According to Jill Abramson, the Times’s executive editor from 2011 to 2014, it has become “unmistakably anti-Trump.” In her upcoming book, Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, Abramson slams the NYT’s unapologetic leftist bias. She writes, “Though [Dean] Baquet [her successor and current executive editor] said publicly he didn’t want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump. Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis.”
Now, the fact that the Times espouses a leftist bias certainly isn’t news. In fact, that sort of bias among mainstream media outlets is the very thing that inspired the creation of The Patriot Post in 1996. What is significant, however, is the source of the criticism. Abramson, who was the first female executive editor of the Times, is far from a conservative, and yet even she can’t tolerate the leftist propaganda it is passing off as journalism. Abramson faults the Times for its lack of journalistic integrity and its failure to follow the directive of its one-time owner, Adolph Ochs, who vowed at the turn of the 20th century “to cover the news without fear or favor.”
In her book, Abramson points to two factors that explain the paper’s decent into the realm of tabloids and propaganda. The first is young versus old. She writes, “The more ‘woke’ staff thought that urgent times called for urgent measures; the dangers of Trump’s presidency obviated the old standards.” The new leftist belief is that all the old values are actually only expressions of oppression.
The second factor is financial incentives. “Given its mostly liberal audience,” Abramson explains, “there was an implicit financial reward for the Times in running lots of Trump stories, almost all of them negative: they drove big traffic numbers and, despite the blip of cancellations after the election, inflated subscription orders to levels no one anticipated.” In other words, instead of reporting the truth irrespective of the financial considerations, the Times compromised its journalistic integrity in pursuit of the almighty dollar. That’s why it’s laughable and profoundly disingenuous when Leftmedia outfits like the Times complain and blame Trump for the American public’s loss of trust in the nation’s major news outlets. ~The Patriot Post
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Many refer to Islam as a religion of peace. Islam does not practice religion of peace.
Christians learn more about peace, love, and justice from (y)our Holy Bible.
However, Islam is a contrasting radical form of life as compared to Christianity. Islamic Muslims and other supporting groups qualify as approved for tax supported status under the IRS Code. Why should Congress and the IRS Code support or allow tax supported status to any function supporting Islam?
Why should Americans invite Islamic Muslims into America as they openly declare that Islam will destroy America, our Constitution, and our Holy Bible; replacing America with Islam, the Quran, and Sharia Law?
A majority of terror in America is associated to Islamic Muslim governments, other Islamic individuals, or groups.
Terrorism created by Islamic Muslims costs Americans their lives; around the world. American taxpayers have paid trillions of dollars due to Islamic Muslims' terrorism.
On February 26, 1993 The World Trade Center suffered a terrorist attack on New York. Another terrorist attack occurred on 9/11/01 as ‘Islamic’ Muslims used airliners in attacking America. This attack cost trillions of dollars to educate and protect our USA citizens. The ‘main-stream’ Medias barely mention this cost of lives and the taxpayers created by ‘Islamic’ Muslims.
The Quran promotes violence http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx.
On a regular basis, all who oppose ‘Islam’ are attacked; injured, and/or killed by radical Muslims. https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30.
Islamic attacks continue. How can leaders continue allowing ‘Islam’ and their supporters to amass tax supported status? Learning more about Islam and removing tax supported status will likely deeply reduce terrorism across America.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30?
Eliminating tax supported status of all Islamic supported groups and their supporting organizations in the USA will decrease terrorism and other criminal activity.
Islam Is a Religion of Violence https://www.usip.org/publications/2015/11/islam-religion-violence.
{wnd.com} ~ Dr. Jerome Corsi, my friend of 25 years and my client, is an American hero. Rather than accepting a fraudulent plea deal from Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller, where he was offered no prison time if he pleaded to one felony count of perjury he did not commit, but only if he would implicate President Donald Trump in so-called Russian collusion, he told dirty cop-Mueller and his leftist pro-scumbag/liar-Clinton and scumbag/liar-nObama Democratic prosecutors to stick it where the sun don’t shine. Jerry simply could not find it in his Christian heart to lie before the Creator and his Son; nor could he agree to be branded falsely as a felon, losing his right to vote. To the contrary, he has made it clear he would risk being imprisoned by a runaway Deep State prosecutor for the remainder of his life, rather than to lie under oath and implicate the president in alleged wrongdoing.
But Jerry did not stop there! Realizing that he was in a unique position to finally take on dirty cop-Mueller and his fellow hack prosecutors, he did something the president himself should have done long ago, but for the bad advice he has gotten for the better part of the last two years by his television-centric lawyers. Dr. Corsi pushed back and decided to take dirty cop-Mueller on legally and frontally!
Over the last month leading up to today, Jerry authorized my co-counsel David Gray and me to file criminal complaints against dirty cop-Mueller and his leftist prosecutors before Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, the head of the Criminal Division, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, the Office of Professional Responsibility, and the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to address and remedy this gross prosecutorial misconduct. For good measure, he also authorized David and me to file bar complaints with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) of the District of Columbia Bar.
While it is doubtful that ODC will take any action against dirty cop-Mueller, the complaint was filed on principle. The District of Columbia Bar, run by leftists who have donated heavily to the scumbag/liar-Clintons, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and a myriad of Democrats, are generally not interested in enforcing its Rules of Professional Responsibility against their own ilk like dirty cop-Mueller and his comrades. On the other hand, they “specialize” in going after conservatives, like counselor to the president and attorney Kellyanne Conway who is under scrutiny for simple statements, allegedly false, she made on Fox News. Meanwhile, Democratic partisans like scumbag/liar-Clinton lawyer David Kendall and Michael Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis get a green light to behave unethically.
But the complaints before DOJ are likely to bear fruit, that is, if the president himself finally takes charge and orders investigations. If not, we are prepared to go to court to obtain an order compelling investigations by DOJ, which if done honestly should, in principle, lead to the “prosecution of the prosecutors” on the dirty cop-Mueller team.
In addition, Jerry also instructed me to file a lawsuit before the federal court in Washington, D.C., over the illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of him and his family without probable cause that he had committed a crime, orchestrated by dirty cop-Mueller and his lackeys in the Deep State Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). For added measure, the complaint, which we filed before Christmas, also sued for the criminal grand jury leaks that have been coming from the special counsel intended to smear Jerry and his family – to try to bludgeon him to capitulate.
Since a judge I had successfully appeared before, the Honorable Richard J. Leon, had previously ruled in my favor that this type of illegal surveillance was unconstitutional – “almost Orwellian” he called it – I asked that this new Corsi lawsuit be assigned to him. This jurist, given the expertise on the issues he had acquired, it was thought, was best suited to hear the case. And, incidentally he was not a scumbag/liar-Clinton or scumbag/liar-nObama appointee, nearly all of whom in this federal court are extremely biased and partisan and most assuredly would approve of dirty cop-Mueller’s tactics so long as it was to further the removal of Trump as our 45th president.
The one wild card in designating the complaint as related and thus preliminarily assigned to Judge Leon was that I had learned that the judge himself was illegally surveilled by the Deep State. I had asked him in the prior lawsuits which he later dismissed for no good reason and now are on appeal, if he had been coerced by the Deep State to get rid of them.
Immediately after I filed the Corsi complaint, Judge Leon set the matter down for a hearing, which DOJ lawyers later tried to postpone on the phony excuse that its legal counsel could not work given the partial government shutdown. On behalf of Dr. Corsi, I opposed this, and Judge Leon agreed. And an initial hearing on the issue of the related case assignment thus went forward Thursday. See the courtroom artist drawing of Jerry and me appearing before Leon:
To make a long story short, Judge Leon declined to keep the case, in my opinion apparently still frightened that the Deep State FBI and intel agencies had “harvested him” and might retaliate if he presided over our complaint. While he made a point of making light of my concerns, upon granting DOJ’s request to have the case reassigned, and before I could speak further, he could not wait to rush off of the bench.
Our case was thus “thrown back into the pond” and re-emerged with it being “randomly” assigned to the Honorable Ellen Segal Huvelle. Hopefully, she will be a neutral arbiter of justice and allow our case to go before a jury of Jerry’s peers. We will see to it, with your strong support, that we provide every opportunity for this to happen.
For if heroes like Dr. Corsi, my proud and brave client, do not risk their lives and pledge their sacred honor to protect the Republic from tyrants like dirty cop-Mueller and his anti-Trump leftist and hateful leftist prosecutors, all will be lost!
{truedaily.news} ~ The main source of the Trump dossier, a former KGB officer, was found dead the day after Christmas. The Daily Mail reports... The Kremlin may have covered up the murder of a former KGB chief accused of helping ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele to pull together the notorious dossier on Donald Trump. Oleg Erovinkin served as a general in the KGB and was found dead on Boxing Day in the back of his car in Moscow. It has been claimed he died of a heart attack, but an expert on Russian security threats believes he was murdered for his role in the explosive dossier. The suspected murder victim was close to former deputy prime minister Igor Sechin, who is named throughout the leaked memo, according to the Telegraph...
by Mark Serrano
{townhall.com} ~ Donald Trump is still a political newcomer, but he’s making experienced D.C. insiders like Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer and Nancy Pulosi look like amateurs.
At a press briefing Thursday afternoon, President Trump deftly challenged Democrats to back up their repeated claims that they support border security by having some of the people responsible for protecting our country’s borders explain just what they need from Congress.
Democrats have steadfastly refused to compromise with the President over his demand for $5 billion to fund construction of a wall along our southern border, insisting all the while that their intransigence is not because they secretly support illegal immigration, but merely because they believe a border wall would be “ineffective.”
That was always a rather dubious explanation — Democrats, after all, aren’t exactly known for their frugality.
One thing that the Border Patrol agents at President Trump’s press briefing made perfectly clear was that it is impossible to achieve true border security without a wall. They weren’t just offering assurances that a wall would be effective; they were saying that a wall is vital.
It wasn’t just empty rhetoric, either. The men and women who protect America’s borders are among those affected by the partial government shutdown, meaning they are currently working without pay, yet the agents were adamant that they’re standing behind the President because they believe so strongly in the need for tougher border security, including a wall.
As one Border Patrol agent memorably put it, “If I come to your home, do you want me to knock on the front door, or do you want me to climb through that window?”
America’s border is pretty much all windows right now, making a mockery of the occasional doors that we put up every few dozen miles, as the agents well know.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer believes that Democrats are winning the shutdown battle, but he would be wise to think long and hard about what those immigration enforcement officers had to say.
Most ordinary people wouldn’t even have noticed this partial shutdown absent the media hysteria surrounding it, and to this point, some may have been inclined to support a quick resolution solely out of sympathy for furloughed federal workers. Now that the very federal workers most adversely affected by the shutdown have given it their unequivocal support, there’s precious little reason for other Americans to care how long it lasts.
In fact, while President Trump has enjoyed great popular support for his position and has diligently solicited input from border security experts, Schumer and the Democrats have done nothing but play politics with our national security. They’ve incessentantly chanted the mantra that this is the “Trump shutdown,” banking on their outdated assumption that political pressure will always force Republicans to cave in when it comes to a government shutdown, but they’ve offered absolutely no constructive proposals for achieving the border security they profess to desire.
In a press briefing lasting less than 10 minutes, Donald Trump shattered long-held misconceptions about the political calculus of government shutdowns while exposing the Democrats’ utter refusal to take the necessary steps to secure our borders.
Not bad for a guy who only entered the political arena three years ago.
Politicians MORE CONCERNED about Fighting Trump than Border Security & Southern Wall
by Pat Buchanan
{townhall.com} ~ If there is a more anti-Trump organ in the American establishment than The Washington Post, it does not readily come to mind.
Hence, in choosing to send his op-ed attack on President Donald Trump to the Post, rino-Mitt Romney was collaborating with an adversary of his party and his president.
And he knew it, and the Post rewarded his collusion.
"The president has not risen to the mantle of his office," said rino-Romney; in "qualities of character" Trump's "shortfall has been most glaring."
Our leaders must "inspire and unite us," not "promote tribalism," wrote rino-Romney. We must defend the "free press."
All music to Post ears.
As senator, rino-Romney promised, "I will speak out against significant statements or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant."
Sounds like a litany of media slanders against Trump, some of which, seven years ago, were lodged against a GOP presidential nominee whose name was rino-Mitt Romney.
Thursday, the Post paid rino-Romney in its special currency, with a Page 1 photo and headline about having discovered "a new voice of resistance."
But rino-Romney had not exactly pledged his life, fortune and sacred honor to dethrone the tyrant. Rather he declared, "I look forward to working on these priorities ... with Mitch McConnell."
A day later, The New York Times, perhaps miffed it had not been the beneficiary of rino-Romney's dump on Trump, dumped all over him:
"Romney Cools Fiery Tone After Trump Allies Assail Him," ran the headline. A CNN interview, wrote the Times, found rino-Romney "repeatedly declining to escalate his attacks on the president and explaining that he would only speak out against Mr. Trump on issues of 'great significance.'"
Does rino-Romney not see presidential character as an issue of "great significance"? The Washington Times said Romney appeared to be auditioning for the role of Jeff Flake in the new Senate.
Though the rino-Romney screenplay seemed to fizzle after the early negative reviews, the episode is revelatory.
Clearly rino-Romney senses Trump is in trouble, and may not survive, or may not run, and there may be an opening for him. He seems to want to be properly positioned with the anti-Trumpers and never-Trumpers, should that happen.
Yet, in seeing Trump as besieged, rino-Romney is not wrong.
With loss of the House and resignation of his defense secretary, the president had a rough year's end. Now the expectations of his enemies and the hopes of this hostile city for his fall are greater than ever.
Blood is in the water. If Trump seeks re-election, he will be challenged in the primaries. And as presidents from Truman to LBJ, to Carter, Ford and Bush 41 discovered, these can prove problematic.
Looking over to the other side of the aisle, however, that party, too, has problems. The more hot-headed of the House majority have already said they will introduce articles of impeachment against the president.
And when the militant members are rewarded by major media with favorable coverage and commentary, this will induce others to join in, in anticipation of the same media rewards.
An impeachment battle thus seems inevitable.
Speaker Nancy Pulosi and her Democratic leadership may see this rush to impeachment as a strategic blunder. But they will be unable to contain or control what will by spring resemble a mob.
Today, unelected media, not elected politicians, decide what gets attention. For our media, President Trump is the issue, as he was in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and removing him from the presidency the strategic goal.
But beyond the issue of Trump, 2019 looks to be a rough year for America. The deficit will reach a trillion dollars. National debt is near $22 trillion. The budget is out of balance. No consensus exists in Congress on how to deal with it.
If sanctions are not first lifted on North Korea, there will be no nuclear deal, and the probability grows that "Little Rocket Man" will begin anew to test his missiles and nuclear warheads.
With U.S. troops pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan, the day is coming, and soon, when we must face up to and act upon these facts:
America lost both wars. Afghanistan will fall to the Taliban from whom we took it in 2003, and Bashar Assad, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah are, for the near-term, dominant in Syria.
As for our Kurdish allies, they will have to turn to Assad and offer to give him the Syrian lands they captured from ISIS, in return for the Syrian regime's protection from the Turks.
And as for Russia and China, our great adversaries, our foreign policy elite succeeded in this century in undoing the best work of Nixon and Reagan.
Where those presidents split China from Russia and ensured that Beijing and Moscow would have better relations with us than with each other, our elite revels in that it has alienated both China and Russia -- and united both against us.
Of course, Supreme Court justices are only human, and they’re just as susceptible to outside influences as any politicians on Capitol Hill. But the very nature of their position demands more discipline in order to fight the temptations of a society that can turn just about anyone into a celebrity overnight.
And even the most independent nominee can become more ideologically hardened after surviving the grind of the nomination process.
Politico’s Peter Canellos writes, “Even if nominees aren’t particularly partisan at the outset, they quickly learn to recognize their friends and enemies; the loyalties forged in the furnace of the confirmation process carry over onto the bench. It’s only human that such anger or gratitude, growing out of a trauma that some compare to a near-death experience, would alter judicial decision-making.”
Canellos adds, “There’s a third element to the politicization of the courts, though. That’s the visceral sense of approval and validation that judges get when they please their fans. The 60,000-member Federalist Society provides conservative judges with a Greek chorus of admirers. And many members of the Supreme Court, such as the late Antonin Scalia, couldn’t resist taking bows before conservative audiences for court rulings that devastated liberals.”
But earning the admiration of a respected organization like the Federalist Society is nothing compared to Ginsburg’s celebrity status among leftists, many of whom weren’t even born when Ginsburg was appointed to the High Court by scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton in 1993. From the “RGB” documentary of last year to the recent biopic entitled “On the Basis of Sex,” the leftist Supreme Court justice is being turned into a mythical figure. How can fair-minded Americans expect Ginsburg, a former ACLU general counsel, to make independent decisions based on the law when she’s been deified by millions on the Left?
As Ginsburg said in the RGB film, “I’m 84 years old and everyone wants to take their picture with me.”
In 2016, seemingly emboldened by her superstardom, she joked that it’d be time to move to New Zealand if Donald Trump were elected. “I can’t imagine what the country would be,” she said. Later, under intense criticism from both the right and the left, she admitted regret for the comments. But she never apologized — not to the American people, nor to the Republican nominee.
As Stephanie Mencimer writes at the far-left Mother Jones, “Ginsburg has since been tattooed on women’s arms, immortalized in song and a children’s book, and featured on [‘Saturday Night Live.’] She’s had her face plastered on everything from tote bags to water bottles. This merchandising could not have happened without the justice’s blessing; the law gives her a fair amount of control over the use of her image, as she well knows. Rather than start copyright battles, Ginsburg has encouraged her cult following. She assisted Carmon and Knizhnik with their book, appeared in the CNN documentary and makes a cameo in ‘On the Basis of Sex,’ carries an RBG tote bag in public, distributes RBG T-shirts to friends and admirers, and generally has reveled in her celebrity.”
Mencimer adds that Ginsburg’s desire to hang on to her position on the Court actually threatens to undermine the Left’s agenda. For years Ginsburg rejected suggestions by “progressive” supporters that she retire during the Barack scumbag/liar-nObama years to ensure a like-minded successor. Now, her desire to fight on through various health issues — including recent surgery for lung cancer — at an advanced age may be setting the stage for a conservative replacement if she’s unable to outlast Donald Trump. But that’s not stopping her.
NPR’s Nina Totenberg writes, “Even as she was secretly undergoing a series of tests and consulting an array of doctors, she made multiple public appearances and was interviewed in front of audiences three times, at one point reciting from memory the words of several arias from an opera about her famous friendship and legal dueling with the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.”
The Left has professed to do just about anything, even offering to donate their own organs to Ginsburg, in order to keep her on the bench.
But should Ginsburg retire or pass away before Trump leaves office, allowing him to replace her with a Constitution-friendly justice, the Left may one day regret the cult of personality that they alone created. And rightly so. ~The Patriot Post
The House’s Millennial heartthrob is pushing what Democrats are calling a “Green New Deal,” which is a series of legislative proposals that the Heartland Institute’s Justin Haskins calls “the most radical policy shift in modern U.S. history, dramatically increasing the size and power of government and running up the national debt by trillions of dollars.” He explains, “According to commie-Ocasio-Cortez, the Green New Deal, which has been endorsed by Sens. commie-Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., scumbag-Cory Booker, D-N.J., Elizabeth dinky-Warren, D-Mass., and at least 40 House Democrats, would eliminate nearly all fossil fuels from the electric grid and force everyone in the country to buy from power companies selling only renewable energy.”
Haskins also notes, “commie-Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal doesn’t merely advocate for a gigantic shift in the U.S. energy industry. Her draft resolution says one of the proposed House committee’s priorities would be ‘upgrading every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety.’ Taken literally, this mandate would cost trillions of dollars.” How would she pay for that? With a 70% tax on the wealthy.
It’s ironic but predictable that just as the economy has come out of the Barack scumbag/liar-nObama doldrums, and just as U.S. energy production — primarily fossil fuels — is booming, commie-Ocasio-Cortez and Company are increasing their socialist pressure on the energy sector. “We can use the transition to 100% [renewable] energy as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America,” commie-Ocasio-Cortez said, giving away the game.
To be sure, with an expanded Republican majority in the Senate, this proposal stands little chance of making it beyond the House in this session of Congress. But commie-Sanders, scumbag-Booker, and dinky-Warren are all either declared or likely presidential candidates in 2020, which puts this issue at the forefront of that campaign and makes it a dire threat to American Liberty. ~The Patriot Post
{city-journal.org} ~ Christopher F. Rufo joins City Journal editor Brian Anderson to discuss an urban struggle with street homelessness and the political fight around it in the Pacific Northwest’s largest city.
Known as the “Emerald City” because its surrounding areas are filled with greenery year-round, Seattle has recently seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and drug addiction. Municipal cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from the streets, and tent-villages have become a regular presence.
Seattle’s political debate on the question has been maddening: city officials who propose practical solutions to remove individuals or encampments arouse fierce opposition from progressive activists. Ultimately, courageous political leadership will be needed if the city is to solve its homelessness crisis.
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.
{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...
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.
{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?...
“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
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.”
{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?
{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/
{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.
Please Read Part 93:

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:
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:

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:
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:
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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:

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:

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:

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:

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

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
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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/
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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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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

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

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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:

‘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:

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/

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:

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

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

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

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:

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

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:

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:

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

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

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:

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’!-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:

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:

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:

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
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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:

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:

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 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:

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:
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:

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/
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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:

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

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

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

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:

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:
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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:

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/

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

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:
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
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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:

Trump Derangement Syndrome Turns Liberals Into Hawks!-Posted on State of the Nation-On January 14, 2019:
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=113646#more-113646

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:

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:

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:

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:
Please Read Part 95:

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:
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:
Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 13, 2015:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...
Obama 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...
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/
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...
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-selected-groom...

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...
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-...

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...

The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-msm-conglomerates-ar...
Note: The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:
A Republic, If You Can Keep It!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc
When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms
“Food for Thought”
Hello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Against The Deplorable Obstructionists That Are Doing Their Utmost To Take Down Our Democratically Elected President, His Administration and Ultimately Destroy our Country/Republic?-God Bless America!
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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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
Obviously, 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.
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
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
