:

https://myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org/wta/display.php?M=883009&C=5dbd2e2aa7ac9fd268e3b4671b054884&E=jakelm99%2540yahoo.com&L=39&N=5276&S=32482&AGENCY=jw&utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=corruption+chronicles&utm_term=members&utm_content=20190306222817

Emergency Declaration: Demo States File Obstructionist Lawsuit: Claiming his declaration of a national emergency creates a constitutional crisis, Democrats sue!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On February 19, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61249-emergency-declaration-demo-states-file-obstructionist-lawsuit?mailing_id=4087&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4087&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

The national emergency panic is another opportunity for activist judges to embarrass themselves and the Constitution!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On February 19, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/national-emergency-panic-another-opportunity-activist-judges-embarrass-constitution/

House Democrats Introduce Resolution to Block Trump’s National Emergency!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Henry Rodgers /@henryrodgersdc-On February 22, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/22/house-democrats-introduce-resolution-to-block-trumps-national-emergency/

Madam Speaker Pelosi: Where Were You on the Constitution, Obama and his Fake Birth Certificate? And Where Are You Now?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On February 24, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/02/24/madam-speaker-pelosi-where-were-you-on-the-constitution-obama-and-his-fake-birth-certificate/

Former senior national security officials to issue declaration on national emergency!-Posted on The Washington Post-By Ellen Nakashima-On February 25, 2019:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-senior-national-security-officials-to-issue-declaration-on-national-emergency/ar-BBU25pG?ocid=se

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Another media hoax: Anti-Trump letter’s 58 ‘bipartisan’ signers are mostly Obama officials!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Jordan Schachtel-On February 25, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/another-media-hoax-anti-trump-letters-58-bipartisan-officials-mostly-democrats/

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Congress Orders “Shields Down” By Blocking Emergency Declaration: Willfully ignoring threats to national security!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Michael Cutler-On March 1, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273000/congress-orders-shields-down-blocking-emergency-michael-cutler

Video: President Trump's Wall, National Emergency Declaration & Our Future!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Operation Freedom-On February 19, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gp9M6lDjv

Old Frank Sounds Off Regarding the Emergency Declaration: “Cognitive Dissonance”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Old Frank-On February 20, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/02/20/old-frank-sounds-off-regarding-the-emergency-declaration/

Deep State Traitors: Their Fight Against The American People!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Marilyn M Barnewall-On February 17, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/deep-state-traitors-their-fight-against-the-american-people/

The case of the jihadi bride: How the US government fails to safeguard our citizenship!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Daniel Horowitz-On February 21, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/case-jihadi-bride-us-government-fails-safeguard-citizenship/

Hassan Shibly of CAIR

CAIR rallies to the defense of ISIS bride who wants to come back to USA!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Jordan Schachtel-On February 21, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/cair-rallies-defense-isis-bride-wants-come-back-usa/

Video: The Truth About the ‘ISIS Bride’: Literal terrorists being welcomed back into the west!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com-On February 22, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/the-truth-about-the-isis-bride/

Judge strikes down request to expedite case of ISIS bride Hoda Muthana

Judge strikes down request to expedite case of ISIS bride Hoda Muthana!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Greg Norman | Fox News-On March 4, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/hoda-muthana-case-pompeos-team-says-isis-bride-not-a-us-citizen-as-attorneys-face-off

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar

Rashida Tlaib joins extremist imam on CAIR speaking circuit!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Jordan Schachtel-On February 19, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/rashida-tlaib-joins-extremist-imam-cair-speaking-circuit/

FBI data shows Ilhan Omar’s district is terrorist recruitment capital of the US!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Vivek Saxena-On February 16, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/02/16/fbi-data-shows-ilhan-omars-district-is-terrorist-recruitment-capital-of-the-us-724589

Christian group calls for Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s resignation!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-By Ben Baird-On February 22, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/group-ilhan-omar-resignation/?utm_source=dc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc-1

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Video: Linda Sarsour Refuses to Acknowledge Israel’s Right to Exist!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joshua Caplan-On March 6, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/06/video-linda-sarsour-refuses-to-acknowledge-israels-right-to-exist/

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press conference in the House Visitors Center at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on November 30, 2018. Flanking her are: Representatives-elect Ilhan Omar, D-MN, and Susan Wild, D-PA. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Report: Democrats to Condemn ‘All Hate,’ Not Anti-Semitism Specifically, in Resolution!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Justin Caruso-On March 6, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/06/dems-condemn-all-hate-not-anti-semitism-specifically-resolution/

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Trump Calls Out House Dems for ‘Inconceivable’ Failure to Condemn Anti-Semitism!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Kathryn Blackhurst, LifeZette-On March 6, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-house-dems-inconceivable-failure-anti-semitism/

Steve Scalise: Pelosi should remove Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee ‘immediately’!-Posted on Daily Christian News-By Ben Marquis-On March 6, 2019:

https://www.dailychristiannews.com/scalise-pelosi-omar-committee/

James Clyburn: Ilhan Omar’s Life Experience More Powerful Than Children of Holocaust Survivors!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On March 7, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/james-clyburn-ilhan-omars-life-experience-more-powerful-than-children-of-holocaust-survivors/

Democrat Insults Holocaust Survivors, Trump, and ALL His Supporters in One Fell Swoop!-Posted on Guest Author-On March 21, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/democrat-who-minimized-pain-of-holocaust-descendants-now-compares-trump-to-hitler/

Group tied to Muslim Brotherhood marshals support for Ilhan Omar!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On March 7, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/group-support-ilhan-omar.htm?utm_source=dc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc-1

Evangelical Leader Calls On DOJ To Investigate Rep. Ilhan Omar's Ties To The Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On March 9, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/evangelical-leader-calls-on-doj-to-investigate-rep-ilhan-omars-ties-to-the-muslim-brotherhood/

House passes broad resolution calling out racism, 'anti-Semitic' comments -- without naming Ilhan Omar

House passes broad resolution calling out racism, 'anti-Semitic' comments -- without naming Ilhan Omar!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Gregg Re | Fox News-On March 7, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-resolution-indirectly-calling-out-omars-anti-semitic-comments-without-mentioning-her-name

Fascist Democrats Won't Condemn Anti-Semitism: Even Ilhan Omar voted for the resolution that was originally supposed to rebuke her!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On March 8, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61650-fascist-democrats-wont-condemn-anti-semitism?mailing_id=4123&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4123&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Democrats’ Waffling on Anti-Semitism Is Already Costing Them As New Movement Forms Among Jews!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Ben Marquis-On March 8, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/democrats-waffling-anti-semitism-already-costing-new-movement-forms-among-jews/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=rightalerts&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=ttp

Dem Assemblyman Goes Rogue, Uses Haunting Video of Holocaust Survivors To Tear Down Ilhan Omar!-Posted on YouTube.com-By C. Douglas Golden-On March 12, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/dem-assemblyman-goes-rogue-uses-haunting-video-holocaust-survivors-tear-ilhan-omar/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-03-12

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Minnesota Democrats Looking to Unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On March 14, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/minnesota-democrats-looking-to-unseat-rep-ilhan-omar/

Video: Judge Jeanine: The joke's on you, Speaker Pelosi!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News Shows-On March 9, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i32BcwzqH8E

CAIR: Fire Jeanine Pirro for Remarks About Rep. Omar’s Hijab and Shari’a!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On March 11, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/cair-fire-jeanine-pirro-over-comments-about-rep-omars-hijab-and

Trump Trashes ‘Radical Left Democrats’ After Fox Removes Judge Jeanine Episode!-Posted on The Western Journal-By James Luksic-On March 17, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-trashes-radical-left-democrats-fox-removes-judge-jeanine/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-03-17

Laurie Cardoza-Moore lashes out at Ilhan Omar again: Hypnotized Congress: “Americans will not tolerate antisemitism, whether delivered from a Christian Nationalist, a member of the KKK or an Islamist"!-Posted on The Jerusalem Post-By JERUSALEM POST STAFF-On March 20, 2019:

https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Laurie-Cardoza-Moore-lashes-out-at-Ilhan-Omar-again-Hypnotized-Congress-583977

Rep. Ilhan Omar Tells Muslims to ‘Raise Hell, Make People Uncomfortable’!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On March 25, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/rep-ilhan-omar-tells-muslims-to-raise-hell-make-people-uncomfortable/

Hundreds Gather To Protest Ilhan Omar, CAIR Fundraiser!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On March 24, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/hundreds-gather-protest-ilhan-omar-cair-fundraiser/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

Pence Slams Ilhan Omar, Calls for Her Removal from House Committee!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On March 25, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/pence-slams-ilhan-omar-calls-removal-house-committee/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

Trump Promotes ‘Jexodus’ After Fox Segment, Sparks Outrage from Left!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On March 12, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-promotes-jexodus-fox-segment-sparks-outrage-left/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar

Pelosi’s Untouchables!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Jen Kuznicki-On February 15, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/pelosis-untouchables/

Soros linked to Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal

Soros’ Multiple 2020 Campaign: Destroy Trump, Help The Dems Radical Agenda!-Posted on News With Views-By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On April 9, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/soros-multiple-2020-campaign-destroy-trump-help-the-dems-radical-agenda/

Video: ENEMY WITHIN: A look at the EVIL NEW GROUP who helped elect the RADICAL FRESHMAN DEMOCRATS!-Posted on YouTube.com-By The Josh Bernstein Show-On February 14, 2019:

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

Kamala Harris’s Father Decries “Fraudulent Stereotype” in Daughter’s Interview: “In Pursuit Of Identity Politics”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On February 18, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/02/18/kamala-harriss-father-decries-fraudulent-stereotype-in-daughters-interview/

Video: Kamala Harris is an anchor baby PROOF!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On March 11, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XY6Xp6jeYY

Either America Will Live In Liberty Or Die In Socialist Despair!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Ron Edwards-On February 22, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/either-america-will-live-in-liberty-or-die-in-socialist-despair/

Thanks To Public Schools, Socialism Is On The Rise!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Jake Macaulay-On March 16, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/thanks-to-public-schools-socialism-is-on-the-rise/

OPERATION CRAFTY BEAVER: Deep State attempts to start a race war before stealing the 2020 POTUS election!-Posted on State of the Nation-On February 19, 2019:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=116877#more-116877

Operation “Crafty Beaver”: The Shocking Smollett Cover-up Begins!-Posted on State of the Nation-On March 27, 2019:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=119644#more-119644

Ann Coulter: Jussie Smollett Prosecutor A George Soros Puppet: Chicago police furious after 16 felony counts against ‘Empire’ actor dropped!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By Jamie White | Infowars.com-On March 26, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/ann-coulter-jussie-smollett-prosecutor-a-george-soros-puppet/

Michelle Malkin: Crony State: Obamas' Chicago Fixer Tina Tchen!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Michelle Malkin-On March 27, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/michelle-malkin/michelle-malkin-crony-state-obamas-chicago-fixer-tina-tchen

Smollett: Two-Tier Justice, Chicago Style: Even Rahm Emanuel says allowing this hate-hoaxer to walk free is a "whitewash of justice"!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On March 27, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62027-smollett-two-tier-justice-chicago-style?mailing_id=4158&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4158&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Chicago Cops Invite Feds To Probe Prosecutor’s Role in Smollett Case!-Posted on The New American-By R. Cort Kirkwood-On March 27, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/31858-chicago-cops-invite-feds-to-probe-prosecutor-s-role-in-smollett-case?vsmaid=3976&vcid=7778

Video: The Strange Case of Jussie Smollett with Special Guests Tiffany FitzHenry & Mike Moore!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Jason Goodman-On March 29, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=GGv1_73WQLk

Video: Child Trafficking Agent Called In on Smollett Case!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Amazing Polly-On March 29, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSpqX9kS-Rk

Video: Avenatti, Geragos, NXIVM, Smollett connected! Which Swamp Creature is NEXT?-Posted on YouTube.com-By Amazing Polly-On March 25, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC16HXeWOsU

Video: 3 Headed Monster: Soros-SPLC- CAIR All Working W/MSM To Creat Unverified Hate Crimes Database!-Posted on YouTube.com-By The Josh Bernstein Show-On April 1, 2019:

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

Video: Former Army PSYOP Officer to Bush Describes How Deep Is the Deep State-CSS Hr 2- Scott Bennett!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On February 25, 2019:

https://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/former-army-psyop-officer-to-bush-describes-how-deep-is-the-deep-state-css-hr-2-scott-bennett/

Video: SHELL GAME: Interview with a Military Whistleblower on Terrorism, Russia, Wikileaks!-Posted on YouTube.com-By PROJECT CAMELOT TV NETWORK LLC-On July 16, 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGfhG637vU

Video: The Men Who Killed Kennedy (Australian broadcast 1992)!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Grant Bernes-On January 24, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTPAfgwMN4I

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

New Evidence in The JFK Assassination!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 20, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-evidence-in-the-jfk-assassination

Dogs of War, Architects of Terror!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dogs-of-war-architects-of-terror-1

Trump Gets 92% Negative Media Coverage but His Approval Rating Is Clobbering Obama’s!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Ben Marquis-On February 21, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/trump-gets-92-negative-media-coverage-approval-rating-clobbering-obamas/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=ct-breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Incredible New Study Reveals Conservatives Dominate Much More of America Than Most People Think!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Karista Baldwin-On February 24, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/incredible-new-study-reveals-conservatives-dominate-much-america-people-think/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=conservative-brief-CT&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=conservative-tribune

Take Sanders's 2020 Campaign Seriously and Literally: Sanders is crushing his opponents' fundraising efforts, and his campaign has already signed up more than a million collectivist volunteers!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Ma rk Alexander-On February 27, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/61455-take-sanderss-2020-campaign-seriously-and-literally?mailing_id=4104&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4104&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header

The Left's Latest Socialist Health Care Plan: House Dems introduce their authoritarian nightmare: Medicare for All!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On March 1, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61486-the-lefts-latest-socialist-health-care-plan?mailing_id=4109&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4109&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Video: Ep. 924 The Latest Liberal Giveaway Will Blow Your Mind. The Dan Bongino Show 2/26/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On February 26, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZV3viXp2Y

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Video: Schiff, Omar and the Democratic Left's War to Destroy America! with Special Guest Larry Klayman!-Posted on Freedom Watch-By Crowdsource the Truth-On February 22, 2019:

https://www.freedomwatchusa.org/schiff-omar-and-the-democratic-lefts-war-to-destroy-americ

Conference featuring 2020 Dems begins with fiery chant quoting fugitive cop-killer Assata Shakur

Conference featuring 2020 Dems begins with fiery chant quoting fugitive cop-killer Assata Shakur!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Gregg Re | Fox News-On April 1, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-dems-conference-begins-with-fiery-chant-quoting-fugitive-cop-killer-assata-shakur

Joe diGenova warns America is too polarized, suggests on brink of a real ‘civil war’!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Tom Tillison-On February 22, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/02/22/joe-digenova-warns-america-is-too-polarized-suggests-on-brink-of-a-real-civil-war-726395

Let’s Stop Hyphenating Our Americanism: “A Shared Heritage”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Old Frank-On March 23, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/03/23/lets-stop-hyphenating-our-americanism/

Video: You'll be shocked how far down the communist checklist we are!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Glenn Beck-On April 3, 2019:

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

Concerned Citizen Contacts New Attorney General about Obama’s “Usurpation”: “This Matter Is Now In Your Hands”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On February 16, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/02/16/concerned-citizen-contacts-new-attorney-general-about-obamas-usurpation/

Please Read Part 100:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 100)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 23, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-100

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:

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

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

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

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

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-why-few-dare-call-it-conspiracy

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-governor-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-border

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...

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

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

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

The Fightin Side of Me!

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

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

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

“Food for Thought”

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

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

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

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Trump targets already-approved $8 billion

to build 234 miles of steel border wall

by Anna Giaritelli

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The White House plans to use $8 billion in previously-appropriated funding to build 234 more miles of barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the national emergency order President Trump issued Friday... according to senior administration officials. President Trump announced the plan Friday in the White House Rose Garden. Trump issued it alongside with signing a congressionally approved spending bill to keep open a slew of federal agencies, including $1.375 billion to go toward additional wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Trump's move faces near-certain legal action, including from immigrant groups and land conservation organizations. House Democrats say they'll try to block the move in Congress and will sue if that doesn't work. Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, told reporters Friday the executive branch is not touching Army Corps money for disaster relief projects in parts of the country that are still recovering from severe hurricanes and wildfires in 2017 and 2018. In addition to the money Congress gave Trump through the spending measure, he is using $600 million from the Treasury Department's drug forfeiture fund; $2.5 billion from the Defense Department's drug interdiction program; and $3.5 billion from a military construction fund. Mulvaney blamed Congress for failing to give Trump the $5.7 billion he requested in December, but said Trump's emergency declaration is legal. Mulvaney added he does not think it will create a new precedent for future presidents to grab money by circumventing Congress...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-targets-already-approved-8-billion-to-build-234-miles-of-steel-border-wall?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_02/15/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News

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House Passes Border Security Bill With Most Democrats Voting In Favor And Most

Republicans Against It

by Mike Brest

{dailycaller.com} ~ The House passed the border security bill Thursday, with a majority of Democrats voting in favor of it and most Republicans voting against it... The bill will keep the government open until September, while providing President Donald Trump with $1.375 billion for the wall. The final vote was 300-128, with 213 Democrats voting in its favor and only 87 Republicans doing the same. Conversely, 19 Democrats voted against the bill, along with 109 Republicans. After passing both houses of Congress, the bill will next go to the president’s desk to be signed.“I’ve just had an opportunity to speak with President Trump and I would say to all my colleagues he’s prepared to sign the bill … he will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time,” McConnell declared on the Senate floor earlier on Thursday...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/14/house-border-security-wall-dems-republicans/?utm_medium=email

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Trump Reveals Liberal Hearts and Minds

by PAUL KENGOR

{spectator.org} ~ I wrote here last week about the reaction to President Trump’s condemnation of socialism in his State of the Union. He said something indisputably factual and indubitably obvious to most Americans... “Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” As I said, it was a revealing, signature moment for both President Trump and for the Democratic Party. I noted that, to their credit, Nancy Pulosi and Chuck scumbag-Schumer applauded, as did a decent number of Democrats in that chamber. That was in contrast to the Democratic Party’s two socialist stars, commie-Bernie Sanders and commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Poor commie-Sanders looked so agitated that he seemed ready to leap from his seat and denounce the president as an enemy of the Proletariat. commie-Ocasio-Cortez did a better job concealing her displeasure, as she sat stone-faced. But I’ve since learned something even more interesting among Democrat reactions. No less than Elizabeth dinky-Warren, about as left-wing as a Democrat senator can get, joined scumbag-Schumer and Pulosi in applauding Trump’s condemnation of socialism. Yes, Elizabeth dinky-Warren. Better, whereas Pulosi offered mild applause from a seated position, dinky-Warren stood and clapped emphatically, as a sea of silent white-wearing congresswomen sat behind her unmoved...

https://spectator.org/trump-reveals-liberal-hearts-and-minds/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=0f1be9c9e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_15_05_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-0f1be9c9e4-104608113

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By Weaponizing Border Policy, Democrats

Play Political Games With People’s Lives

by Beth Bailey

{thefederalist.com} ~ Since the latest government shutdown, Democrats have fed Americans many a line about border security. Their unified messaging started with the collective outcry that President Trump was throwing a temper tantrum, and that the border crisis did not exist, or is manufactured... Their claims were debunked with facts, and further destroyed when House Speaker Nancy Pulosi (D-CA), demanded the president re-open the government in order to “proceed with a much-needed discussion to protect the border.” Next, we heard the bit of messaging that stuck: that Trump did not care about the plight of government employees. For nearly three weeks, Democrats flooded the media with statements about the 800,000 federal employees without work, paychecks, and heat during the shutdown. That funeral dirge changed to a victory crow the moment Trump re-opened the government for three weeks to pursue negotiations regarding border security. Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer (D-NY) hoped that “Trump had learned his lesson.” Pulosi gloated that the president “‘underestimated’ the unity among Democrats.” The mainstream media, too, jumped aboard and sung along. According to a Sunday CNN headline, Trump “lost the shutdown and Pulosi won.” The article tallied polling data showing declining support for the president, closing on a Fox News poll that says voters find “Pulosi is better than Trump at ‘Washington gamesmanship.’” Democrats Were Using the American People...

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Rouhani Remarks Point to Need for Improved Homeland Missile Defense

by Bradley Bowman and Behnam Ben Taleblu

{fdd.org} ~ In remarks this week celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, “We have not asked and will not ask for permission to develop various types of missiles.” Rouhani’s remarks indicate Tehran may continue to develop... the technologies necessary to deploy an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of threatening the United States. Iran already possesses a formidable arsenal of short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles that enable Tehran to strike targets throughout the Middle East and in Eastern Europe. However, the development of an ICBM that could reach the United States would be especially concerning, since the U.S. intelligence community has warned that “Tehran would choose ballistic missiles as its preferred method of delivering nuclear weapons, if it builds them.” In his January 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats testified that “Iran’s work on a space launch vehicle (SLV)—including on its Simorgh—shortens the timeline to an ICBM because SLVs and ICBMs use similar technologies.” The 2019 Missile Defense Review included a similar warning. Echoing years of testimony from Department of Defense (DOD) experts, the Missile Defense Review also noted that building a new ground-based interceptor (GBI) site in the continental United States“would add interceptor capability against the potential expansion of missile threats to the homeland, including a future Iranian ICBM capability.” GBIs are a principal element of the ground-based, mid-course defense system, which is designed to defend the United States from an ICBM attack by a rogue state...

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It's Not Easy Being Green

by Arnold Ahlert: “Being crazy isn’t enough.” —Dr. Seuss

According to the Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll, President Donald Trump’s approval rating reached 52% this week. No doubt part of this high-water mark was engendered by his inspirational State of the Union Address. Yet just as likely, it’s because he represents a stark contrast to a Democrat Party engaged in an unprecedented race to the bottom of the socialist/Marxist barrel.

We begin with anti-Semitism. As far back as their 2012 national convention, Democrats heartily booed making Jerusalem the capital of Israel. Since then, their contemptible connections with rabid anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan remain ongoing, including the latest revelation that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) wrote a column for the Final Call, an official publication of Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam. Tlaib’s colleague, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), was forced by party leaders to issue an apology for the age-old anti-Semitic smear about Jewish influence and money affecting foreign policy. And in a first for Democrats, both women are supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Congratulations!

Abortion on demand is another topic where Democrats have finally clarified their position — in contemptible terms. In New York, legislators cheered a bill that eliminated most restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks, allows midwives and nurse practitioners to perform the procedure, and ends criminal charges for harming children in the womb. “I am directing that New York’s landmarks be lit in pink to celebrate this achievement and shine a bright light forward for the rest of the nation to follow,” gushed Gov. Andrew evil-Cuomo.

evil-Cuomo’s “bright light” shone brighter in Virginia, where State Delegate Kathy Tran (D) testified in favor of her own legislation permitting abortions “through the third trimester,” which “goes up to 40 weeks,” she declared. Unbelievably, Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam upped the ante. “If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered,” he stated. “The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

A discussion about post-birth abortion? In the real world, that’s called murder. Among Democrats? A “woman’s right to choose.”

Even some Democrats knew Northam went too far. Thus, with a lot of help from other party loyalists, more familiarly known as the mainstream media, Northam became the face — make that the blackface — of a coordinated campaign designed to change the conversation from infanticide to racism.

Unfortunately for Democrats, their entire identity-politics agenda became the center of attention. It turned out Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring admitted he also donned blackface at a party in 1980, despite issuing a statement calling for Northam to step down, while Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was accused by two women of sexual assault and rape, respectively. Fairfax’s reaction to the assault allegation? “F—k that b—ch.”

These stalwarts are joined by Elizabeth dinky-Warren who, despite repeated denials that she used faux Native American bona fides to advance her career, wrote “American Indian” on her 1986 registration card for the Texas legal bar. Warren also implied there may be other equally “clarifying” documents in existence.

Racism? #MeToo demands to unquestionably believe the victim of sexual-assault allegations, irrespective of proof? Going as far back in the past as necessary to impugn someone’s reputation? Cultural appropriation? As of now, every one of these Democrats have made it clear they intend to reject their party’s “ethos of enlightenment” and persevere. The very same ethos their party and the media inflicted on Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“Democrats need an identity-politics intervention,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board insists. “Having unleashed race, gender, sexual orientation and class as the defining issues of American politics, these furies are now consuming their authors. Where’s Barack scumbag/liar-nObama when Democrats need him?”

Barack scumbag/liar-nObama? The Cambridge police “acted stupidly” scumbag/liar-nObama? The “if I had a son he would look like Trayvon” scumbag/liar-nObama? The “slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ” scumbag/liar-nObama? The same scumbag/liar-nObama who attended Rev. Jeremiah “God damn America” Wright’s church for 20 years? How about the scumbag/liar-nObama who championed Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell, credited with pioneering “critical race theory,” which maintains America’s legal system is inherently biased against blacks and other minorities?

Barack scumbag/liar-nObama did as much as any president in the history of the nation to advance the odious idea that America is inherently flawed and requires “fundamental transformation.” And Democrats have not only embraced that agenda, they have doubled down on it.

And they’re still doing it. As part of the deal to avert a government shutdown, Democrats demanded and apparently received a total of 40,520 ICE detention beds, representing a 17% reduction from current levels, and far short of Trump’s request for 52,000. That ICE has released tens of thousands of convicted criminal aliens awaiting the outcome of their deportation proceedings — including murderers, those convicted of sexual and aggravated assault, kidnapping and drunk driving? According to former ICE Director Tom Homan, the agency is currently detaining 47,000 criminal aliens.

Are Americans ready for 6,480 more of them to hit the streets so Democrats and their spineless GOP collaborators can cut a deal to keep the government open? Will they tire of a Democrat Party that prioritizes the needs of illegal aliens over those of American citizens?

On Monday, 37-year-old Joseph Alcoff was bought to court to face charges that include aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation. He was allegedly part of an antifa mob that attacked two Hispanic Marines last November. He was also an organizer for Smash Racism DC, a group that took to heart the “push back” and “get up in the face” intimidation tactics championed by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Sen. scumbag-Cory “Spartacus” Booker (D-NJ), respectively, when they massed outside Tucker Carlson’s home in an effort to intimidate the Fox News host.

Why bring up the trials and tribulations of an alleged thug? Because according to Fox News, Alcoff was “a well-connected, aspiring political player in Washington who may have even had a hand in key policy proposals” advanced by Democrats. All while he remained “an Antifa leader in Washington.”

Finally, we must address the terminally addled commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Green New Deal. Aside from the economy-wrecking efforts and the jackboot level of government control it represents, two things stand out: Only a nation with a thoroughly compromised education system could produce legions of people ignorant enough to believe this could actually work; and nearly every Democrat 2020 presidential contender supports it — all its pernicious nonsense notwithstanding.

“Trump in 2020 might have controversially slurred his future Democratic rival as a socialist, radical late-term abortion advocate, open borders chauvinist, a Medicare destroyer who wished to make it free for everyone, or wacko environmentalist intent on banning gas and diesel engines,” writes Victor Davis Hanson. “Now he won’t have to smear anyone: the Democrats have largely done that to themselves.”

It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch. ~The Patriot Post

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Tariff Deadline Looms Over

U.S.-China Negotiations

by Thomas Gallatin

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The War Between Iran and Israel Moves to Iraq

by Aaron Kliegman

{freebeacon.com} ~ Israel's campaign of airstrikes against Iranian military targets in Syria has led Iran to move the bulk of its soldiers and bases away from the Israeli border, according to intelligence assessments by the Israeli military released Wednesday... While some pro-Iranian forces remain in southern Syria on the border with Israel, Iran is redeploying most of its assets to eastern Syria and Iraq. Iran's actions should not be construed as Tehran giving up its efforts to entrench itself in Syria to open up another front to attack Israel. In fact, the intelligence assessments say that Iran appears to be adopting a more aggressive posture toward the Jewish state—last month, for example, Iranian forces launched a missile at the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Iran is simply changing its methods for achieving the same vision, the Israel Defense Forces believes. Iran now seeks to entrench itself in Iraq, setting up missile launchers there to threaten Israel. Reuters reported last year that Iran had also given ballistic missiles to Shi'ite proxies in Iraq and that it is developing the capacity to build more there with the ranges to threaten both Israel and Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, Iranian-backed militias are expected to base themselves in western Iraq, awaiting orders to cross the border into Syria to target the Jewish state. Parts of Iran's elite Quds Force also appear to be leaving Syria to enter Iraq. Given this shifting landscape, Israel may feel the need at some point to target Iranian and Iranian-linked forces in Iraq. Such action would be significant, as no strikes in Iraq have been attributed to Israel. Last year, however, Jerusalem carried out airstrikes close to the Syrian town of Abu Kamal, located near the Iraqi border, which killed members of a Shi'ite militia, according to press reports... https://freebeacon.com/blog/war-between-iran-israel-moves-iraq/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=5c95d9971e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_14_10_47_COPY_156&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-5c95d9971e-45611665

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What to Do About the Rebirth of Socialism

by Matthew Continetti

{freebeacon.com} ~ "The most important political event of the twentieth century," wrote Irving Kristol in 1976, "is not the crisis of capitalism but the death of socialism." Plenty of self-described Marxist and socialist regimes existed throughout the world, Kristol recognized... It was rather the ideas behind such regimes that had reached a moral and intellectual endpoint. Nor was this passing away entirely to be cheered. "For with the passing of the socialist ideal," Kristol went on, "there is removed from the political horizon the one alternative to capitalism that was rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition and in the Western civilization which emerged from that tradition." The inheritors of the socialist ideal were totalitarian states on one hand and stagnant social democracies on the other. By the end of the twentieth century, these too had passed. China and later Vietnam decided that to get rich is glorious, the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact states collapsed into squabbling nationalities and kleptocracies, the socialist autocracies that had depended on Moscow for support receded into irrelevance. What Kristol called "a dwindling band of socialist fideists" remained behind, the last remnant of a dwindling faith. "People who persist in calling themselves socialist, while decrying the three quarters of the world that has proclaimed itself socialist, and who can find a socialist country nowhere but in their imaginings—such people are anachronisms." Not any more. If the death of the socialist idea was the most important political event of the last century, then the rebirth of this ideal must rank high in significance in the current one. Just as nationalism has reasserted itself on the political right, socialism has grown in force on the left. In the twenty-first century the two ideologies are estranged and antagonistic twins, paired in Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party, Jeremy Corbyn and Brexit, commie-Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. The Democratic victory in 2018 has elevated socialism to a height it has not reached in the United States in more than a century. Only in recent weeks, however, have defenders of democratic capitalism become aware of how great the socialist challenge really is. Only now are we beginning to formulate a response...

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Legal Immigrant Angel Mom: Nancy Pulosi

‘Oughta Be Arrested’

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by Michelle Moon

{breitbart.com} ~ Legal immigrant Agnes Gibboney asked where was the protection for her son killed by an illegal alien as she stood in House Speaker Nancy Pulosi’s office Wednesday. Gibboney was one of many angel families turned away at Speaker Nancy Pulosi’s office Wednesday... despite their requests for meetings that were made ahead of their visit to her office. “My parents legally immigrated here,” said angel mom Agnes Gibboney. “My parents wanted a good, safe place for my family and look and the safe place my only son, my first born was murdered.” “Where is the protection?…Where is the sanctuary for my son?” Gibboney asked. “Who is to say that after this guy gets out next year, he’s not going to come after me or after any of my family? Or kill somebody else’s child?” “I wouldn’t want to see that. I wouldn’t want his own family go through the hell I’ve been living with for almost 17 years,” she went on. “This is not fair.” “This country, I took an oath when I became a citizen. Nancy Pulosi took an oath when she took office. She’s breaking her oath. She oughta be arrested,” said Gibboney. Capitol Hill Police showed up with a commanding presence while angel families were gathered in Pulosi’s office. Two of the officers entered the front office at one point, while several others stood at the ready outside the office where more angel families and supporters stood. Officers remained until angel families eventually departed the office...

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/13/legal-immigrant-angel-mom-nancy-pelosi-oughta-be-arrested/

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commie-Sanders Called Omar to Provide

‘Personal Support’ Amid Outrage

Over Anti-Semitism

by Mikhael Smits
{freebeacon.com} ~ Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (I. Vt.) pledged on several phone calls to stand by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) as she navigates the anti-Semitism quandary she's created, according to reports Thursday... Jewish Insider reported Thursday morning that commie-Sanders, who is Jewish, shared his support with participants of on an off-the-record conference call. "I talked to Ilhan last night to give her my personal support," commie-Sanders reportedly said. "We will stand by our Muslim brothers and sisters." Jim Zogby, the host of the call, declined to provide any other details. Zogby is co-chair of the DNC’s Ethnic Council and founder of the Arab American Institute. Omar has been under scrutiny this week after she wrote a series of ill-advised tweets concerning Jewish Americans, Israel, and the United States government. Omar peddled in anti-Semitic stereotypes, mischaracterized a pro-Israel lobbying group, and garnered praise from the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In a tweet Sunday afternoon, Omar shared a tweet from far-left journalist Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald claimed McCarthy was "defending a foreign nation' and "attacking free speech rights of Americans."... Look at what you did Minn and Vt.

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McCabe admits his treason!

by Sher Zieve

{renewamerica.com} ~ In a move that veritably boggles the mind, fired FBI'er Andrew McCabe has admitted his role in the – mercifully – ineffective coup against President Trump and his administration...aka government... In an interview scheduled to air on next Sunday's "60 Minutes," McCabe detailed his and his FBI co-conspirators parts in the planned, plotted and implemented attempted coup against legally-elected President Trump – using a fake Russian dossier. dirty cop-Mueller's and Rosenstein's parts in the scheme were for Rosenstein to appoint former FBI Director dirty cop-Mueller to the position of Special Counsel to investigate Trump. This position requires that a crime be listed before the investigation may go forth. There was never – and still isn't – any crime listed. As I've written in several columns, this investigation was illegal from its inception.Still...no one in the government has made any attempt to stop it! That, coupled with the fact that the now-infamous "dossier" against Trump was made up out of whole cloth and that Russian Agents were hired by the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign to write it should – at the very least – cause the arrests of the perpetrators via US Marshall's office. Another portion from the to-be-aired Sunday interview, McCabe admitted that he and the FBI "get Trump out" FBI/DOJ cabal also planned and conspired to use the 25th Amendment "incompetency of the POTUS" to remove him from office. McCabe said at 2 meetings, Rosenstein agreed to war a wire, with the purpose of entrapping President Trump. Rosenstein has said that he was just "kidding around." McCabe said that they were all "dead serious" and that Rosenstein had agreed at both of the 2 planning meetings. 18 U.S. Code § 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government states... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/190214

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Tariff Deadline Looms Over U.S.-China Negotiations

by Thomas Gallatin: Another round of trade talks between the U.S. and China kicked off on Thursday in Beijing as the two countries seek to negotiate an end to the escalating trade war. March 2 is the deadline for President Donald Trump’s $200 billion increase in tariffs against Chinese goods to be initiated. However, Trump indicated that he’s willing to delay the deadline a further 60 days should the negotiations yield positive results.

Trump’s tariffs get all the attention, but the issue at the heart of the trade war is China’s long record of abusive trade practices, particularly related to the theft of foreign-based companies’ technology. As the Associated Press reports, “Trump raised tariffs in July over complaints Beijing steals or pressures companies to hand over technology. The dispute includes cyber-spying traced to China, the country’s multibillion-dollar trade surplus with the United States and support for state industry.”

Clearly, Trump’s trade war with China is aimed at leveling the playing field and ending unfair trade practices, and insomuch as it delivers on that, it’s a good thing. That said, a fair market free of tariffs should be the ultimate goal, which will produce the most benefit to Americans and foreign nations alike. In the meantime, the tariffs are a somewhat painful but necessary “medicine.” What needs to be guarded against is the propensity for crony capitalism, as businesses that benefit from these tariffs may lobby to permanently establish them. Other companies are, of course, paying through the nose, and those costs are passed along to the consumer.

The president seems to be calculating that America can better absorb the economic impact of tariffs than China can. Indeed, with Chinese economic growth slowing to a three-decade low, and the U.S. economy jumping into high gear, Beijing may finally be willing to agree to real changes. That remains to be seen, but it appears that Trump is optimistic, as are a majority of American businesses. ~The Patriot Post

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