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Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 5, 2019 at 11:21am
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Activating my beliefs
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by Caroline B. Glick  
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commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggests
70% tax on rich to fund Green New Deal: 'Call me a radical'
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by Jessica Chasmar 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has suggested taxing the rich as much as 70 percent to fund a sweeping economic and energy reform plan called the “Green New Deal.”... “There’s an element where, yeah, people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes,” the newly elected congresswoman of New York, a democratic socialist, told CBS host Anderson Cooper in an interview that’s set to air Sunday. Ms. commie-Ocasio-Cortez said taxes on the wealthy will have to be greatly increased in order to pay for the plan, which aims to reduce carbon emissions to zero and move toward 100% renewable energy within 12 years. “You look at our tax rates back in the ‘60s, and when you have a progressive tax rate system, your tax rate, let’s say from $0 to $75,000 maybe 10% or 15%, etc. But once you get to the tippie-tops, on your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70 percent. That doesn’t mean all $10 million dollars are taxed at an extremely high rate. But it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more,” she said, according to a clip  released Friday. Ms. commie-Ocasio-Cortez acknowledged that her goal is “ambitious” and would require “a lot of rapid change that we don’t even conceive as possible right now.” Mr. Cooper called her agenda “radical” — a term the 29-year-old lawmaker embraced... Not only the rich pay more but we the people will also pay higher taxes.
Ro Khanna Encourages Migrants To ‘Follow Our Process’
And Calls For Policy That ‘Secures Our Border’
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by Nick Givas
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California encouraged migrants to “follow our process,” on “Fox & Friends” Thursday, and said the southern border must be secured... Khanna addressed the murder of a California police officer by an illegal immigrant from 2014 and debated the merits of sanctuary state policies.“No one is saying that our national federal agencies can’t do their job,” he said. “They can enforce the law. They should enforce the law.” What we’re saying is we shouldn’t federalize local police officers and state officers. They often have to enforce the law locally and work with people in local communities who may be undocumented to solve homicides or domestic violence cases. They should do their job. The feds should do their job. And it really is a federalism issue, but no one is saying that people should be harbored or should interfere in the federal government’s ability to execute the law. Co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Khanna if he believes sanctuary state policies make his state safer and his answer was conflicting...
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Democrats Pass First Bill After Taking Over House:
Forcing Americans to Fund Planned Parenthood
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{lifenews.com} ~ In a vote late tonight, House Democrats passed a bill attempting to end the partial government shutdown that also funds the Planned Parenthood abortion giant... The vote on the bill came just hours after Democrats took over the House and installed abortion activist Nancy Pulosi as Speaker. Democrats want to restore the $100 million President Donald Trump took away from Planned Parenthood when he defunded its International arm during his first week in office. The Trump policy prohibits taxpayer funding to international groups that promote and/or provide abortions overseas. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019 repeals President Trump’s Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy, which stops U.S. taxpayer funding of the abortion industry overseas. The House voted 241 to 190 for the bill with all Democrats voting for it and all but 7 Republicans voting against it. Despite passing the pro-abortion measure, in a Statement of Administrative Position for President Trump, the White House said the president will veto the bill. “If either H.R. 21 or H.J. Res. 1 were presented to the President, his advisors would recommend that he veto the bill,” it said. The statement mentioned the pro-life concerns about the bill...  https://www.lifenews.com/2019/01/03/democrats-pass-first-bill-after-taking-over-congress-forcing-americans-to-fund-planned-parenthood/
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Ed Burke, longtime Chicago Democratic alderman,
charged in federal extortion probe
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by Frank Miles  
{foxnews.com} ~ One of the most powerful Democratic City Council members in Chicago has been charged with extortion... accused of trying to shake down a fast-food restaurant seeking remodeling permits, said a federal complaint unsealed Thursday. Alderman Ed Burke, 75, is charged with one count of attempted extortion for conveying to company executives of a Burger King in 2017 that they’d get the permits if they signed on as clients at his private property tax law firm, the 37-page complaint said. A conviction carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence. Burke made an initial appearance on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. A preliminary hearing is set for the afternoon of Jan 18. The Democrat’s law firm, Klafter & Burke, represented the high-rise tower that bears President Trump’s name. There’s no indication the case is at all tied to his firm’s work for Trump. Klafter & Burke specializes in property tax appeals, and its former clients included Trump’s luxury tower in downtown Chicago...
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‘I Can't Believe the People of
Utah Elected This Creep’  
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by STEVEN AHLE
{steadfastandloyal.com} ~ Lou Dobbs says that rino-Mitt Romney has made himself the smallest man in the Senate. Even Ronna McDaniel, rino-Romney’s niece blasted him for his Op-Ed... He has now alienated himself from the other Republican Senators and cannot count on their help for anything. He is more likely to become the new rino-Jeff Flake. He has always been a big government guy disguised as a Republican and he will end up working with Democrats more than Republicans because he does not share our ideals. “I mean, he’s reprehensible. I can’t believe the people of Utah elected this creep.” “Wait a minute. You mean the people of Utah didn’t know that he was anti-Trump? He didn’t run against Trump? He ran with Trump. Is that right? So he’s lied to the people of Utah.” “He’s a fool, and he is also absolutely a treacherous fool. He’s an embarrassment to the state of Utah. That’s the way it’s going to be because he’s obviously committed to his role as the smallest man in the Senate. It’s disgusting.” You may or may not recall that rino-Romney did the very same thing to President Ronald Reagan. He said the Republicans had become the party of Reagan and that he could not get on board with that...  https://steadfastandloyal.com/news-for-you/lou-dobbs-i-cant-believe-the-people-of-utah-elected-this-creep-romney/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:801553&utm_campaign=McConnell%20Trashes%20Pelosi:%20Senate%20Won%E2%80%99t%20Vote%20on%20Bill%20President%20Won%E2%80%99t%20Sign
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Activating my beliefs
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by Caroline B. Glick

{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Why the author-- a longtime JWR contributor -- is ending her weekly column

When I was 12 years old, my family took our first trip outside the United States. 

We came to Israel on a two-week family tour. It was July 1982. The Lebanon War had just begun. In retrospect, it was the first step on what has become my lifelong Zionist journey.

I was moved by everything I saw. The IDF soldiers hitchhiking home for leave from the battlefields in Lebanon looked like movie stars. Ma’aleh Adumim, now a major city, was a clutch of mobile homes in the desert but the gleam in the eyes of the settlers showed the promise of what was to come.

The markets of Jerusalem, the beaches in Tel Aviv, the shells of Syrian tanks on the Golan Heights and the fish in the Sea of Galilee captivated my imagination.

The Western Wall awoke me to the immutable fact that the Nation of Israel, the Land of Israel and the Law of Israel are indivisible.

Hearing Hebrew, the language of prayer shouted out from every corner filled me with awe. And seeing the multiethnic society of Jews from every corner of the world shook me to my core. After two thousand years, in an act of will with no parallel in human history, Jews of all races, backgrounds, and cultures; Jews with unique, fervently kept traditions came home and began patching together a people forcibly separated for 50 generations.

During that first trip to Israel, I understood that the future of the Jewish people was being forged in Israel, not in the Diaspora, not even in my warm community on the south side of Chicago.

I loved America. But I wanted to move to Israel.

Nine years later, in 1991, two weeks after I finished college, I fulfilled my wish. I boarded an El Al flight to Tel Aviv with a one-way ticket in my hand. A week later, I took my first step towards the second stop on my Zionist journey: the Israel Defense Force. Two months after dropping down, I started basic training.

I served in the IDF for five and a half years, leaving as a captain. Most of my service was spent in negotiations sessions with the PLO. As the coordinator of negotiations on civil affairs with the Palestinians in the Defense Ministry, I was a core – if junior – member of the Israeli negotiating team during the Oslo peace process years.

In the IDF, as in all the stations I passed in my professional life, I viewed my work as a calling. I always believed that I had the ability to impact the country and the people for the better, and that it was my duty to try to do so.

For the past 18 years, as a writer in Israeli and international media, it has been my conviction that my job is to use my pen, my keyboard and my voice to shape and expand Israel’s maneuver room whether in relation to the international arena, to military questions, to legal affairs or to political issues.

The job of a commentator is to interpret reality. The media’s habit of simplifying issues by treating everything as an either-or proposition is disastrous for formulating policy. Israel’s options are rarely binary. On almost all issues, Israel has a full spectrum of options. Yet, due to media pressure, our leaders often miss them. 

To advance its interests in the international arena, for instance, Israel doesn’t need to bow before foreign powers. It needs to show foreign powers that they want what Israel has to offer and that it is in their interest to work with Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the only prime minister Israel has had that fully understands and implements this basic truth.

The same is the case with the Palestinians. Israel has nothing to fear in its dealing with the Palestinians. The choice we were presented with for more than a generation – either peace with a Palestinian state or war without one – was a false and destructive conceit. It was based on a wide array of lies and delusions. I devoted hundreds of columns and my book, The Israeli Solution, to expose them.

So too, if we want to understand historic processes unfolding, we need to understand history. I saw it as my job as a columnist to explain the relevance of history to our current challenges and to expose the ignorance of much of what passes for historical wisdom in the popular discourse, whether in relation to German history, to Jewish history, to American history, or to Islamic history.

Over the past several years, I found myself returning over and over again to the study of basic issues of governance. This was no esoteric exploit.

Over the past several years, the term “rule of law” in Israel has been turned on its head. Rather than denote the dispassionate enforcement of duly promulgated laws, it has come to mean what President Reuven Rivlin once referred to as the tyranny of the “rule of law mafia,” that is, the rule of unchecked lawyers.

Israel’s Basic Law: Knesset defines the Knesset as the sovereign. That is because the public elects its members in national elections. Members of Knesset in turn, elect the government as the executive arm of the people’s will. That is how it works in democracies. The parliament legislates laws. The executive implements policies in accordance with the law and the mandate it receives from the public at the ballot box. The job of the judicial branch is to interpret laws.

Over the past several years, and with growing intensity in the past four years, the authority of the Knesset to promulgate laws has diminished. The combined forces of the attorney-general and the justices of the Supreme Court have seized not only the power to abrogate laws and interfere with the legislative process, but to dictate laws through legal opinions and judgments. The same goes for executive power. Not only have the justices and attorneys arrogated to themselves the power to cancel government decisions and policies, they have also asserted the power to dictate policies to the government.

Through these acts of the legal fraternity, the powers of Israel’s elected officials have been whittled down. This week we learned that Supreme Court president Esther Hayut has quietly empaneled a forum of 11 justices to determine the legality of Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People.

In Israel, Basic Laws are essentially the constitutional foundations of the state.

If Hayut goes through with adjudicating petitions against the law, even if the justices rule that the Basic Law is legal, by claiming the power to adjudicate a Basic Law, the justices will seize the power to undermine the foundations of the state.

 The Law of Return, which is the anchor of Jewish peoplehood and the ingathering of exiles, has long been a red flag for post-Zionist radicals who reject Israel’s right to exist as a specifically Jewish state. There is every reason to believe that if the justices seize the power to undermine Basic Laws, they will not hesitate to go after the Law of Return.

Watching this dangerous trend of events, I have used my position as a columnist to warn the public about what is happening and to empower Israel’s politicians to fight for their powers. If Israel is to maintain its democracy, our elected officials must be empowered to challenge the legal fraternity and restore to the Knesset the sole power to legislate laws.

Given the gravity of the situation, the disputes over Israel’s borders, its energy policies, its immigration policies, its economic policies and its military policies become secondary concerns. The key question that hangs in the balance today is whether the Knesset will restore its power as the repository of the people’s will in accordance with law or will it become a mere debating society with the actual power to determine Israel’s future devolved entirely to bureaucrats ruled by a handful of unelected lawyers and judges? Because if the latter happens, the people will lose all ability to determine the outcome of every other aspect of national life.

Every once in a while, over the past year or two, I found myself wondering whether I should throw my hat into the ring and enter politics. Could I be effective in advancing the goal of restoring the powers of the Knesset from inside the Knesset or am I better off staying where I am? Since this was a purely hypothetical question, I left it open.

This brings me to my decision this week to move to a new stop on my Zionist journey. 

This week I decided to respond positively to an offer from Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett to join their new party, the New Right (Hayamin Hehadash), and run on their Knesset slate.

True, there is more than one party that reflects my views in the Knesset, at least officially. But in recent years, the political leaders who have done the most to translate my positions into action have been Shaked and Bennett.

They share my concern for Israel’s future as a democracy. They dare to insist that to restore and strengthen Israeli democracy, the current power balance between bureaucrats on the one hand and elected officials on the other must be turned on its head. Whether they are discussing the vast expansion of the power of military lawyers over field commanders in the IDF, the necessity of enforcing the laws of Israel over its Arab citizens with the same alacrity as it is enforced over its Jewish citizens, or rejecting the notion that the Supreme Court has the power to overturn Basic Laws, Bennett and Shaked have consistently communicated and advanced positions I view as critical for the future of the country.

No less importantly for me as a proud Jew who never understood what I see as a largely artificial distinction between religious and secular Jews, their new party doesn’t seek to serve just one type of Israeli. It seeks to represent the full spectrum of the Israeli society that I saw and fell in love with, in all its rich diversity, in that pivotal first visit in the summer of 1982.

I am convinced that restoring Israel’s democratic institutions is the most urgent task we face today. And while I would have been happy to continue advocating for legal reform from my position in the media, when Bennett and Shaked asked me to join them in their efforts to advance this goal from the Knesset, I said yes with little hesitation.

The Zionist journey I began in 1982 has taken me places I could never have dreamed of. It is my deepest hope and my intention that on my next stop, I will have the privilege of advancing the Zionist enterprise I fell in love with so many years ago.
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 5, 2019 at 8:42am
TheFrontPageCover
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President Trump Isn't the Enemy, 
Mr. rino-Romney
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by David Limbaugh  
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Democrats move to protect dirty cop-Robert 
Mueller on Day 1 of new Congress
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Democrats, on their first day in control of the House, moved to offer protections to special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller... Led by incoming House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., a group of Democrats introduced legislation that would protect dirty cop-Mueller from being fired by President Trump. scumbag-Nadler was joined by Democratic Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Steven Cohen of Tennessee to introduce the legislation, which codifies existing Justice Department regulation that mandates a special counsel may be removed only for “misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest or other good cause.”The move comes after newly elected House Speaker Nancy Pulosi was asked if  dirty cop-Mueller should abide by Justice Department guidance that states a sitting president can’t be indicted as a result of what the investigation turns up. “I do not think that that is conclusive,” Pulosi said in the interview with NBC News, which aired early Thursday before she was elected House speaker. “No, I do not.” The legislation, which is bipartisan and has 123 co-sponsors, does have Senate counterpart. That legislation was passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee in April 2018, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., refused to bring it to the floor for a full vote, despite demands from some Republicans...These dems and some repub are assane. 
Exculpatory Russia evidence 
about Mike Flynn that US intel kept secret
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{thehill.com} ~ Sometimes public silence can be deafening or, for that matter, misleading. For nearly two years now, the intelligence community has kept secret evidence... in the Russia collusion case that directly undercuts the portrayal of retired Army general and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn as a Russian stooge. That silence was maintained even when former acting Attorney General Sally Yates publicly claimed Flynn was possibly “compromised” by Moscow. And when a Democratic senator, scumbag-Al Franken of Minnesota, suggested  the former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) chief posed a “danger to this republic.” And even when some media outlets opined about whether Flynn’s contacts with Russia were treasonous. Yes, the Pentagon did give a classified briefing to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) in May 2017, but then it declined the senator’s impassioned plea three months later to make some of that briefing information public. “It appears the public release of this information would not pose any ongoing risk to national security. Moreover, the declassification would be in the public interest, and is in the interest of fairness to Lt. Gen. Flynn,” Grassley wrote in August 2017...
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Appeals court sides with Trump 
on transgender military ban
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{thehill.com} ~ A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a lower court’s ruling blocking President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military from taking effect... The ruling hands Trump a win in a case that has seen several courts block the policy. But the policy still cannot take effect because of those other injunctions, which applied nationwide. “Although today’s decision is not a final determination on the merits, we must recognize that the Mattis Plan plausibly relies upon the ‘considered professional judgment’ of ‘appropriate military officials’ ... and appears to permit some transgender individuals to serve in the military consistent with established military mental health, physical health, and sex-based standards,” wrote a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “In light of the substantial constitutional arguments and the apparent showing that the policy accommodates at least some of plaintiffs’ interests, we think that the public interest weighs in favor of dissolving the injunction.” Trump announced over Twitter in July 2017 that he intended to ban all transgender people from serving in the military. Four lawsuits were filed against the ban, and lower courts in all four cases had blocked the policy from taking effect as the suits work their way through the legal system...
Republicans relinquish Congress with whimper:
'More missed opportunities than anything'
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by David Sherfinski and Stephen Dinan 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Republicans closed out two years of control over the political branches of Washington on Thursday with a whimper, leaving a government still in partial shutdown... and a long list of priorities left undone. Asked about their record, GOP lawmakers said they were proud of the tax overhaul in December 2017, which also included long-sought permission to drill for oil in an Alaskan preserve and a repeal of scumbag/liar-nObamacare’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance. But they struggled to recall other marquee moves, pointing instead to promises unkept to repeal outright the 2010 Affordable Care Act, abortion politics and a host of immigration battles. “The failure of this Republican Congress to repeal scumbag/liar-nObamacare, secure our borders and address our deficit and debt may be a pivot point in the failure of America going forward,” said Rep. Mo Brooks, Alabama Republican. It was a major letdown for lawmakers who had been promised they would get “tired of winning.” Even when GOP leaders won big bipartisan votes, such as pumping money into anti-opioid addiction efforts or a generational reform of sentencing policies that could cut the federal prison population by tens of thousands, they didn’t seem to earn credit, with turmoil at the White House and ego-testing skirmishes on Capitol Hill overshadowing their work...
Strategic Working Group Strengthens 
U.S.-South Korea Alliance
by David Maxwell

{fdd.org} ~ North Korea’s main newspaper condemned the U.S. this morning for preventing reconciliation between Seoul and Pyongyang... This criticism amounts to an indirect admission that Seoul and Washington have begun to coordinate their diplomacy more effectively, thanks in part to the high-level strategic working group they established last fall. In October, newly appointed U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun and his South Korean counterpart Lee Do-hoon established the strategic working group; meetings began in November, both face-to-face and via video teleconference. The creation of the working group reflects both short-term pressures and the longstanding need for improved coordination. Following last September’s summit between Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae In, where the two leaders approved the Panmunjom Declaration and a Comprehensive Military Agreement, friction arose in the U.S.-South Korea alliance over the perceived dearth of prior consultation. The previous year, President Trump criticized Seoul for pursuing North-South rapprochement too quickly and in a manner that was not synchronized with U.S. denuclearization efforts. As part of its ongoing efforts to drive a wedge in the U.S.-South Korea alliance, North Korea rhetorically attacked the new strategy working group within days of its establishment, saying it was a U.S. attempt to meddle in North-South relations and prevent the South from engaging with the North without U.S. approval. In his New Year address on Tuesday, Kim Jong Un indicated that he wants to separate North-South relations from his denuclearization negotiations with the U.S. In effect, he wants to prevent precisely the kind of coordination achieved by the new working group...
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President Trump Isn't the Enemy, 
Mr. rino-Romney
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by David Limbaugh

{cnsnews.com} ~ Two days before he was sworn in as Utah's junior U.S. senator, Mitt rino-Romney published an op-ed in The Washington Post, publicly broadcasting, once again, his disapproval of President Donald Trump. Disappointing, but not surprising.

Something seems to compel those in the never-Trump crowd not only to perpetually obsess over Trump but also to constantly remind us of their profound distaste for him — lest it escape our top-of-mind awareness.

A few things popped out at me when I read rino-Romney's piece — apart from his flagrant hypocrisy in reigniting his public relations campaign against Trump after abandoning it when seeking to be Trump's secretary of state.

Why did rino-Romney believe he needed to write this now — as his first volley — instead of first expressing his intention of trying to work with Trump to move his agenda forward in what promises to be a very tumultuous time, with militant, partisan Democrats about to assume control of the House?

Why would rino-Romney choose to publish his piece in the overtly liberal Washington Post? Are political liberals and the mainstream media his constituency now? It would be one thing for a newly minted GOP senator to take on Democrats in that publication, but it's quite another for him to harshly criticize his party's president in a paper that exclusively speaks for the opposition party — a party that will doubtlessly leverage this op-ed against the president and in favor of the Democrats' policy agenda, which rino-Romney has been telling us for years he abhors.

Does rino-Romney mean to undermine and demonize GOP border enforcement hawks and other Republicans at this critical time when he piously proclaims that he "will speak out against significant statements or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions"? Exactly what statements or actions is he calling racist and anti-immigrant? I ask because I've heard some never-Trumpers outright denounce border enforcement supporters as nativists and racists not because any statements they've made could remotely be construed as anti-immigrant and racist but because they callously and wrongly presume or pretend to presume that their fierce opposition to illegal immigration and their desire to encourage assimilation and preserve national sovereignty, the rule of law and an orderly immigration process are somehow racist. This is below the belt, destructive and, yes, quite divisive, Mr. rino-Romney — with your own party, no less.

What other statements or actions of President Trump does rino-Romney consider divisive? Is he equally agitated over the Democrats' unapologetic divisiveness, or is his angst reserved only for Trump and his Republican supporters? Stated another way, if rino-Romney was so eager to write an op-ed before he'd even set foot in the Senate, why didn't he use it to call out Democrats for telegraphing their intent to use their newfound control of the House to unleash partisan hell on President Trump? Or is making nice with these self-pronounced partisan militants and their media cheerleaders more important to rino-Romney than fighting their toxic agenda?

What Trump actions does rino-Romney believe are "destructive to democratic institutions"? I, for one, am tired of hearing this Democratic trope that Trump is threatening our democratic institutions when he has done nothing of the sort and has been appointing constitutionalist judges who are dedicated to shoring up our democratic institutions and, unlike President scumbag/liar-nObama, has refrained from issuing lawless executive orders to advance his agenda. Why, Mr. rino-Romney, do you want to legitimize this false charge against President Trump? We Republicans faithfully supported you in your 2012 presidential bid and wouldn't have considered undercutting you like this.

Why, Mr. rino-Romney, do you feel it is necessary to announce that you "will support policies that you believe are in the best interest of the country and your state, and oppose those that are not"? How many Democrats would send a public message to the country that by gosh, they will not support their president if he's doing things they believe are not in the country's best interest? Can't some things just be left unsaid, or is it necessary in every other paragraph to remind Americans that Trump embarrasses you and you'll only grudgingly support him — and then, only when you have to?

Why couldn't you have kept your powder dry rather than virtue-signal to leftists who'll never love you any more than they did Sen. rino-John McCain? Are you so consumed with distaste for Trump that you are blind to the Democrats' far worse partisanship and divisiveness? Are you really unaware of the Democrats' stated intentions to wage political war against Trump for the next two years or until they run him out of office? Do you not see that enabling the Democrats in this way could help to advance their nightmarish agenda? Which will you oppose more, Trump's bad manners or the Democrats' socialist, culturally nihilistic agenda? Which is less in the nation's interest?

It is not President Trump who threatens the nation's interest, Mr. rino-Romney, but the Democratic Party, which you have just gone out of your way to assist — whether you realize it or not.
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 4, 2019 at 9:28pm
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Deregulation Remained Impressive in 2018
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by Jordan Candler  
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dirty cop-Mueller investigation 
will drag on for ‘months’
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{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ While we have been led to believe that the special counsel, dirty cop-Robert Mueller, will soon be submitting his final report, one former Justice Department employee warns that it may not happen quite so soon... John Lauro, a former federal prosecutor, said Tuesday on “America’s News HQ” that this investigation could go on for “many, many months,” dismissing Trump attorney Rudy Guiliani’s recent criticism of dirty cop-Mueller. Giuliani, who has taken over as Trump’s personal lead attorney, has had about all he can take from this investigation. The former mayor of New York City unleashed a barrage of tweets aimed at dirty cop-Mueller and his investigation over the New Year’s weekend.As Giuliani pointed out, two years in, we still have seen no evidence of Russian collusion with the Trump team to impact the presidential election. But Lauro, who previously worked for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, believes the investigation is worthwhile. He pointed to the former Trump advisers and associates that had been indicted on various charges...    https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/mueller-investigation-will-drag-on/
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scumbag/liar-nObamacare Is Unconstitutional,
But The Texas Judge Was Wrong To Strike It Down  
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by Michael Autery
{thefederalist.com} ~ On December 14, District Court Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional... Earlier this year, some 20 conservative state attorneys general sued in federal court arguing that since the tax law that passed last year reset the individual mandate penalty to zero, it’s no longer a tax. When the Supreme Court weighed in on scumbag/liar-nObamacare for the first time in 2012, they ruled that the individual mandate was constitutional, but only as a tax. So if it’s no longer a tax now because it raises no revenue, it’s no longer constitutional. That’s fair enough, but the problem with the ruling is the next argument. The states’ attorneys general claimed that the rest of scumbag/liar-nObamacare must also be unconstitutional because the rest of the law cannot be “severed” from the individual mandate. Judge O’Connor agreed. scumbag/liar-nObamacare is probably the worst piece of legislation in American history, but this judge’s decision was based on a weak legal argument and will almost certainly be overturned. The first argument actually does make sense: in National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) v. Sebelius in 2012, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the 5-4 majority, only upheld the mandate by  essentially rewriting the law to reinterpret the penalty for noncompliance as a tax under the general welfare clause...
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How America’s Scornful Elites Helped 
One Of The Worst Media Liars Ever  
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by Peter Rough
{thefederalist.com} ~ Germany’s most prestigious news magazine, Der Spiegel, lived every media’s worst nightmare last month... the  discovery that its star reporter, Claas Relotius, is a serial fabulist who had manufactured stories, characters, and quotes—many about America and Americans—out of whole cloth for years. The announcement was especially surprising because Der Spiegel enjoys a reputation for meticulousness. Its fact-checking department, the largest of its kind in Europe, is the pride of the magazine. Der Spiegel has long been the magazine of choice for highbrow, liberal Germans who stand guard over polite society. Their initial reaction, parroting Der Spiegel’s initial announcement, has been to cast the magazine as a victim before applauding it for transparency in publicizing the deception. After all, as Der Spiegel’s incoming editor-in-chief, Steffen Klusmann,   put it in a brief interview, “It’s most likely that no one could have discovered this.” So how did Relotius deceive an army of professional journalists for years and trigger the biggest journalism scandal in decades? Through the support of an unlikely yet powerful accomplice—the American elite...  http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/04/americas-scornful-elites-helped-one-worst-media-liars-ever/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=a94656bfac-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-a94656bfac-83771801
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Media mistake: Brazil’s First Lady wasn’t 
“saluting”– she was using sign language
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by Sharyl Attkisson
{sharylattkisson.com} ~ Below are some of the photos the press could have used showing Brazil’s First Lady giving her first speech in sign language... Instead, Associated Press distributed the first photo with the incorrect caption stating she was “giving a military salute,” which the Washington Post featured. Later, the Washington Post issued a correction. Beyond the question of how they could make such a sloppy journalism error is the question of how hard they had to work to find such an unflattering photo. The photos included below are more reflective of the actual event, which you can see here...  https://sharylattkisson.com/2019/01/03/media-mistake-brazils-first-lady-wasnt-saluting-she-was-sign-language/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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The Wicked Gender-Deluded Mob Must be Defeated
by Trevor Thomas

{americanthinker.com} ~ Most mobs are dangerous, and this is especially true of a mob on the wrong side of one of the oldest truths in the history of humanity... Dealing with the gender-deluded mob is like engaging a throng of toddlers throwing a coordinated temper tantrum. You can't reason with them. As a wise, loving, and moral parent would, you merely bring an end to the nonsense with whatever appropriate force is necessary. Like a toddler pitching a fit to eat cookies for dinner, if you are so askew in your thinking that you believe that "gender is a spectrum," or that biology is bigotry, you don't deserve to be heard, and you certainly don't deserve a debate. You must simply be brought into line. If this doesn't happen, as is the case with an undisciplined child who grows into a wild teenager and then a foolish adult, disaster looms. Driven by the perverse LGBT agenda, while aided and abetted by the ignorant and immoral mainstream media and the devilish Democratic Party, "transgender" disasters are playing out all around us. While some of these disasters have "only" resulted in an adult temper tantrum, a lawsuit, or the loss of a job, others have literally put lives in danger, including those of children. Recently, when a GameStop employee in Albuquerque, New Mexico failed to address a dude dressed like a lady as "ma'am," an f-bomb-laced outburst ensued. "She" sounded hideous, but "she's" a guy, so... Along with being berated by foul language, the poor store clerk was threatened with assault. Isn't it amazing how quickly these large dudes who want to be women threaten violence?...
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Deregulation Remained Impressive in 2018
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by Jordan Candler:  The midpoint of President Donald Trump’s first term is fast approaching. One area in which the Trump administration deserves accolades is in its curtailing of government regulations. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Clyde Wayne Crews reports, in 2017, the Federal Register — the government’s regulation repository — “concluded with 61,308 pages under Trump; that was the lowest count in a quarter-century (since 61,166 pages under scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton in 1993).” It’s also significantly below Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s 2016 record of 95,894 pages.

             “This time,” Crews continues, “2018 Federal Register  has topped out at 68,082 pages. … That’s a 10 percent increase for Trump over his first year.” However, some important context is in order: “It’s not as bad as it seems. … Rules and regulations cannot be revoked, only replaced by new ones under the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act’s public notice-and-comment process. … So, for Trump to get rid of a rule … his agencies have to write a rule. So in a perverse sense, he can’t shrink the Federal Register page count and the number of rules, but has managed to do it anyway by writing fewer new regulatory rather than deregulatory ones. Meeting the two for one [deregulation] directive is getting tougher without congressional action as the low-hanging fruit is picked.”
               As far as actual rules are concerned, Crews says, “Under Trump, there has also been a substantial reduction in the number of rules and regulations published within all those  Federal Register pages. The Federal Register closed out 2018 with 3,367 final rules in all. The only lower count was 3,281 under Trump a year ago, which was the lowest count since records began being kept in the mid-1970s. … scumbag/liar-nObama’s own lowest count was 3,410, not much more than Trump’s new score. But fewer of scumbag/liar-nObama’s rules would be expected to have been devoted to rollbacks of prior initiatives, the emphasis of Trump’s ‘one-in, two-out’ executive order.”
               The Washington Examiner reports on another important consideration: “In what Crews has dubbed the ‘Unconstitutionality Index,’ Trump has also slashed the percentage of new rules to new laws passed by Congress and signed by Trump, he wrote in a second report issued Monday. Trump’s 2018 index was 12: 3,367 new rules compared to 291 new laws. The Index reached 29 under scumbag/liar-nObama.”
               The bottom line? Trump is swimming upstream, yet he continues to do excellent and historic deregulatory work.
               On a related note, December’s job report was exhilarating. An eye-popping 312,000 jobs were added. This was an astonishing 136,000 higher than economists’ expectations. According to CNBC, “Wages jumped 3.2 percent from a year ago and 0.4 percent over the previous month.”
               And while the unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.9%, that’s actually good news, as more people are entering the job market. Moreover, CNSNews reports, “The number of employed Americans has now set a 14th record under Trump: When Trump became president in January 2017, 152,076,000 Americans were employed. Last month, that number grew to a record 156,945,000, a gain of 4,869,000 in two years.”
               CNSNews adds, “In December, the unemployment rate for Hispanics and Latinos, aged 16 and up, was 4.4%, down from 4.5% in November — tying its record low of 4.4% set in October of this year.” NBC News called the jobs report “whopping,” while the Associated Press described it as “stellar.” Those words provide as good a clue as any the magnificence of this report, and it’s in large measure thanks to Trump’s agenda of getting the government out of the way.  ~The Patriot Post

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Friday Med/PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 4, 2019 at 4:12pm
TheFrontPageCover
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House Dems Usher in the Resistance
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by Thomas Gallatin  
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In the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Which Side
Is Really Committing Ethnic Cleansing?
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Anti-Israel activists and commentators often say the Jewish state commits ethnic cleansing, if not outright genocide, against the Palestinians... Even senior officials at the United Nations—but I repeat myself—have accused  Israel of such crimes, as have prominent figures in Western media and academia. These voices are actually correct in a general sense: one side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does use policies to achieve ethnic cleansing. It's just not Israel. On Monday, a Palestinian court in Ramallah  sentenced a Palestinian-American to life in prison with hard labor, after just a one-week trial. What was the heinous crime? Issam Akel, a resident of east Jerusalem and a U.S. citizen, was found guilty of selling property to Jews, specifically a house in the Old City of Jerusalem to a Jewish Israeli organization. The Palestinian Grand Criminal Court said he attempted "to cut off a part of the Palestinian land and add them to a foreign country." Now the Palestinian Authority (PA) is planning to extradite Akel to the U.S. amid heavy pressure from Washington to release him, according to reports. But many details of the possible extradition remain unclear. Akel's sentencing came a week after the PA announced that it had foiled attempts to sell lands and houses in the West Bank and east Jerusalem to Jewish buyers. The PA's security forces said they arrested 44 Palestinians involved in the transactions, adding that at least three of the suspects had already been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. Under Palestinian law, selling or attempting to sell land to Jews is a crime, punishable by hard labor, imprisonment, and even execution. In recent weeks, Palestinian religious authorities have repeatedly warned that anyone who engages in such deals will be accused of "high treason."...
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Former Democratic Senator Could 
Replace Mattis As Defense Secretary, Says Report  
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by Virginia Kruta
{dailycaller.com} ~ Former Democratic Virginia Sen. Jim Webb is reportedly being considered as a possible replacement for retiring Defense Secretary James Mattis... According to a report from The New York Times, Webb has been approached by representatives for both Vice President Mike Pence and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Representatives for Vice President Mike Pence and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, have reached out to Mr. Webb, one of the three officials said. Separately, a senior Defense Department official confirmed that Mr. Webb’s name had been circulating at the White House. Those two and the third official all spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal discussions. Webb’s vocal opposition to the Iraq war and former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s Iran Deal — along with his belief that China should be dealt with aggressively — seem to align him with much of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. He also fails to align with the more progressive Democrats on other key issues like climate change...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/03/jim-webb-replace-mattis-defense-secretary-reports/?utm_medium=email
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Xi Jinping Thinks China 
Is World's Only Sovereign State
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ "I hear prominent Americans, disappointed that China has not become a democracy, claiming that China poses a threat to the American way of life,"... Jimmy Carter wrote on the last day of 2018 in a Washington Post op-ed. That claim, Carter tells us, is a "dangerous notion." There is nothing more dangerous than a notion from the 39th president, even on China. China, despite what he said, threatens not only America's way of life but also the existence of the American republic. Chinese ruler Xi Jinping has, in recent years, been making the extraordinary case that the U.S. is not a sovereign state. The breathtaking position puts China's aggressive actions into a far more ominous context. Carter, and almost all others who comment on Chinese foreign policy, see Beijing competing for influence in the current international order. That existing order, accepted virtually everywhere, is based on the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, which recognizes the sovereignty of individual states that are supposed to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs. Those states now compete and cooperate in a framework, largely developed after World War II, of treaties, conventions, covenants, and norms. Many Chinese policymakers believe they are entitled to dominate others, especially peoples on their periphery. That concept underpinned the imperial tributary system in which states near and far were supposed to acknowledge Chinese rule...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13497/china-sovereign-state
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rino-Corker Bill Aimed at Undermining 
Trump’s Broadcasting Chief Dies
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by Susan Crabtree
{freebeacon.com} ~ A group of conservative senators successfully stopped a last-ditch effort to weaken the power of President Trump's choice to lead the nation's taxpayer-funded global broadcasting operation... The move paves the way for Senate confirmation of Michael Pack, Trump's choice to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). The USAGM, previously called the Broadcasting Board of Governors, oversees the Voice of America and other U.S. taxpayer-funded broadcasting operations countering the propaganda arms of American adversaries such as Russia, Iran, and China. A bill sponsored by Sens. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) and former Sen. rino-Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), which critics argued would seriously undermine the incoming head of the USAGM, died on the vine when the previous Congress ended and the 116th Congress convened Thursday afternoon. A group of conservative senators opposed the late 2018 effort to try to diminish Pack's power even before he started the job. The USAGM, previously the Broadcasting Board of Governors, oversees the Voice of America and related taxpayer-funded media outlets...  https://freebeacon.com/politics/corker-bill-aimed-at-undermining-trumps-broadcasting-chief-dies/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=94b5cec881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_03_10_41_COPY_139&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-94b5cec881-45611665
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House Dems Usher in the Resistance
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by Thomas Gallatin:  In December, the U.S. economy added 312,000 jobs, capping a year of strong economic growth and reaching 2.6 million new jobs in 2018. The bad news has been stock market volatility, for which President Donald Trump blamed Democrats: “As I have stated many times, if the Democrats take over the House or Senate, there will be disruption to the Financial Markets. We won the Senate, they won the House. Things will settle down. They only want to impeach me because they know they can’t win in 2020, too much success!”
               Once again, Trump is right on the mark, as was clearly demonstrated by House Democrats on Thursday. Taking over the chamber after their midterm election win, Dems promptly used their new majority to offer nothing but a sequence of anti-Trump legislation and recession-triggering, big-government power grabs.
               Cuing the #Resistance, House Socialists under Speaker Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) passed a spending bill that does not provide any funding for a border wall. In even more futile gestures, Rep. scumbag-Brad Sherman (D-CA) introduced articles of impeachment against Trump, while Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College. Obviously, House Democrats’ legislative agenda is all about promoting themselves and resisting the president.
               Where is the Democrat concern over maintaining the surging economy? Where is the proposed legislation that would provide greater protection for Americans by securing the nation’s borders? With all the Demo fearmongering over the supposed danger Trump poses to the nation’s system of governance, where is the legislation that would limit government abuse of power? Where in the Democrats’ legislative agenda is the commitment to promote and protect Americans’ individual liberty as defined by the Constitution?
               The fact is, Democrats offer nothing but a hate-Trump platform of anger, division, and Liberty-stifling, economy-destroying socialism. Their concern is promoting anything that gives them greater power and control over the American people.
               As Mark Alexander notes, “Unfortunately for all Americans outside the Beltway, blocking the Trump administration’s agenda may get Democrats the recession they want ahead of the 2020 elections. For the next two years, job and income prospects for tens of millions of American workers will fall victim to the Demos’ politically induced recession.”  
~The Patriot Post
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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 4, 2019 at 12:30pm
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Times Square Ball Drop Cheers Islamic Terror
by Daniel Greenfield 
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House Conservatives Launch a Petition 
Drive in Support of Border Wall
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{cnsnews.com} ~ "How many more times can we say no? Nothing for the wall," presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pulosi (D-Calif.) told NBC's "Today" show... in an interview that aired on Thursday. Two House Republicans, in response, said Democrats like Pulosi are more intent on frustrating the president than they are on serving the country's best interests: "I say, let's take the case to the American people," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Fox News Wednesday night. Appearing with Jordan, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said most Americans want a safer community and a secure border. He announced that Republicans have just launched a petition drive in support of the border wall: We've opened up borderwallnow.com, where we're encouraging grass roots across the country -- just started today -- where they go in and sign a petition and say we are standing with the president, we want border security. But it's really going to be your viewers and people like them across the country that have to speak up...
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The Coming Democratic Disillusion
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by Matthew Continetti
{freebeacon.com} ~ On Thursday, after eight years in the minority, Nancy Pulosi returned to power as speaker of the House of Representatives. Her party controls 235 seats to the Republicans' 199... One contest, in North Carolina, has yet to be decided. The Democratic majority is a couple seats larger than the one Pulosi led more than a decade ago. Back then a Republican resided in the White House as well. By the seventh year of his presidency, when some 100 U.S soldiers were killed in Iraq every month and gas on average cost $2.80 per gallon, George W. Bush was about as popular as Donald Trump is today. And in 2007, as we all remember, Pulosi's Democrats set about enacting universal health care and ending the war in Iraq. Fooled you! Actually, the victories of the 110th Congress were much more modest: a minimum wage increase, lobbying reform, and a ban of incandescent light bulbs. Health care had to wait for a subsequent Congress and a Democratic president. So did withdrawal from Iraq—though retreat didn't work out as planned, and America returned, in much smaller numbers, in 2014. The history of Nancy Pulosi's tenure as speaker is a reminder of the limitations and tenuousness of political victories and defeats. I suspect Pulosi is aware of this lesson. I doubt her caucus is. More than a quarter of them are freshmen, many are young, and two are self-avowed democratic socialists. They are inclined to believe history began when Barack scumbag/liar-nObama entered Mile High Stadium in Denver. It's an impression encouraged by cable news, which spent the run up to Pulosi's investiture celebrating the youth, diversity, and ambition of the House Democratic freshmen. And yet, for all the talk of Alison Spanberger and the "Badass Caucus," of how commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib "aren't going to take no for an answer," of grand plans for a Green New Deal and Medicare for All, there remains the inescapable reality of power. Democrats don't really have it. Indeed, they have even less than the last time Pulosi became speaker...  https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-coming-democratic-disillusion/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=94b5cec881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_03_10_41_COPY_139&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-94b5cec881-45611665
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Bolsonaro Open To “U.S. Strategic 
Alliance” Military Base in Brazil
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ In the realm of everything geopolitical in consequence, a recent article from an interview with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro highlights the globalists’ worst nightmare... And the comments from the WTO reflects the global influence of President Donald J Trump.  Before getting to two key points, rather stunningly delicious points, it’s worth remembering that Brazil is the “B” in the ‘BRICS alliance’. Before U.S. President Donald Trump took center stage in the world of international influence, the former governments of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) had formed a coalition. Each nation represented an enlarged -and growing- regional trade/economic influence. Shortly after taking office; and with hindsight – prior to the China confrontation; President Trump began a systematic process of challenging various economic influencers. This is the origin of the Trump Doctrine . By expanding U.S. energy development, strategically engaging with OPEC (Gulf Cooperation Council) States, and simultaneously engaging with Baltic States at the Three Seas Summit in Warsaw Poland, President Trump established the groundwork for downward pressure on oil prices. This comprehensive and geopolitical energy strategy diminished the ability of Russia to maintain a consistent external financial influence...    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/03/stunner-bolsonaro-open-to-u-s-strategic-alliance-military-base-in-brazil/
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Russia to Deploy Precision 
Strike Missiles in Western Atlantic
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by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ Russia is deploying long-range, precision cruise missiles to the western Atlantic that American defense officials say will allow Moscow to target Washington and other East Coast cities... with conventional or nuclear attacks. Moscow is adding Kalibr land attack cruise missiles to both warships and missile submarines that Moscow plans to use in Atlantic patrols near the United States, sorties that were once routine during the Cold War. The new sea-based Kalibr deployments are expected in the coming months, according to officials familiar with intelligence reports of the Russian maritime operations. The land-attack version of the Kalibr, known as the SS-N-30A by NATO, is a relatively new weapon and was showcased for the first time by Moscow in attacks on Syria that began in 2015... Is Russia planning a 9/11 attack?
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Times Square Ball Drop Cheers Islamic Terror
by Daniel Greenfield 

{sultanknish.blogspot.com} ~ The most miserable place in the world to be on New Year’s Eve is in Times Square where tourists who don’t know better are trapped in crowd control cattle pens with no bathrooms. Even if it doesn’t rain, no amount of corporate swag can compensate for having to stamp your frozen feet in puddles of urine with nothing to eat or drink for hours, in the faint hopes of actually seeing the big ball drop.

In addition to all the other miseries are the terror threats. With two million people expected to pack into a handful of blocks, New Year’s Eve in Times Square is on every Islamic terrorist’s Christmas wish list. 

ISIS has made repeated threats to hit Times Square. And the NYPD is deploying countless cameras, drones, counter-sniper teams and bomb sniffing dogs. There are garbage trucks full of sand to stop car attacks like the one that killed 8 people near Ground Zero, when Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, a Muslim Uzbek immigrant, ran down tourists, and slammed into a school bus, shouting, “Allahu Akbar”. 

After Akayed Ullah, a Muslim immigrant from Bangladesh, tried to blow himself up in the Times Square subway in December of last year, New York City cops are being trained to handle suicide bombers. Anyone trying to get inside the Times Square cattle pens gets screened at two separate points, sniffed by ‘Vapor Wake’ dogs, and forced to pass through a gauntlet of portable metal and radiation detectors. 

The more than 5,000 police officers will be checking bags no bombs, guns or alcohol are allowed, evacuating 125 local garages, patrolling the hallways of area hotels and screening their guests. These elaborate security measures make an already miserable event more miserable. 

But they are necessary because of the history of Islamic terror in Times Square. 

In 2010, Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani Muslim immigrant, tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square. The 2008 IED bombing of the Times Square military recruiting station still remains unsolved, despite camera footage of the perpetrator and a sizable reward. In 2012, Raees Alam Qazi and Sheheryar Alam Qazi, Pakistani Muslim immigrants, scouted New York bombing targets, including Times Square.

Two other Muslim brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Chechen refugee immigrants who carried out the Boston Marathon bombing, had wanted to detonate six bombs in Times Square. 

In 2016, Mohamed Rafik Naji, a Yemeni Muslim immigrant who, like the Ground Zero car attacker worked as an Uber driver, talked about running over people in Times Square with a truck. This year, Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, the Muslim son of Egyptian immigrants to Canada, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for terror plots that included the potential bombing of Times Square. 

But why bother with the wands and secondary screenings, the vapor dogs, drones and helicopters? On this New Year’s Eve, Islamic terrorism is the guest of honor at the Times Square ball drop. 

Jamal Khashoggi, the media’s favorite Jihadist, is being honored as his Washington Post editor, Karen Attiah, will be one of the guests of honor looking down on the masses freezing in cattle pens below. 

Khashoggi had gotten his start glamorizing Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan at the behest of a man named by the Treasury Department as one of “the world’s foremost terrorist financiers”. Osama and Jamal had been old friends and fellow members of the Muslim Brotherhood international Jihad network. When Osama bin Laden was getting Al Qaeda off the ground, he had called Khashoggi with the scoop. 

Afterward, Khashoggi had gone to work for Prince Turki bin Faisal, allegedly linked to Al Qaeda by the twentieth hijacker. There, he tried to spin 9/11 by blaming it on American foreign policy and Israel. 

Americans "want total cooperation in their fight against terror according to their own definition of what terrorism is and exactly who the terrorists are. But Saudi Arabia will not give in to such demands," he had declared. 

After the Saudis decided to get out of the Islamic terror business, Khashoggi turned to the biggest remaining Sunni state sponsor of terror, Qatar. While the media clamors that he was a “journalist”, even his backers were recently forced to admit that his columns were actually lobbying by Qatar. 

“Text messages between Khashoggi and an executive at Qatar Foundation International show that the executive, Maggie Mitchell Salem, at times shaped the columns he submitted to The Washington Post, proposing topics, drafting material and prodding him to take a harder line against the Saudi government,” the Washington Post conceded. 

The Qatar Foundation was set up by the terror state’s former Emir and is chaired by his consort. The Foundation had sponsored events involving Islamic clerics, including Omar Abdelkafi, who had described the Islamic massacre of Charlie Hebdo journalists in France as “the sequel to the comedy film of 9/11”. 

The Washington Post, the Times Square Alliance and New York City are treating an Osama bin Laden friend and terror state lobbyist as a journalist, while the Qatar Foundation that ran him sponsored an Islamic figure who mocked the actual murder of journalists by Islamic terrorists. 

The Qatar Foundation had also allegedly hosted Saleh al-Moghamsy, who had praised Osama bin Laden, Abdulaziz al-Fawzan, who had urged "positive hatred" of Christians, and Salman al-Audah, who had accused Jews of baking matzos for Passover with "human blood", claiming that they believe "that this brings them close to their false god.” 

This is what the Washington Post got in bed with when it began publishing the Qatar Foundation’s catspaw. And this is what the rest of the media crawled into bed with when it turned him into a martyr. 

This is the toxic torrent of Jihadist anti-Semitic, anti-Christian filth being celebrated with the ball drop in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. 

When Salman al-Audah was facing the death penalty as part of Saudi Arabia’s new reform initiatives, Qatar’s Al Jazeera informational propaganda network came to his defense, calling the vile bigot a “reformer” and “prominent scholar” who has fallen victim to a crackdown on “dissent” against the Muslim Brotherhood. 

The Saudis have also arrested Abdulaziz al-Fawzan, and Qatari and Muslim Brotherhood fronts have launched a “human rights” campaign in his defense. 

When the media stands on the side of Qatar, this is what it’s supporting. And the stench of Qatari collaboration is worse than even the smell of sweat and urine in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. 

The Qatari terror regime is closely tied to Iran and backs every Islamic terror movement from the Taliban to Hamas. The 9/11 Commission report found that a member of the Qatari royal family had harbored Sheikh Khalid Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on America. 

Abdulkarim al-Thani, a member of Qatar’s royal family, allegedly ran a safe house for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the mastermind of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terror group that eventually turned into ISIS. 

Why bother subjecting tourists from Wisconsin and Texas to multiple screenings to stop ISIS, when you’re using the ball drop as a platform for the political allies and backers of ISIS?
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Friday Med/AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 4, 2019 at 10:13am
TheFrontPageCover
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Mattis Sends Powerful Farewell 
Message On Last Day In Office
by KARA PENDLETON
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Friday Top Headlines
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by Media Editors:  Job growth surges by 312,000 in December (CNBC)
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2018 ends with record employment; participation rate hits Trump-era high (CNSNews)
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Hispanic unemployment rate hits record low (CNSNews)
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Newly empowered House Democrats pass funding plan without wall (Associated Press)
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Articles of impeachment against Trump already in motion as Democrats take over House (The Washington Times)
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Rashida Tlaib calls Trump an expletive during pitch to impeach (Fox News)
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Nancy Pulosi elected speaker of the House (National Review)
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Steve Cohen introduces constitutional amendment to abolish Electoral College (The Washington Times)
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The national debt hit $22 trillion at the end of 2018 (Reason)
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House Democrats overrule commie-Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives, institute “pay as you go” rule (Washington Examiner)
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Washington redefines all semiautomatic rifles as “assault weapons” (Reason)
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Trump’s tariffs are wreaking havoc on farmers (Washington Examiner)
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Teenage girls twice as likely to be depressed due to social media than boys, and it’s not “the patriarchy” (The Independent)
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Russia to deploy precision strike missiles in western Atlantic (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Iran to send warships to the Atlantic, closer to U.S. waters (Reuters)
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Humor: Democrats vow to somehow surpass Republicans in messing everything up (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Universal basic income is a (costly) socialist pipe dream (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Policy: Humanitarian assistance has a terrorism problem. Can it be resolved? (War on the Rocks)  
 
~The Patriot Post
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House Democratic Rules Package Could 
Mean More Spending, Higher Taxes
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As Congress gears up for the new term, the House of Representatives is preparing a vote this week on rules to govern the 116th Congress... A few notable provisions are grabbing the headlines, such as allowing the speaker to “intervene” in challenges to scumbag/liar-nObamacare, establishing a new select committee on climate change, and making it harder to call for a mid-session vote for speaker. But several provisions impact the federal budget, and not for the better. Rather than promoting fiscal restraint, the House is considering rules changes that would move in the opposite direction. The results could mean more deficit spending and higher taxes for many Americans. Here are four proposed rules changes the House should reconsider. 1. Adoption of a “Gephardt rule,” which would allow the House to avoid a direct vote on the debt limit.  2. Eliminating dynamic scoring.  3. Removing supermajority protection against tax increases.  4. Allowing amendments to appropriations bills that increase net spending... Rules changes are an opportunity for Congress to take on more budget restraint and transparency. Here are three alternative rules changes that would further those goals. 1. Account for interest costs when considering legislation.  2. End unauthorized appropriations.  3. Reinstate the Holman rule...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/02/house-democratic-rules-package-could-mean-more-spending-higher-taxes/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpNMVpEZzRObVZsWkRkbSIsInQiOiIzQnlRSE1lVkI1dFBnV2VWK0FqZ1wvSGo1ZkdJXC9yQ09QUmkxZzVvMHl5XC9EUWFyOEVnU1wvVTUxOEh2RGc2Q1BrT2ZZeHhvbGxBb3VrbnlNZWZBQXRXMnhmbmhnRXR0UGlYK1pEREhwSE5SNGc5Wjd1b0cyM255TlUyYnlwUDVtemoifQ%3D%3D 
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House Democrat to introduce 
impeachment measure against Trump
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A California Democrat is wasting no time trying to impeach President Trump as the Democratic Party retakes control of the House... Rep. Brad Sherman plans to reintroduce a measure Thursday — the first day of Democratic control of the chamber — that accuses Trump of obstructing justice in the Russia investigation. Sherman listed the firing of former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey as proof of the alleged obstruction. “There is no reason it shouldn’t be before the Congress,” Sherman said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “Every day, Donald Trump shows that leaving the White House would be good for our country.”Sherman originally introduced the measure in 2017 with Rep. Al Green, D-Texas. “I author Articles of Impeachment not to change our national policy,” Sherman said in a statement at the time. “I served with Mike Pence in Congress for twelve years and I disagree with him on just about everything. I never dreamed I would author a measure that would put him in the White House. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment to begin a long process to protect our country from abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and impulsive, ignorant incompetence.” Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif., said Democrats will have to wait and see what special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller concludes in his investigation before moving on impeachment... Sherman is showing his hatred for Trump. He has no other evidence. 
Mexican Mayor Assassinated First Day In Office
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by TIM BROWN
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ A newly sworn-in mayor in Mexico was assassinated on his first day in office. Alejandro Aparicio Santiago... a member of the National Regeneration Movement, had just taken office in Tlaxiaco when he was attacked. Alejandro Aparicio Santiago had just taken office Tuesday and was walking to his first official meeting at city hall when a group of gunmen opened fire. The mayor died at the hospital, according to The Associated Press. Aparicio was a member of the Mexico's National Regeneration Movement, MORENA, the party of newly elected President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The Oaxaca branch of the party issued condolences and a call for authorities to punish those responsible. A suspect has been taken into custody. Tlaxiaco is the hometown of Yalitza Aparicio, star of the film "Roma." Mexico has seen its share of assassinations of politicians who have been against the crime syndicate. Earlier this year, in June, we reported that 113 Mexican politicians had been killed in less than a year...
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Why America Cannot Afford 
to Pull Out of Afghanistan
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{dailysignal.com} ~ While the White House and U.S. military commanders insist no decision has been made, Washington is alive with speculation... that President Donald Trump intends to order the withdrawal of half of the 14,000 U.S. military personnel currently operating in Afghanistan. The president, who has been critical of the Afghan war in the past, made an abrupt decision to withdraw all U.S. military personnel from Syria last month, so the threat of ordering a similar move in Afghanistan is not a hollow one. It would, however, be a mistake. Each week, a new media outlet trots out a different statistic to show how the Taliban is either gaining ground, losing ground, or has fought the U.S. and Afghan government to a stalemate. The latter is probably the closest to the truth, but even that can be deceiving: A stalemate implies gridlock, but not parity. As several of my Heritage Foundation colleagues recently explained, the Taliban can indeed operate freely in large parts of the rural countryside, but they only “control or influence” areas where 10.5 percent of the Afghan population lives. The government’s writ, meanwhile, extends to areas where 65 percent of the population lives. The rest is contested...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/02/why-america-cannot-afford-to-pull-out-of-afghanistan/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpNMVpEZzRObVZsWkRkbSIsInQiOiIzQnlRSE1lVkI1dFBnV2VWK0FqZ1wvSGo1ZkdJXC9yQ09QUmkxZzVvMHl5XC9EUWFyOEVnU1wvVTUxOEh2RGc2Q1BrT2ZZeHhvbGxBb3VrbnlNZWZBQXRXMnhmbmhnRXR0UGlYK1pEREhwSE5SNGc5Wjd1b0cyM255TlUyYnlwUDVtemoifQ%3D%3D
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New Mexican President Makes 
Bold Move to Reduce Migration to the U.S.

{restoreamericanglory.com} ~ The election of new Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador could prove to be the best thing to happen for the United States since the election of Donald Trump himself... Unlike his predecessor, the man known popularly as AMLO is serious about working with the U.S. to reduce the number of immigrants flowing across the border, and he’s willing to take bold steps towards keeping Mexicans in Mexico. This includes the creation of economic “free zones” along the border, which will hopefully encourage the kind of economic growth that Mexico needs to stay competitive in a global marketplace. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported this week that AMLO has announced The Tax Incentive Decree for the Northern Border Region proposal to attract investments to the area and cut down on the number of Mexicans looking for employment in the United States. Inside the zone, the paper reports, income taxes will be reduced by a third and sales taxes will be slashed in half on imported goods. Minimum wages will go up by 100%, and fuel prices will be cut to match those found in the United States. “It’s going to be the biggest free zone in the world,” AMLO said. “It is very important to project for winning investment, creating jobs and taking advantage of the economic strength of the United States.”AMLO cannot be confused with a “Mexican Donald Trump” as far as policy style goes; he veers to the left while Trump leans to the right. But in their populist styles, they are more similar than they are different, leading many to figure that Trump and AMLO could work better together for the good of both nations. We can question whether what Mexico’s economy needs right now is a kind of heavy-handed, government-funded economic free zone, but if it helps cut down on the number of “economic refugees” that come across the border, it’s all the better for us...  http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/new-mexican-president-makes-bold-move-to-reduce-migration-to-the-u-s/
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Mattis Sends Powerful Farewell 
Message On Last Day In Office
by KARA PENDLETON

{westernjournal.com} ~ There have been a lot of rumors and speculation being floated since news broke that Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis was exiting his role as secretary of defense.

Mattis had huge support from both sides of the aisle when he was first nominated for the position.

He made clear in his resignation letter that he had some disagreement with President Donald Trump over certain decisions. To some this reflected badly on Mattis, but to others it was an honorable thing for him to leave so someone who was on the same page with the commander in chief could serve him better.

Any question about the man’s honor and integrity may be put to rest with his leaked final farewell message to Department of Defense employees. A class act to the end, Mattis did not bash the current administration but offered words of encouragement to the federal workers.

Those powerful words, now leaked, could apply to more than workers he was specifically addressing. Americans everywhere can also find encouragement and hope in his parting message.

Mattis quoted a Civil War telegram from President Abraham Lincoln to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was in his message.

The brief statement began with that quote: “Let nothing which is transpiring, change, hinder, or delay your military movements, or plans.”

He then offered his own words of encouragement.

“Our Department’s leadership, civilian and military, remains in the best possible hands. I am confident that each of you remains undistracted from our sworn mission to support and defend the Constitution while protecting our way of life.”

“Our Department is proven to be at its best when the times are most difficult. So keep the faith in our country and hold fast, alongside our allies, aligned against our foes.”

His words were the polar opposite of those of outgoing President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, who told troops at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida to “speak your mind and protest against” authority. He also spoke to them about their right to “criticize a president without retribution,” which could be taken as encouragement to speak out against then-incoming President Donald Trump. 

In Mattis’s resignation letter he vowed to do all he could to make it a smooth transition for all involved

“I pledge my full effort to a smooth transition that ensures the needs and interests of the 2.15 million Service Members and 732,079 DoD civilians receive undistracted attention of the Department at all times so that they can fulfill their critical, round-the-clock mission to protect the American people.”

His farewell message to the members of the DOD showed that commitment in action. In his resignation, Mattis spoke of waiting until February to leave so there would be sufficient time for the administration to do their part in replacing him.

Initially, Trump echoed Mattis’ leave date. But later that changed.

In Mattis’s resignation letter he vowed to do all he could to make it a smooth transition for all involved

“I pledge my full effort to a smooth transition that ensures the needs and interests of the 2.15 million Service Members and 732,079 DoD civilians receive undistracted attention of the Department at all times so that they can fulfill their critical, round-the-clock mission to protect the American people.”

Mattis’ final memo showed no ill will toward the president, nor did he encourage federal employees to rebel against or “criticize” the president.

His words were encouraging and hopeful. He spoke of DOD employees staying focused on doing their jobs and serving the public, despite any “distractions.”

Regardless of how he may have felt, Mattis remained steadfast in acting with integrity. And that is one of the qualities many have admired in him.
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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 94)

Posted by Jake Martinez on January 4, 2019 at 9:30am

Please Read Part 93:

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 93)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 12, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-93

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that the Steele dossier, a document produced by Christopher Steele at the behest of the Clinton campaign, is ground zero for the Russia conspiracy theory that included a 'doomsday scenario' that is allegedly meant to literally 'tear our country apart.' If True-What's wrong, but not surprising about this picture?-You Decide:

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Was the Russia Conspiracy Hillary Clinton’s Doomsday Scenario? The politician Plan B tearing the country apart!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On December 21, 2018:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272288/was-russia-conspiracy-hillary-clintons-doomsday-daniel-greenfield

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the following recent articles and video relates to and/or further supports the disturbing information revealed in the above thought-provoking article regarding 'Hillary Clinton's Doomsday Scenario'-You Decide:

Jim Kouri

British Spy Confesses He Was Hired By The Democrats To Sabotage Trump!-Posted on News With Views-By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On January 4, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/british-spy-confesses-he-was-hired-by-the-democrats-to-sabotage-trump/

Massive Accusation from VP at ‘The Hill.’ Feds Sitting on Evidence That Would Help Trump Admin!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Benjamin Arie-On January 4, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/massive-accusation-vp-hill-feds-sitting-evidence-help-trump-admin/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=ct-breaking&ff_content=western-journal

House Dems Usher in the Resistance: The donkey party offers nothing but Trump-hating division and economy-crippling socialism!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On January 4, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/60346-house-dems-usher-in-the-resistance?mailing_id=3995&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3995&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

RED ALERT: Trump is in grave danger!-Posted on State of the Nation-On January 3, 2019:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=112556#more-112556

Rep. Rashida Tlaib: 'We're Gonna...Impeach the Motherf*****!'-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On January 4, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/susan-jones/rep-rashida-tlaib-were-gonnaimpeach-motherf

Muslim Democrat Unleashes BLATANTLY Anti-Semitic Slur Against Fellow Colleagues: Get used to it. This is what Democrats voted for…!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On January 7, 2018:

https://flagandcross.com/muslim-democrat-unleashes-blatantly-anti-semitic-slur-against-fellow-colleagues/

Rep. Tlaib, a Boycott-Israel Supporter, Slammed for Saying Pro-Israel Lawmakers Have 'Dual Loyalty'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On January 7, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/rubio-calls-out-bds-supporting-rep-tlaib-over-dual-loyalty-criticism

ICYMI: Muslim Reps. Pictured With Muslim Brotherhood Sympathizer On Day One In Office!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On January 10, 2018:

https://flagandcross.com/icymi-muslim-reps-pictured-with-muslim-brotherhood-sympathizer-on-day-one-in-office/

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Rashida Tlaib’s Progressive Window Dressing: What the Palestinian nationalist is really after!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Pedro Gonzalez-On January 10, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272485/rashida-tlaibs-progressive-window-dressing-pedro-gonzalez

Devvy Kidd

2019: The Year We The People Say No More!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On December 31, 2018:

https://newswithviews.com/2019-the-year-we-the-people-say-no-more/

Kelleigh Nelson

Islam’s Conquest Of America Through Creeping Sharia!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Kelleigh Nelson-On January 8, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/islams-conquest-of-america-through-creeping-sharia/

In Congress, the Inmates are Now Running the Asylum!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Jeff Crouere-On January 5, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/01/05/in-congress-the-inmates-are-now-running-the-asylum/

Trump Digs Up Dirt on Obama and Dems, Decries Campaign Violation Allegations!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On January 5, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/trump-digs-dirt-obama-dems-decries-campaign-violation-allegations/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-CT&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=conservative-tribune

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Hacker group releases ‘9/11 Papers’, says future leaks will ‘burn down’ US deep state!-Posted on News Wars-By Steve Watson | INFOWARS.COM-On January 4, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/hacker-group-releases-9-11-papers-says-future-leaks-will-burn-down-us-deep-state/

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Video: Deep State in Panic Mode After “Dark Overlord” Releases 9/11 Documents!-Posted on News Wars-By The Alex Jones Show Friday, January 4, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/watch-live-deep-state-in-panic-mode-after-dark-overlord-releases-9-11-documents/

From The First Bush Presidency, 9-11, Barack Obama, To Gender Confusion, Decades Of Destruction Of America from Within!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tony Elliott-On January 5, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/from-the-first-bush-presidency-9-11-barack-obama-to-gender-confusion-decades-of-destruction-of-america-from-within/

Video: Ep. 888 The Democrats Are Descending into Madness. The Dan Bongino Show 1/7/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On January 7, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAKRxOZcyO0

Congressional Report Warns Terrorists Have Embedded Themselves in Migrant Caravans!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On January 7, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/congressional-report-warns-terrorists-embedded-migrant-caravans/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

CORRUPTION CHRONICLES

“Crisis” of Seriously Ill Migrants Slams Border Patrol — TB, Pneumonia, Influenza, Parasites!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On January 7, 2018:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2019/01/crisis-of-seriously-ill-migrants-slams-border-patrol-tb-pneumonia-influenza-parasites/

White House Briefing Paper: Border Agents Seized 850 Tons of Drugs; Most Asylum Claims Are Phony!-Posted on The New American-By R. Cort Kirkwood-On January 8, 2018:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/31143-white-house-briefing-on-paper-border-agents-seized-850-tons-of-drugs-most-asylum-claims-are-phony?vsmaid=2860&vcid=7778

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Opposition to A Border Wall Is Opposition to Public Safety: Open borders cost innocent lives!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Michael Cutler-On January 8, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272473/opposition-border-wall-opposition-public-safety-michael-cutler

Obama’s Border Patrol Chief on Wall: ‘I Believe in What the President Is Doing;’ ‘He’s Absolutely Correct’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On January 8, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/obamas-border-patrol-chief-wall-i-believe-what-president-doing-hes-absolutely

Mexican Minister Talks About Securing Her Own Country's Southern Border, to Ensure ‘Legal and Orderly’ Entry!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On January 8, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/mexican-minister-talks-about-securing-her-own-countrys-southern

Watch This ‘Embarrassed Liberal’ Tell Audience Why She’ll Vote for Trump Next Time!-Posted on The Bearded Patriot-By C. DOUGLAS GOLDEN-On January 8, 2018:

https://thebeardedpatriot.com/watch-this-embarrassed-liberal-tell-audience-why-shell-vote-for-trump-next-time/

Alveda King: 2019 New Year Challenges Will Bring Our Nation to Its Knees!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Alveda King-On January 7, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/alveda-king/alveda-king-2019-new-year-challenges-will-bring-our-nation-its-knees

Trump Makes Bold Ultimatum in Prime-Time Immigration Speech!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On January 8, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-makes-bold-ultimatum-prime-time-immigration-speech/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Democrat Response to Trump Border Security Speech Proves They Are All Traitors to the American Republic!-Posted on State of the Nation-On January 8, 2019:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=113197#more-113197

The Humanitarian and Security Crisis on Our Border: A full analysis of Donald Trump's Oval Office address, as well as the Demo rebuttal!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On January 9, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/60434-the-humanitarian-and-security-crisis-on-our-border?mailing_id=4004&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4004&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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Trump’s Wall or the Media’s Wall of Lies: The more Americans die, the more Democrats win!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On January 9, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272498/trumps-wall-or-medias-wall-lies-daniel-greenfield

Video: Watch Carville Dems’ Horrible Response to Trump: Colonoscopies More Exciting Than Schumer!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Malachi Bailey-On January 9, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/watch-carville-dems-horrible-response-trump-colonoscopies-exciting-schumer/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-01-09

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Pelosi Trash-Talks Trump After Brief Meeting!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Cathy Burke-On January 9, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nancy-pelosi-government-shutdown-house-speaker-democrat/2019/01/09/id/897561/

Pelosi's MSM 'Wrap-Up Smear' Collusion Against Trump: It's all about leftists' unquenchable thirst for statist power, and for them, Americans outside the Beltway are just collateral damage in their quest!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On January 9, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/60446-pelosis-msm-wrap-up-smear-collusion-against-trump?mailing_id=4005&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4005&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header

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‘Is MS-13 manufactured?’ Mark Levin blows up Democrat border crisis deniers!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Chris Pandolfo-On January 9, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/is-ms-13-manufactured-mark-levin-blows-up-democrat-border-crisis-deniers/

Fact Check: Real Crisis At Southern Border as Migrants Bring Deadly Diseases and Infections!-Posted on The Political Insider-By J.T.-On January 9, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/southern-border-migrants-deadly-disease-infections/

Shutdown Showdown Is a Barrier to the Wall: By leaving a meeting that was "a total waste of time," Trump set down negotiation markers!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On January 10, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/60460-shutdown-showdown-is-a-barrier-to-the-wall?mailing_id=4007&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4007&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Pelosi: American Deaths 'Not a Justification' for 'Taking Babies Out of Arms of Their Parents'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By  Craig Bannister-On January 10, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/pelosi-american-deaths-not-justification-taking-babies-out-arms-their-parents

‘We Deserve to Be Punished if We Give in Now,’ Sen. Graham Warns GOP About Border Wall Battle!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On January 9, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/we-deserve-be-punished-if-we-give-now-sen-graham-warns-gop-about-border-wall

Video: Ep. 891 There Will Be No Retreat. The Dan Bongino Show 1/10/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On January 10, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alNKM5bgRG8

Trump Cancels Trip to World Economic Forum!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On January 10, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/01/10/trump-cancels-trip-to-world-economic-forum/

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A New National Security Strategy for America: Immigration is America’s top national security threat!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On January 11, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272520/new-national-security-strategy-america-daniel-greenfield

Leftmedia Buzzword of the Week: 'Manufactured Crisis': Barack Obama's Border Patrol chief, Mark Morgan, says the crisis is "not manufactured!"-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On January 11, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/60495-leftmedia-buzzword-of-the-week-manufactured-crisis?mailing_id=4009&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4009&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Video: Ep. 892 What Did They Know And When Did They Know It? The Dan Bongino Show 1/11/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On January 11, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S70Vv28mM40

NYT Inadvertently Exposes FBI's Anti-Trump Bias: The Times reveals a retaliatory FBI investigation into Trump after he fired Comey!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On January 14, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/60525-nyt-inadvertently-exposes-fbis-anti-trump-bias?mailing_id=4013&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4013&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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The Dossier: Two alarming explanations for the FBI Trump-Russia investigation!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Jordan Schachtel-On January 14, 2019: 

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/the-dossier-two-alarming-explanations-for-the-fbi-trump-russia-investigation/

NYT Coverup: FBI Retaliated Against Trump

Video: NYT Coverup: FBI Retaliated Against Trump: Special report reveals the truth behind a recent NYT article!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By Jake Lloyd | Infowars.com-On January 15, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/nyt-coverup-fbi-retaliated-against-trump/

Video: Ep. 896 Did You Miss This Stunning Revelation Yesterday? The Dan Bongino Show 1/17/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On January 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xARLkB7yW6k

What Did Papadopoulos Tell Congress? Of Spies, Emails, And The FBI!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On January 17, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/01/17/what-did-papadopoulos-tell-congress/

Buzzfeed Releases “Bombshell” Report On Trump, Then Admits They Have NOT Seen The Supporting Evidence!-Posted on ILoveMyFreedom.org-By Clayton Keirns-On January 18, 2019:

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/buzzfeed-releases-bombshell-report-on-trump-then-admits-they-dont-have-supporting-evidence/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email

Rep. Ilhan Omar Warns Trump: ‘Tread Lightly, Mr. President’ Regarding ‘New Allegations’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By  Craig Bannister-On January 18, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/rep-ilhan-omar-warns-trump-tread-lightly-mr-president-regarding-new-allegations

Mueller Drops A Nuke After BuzzFeed Says Trump Told Cohen to Lie to Congress!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On January 19, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/mueller-drops-a-nuke-after-buzzfeed-says-trump-told-cohen-to-lie-to-congress/

Video: Trump says its a GREAT DAY for our Country!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On January 19, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9CzBU-joUs

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Devin Nunes: BuzzFeed has staked everything on a 'Russian gambit'!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Daniel Chaitin-On January 21, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-buzzfeed-has-staked-everything-on-a-russian-gambit

Video: Ep. 899 They Can’t Dig Their Way Out of This. The Dan Bongino Show 1/22/2018!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On January 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIe7depsPRI

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The Real Russian Agent: What a special counsel report might look like!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On January 22, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272613/real-russian-agent-lloyd-billingsley

Senator Lindsey Graham to Investigate Obama and Hillary Scandals!-Posted on PJ Media-By Matt Margolis-On January 22, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/senator-lindsey-graham-to-investigate-obama-and-hillary-scandals/

Congress Blindsides Comey And Hillary, New Legislation Delivers Swift Justice!-Posted on ILoveMyFreedom.org-By Martin-On February 5, 2019:

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/congress-blindsides-comey-and-hillary-new-legislation-delivers-swift-justice/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#comments-anchor

Video: Ep. 901 It’s The Biggest Scandal in American History & The Media is Silent.The Dan Bongino Show!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On January 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjHW2-DlVPk

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Roger Stone Arrested by the FBI!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On January 25, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/roger-stone-indicted-mueller/

WOW: President Trump Just Fired Back At Roger Stone Arrest With ONE Question!-Posted on ILoveMy Freedom.org-By Martin-On January 25, 2019:

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/wow-president-trump-just-fired-back-at-roger-stone-arrest-with-one-question/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_social_rail&spotim_referrer=social_rail

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Video: Dershowitz: Mueller Has Found 'Almost No Crimes' From Before Russia Probe Started: Says Mueller not charging collusion-related crimes!-Posted on FoxNews Insider-On January 25, 2019:

https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/01/25/alan-dershowitz-reacts-roger-stone-indictment-typical-robert-mueller

Video: BREAKING: Roger Stone Arrested — Alex Newman Sounds Off!-Posted on The New American-By TNA Video-On January 25, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/31300-christian-gomez-alex-newman-roger-stone-arrested?vsmaid=3122&vcid=7778

Trump seeks to shift narrative after Stone indictment!-Posted on The Hill-By Chris Mills Rodrigo-On January 26, 2019:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/427089-trump-seeks-to-shift-narrative-after-stone-indictment

Video: Ep. 902 Mueller Doubles Down on Police State Tactics. The Dan Bongino Show 1/25/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On January 25, 2019:

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

SCORCHER: Judge Jeanine Takes A Flamethrower To Mueller Over ‘Gestapo Tactics’!-Posted on ILoveMyFreedom.org-By Chris Donaldson-On January 27, 2019:

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/scorcher-judge-jeanine-takes-a-flamethrower-to-mueller-over-gestapo-tactics/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email

Video: Hillary's INSIDER on Mueller Witch Hunt!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On January 29, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFlMqssoRc4

Tucker Carlson: Mueller is a ‘threat to our democracy’

Tucker Carlson: Mueller is a ‘threat to our democracy’!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On January 29, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/tucker-carlson-mueller-threat.htm

Lindsey Graham Sends FIERY Letter to FBI After Roger Stone Arrest, Demands Answers!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On January 31, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/lindsey-graham-sends-fiery-letter-to-fbi-after-roger-stone-arrest-demands-answers/

Video: We've nailed Hillary and Mueller in the act!! UNBELIEVEABLE!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On February  8, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUG3H5dtVQA

BOOM: New Evidence DESTROYS Adam Schiff’s Collusion Claim About Don Jr., Trump Tower Meeting!-Posted on ILoveMyFreedom.org-On February 1, 2019:

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/boom-new-evidence-destroys-adam-schiffs-collusion-claim-about-don-jr-trump-tower-meeting/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email

Collusion? Rep. Adam Schiff Met with Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson in Aspen Last July

Collusion? Rep. Adam Schiff Met with Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson in Aspen Last July!-Posted on PJ Media-By Debra Heine-On February 8, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/collusion-rep-adam-schiff-met-with-fusion-gps-founder-glenn-simpson-in-aspen-last-july/

ADAM SCHIFF: Deep State Agent, Serial Leaker and Traitor to the Republic!-Posted on State of the Nation-On February 13, 2019:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=116341#more-116341

Video: No one goes to jail in the swamp because it is legal to lie!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On February 1, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyiioZ9owh8

MULEgate: Mueller is destroying the rule of law, Replacing it with the rule of the jungle!-Posted on State of the Nation-On January 25, 2019:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=114665#more-114665

Kelleigh Nelson

Mueller’s Goon Squads: Injustice, Destruction And Devastation!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Kelleigh Nelson-On January 18, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/muellers-goon-squads-injustice-destruction-and-devastation/

8 Takeaways From Acting AG Whitaker’s House Judiciary Committee Hearing!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH-On February 8, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/08/8-takeaways-from-acting-ag-whitakers-house-judiciary-committee-hearing/

Jon Solomon argues the case for Democrat-Russia collusion in new op-ed

Bartiromo: “Collusion” on “the Democrat Side”: Is Mueller Investigating?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On February 10, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/02/10/bartiromo-collusion-on-the-democrat-side/

Video: Trump is winning in the swamp!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On February 10, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xPI9UQVvOE

Veteran Formally Accuses Obama & Mueller Of Treason!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On February 11, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/veteran-formally-accuses-obama-mueller-of-treason/

Documents: FBI Counsel Spoke To Hillary Clinton Attorney About Comey Letter!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On February 13, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/government-watchdog-fbi-counsel-spoke-to-hillary-clinton-attorney-about-comey-letter/

Video: Citizens Charge James Comey with 28 Counts of Treason (1-8)!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On February 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGyKr80LJW8

DOJ Considered Recruiting Mike Pence to Remove Trump from Office!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Jim E-On February 14, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/doj-remove-trump-andrew-mccabe/

Devin Nunes and Andrew McCabe

Devin Nunes says Andrew McCabe has it backwards: The real 'terror' came from the FBI, DOJ!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Daniel Chaitin-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-says-andrew-mccabe-has-it-backwards-the-real-terror-came-from-the-fbi-doj

Andrew McCabe Should Face Charges Of Sedition, Not Start Road Trip For Book Tour!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Wayne Dupree | Featured Contributor-On February 14, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/andrew-mccabe/

Contemplating a Coup D'etat to Take Down Trump: Eight days in May — the government conspiracy to remove Donald Trump from office!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On February 15, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/61189-contemplating-a-coup-detat-to-take-down-trump?mailing_id=4081&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4081&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Lindsey Graham: Talk About Removing Trump Will Be Probed in Hearing

Lindsey Graham: Talk About Removing Trump Will Be Probed in Hearing!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On February 17, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lindsey-graham-probe-rosenstein-mccabe/2019/02/17/id/903114/

McCabe vs. Rosenstein on 25th Amendment Coup: Did the DOJ seriously consider removing Trump? McCabe now says, "Not really"!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On February 18, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61223-mccabe-vs-rosenstein-on-25th-amendment-coup?mailing_id=4085&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4085&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Video: Dem Mob Launching Trump Indictment Frenzy: Liberal politicians obsess over impeaching Trump!-Posted on News Wars-By Jon Bowne | INFOWARS.COM-On February 11, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/dem-mob-launching-trump-indictment-frenzy/

Senate Dems Finally Forced to Admit There’s No Evidence of Russia Collusion!-Posted on The Dan Bongino Show-By Team Bongino-On February 12, 2019:

https://bongino.com/senate-dems-finally-forced-to-admit-theres-no-evidence-of-russia-collusion/

Trump Celebrates Senate Committee Finding ‘NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION,’ Gives Rare Thanks to MSNBC!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On February 13, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-celebrates-senate-committee-finding-no-evidence-collusion-gives-rare-thanks-msnbc/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Video: No Russia Collusion. Senate finds ZILCH!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8hHZ7w7nm8

Media Art

Trump's Former Lawyer Predicts He Will be Cleared by Mueller!-Posted on TTN-By TTN Staff-On February 12, 2019:

http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/trump-s-former-lawyer-predicts-he-will-be-cleared-by-mueller#6TxCKivtk20EugFQ.99

Angry Americans Demand DNC Pay Back Money Spent On Russia Collusion Investigation!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On February 13, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/angry-americans-demand-dnc-pay-back-money-spent-on-russia-collusion-investigation/

Senate Confirms William Barr, Trump’s Attorney General Nominee!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Connor D. Wolf, LifeZette-On February 14, 2019:  

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/william-barr-confirm/

Video: Who is William Barr? Response to Bill Still!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Kevin Shipp-On January 23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pagmTzeWF8A

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Five things to watch as Barr takes the reins of Justice, Mueller probe!-Posted on The Hill-By Morgan Chalfant-On February 18, 2019:

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/430283-five-things-to-watch-as-barr-takes-the-reins-of-justice-mueller

Trump loyalist Matt Schlapp suggests Mueller will be fired with William Barr in charge!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Caitlin Yilek-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-loyalist-matt-schlapp-suggests-mueller-will-be-fired-with-william-barr-in-charge

Immigration is the seminal issue of our time!-Posted on BobLivingstonLetter.com-By Bob Livingston-On January 13, 2019:

https://boblivingstonletter.com/alerts/immigration-is-the-seminal-issue-of-our-time/

America Has Spoken: Trump’s Border Wall Approval Reaches All-Time High!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Benjamin Arie-On January 13, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/america-spoken-trumps-border-wall-approval-reaches-time-high/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=ct-breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Terrorism suspect caught at U.S.-Mexico border roils immigration debate!-Posted on GOPUSA-By Washington Times-On January 22, 2019:

http://www.gopusa.com/?p=63839?omhide=true

Muslim Man Busted After Planning to Bomb White House with Anti-Tank Rocket: How would liberals have reacted if it happened?-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On January 17, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/muslim-man-busted-after-planning-to-bomb-white-house-with-anti-tank-rocket/

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Two Sinaloa Cartel Smugglers Caught near U.S. with Weapons Cache!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Robert Arce-On January 17, 2018:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/01/17/two-sinaloa-cartel-smugglers-caught-near-u-s-with-weapons-cache/

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Tijuana: 17 Murders in 28 Hours — 153 in January!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Robert Arce-On January 22, 2018:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/01/22/tijuana-17-murders-in-28-hours-153-in-january/

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

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

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

Kelleigh Nelson

Psychotic Left Goes Berserk Over President’s Border Speech!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Kelleigh Nelson-On January 15, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/psychotic-left-goes-berserk-over-presidents-border-speech/

Soros-Backed Domestic Terrorist Groups Planning to Use Violence to Force Trump From Office!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On January 12, 2019:

https://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/soros-backed-domestic-terrorist-groups-planning-to-use-violence-to-force-trump-from-office/

Trump Derangement Syndrome Turns Liberals Into Hawks!-Posted on State of the Nation-On January 14, 2019:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=113646#more-113646

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The Trump 'Resistance': Trump-haters' love affair with leftist racists!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Larry Elder-On January 14, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272540/trump-resistance-larry-elder

MLK v the Democrat Party: Black Americans are recognizing that Democrats have turned MLK's dream into a nightmare!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On January 16, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/60585-mlk-v-the-democrat-party?mailing_id=4019&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4019&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header

Allen West: Would Dr. King Be Happy or Shedding Tears for the Black Community Today?-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Allen West-On January 21, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/allen-west/allen-west-would-dr-king-be-happy-or-shedding-tears-black-community-today

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Here's What You Need To Know About The Confrontation Between Covington Catholic Students And Native American Protesters: A media disaster!-Posted on The Daily Wire-By Emily Zanotti/@emzanotti-On January 20, 2019:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/42416/heres-what-you-need-know-about-confrontation-emily-zanotti

Hollywood Libs, Leftists Call for MAGA Kids To Be Burned Alive, Woodchippered, Sex Assaulted: Reports!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On January 21, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/hollywood-libs-leftists-call-maga-kids-burned-alive-woodchippered-sex-assaulted-reports/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-01-21

Video: MAGA Kids Harassing Native American Hoax Blows Up in MSM’s Face!-Posted on News Wars-By Infowars.com-On January 21, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/maga-kids-harassing-native-american-hoax-blows-up-in-msms-face/

Former Obama Official Calls out “Republicans” Claiming Obama “not Born in America”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On January 3, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/01/03/former-obama-official-calls-out-republicans-claiming-obama-not-born-in-america/

Please Read Part 95:

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 95)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 17, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-95

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

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

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

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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...

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

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

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

4063360053?profile=originalThe Fightin Side of Me!

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

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

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

“Food for Thought”

4063359991?profile=originalHello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Against The Deplorable Obstructionists That Are Doing Their Utmost To Take Down Our Democratically Elected President, His Administration and Ultimately Destroy our Country/Republic?-God Bless America!

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.
Semper Fi!
Jake
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Friday EXTRA ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 4, 2019 at 9:11am
House Conservatives Launch a Petition 
Drive in Support of Border Wall
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by Susan Jones
{cnsnews.com} ~ "How many more times can we say no? Nothing for the wall," presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pulosi (D-Calif.) told NBC's "Today" show... in an interview that aired on Thursday. Two House Republicans, in response, said Democrats like Pulosi are more intent on frustrating the president than they are on serving the country's best interests: "I say, let's take the case to the American people," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Fox News Wednesday night. Appearing with Jordan, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said most Americans want a safer community and a secure border. He announced that Republicans have just launched a petition drive in support of the border wall: We've opened up borderwallnow.com, where we're encouraging grass roots across the country -- just started today -- where they go in and sign a petition and say we are standing with the president, we want border security. But it's really going to be your viewers and people like them across the country that have to speak up...https://borderwallnow.com/bsn06/s
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 4, 2019 at 8:10am
TheFrontPageCover
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About That Crazy Cabinet Meeting...
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by Nate Jackson  
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Senate approves 77 Trump nominations 
in end-of-Congress deal
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by Alex Swoyer
{washingtontimes.com} ~ The Senate approved 77 Trump nominations in an end-of-Congress deal Wednesday night, filling out the ranks of federal prosecutors, ambassadors, the White House science adviser and the post of anti-drug czar — but no new judges... The deal came on the final day of the 115th Congress, with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, standing alone on the chamber floor, reading out the nomination numbers then confirming them by voice vote. The move caps what’s been an extraordinary two years of both unprecedented action and obstruction, and presages battles still to come over the next two years. First up will be a decision for Mr. Trump on some 300 or so nominations that still languish, including more than 85 judicial picks that never saw final action. Under normal rules, all of those will expire at the end of the old Congress, marking a victory for liberal activists who’d warned Democratic leaders against any en masse approvals. Mr. Trump can renominate them in the new Congress, where many will again face Democratic delays. But the president’s backers are getting restless and one of them says he should be more aggressive and flex his recess appointment powers, installing a bunch of picks in the time between the end of the old Congress  on Thursday and the convening of the new one...  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/2/senate-approves-77-trump-nominations-in-end-of-con/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=7vwEbDaER1WGGmy7Vc%2Fk%2BiegwwyeUY0WTKQgg%2BwiVqdT9tN8PLByHJwt0f%2FNHan1&bt_ts=1546481069451
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Dems ready new/old plan for border security
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ How will the standoff over funding President Trump's proposed border wall end? Possibly the same way previous immigration impasses have ended... with a flood of money, celebration of whiz-bang technology, and little new in the way of actual physical barriers to stop illegal border crossings. The latest clues come from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the four-term Democratic congressman from New York who will become chair of the House Democratic Caucus starting Thursday. Jeffries appeared on CNN Wednesday morning and was asked what border security measures Democratic leaders would approve, given their  opposition to spending $5 billion on a wall. Well, in the bill that we're going to put on the floor tomorrow," Jeffries responded, "we're going to allocate $1.3 billion in additional funding to allow for enhanced technology, cellphone towers, satellites, drones, enhanced fencing, increased communication capability, the things that the experts have said are necessary to improve border security." CNN anchor John Berman pursued Jeffries' mention of "enhanced fencing." What did that mean? "If you are willing to have, you know, smart, big fences with all kinds of technology, isn't there room to negotiate between that and concrete?" Berman asked. "Well, there are areas along the border where there are currently fences that are put up, or barriers that are put up that need to be enhanced, and consistent with what the policy experts have said are helping to improve our security along the border," Jeffries answered... In other words no walls.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-democrats-ready-new-old-plan-for-border-security
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Republican Chair Goes After Her Uncle rino-Mitt Romney
for ‘Disappointing’ Attack on Trump
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by Randy DeSoto 
{westernjournal.com} ~ Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel chastised her uncle, GOP Senator-elect rino-Mitt Romney of Utah... for a Washington Post Op-Ed he wrote which is highly critical of President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, McDaniel tweeted, “POTUS is attacked and obstructed by the MSM media and Democrats 24/7. For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive.”The GOP chair included Trump’s tweet addressing rino-Romney’s Tuesday Op-Ed, in which the president said: “Here we go with rino-Mitt Romney, but so fast! Question will be, is he a rino-Flake? I hope not. Would much prefer that rino-Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful. I won big, and he didn’t. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be a TEAM player & WIN!” In rino-Romney’s scathing piece, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee wrote that Trump’s “conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.” “A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect,” rino-Romney added...  https://www.westernjournal.com/republican-chair-goes-uncle-mitt-romney-disappointing-attack-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Liberals Are Off To A Bad Start In 2019  
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by Derek Hunter
{dailycaller.com} ~ On today’s packed Daily Daily Caller Podcast we can’t help but notice how liberals are not off to the best start for 2019... Utah Senator-Elect rino-Mitt Romney sounded like a liberal when he attacked President Donald Trump’s character in The Washington Post. The 2016 campaign of commie-Bernie Sanders is facing allegations of sexual harassment and sexual violence. More tear gas is deployed on the border. The Women’s March is falling apart as marches are being canceled across the country. Minority lawmakers in New York live large off a charity that doesn’t do any charity work and much, much more.  rino-Mitt Romney won’t be sworn in as Utah’s junior senator until tomorrow, but he’s already attacking the president. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, rino-Romney attacks the president as a man of low character, pledging essentially to become the new rino-John McCain — the Republican who spends a lot of time attacking other Republicans to the delight of the media. We dissect rino-Mitt’s complaints. Apparently the 2016 presidential campaign of commie-Bernie Sanders was a rolling party of sexual harassment and violence, according to former campaign staff. What took so long? And what the hell was going on in the commie-Sanders campaign if a group of staffers are coming out with this now? They don’t give any specifics, but they do what liberals always do when bringing these sorts of allegations to light — blame everyone. We tell you how and rip it all apart...
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About That Crazy Cabinet Meeting...
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by Nate Jackson:  We’ve written many times about President Donald Trump’s extraordinary record of implementing remarkably conservative policies. Not everything he’s touched is gold, but his record is quite good. We’ve also noted that one of the biggest hurdles to his agenda is that he gets in his own way. That was seemingly the case with his Cabinet meeting Wednesday.

             The rabidly anti-Trump Washington Post ran what was framed as a news story but was really another editorial in disguise. That said, the paper wasn’t wrong in its lede: “President Trump, 12 days into a government shutdown and facing new scrutiny from emboldened Democrats, inaugurated the new year Wednesday with a Cabinet meeting. It quickly became a 95-minute stream-of-consciousness defense of his presidency and worldview, filled with falsehoods, revisionist history and self-aggrandizement.”
               Two comments in particular highlighted the problem with Trump’s freewheeling rhetorical style. Of former Defense Secretary James Mattis, Trump declared, “What’s he done for me? How had he done in Afghanistan? Not too good. … I’m not happy with what he’s done in Afghanistan. I want results.” Then Trump posited, “I think I would have been a good general, but who knows?”
               Maybe if Trump hadn’t received five draft deferments from serving in Vietnam we’d see how he compared to Gen. Mattis’s lifetime of dedicated service to our nation. In any case, the commander-in-chief should not be so condescending and arrogant toward career uniformed Patriots.
               Trump’s comments about the Soviets in Afghanistan also merit a facepalm. “Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia, because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan,” Trump said, arguing that’s why American should pull out of long and expensive wars. But the Soviet Union became Russia again because of Ronald Reagan’s successful efforts to win the Cold War.
               Moreover, Trump continued, “The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there.” Wrong. The Washington Examiner’s Quin Hillyer explains why: “The invasion was an application of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which promised the use of Soviet armed force to crush any attempt to roll back communism or attain human rights, anywhere the Kremlin considered within the Soviet sphere of influence. The doctrine was, in a word, evil. Tens of millions of people had human rights, or hopes for them, destroyed, and of course many thousands lost their lives.”
               Trump either doesn’t understand this or, as he is wont to do, he gets himself tied in rhetorical BS knots because he rambles — especially when on the defensive.
               But never mind all that. Trump asserted, “They say I am the most popular president in the history of the Republican Party.” There are indeed metrics by which that might be true.
               A final note: We’re often accused of being “too anti-Trump,” and this piece probably serves as evidence to those folks that we’re no different than rino-Mitt Romney. But we’re also accused of being “too pro-Trump,” which is a good way to remind readers that we endeavor simply to call it like it is. Our mission is to advocate Liberty and constitutional government. When Trump aligns with that, great. When he doesn’t — or when he gets in his own way — we’ll call him out for it. That isn’t “anti” or “pro” — it’s just the truth.  ~The Patriot Post

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The Mainstream Media’s Blurred 20/20 Vision

Posted by Craig Andresen on January 4, 2019 at 6:32am

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

MYPOIC-1.jpg?width=186Obviously, there has been a mountain of things going on in the world over the past couple of weeks, and in a 24/7 news cycle, one would think that the mainstream media would have plenty of hard-hitting, current and relevant things to cover.

Take ABC’s news magazine, 20/20 for instance…

The name of the program suggests it has a clear, sharp vision of what’s important, relevant and news worthy. One would expect current topics, in-depth analysis and introspective investigative reporting…right?

Well…before I tell you what they hyped since Christmas for their first show of the new year this Friday, January 4th, 2019…let me tell you a few of the things they didn’t cover on that show.

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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 3, 2019 at 5:37pm
TheFrontPageCover
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The Left's Strange Alliance
With Islam
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by Culture Beat  
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Syria Was Never a Just War
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ “Moral factors cannot be ignored in war . . . Moral elements are among the most important in war,” wrote Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz... “Without just cause nothing that follows can be justified, even if it can be more and less virtuous,” writes ethicist Nigel Biggar in his book In Defence of War. Almost unique among modern ethicists, the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford University presents a forceful case against the pacifist “virus of wishful thinking.” He even contends, rather provocatively, that the 2003 Iraq invasion was justified. Biggar rejects “Hobbesian realism” and declares himself an adherent of “Augustinian realism,” drawing deeply on the Augustinian tradition of Just War. There are times when war can be and indeed should be the moral response to grave wrongdoing. The most serious flaw in the West’s intervention in Syria’s civil and religious war for that is what it is is our lack of justification for the morality of going to war with Assad and sending American troops to Syria in the first place. Pragmatic arguments about regional politics and supporting the Kurds are valid but not sufficient to go to war or to expend American lives in theatre. At the end of the day, “there are no good guys in an Islamic civil war,” writes Daniel Greenfield. Moreover, “there are no innocent victims in an Islamic civil war because neither side believes in anything except demonstrating the Allahu Akbaring supremacy of their religious doctrine by subjugating the other,” he adds. Hence exploring the moral question becomes an even greater imperative. So far, no religious or political leader has argued persuasively the morality of even one of the six criteria of the Just War model to justify the morality of our intervention in Syria...  https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272367/syria-was-never-just-war-jules-gomes
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Why Isn’t the Largest Terror-Funding 
Case Being Prosecuted?
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{clarionproject.org} ~ Clarion Project’s National Security Analyst and Director of the Clarion Intelligence Network Ryan Mauro personally worked on a case... that would have been the largest terror-funding case in the U.S. The case involved Islamic Relief, one of the world’s largest Islamic “charities.” After his briefing, three government agencies were prepared to go ahead with prosecution, but the scumbag/liar-nObama administration declined. Find out why in this interview with Mauro below and see if the Trump administration has picked up the ball.
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Europe's New "Munich": Iran
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In the choice between greed and values, Europe is approaching an existential crossroads with Iran. Europe is both undermining its credibility and surrendering its principles... For Western governments to defend the interests of businesses is normal. But to betray the Iranian people, who are repressed  by their own regime; to undermine Israel's concerns about Iran's all too real threats of annihilation; to beg for an accord that fast-tracks Iran's nuclear weapons capability, and to  boycott efforts by the US administration to hold the Iranian regime accountable for its actions -- these are not normal. They are lethal. The Iranian leadership has long called for the destruction of Israel -- the country, along with Saudi Arabia, most at risk from a nuclearized and aggressive Islamic Republic. In November, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, who has been hailed by the media as a "moderate", called Israel a "cancerous tumor in the region." A few months earlier, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted similar remarks: "#Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen." In early November, Hamas, one of Iran's terror proxies, fired hundreds of rockets from Gaza into southern Israel. Brian Hook, the US Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State and Special Representative for Iran explained...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13380/europe-iran-appeasement
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No Sharia in America
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{americanthinker.com} ~ Every liberal media outlet is celebrating the election of two Muslim women to Congress -- Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Since they both wear the traditional hijab... Nancy Pulosi will move to repeal a 180-year rule prohibiting head coverings on the floor of Congress. Some suggested that all the women in Congress wear the hijab in solidarity with their new Muslim colleagues. A CNN anchor suggested two years ago that all American women wear the hijab in solidarity with Muslim women against a Trump presidency. I commented on my radio show that if the women wear the hijab on the floor of Congress, it will look like an Islamic republic. The mainstream media went wild, depicting me as a raving lunatic, while portraying the newly elected Muslims as courageous representatives of American diversity. Both women will be sworn in on the Koran, and Tlaib will wear a Palestinian robe to show she is firmly in the anti-Israel camp. What a surprise. By the way, it is interesting to note that Jews have served in Congress since the early 1800s and there has been no Jewish push to allow wearing the yarmulke. Learning of my comments, Ms. Omar responded, “The floor of Congress will look like America. Just deal.” First, most American women do not wear Islamic headdress. I have no idea what “Just deal” means. I do know that wrapping leftist ideology in a hijab doesn’t make it right or good for America. It is clear that Ilhan Omar is an America-hating leftist who is using her religion to win sympathy as a victim. Muslims have not been victims of Americans. It is the other way around. Islamists killed 3000 of our people on 9/11 and have killed many more in other terrorist attacks. Yet, by her own admission, after 9/11, Omar did not start an anti-terrorist movement within Islam. She did not express mourning over the deaths of fellow citizens. Instead she played the Muslim victim and decided to start wearing her hijab to express pride in her Islamic identity...
ISIS Terror Threats 2019: ‘We’re Coming to America’
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{clarionproject.org} ~ ISIS reacted with glee to the news of President Donald Trump’s planned withdrawal of American troops from Syria, promising that in 2019... ISIS terror threats will “come to America,” PJ Media reported. In a new video, ISIS vowed its power would resurge in 2019 just like it did when former president scumbag/liar-nObama pulled U.S. troops out of Iraq. The video, It’s Still Burning a reference to the group’s previous two “Flames of War” videos mocked Trump for saying, “We have won against ISIS.” “They have anticipated they can’t fight against us forever,” the video intones, showing scumbag/liar-nObama calling U.S. troops home from Iraq. “They keep repeating the same self-defeating behaviors.” “We tell the Americans, the protectors of the Jews and the Crusader protector, whether you withdrew or not our victory is in our continuation. “Even if you withdraw, you will return soon. If you cannot turn back, we will invade you from everywhere and you will hear our footsteps on the ground. The fighting has just begun and we are confident of victory from Allah.”...  https://clarionproject.org/isis-terror-threats-2019/
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The Left's Strange Alliance With Islam
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by Culture Beat:  Following the West’s near-universal acceptance of postmodernism, in which Enlightenment values that championed the rights of the individual have been eroded into near obscurity in the face of leftists’ incessant demands for “social justice” for various “oppressed” identity groups, an unusual and unlikely alliance has been created. Leftists have clasped hands with Islamists in their effort to overthrow the “patriarchy” of the Enlightened West.

             The Federalist’s Mahir Ahmed notes the irony, writing, “Of all the ideologies the left has aligned itself with through minority representation, I find the strangest of all to be Islam. The left’s alliance with Islam is unique, not only because Islam is at odds with Enlightenment values, as most collectivist systems are, but mainly because Islam is at odds with rights the left pride themselves in protecting.”
               Ahmed continues, “Ex-Muslims, LGBT Muslims, and independent, dissenting Muslim women have always had to fear for their lives, and they continue to do so today in Muslim-majority countries. It is extremely strange that the same left that used to defend human rights worldwide somehow decided to align itself with Islam, only to help further endanger the lives of dissenting individuals within the Muslim community, not only in Muslim-majority countries, but even here in the West.”
               The obvious question arises: What is the endgame for leftists who so willingly embrace Islam, which itself promotes a value systems that runs counter to almost everything the Left claims to value? The modern Left has become so obsessed in its commitment to destroy capitalism and the Western “patriarchy” that it has willingly and eagerly aligned itself with a medieval-era monster that will turn and eat it at the first opportunity.
               The Left warns of the danger posed by a nonexistent Judeo-Christian “theocracy” while at the same time blindly embracing an alliance with a worldview that fundamentally rejects the concept of the separation of church mosque and state. As Ahmed concludes, “The message I am trying to convey here is not about waging war against Islam. It is rather about going back to the basics of Enlightenment values, and to set the individual above all else. It is about pushing back against granting Islam immunity from criticism.”
               In reality, it’s no surprise to see leftists fighting against the very values system that gave them a right to free thought in the first place.  ~The Patriot Post

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Thus Med/PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 3, 2019 at 3:40pm
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rino-Romney Rants His Way Into the Senate
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by Harold Hutchison  
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Dems ‘Refused’ To Even Listen 
To Border Security Briefing At White House  
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by Saagar Enjeti
{dailycaller.com} ~ Democratic lawmakers brought a border security briefing at the White House to a screeching halt Wednesday... refusing to even listen to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a White House official tells The Daily Caller.  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy echoed this version of events to reporters outside the White House immediately after the briefing, saying, “Once the secretary started, scumbag/clown-Schumer interrupted her and didn’t want to hear it.”  Republican and Democratic lawmakers after the meeting indicated little progress was made toward ending the partial government shutdown and that they agreed to reconvene Friday. The White House official says there was a consensus in the room that negotiations would be put on hold until Pulosi officially assumed her expected role of Speaker. The White House official told TheDC that both Pulosi and scumbag/clown-Schumer refused to hear out Nielsen’s briefing and instead advocated for two solutions to end the government shutdown. Neither of the Democratic options would provide the additional funding for border security requested by The White House...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/02/democrats-refuse-briefing-nielsen/?utm_medium=email
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Iran Hosts Palestinian Terror Group, 
Sparking Fears of New Attacks
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ Iranian leaders recently hosted a delegation of leading Palestinian terrorists, affirming the Islamic Republic's commitment to funding anti-Israel terror groups... and sparking consternation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and fears that Iran is plotting a renewed wave of terror attacks. On the heels of the Trump administration announcing its intent to pull U.S. forces out of Syria and Afghanistan—a move celebrated by regional jihadist groups—senior Iranian officials hosted a delegation of leaders from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, a State Department-sanctioned terror group that has used Iranian dollars to fund deadly attacks. Multiple U.S officials tracking the situation—which comes amid waves of uncertainty in the American foreign policy establishment, as Trump pushes forward with a regional withdrawal that would leave Russia and Iran as top power brokers—expressed fears that Iran is plotting with its Palestinian terror proxies to launch new waves of attack on the Jewish state. Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants have been amassing arms on Israel's northern border, where Iran maintains a significant presence in Lebanon and Syria, and Palestinian militants backed by Tehran have been launching near-daily attacks on Israel's border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip...  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-hosts-palestinian-terror-group-sparking-fears-of-new-attacks/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8f00706af5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_03_12_05_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8f00706af5-45611665
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McConnell Calls House Dem 
Funding Proposal A ‘Non-Starter’
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by Kerry Picket 
{dailycaller.com} ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Wednesday rejected incoming House Democrats’ government funding proposal... calling it a “non-starter” if the Democrats do not “get serious about border security.” McConnell went to the floor of the Senate and reminded his Democratic colleagues that any proposal passed in the House will need 60 votes to pass the upper chamber as well as receive a presidential signature. “All three of these things are needed. One partisan vote in the House tomorrow won’t solve anything. The legislation that House Democrats are reportedly planning to introduce would not be a serious contribution to these negotiations,” he said. He added, “It isn’t comprehensive. It ignores the needs of border security. It’s exactly the kind of proposal you’d expect if the incoming House Democrats were choosing to stage a political sideshow rather than do the hard work of helping to govern the country. A total non-starter.”...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/02/mcconnell-dem-funding-proposal-non-starter/?utm_medium=email
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Lindsey Graham, Other Republicans Attack 
rino-Mitt Romney For Anti-Trump Op-Ed 
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by Benny Johnson
{dailycaller.com} ~ South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham had harsh words for his fellow Utah Republican Sen.-elect rino-Mitt Romney on Wednesday... after the newly elected senator wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post attacking President Donald Trump’s character. Graham joined Brian Kilmeade on Fox News radio to discuss the incoming senator’s op-ed and Graham did not hold back. When asked about the wisdom of rino-Romney publishing such a piece so early into his time in Washington, Graham said bluntly, “Well, how does it work to the advantage of the people of Utah?” Graham said he knows rino-Romney well.“He decided to go back into public service; I’m glad he did,” Graham said of rino-Romney. “Now, what drove him back into public service? Was it to be a foe of President Trump? I hope not because I don’t think the people of Utah voted for him to do that.”...
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Fracking Bust? Shale Wells Across 
US Churning Out Less Oil Than Projected  
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by Jason Hopkins
{dailycaller.com} ~ The implementation of hydraulic fracturing has helped propel the U.S. into an energy superpower... but there are signs that the fracking boom might not be as productive as developers assumed. The U.S. surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia in September to become the largest oil producer in the world. The historic milestone came as American oil production roughly doubled over the course of just eight years. While the fracking boom predates President Donald Trump’s time in office, the gains in production were aided in the Trump administration’s aggressive regulatory  rollback and streamline of drilling permits that encouraged development on federal lands. The U.S. shale boom has even rivaled the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) influence on the market, with the international oil cartel being forced to work around the vast increase in supply. However, an investigation by The Wall Street Journal suggests that thousands of shale wells in the U.S. are not yielding as much as developers originally projected to their investors...
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rino-Romney Rants His Way Into the Senate
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by Harold Hutchison:  To be a conservative in the Trump Era is … interesting, in the sense of the saying, “May you live in interesting times.” In some ways, it’s a balancing act — of supporting President Donald Trump’s policies while trying to reconcile that with his glaring character flaws. This balancing act can be very tricky, and newly elected Utah Sen. rino-Mitt Romney has mishandled that balance.

             In a Washington Post op-ed, rino-Romney hit Trump over his character deficiencies. Memo to rino-Romney: Everyone knew what those flaws were; they were baked into the cake in 2016, as they are today. Anyone who followed celebrity gossip over the last 30 years knew Trump was a womanizer. He’s rude and bombastic — or, some could say, a typical New Yorker. Indeed, rino-Romney weighed in on Trump in much the same way in a 2016 speech.
               But, again, all of that was weighed prior to the 2016 election, which Trump won. Primarily, that victory was because of the political conditions at the time. Far too many conservatives who declared themselves “Never Trump” ignored those conditions, part of a pattern of tactical and strategic incompetence that has at best delayed the achievement of conservative objectives and the advancement of conservative principles.
               Looking at the actions of Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York, where the power of the state government is being turned on opponents of his anti-Second Amendment and  ecofascist policies, concerns about free speech were arguably understated. The fact that the National Enquirer’s editorial decisions have become fodder for a federal investigation should also raise red flags. So should Silicon Valley’s decision to censor conservative arguments. Too many Republican leaders — including rino-Romney — were unwilling to fight these battles.
               As another example, NATO dawdled for over a decade on reaching the agreed-upon military spending level of 2% of GDP. Along the way, America was treated to a complete lack of military readiness on Germany’s part, and Canada was in bad shape, too. Trump’s “get tough” attitude yielded the results two previous presidents failed to achieve.
               For all of Trump’s flaws, he got results. In 2012, rino-Romney was a gentleman, even as Democrats smeared him as a racist Hitler wannabe. He lost. rino-John McCain went so far as to admonish his own supporters for attacks on Barack scumbag/liar-nObama he felt were unfair. His repayment for that personal decency was to be labeled a racist and “out of touch.” He lost, too.
               Furthermore, rino-Romney is being very naive if he thinks the folks who viciously trashed him in 2012 have had a true change of heart. Does he really believe that, had he won the 2012 election, he would not be facing a form of “the Resistance” due to the “racism” of beating the first (half) black president in an election?
               No conservative denies that the country would have been better off had rino-Mitt Romney won the 2012 election. It would have been even better off had he won the 2008 nomination and election. But it’s worth remembering that if he had shown the Democrats or the Leftmedia a tenth of the fight that Donald Trump is showing today, he very well could have won either of those elections. A little righteous anger toward dinky-Harry Reid and Candy Crowley would have made a difference, as would have following our advice on how to attack scumbag/liar-nObama.
               Yet when rino-Romney is showing a willingness to fight, it’s not against Democrats who smeared him or the media that was complicit in perpetuating those smears. Instead, he’s battling the president of his own party, who is actually fighting the Left and the biased media to implement a number of the policies rino-Romney himself campaigned for in 2008 and 2012. rino-Romney may gain the temporary approval of the Washington Post editorial board, but he traded a fair amount of goodwill from those who supported his 2008 and 2012 presidential runs to get it. It was a bad deal by a good man.  ~The Patriot Post

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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 3, 2019 at 12:39pm
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
The Transitioning Agenda 
of the 116th Congress
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by Thomas Gallatin  
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Pulosi, scumbag-Hoyer,  scumbag/clown-Schumer and 
scumbag-Durbin Discuss Resistance Effort 
to Stop Border Security Funding
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pulosi, Majority Leader scumbag-Steny Hoyer, Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer and Senator scumbag-Dick Durbin discuss their democrat plan... to re-open government while simultaneously keeping the open-border priorities in place. The basic political position of the professional Democrats is to use the framework supported by their House and Senate UniParty colleagues to undermine the resolve of President Trump. In essence Pulosi and scumbag/clown-Schumer are weaponizing their alliance with McConnell and Ryan against the U.S. President: A leak from inside the White House stated Pulosi, scumbag-Hoyer, scumbag/clown-Schumer and scumbag-Durbin refused to enter the WH situation room for a classified briefing -by DHS Secretary Nielsen- on the current border security status. The Democrats refused to accept any information that was adverse to their current political interests. Media?…. crickets.
Speaker Nancy Pulosi Outlines New Rules for 116th
Congressional Session – Includes Schedule
 for Process of Trump Impeachment
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Remember when we warned November 8th, 2018 that a convergence of left-wing groups, activists, DNC donors and specifically the Lawfare team... would align with and meet incoming Democrat leadership to construct a road-map for the “resistance” priorities? Well, exactly that planned and coordinated outcome is visible as incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pulosi presents her new rules for the 116th congress. Keep in mind that Speaker Pulosi has selected former insider DOJ official Douglas Letter to be the Chief Legal Counsel for the House. That becomes important when we get to the part about new powers granted to the House Counsel. The Pulosi House rules clearly present the outline for an impeachment calendar as directed by changes to the oversight committees. Additionally, there is a myriad of new processes which appear to have been developed through the Lawfare alliance.  Here’s some of the overview...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/02/speaker-nancy-pelosi-outlines-new-rules-for-116th-congressional-session-includes-schedule-for-process-of-trump-impeachment/
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Nancy Pulosi Calls for Vote on PayGo, 
Socialists Outraged
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by Rusty
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pulosi and Democrat Party leadership are calling for a vote on a House rules package... that will include a pay-as-you-go provision, PayGo, requiring new spending to be offset either by budget cuts or tax increases. The inclusion of this common sense rule has prompted the more radical wing of the party to express outrage, as well as an accidental admission that their far-left programs cannot be paid for.The issue becomes the first battle between party leadership and the socialist wing of the party, as Representatives Ro Khanna of California and commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York have vowed to oppose Pulosi by voting ‘no.’“It is terrible economics,” Khanna explained on social media, while commie-Ocasio-Cortez denounced PayGo as “a dark political maneuver designed to hamstring progress.”...  https://thepoliticalinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-paygo-ocasio-cortez/?utm_campaign=TPI_breaking_newsletter_1_2_2019&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
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Democrat Preposterosities
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{spectator.org} ~ Have you followed the press in 2018? Apparently most members of the press do not like our president, Donald J. Trump... Many of them think he is a tyrant in the making. Others think he is stupid and a tyrant in the making. They believe he is likely to be beaten in 2020. I think he would be beaten too, if he were running against Franklin D. Roosevelt or Ronald W. Reagan or George Washington, but he most likely will be running against one of the patheticoes bejeweling the Democratic Party today and frankly I cannot detect a Roosevelt or a Reagan or a Washington in the field, not even a Washington Boulevard. I can detect a Charles scumbag/clown-Schumer and a Nancy Pulosi, though both are likely to be undone by President Trump’s talk of a wall. Just wait until 2020 and see how unpopular President Trump’s wall will be, and, in the case of Pulosi, she is always apt to forget her place in a speech or even where she is giving that speech. Let us face the facts: the Democratic Party is getting pretty long in the tooth. It is time for the Party to come up with a new generation, and that suggests the presidential prospects of Congresswoman commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress. The problem is that she sounds like the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress. I would put her age at roughly 14 and that is not a precocious 14. To be candid, she is a born dolt. Then there is socialist-Beto O’Rourke. I am not sure where he got the nickname socialist-Beto from, but if I were in socialist-Beto’s shoes I would have stuck with his birth certificate, which clearly reads as socialist-Robert Francis O’Rourke. “socialist-Robert Francis” worked for Robert Francis Kennedy, and socialist-Beto has a Bob Kennedy’s haircut and the teeth to go with it. Why not run as socialist-Robert Francis Kennedy? He is famous for raising $70 million to challenge Texas’s unpopular Senator Ted Cruz. It is indeed a stupendous pile of lucre, but the problem for him is that he lost to the unpopular Senator Cruz. What kind of a slogan is “Vote for socialist-Beto, he lost to Ted Cruz”?...  https://spectator.org/democrat-preposterosities/?utm_source=Daily+Afternoon+Email&utm_campaign=7048c42c31-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_02_10_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d65fc4e11e-7048c42c31-104762253
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THE WORST ENEMY OF BLACK PEOPLE
by WALTER WILLIAMS

{wnd.com} ~ Malcolm X was a Muslim minister and human-rights activist. Born in 1925, he met his death at the hands of an assassin in 1965. Malcolm X was a courageous advocate for black civil rights... but unlike Martin Luther King, he was not that forgiving of whites for their crimes against black Americans. He did not eschew violence as a tool to achieve civil and human rights. His black and white detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. Despite the controversy, he has been called one of the greatest and most influential black Americans. Many black Americans have great respect for Malcolm X. Many schools bear his name, and many streets have been renamed in honor of him, both at home and abroad. But while black Americans honor Malcolm X, one of his basic teachings goes largely ignored. I think it’s an important lesson, so I will quote a large part of it. Malcolm X said: “The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.” There’s a historical tidbit that those much younger than I (almost 83 years old) are ignorant of. In black history, we have been called – and called ourselves – several different names. Among the more respectable have been “colored,” “Negro,” “black,” “Afro-American” and “African-American.” I recall when Mrs. Viola Meekins, when I was a student at Stoddart-Fleisher Junior High School in the late 1940s, had our class go page by page through a textbook and correct each instance in which Negro was printed with a lowercase “n.” In Malcolm X’s day, and mine, Negro was a proud name and not used derisively by blacks as it is today...
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The Transitioning Agenda of the 116th Congress
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by Thomas Gallatin:  As that old adage states, elections have consequences. Those consequences will begin to be felt today as the 116th Congress is seated amidst a partial government shutdown. The most significant change is in the House, where Rep. Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) will take over as speaker for the second time as Democrats reclaim the majority. Meanwhile, in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will preside over a Republican majority that grew two seats stronger, with newer members more likely to support President Donald Trump’s agenda. Oh, the clashes we’ll see.

             So what’s on the agenda for Pulosi and House Democrats? To put it succinctly, two things: pushing socialism and destroying Trump.
               Prior to the midterm elections, Pulosi sought to tamp down impeachment talk, calculating that it wouldn’t play well with voters. But since securing the House majority, she has changed her tune, now signaling that impeachment is indeed on the table. Thursday Pulosi cryptically stated, “We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason.” Impeachment or not, Pulosi’s agenda is clear: Do everything possible to prevent Trump from winning reelection in 2020. Hence the shutdown.
               As the partial government shutdown nears two full weeks, Pulosi and the Democrats have stubbornly refused to offer any true compromise spending proposal by steadfastly rejecting any deal that provides funds for construction of a border wall. While the $5 billion Trump demanded for a wall is mere pittance when compared to the overall budget, the Democrats’ refusal is purely a political play. Pulosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer (D-NY) will do everything in their power to prevent Trump from following through on his biggest campaign promise. For Democrats, this fight over the border is a calculated effort to severely damage Trump’s 2020 reelection bid. They can’t let Trump get a win on his signature campaign issue. They couldn’t care less about strengthening our nation’s border security and protecting Americans.
               Thus, for the foreseeable future, Americans have a lot more political gridlock to look forward to, as coming to any legislative compromises will be tough sledding. Indeed, it’s foreboding that the transition to the 116th Congress comes in the midst of a shutdown. If Democrats were bad over the last two years, how much worse will they be with a House majority?  ~The Patriot Post

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Thurs Med/AM ~ TheFrontPageCovwer

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 3, 2019 at 9:54am
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
dinky-Warren Is a Presidential Pretender
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by Nate Jackson  
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Thursday Top Headlines
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by Media Editors:  Socialism rising: Democrats take House pushing massive government expansion, as party lurches left (Fox News)
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No deal to end shutdown; Trump says “could be a long time” (Associated Press)
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Top Democrats refuse to reveal their holiday travel during the shutdown (Washington Examiner)
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Senate confirms dozens of stalled Trump nominees hours before the 115th Congress ends (Washington Examiner)
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Trump administration issues fewest new regulations in history (PJ Media)
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House Democrat rules package could mean more spending, higher taxes (The Daily Signal)
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Border Patrol treating 50 illegal immigrants per day for “serious illnesses” (The Daily Wire)
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House Democrats slip abortion language into bill to end partial shutdown (Washington Examiner)
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Thirty “transgender” regretters come out of the closet (The Federalist)
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China lands spacecraft on “dark” side of moon in world first (Associated Press)
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Humor: Opinion: Trump is doing the right thing, but he’s doing it as Trump, which means it’s still bad (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Seven reasons to say goodbye to teachers unions (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Policy: Why America cannot afford to pull out of Afghanistan (The Daily Signal)  
 
~The Patriot Post
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Chairmen scumbag-Nadler,  scumbag-Cummings and  scumbag-Schiff Announce Immediate Round of Trump Investigations
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ CTH previously outlined the likely path Democrats will follow when they take control of the key congressional committees starting tomorrow {Go Deep}... For those who walk through the deep weeds of DC politics, the sequence of 2019 events -based on accepting the historic resistance pattern- is entirely predictable.  Today, Fox News confirms the intention of scumbag-Jerry Nadler (House Judiciary), scumbag-Elijah Cummings (House Oversight) and scumbag-Adam Schiff (HPSCI) as soon as they are sworn into office: They’re about to get subpoena power – and they plan to use it. As Democrats officially take back control of the House when the new Congress is seated Thursday, newly empowered House Committee chairmen are preparing to launch a slew of Trump administration investigations. […]  In a press release Wednesday, scumbag-Cummings said his committee plans to “investigate waste, fraud, and abuse in the Trump Administration,” as well as “other issues that affect the American people every day.” ... All of these scumbags need to impeached.    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/02/chairmen-nadler-cummings-and-schiff-announce-immediate-round-of-trump-investigations/ 
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'Real Justice Department' veteran emerges as 
dirty cop-Mueller's top courtroom adversary
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by Rowan Scarborough
{washingtontimes.com} ~ A former federal prosecutor has emerged as special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s most persistent courtroom critic... It’s not Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former U.S. attorney and now President Trump’s ubiquitous defender, or any of cable TV’s prosecutors-turned-pundits. He is Eric A. Dubelier, a litigator for the Reed Smith law firm who knows international law and the D.C. playing field. He served eight years prosecuting cases as a Justice Department assistant U.S. attorney in Washington. He refers to his former employer as “the real Justice Department,” implying that Mr. dirty cop-Mueller’s team is something less. His biting remarks have come in months of court filings and oral arguments. Mr. Dubelier has depicted Mr. dirty cop-Mueller as a rogue prosecutor willfully ignoring Justice Department guidelines. He has accused Mr. dirty cop-Mueller of creating a “make-believe crime” against his Russian client, Concord Management and Consulting, which is accused of funding a troll farm that interfered in the 2016 election. So far, the federal judge presiding over the case has sided with Mr. dirty cop-Mueller...  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/1/eric-dubelier-emerges-robert-muellers-top-courtroo/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20171227&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=morning&bt_ee=05LHFJgNYhNbrFz8halYkOHWz00pBPGn5p5lzJ353USBYVhbch2Jewvv0aZdIeAq&bt_ts=154642922766
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JW Sues DOJ for Special Counsel 
dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s Security Detail Costs
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{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records of costs incurred... by and logs maintained by the security detail for Special Counsel dkirty cop-Robert Mueller (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02537)). Judicial Watch filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the agency failed to respond adequately to its March 19, 2018, FOIA request for: The Special Counsel’s office reportedly has spent over $25 million so far. In a related lawsuit filed in October 2017, the Justice Department had refused to release the proposed budget of dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel Office, but later was forced to release details from the heavily redacted August 2 memorandum in which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein granted broad authority to Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller, three months after dirty cop-Mueller’s appointment. The initial appointment memo, controversially, was written in May 2017. “The Justice Department, the FBI, and Special Counsel dirty cop-Mueller continue to operate as if they are above the law,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The American people have a right to know how much taxpayer money is being thrown at dirty cop-Mueller’s massive investigation. Judicial Watch has never before seen this level of secrecy surrounding the operation of a special or independent counsel.”...
rino-Romney assails Trump in New Year's op-ed:
'The president has not risen to the mantle of the office'
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by Victor Morton 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Days before he officially becomes a U.S. senator, rino-Mitt Romney took to The Washington Post to fire a shot across President Trump’s bow... saying Mr. Trump had made a “deep descent” in December and is hurting the national character. In an op-ed column published online Tuesday evening, Mr. rino-Romney, now a Republican senator-elect for Utah, came down hardest on recent moves in foreign policy and Cabinet positions related to that. “After he became the nominee, I hoped his campaign would refrain from resentment and name-calling. It did not. When he won the election, I hoped he would rise to the occasion. His early appointments of Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Nikki Haley, Gary Cohn, H.R. McMaster, John Kelly and James Mattis were encouraging. But, on balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office,” he wrote. Mr. rino-Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, acknowledged that Mr. Trump had never been his pick for 2016. And he was careful to note that “it is not that all of the president’s policies have been misguided.” He singled out conservative judges, tax and regulatory cuts, China-trade crackdowns and criminal-justice reform as legitimate achievements. “But policies and appointments are only a part of a presidency. To a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation. A president should unite us and inspire us to follow ‘our better angels.’ A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect,” he said, going on to blame Mr. Trump for being the equivalent of gasoline for a national political climate already ablaze...
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‘The Existential Threat of the Climate
Crisis’ Threatens ‘The Whole of God’s Creation’
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by cnsnews.com  
{cnsnews.com} ~ While vacationing in Hawaii on Friday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi (D.-Calif.) announced in a statement that she will be naming Rep. Kathy Castor (D.-Fla.)... to chair a new committee the incoming Democrat-controlled House of Representatives will create to deal with “the climate crisis.” Pulosi described the “climate crisis” as an “existential threat” that threatens “the whole of God’s creation.” “The American people have demanded action to combat the climate crisis, which threatens our public health, our economy, our national security and the whole of God’s creation,” said Pulosi. “Together, we must protect public health by reducing air pollution, create jobs by making America preeminent in green technologies, defend our national security by preventing climate-driven instability and uphold our sacred moral responsibility to leave a healthy, sustainable future for generations to come,” she said...Pulosi is a fool.  https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/pelosi-existential-threat-climate-crisis-threatens-whole-gods-creation
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dinky-Warren Is a Presidential Pretender
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by Nate Jackson:  And just like that, the 2020 presidential campaign kicked off. Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” dinky-Warren didn’t even wait for the 2019 ball to drop in Times Square before announcing her bid for the White House. We’d guess that most Americans are beyond tired of the relentless campaign cycle, making dinky-Warren’s announcement — less than two months after the 2018 midterms — worthy of about 300 million eye rolls, sighs, curses, or other expressions of political exhaustion.

             Nevertheless, she persisted, so we’ll offer some brief observations. Being the first big name to launch her campaign does not make dinky-Warren the frontrunner. Like a few of the other Democrat presidential hopefuls, dinky-Warren will be in her 70s by Election Day 2020, and there are younger alternatives — one of whom is also a woman and an actual minority.
               Which brings us to the real problem with dinky-Warren: She routinely pretends she’s something she’s not. We’re not just talking about her hilariously inept attempts to prove some imagined Native American heritage — a lie she used to advance her academic career before adapting it for political gain. In fact, as we predicted more than once, she used her ancestry claim to seed her presidential aspirations, though it was conspicuously absent from her exploratory committee launch video.
               Far more consequentially for the nation, dinky-Warren pretends she’s for the little guy and the middle class. Her announcement was replete with references to how her political career was inspired by fighting Wall Street fat cats after the 2008 financial collapse. She claims to stand for the middle class and minorities against systemic oppression from the racist and the rich. That too is a lie, not because those things don’t ever happen but because “social justice” is merely Marxism repackaged. dinky-Warren and her fellow Democratic Socialists used the financial crisis — itself created by Democrat policies — to double down on bigger government and fatter cats. In other words, the very policies she claims help the middle class actually harm most Americans. Indeed, as she says, “America’s middle class is under attack.” By Democrats.
               But never mind that; Warren and probably a dozen other Democrats are hoping that those lies, mixed with a healthy dose of fake news and Trump Derangement Syndrome, will propel them to victory in 2020.  ~The Patriot Post

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbH0RU4GcVo

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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 3, 2019 at 7:50am
TheFrontPageCover
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Corporate-Driven Gun Control
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by Arnold Ahlert  
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New Documents Suggest The Steele Dossier 
Was A Deliberate Setup For Trump 
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by Lee Smith
{thefederalist.com} ~ A trove of recently released documents sheds further light on the scope and logistics of the information operation designed to sabotage an American election... Players include the press, political operatives from both parties, and law enforcement and intelligence officials. Their instrument was the Steele dossier, first introduced to the American public two years ago. A collection of reports compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, the dossier is now engraved in contemporary U.S. history.  First marketed as bedrock evidence that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election, the dossier’s legitimacy took a hit after reports showed the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign paid for the work. The revelation that the dossier was used to secure a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page compromised the integrity of the investigation the FBI had opened on Page and three other Trump associates by the end of July 2016. Nonetheless, that same probe continues today as the special counsel investigation. The dossier plays a central role in dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s probe. In the unredacted portions of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s memo outlining dirty cop-Mueller’s scope are allegations that Trump adviser Paul Manafort colluded with Russian government officials interfering in the 2016 race. That claim is found in no other known document but the dossier. It is unclear whether further dossier allegations are in the redacted portions of the scope memo. Further, with dirty cop-Mueller in charge, the dossier-won warrant on Page was renewed a third, and final, time in June 2016. It expired in September, when confidential human source Stefan Halper reportedly broke off regular communications with Page...
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Central American Countries Are Helping Middle
Easterners Illegally Enter The United States  
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by Todd Bensman
{thefederalist.com} ~ In December 2018, the Center for Immigration Studies dispatched Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman to Panama and Costa Rica to investigate... President Donald Trump’s widely ridiculed assertions that suspected terrorists had been apprehended among Middle East migrants through Latin America. Panama is a geographic chokepoint, or bottleneck, through which migrants from countries of the Middle East, who are moving out of South America, must push on their way to the U.S. border. It was here in March 2017, at the main aluminum structure of a government migrant camp, that federal Costa Rican police arrested Ibrahim Qoordheen of Somalia as a suspected al Shabaab terrorist operative on his way to the U.S. southern border.  Qoordheen had been smuggled from Zambia to Brazil, passed through Panama, and was making his way north through Costa Rica when the Americans had him arrested here, 20 miles inside Costa Rica, according to an American intelligence official with knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Golfito camp, with a capacity of 250, was set up as a two-day rest station for South America-exiting migrants whom the governments of Panama and Costa Rica register and help move through northward to Nicaragua. Luckily, the Somali stayed long enough for an American intelligence analyst working with the name he had provided in Panama to unscramble it and match it to a pre-existing intelligence file that identified him as intertwined with an al Shabaab cell and smuggling network in Zambia, the U.S. intelligence official said. The Americans interviewed Qoordheen at length, but the Somali gave up nothing, the U.S. officer said. The Americans then arranged to have him deported to Zambia, the officer said. It turns out the Qoordheen case was only one of other such episodes about which the American public was never told, where terrorist suspects were discovered migrating through Latin America to the U.S. border...
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Top Pentagon spokeswoman resigns 
hours after Secretary Mattis departs
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{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ A controversial Pentagon spokeswoman will be leaving the Department of Defense, where she led communications policy and supervised more than 4,500 public affairs personnel worldwide...  Dana W. White, the assistant to the Secretary of Defense for public affairs, resigned on Monday evening, just hours after Defense Secretary James Mattis’s final day in the Trump administration. “I appreciate the opportunity afforded to me by this administration to serve alongside Secretary Mattis, our Service members and all the civilians who support them. It has been my honor and privilege. Stay safe and God bless,” White tweeted using an official Pentagon spokesperson profile that has since been allocated to her replacement, Charles E. Summers, Jr. White has been the subject of a DoD inspector general investigation since May over allegations that she abused her authority and mistreated subordinates. It is unclear, however, if she left the Pentagon as a result of the ongoing probe, and the Pentagon’s public affairs office has so far failed to respond to inquiries regarding the transition...
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The Truth About Democratic Morality
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{americanthinker.com} ~ Democrat Nancy Pulosi said Trump's border wall is immoral and too expensive. Hearing Pulosi lecture Trump and the American people about morality is beyond repulsive... Pulosi, her fellow Democrats and fake news media seek to prevent our side from using the word “morality” in the political arena. Any Republican and conservative who dares bring up the morality of an issue is immediately branded a religious nut, trying to force their wacko outdated values onto the public. Pulosi and her minions are flooding the airwaves with their absurd perverted narrative that building a wall to protect Americans is immoral. Meanwhile, these wicked Democrats who refuse to secure our borders live in highly secured and gated communities. Using their logic, shouldn't stopping people from invading their personal properties make Democrats immoral? As I said, Democrats having the gall to throw morality into the face of Trump and everyday Americans who desire a secure border is pretty obnoxious. Here are examples of Democrats' twisted view of morality. Democrats have forced LGBTQ lessons into schools. Funded by LGBTQ special interest groups like Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood's Sex Ed program are infecting curriculum in public schools across America. Brace yourself. Kids are actually being instructed in dangerous and violent sexual practices such as asphyxiation and BDSM...    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/the_truth_about_democratic_morality.html
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Will Some Insider Tell the Truth About Trump?
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by Media Editors:   Peggy Noonan asks why no credible administration official will say what it's really like in the White House. Bill Whittle offers a counterintuitive answer.  https://patriotpost.us/articles/60262?mailing_id=3987&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3987&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
~The Patriot Post  
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Media Focuses on Melania's Clothes Rather Than Good Works
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by Media Editors:  Kelsey Harkness: There's a double standard in coverage of Melania Trump versus Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama.  https://patriotpost.us/articles/60261?mailing_id=3987&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3987&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
~The Patriot Post 
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Trump Shutdown Pushes Democrats to the Wall
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by Media Editors:  Did Trump and Republicans play a long game to force Democrats to approve the border wall? Or does the 11th-hour shutdown crisis demonstrate weakness and stupidity from the GOP, which blew its chance when it controlled two branches of the federal government?  https://patriotpost.us/articles/60256?mailing_id=3987&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3987&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
 
 
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Corporate-Driven Gun Control
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by Arnold Ahlert:  “We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding ‘interest-balancing’ approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government — even the Third Branch of Government — the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all.” —Justice Antonin Scalia, referring to the Second Amendment

             American leftists are not stupid. They know the likelihood of eliminating Americans’ right to bear arms via the only proper method for doing so — a constitutional amendment requiring the approval of two-thirds of both chambers of Congress and three-fourths of the states’ legislatures — is virtually nil. Yet they also know something else: Substantial numbers of Americans, poisoned by years of indoctrination in a corrupt education system, are more than willing to embrace the Left’s “win by any means necessary” approach to governance.
               The New York Times’s Andrew Sorkin sets the stage. “Mass shootings routinely set off a national debate on guns, usually focused on regulating firearms and on troubled youths,” he writes. “Little attention is paid to the financial industry that has become an instrumental, if unwitting, enabler of carnage. A New York Times examination of mass shootings since the Virginia Tech attack in 2007 reveals how credit cards have become a crucial part of the planning of these massacres. There have been 13 shootings that killed 10 or more people in the last decade, and in at least eight of them, the killers financed their attacks using credit cards. Some used credit to acquire firearms they could not otherwise have afforded.”
               Sorkin and his fellow travelers envision a world where such credit-providing companies become de facto Big Brothers. And true to their fascist tendencies sold as virtue signaling, entities such as Citigroup and Bank of America have jumped on the bandwagon. Citigroup’s “U.S. Commercial Firearms Policy” prohibits firearms sales to customers who haven’t passed a background check and are younger than 21, and bars the sale of high-capacity magazines. The policy applies to clients who offer Citigroup-backed credit cards, borrow money, use Citigroup’s banking services, or raise capital through the company. And the Times reported last April that Bank of America “will stop lending money to gun manufacturers that make military-inspired firearms for civilian use, such as the AR-15-style rifles that have been used in multiple mass shootings.”
               First, “military inspired” is rank propaganda. Moreover, from 1982 through November 2018, the number of mass shootings committed with handguns is more than the number committed by rifles and shotguns combined. Thus what this effort is really all about is expanding the power to “decide on a case-by-case basis” whether the Second Amendment per se is worth “insisting upon.”
               In other words, it’s all about the Left’s tried-and-true incrementalist approach, aimed at eliminating the Second Amendment in its entirety.
               The key word in Sorkin’s piece? Affordability. As National Review’s David French explains, guns are expensive, and many non-wealthy Americans save up money for a long time before making a purchase. “What’s the level of expense to trigger the proposed system and cause the bank to either decline the transaction or notify law enforcement?” he wonders.
               French and other pro-Second Amendment Americans already know the answer: Whatever gun-grabbers decide, and nothing makes this reality clearer than The New York Times. The paper cites eight mass shooters — over the course of a decade  — who used credit to purchase weapons and other gear as justification to create a system that would flag millions of law-abiding Americans purchasing the same items to protect their lives and families.
               A system of flagging that would create a de facto registry of gun owners.
               And if banks, along with business owners who abet them, get their way, the ultimate guy-buyer “work-around,” better known as paying in cash, would also be eliminated. As a recent Wall Street Journal article reveals, increasing numbers of business have stopped taking cash completely, despite the fact that 30% of all transactions, and 55% of those under $10, are still made with it, according to an October 2017 survey of 2,800 people conducted by the Federal Reserve.
               Businesses and banks have different reasons for wanting to eliminate cash. Businesses cite reasons like employee safety and efficiency, even as they apparently remain oblivious to the rank elitism and the possibility they remain vulnerable to charges of discrimination made by those who don’t have bank accounts or credit cards, but still possess legal tender. Massachusetts is currently the only state requiring retailers to accept cash, but one suspects other states will follow suit.
               As for banks, their motives are far more nefarious. The European Central Bank has been charging negative interest rates for two years, and cash remains the largest impediment to such a contemptible idea. The very same banks American taxpayers (including gun owners) bailed out in 2008 would love nothing better than implementing a similar scenario here. And there is little doubt a debt-addicted ruling class, citing “dire” economic circumstances, would be accommodating, if they could manage the political backlash.
               If cash is eliminated, monitoring and controlling gun purchases — and every other transaction made by every American — would be an added “bonus.”
               And if one is oblivious enough to think corporate virtue signaling in tandem with complete control over all transactions would be limited to determining which Americans can or cannot buy guns, think again. Want to buy gasoline for that weekend trip to the country? Credit denied, because you’ve exceeded the limits of your personal “carbon footprint.” A six-pack of beer? You’ve exceeded your weekly limit of alcohol, according to federal dietary restrictions. Food? Vegetables and fruits only, until your Body Mass Index reaches the government-approved range. No cash? No freedom — period.
               “Never forget,” French warns, “American corporations often have progressive monocultures, and their elite ranks are often populated by individuals who want to use their considerable power to advance social justice.”
               Of course, “social justice” is repackaged totalitarianism — for our own good, no less. Which is exactly why the Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment.  ~The Patriot Post

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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 2, 2019 at 7:41pm
TheFrontPageCover
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Resolved: To Speak English
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by Cal Thomas  
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President Trump Gives Four Month Timeline 
For U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Syria
by sundance
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Hopefully President Trump can withstand the severe UniParty manipulation and actually get the troops out within the four month time-frame. However, with John Bolton as National Security Adviser, consider me slightly skeptical.  Bolton loves war…  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/01/president-trump-gives-four-month-timeline-for-u-s-troop-withdrawal-from-syria/
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Mitt Romney Kicks off New Year With WaPo Op-ed
Attacking Character of President Trump
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Senator-elect Mitt Romney obviously couldn’t wait to kick off the new year with a direct attack against President Donald Trump...  Hell, he hasn’t even taken office yet, and Romney rushes to express his hatred in a strategically aligned op-ed published by the Washington Post:  You can read the op-ed here  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-the-president-shapes-the-public-character-of-the-nation-trumps-character-falls-short/2019/01/01/37a3c8c2-0d1a-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.80a00bca08c1  I’m not sharing it. Romney is a small, foul, bitter and jealous man.  His intent to lead the MAGA resistance was entirely predictable.   F**k Romney! Also, don’t forget all those who have aligned with Romney throughout the years. Thanks Utah you elected a rino.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/01/mitt-romney-kicks-of-new-year-with-wapo-op-ed-attacking-character-of-president-trump/ 
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Caroline Glick joins Bennett-Shaked's 'dream team'  
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by LAHAV HARKOV 
{jpost.com} ~ Longtime Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick is running on Hayamin Hehadash’s list in the April 2019 elections... she announced Wednesday. "Caroline is a relentless Zionist fighter," party co-chairman Naftali Bennett said. "With her, we are building today the dream team of the Israeli Right in order to expand the right-wing block — and so that Israel can be triumphant again."  Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, the party’s other leader, called Glick “a courageous fighter symbolizing the real, pure, conservative Right. She will be a great addition to the Knesset from our side.” Glick expressed excitement to join Hayemin Hehadash, and "to join forces with people entirely committed to Zionism and love of Israel." "Together we will work to protect Israel, to increase its security and to enact truly right-wing policies,” Glick stated. “This is an emotional day for me. I call on all those whose hearts beat with a Zionist spirit, secular and religious, to join us. This is your home."  Hayamin Hehadash was founded by Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked this week, breaking of from Bayit Yehudi. The party is meant to be solidly right-wing, with a mix of religious, secular and traditional candidates.  Glick has been a columnist for The Jerusalem Post since 2002, and in recent years began writing for Maariv and American far-right website Breitbart...  https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Caroline-Glick-joining-Bennett-Shakeds-new-party-576092?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=20-2-2018&utm_content=caroline-glick-joining-bennett-shakeds-new-party-576092
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Trump’s Plan for Today’s Meeting with 
Democrats Over Shutdown and Border Wall
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Today, President Trump is set to meet with congressional leaders in order to hash out a deal to end the government shutdown... The main point of contention remains the same: Trump’s demand for $5 billion in border wall funding. In order to get the funding, any government funding bill needs to receive 60 votes in the Senate – which is nine more than Republicans currently have. Before the meeting starts this morning, Trump let fly over Twitter how Mexico will pay for the wall ultimately, in a more roundabout way: It’ll be interesting to see if Trump uses this reasoning as he negotiates a deal with Nancy Pulosi and Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer, the Democrat leaders of both congressional chambers. But, for now, we have an inkling of what Trump’s deal-making plan may be before the meeting begins. Axios has the scoop: So far, Democrats have been intransigent in their resistance to funding the border wall. They’ve dug in their heels, leaving the government shuttered...  https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-plan-democrat-meeting-shutdown/?utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_1_2_2019&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
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Palestinians' New Year's Resolutions
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Palestinians are celebrating the beginning of 2019 by promising Israel more violence, a "revolution until victory," and another year of conflict and suffering... The messages that the Palestinians are sending to Israel offer anything but hope. On the contrary, they are making it clear that Israel should expect yet more bloodshed. Some are also reminding Israel that the Palestinians' real goal is to "liberate all Palestine, from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea," meaning the annihilation of Israel. Palestinian leaders and various political and military groups are not seizing the opportunity of the arrival of a new year to reach out to their Israeli neighbors with message of conciliation, peace and coexistence. Palestinian leaders are not offering their people a better life, prosperity, security and stability. Instead, the leaders and groups are promising Palestinians more suffering, violence and misery, and are pressing their people to continue the fight against Israel. They are urging Palestinians to continue hating Israel and the US. They are urging Arab countries not to make peace with Israel: they consider normalization with Israel an act of treason. The largest Palestinian group, Fatah, headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, is celebrating these days the 54th anniversary of the launching of its first terrorist attack against Israel. Then, Fatah terrorists infiltrated into Israel from Jordan and attempted to sabotage the National Water Carrier. The event took place on January 1, 1965. The explosive device, which did not explode, was discovered by the Israeli army. For Fatah, a group that is often described by some Westerners as moderate and pragmatic, the attack carried out 54 years ago "ignited the Palestinian revolution" against Israel. The Fatah anniversary celebration coincided with the beginning of the new year. The words and photos published by Fatah that refer to the 54th anniversary of the launching of its first terrorist attack against Israel serve as a reminder that this group continues to glorify terrorism and terrorists...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13495/palestinians-new-year-resolutions
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Resolved: To Speak English
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by Cal Thomas

{townhall.com} ~ "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?" asked Professor Henry Higgins in the musical "My Fair Lady." It's a good question for Americans, especially millennials.

On a recent flight two young women sat behind me, chattering away rather loudly. In just one minute I counted 16 "likes" and "you knows" from just one of them.

It went this way: "And then she was like and then he was like and I was like, you know."

As an adverb, "like" means nearly, closely or approximately, as in "the experience was like jumping off a high diving board." There are other uses of the word "like," but this is perhaps the most familiar.

As for "you know," if the person already knows what you are telling them, why tell them?

These are verbal crutches, used to replace common English usage. They are the language of the ignorant, of a generation that can neither speak well, nor think rationally. Call them commie-Bernie Sanders voters.

The late NBC News Correspondent Edwin Newman wrote two books about the misuse of English. Some of his and my least favorite words are heard inside airports. Newman got irritated when airline employees spoke of a "podium," and not a desk. He was also flummoxed when they invited certain passengers to "pre-board" the airplane, which he noted was impossible. One can board early, or board ahead of others passengers, but to "pre-board" is a contradiction.

When I was in school English grammar was a requirement, not an option. We diagrammed sentences and learned the proper use and positioning of words. We were taught never to end a sentence in a preposition and learned when to say "me" and "I," and the difference between there, their and they're.

Cliches were once mostly used by young people and inexperienced writers. Today, they have crept into the language of people who should know better. These cliches include "needless to say" then why bother to say it?, and "cautiously optimistic." The Washington Post once compiled a list of "200 journalism cliches ... and counting" of which the cliches above are only two.

Politicians love cliches and other words and phrases that often serve as smokescreens to fool the public. "The American people" is a favorite, as if all Americans think alike. "We can't keep spending as if there is no tomorrow" is another. So if we stop spending, will tomorrow come, or is this like Groundhog Day when there will be six more weeks of winter whether or not the rodent sees his shadow?

Don't get me started on TV hosts and reporters. "As you can see," they often say. Yes, we can. That's because it's called television. It's not radio, OK? It has pictures. "Shot in the encounter" was a favorite of a former news director at a TV station where I worked. We wondered where one could find the encounter on one's anatomy? "Rushed to the hospital" was another of his favorites. Why not "taken" or "driven"? After being rushed to the hospital, one was then "hospitalized," which always sounded to me as a process resembling the application of wax to a car Simonize for those who don't get it.

The point is to learn English as a means of expressing ourselves that shows we didn't just fall off a turnip truck deliberate use of a cliche. What's the point of speaking English if it can't be properly spoken and understood?

Over Christmas I listened to the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas reading his brilliant "A Child's Christmas in Wales." The delight of words, well-chosen and beautifully spoken, was thrilling and captivating. He makes the listener want to listen, as opposed to wishing to plug one's ears when assaulted with "like" and "you know."

"One common language I'm afraid they'll never get," lamented Henry Higgins. Could one of our Resolutions for 2019 be to speak better English?
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Wed Med/PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 2, 2019 at 2:36pm
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~ Featuring ~
How the War Party Lost the Middle East
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by Pat Buchanan  
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Big Optical Shift – Unprecedented New Year Speech
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Yesterday we noted how subtle and not so subtle messages have been coming out from Beijing China admitting how the party of Chairman Xi underestimated the cunning fortitude of U.S. President Donald Trump... Today, a stunning visual is broadcast from inside North Korea which follows the same general outlook. Remember, nuance and subtle optics are very significant in Eastern projections of political brand messaging. When they present a nationally broadcast message every grain of sand on the optical beach has been thought out, considered, staged and carefully placed by hand with great forethought toward the intended audience. The optics are everything. That’s also the reason why POTUS Trump used a video presentation specifically for Kim at the end of the Singapore summit. In an unprecedented international broadcast, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un delivers a message not just to his people, but more specifically to the international community. The backdrop, the venue for the message as broadcast, reflects a stunning shift for the country of North Korea. Notice the background message is ‘economic‘: Business attire; business office etc. The guiding hand of Chairman Xi is visible, and the transmission is full of messages highlighting the influence of the Trump Doctrine. It is critical to remember that Chairman Xi Beijing China, is still the leading influence agent over Chairman Kim (DPRK). That nuanced/ subtle hostage/captive influence message is also inherent in the background of this broadcast. As the U.S. -vs- China confrontation continues, this video message provides additional support that Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping is no longer underestimating the cunning of POTUS Trump...
Trump Just Warned Millions Of Americans Of
Major Scandal – Big Changes Coming In 2019
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{redrightvideos.com} ~ President shows no signs of slowing down in the new year, despite his sweeping success of accomplishing most of his campaign promises in the first half of his first term in office... While Democrat leaders are enjoying their break from government duties while Congress is shut down, Trump has been hard at work in the White House. The president wants to start the new year out right by bringing big changes after exposing a major scandal in this country. My Twin Tiers  reports: Social Security recipients will see an increase in their benefits for 2019. Benefits will rise almost three percent due to a cost-of-living adjustment announced back in the fall. That’s the biggest jump in seven years. For the average retired worker, it will mean about $39 more each month or $468 per year. The cost-of-living adjustment is based on a broad index of consumer prices calculated by the government. At the same time though, be on the lookout for scammers pretending to be from the Social Security Administration. The S.S.A said so far this year, more than 35,000 people reported the scam, compared to just over 3,000 last year. The scammers will often say your Social Security number is about to be suspended because of suspicious activity. Your Social Security number will never be suspended and you do not have to verify your number to anyone who calls...  https://redrightvideos.com/trump-just-warned-millions-of-americans-of-major-scandal-big-changes-coming-in-2019/?utm_source=RRV%20newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:253196&utm_campaign=Trump%20Just%20Warned%20Millions%20Of%20Americans%20Of%20Major%20Scandal%20%E2%80%93%20Big%20Changes%20Coming%20In%202019
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NASA marks a first for humanity: 
Reaching one of solar system's oldest bodies
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ NASA's New Horizons spacecraft phoned home on New Year's Day after reaching and photographing the most distant object that humans have ever explored in the solar system... The flyby in the early hours of Tuesday morning occurred 4 billion miles from Earth, at a small celestial body known as Ultima Thule, which is located a billion miles beyond Pluto. The New Horizons team, whose spacecraft launched in 2006 and notably gathered data from Pluto in 2015, said it plans to share the first high-resolution image from the spacecraft's latest target on Wednesday. Ultima Thule, whose name can be loosely translated as "farthest point," is part of the Kuiper Belt, a ring in the outer regions of the solar system that NASA believes may hold keys to understanding the origin of the solar system as well as some aspects of Earth’s evolution. New Horizons will transmit more data from the encounter over time, giving scientists a progressively more complete picture. "Everything looks great" so far, Alice Bowman, New Horizons' mission operations manager, said in a Tuesday morning press briefing. "We are definitely looking forward to getting down this science data so all of our scientists and the world can see what the outer solar system — the origins of our solar system — have to hold for us, what surprises." NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine celebrated the accomplishment, writing in a Twitter post: “This is what leadership in space exploration is all about.” American initiatives in space have been a priority for the Trump administration, whose Commerce Department has attempted to facilitate access for U.S. businesses as the president focuses on military dominance beyond Earth's atmosphere... 
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U.S. fires tear gas to stop migrants 
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{washingtontimes.com} ~ U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who were trying to breach the border fence in Tijuana... An Associated Press photographer witnessed at least three volleys of gas launched onto the Mexican side of the border near Tijuana’s beach early Tuesday. It affected the migrants, including women and children, as well as members of the press. Migrants who spoke with AP said they arrived last month with the caravan from Honduras. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says in a statement that the gas was aimed at rock throwers on the Mexican side who prevented agents from helping children who were being passed over the concertina wire. The agency says 25 migrants were detained.
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GOP Rep Perfectly Explains Why Democrats 
Are So Eager To Have Open Borders
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{westernjournal.com} ~ Due to the staunch refusal of Democrats to provide even a relatively paltry sum of requested border security funding to President Donald Trump... the federal government entered a partial shutdown prior to Christmas that’s extending into the new year — and a new Congress. Of course, Democrats and their media allies have pointed the finger of blame for the shutdown toward Trump, while the White House and many Republicans have pointed the finger right back at Democrats and  House Speaker-designate Nancy Pulosi, who has refused to even pretend to negotiate a deal to end the shutdown, preferring to instead let it linger until her new Democratic majority takes over the House on Jan. 3. Considering the shutdown essentially boils down to the Democrat’s refusal to fork over a meager $5 billion for border security — a fraction of a fraction of the $4 trillion plus annual budget — many Americans have wondered why the Democrats are so dead set against securing the nation’s southern border. But Republican Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks thinks he knows exactly why Pulosi and the Democrats have refused to budge on this issue and he pulled no punches explaining it. The Daily Wire  reported that during an appearance on a local media program while home over the holidays, Brooks bluntly suggested that Democrats didn’t want to secure the nation’s borders because they need an open southern border to continue bringing in new potential voters who could dramatically alter the shape and leanings of the American electorate over time.“It is a very tough position that the Democrats have put us in,” Brooks said. “On the one hand you have got thousands of Americans who are dead — each year — because of the Democrats’ refusal to secure our borders. “Those Americans are dying, either because they have been murdered by illegal aliens, vehicular homicides by illegal aliens or the illegal narcotics that are shipped into the country by illegal aliens and their drug cartels, with the drug overdoses that are in the tens of thousands of lost American lives per year...  https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/gop-rep-perfectly-explains-democrats-eager-open-borders/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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How the War Party Lost the Middle East
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by Pat Buchanan

{townhall.com} ~ "Assad must go, scumbag/liar-nObama says."

So read the headline in The Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2011.

The story quoted President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama directly:

"The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way. ... the time has come for President Assad to step aside."

France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's David Cameron signed on to the scumbag/liar-nObama ultimatum: Assad must go!

Seven years and 500,000 dead Syrians later, it is  scumbag/liar-nObama, Sarkozy, and Cameron who are gone. Assad still rules in Damascus, and the 2,000 Americans in Syria are coming home. Soon, says President Donald Trump.

But we cannot "leave now," insists Sen. Lindsey Graham, or "the Kurds are going to get slaughtered."

Question: Who plunged us into a Syrian civil war, and so managed the intervention that were we to go home after seven years our enemies will be victorious and our allies will "get slaughtered"?

Seventeen years ago, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban for granting sanctuary to al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.

U.S. diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad is today negotiating for peace talks with that same Taliban. Yet, according to former CIA director Mike Morell, writing in The Washington Post today, the "remnants of al-Qaeda work closely" with today's Taliban.

It would appear that 17 years of fighting in Afghanistan has left us with these alternatives: Stay there, and fight a forever war to keep the Taliban out of Kabul, or withdraw and let the Taliban overrun the place.

Who got us into this debacle?

After Trump flew into Iraq over Christmas but failed to meet with its president, the Iraqi Parliament, calling this a "U.S. disregard for other nations' sovereignty" and a national insult, began debating whether to expel the 5,000 U.S. troops still in their country.

George W. Bush launched Operation Iraq Freedom to strip Saddam Hussein of WMD he did not have and to convert Iraq into a democracy and Western bastion in the Arab and Islamic world.

Fifteen years later, Iraqis are debating our expulsion.

Muqtada al-Sadr, the cleric with American blood on his hands from the fighting of a decade ago, is leading the charge to have us booted out. He heads the party with the largest number of members in the parliament.

Consider Yemen. For three years, the U.S. has supported with planes, precision-guided munitions, air-to-air refueling and targeting information, a Saudi war on Houthi rebels that degenerated into one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the 21st century.

Belatedly, Congress is moving to cut off U.S. support for this war. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, its architect, has been condemned by Congress for complicity in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the consulate in Istanbul. And the U.S. is seeking a truce in the fighting.

Who got us into this war? And what have years of killing Yemenis, in which we have been collaborators, done to make Americans safer?

Consider Libya. In 2011, the U.S. attacked the forces of dictator Moammar Gadhafi and helped to effect his ouster, which led to his murder.

Told of news reports of Gadhafi's death, Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton joked, "We came, we saw, he died."

The Libyan conflict has since produced tens of thousands of dead. The output of Libya's crucial oil industry has collapsed to a fraction of what it was. In 2016,  scumbag/liar-nObama said that not preparing for a post-Gadhafi Libya was probably the "worst mistake" of his presidency.

The price of all these interventions for the United States?

Some 7,000 dead, 40,000 wounded and trillions of dollars.

For the Arab and Muslim world, the cost has been far greater. Hundreds of thousands of dead in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, civilian and soldier alike, pogroms against Christians, massacres, and millions uprooted and driven from their homes.

How has all this invading, bombing and killing made the Middle East a better place or Americans more secure? One May 2018 poll of young people in the Middle East and North Africa found that more of them felt that Russia was a closer partner than was the United States of America.

The fruits of American intervention?

We are told ISIS is not dead but alive in the hearts of tens of thousands of Muslims, that if we leave Syria and Afghanistan, our enemies will take over and our friends will be massacred, and that if we stop helping Saudis and Emiratis kill Houthis in Yemen, Iran will notch a victory.

In his decision to leave Syria and withdraw half of the 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, Trump enraged our foreign policy elites, though millions of Americans cannot get out of there soon enough.

In Monday's editorial celebrating major figures of foreign policy in the past half-century, The New York Times wrote, "As these leaders pass from the scene, it will be left to a new generation to find a way forward from the wreckage Mr. Trump has already created."

Correction: Make that "the wreckage Mr. Trump inherited."
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Wednesday Noon ` TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 2, 2019 at 12:52pm
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Why Won't scumbag/liar-nObama 
Let RFK Rest in Peace?
by Daniel Greenfield 
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Wednesday Top Headlines
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by Media Editors:  Skip New Year’s resolutions in 2019 — make a rule of life (The Gospel Coalition)
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Congress to reconvene with no end in sight for federal shutdown (Reuters)
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Trump seeks border wall talk with congressional leaders (Washington Examiner)
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“Violent mob” repelled in attempt to storm the border in San Diego (The Washington Times)
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Central American countries are helping Middle Easterners illegally enter the U.S. (The Federalist)
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Mexican president proposes “free zone” to attract investment, reduce migration to U.S. (Fox News)
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Nikki Haley slams UNESCO as “corrupt and politically biased” as U.S., Israel officially quit UN agency (Fox News)
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Federal workers to keep their paychecks for weeks under shutdown (The Daily Signal)
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Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” dinky-Warren launches 2020 presidential bid (The Hill)
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New documents suggest the Steele dossier was a deliberate setup for Trump (The Federalist)
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Stocks end the year down, suffering worst decline since 2008 (CBS News)
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Abortion killed 42 million people in 2018 (The Daily Wire)
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More police officers die on duty in 2018 than in 2017 (Associated Press)
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America’s oldest vet dies at 112 (The Daily Wire)
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States owe federal government billions for fraudulent Medicaid overpayments (The Washington Free Beacon)
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No violent tornadoes reported in the U.S. in 2018, first time since 1950 (Fox News)
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Facebook bans Franklin Graham (Washington Examiner)
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Yet another Women’s March chapter cancels its march amid anti-Semitism controversy (Townhall)
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Humor: Dave Barry’s Year in Review 2018 (Miami Herald)
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Policy: On the budget and the border, let’s make a deal (Washington Examiner)
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Policy: The difference between the private and public sector (Foundation for Economic Education)  
 
~The Patriot Post  
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Shanahan begins as Pentagon 'CEO': 'Doesn't have
the moral and ethical constraints that Mattis has'
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by Ben Wolfgang 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ The U.S. military is waking up to a new boss with the new year, one who is definitely not the same as the old boss... Outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, handed over the reins at the Pentagon on Monday night to a 30-year veteran of the aerospace industry, and military analysts say new acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan will bring his trademark business-like approach to the role and largely steer clear of the bitter policy fights with President Trump that doomed his predecessor. Mr. Shanahan, who spent three decades as a top executive at Boeing before becoming the Pentagon’s No. 2 in July 2017, will serve in an acting capacity following the clashes over the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan and a host of other issues that led to the abrupt termination of Mr. Mattis‘ tenure earlier this month. Defense Department officials said the formal hand-off, done via phone call, took place just before the calendar turned to 2019. Ahead of the transition, Pentagon insiders have expressed full confidence in Mr. Shanahan, stressing that he’s often been at Mr. Mattis‘ side during meetings with lawmakers, White House officials, diplomats and foreign defense officials. Inside the building, there’s little doubt the 56-year-old MIT graduate is capable of running the Defense Department and representing the Pentagon on Capitol Hill and around the world. Mr. Mattis  struck the same notes in a farewell address to U.S. troops on Monday, while offering what some saw as another subtle criticism of President Trump’s foreign policy approach and the president’s willingness to challenge traditional alliances...
Assad just gave Iraq authorization to strike ISIS inside Syria — without waiting for approval
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{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ Syria is already making aggressive moves in anticipation of the United States withdrawal of troops from their country...  In a stunning  announcement, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave the green light to Iraq to attack ISIS within its borders without waiting for approval from Syrian officials. Iraq and Syria have decided that it’s now up to them to take on ISIS. With President Trump announcing he will be removing troops from the area, Syria leadership is revving up its own efforts against ISIS to ensure the terrorists do not gain a strong foothold there again. While Iraqi forces have regularly conducted bombing missions on Syrian soil, they have always had to wait until the military strikes were approved by Syrian officials. That stipulation has now been removed, giving Iraq a lot more flexibility to carry out missions as it sees fit. One of Trump’s reasons for removing U.S. troops from Syria is because he believes that ISIS has been largely defeated in the area...  https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/strike-isis-inside-syria/
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Feds won't detail extent of GOP operative's
cooperation with dirty cop-Mueller
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by Jeff Mordock  
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Federal prosecutors refused Monday to disclose publicly the extent to which Republican political consultant W. Samuel Patten is cooperating with special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller... a sign that he may be assisting the government in at least one ongoing investigation. Patten, a longtime associate of Paul Manafort, pleaded guilty in August to illegally lobbying in the U.S. on behalf of a Ukrainian political party. He has since been cooperating with Mr. dirty cop-Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.Federal authorities in the District of Columbia prosecuted Patten last summer based on a referral from the special counsel’s office. On Monday, prosecutors and Patten’s legal team were expected to file a joint status report that could disclose details about his cooperation. However, the report was filed under seal, according to a notice prosecutors provided to a federal judge in D.C. “The government has filed a joint status report under seal,” read the notice, which was signed by Jessie K. Liu, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. The report was also likely to include a sentencing recommendation. Patten faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Typically, prosecutors only file status reports under seal if they are not ready to disclose how much assistance a defendant has provided to authorities. It is not known whether Patten is helping authorities on cases unrelated to the dirty cop-Mueller probe. In August, Patten  pleaded guilty to one count of failing to register as foreign agent. He was lobbying in the U.S. on behalf of the a Ukraine political party known as the Opposition Bloc. Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, also admitted to illegally lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian political party. He represented the Russian-backed Party of Regions, which supported former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, and was a successor to the Opposition Bloc...
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Creeping Sharia Suddenly Becomes a Full-on Sprint
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{americanlibertyreport.com} ~ America enjoyed a brief respite from its march toward Sharia law in the two years after B. Hussein scumbag/liar-nObama left office. But now that Democrats have regained control the House, the march has resumed... and picked up speed! It’s practically a sprint toward Sharia, as shown by a developing court case and the probably Pulosi-led House. The media has dutifully been blacking out the federal trial of The United States of America v. Jumana Nagarwala. Dr. Nagarwala is a Mohammedan who hails from India and she is charged with leading a conspiracy to perform genital mutilation surgeries on baby girls in the Detroit, MI area for more than 12 years. The media refuses to cover this trial because it might lead you to ask uncomfortable questions about Islam and whether it was a good idea to quadruple the number of belligerent, unemployable foreign Muslims in America during scumbag/liar-nObama’s eight years in the White House. Female genital mutilation, or FGM, for those who don’t know is a barbaric Third World Muslim practice just one step above tossing virgins in a volcano. A Muslim doctor or, in cases where a doctor is unavailable, some old guy with a rusty knife, hacks off part of a baby girl’s clitoris and usually some additional chunks for good measure. It is a savage, unholy and disgusting practice that the “diversity is our strength” coalition wants to import to America. Congress specifically banned the practice of FGM 22 years ago and President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, being a stalwart defender of female genitals, signed it into law. Hey, credit where credit is due! The media gleefully tells us every time that a federal judge overturns anything that President Trump or the current Congress does. So, it’s a bit of a mystery why the media doesn’t want to tell you about USA v. Nagarwala...Its time for America to wake up to keep sharia law out of the USA.  https://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/creeping-sharia-suddenly-becomes-a-full-on-sprint/
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Republicans Smack DOJ for 
Not Cooperating With Oversight Investigation
 
{patriotnewsdaily.com} ~ In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, acting-Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, two senior lawmakers in the Republican House leadership said... it was time for the Department of Justice to hire a second independent counsel to look into the agency’s botched handling of two major 2016 investigations: Russian election interference and the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton email scandal. The letter, written by U.S. Reps Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy, urged the DOJ leadership to “investigate these matters, consistent with your jurisdiction, so the final definitive accounting can be made to the American people.” In their letter, Goodlatte and Gowdy effectively drew to an end the House investigations into these issues – issues that Democrats have already signaled will not be a priority when they take over control of the chamber next week. But neither Republican was pleased with the way the investigation went, blaming the Department of Justice for standing in the way of effective oversight. “Regrettably, our joint investigation was impacted by institutional protectionism on the part of the DOJ and FBI,” they wrote. “For example, the agencies delayed the production of relevant documents and failed to provide witnesses in a timely manner. DOJ continues to refuse to declassify documents necessary to the investigation despite the President’s request that the documents be declassified.”...
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Why Won't scumbag/liar-nObama 
Let RFK Rest in Peace?
by Daniel Greenfield 

{sultanknish.blogspot.com} ~ Following in the footsteps of notable luminaries like scumbag/liar-Bill and  scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, scumbag-Robert DeNiro, George Clooney and Taylor Swift, the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award was bestowed on Barack  scumbag/liar-nObama. 

That's not to be confused with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights awards which were already given out this year to the teen gun control front group, March for Our Lives and to advocates for illegal aliens. 

The award, an ugly misshapen bust of RFK which looks to be permanently grimacing in pain and who can blame him, goes for under $5,000 on the open market. One of the tchotchkes owned by the Kennedy family was sold for $3,336, which can be cheaper than actually going to the ceremony. 

And probably more respectful to RFK whose grave at Arlington ripples at every ‘Ripple of Hope’. 

Like France’s Legion of Honour, it’s hard to find anyone who’s anyone who doesn’t have one. If they haven’t sold them yet to pay for a trip to the Bahamas. scumbag-Al Gore and loose lips-Joe Biden have them on a shelf somewhere. If you visit the Kennedy clan, you’re bound to get one as a going away present. 

Giving out awards named after RFK at the Hilton Midtown in New York is one of the few things that the foundation named after him seems to do. Its leadership has undergone a grueling grind of three award ceremonies just this year. But the RFK awards in their glorious meaninglessness help bored New York celebs and CEOs answer the question of what to do when they haven’t picked up an award in a year. 

 scumbag/liar-nObama had given away plenty of the ugly little things, so it was his turn to actually get one of his own. His first time at the RFKs had been to hand out the award to ACORN activist Stephen Bradberry, who had insisted that New Orleans was suffering from “a concerted plan to make this a whiter city.” 

That was 2005 and both Barry and Bradberry were auditioning for bigger things. Barry made it, Bradberry didn’t. These days his bio lists a few accomplishments. One of them is the claim that, “Bradberry is the only American individual to receive the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.” 

It depends on how you define American. 

In 2009, scumbag/liar-nObama was handing out the little statues of RFK at the White House. If he had any real concern for human rights, he would have done the decent thing and let Robert F. Kennedy rest in peace. 

Instead, he showed up grinning and tilting his head for the cameras at the New York Midtown Hilton. 

In his acceptance speech, he often spoke of hope. But it’s hard to look at a map of the country or the world and find one place on it that feels more hopeful after his years in office. Are Americans more hopeful than they were in 2008? Are people in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, or South America more hopeful? Where can you find  scumbag/liar-nObama and ‘hope’ together except at the RFK Ripple of Hope awards? 

 scumbag/liar- nObama urged attendees at the gala to reject cynicism and embrace hope. Then he sat back down next to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Goldman Sachs executive and top Den donor who bought an ambassadorship from scumbag/liar-nObama and then bought a gubernatorial election, and is now enmeshed in a scandal involving a sexual assault by a staffer that the perpetually smirking politician chose to ignore. 

But mere sexual assaults can no more slow down the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope awards than it ever slowed down the real life Kennedys. 

Murphy thanked the people giving him an award for "keeping the legacy and spirit of RFK alive". The legacy and spirit of RFK apparently involves handing out awards to racists, rape enablers and murderers. 

Three health care CEOs have received the Ripple of Hope award. As did Bono, Wyclef Jean, George Clooney, Tony Bennett, scumbag-Robert DeNiro, and Taylor Swift, for dating a member of the Kennedy family. If dating a Kennedy and surviving isn’t a true commitment to human rights, I don’t know what is. 

 scumbag-Alec Baldwin was there as the emcee for the second year in a row despite recently being arrested and charged with assault after punching a man during a fight over a parking spot. scumbag-Baldwin’s history of altercations may have prevented him from receiving a Ripple of Hope Award, but it didn’t prevent him from emceeing another of them. Nothing short of murder in broad daylight would have done it. 

Drowning a woman in a car at night or murdering a teenage girl in her backyard also doesn’t count according to the Kennedy code of ethics. 

Also speaking was Tom Brokaw, who recently had his own #MeToo moment. 

Sadly, there was no mention of one of the RFK award’s first recipients, Winnie Mandela, who had recently passed away and gone to whatever place the murderers of teenage boys are summoned. 

Four years after winning the prestigious human rights award, Winnie Mandela and her thugs murdered Stompie Moeketsi Seipei, a 14-year-old boy, in a failed effort to get him to make a false accusation of molestation against a white Methodist minister active in the fight against Apartheid. 

"I slaughtered him like a goat," one of her thugs testified. 

Jerry Richardson, the thug, called Mandela, "Mommy", and described beating, killing and torturing people on her orders. 

Stompie had been beaten for days, including by Winnie Mandela who used her fists and a whip. 

"She was singing when she started the assault on us," another of the RFK Human Rights award winner's victims described. 

Yet another victim described Winnie Mandela dancing to the rhythm of the blows. 

Another of Mandela’s thugs stated that, “Madikizela-Mandela told me to sing loudly to drown the voices of those being brutally assaulted.” 

It certainly puts Alec Baldwin into perspective. 

The Robert F. Kennedy award ceremonies are an embarrassment to RFK, who, for all his flaws, didn’t deserve this. No one does. Some leaders hope to have bridges and rivers named after them. Nobody really wants to have the CEO of a health care company and a bunch of trashy cable channels explain how connected to you they feel in their work of killing the elderly and making millennials even dumber. 

Discovery CEO David Zaslav claimed that his company was carrying forward RFK's legacy by "informing, inspiring and educating its global viewers with deeply loved content." 

It's hard to say whether RFK would have seen his legacy more in Battlebots, Naked and Afraid or Deadliest Catch. Or whether he would come back to haunt the Ripple of Hope awards if he could. 

But you can’t deny that when it isn’t handing out worthless awards that make RFK roll over in his grave, that the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation occasionally makes a difference in people’s lives. 

Just last October, RFK Human Rights bailed out Tamika West, a career criminal in New York with 27 arrests for burglary, prostitution and drugs, to prove that bail is unfair to “people living in poverty.” 

That was according to Kerry Kennedy, who can’t stop handing out awards to random Democrats. 

This December, Tamika was busted for stealing toys for needy kids, after lighting a crack pipe, and going on her merry way. 

Look for her to be next year’s Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope honoree.  
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America’s Next Civil War 
Will Be Worse Than Our Last
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by H. W. CROCKER III  
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Trump digs in, lashes out amid shutdown standoff
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by Dave Boyer 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ President Trump rang in the new year Monday night in an unfamiliar holiday spot — the White House, where he has been holed up waiting in vain for congressional Democrats... to make a deal to end the partial government shutdown. “I’m in the Oval Office,” the president tweeted Monday. “Democrats, come back from vacation now and give us the votes necessary for Border Security, including the Wall.” Over 11 days without legislative action in Washington, the president has threatened to close all border crossings with Mexico, complained about obstructionist Democrats shutting down the government and blocking his nominees, lamented the habit of foreign leaders taking advantage of the U.S., and offered shifting descriptions of the border barrier he seeks. He has engaged in his favorite pastimes of blasting the “fake news” media and special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt.” The president said Democratic leaders “could’ve come over anytime” to negotiate with him. “I spent Christmas in the White House, I spent New Year’s Eve now in the White House,” Mr. Trump told Fox News on Monday. “A lot of people are looking to get their paycheck, so I’m ready to go whenever they want. We are not giving up. We have to have border security and the wall is a big part of border security — the biggest part.” The president’s tweets prompted former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John O. Brennan, a fierce critic, to fire back at Mr. Trump on Monday: “We have had enough of your whining from the White House. We need an actual leader — our Nation’s future is at stake.”...
Population Growth Leads to Abundant Resources
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{nationalreview.com} ~ In recent weeks, oil has been moving below $50 a barrel — owing partly to concerns of oversupply and partly to concerns over a slowing global economy... Petroleum has helped to fuel the global economy for over a century, and its relative abundance today contradicts the doomsayers who feared “peak oil” in the past. Cheap oil is also a problem for the environmentalists, who fear that an oversupply of fossil fuels will undermine the global transition to green energy. Yet petroleum is not special. Resources in general have become cheaper in inflation-adjusted terms — as well as relative to the cost of labor — over the last four decades. That’s all the more remarkable considering that the world’s population has massively expanded over the same time period. Resource depletion has been a hotly debated topic since the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb in 1968. The Stanford University biologist warned that population growth would result in the exhaustion of resources and a global catastrophe. “Since natural resources are finite,” he noted some years later, “consumption obviously must ‘inevitably lead to depletion and scarcity’ . . . Petroleum is a textbook example of such a resource.” The late University of Maryland economist Julian Simon disagreed. In his 1981 book The Ultimate Resource, Simon argued that humans were intelligent beings, capable of innovating their way out of shortages. And so we have. Fracking, to give just one example, has enabled us to tap previously inaccessible oil reserves, thus turning the United States into a fossil-fuel super-power. Our findings in a recently published paper confirm Simon’s thesis. We revisited the debate by looking at 50 foundational commodities covering energy, food, materials, and metals. Between 1980 and 2017, the real price of commodities fell by 36 percent on average...  https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/population-growth-abundant-resources-cheap-commodities/
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‘Meet The Press’ Preaches Climate Change
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by Norman Rogers
{americanthinker.com} ~ On Sunday morning, December 30, ‘Meet the Press’ had a gala service preaching the climate-change religion. Famous climate preachers like Michael Bloomberg and Jerry Brown were featured speakers... they missed some opportunities and some old themes were nowhere to be found. They neglected to link the supposed, increasing pollution of the oceans with plastic to climate change. They forgot to mention the polar bear tragedy, and for some reason we don’t hear any more about malaria spreading to the temperate zones. According to “Meet the Press,” “the science of climate doom is absolutely and completely settled science.” For that reason they determined that no time would be given to “climate deniers.” But seemingly they broke their own rule when a clip by the Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, was played. The foremost climate skeptic in the U.S. Senate, James Inhofe, was also given air time. Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York and one of the world’s richest men, was given extensive air time.  There was even a plug for his book: Climate of Hope. The book, written with the former president of the Sierra Club, is hilariously ignorant. Bloomberg is considering running for president as a Democrat. Formerly, he was a Republican. His embrace of global warming alarmism may be a bid for votes in the Democratic primaries where the voters are typically believers in loony climate change theories. The one scientist on the show, Kate Marvel, has evidently given up science for a career promoting climate alarmism. She is contradicting herself by going along with climate alarmist fantasies -- in earlier public talks she was highly critical of the climate computer models that are the only basis for climate extremism...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/meet_the_press_preaches_climate_change.html
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The Collapse of the Never-Trump Conservatives
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{spectator.org} ~ With the installation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and a yet-to-be-named reliable replacement for the unreliable Anthony Kennedy... Donald Trump will have confirmed himself as the most consequential conservative president of the modern era or a close second to Reagan if you’re nostalgic. This will be complete vindication for Trump supporters, which means it’s really the end for the so-called Never Trump conservatives. Of course, there have been so many humiliating defeats for that crowd that we are spoiled for choice. What was your favorite blunder, or blown prediction, which marked their ignominious end? For some, it must have been in March when Bill Kristol, longtime editor of the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard, showed up in New Hampshire telling people he would run against President Trump in 2020. Or in April when the conservative website RedState was taken over and purged of writers who were “insufficiently supportive” of the president. Some go back to October 2017 when a Twitter spat broke out between Stephen Hayes and Brit Hume of Fox News over the Weekly Standard’s anti-Trump editorials. With the death last week of Charles Krauthammer, the revered neocon commentator  and prominent Trump skeptic, the eclipse of the neocon intellectuals is complete. One thing’s for sure: it wasn’t really a war so much as a rout. The Never Trump intellectual crowd has no momentum and no popular following these days. Consider the trajectory of their would-be leader Kristol, who appears to be indulging in a personal fantasy by putting himself forward as a candidate, as his rapport with GOP voters includes trying to run Evan McMullin in Utah to throw the 2016 election to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. When that stunt failed, Kristol  personally insulted the pro-Trump writer Michael Anton for his influential essay “The Flight 93 election.” Then Kristol’s commentator gig with Fox was not renewed, and he was soon accusing Tucker Carlson of “ethno-nationalism” and “racism.”  Overshadowing all of these breaks was Kristol’s personal history of being the conservative’s answer to Bob Shrum, a political “pro” who was always very wrong about politics. Of course, Kristol was not alone in his contempt for Trump — he was only the most vocal and unhinged. Alongside him were other conservatives like Jennifer Rubin and George Will and Michael Gerson at the  Washington Post; Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal; David Brooks and Ross Douthat at the New York Times; Jonah Goldberg and David French at National Review; Ramesh Ponnuru at Bloomberg; and Erick Erickson at RedState. A number of others, people like David Frum and Ana Navarro, committed political seppuku early and endorsed scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. Needless to say, the careers of most of these people have been curtailed dramatically...  https://spectator.org/the-collapse-of-the-never-trump-conservatives/?utm_source=Daily+Afternoon+Email&utm_campaign=1cb18846cc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_12_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d65fc4e11e-1cb18846cc-104762253
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The Absurdity of an Open Border
by Brian C. Joondeph

{americanthinker.com} ~ Democrats heatedly deny being in favor of open borders, but their actions and even their own words say otherwise. Much the same could be said about many Republicans... Both parties want an unrestricted flood of immigrants to America, but for different reasons. Democrats want a permanent underclass that reliably votes Democrat. Republicans want cheap labor to keep their Chamber of Commerce donors happy. Neither party acknowledges any negative consequences of the current open borders policy, allowing far more than voters and workers to enter our country. Ignored are the contagious diseases, still uncommon in America, being brought across the borders. Or the criminals we read about daily in the news, raping and killing Americans. Not to mention potential terrorists.  Fantasies abound about Open borders. John Lennon singing, “Imagine there's no countries” sounded like nirvana to a generation. How does this play out? What if there weren’t a President Trump promising to build a wall? Instead, suppose we had a president named Jeb or Marco, happy to grant amnesty to the 10 to 20 million illegals already in the country, a number which would double as soon as amnesty was proposed...
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America’s Next Civil War 
Will Be Worse Than Our Last
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by H. W. CROCKER III

{spectator.org} ~ In the summer of 1862, just weeks before the Battle of Sharpsburg or Antietam — the bloodiest single day of fighting in American history — Union Captain George Armstrong Custer attended the wedding of Confederate Captain John “Gimlet” Lea at Bassett Hall in Williamsburg, Virginia, as best man. The Union officer was dressed in blue, the Confederate officer in grey, and Custer being Custer spent the next two weeks flirting with the Southern belle cousin of the bride, even joining her in singing “Dixie.”

At one point she told him, “You ought to be in our army.”

“What would you give me if I resigned my commission in the Northern army and joined the Southern?”

“You are not in earnest, are you?”

He wasn’t, of course. Custer was nothing if not loyal, and he believed that he was bound to the Union by the oath he had sworn at West Point, whatever his affection for Southern officers and their ladies.

Such gallantry seems unthinkable today, when members of the Trump administration are hounded from restaurants and theatres, and Confederate officers like John Lea, if they are remembered at all, are considered precursors of the German National Socialists, and their once famous and respected commanders like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jeb Stuart have their statues toppled and banished from public squares, their names stripped from public schools, and their memories spat upon and disgraced.

The difference between the America of today and the America of what seems like just yesterday is that we once had a common culture. As recently as 1990, Ken Burns could make a Civil War documentary for PBS and let historian Shelby Foote wax eloquent on the martial prowess of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest —  something that now would likely get them both tarred, feathered, and Twitter-banned.

Yes, there were big differences between North and South a century and a half ago. The South was a slave-holding, free-trading, libertarian-leaning, conservative Christian, agricultural, aristocratic Sparta, while the North was a commercial, industrial, protectionist, Transcendentalist, social gospel, democratic Athens. But they held far more in common than separated them — beginning with the fact that, as Lincoln observed, “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God.”

In the end, the war was fought over a single legal issue: whether the states that had freely ratified the Constitution to form the Union could freely leave the Union if they felt it no longer served their interests.

One need only compare the Confederate Constitution to the United States Constitution to see that the former bears a striking resemblance to the latter. And far from being a national socialist charter, the Confederate Constitution puts even more restraints on federal power and limits the president to one six-year term.

The great seal of the Confederacy bears the image of George Washington, many of whose relatives served with the Confederacy, including Lieutenant James B. Washington, a West Point classmate of Custer’s the two had a famous picture taken together — Washington was a prisoner of war — a few weeks before Lea’s wedding.

North and South venerated the Founders. They shared the same language, the same religion, and, in large part, the same general stock. Most of all, they shared what Jeff Sessions was recently rebuked for calling an “Anglo-American heritage” of liberty under law, stretching from the mists of medieval England — even before Magna Carta — to our own Bill of Rights.

Today, however, our divisions are so deep and fundamental that Americans cannot even agree on what marriage is or what a man or a woman is which is pretty darn fundamental.

The lunatic self-righteousness of the Left and yes, I’m afraid one must point fingers here, where disagreement is bigotry to be prohibited by law or even condemned and prosecuted as treason, is a consuming, destructive fire that will not be easily quenched, and cannot be reached by cool waters of rational argument.

So what to do? We can start by trying to stop the Left’s war on America’s past, which is poisoning the well-spring of our national identity. If William McKinley, a Union officer turned president, could approve a Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery, it seems to me that we can at least be as understanding of our own history. Let us remember that President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who ordered the 101stAirborne Division to help desegregate Arkansas’s public schools, kept a portrait of Robert E. Lee in his office at the White House and admired him as a hero as did, incidentally, George C. Marshall, whose anti-fascist bona fides are rather more profound than Antifa’s, I reckon.

We could also try to lighten the mood a little. I’ve conscripted Custer for this very purpose in a series of novels that imagine he survived the Battle of the Little Big Horn to become a gun-slinging Western do-gooder, riding under the pseudonym of Marshal Armstrong. There’s some real history in these books, but the point is to regain a rational, even if nostalgic, perspective on our past by eliciting laughter. America’s story is a glorious adventure — not a grim catalogue of irredeemable sins. The sinners-in-the-hands-of-an-angry-progressive-god sermonizing that comes at us in endless, stultifying repetition from the press, Hollywood, and academia — today’s hysterical, bug-eyed, Puritan witch-burners — is the acid-bath dissolving our culture and our nation.

If America is to come together again, it will do so only through the restoration of what Lincoln called our mystic chords of memory, a common culture that emerges from a shared and sympathetic understanding of our past — the sort of shared understanding that can bring a Union and a Confederate officer to a wedding, and former Union General George Armstrong Custer, alias Marshal Armstrong, to the rescue.  
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 2, 2019 at 8:49am
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The Road to Crony Capitalism An Introduction 
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by ROBERT M. WHAPLES  
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Congressional GOP Is Why America 
Doesn’t Have a Wall
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{spectator.org} ~ In a recent poll conducted by Harvard University of all places, 80 percent of all voters say the United States needs a secure border — including 68 percent of Democratic Party voters... Meanwhile, 79 percent of voters polled by Harvard want immigration status to be conferred to those who have the “ability to contribute to America” with 87 percent of Republicans and 72 percent of Democrats agreeing with that claim. Essentially, despite what the punditariat may claim, President Donald Trump is on the right side of one of the most pressing issues of our time. This comes on the heels of another tragic story involving the murder of a police officer conducting a routine traffic stop in California at the hands of an illegal immigrant. One of the most striking differences between this tragedy and similar ones involving illegal immigrants murdering peace officers is the fact that the policeman in question was himself an immigrant. In this case, Corporal Ronil Singh of the Newman Police Department, a legal immigrant and proud father of a young, baby boy, was slain by an illegal immigrant known to law enforcement, who possessed a long record of criminal gang activity and other nefarious connections. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party’s sanctuary city policy in California prevented law enforcement from contacting the federal immigration authorities to begin deportation proceedings. Corporal Singh would still be alive today — living the American Dream as so many of his friends and neighbors said of him — had it not been for Democratic Party orthodoxy. The dominant opinion among the elite in the United States is that those who desire stronger immigration enforcement and border security are somehow throwbacks to a bygone era; they must be white supremacists seeking to maintain their monopoly on political power or something. Yet, Corporal Singh is just the most recent in a long line of innocent Americans who have suffered because of the destructive immigration policies of the Democratic Party as well as their enablers in the Republican Party establishment. Presently, the federal government is undergoing a purportedly devastating shutdown at least that’s what my Swamp Dwelling neighbors tell me in Alexandria, Virginia mainly because the Republican Party couldn’t get its act together what else is new? You see, the GOP was given a great gift by the American voter: they were granted dominion over the United States House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency in 2016. Yet, don’t tell that to the Republican establishment. After dominating every aspect of government for two years, the GOP has little to show for their monumental electoral victory in 2016...  https://spectator.org/congressional-republicans-are-why-america-doesnt-have-a-wall/?utm_source=Daily+Afternoon+Email&utm_campaign=d00b891eb5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_31_06_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d65fc4e11e-d00b891eb5-104762253 
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Giuliani says dirty cop-Mueller’s investigation
deserves to be investigated as well
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{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ There are times in life when the hunter becomes the hunted and the predator becomes prey, and in those moments, when the targeter finds himself targeted can be incredibly panic-inducing... perhaps even to the point of causing a heart attack. Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller may very well have felt his heart skip a beat this week when he heard one of President Donald Trump’s top attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, suggest that the Democrat-heralded anti-Trump investigator was worthy of being investigated for his own wrongdoings as well. Giuliani recently suggested to Buck Sexton and John Solomon of The Hill that 2019 could see something of a reversal in that dirty cop-Mueller may soon find himself on the wrong end of a government investigation. “dirty cop-Mueller should be investigated for destruction of evidence for allowing those text messages from Strzok to be erased, messages that would show the state of mind and tactics of his lead anti-Trump FBI agent at the start of his probe,” Giuliani said.The former New York City mayor was referencing the revelation from the Justice Department inspector general that thousands of text messages between former FBI agent Peter Strozk and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page had been erased during the time period in which both overtly anti-Trump individuals were working for the dirty cop-Mueller investigation. “That should be investigated, damn it, that should be investigated fully. You want a special counsel, get one for that,” Giuliani added...  https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/giuliani-muellers-deserves-investigated/
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The Divine Right of Democrats to Drool
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{spectator.org} ~ Many longtime liberals find themselves bewildered at the continued antics of the Democrats at a time when they have a real, albeit small, window of opportunity... to demonstrate that they have some acquaintance with the art of responsible governance. Thoughtful people like law professors Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz, who understand that the nation’s polity will be far healthier if both major parties approach real issues seriously, are unable to understand why so few Democrats see that the perpetuation of puerile nihilism driven by unabated hatred of President Trump will end in disaster. Turley puts it thus: In this age of rage, voters seem to have no patience, let alone need, for leaders speaking of abstract principles. They want immediate unequivocal action.… For Democrats, that all consuming purpose has led to the abandonment of core unifying values, including many that first drew me to the Democratic Party. The explanation for this loss of the party’s soul to an unquenchable and wholly emotional desire to destroy Trump is captured in a one-sentence observation by Cicero with which Turley is certainly familiar: “Those who do not know history will forever remain children.” There is very little chance that the kindergartners of the Democratic resistance would recognize Turley’s allusion to the fabled “Days of Rage.” Nor do they grasp that their collective tantrum and lurch to the left is reminiscent of that which eventually produced the suicidal Democratic nomination of George McGovern and President Nixon’s 1972 landslide. Thus, like so many angry children, nothing less than Donald Trump’s head on a platter will mollify them. It doesn’t matter to this bumptious brood that someone has to produce at least a plausible case proving his guilt of the “crimes and misdemeanors” without which no majority in the House of Representatives will try to impeach the President. This is what Alan Dershowitz, who leans farther to the left than Turley, has been trying to tell anyone who will listen, but that’s an ever shrinking audience in the media. Most want to hear that Trump is going down. In a recent discussion with Joe Concha for the Hill, he said: I used to be, for example, on CNN more often than on Fox. I was a regular, not paid, but just a person who was on all the time debating with Toobin, debating with others…. I haven’t been on CNN, now, since the summer, and Fox calls me all the time.… I’d love to be available to people who watch all channels.” But Dershowitz is in the unfortunate habit of dealing in realities not well suited for les enfants en colère. They want Trump impeached pursuant to the meandering dirty cop-Mueller investigation. Unfortunately for them, that farce is unlikely to do the job or it would have been leaked to the media by now. What about Flynn? What about the great Cohen bust? The Flynn plea was obviously a piece of FBI legerdemain whereby they entrapped him using a law designed to manufacture crimes rather than detect them and there’s nothing there than can hurt Trump. As to Cohen, this is what Dershowitz has been trying to explain...
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House Republicans abruptly end
scumbag/liar-Clinton probe as they lose power to Dems
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{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ With a Democrat majority set to take control of the House of Representatives, it was made abundantly clear that all Republican-led committee investigations would be killed... and a whole new swath of Democrat-led investigations into President Donald Trump would be launched.  No doubt with that in mind, the Republican leaders of two major committees have formally ended their joint investigation into how the FBI had handled the investigation of former Secretary of State scum bag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s private email server scandal, though they shared their remaining concerns in a publicized letter. Outgoing committee chairs Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy — of the Judiciary and Oversight Committees, respectively — sent a six-page letter to Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell informing them of the closure of the investigation. They also documented their many “serious questions and concerns” about the “thoroughness and impartiality” of the FBI’s scumbag/liar-Clinton investigation, especially as compared to how the Trump-Russia investigation had been handled...
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Victimhood Culture and Traditional 
Justice Are on a Collision Course 
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by Wendy McElroy
{thehill.com} ~ “I just want to say to the men in this country, just shut up and step up.” Responding to Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing for his nomination to the Supreme Court... Sen. scumbag-Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) put American men on notice: Their day was over. The mainstream press and social media were more specific in echoing who needed to shut up: old white men in government. According to social justice, the proper role for this privileged group is to mutely support victimized ones. Presumably, they could also step aside. Congress has a culture war on its hands and the battles will blaze for the foreseeable future. Congress is a microcosm of the schism that is tearing America apart--ideologically, morally and emotionally. Understanding the dynamics of the conflict requires a grasp of the “victimhood culture” that scumbag-Hirono’s statement epitomized in its message and its tone. The message of this #MeToo approach is “get out of the way of oppressed groups”; the tone is rage. A key to understanding the victimhood ideology is how it defines “justice.” Victimhood is an integral part of identity politics and the social justice movement of past decades. People are separated into categories according to their secondary characteristics, such as gender or race. Their primary characteristic is being human. A person’s political status is then viewed through the lens of his or her group identity, with heavy emphasis placed upon whether the group is considered to be oppressed or oppressive. Men oppress women, for instance. The purpose of social justice is to balance the status of all groups, which requires an imbalance of treatment because some groups are seemingly privileged at the expense of others...  https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/415422-victimhood-culture-and-traditional-justice-are-on-a-collision-course
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The Road to Crony Capitalism An Introduction 
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by ROBERT M. WHAPLES  

{independent.org} ~ This issue of The Independent Review is intended to open up a debate about the nature of capitalism. My co-editor, Michael Munger, and his co-author, Mario Villarreal-Diaz, begin the discussion with a deeply disconcerting question: “Suppose it’s true that capitalism has a tendency—it’s not inevitable or irreversible, but a tendency nonetheless—to devolve into crony capitalism. Is laissez-faire simply the first step on a kind of road to serfdom, where giant corporate syndicates achieve a parallel kind of economic planning every bit as pernicious as that feared by Hayek?” They conclude by determining there’s a great deal to worry about: “It is at least possible that cronyism is intrinsic to and not separable from capitalism” (emphasis in the original). And they provide much evidence that it’s not simply a possibility but a reality—firms especially entrenched ones that are losing their innovative edge and politicians have strong incentives to travel down this road. 

To initiate the debate, Munger delivered the paper in a plenary session at the April 2018 meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. We continue the debate with six papers that respond to Munger and Villarreal-Diaz’s cronyism argument. In addition, we invite readers to respond to “The Road to Crony Capitalism”—to consider how significant and inevitable the problem of crony capitalism is and to examine whether there are any real solutions to it—with the promise of publishing the best responses online alongside this issue of The Independent Review (send your formal comments to rwhaples@independent.org). 

In the first of the six responses, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, playing with another classic economics title, considers in “Capitalism, Cronyism, and Democracy” whether statistical evidence and history can help elucidate the question. Examining Munger and Villarreal-Diaz’s link between democracy and cronyism, that “allowing real democracy may doom real capitalism,” he finds a weak negative correlation between an international index of democracy and international indices of cronyism and corruption. However, his central argument is that “in the beginning there was cronyism.” Cronyism “has had much greater longevity than markets: it extends back to our simian ancestors. Trade . . . has been in existence for tens of thousands of years, but cronyism goes back millions of years. As a consequence, cronyism and corruption are not recent impositions on a market economy.” How can corruption and cronyism be reduced? 

Hodgson reports historical evidence that the establishment of a career civil service, a relatively free press, and especially military competition have favored a reduction in the governmental selling of favors. Burton W. Folsom Jr. sees considerable merit in Munger and Villarreal-Diaz’s thesis but argues from U.S. history that the slide toward crony capitalism isn’t so inevitable. He argues in “The Fall and Rise of Laissez-Faire in the United States, 1789–1900” that cronyism is as old as the republic but that there was a distinct backlash against it in the period between the Civil War and 1900. This backlash was spurred by the excesses of cronyism exemplified by the corruption behind handouts in both directions connected with the construction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific transcontinental railroad. However, this relatively crony-free era didn’t survive the rise of the Progressives at the beginning of the twentieth century. Perhaps there are rest stops on the road to crony capitalism? 

Michelle Albert Vachris sees parallels between Munger and Villarreal-Diaz’s arguments and those of Edmund Phelps, who has identified a decline of “dynamism” in American society and business. She reports indications of this decline in statistics on falling business startup and entrepreneurship rates and rising levels of industrial concentration in the United States. However, there has been considerable churn in the firms at the top of the Fortune 500 list in recent decades. In her essay “Dynamism as a Bump on the Road to Crony Capitalism?” she amends Munger and Villarreal-Diaz’s thesis of capitalism’s inherent tendency toward cronyism by proposing that “well directed innovation” can stall the process. Such innovation would probably require a shift in cultural values and especially a greater appreciation of classical liberal ideals in our educational system and society as a whole. Perhaps “dynamism” is not merely a speed bump on the road but a U-turn? 

In “Crony Capitalism versus Pure Capitalism,” Walter E. Block fundamentally both agrees and disagrees with Munger and Villarreal-Diaz. He endorses their argument for creeping cronyism in the case of capitalism as we know it in the United States and warns that their “contribution consists of very accurately analyzing the forces that tend to move us in that baleful direction.” However, he notes that “their starting point is not at all the pure free-enterprise system,” which needn’t have this tendency. Rather, he says, they discuss whether a system already suffering from cronyism will stay the same, worsen, or improve. Block sees a ray of light in think tanks such as the Independent Institute that defend and advance free markets and submits that the problem would be cured if the capitalists asking for government favors such as tariffs were to be jailed—likewise the politicians who propose such laws that restrict entry into markets, industries, and professions. Hmm, could the police pull over these scofflaws for speeding down the road to crony capitalism? 

In “We Cannot Let Cronyism Overrun Our Economic Garden,” Nick Sorrentino argues that the “road” metaphor should be supplanted. “Cronyism is not a destination. It is, in fact, the landscape”—a garden full of weeds that we need to prune. Tending this garden is a thankless, never-ending task, but it must be accomplished if our economic garden is to flourish. However, he holds out considerable hope because “anticrony sentiment is embedded deep in the DNA of the everyday person,” so it may be possible to limit this weed by shining a spotlight upon it, making it generally unacceptable, politically incorrect, or at least unfashionable—something Sorrentino’s organization AC2News attempts to accomplish. 

In “Cronyism: Necessary for the Minimal, Protective State,” Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall point out that “to the extent that capitalism requires the existence of a state, even a minimal state, it also requires some degree of cronyism” (emphasis added). Although some envision the ideal government as a simple referee, “real government can never be limited to a role of referee that stands entirely outside of the game it is tasked with overseeing. First, even the minimal protective state requires resources in order to operate. This requirement means that the government must intervene into private economic life to extract resources. . . . Second, the minimal protective state must also have discretion to deal with circumstances that are unforeseen at the time it is granted its initial powers” (emphasis in the original). Accordingly, “even if government were limited to solely providing core protective functions, cronyism would still be rampant” (emphasis in the original). In fact, one “would have a difficult time identifying a sector in the United States that better illuminates the operations of cronyism and its serious defects” than the military sector. Coyne and Hall’s essay thus explores the many ways in which the U.S. military is the quintessence of crony capitalism—the fast lane on the road to crony capitalism.
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