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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 15, 2018 at 8:01am
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Trump's Ex-Lawyer Didn't Violate Campaign Finance Laws, and Neither Did the President
by Hans von Spakovsky  
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dirty cop-Mueller releases key documents on 
FBI interview with Michael Flynn
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by Alex Pappas  
{foxnews.com} ~ Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s team on Friday released key documents relating to the FBI’s questioning of former national security adviser Michael Flynn... The documents – some of which are heavily redacted -- were released in response to U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordering prosecutors to hand over the government's files and "memoranda" related to the FBI’s questioning of Flynn by Friday afternoon. The documents include then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe’s notes after talking with Flynn to arrange his interview with the FBI. It also includes a so-called "302" report documenting what Flynn told anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok and one other agent during their conversation at the White House. That July 2017 report, though, specifically came from an interview with Strzok in which the Flynn encounter was discussed -- and not the original Flynn interview. The 302 report states that Strzok and the other agent “both had the impression at the time that Flynn was not lying or did not think he was lying.” It also states that several unnamed people back at FBI headquarters “later argued about the FBI’s decision to interview Flynn.”...
The New Way To Steal An Election  
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by Eric Eggers  
{thefederalist.com} ~ America’s electoral obsession isn’t Russian meddling anymore. It’s ballot-harvesting... a long-disputed practice implicated in fraud that’s come to the fore with the nationwide embrace of absentee voting in recent years — and especially in last month’s midterms. With ballot-harvesting, paper votes are collected by intermediaries who deliver them to polling officials, presumably increasing voter turnout but also creating opportunities for mischief. The latter is suspected in North Carolina, where uncharacteristic Democratic charges of vote fraud prompted an investigation into whether Republican-paid political operatives illegally collected and possibly stole absentee ballots in a still-undecided congressional race. A national spotlight was shone by The New York Times, which, like Democrats, often minimizes vote fraud; it flooded the zone in this case, assigning five reporters to a single story. In California, by contrast, Democrats exulted as they credited a quietly passed 2016 law legalizing ballot-harvesting with their recent sweep of House seats in the former Republican stronghold of Orange County, thereby helping them win control of the House. In that case, it was Republican eyebrows that were arched. House Speaker Paul Ryan   said what happened in California “defies logic.” In Orange County, an estimated 250,000 harvested ballots were reportedly dropped off on Election Day alone. County Republican Chairman Fred Whitaker claimed the 2016 law “directly caused the switch from being ahead on election night to losing two weeks later.”...
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Forensic Investigators Reveal scumbag/liar-Clinton
Foundation Should Have Been Registered 
as Foreign Agent
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by Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ According to two experts, the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation should have never been a registered non-profit and should have been seen as a foreign agent... This testimony was given before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which was convened by Rep. Mark Meadows. The scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation operated as a foreign agent ‘early in its life’ and ‘throughout it’s existence’ and did not operate as a 501c3 charitable foundation as required by its and is not entitled to its status as a nonprofit, alleged two highly qualified forensic investigators, accompanied by three other investigators, said in explosive testimony Thursday to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee...  https://thepoliticalinsider.com/clinton-foundation-foreign-agent/?utm_campaign=TPI_Afternoon_Newsletter_12_14_2018&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
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Trump Defends Flynn – ‘He Didn’t Lie, 
dirty cop-Mueller Pushed That Claim’
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by Rusty
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ President Trump, responding to new allegations that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was coerced into forgoing a lawyer during an interview with the FBI... claims “he didn’t lie” and it was Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller who pushed the claim. “Well, the FBI said Michael Flynn, a general and a great person, they said he didn’t lie,” Trump said at a White House meeting with governors-elect. “And dirty cop-Mueller said: ‘Well, maybe he did,'” he continued. “And now they’re all having a big dispute, so I think it’s a great thing that the judge is looking into that situation. It’s an honor for a lot of terrific people.” It is the strongest defense of Flynn coming from the President since new court filings have forced people to look at the handling of the case with fresh eyes. Trump stated last year that he had to fire Flynn for lying to the FBI, but new revelations suggest the general wasn’t afforded a right to counsel and wasn’t aware that he was being officially interviewed. The President also noted special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller has recommended no prison time for Flynn, suggesting this was a sign they couldn’t recommend jail after the way they treated him – or that he didn’t really commit any crimes...
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Infuriated by Deadly Terror Attacks, Israelis 
Demand Netanyahu Act, or Resign
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{israeltoday.co.il} ~ Hundreds gathered in Paris Square opposite the official Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem this week... in protest following a string of deadly Palestinian terror attacks in Samaria. Many of demonstrators demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu either act forcefully to bring an end to Palestinian terrorism, or resign his post, having failed to live up to his title of "Mr. Security."
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Trump's Ex-Lawyer Didn't Violate Campaign Finance Laws, and Neither Did the President

by Hans von Spakovsky
 

President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, may have been convinced by the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to plead guilty to a supposed violation of campaign finance law, but that doesn’t mean that what happened is actually a federal crime.
               In fact, neither the Federal Election Commission — which is the independent agency tasked with enforcing the Federal Election Campaign Act — nor its former commissioners would likely agree with the overaggressive view that the Southern District is taking. Indeed, the Southern District’s aggressive stance on this issue might have violated the Justice Department’s own policy.
               Robert Khuzami, the acting U.S. attorney standing in for Geoffrey Berman, who has recused himself from the Cohen case, says in the government’s sentencing memorandum that Cohen committed a campaign finance violation by arranging payments from corporations to two women — Woman-1 and Woman-2 (Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels, respectively), who claimed they had affairs with Trump — in order to buy their silence. Cohen eventually invoiced the Trump Organization for the Daniels payment.
               Khuzami asserts these were illegal corporate contributions to the Trump campaign because they were made with “the intent to influence the 2016 presidential election.” Thus, he claims, they were campaign-related expenses and all of the rules governing federal campaigns apply to the payments. But there are numerous problems with Khuzami’s claim.
               First, his theory that anything intended to “influence” an election is a campaign-related expense fails to take into account the statutory limitation on this definition. FECA (52 U.S.C. 30114 (b)(2)) specifically says that campaign-related expenses do not include any expenditures “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.”
               These payments were relatively small given Trump’s net worth — the kind of nuisance settlement that celebrities often make to protect their reputations, especially when faced with claims that will cost far more to defend than making a quick payoff without all of the bad publicity that usually accompanies such cases. Given Trump’s celebrity status, the potential liability to these women existed “irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.”
               As Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has said, the payment to Daniels was made “to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the president’s family” and “it would have been done in any event, whether he was a candidate or not.”
               On the one previous occasion that the Justice Department tried to argue that hush money payments to a mistress were a “campaign-related” expense, a jury also did not appear to buy the government’s theory. In the unsuccessful prosecution of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, campaign donors made payments to Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter, a videographer who was actually working on his presidential campaign.
               Unlike Daniels and McDougal, Hunter was paid $1 million while directly working for the campaign and Edwards. Her payments did not go through the Edwards campaign’s account, but the government tried to claim they were campaign expenditures because they were intended to protect Edwards’ reputation during his presidential run and thus “influence” the election.
               Yet a jury acquitted Edwards on the charge of accepting an illegal campaign donation and failed to reach a verdict — resulting in a mistrial — on the other charges, which included filing false reports with the Federal Election Commission for not listing the payments to his mistress.
               The fact that a jury did not convict Edwards would not ordinarily mean that the government did not have a viable claim that a defendant violated the law. But consider this. Edwards had two former chairmen of the Federal Election Commission on retainer — Scott Thomas and Robert Lenhard — who were prepared to testify that, in their opinion, such payments to a mistress are not campaign-related expenses. Brad Smith, another former chairman of the commission, has similarly said that the hush money paid by Cohen is not a campaign-related expense.
               So the government in the Edwards prosecution was unable to convince the jury that these were campaign-related expenses covered by federal campaign finance law. The Justice Department subsequently dropped its prosecution and never retried Edwards — in part, no doubt, because many other campaign finance experts called the case “legally flawed,” according to a Politico report in 2012.
               And this wasn’t just their opinion — it was also the opinion of the Federal Election Commission. How do we know? Because as the chief financial officer for the Edwards campaign testified, when the Federal Election Commission audited the campaign, it determined that these payments were not campaign-related expenses that needed to be reported or run through the campaign. Thus, the commission said the federal rules governing campaign contributions and expenditures did not apply.
               It is true that Justice Department prosecutors are not necessarily bound by the commissioners’ interpretation of the Federal Election Campaign Act. But according to the Justice Department handbook on election crimes, “Federal Prosecution of Election Offenses,” the prosecution of all campaign finance crimes must be coordinated with the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division in Washington, D.C.
               No investigation or indictment can occur without a U.S. attorney first consulting with the Public Integrity Section, according to the handbook. In fact, this rule is set forth in the U.S. Attorneys’ Manual of DOJ (Sec. 9.85.210).
               The long-time head of the Election Crimes Unit within the Public Integrity Section, who was the final word on all campaign finance prosecutions at the Justice Department before he retired, was Craig Donsanto. He wrote the handbook still used by federal prosecutors.
               In a letter on Jan. 16, 2009, from Donsanto to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Donsanto explained why the Justice Department would not be opening an investigation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over accusations that it had made illegal corporate contributions.
               As Donsanto said, the role of the Justice Department in prosecuting cases under the Federal Election Campaign Act is “confined to prosecuting violations of the act’s provisions that are committed ‘knowingly and willfully.’” For a criminal violation to occur, “the application of the law to the facts of a matter must at the very least be clear, and there must be no doubt that the [Federal Election] Commission considers that the underlying conduct presents a [Federal Election Campaign Act] offense. That is not the case here.”
               That is also not the case here regarding Cohen. As the Edwards case shows, the Federal Election Commission does not consider payments made to a mistress to be expenditures covered by the federal campaign law, and there is nothing in the public record to suggest that the commission has changed its mind since then. It is therefore unlikely that the prosecutors in this case followed the Justice Department’s own policy with respect to charging decisions in this area.
               Just as important is Donsanto’s point about a “knowing and willful” violation of the law. That requires proof that a defendant clearly intended to violate the law.
               How can Cohen or anyone else involved in these payments be charged with a “knowing and willful” violation of the law by facilitating these payments when numerous campaign finance lawyers, federal election commissioners, and the Federal Election Commission itself have all publicly opined that such payments do not violate the law in the first place?
               Some Democrats such as Rep. scumbag-Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., are claiming that these supposed violations of campaign finance law are an impeachable offense. Apparently, they didn’t believe that the $375,000 civil penalty paid by Barack  scumbag/lar-nObama’s 2008 campaign for campaign finance violations — one of the largest in the commission’s history — was an impeachable offense.
               Some are saying that what the scumbag/lar-nObama campaign did was a civil violation, not a criminal violation. But as I have just explained, there is a strong argument that the payments made by Cohen were not violations of the law at all, civil or criminal.
               By the way, if Khuzami’s legal theory is correct — that any payments made to settle such a claim are campaign-related expenditures because they are intended to protect the reputation of a candidate and thus influence the election — a lot of members of Congress are in potential trouble. Last year, it was reported that Congress has secretly paid out over $17 million to settle close to 300 cases by staffers claiming sexual and other forms of harassment and discrimination.
               Such payments are obviously being made — in secret — to protect the reputations of senators and congressmen, many of whom will and have run for re-election. Does this mean that they are using taxpayer funds to pay campaign expenses? Is Khuzami going to open up investigations of all these settlements and all these members of Congress?
                It seems pretty clear that the Federal Election Campaign Act wasn’t meant to cover what Cohen has pleaded guilty to, which is why the Edwards prosecution failed. It is also highly doubtful that if this case had been presented to the Federal Election Commission, where I used to serve as a commissioner, it would find a violation of the law.
               No one can excuse the tax evasion and financial fraud charges to which Cohen has pleaded guilty. And as former Federal Election Commission Chairman Brad Smith recently said, we can probably all agree that these “payments to women were unseemly.”
               But “that doesn’t mean they were illegal,” says Smith, regardless of the fact that the Southern District of New York convinced Cohen to plead guilty.  ~The Patriot Post  

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/60018?mailing_id=3945&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3945&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 14, 2018 at 5:34pm
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TheFrontPageCover
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Trump EPA Rolls Back Another 
scumbag/liar-nObama Power Grab

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by Thomas Gallatin  
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Andrew McCarthy rebukes Judge Napolitano 
over Trump campaign finance assumptions
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{dailychristiannews.com} ~ When the dirty cop-Robert Mueller-led special counsel investigation submitted a sentencing report against former Trump attorney Michael Cohen... so too did the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, including in their report allegations of campaign finance fraud related to “hush money” payments to women who intended to sell their stories of alleged affairs with then-businessman Donald Trump.  Many in the liberal media — and even some at Fox News, including senior legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano — took Cohen’s guilty plea toward those charges as evidence that President Trump was guilty as well, an assumption with which another Fox contributor disagreed. Andrew McCarthy, National Review editor and former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, explained to Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs on Wednesday just how wrong Napolitano was in assuming that Cohen’s guilty plea was evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Trump.  “What they are saying here is there is a conspiratorial relationship in violation of a criminal law between Cohen and Trump,” said McCarthy. “And what I am saying is, it remains to be seen whether this was actually a crime or not, even if it happened the way Cohen did.” “I was quite surprised just a few minutes ago watching Judge Napolitano on the program right before yours say a federal judge had found, had ruled, that this was a campaign finance violation,” he said. “That’s not what happened at all,” McCarthy continued...
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Federal judge says Trump travel 
ban lawsuit will proceed
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by Sudhin Thanawala 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ A lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of denying nearly all visa applicants from countries under President Donald Trump’s travel ban will move forward, a U.S. judge said Thursday... Judge James Donato heard arguments on the administration’s request that he dismiss the lawsuit. The case was “not going away at this stage,” he said at the close of the hearing. The plaintiffs say the administration is not honoring a waiver provision in the president’s ban on travelers from five mostly Muslim countries - Iran, Lybia, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ban in a 5-4 ruling in June. The waiver provision allows a case-by-case exemption for people who can show entry to the U.S. is in the national interest, is needed to prevent undue hardship and would not pose a security risk. The 36 plaintiffs named in the lawsuit include people who have had waiver applications denied or stalled despite chronic medical conditions, prolonged family separations, or significant business interests, according to their attorneys...
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'Genius' Rats Are Flooding DC and 
Adapting Too Fast to Control
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{gizmodo.com} ~ Washington, DC, has a serious rat problem on its hands, and it has little to do with the shady goings-on at some of the highest levels of government... No, we’re talking real, honest to god rat kings who are wreaking havoc on the nation’s capital. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the DC region is facing a serious problem with Rattus Norvegicus, or the brown rat, an infestation that’s being exacerbated by both a population spike as well as mild winters. With their numbers on the rise, DC now trails New York and Los Angeles for its rat population, the Associated Press reported: The pest control company Orkin ranks Washington as America’s fourth “Rattiest City,” based on the number of new service calls per year. That’s up one spot from the previous year and just behind Los Angeles and New York; Chicago has been ranked No. 1 for four consecutive years. While Washington doesn’t boast New York’s famous subway monsters, anecdotal evidence is piling up that the rodents are on the march. In September, a viral video showed security camera footage of a rat pulling a fire alarm, forcing the evacuation of an apartment building...  https://gizmodo.com/genius-rats-are-flooding-dc-and-adapting-too-fast-to-co-1831062999
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Charging Trump Over Hush Money Payouts
Implicates Congress In The Same Behavior  
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by Elad Hakim  
{thefederalist.com} ~ Michael Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in prison on Wednesday for various crimes the dirty cop-Robert Mueller investigation found he had committed... As CNN recently reported, prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office alleged he admitted to paying off two women hush money and that he did so in coordination with and at the direction of President Trump, thereby violating one or more campaign finance laws. On the day of Cohen’s sentencing, the Gateway Pundit reported that prosecutors for the Southern District of New York announced that they had reached a non-prosecution agreement with American Media, Inc., the company that paid $150,000 to one of the women. As part of the non-prosecution agreement, American Media reportedly admitted that it made the payment in concert with the Trump campaign in order to bury the story so that it would not influence the election. Not surprisingly, and as if on cue, this has led to renewed calls for impeachment and possibly criminal charges against the president by some Democrats. However, such action, if successful, could create bad precedent and have far-reaching implications. Despite American Media’s reported admission, there are expenditures that might “influence an election,” yet not constitute campaign-related expenses. According to an article in The Daily Signal, the Federal Election Campaign Act (52 U.S.C. 30114 (b)(2)) specifically says that campaign-related expenses do not include any expenditures “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.” Although some legal scholars have openly stated that the payments in Trump’s case do not appear to have violated campaign finance rules, dirty cop-Mueller, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and congressional Democrats should think long and hard about the precedent they are attempting to set. While their eyes are set on one particular person, the potential impact could end up netting many others who have engaged in similar or worse conduct...
The GOP Needs to Stop Being the Stupid Party
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{americanthinker.com} ~ There is a popular saying among libertarians: “Liberals are evil and conservatives are stupid.” Needless to say that both sides strongly object to this characterization... The totalitarian aspects of leftism should be evident to all by now, though they insist that their goals and tactics are for our own good. The GOP is known as the Stupid Party, and with very good reason. In the two years that they have controlled the White House and the Congress, Republicans could have eliminated the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, HUD, withdrawn troops from Afghanistan, built the wall, defunded sanctuary cities, eliminated all foreign aid one trillion dollars, and used the money for infrastructure. In fact, the economic turnaround in this country came from one source: the White House. In a flurry of deregulation, Donald Trump alone has improved the economy. Now consider this: the Republican Party’s files were hacked when the Republican establishment used the very same outfit that the DNC used when its files were hacked. Now, is that not stupid?...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/the_gop_needs_to_stop_being_the_stupid_party.html
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Trump EPA Rolls Back Another 
scumbag/liar-nObama Power Grab
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by Thomas Gallatin:  Once again under President Donald Trump, some semblance of common sense and sane definitional language returned to the U.S. government. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its proposal for replacing Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s 2015 power-grabbing redefinition of the Waters of the United States rule.

             Under scumbag/liar-nObama, the EPA widely expanded the Clean Water Act’s definition of navigable waters to include pretty much every conceivable form of surface water — even irrigation ditches and rain-filled potholes. It was a clear and outrageous case of government overreach.
               In announcing the change, acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler explained, “Our proposal would replace the Obama EPA’s 2015 definition with one that respects the limits of the Clean Water Act and provides states and landowners the certainty they need to manage their natural resources and grow local economies. For the first time, we are clearly defining the difference between federally protected waterways and state protected waterways. Our simpler and clearer definition would help landowners understand whether a project on their property will require a federal permit or not, without spending thousands of dollars on engineering and legal professionals.”
               Predictably, Democrats and environmentalists were quick to misrepresent the definitional change, calling it a “sickening gift to polluters,” the “dirty water rule,” or as Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) laughably insisted, “nothing short of senseless.” In reality, it was the 2015 EPA’s redefinition of “navigable waters” that was senseless.
               The announcement garnered high praise from Republicans, however. “The 2015 rule was an expansion of federal power that used bureaucrat-speak to strip landowners of their rights and local governments of their ability to manage waters within their borders,” said Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA). “This new approach is the product of doing it the right way — openly, with the input of the American people.”
               It should be normal to have clearly written rules with consistently limited definitions that any member of the public can understand without a lawyer. Regulations that are so overly broad that they prevent individuals from knowing if they are in compliance or not are bad, as they have the potential for abuse of power written all over them. Thankfully, the Trump EPA is seeking to clean things up.  ~The Patriot Post  

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 14, 2018 at 4:00pm
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New Jersey Turns Law-Abiding 
Citizens Into Felons
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by Arnold Ahlert  
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New Bill Makes Congress Members Responsible 
for Sexual Harassment Settlements
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ In December 2017, The Washington Post reported how the Office of Compliance for Congress paid over $17 million for 264 settlements and awards over various violations... including sexual harassment. Now Congress has agreed on a bill that members of Congress will be responsible for their own settlements instead of the tax payer. As of now, “settlements are paid through taxpayer-funded accounts members use to pay for office salaries and expenses.” The legislation would hold members of Congress personally liable for awards and settlements that stem from acts of harassment and related retaliation they personally commit. There would also be a preliminary review of the merits of the claim by a hearing officer. Those elements, some of which already apply to House members, would also apply to members who have left Congress. “We are shifting the balance of power to more clearly protect the victim and create a more level operating place,” said Rep. Jackie Speier (D., Calif.), who has been one of the biggest advocates for the reforms on Capitol Hill. The bill leaves out some provisions sought by Republicans and Democrats in the House, including one that would hold members personally liable for discrimination in their offices. House lawmakers plan to take up that issue and others in the next Congress, but lawmakers of both parties cheered the compromise brokered Wednesday...  https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/12/new-bill-makes-congress-members-responsible-for-sexual-harassment-settlements/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Iran's European Hit Men
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ It is just before dusk when gunshots sound on a quiet, residential street in November 2017. A man falls to the sidewalk. A dark BMW races off, into the growing darkness of the night... The victim, Ahmad Mola Nissi, dies that night of his wounds – including several shots to the head. He leaves a family grieving, but not surprised; there have been threats against him for some time, and efforts by the police to protect him. Those who know Nissi know who he is: the founder of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA), an Iranian separatist group which seeks independence for the Arab people of the Iranian province of Ahwazi, or Khuzestan. Iran calls it a terrorist group. Yet this murder occurred not in Iran, but in Europe, in the Netherlands, where Nissi has lived since 2006; and although a year later the killer still has not been found, Dutch authorities were quick to pinpoint the one who was responsible: the Iranian regime. It was also not the first time an Iranian dissident was murdered in the Netherlands. In 2015, Reza Kolahi, was killed in Almere. Kolahi was a member of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, or MEK, considered the regime's largest opposition group. Iran and Iraq both list the MEK as a terrorist group, though Europe, Canada, and the United States all had dropped that designation by 2012. The U.S. now classifies it as a "cult." In fact, many of Donald Trump's supporters, including Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton, have expressed their support of the group in its efforts to overthrow the ayatollahs, despite its Islamist-Socialist roots...  https://www.investigativeproject.org/7737/iran-european-hit-men
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VA Whistleblower Visited By FBI, Sent To Psych Ward,
Set To Be Terminated From Job  
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by Michael Volpe
{dailycaller.com} ~ A Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) whistleblower said she is living in her own real-life Twilight Zone... Jamie Fox is currently a social worker at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC). Since late October, she’s been visited by federal agents who told her that the memes she had shared on Twitter months ago suddenly made her dangerous. Fox was involuntarily committed to a psych ward hours after these agents visited her home. Even though she has since been released, her Second Amendment rights have been terminated, and now she is on leave from work and being investigated. “I feel violated,” Fox said of the entire affair. “The VA knows my vulnerabilities, and they use them against  me.” Fox said she first became a VA whistleblower in 2008 when she insisted on testifying on behalf of a co-worker she thought was being harassed because of sexual orientation. She insisted on moving forward even after being told by multiple managers to let it go. Fox said she worked on the benefits side of the VA at the time; she left in lieu of termination and had to wait two years before getting a job at the SFVAMC...  https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/14/veterans-affairs-whistleblower-fbi-visited-fired/?utm_medium=email
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Green New Deal Is Bad Deal for All Americans
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{americanthinker.com} ~ For close to a decade, the Left has looked at a “Green New Deal” as the only  solution to supposed manmade climate change... According to the eco-Left, the Green New Deal -- a massive federal government stimulus program coupled with a rapid and total transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy -- is the only way to avert environmental doom. Just last month, shortly after winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives, commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said, “We have 10 years left to plan and implement a Green New Deal before cataclysmic climate disaster.” Although the Green New Deal would be a sweeping piece of legislation that reshapes all sectors of the U.S. economy, it primarily focuses on climate change. Here’s a taste of what the Green New Deal would do: “Invest in green business by providing grants and low-interest loans to grow green businesses and cooperatives, with an emphasis on small, locally-based companies that keep the wealth created by local labor circulating in the community rather than being drained off to enrich absentee investors.”  Unfortunately, this federal funding fantasy would stifle the free market, which is the driving force behind most great innovations and technological revolutions. Not only is this plan subject to rampant corruption, it eliminates profit incentives and puts our economic future in the hands of federal bureaucrats. “Prioritize green research by redirecting research funds from fossil fuels and other dead-end industries toward research in wind, solar and geothermal. We will invest in research in sustainable, nontoxic materials, closed-loop cycles that eliminate waste and pollution, as well as organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.”... The people will lose and pay for it.
scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters’s Campaign 
Debt to Daughter Jumps $90,000
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by Joe Schoffstall
{freebeacon.com} ~ The amount of reported debt owed from Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) to her daughter for running a lucrative campaign operation shot up $90,000 in a matter of weeks... according to new filings to the Federal Election Commission. Karen Waters, the daughter of Rep. scumbag/mad-Waters, is in charge of a slate mailer—or endorsement mailer—operation for her mother's campaign committee that has pulled in generous payments from other political committees. In order to appear on the mailers, which contain a sample ballot and quote of support from  scumbag/mad-Waters, a politician must pay scumbag/mad-Waters' campaign from their own committee. Oftentimes these payments range  anywhere between $2,000 and $30,000. The mailers are sent to residents in South Central Los Angeles. The operation has proved profitable for Karen Waters, who has collected $800,000 since 2004 when the Federal Election Commission granted scumbag/mad-Waters permission to run the mailers from her federal campaign committee. Prior to 2004,  scumbag/mad-Waters ran the slate mailer operation from LA Vote, a state committee in California... Umm, is this one of the reason Calif has the high rates of taxes?  https://freebeacon.com/politics/maxine-waters-campaign-debt-daughter-jumps-90000/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=967ae0c0ee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_13_11_40_COPY_134&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-967ae0c0ee-45611665
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New Jersey Turns Law-Abiding Citizens Into Felons
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by Arnold Ahlert:  “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.” —Article 1, Section 9, U.S. Constitution, pertaining to Congress

             “No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.” —Article 1, Section 10, U.S. Constitution, pertaining to the states.
               As of Tuesday, the Constitution was suspended in the state of New Jersey. Last June, one of six new gun-control laws  signed by Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy banned the possession of any magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Moreover, state residents have 180 days to give them up, permanently modify them to hold 10 rounds or less, or transfer them to someone legally allowed to own them. Active-duty military and law enforcement officers “authorized to possess and carry a handgun,” as well retired police officers, are exempted.
               New Jerseyans who fail to comply can be charged with a fourth-degree felony, subjected to a prison sentence of up to 18 months, up to a $10,000 fine, or both.
               It gets worse. On Dec. 5 in a 2-1 ruling, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, rejecting a lawsuit filed shortly aft the law’s passage by the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs and supported by the NRA. U.S. Circuit Judges Patty Shwartz and Joseph A. Greenaway Jr., both appointed by Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, insisted the law did not violate the Second Amendment because it reasonably advanced New Jersey’s interest in preventing mass shootings and does not “severely burden” the Second Amendment rights of the state’s law-abiding citizens.
               That would be former law-abiding citizens turned potential felons as of Tuesday.
               Dissenting Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Donald Trump appointee, forcefully disagreed, insisting the Court “watered down” those rights. “The Second Amendment is an equal part of the Bill of Rights. We must treat the right to keep and bear arms like other enumerated rights,” he declared, referring to the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.
               In fact, Bibas echoed the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion when he wrote for the majority’s ruling in Heller. “We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding ‘interest-balancing’ approach,” Scalia declared. “The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government — even the Third Branch of Government — the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all.”
               Unfortunately, New Jersey and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals are working toward the Second Amendment’s incremental elimination. And as columnist Daniel Horowitz reveals, both entities are hardly outliers. “Since the Heller ruling, five circuit courts have essentially abolished the ruling by allowing states to ban common weapons, common magazines, and any ability to carry any firearms outside the home,” he explains.
               Horowitz further notes the same Supreme Court with a penchant for upholding constitutionally dubious interests has been rather sanguine when it comes to clamping down on courts that defy the “plain meaning” of the Constitution.
               And no one made the meaning of “ex post facto” with regard to criminal law plainerthan Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase in Calder v. Bull, a case adjudicated in 1798:
               1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
               So where is SCOTUS? As of now sitting on the sidelines. But maybe not for long. The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs has promised to appeal the decision that turns “one million honest citizens into felons for keeping property obtained legally that could be used for defending their lives,” stated the group’s executive director Scott Bach.
               In the meantime, New Jersey plans to act. “We will enforce the law of the state,” Lt. Theodore Schafer of the New Jersey State Police said. “That’s our plan.” When asked for details, Schafer referred questioners to the attorney general’s office.
               Leland Moore, a public information officer for the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, was equally obstinate, refusing to answer any questions regarding how the state would deal with as many as one million gun owners who currently possess such magazines, including whether or not police would be conducting door to door searches. “We have no comment,” Moore said in response to numerous questions.
               Ominously, New Jersey is hardly through with its efforts to eviscerate the Second Amendment. In October, Murphy  announced a package of laws he wants the legislature to address in 2019, including one that would require ID from customers, and reports from retailers, for ammunition purchases.
               In other words, a de facto gun-registry scheme. “When I took office this past January, New Jersey’s gun-safety laws were among the strongest in the nation,” Murphy declared. “But there is still significant action needed to address our nation’s gun-violence epidemic. As we close out 2018 and move into the new year, we will continue to be proactive in our efforts to save lives and prevent needless tragedies.”
               Utter nonsense. Needless tragedies are not committed by law-abiding citizens looking to defend themselves, their families and their homes. Just as more and more Americans, marinated in a stew of progressive ignorance, are growing comfortable with banning “hate speech,” so too are they buying into the idea that targeting law-abiding gun owners will reduce violence committed by maniacs and felons.
               Nothing reveals the utter bankruptcy of their “logic” more than so-called “gun-free zones.” Gun-free zones turned classrooms into killing fields at Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, and Parkland, where the only thing more egregious than the extermination of utterly defenseless people was the reality that each shooter had ample time to reload — and reload — in the midst of perpetrating each atrocity, precisely because of that codified defenselessness.
               If gun-control laws were the answer, Chicago would be the safest city in the nation. A total of 528 homicides so far this year suggests otherwise. So does the reality that cities with the highest homicide rates in the nation are overwhelmingly  Democrat Party strongholds.
               The same Democrat Party yearning to repeal the Second Amendment. Maybe banning Democrats would be a more effective strategy.  ~The Patriot Post  

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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 14, 2018 at 1:07pm
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Trump's Campaign-Finance Problems
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by Political Editors  
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John Solomon Drops a Tick-Tock Bombshell –
DIA Holds Documents That Can Exonerate Flynn
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Tick-tock-bombshell club member John Solomon drops an explosive statement on Sean Hannity... Oddly, there’s a factual part of his statement CTH agrees with; and a structural part of the background that is almost certain never to reach sunlight.  First, the substance:  […] “In May of 2017 there was a document identified to a small number of people in the United States government. It’s in the possession of the Defense Intelligence Agency. For eighteen months there’s been an effort to resist declassifying that document; I know that that document contains extraordinary exculpatory information about General Flynn. I don’t believe the president has ever been told about the existence of this document. One lawmaker discovered it, but was thwarted by the Defense Intelligence Agency in his efforts to disclose it. I think we should all ask for that declassification; get that out; it may enlighten the judge; it will certainly enlighten the American public.” From the time-frame disclosed we can reasonably infer what this document is; at least what background surrounds it. ♦“In May of 2017”… The document is likely part of an intelligence product that was produced for President scumbag/liar-nObama’s Daily Briefing (PDB), and contains unmasking information likely done by Susan Rice on Michael Flynn as a surveillance target. ♦“One Lawmaker discovered it”… You might remember way back in March 2017 when HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes was taken to the White House SCIF by then white house official Ezra Cohen-Watnick; and that began a series of cascading events...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/12/14/john-solomon-drops-a-tick-tock-bombshell-dia-holds-documents-that-can-exonerate-flynn/
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Millions in taxes support scumbag-Soros 
agenda 'fomenting racial disharmony'
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{wnd.com} ~ Hundreds of millions of tax dollars are being given to organizations run by billionaire scumbag-George Soros to pursue a “radical leftist agenda” that is undermining American values... according to Washington watchdog Judicial Watch. The organization’s special report documents the financial link between U.S.-funded entities and scumbag-Soros’ Open Society Foundations, which is “seeking to destabilize legitimate governments, erase national borders, target conservative politicians, finance civil unrest, subvert institutions of higher education and orchestrate refugee crises for political gain.” Judicial Watch said that in 2018, the Open Society Foundations “projected expending more than $530 million to promote scumbag-Soros’ radical globalist agenda in every corner of the world under the guise of supporting democratically elected governments, strengthening the rule of law and promoting fairness in political, legal and economic systems.” “The reality is far different, the report shows.  scumbag-Soros, with the help of American taxpayer dollars, bolsters a radical leftwing agenda that in the United States has included: promoting an open border with Mexico and fighting immigration enforcement efforts; fomenting racial disharmony by funding anti-capitalist racialist organizations; financing the Black Lives Matter movement and other organizations involved in the riots in Ferguson, Missouri; weakening the integrity of our electoral systems; promoting taxpayer funded abortion-on-demand; advocating a government-run health care system; opposing U.S. counterterrorism efforts; promoting dubious transnational climate change agreements that threaten American sovereignty; and working to advance gun control and erode Second Amendment protections.”... Why is this happening. This need to stop NOW!  https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/millions-in-taxes-support-soros-agenda-fomenting-racial-disharmony/
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Iran Promises to Restart Nuclear Weapons Work 
as Tehran Identified as Top Global Threat
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ Senior Iranian leaders on Thursday signaled the country is on the brink of restarting its contested nuclear weapons program... disclosing the Islamic Republic is prepared to restart the full-scale enrichment of uranium, the key component in a nuclear weapon, if it does not continue to receive cash windfalls from European countries still committed to the landmark nuclear agreement. Iran's warning represents a further escalation of its threats as the U.S. intelligence and security community identified Tehran as one of the top emerging global threats that could shake the international balance and arm the region with nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, according to a new U.S. threat assessment. Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, disclosed Thursday that Iran is working to enrich uranium to extreme levels prohibited under the current accord. This work would enable Iran to stockpile large quantities of highly enriched uranium that are required to fuel a nuclear weapon. "I would like to warn that this is not a bluff; I have kept my word whenever I've said something," Salehi was quoted as saying during a tour of Iran's Fordow nuclear facility, a contested military site that still has not be subjected to full international inspections. "Now I'm emphasizing once again that if the establishment wants, we can easily return to the 20-percent enrichment, and meet the country's needs at any level and volume."...  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-promises-restart-nuclear-work-tehran-identified-top-global-threat/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=967ae0c0ee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_13_11_40_COPY_134&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-967ae0c0ee-45611665 
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Trey Gowdy Shreds James Comey – 
An Amnesiac Only Protecting Himself
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by Rusty
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ In an interview with Fox News, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy slammed scumbag-James Comey as an “an amnesiac with incredible hubris”... who is only out to protect himself. Gowdy spoke with host Martha MacCallum to discuss the former FBI Director, who recently testified in a closed-door interview with congressional lawmakers. scumbag-Comey was questioned about a series of controversies, including his department’s handling of the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton  private email server investigation and the subsequent Russian collusion probe.“scumbag-Comey just thinks he’s always right, and … it doesn’t matter if everyone else concludes he did wrong,” Gowdy said. “He knows better. So, that’s what it’s like to interview an amnesiac with incredible hubris.” MacCallum asked if he thought scumbag-Comey had operated in a political manner when it came to dealing with investigations involving former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump. “I think scumbag-Jim Comey was primarily motivated by a desire to protect the brand of scumbag-Jim Comey,” Gowdy responded. “But he has been so overtly partisan since he left, not just with the president, but he wants people to vote Democrat, he wants a Democrat House. He’s just become a political flunky.”...
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The Great Wall of Democracy
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by Matthew Continetti
{freebeacon.com} ~ I've had to wait on the tarmac for planes ahead of mine to take off before, but never F-15s... Naha airport here shares a runway with Japan's Air Self Defense Forces, leading to delays whenever Japanese fighters scramble to counter Chinese incursions into the airspace above the Senkaku Island Chain in the East China Sea. The pace of such incursions has accelerated over the last half decade. The Japanese scrambled a high of 1,168 times in 2016, mostly in response to Chinese activity. The sight of active afterburners on a U.S. commercial runway would be shocking. In Okinawa, it's everyday life. More than 1 million Okinawans share the southernmost prefecture of Japan with some 25,000 U.S. air, ground, naval, and marine forces. More than half of U.S. bases in Japan are located within these 463 square miles. The crowded space has long been a site of tension. A brutal crime committed against a local girl by American soldiers in 1996 precipitated negotiations between the United States and Japan over the consolidation and relocation of our forces. The process has been delayed by local and national Japanese politics. Opposition to the expansion of Camp Schwab in the less densely populated northern part of the island to replace Futenma airbase became a rallying cry for opposition lawmakers. The prefectural governor, Denny Tamaki, was elected on an anti-expansion platform last October. Tamaki defeated the candidate backed by Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party by a surprisingly large margin. His father was a U.S. Marine. The national interests of the United States, Japan, and China meet in Okinawa. The island has been essential to the forward deployment of U.S. forces in Asia since World War II. The base is the keystone of the U.S.-Japan alliance. Our presence signifies America's guarantee of Japanese security and helps sustain the economy of Japan's poorest prefecture...  https://freebeacon.com/columns/great-wall-democracy/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=967ae0c0ee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_13_11_40_COPY_134&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-967ae0c0ee-45611665 
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Trump's Campaign-Finance Problems
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by Political Editors:  Unable to establish “Russian collusion” to influence Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, prosecutors have turned their attention to another unrelated matter — potential campaign-finance violations.

             The Justice Department announced an agreement with America Media Inc. (AMI), the parent company of National Inquirer, in which AMI claims it worked “in concert with” Trump’s campaign to kill a story about one of Trump’s now-infamous affairs], in order to conceal “damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election.”
               The problem for Trump is that prosecutors now have two witnesses — both his former attorney Michael Cohen and AMI — claiming he knew the payoffs would support his campaign. If Trump directed and paid Cohen to make payments for the specific purpose of supporting his campaign and did not report the payment, that would constitute a felony. Notably, such felonious knowledge related to unreported campaign benefits are common in federal campaigns, and it is rarely prosecuted.
               In his defense, Trump declared, “I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law,” and proving he did is a high bar for prosecutors.
               Regarding the question of illegality, Hans von Spakovsky argues, “FECA (52 U.S.C. 30114 (b)(2)) specifically says that campaign-related expenses do not include any expenditures ‘used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.’” He further adds, “These payments were relatively small given Trump’s net worth — the kind of nuisance settlement that celebrities often make to protect their reputations, especially when faced with claims that will cost far more to defend than making a quick payoff without all of the bad publicity that usually accompanies such cases. Given Trump’s celebrity status, the potential liability to these women existed ‘irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.’”
               There are two glaring examples that prove beneficial for Trump’s defense should charges be filed.
               First, Recall, that the Justice Department failed to convict former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards on campaign finance violations when he ran for president in 2008, and that case is instructive. Edwards was tried on six felony charges after taking $1 million from two wealthy donors and using it to conceal his relationship with his mistress, Rielle Hunter. He faced up to 30 years in prison if he was convicted on all counts.
               Regarding Edwards’ acquittal of those charges, Melanie Sloan, executive director for a campaign finance watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, declared, “As noted by nearly every campaign finance lawyer who considered the matter, this was a lousy case.”
               And how did the Leftmedia respond at the time? The New York Times noted it was “a case that had no precedent.” The Washington Post observed: “At the time, an array of legal experts, including former prosecutors, questioned the wisdom of bringing the charges against Edwards, saying it was an aggressive interpretation of campaign finance laws.” The Los Angeles Times reported, “The case was unprecedented; no major political candidate has been charged with campaign finance corruption for attempts to hide a mistress…” Even MSNBC’s Chris Matthews insisted, “This John Edwards trial, this was a waste of time, money and public attention.”
               And Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was fined $375,000 for almost $2 million in campaign contribution “irregularities.” No demand for felony convictions or his impeachment.
               But there is no chance that Trump will be exonerated of wrongdoing, as Democrats and their hostile Leftmedia propagandists are anxious for impeachment fodder. They will pull out every stop to advance these charges.  ~The Patriot Post  

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Friday Med/AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 14, 2018 at 10:22am
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On Saudi Arabia, Trump Is Channeling
His Inner George H.W. Bush
 by Marc A. Thiessen  
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Friday Top Headlines
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by Media Editors:  Senate votes to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen (Washington Examiner)
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Prosecutors probing Trump inauguration spending (The Hill)
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China suspends tariff hikes on $126 billion of U.S. cars, auto parts (Associated Press)
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Budget deficit hits widest on record for month of November (Bloomberg)
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Republicans examine accusations of “pay to play” at scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation (Fox News)
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The DOJ inspector general found 19,000 “lost” Strzok and Page texts (Townhall)
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North Carolina congressional candidate sought out aide despite warnings over tactics (The Washington Post)
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Tipster thwarts potential mass shooting at Indiana middle school (ABC News)
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Teachers need guns, schools need security, Parkland shooting panel concludes (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
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Jihadi who opened fire at French Christmas market is dead (Fox News)
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Iran promises to restart nuclear-weapons work (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Gender & Women’s Studies department endorses a platform calling “for the Abolition of the Police, ICE, Borders, and the Judicial System” (National Review)
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Humor: U.S. military honors sacrifices of NFL players by wearing jerseys throughout December (The Onion)
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Policy: Why our country needs the wall, and now (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: Coaxing reluctant states to take on health reform (RealClearPolicy)  
 
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scumbag/liar-nObama’s War is Upon Us
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Donald Trump has a name for everything and everyone, from Crooked scumbag/liar-Hillary to Little Rocket Man, who for a time became his best friend... Will he call the next region-wide conflagration in the Middle East, when it breaks out, scumbag/liar-nObama’s War? If he hasn’t thought of that already, he should start considering it now. Because the catastrophic policies of our former president have emboldened the Islamic state of Iran and enabled it to threaten the United States and our allies militarily in ways never before possible. When scumbag/liar-nObama took office in January 2009, he inherited a strong U.S. military and diplomatic posture across the Middle East. The U.S.-Israel strategic relationship was at its peak, with the Bush White House openly supporting Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s latest attempt to stop Hamas terror in Gaza. The U.S. enjoyed a close relationship with a secular Turkey, that itself had strong ties to Israel. Egypt was at peace, Qaddafi had come into the Western camp and abandoned terrorism and its nuclear weapons program, and the insurgency in Iraq had been crushed. Al Qaeda truly was “on the run,” while Iran was beginning to feel the crunch of international sanctions over its previously covert nuclear weapons program. scumbag/liar-nObama succeeded in reversing every one of these strong U.S. positions, treating Islamic Iran as a friend and Israel as an enemy while promoting the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and its terrorist spawn...  https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272206/obamas-war-upon-us-kenneth-r-timmerman
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Senate votes to stop US military 
aid to Saudis in Yemen
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to check the executive branch's war powers authority by voting to end U.S. support of the Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen... Senators voted 56-41 in favor of the resolution, which passed after lawmakers agreed to a series of amendments, including on by Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., to block the U.S. military from in-flight refueling of Saudi jets. Support for the measure was fueled by a growing disdain for the Yemeni civil war, which has created a humanitarian crisis and has killed more than 10,000 people. Senators were also eager to punish the Saudi government over its involvement in the brutal murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi, who was also a columnist at the Washington Post. Opponents said the measure was worded too broadly and endangered the executive branch authority to conduct military operations abroad. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., urged lawmakers to instead back a “more responsible” resolution by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., that encodes the Senate’s belief that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman orchestrated Khashoggi’s death. The Corker resolution also calls for a peaceful end to the Yemen war and an end to in-flight refueling of Saudi planes conducting the deadly airstrikes...
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Pentagon Echoes Trump, Says 
DOD Could Fund Border Wall
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by Randy DeSoto 
{westernjournal.com} ~ The Department of Defense backed up President Donald Trump’s assertion that he could have the military build a border wall... if Congress failed to fund further construction of one. During a contentious discussion at the White House on Tuesday, Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi, “If we don’t get what we want, one way or the other, whether it’s through you, through military, through anything you want to call, I will shut down the government.” The chief executive is requesting $5 billion for wall construction, while scumbag/clown-Schumer has agreed to $1.6 billion for border security. While Trump argued he could garner support to get the funding in the Republican-controlled House, he needs 10 votes in the Senate in order to overcome a likely filibuster. The Defense Department confirmed in a statement that the president has the legal authority to direct the DoD to build a border wall. “To date, there is no plan to build sections of the wall. However, Congress has provided options under Title 10 U.S. Code that could permit the Department of Defense to fund border barrier projects, such as in support of counter drug operations or national emergencies,”  Pentagon spokesman  Lt. Col. Jamie Davis said in a statement on Tuesday. Trump tweeted on Tuesday morning, “People do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built. If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!”...
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Strzok, Page messages from dirty 
cop-Mueller probe lost after phone resets: IG
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by Stephen Dinan 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Investigators weren’t able to find any text messages between fired agent Peter Strzok and former bureau lawyer Lisa Page from their time on the dikrty cop-Mueller probe... because by the time their phones were recovered, they’d been reset for others’ use, an inspector general said Thursday. The report also said the FBI still isn’t reliably collecting text messages of all of its employees — despite the black eye the bureau has suffered from Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page. The revelations came in a report Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released to detail the efforts his team made to try to recover the texts between the two, who traded anti-Trump messages during the course of an affair they were having. Investigators have already released many of the controversial messages, including one in which Mr. Strzok promised they would “stop” Mr. Trump from winning the White House. But there was a gap in the text messages, or what the inspector general dubbed a “collection tool failure,” and the new report detailed investigators’ efforts to try to recover those messages directly from the Samsung Galaxy phones issued to both Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page. While messages were recovered from some phones, the inspector general said that wasn’t the case for the phones assigned to the two during their time on the special counsel’s probe.
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Republicans Take Bold Tack Against Democratic
Gerrymander In The Supreme Court  
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by Kevin Daley
{dailycaller.com} ~ A coalition of Republican voters made a pair of bold requests while asking the Supreme Court to uphold a lower court ruling striking down... a Democratic gerrymander in Maryland. Their case, one of several pending before the justices on this topic, could clear the way for greater judicial scrutiny over redistricting. The Supreme Court has yet to find partisan line-drawing, called gerrymandering, unlawful. “The practice of partisan gerrymandering — aided in modern times by sophisticated software and the most detailed troves of data imaginable — is at war with our system of government,” the Republican motion  reads. “It aims to insulate those in power — those whom the public has taken into their trust — from being held to account. Its purpose is to reduce the franchise to a charade — a meaningless exercise, the outcome of which is preordained by computer scientists and political consultants turned cartographers.” In an aggressive move, the plaintiffs are asking the Court to summarily affirm the lower court, meaning they want the justices to uphold the lower court decision without briefing and oral arguments...  https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/13/maryland-gerrymander-supreme-court/?utm_medium=email
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On Saudi Arabia, Trump Is Channeling His Inner George H.W. Bush

 by Marc A. Thiessen

 

In recent days, many have sought to contrast President Trump with President George H.W. Bush. But there is one area where Trump is channeling his inner George H.W. Bush — and not in a good way. His response to the murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi in a Saudi consulate echoes Bush’s handling of China’s crackdown on peaceful democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.
               We only recently learned how ruthless that Chinese crackdown really was, when a secret 1989 cable by Britain’s then-ambassador to China, Sir Alan Donald, was declassified. Student protesters were crushed by armored personnel carriers, which rolled over their bodies repeatedly until their pulverized remains were collected by bulldozer, incinerated and hosed down drains, the document said. “Wounded girl students begged for their lives but were bayoneted,” Donald wrote. “A three-year-old girl was injured, but her mother was shot as she went to her aid, as were six others.” One thousand survivors of the initial assault were told they could leave “but were then mown down by specially prepared MG [machine gun] positions.”
               The cable ends with this chilling sentence: “Minimum estimate of civilian dead 10,000.”
               China’s murderous brutality put Bush in an impossible position: He had to uphold American values while at the same time preserving a critical relationship with the men who carried out these horrific crimes. It is much the same quandary that Trump has faced in the wake of Khashoggi’s murder. Like Bush, Trump was faced with an inhuman act of violence that shocked the conscience of the nation. Like Bush, Trump had to impose consequences on the regime while balancing U.S. national interests in a critical part of the world. And like Bush, Trump has handled the situation poorly.
               Bush was unapologetic about his outreach to Chinese leaders after the massacre in June 1989. “What I certainly did not want to do was completely break the relationship we had worked so hard to build since 1972,” Bush later wrote. “While angry rhetoric might be temporarily satisfying to some, I believed it would deeply hurt our efforts in the long term.” At the time, Bush lashed out in his diary at congressional leaders who wanted him to take a harder line, including Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., whom he called “the kind of guy that was delighted about the overthrow of the Shah, not worrying about what follows on.” He sent a cringeworthy letter to Deng Xiaoping, in which he called the Chinese leader his “genuine ‘lao pengyou’” (old friend) and apologized for the punitive measures his administration had taken. “The actions that I took as President of the United States could not be avoided,” Bush wrote, “as you know, the clamor for stronger action remains intense. I have resisted that clamor, making clear that I did not want to see destroyed this relationship that you and I have worked hard to build.” Worse, Bush sent national security adviser Brent Scowcroft to Beijing, where he was photographed cordially clinking wine glasses with Chinese leaders at a state banquet.
               Bush was right that the relationship had to be preserved. The opening to China was critical to peacefully ending the Cold War. But his eagerness to placate Chinese leaders, and his reticence in condemning those who committed such horrific crimes, harmed America’s moral standing in the world.
               Today, when it comes to Saudi Arabia, Trump is — like Bush — in an impossible position. The United States must stand for human rights. But it must also preserve its relationship with Saudi Arabia, the only nation in the Middle East that can serve as a bulwark against Iran, the main strategic threat to U.S. interests in the region. Trump has tried to balance these conflicting responsibilities by imposing sanctions on 17 Saudis under the Global Magnitsky Act and declaring Khashoggi’s murder “an unacceptable and horrible crime” — while refusing to publicly blame Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for ordering it. He has correctly determined that the crown prince is not going anywhere and that a permanent breach with Riyadh is unacceptable. But the unapologetic way in which he has gone about it — touting how much we make from Saudi arms purchases while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo castigates critics in Congress and the media for “caterwauling” — has been unseemly.
               One of the toughest challenges of the presidency is upholding American values while dealing with pro-American tyrants. Few presidents have done it well. In this sense, Trump is no different from his predecessors. We don’t know what Trump’s back-channel communications with the Saudi leadership have been like — perhaps he has been tougher in private than public. But we do know this much: They can’t be any worse than Bush’s plaintive entreaties to the butchers of Beijing.  

~The Patriot Post  

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/59988?mailing_id=3937&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3937&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 14, 2018 at 8:20am
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Another Bloated Farm Bill

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by Nate Jackson

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Philadelphia’s Perverse Civil Asset Forfeiture
Machine Has Finally Come to An End
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by Brittany Hunter
{activistpost.com} ~ Philadelphia may be the birthplace of our Constitution, but its civil asset forfeiture program is anything but constitutional... The program has become so corrupt and far-reaching it is often referred to as a “perverse machine.” Luckily, after a four-year legal battle brought by the nonprofit law firm the Institute for Justice (IJ), the city has agreed to a settlement that will give its abusive forfeiture program a major overhaul and protect the rights of Philadelphia property owners. In Philadelphia alone, 25,000 people have been victimized by the practice of asset forfeiture. Property confiscated by law enforcement includes 1,200 homes, 3,500 vehicles, and $50 million from residents. And the majority of these property owners were never actually convicted of a crime. But now, due to the diligent efforts of IJ, many of these individuals will finally see justice served. Darpana Sheth, a senior attorney at IJ and director of its Initiative to End Forfeiture Abuse, commented: For too long, Philadelphia treated its citizens like ATMs, ensnaring thousands of people in a system designed to strip people of their property and their rights. No more. Today’s groundbreaking agreement will end years of abuse and create a fund to compensate innocent owners...
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Nancy Pulosi Announces Democrat Plan 
to Go After Trump’s Tax Returns
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by Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ During her weekly press conference, Nancy Pulosi announced a plan for congressional Democrats to target President Trump’s tax returns... Democrats are set to take power in January, taking over the House of Representatives and, essentially, grinding all congressional work to a halt. There are rumors floating around Capitol Hill that Democrats will immediately push for impeaching the President with what little power they hold in the House. Pulosi is feeling empowered and she let her confidence show by announcing the Democrats’ first target upon taking power: Trump’s tax returns. Here’s what she said: Yes, there is popular demand for the Congress to request the president’s tax returns. Ways and Means will have their path as we go forward. I’m sure the White House will resist, and so the question is, where do we go from there?...  https://thepoliticalinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-trump-tax-returns/?utm_campaign=TPI_Afternoon_Newsletter_12_13_2018&utm_source=critcalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
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After two-month manhunt, IDF finds 
and kills terrorist who killed two in Barkan
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ After a two-month manhunt, Israeli forces found and killed a Palestinian man suspected of carrying out a brutal terror attack... in which he shot dead two Israeli coworkers in a West Bank factory, the Shin Bet security service said early Thursday. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the suspect opened fire at the Israeli security officers who came to arrest him. The troops shot back, killing him.On October 7, Ashraf Na’alowa, 23, allegedly killed his coworkers Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi at a factory where all three worked in the Barkan Industrial Zone. Another Israeli woman was also injured in the attack. According to the Shin Bet, Na’alowa appeared to be planning to conduct a second terror attack, “which was prevented with the thwarting of the assailant.” The security service said when the troops arrived he shot toward them with the same Carlo-style submachine gun used in the Barkan attack...
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scumbag-Comey Continues 
to Display His Lack of Credibility
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Fired former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey is at it again. Last week, scumbag-Comey testified before members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee... In a single appearance, scumbag-Comey, on 245 separate occasions, while under oath, stonewalled questions with “I don’t know,” “I don’t remember,” or “I don’t recall,” according to a congressional interrogator, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. If any private citizen tried scumbag-Comey’s gambit with federal IRS auditors or FBI investigators, he would likely be indicted for perjury or obstruction. Why did scumbag-Comey, the nation’s former top-ranking federal investigator, avoid telling “the whole truth and nothing but the truth” while under oath? The answer is, unfortunately, obvious. scumbag-Comey has been called to testify before members of Congress on numerous occasions. He has written a long book and gone on an extensive book tour, and his paper trail is long. He tweets almost daily and is often on television—and in those venues never seems to admit to any memory lapse. And  scumbag-Comey has been at the center of every major scandal involving the 2016 election...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/13/comey-continues-to-display-his-lack-of-credibility/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRsak9EWmtNemhtTmpkayIsInQiOiJCd25TZkNSSHpcL1JBMm95ZUtHV3Q3aG5YYXRpSEdnUWMxK2J6TWowMFlFXC9wdnJoYWdyc1dZSEZNc0hmeWp5RjJ2YXdrZXFWbzBTQXV6WklLbnlmblV5SkF4M2JnSDZrS1U0WnFYVHpmcWJtRGlWZTJLNmZ5RGZDaUNMSzNlcEFUIn0%3D
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OMG! California Wants To Tax Text Messages (SMH)
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{lidblog.com} ~ I know what you are thinking, AYKMWTS? But no this is true. California will tax anything, and to prove it they are looking at taxing text messages... to help pay for cell phone service for poor folks. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is looking to vote on the proposal as early as late December, but until then the wireless industry is working hard to defeat the proposed tax a copy of the tax proposal document is embedded below. “It’s a dumb idea,” said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council business-sponsored advocacy group. “This is how conversations take place in this day and age, and it’s almost like saying there should be a tax on the conversations we have.”It’s unclear how many individual consumers would be asked to pay their wireless carrier for texting services under the proposal. But it likely would be billed as a flat surcharge per customer — one of those irksome fees at the bottom of your wireless bill — not a fee per text. Business groups, including the Bay Area Council, California Chamber of Commerce and Silicon Valley Leadership Group and others opposing the idea, calculated the new charges for wireless consumers could total about $44.5 million a year. But they add that under the regulators’ proposal the charge could be applied retroactively for five years — which they call “an alarming precedent” — and could amount to a bill of more than $220 million for California consumers...  https://lidblog.com/california-tax-texting/
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Another Bloated Farm Bill

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by Nate Jackson:  The Republican record over the last two years includes a few big wins — tax cuts and court nominations are among the best. It also includes some major failures, such as scumbag/liar-nObamaCare repeal and now the latest farm bill. Earlier this year, we pointed out how bad the farm bill was. It’s gotten worse. Nevertheless, the Senate passed it 87-13, and it now heads to the House.

             For reasons known only to members of Congress, the farm bill is where food stamps are allocated, and that welfare roll takes up 80% of the bill’s dollars. Despite an economic boom spurred in large part by GOP tax cuts, some 40 million Americans still receive food stamps. That’s double the number from 20 years ago, and, while it’s fallen a bit from the Barack scumbag/liar-nObama highs, it hasn’t fallen enough. Yet many Republicans seemingly have no interest in real reform, even as the specter of Democrats taking over the House in January looms.
               With employers desperate for Americans to fill a near-record seven million job openings, there has hardly been a better time to stiffen work requirements for food stamps and truly reform the program. But breaking the cycle of dependence is hard — both for able-bodied adults who’d rather get a government check for nothing and for the politicians who want their votes. Thanks to the Senate, this farm bill is extremely light on those work requirements and makes virtually no effort to shrink the welfare rolls.
               Food stamps aren’t the only problem, however. The farm bill is also larded up with income redistribution that benefits mainly wealthy corporate farmers. A 2017 Congressional Research Service report found that “farms with market revenue equal to or greater than $250,000 accounted for 12 percent of farm households, but received 60 percent of federal farm program payments.” Meanwhile, the smallest 80% of farms account for just 10% of the subsidies.
               And you don’t even have to be a farmer to qualify. National Review notes, “For example, despite efforts to close a loophole that allows family members of farmers to receive subsidies even if they do not live or work on a farm, the final version of the bill expands that loophole to allow distant relatives such as cousins, nieces, and nephews to qualify for subsidies. That subsidy is worth up to $125,000 a year, about twice 2017’s national median household income.” All you have to do is claim “management” responsibility in the proper paper work, and you too can cash in. Subsidies are politically helpful, however, in part because President Donald Trump’s tariffs have been so painful for farmers.
               If anything typifies the swamp, it’s big spending legislation like the farm bill. And, for now at least, it’s business as usual.  

~The Patriot Post  

https://patriotpost.us/articles/59978?mailing_id=3937&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3937&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Divide, and Be Conquered

Posted by Craig Andresen on December 14, 2018 at 7:45am

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

conq-1.jpg?width=204Let’s just face some hard, cold facts…truths that liberals aren’t going to like one little bit, but truths nonetheless.

After eight years of the Obama regime, and the possibility of his third term had Hillary won in 2016, America needed to be saved…not just from liberals and/or their socialist agenda…but from itself.

Let me explain…

Obama knew full well he wouldn’t be reelected based on performance, because his goal was to wreck America. He called in fundamental transformation, but make no mistake, his vision was to wreck it, but to win a second term for his regime, he would have to divide America in order to conquer America…hence…the rise of racial politics guided by Obama and the liberal elite.

Lincoln once said…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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Help stop the traitor Judge Stephanie Agli Gallagher

Posted by Eric Pearson on December 13, 2018 at 6:30pm

Stephanie Agli Gallagher is a traitor.

Stephanie Agli Gallagher is a treasonous corrupt United States Magistrate Judge in the District of Maryland.

Judge Gallagher unlawfully issued a search warrant that allowed the FBI to raid the home of a patriotic whistleblower who had already turned over documents regarding the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. The raid was an “outrageous disregard” of whistleblower protections.

The whistleblower, Dennis "Nate" Nathan Cain, had previously turned the documents over to the Department of Justice’s inspector general and both the House and Senate Intelligence committees.

The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(8)-(9), Pub.L. 101-12 as amended, is a United States federal law that protects federal whistleblowers who work for the government and report the possible existence of an activity constituting a violation of law, rules, or regulations, or mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority or a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety. A federal agency violates the Whistleblower Protection Act if agency authorities take (or threaten to take) retaliatory personnel action against any employee or applicant because of disclosure of information by that employee or applicant.

Nevertheless, Judge Gallagher unlawfully collaborated with the FBI to illegally raid and rummage through Cain’s home for six hours, even after knowing the whistleblower had already turned over the documents in full compliance with the law.

Prior to her appointment as a United States Magistrate Judge on the District of Maryland in 2011, Stephanie Gallagher was a partner and co-founder of Levin & Gallagher, LLC, where she practiced white-collar defense litigation. In other words, she defended white-collar criminals - by definition is crime referring to financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals.

Taking the above into account, it's not hard to see who's bed she still sleeps in. Especially nowadays when it's overly apparent that no bad deed goes unrewarded within the United States Government. This is sadly another example of that, for the traitor Stephanie Agli Gallagher is currently a nominee in becoming a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

NOTE: Please take a minute or two and contact your senator and let he or she know you do not want Stephanie Agli Gallagher appointed from a United States Magistrate Judge to a United States District Judge.

CLICK HERE to contact your United States Senator.

Please don't wait, for the Senate will vote on her nomination on December 17, 2018.

CLICK HERE to read about the patriotic whistleblower, Dennis "Nate" Nathan Cain.

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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 13, 2018 at 5:30pm
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Waves of Bogus Asylum Seekers 
Overwhelm Immigration System
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by Louis DeBroux  
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In Memoriam: Admiral James
“Ace” Lyons (USN Ret.)
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by George Rasley
{conservativehq.com} ~ Yesterday, with the death of Admiral James “Ace” Lyons America lost a warrior of uncommon clarity of thought and directness of speech and action... Admiral Lyons’ career in the Navy spanned thirty-six years, from his days as a midshipman at Annapolis to service as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at that time the largest single military command in the world, Senior U.S. Military Representative to the United Nations and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations. Although his interests and post-service commentary spanned the gamut of national security and defense issues, I became acquainted with Admiral Lyons through our mutual interest in motivating American policy makers to recognize, fight and win the war Islam has declared on the West. One of the great moments of clarity Lyons shared with me, and anyone else who would listen, was this: “You must understand,” said Lyons, “Islam is a totalitarian ideology bent on world domination masquerading as a religion.” And Admiral Lyons wasn’t bashful about explaining exactly how Islam would affect that world domination:…it’s an insidious thing that has gone on here, and as we see over the years the penetration of the Muslim Brotherhood, their front organization, has increased, increased, increased, and it’s at the pit, really, of the stupid restricted rules of engagement that we imposed on our wonderful military, sacrificing their lives in the failed hope of winning the hearts and minds of a tribal society. This is nuts. But, again, who ruled the day? Political correctness... The Admiral has been and always been right.  http://www.conservativehq.com/node/29302 
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scumbag/liar-Clinton Whistleblowers: Thursday’s
Public Hearing to Reveal “Explosive” Information
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{saraacarter.com} ~ A trove of documents on the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation alleging possible pay for play and tax evasion have been turned over to the FBI and IRS by several investigative whistleblowers... who will be testifying in an open hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday, according to the committee and lawmakers. Roughly 6,000 documents that are expected to reveal the nearly two-year investigation by the whistleblowers with a private firm called MDA Analytics LLC, which allegedly turned over the documents more than a year and a half ago to the IRS, according to John Solomon, who first published the report last week in The Hill. The whistleblowers are former federal criminal investigators, who allege that the  scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation was “engaged in illegal activities and may be liable for millions of dollars in delinquent taxes and penalties,” according to Solomon. The Department of Justice and the FBI’s Little Rock, Ark. field office, which is believed to be investigating the foundation, have allegedly obtained the documentation from the whistleblowers as well, according to lawmakers who’ve spoken with the whistleblowers. scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation officials could not be immediately reached for comment. However, a former whistleblower, who has spoken with agents from the Little Rock FBI field office last year and worked for years as an undercover informant collecting information on Russia’s nuclear energy industry for the bureau, noted his enormous frustration with the DOJ and FBI. He describes as a two-tiered justice system that failed to actively investigate the information he provided years ago on the  scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation and Russia’s dangerous meddling with the U.S. nuclear industry and energy industry during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration...
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Israel's New Strategy in the War Against Iran
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{israeltoday.co.il} ~ With “Operation Northern Shield” entering its second week and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) working to destroy a third Hezbollah attack tunnel underneath the border with Lebanon... it has become increasingly clear Israel is waging a psychological war against Iran and its proxies. This is done by using cutting edge technology, exact intelligence gathering and by developing out-of-the-box solutions which give the Israeli military a decisive edge over its opponents and which aim to demoralize the enemy as we will see. Take, for example, what happened on the first day of “Operation Northern Shield” when the IDF released a video which showed how two Hezbollah terrorists wanted to inspect a robot which was brought into a Hezbollah attack tunnel near the northern Israeli city of Metulla. The camera of the robot recorded how one of the Hezbollah men was approaching the device after which a small explosive device exploded causing the terrorist to flee. The publication of the video was clearly meant to humiliate Hezbollah that had just suffered a devastating blow when the IDF started to destroy its attack tunnels... My, is that a wall I see.
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Conservatives Launch All 
Out Battle For Trump Border Wall
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{conservativehq.com} ~ Since President Trump threw down the gauntlet to Democratic Party leaders Rep. Nancy Pulosi and Sen. Charles scumbag/clown-Schumer... all we’ve heard from the Republican Party’s Capitol Hill leadership is a deafening silence. However, grassroots conservatives are not waiting around for the Republican establishment to finally figure out Trump is right about the necessity of building a wall on our southern border. CHQ has launched our “Don’t Waste The Lame Duck, Build The Wall” campaign aimed at giving spine transplants to squishy Republican legislators, especially in the House where some 40 Republicans are retiring or were defeated in the November midterm election. The Conservative Action Project, representing hundreds of grassroots conservative leaders and organizations, sent a letter to GOP congressional leaders outlining a three-part program of action to be taken in the year-end funding bill: Provide a minimum of $5 billion for President Trump’s border wall. Unlike the $1.6 billion that Congress passed in March, these funds must allow the president to actually engage in new construction and planning. To be clear, funds that merely allow for repairs, planning or pedestrian fencing—and do not allow for new construction of President Trump’s wall prototypes—do not constitute funding a border wall...  http://www.conservativehq.com/node/29303
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Fox News Host Harris Faulkner S
lams Pulosi Over Hypocrisy
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by Rusty
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Fox News host Harris Faulkner took a few verbal jabs at House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi after she attacked Fox... noting the Democrat’s hypocrisy following a tense debate with the President. Pulosi was discussing a meeting she and Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer had with President Trump, in which the pair were challenged to hold a debate on border wall funding in front of the press.Trump encouraged the debate in front of the cameras, while scumbag/clown-Schumer and Pulosi encouraged him to hold talks behind closed doors instead. “So I don’t think we should have a debate in front of the press on this,” Pulosi admitted. Pundits openly wondered why the Democrats wouldn’t engage, transparency being one of their pet political keywords. In a press conference right after the meeting with Trump, Pulosi inexplicably took a shot at Fox News. “I hear some of the reporters saying — Well, Fox reporters saying — why do we not want transparency in this discussion?” she said. “We don’t want to contradict the president when he was putting forth things that had no reality to them. No basis in fact.”...
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Waves of Bogus Asylum Seekers Overwhelm Immigration System
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by Louis DeBroux:  A tense exchange at the White House on Tuesday between President Donald Trump and the two leading congressional Democrats — recycled incoming House Speaker Nancy Pulosi, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer — provided additional evidence that a chasm remains when it comes to achieving immigration reform.

             While President Trump’s desire to secure the border and prioritize America’s needs when determining who to allow to enter our borders has the strong support of the American people, Democrats have abandoned long-held, sensible immigration positions in favor of a radical open-borders policy that allows violent criminals, and drug and sex traffickers to pour into our nation.
               In recent months, Americans witnessed waves of thousands of migrants pushing their way up from Central America to the U.S., demanding to be let in while claiming a right to enter. When attempts were made to stop them, they rioted, tearing down border fences and attacking U.S. border agents. Or Trump was foiled by the courts in his efforts to limit the invasion. He’s filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court after the Ninth Circuit Court blocked his effort to prevent illegals from entering the U.S. and then seeking asylum.
               The real immigration crisis is with asylum seekers. As President Trump has kept his promise to strengthen border security, the number of illegal aliens able to sneak into the U.S. has slowed.
               However, those seeking entry have not changed their goals, just their tactics. In 2018 alone, the number of migrants demanding asylum at the U.S. border rose a staggering 67% according to Homeland Security, to nearly 93,000 people. Roughly a third arrived at ports of entry without permission, and another 14% were caught jumping the border illegally before filing for asylum.
               Migrants know the immigration system is overwhelmed with existing applications for asylum, and they know there is a good chance they will be processed and released into the U.S. while waiting for immigration hearings sometimes years later that most will never come back for, choosing instead to disappear inside the U.S.
               Laughably, one group of migrants is now demanding that the Trump administration either let them into the U.S. or pay them $50,000 each to return home. Points for creativity, we suppose, but good luck with that.
               It’s difficult to qualify for asylum; only about 20% of applications are approved. To qualify, the migrant must face a “credible fear” of violence or serious discrimination due to race, religion, or political affiliation. Asylum is broken down into two broad categories: “affirmative” (not yet subjected to deportation proceedings) and “defensive” (fighting deportation).
               Affirmative asylum seekers are far fewer in number but much likelier to be granted asylum; roughly 70% get approved. Defensive asylum seekers, on the other hand, are rolling the dice, hoping a friendly judge gives them a last-second reprieve; about 75-95% are rejected.
               To increase their chances of gaining asylum, the recent migrant wave from Central America took the longest possible route through Mexico to the U.S. Part of this was to avoid the drug cartels that control the region between southern Mexico and the Texas border, but even more relevant, the migrants are fully aware that California is a “sanctuary” state, and immigration judges in San Diego are far more likely to grant asylum than judges in Texas.
               While the migrant/open borders proponents argue these waves of migrants truly fear persecution in their home countries, that fallacy is exposed by the fact that, while defensive asylum applications have skyrocketed (the vast majority coming from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico), affirmative asylum applications have stayed roughly constant. It’s also noteworthy that these so-called asylum seekers have received significant financial and logistical support from leftist organizations as they try to force their way into the U.S.
               In order to get the situation under control and discourage waves of questionable asylum seekers, the Trump administration has begun “metering” — claiming that detention and processing facilities are overcrowded (they are), so they can’t accept new claims until the backlog of existing claims are processed. Would-be asylum seekers are directed to wait in Mexico until they can be seen.
               This has put pressure on Mexico to secure its own southern border so it’s not forced to accommodate and pay for feeding, housing, and securing tens of thousands of migrants.
               Last year, the Trump administration received wide condemnation for its wise refusal to sign onto the United Nations’ Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, which would have given international treaties and laws primacy over U.S. immigration laws. In explaining that refusal UN Ambassador Nikki Haley declared, “No country has done more than the United States, and our generosity will continue. But our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone. We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter our country. The global approach in the New York Declaration is simply not compatible with U.S. sovereignty.”
               Despite the faux outrage of world leaders, nearly a dozen countries — including Australia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Israel, and Poland — have followed America’s lead in rejecting the treaty, and pressure is building in formerly pro-migrant countries like Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands to spurn it as they face significant difficulties dealing with crime and cultural conflicts after absorbing massive waves of migrants.
               As for the showdown with the Democrats, President Trump declared this week that he will get the U.S. border secured one way or another, even if he has to use the U.S. military to build the border wall.
               And despite the propensity of Democrats to use immigrant children as political cannon fodder, the American people support Trump’s agenda of securing our borders.  ~The Patriot Post  

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 13, 2018 at 4:54pm
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by Nate Jackson

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Former FEC Commissioner: Trump Did 
Not Violate Campaign Finance Laws  
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by Mike Brest
{dailycaller.com} ~ Former FEC Commissioner Hans Von Spakovsky debunked the argument that President Donald Trump broke campaign finance laws... by paying women he allegedly had affairs with prior to becoming president. The president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in jail on Wednesday for a litany of crimes, including making an illegal campaign contribution amounting to $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, who alleges she slept with Trump in 2006, so she would keep quiet about the affair. Despite the guilty plea, Spakovsky said that Trump should not be worried because it would have to be a “campaign-related expense” for the contribution break any campaign finance laws. He also pointed out that the only other time the Justice Department tried to say payments like these were campaign-related expenses was with John Edwards. Donations to Edwards’ campaign actually went to paying his mistress, a woman who worked for the campaign and ended up having his child. A jury, however, ruled that Edwards’ donations were not a campaign-related expense...
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The Federal Judge Overseeing Michael Flynn’s
Sentencing Just Dropped A Major Bombshell  
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by Margot Cleveland  
{thefederalist.com} ~ On Tuesday, attorneys for Michael Flynn filed a sentencing memorandum and letters of support for the former Army lieutenant general in federal court... The sentencing memorandum reveals for the first time concrete evidence that the FBI created multiple 302 interview summaries of Flynn’s questioning by now-former FBI agent Peter Strzok and a second unnamed agent, reported to be FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka. Further revelations may be forthcoming soon following an order entered late yesterday by presiding judge Emmet Sullivan, directing the special counsel’s office to file with the court any 302s or memorandum relevant to Flynn’s interview. Flynn, who served briefly as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, pleaded guilty more than a year ago to making false statements to federal investigators during a January 24, 2017 interview. During that interview, Strzok and presumably Pientka questioned Flynn about a telephone conversation the Trump advisor had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. While Flynn’s sentencing memorandum methodically laid out the case for a low-level sentence of one-year probation, footnote 23 dropped a bomb, revealing that the agents’ 302 summary of his interview was dated August 22, 2017. As others have already noted, the August 22, 2017 date is a “striking detail” because that puts the 302 report “nearly seven months after the Flynn interview.” When added to facts already known, this revelation takes on a much greater significance...  http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/13/federal-judge-overseeing-michael-flynns-sentencing-just-dropped-major-bombshell/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=482cb9eac8-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-482cb9eac8-83771801
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Testimony: Mexico’s ‘narco’ crisis
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by Roger F. Noriega
{aei.org} ~ Thank you, very much, Mr. Chairman for the opportunity for me to offer my views on the high stakes involved in the US-Mexico relationship... particularly regarding the threat posed by Mexican organized crime organizations that are a part of an aggressive and sophisticated global crime network. This hearing is particularly timely because Mexico has a new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who assumed power on December 1st with a clear mandate to fight corruption but whose thoughts of subduing narcoviolence with an “amnesty” and antipoverty programs are not reassuring.  For the last 20 years, the percentage of cocaine entering the United States transiting Mexico has never dipped below 90 percent—sustaining a public health and criminal justice crisis that has a $200 billion annual impact on US society. The Mexican people see the problem another way: The demand for cocaine, heroin, and other drugs by US consumers sustains criminal groups that have attacked the rule of law, weakened institutions, and caused terror and death since the “war on drugs” began 50 years ago. We must face this threat as partners. The United States could not begin to stop illicit drug trafficking without Mexico’s help. And, Mexico would pay a very dear price if it gave way to criminals who do much more damage than traffic drugs northward. Worse yet, if the rule of law in Mexico were any weaker than it is today, the negative impact on economic growth and social stability would be felt in both countries. We share robust trade, financial and commercial ties, integrated supply chains, and cultural ties. The border is where we are joined, not divided. Over one million legal border crossings between the two countries occur each day, while $1 million worth of trade takes place each minute between the US and Mexico...
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Suspected Terrorist Leading 
Migrant Group Demanding Entry Into US  
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by Peter Hasson
{dailycaller.com} ~ A suspect in a 1987 bombing that wounded six American soldiers in Honduras is leading a group of migrants... demanding entry into the United States. Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa organized a march of approximately 100 migrants to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Ulloa delivered a letter to the consulate on behalf of the migrants, asking for either entry into the U.S. or a payment of $50,000 per person. “It may seem like a lot of money to you,” Ulloa told the Union-Tribune. “But it is a small sum compared to everything the United States has stolen from Honduras.” Ulloa has lived in Mexico since 1987 after fleeing Honduras in the wake of a bombing that wounded six soldiers. Ulloa was suspected of planting a bomb in a Chinese restaurant, but received asylum from Mexico, whose government described the suspected terrorist as a “freedom fighter.”...
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Double Standard: Only scumbag/liar-nObama 
Can Obliterate His Own Citizens
by Mark Christian and Joe Herring

{americanthinker.com} ~ Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen who chose to advocate terrorism and built a career on orchestrating activities intended to weaken, injure, and ultimately overthrow the government of the United States... He was a member of numerous subversive groups, dating back to his college days. He was an avowed Islamist, who pledged to do all in his power to subjugate the world, and everyone in it, under Islam, by any means necessary. As an able propagandist, Awlaki became a valuable recruiter for terror groups. By any objective measure, the man was an enemy of his own nation. Awlaki was a fiery Islamic preacher. His words were unreservedly anti-American. They inflamed Islamic passions. Awlaki wielded words as weapons. He met his demise in 2011, on the receiving end of an American drone strike in Yemen ordered by then-president Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. That strike also killed Awlaki's American-born 16-year-old son. While there were a few bleats and squawks from various civil libertarians on the left and right over the assassination of not one, but two American citizens without due process of law, the issue grew stale quickly as the media sensed that their favorite son (scumbag/liar-nObama) might be harmed politically with further reporting.  Fast-forward to the present day, and while keeping the circumstances of Awlaki's death in the forefront of your mind, ask yourself why so many on both sides of the aisle are now exercised over Saudi Arabia allegedly doing the exact same thing to a Saudi national, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi national guilty of every crime and a few more! for which Awlaki paid with his life...
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The Oval Office Wall Brawl

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by Nate Jackson:  “It’s like a manhood thing for him,” incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of President Donald Trump and the border wall. “As if manhood could ever be associated with him. I was trying to be the mom. I can’t explain it to you. It was so wild. It goes to show you: You get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you.” Pulosi’s schoolyard taunts were in response to a testy Oval Office meeting with the president, Vice President Mike Pence, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer. Before we dissect that meeting, however, just imagine for a moment if Trump had insulted Pulosi’s womanhood…

             The meeting was televised, and it was certainly quintessential reality TV — a genre in which the president thrives. To mix metaphors, it was also a New Yorker-style rhetorical brawl, and Trump holds his own in those too.
               Trump was savvy to bring in the TV cameras. “It’s called transparency,” he explained when Pulosi complained and asked that they be removed. Trump wanted the American people to see that he and his party are serious about border security, while Democrats would rather fling the door open wide for millions of illegals.
               Trump wants $5 billion for the border wall, which the House gave him earlier this year. Senate Democrats were willing to give only $1.6 billion; now they’re apparently pulling back to $1.3 billion, and none of that is even for an actual wall. Yet Pulosi had the gall to insist they were negotiating “in good faith.” We’d hate to see bad faith.
               scumbag/clown-Schumer blamed Trump for any coming shutdown, even though, as Trump repeatedly noted, it is 10 Senate Democrats who are the roadblock to a compromise. Nevertheless, unlike most Republicans who are afraid of their own shadows, Trump owned it. “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, scumbag/clown-Chuck,” he declared. “People in this country don’t want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I won’t blame you for it.”
               Once upon a time, Democrats like scumbag/clown-Schumer and Pulosi, as well as scumbag/liar-Bill and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, thought building a wall along the southern border was the responsible thing to do for a sane immigration policy. In the last few years, however, Democrats have done a 180, and Pulosi now calls the wall “immoral.” Demo Party leaders shamelessly exploit immigrants and their children for political gain, while Trump and his supporters actually want to solve the problem of illegal immigration.
               As the White House email “1600 Daily” put it, “The Democrats’ priority is clear: They would rather keep the U.S. border open to illegal immigrants than keep the Government open to serve American citizens.” Of course, it remains to be seen if either side sticks with their ultimatums, or if this was just partisan showmanship for the cameras.  

~The Patriot Post  

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wX-bpohpAg

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Thursday Noon

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 13, 2018 at 1:32pm
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Why the US Is Right to Refuse to 
Sign UN Migration Compact
by Hans von Spakovsky  
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With Democrats in Power, 2019 Will 
Be the Year of Gun Confiscation
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{lidblog.com} ~ A court recently upheld New Jersey’s ban on firearm magazines that hold more than ten rounds... but state officials have steadfastly refused to inform the citizens just how they intend to enforce that law. But the fact that it was upheld and coupled with news in a growing list of other states — not to mention the noise from Washington DC proves that the Democrats intend to make 2019 the year of gun confiscation and ending the Second Amendment in every way without saying it openly. As to New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy signed the ban on extended magazines in June, but it immediately underwent an appeal by gun supporters. But it looks like supporters of the Constitution lost that battle. So far, the state imagines it has the right to ban these common ammunition magazines. But, just how do officials plan to prosecute people who simply refuse to voluntarily hand over their magazines? No one is saying. “We will enforce the law of the state,” Lieutenant Theodore Schafer of the New Jersey State Police said. “That’s our plan.”That is a statement, not a plan. The only real way to enforce this law is mass confiscation via home inspection. But will they do this. Again, no one is saying. New Jersey is not alone.  Democrats in Florida have already started their effort to confiscate your guns, America, in the first taste of what Democrats are going to try when they take full control of the House of Representatives in Washington...
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House Democrats Change Rules 
to Make It Easier to Raise Taxes
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by Haris Alic   
{freebeacon.com} ~ Democratic Rep. Nancy Pulosi (Calif.) has yet to take the speaker's gavel of the U.S. House of Representatives, but Democrats are already laboring to make it easier to dismantle the achievements of the Trump presidency... The incoming chairman of the House Rules Committee, Rep. Jim McGovern (D., Mass.), confirmed to colleagues on Wednesday that he would not honor the three-fifths supermajority requirement to raise income taxes, as reported by the Washington Post. McGovern's decision  overturns a rule implemented under outgoing Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) that mandated a three-fifths majority approve any proposed hike to the income tax. The change comes after a standoff between Pulosi and her moderate allies in the Democratic conference, such as incoming Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal (Mass.), and younger, more progressive members like Rep.-elect commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.)...
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Nancy Pulosi, Speaker of the House - the 
Sequel (Worse Than the Original)
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ In the movies sequels are usually worse than the original. Since Washington has often been referred to as “Hollywood for ugly people,”... it is perhaps appropriate to consider another sequel in the making, not in film but in politics. Nancy Pulosi, the former Speaker of the House and soon-to-be Speaker of the House of Representatives, once again was the subject of a video posted on December 7, 2018 by Fox News, in which she rejected the notion of constructing a wall along the highly porous U.S./ Mexican border to prevent the entry of illegal aliens, narcotics and other contraband. Her outrageous statements and positions on immigration law enforcement and border security seemed to strike a new low during her first stint as Speaker. She has yet to resume that position and is already providing a disturbing peek into what America and Americans are in for with her in the position that provides her with a “leadership” role in the Congress and puts her in the chain of succession to the U.S. Presidency. As my dad used to say, “Nothing is so good it could not be better or be so bad it could not get worse.” As hard as it might be to imagine, bad as Pulosi was the last time she held the position of Speaker, she may actually prove my dad was right. It is unfathomable how Pulosi could declare that protecting the United States from threats posed by international terrorists, transnational gangs and the flow of narcotics into the United States is “immoral.” It is similarly impossible to understand how Pulosi could determine that it is immoral to prevent the illegal entry of foreign workers who all too frequently displace American and lawful immigrant workers and drive down wages and working conditions of American and lawful immigrant workers who are similarly employed...  https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272183/nancy-pelosi-speaker-house-sequel-worse-original-michael-cutler
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Pence Breaks Tie After rino-Flake Refuses 
To Confirm Judicial Pick
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by Randy DeSoto   
{westernjournal.com} ~ Vice President Mike Pence stepped in to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate on Tuesday, confirming Jonathan Kobes... as a judge on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Pence’s move came after Arizona Republican Sen. rino-Jeff Flake joined with Democrats to oppose Kobes’ nomination, The Hill reported. The retiring lawmaker announced last month that he would not support any nominees going forward until his bill shielding special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller from being removed by President Donald Trump or the attorney general received a full Senate vote. In light of rino-Flake’s refusal to support Trump’s nominees, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley announced the cancellation of a meeting scheduled for the last week of November during which the senators were slated to consider six nominees to the federal circuit courts and 15 federal district courts around the country. However, more than 30 nominees have already passed out of committee with rino-Flake’s support and can be confirmed by the full Senate without him. But confirmation will require Pence to break the tie, assuming all remaining GOP senators vote to confirm and all Democratic senators vote against confirmation. rino-Flake joined with Democrats late last month to filibuster judicial nominee Thomas Farr to serve on the federal bench for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Pence broke the 50-50 tie in the procedural vote, allowing the nominee to be eligible for a full Senate vote...  
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Incoming Lawmakers Briefed by Netanyahu, 
Tour Hamas Tunnels Into Israel
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by Brent Scher
{freebeacon.com} ~ A bipartisan group of incoming members of Congress were given a security briefing by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a trip to the Jewish state... Republican congressman-elect Denver Riggleman, an Air Force veteran, says the visit served as "Israeli history basic training." Riggleman, a Republican who ran against a vocal anti-Israel activist in Virginia's fifth district, says there's been a good balance to the information presented to the group thus far on the trip, which is sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)-affiliated nonprofit group. In addition to their briefing on security from Netanyahu, they met with Tzipi Livni, a prominent politician who leads the opposition party in the Knesset. The group also traveled to the West Bank city of Ramallah to meet with Saeb Erekat, a top Palestinian official. "They are directing us to learn in a nonjudgmental way," Riggleman said during a phone call from Tel Aviv. "It's been fantastic to hear from people who will forget more about Israel in a day than most Americans will know in a lifetime."...
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Why the US Is Right to Refuse to Sign UN Migration Compact

by Hans von Spakovsky
 

On Dec. 10-11 in Morocco, most of the world’s nations will sign on to the United Nations’ Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
               The U.S. will not be signing the migration compact — and that’s the correct decision from public policy, national security, and national sovereignty standpoints.
               The migration compact was initiated when the U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants in September 2016.
               While the scumbag/liar-nObama administration enthusiastically supported the New York declaration and the migration compact, the Trump administration has had serious concerns about its provisions and requirements that are inconsistent and contrary to our immigration policy.
               On Dec. 2, 2017, the United States announced that it would not participate in the migration compact, as explained by U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley:
               America is proud of our immigrant heritage and our long-standing moral leadership in providing support to migrant and refugee populations across the globe.
               No country has done more than the United States, and our generosity will continue. But our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone. We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter our country.
               The global approach in the New York Declaration is simply not compatible with U.S. sovereignty.
               The decision to end U.S. participation was controversial and unfairly criticized by U.N. officials and human rights groups.
               Since the U.S. decision, however, other nations have likewise signaled that they would not sign the migration compact because of concerns that “it tramples on national sovereignty” and “does not distinguish sufficiently between economic migrants and people in genuine need of international protection.”
               At least 10 other nations are expected to join the U.S. in not signing the migration compact, including Australia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Israel, and Poland.
               In addition, the compact is causing political controversy and turmoil in some places that its supporters might consider unlikely, such as Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
               The concerns voiced in these countries mirror those of U.S. officials. For example, while the migration compact says that it is the sovereign right of states to “govern migration within their jurisdiction,” they can only do so to the extent it is “in conformity with international law.”
               That’s a direct limitation on the constitutional authority of our government to determine our immigration policy regardless of international law.
               Similarly, the migration compact says that the due process rights and access to justice provided to migrants must be “consistent with international law.” That imposes another limitation on the authority of the U.S. to determine its immigration policy and the extent of the due process procedures that will be provided to illegal aliens.
               There are other, similar caveats contained throughout the migration compact, such as a requirement that a country’s migration policy be consistent with the U.N.‘s nonbinding 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
               It directs that detention of illegal aliens should only be “a measure of last resort,” a policy that would release large numbers of illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S., where they could disappear and defy our immigration laws.
               The migration compact has many other provisions that would extend asylum rights and provide access to a variety of government benefits far beyond what U.S. immigration law provides.
               In general, it is in accord with the push by liberal advocacy groups to extinguish the line between legal and illegal immigration to the greatest extent possible.
               In addition, the migration compact states that it rests on a number of international agreements, which is important, considering the compact’s frequent references to international law.
               Strangely, it makes no distinction between commitments that are legally binding and those that are not — citing, for example, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, alongside the Paris accord and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
               The compact fails to note that not all states have ratified the treaties listed. The United States, for example, has declined to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, and other treaties referenced in the compact.
               The U.S. should avoid even implying that agreements and treaties that it has not ratified constitute binding commitments on this country.
               Defenders of the migration compact argue that U.S. concerns are misguided because country commitments under it are nonbinding. Indeed, supporters of the compact lament the lack of a binding treaty on migration.
               The purpose of the compact, however, is to be a steppingstone to that goal. To that end, it lays out common commitments and practices on “all aspects of international migration” that signatories will be pressured to honor.
               States that fall short of expectations or interpretations of those commitments by the U.N. and nongovernmental organizations will be accused of bad faith and of abandoning their commitments.
               We witnessed such criticism when the U.S. pulled out of the similarly nonbinding Paris accord on climate change. Yet, at the recent Group of 20 meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the other governments insisted that the nonbinding Paris accord is “irreversible.”
               It is important to note that not signing the migration compact would in no way undermine or reverse America’s generous policy on migration.
               The U.S. should work with the International Organization for Migration and other relevant entities to implement the migration compact’s sensible provisions, but it is right to protect jealously its discretion and sovereign authority to set its own migration policies that further U.S. interests.
               Signing on to the compact provides no additional authority or ability to adjust U.S. migration policy to meet urgent or ongoing needs. It does, however, serve as an invitation for politically motivated criticism and international pressure.
               The U.S. is right to weigh the costs and benefits of this approach and find it wanting. The costs far outweigh the benefits.  

~The Patriot Post  

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 13, 2018 at 10:37am
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The Long Road to Energy Independence
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by Lewis Morris  
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Thursday Top Headlines
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by Media Editors:  Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen gets three years in prison, blames Trump for his “path of darkness” (ABC News)
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Cohen pleaded guilty to something that is not a crime (National Review)
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FBI created multiple summaries of Michael Flynn’s questioning — what are they hiding? (The Federalist)
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House sends compromise farm bill to Trump’s desk (National Review)
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House, Senate agree on sexual-harassment bill after months-long struggle to resolve differences (The Washington Post)
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Pulosi reaches deal to be speaker by agreeing to stay only four years (NBC News)
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Trump gets win as Xi makes good on pledge to buy U.S. soybeans (Bloomberg)
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House Democrats change rules to make it easier to raise taxes (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Return of pork-barrel politics? Democrats plot to revive earmarks (Washington Examiner)
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Theresa May survives confidence vote (BBC)
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Third-ranking Vatican official convicted of sexually abusing choir boys (National Review)
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Boy Scouts of America may file for bankruptcy protection amid sex-abuse lawsuits (Fox Business)
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Fentanyl now America’s deadliest drug with more than 18,000 overdose deaths in 2016 (USA Today)
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Strasbourg terrorist had been on French terrorist watch list for three years (The Daily Wire)
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ISIS spends most of its time and energy killing Muslims, and its mass graves tell the tale (Washington Examiner)
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Humor: Woke parents refuse to assume newborn baby’s nutrition preferences (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Huawei is the doorway to China’s police state (The National Interest)
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Policy: It’s time to reform food-stamp policy (National Review)  
 
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Punishing the Saudi prince
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by Clifford D. May 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Consult a map of the Middle East. Locate the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea passage separating the Arabian Peninsula from Iran, and connecting the Gulf... whether you call it the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf is a thorny question — to the open oceans beyond. The Strait of Hormuz is among the world’s most strategic waterways, essential to the health of the global economy. More than a third of seaborne oil shipments and 20 percent of the oil traded internationally pass through it. The U.S. Navy — specifically the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet — keeps this sea lane open, frustrating Iran’s rulers who claim it as their private lap pool. They menace American vessels there — though less frequently since Donald Trump replaced Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in the White House. Look at the map again. Locate the Bab-el-Mandeb, another strategic strait. It separates Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula from Africa, and guards the entrance to the Red Sea at the northern end of which is the Suez Canal, also a vital chokepoint. Iran’s rulers covet the Bab-el-Mandeb as well. Their maritime goals support their hegemonic ambitions. The last thing American leaders should do is help them. Yet a bipartisan majority of senators is working on a resolution that would do exactly that by withdrawing U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen...
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'This has spiraled downward': Trump, top 
Democrats put raw partisan divide on full display
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by Dave Boyer and S.A. Miller 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ President Trump and congressional Democratic leaders ripped off the bandage over their raw, partisan disagreements Tuesday... in open bickering that offered a glimpse of the divided government to come in the next two years. During a White House meeting intended to seek common ground to avoid a partial government shutdown next week, the president and incoming House Speaker Nancy Pulosi and Senate Democratic leader Charles E. scumbag/clown-Schumer instead squabbled over funding for the border wall, traded blame for the last shutdown and jousted over which party commands the stronger political hand since the midterm elections.“Unfortunately, this has spiraled downward,” Mrs. Pulosi told the president as their quarreling grew more intense in the Oval Office, which was adorned incongruously with festive holiday decorations. Most of the feuding played out on camera in front of reporters who were invited by the president to cover the meeting. The Democrats pleaded with Mr. Trump several times to kick out the press. “Let’s debate in private,” Mr. scumbag/clown-Schumer urged as cameras continued to roll. The stormy session ended — at least the public portion of it — with the president declaring he would be “proud” to shut down parts of the government if he doesn’t get more funding for the wall.
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Media Conventional Wisdom On The Russia
Investigation Is Uninformed And Idiotic  
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by Mollie Hemingway  
{thefederalist.com} ~ Jim VandeHei of Axios claimed to sum up on Sunday “what we already now know” about dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s findings in the Russia probe... His next claim was even more robust. “What we already now know is highly damning and highly detailed.” If you want to — and I quote — “go deeper,” you can click a button that gives you “460 words” of how what we know is highly damning and highly detailed. It is, of course, not even close to either of those things. But it’s worth looking at to see how some D.C. figures are easily spun into thinking — or claiming to think — that things for which there is no evidence have “highly detailed” evidence. Here’s the first allegedly “highly detailed” and “highly damning” assertion from VandeHei: “We now know several Russian officials reached out to a half-dozen Republicans very close to Trump and his campaign, including his eldest son, his closest adviser, his lawyer and his campaign manager. We now know they took the meetings, often enthusiastically, during and after the campaign.” You will note the details aren’t robust enough for us to have a strong idea of what VandeHei is claiming, much less what in the world is damning about it. It’s almost comical. It is true that foreigners reach out to American campaigns, and that Russia is a foreign country. Presumably dirty cop-Mueller isn’t investigating whether Russia exists or has officials who reach out to campaigns, but rather whether there was any treasonous collusion to steal the 2016 election from its rightful owner scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. Perhaps this is a reference to a meeting with Russians that involved no collusion to steal an election, but an unsuccessful attempt to convince Trump affiliates to oppose Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russia. If taking a meeting with foreign individuals is de facto proof of a crime, then how would these people characterize the hiring of a foreign spy to work with Russian officials to spread misinformation about an opposing  campaign? After all, it was the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign that funneled money to hire foreign ex-spy Christopher Steele...
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False statement charges abound in dirty cop-Mueller probe,
in contrast to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton 
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by Brooke Singman   
{foxnews.com} ~ Nearly every Trump campaign associate indicted in Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s sprawling Russia probe has been charged with making false statements... But in a striking contrast, raising questions about a possible double standard, not a single person interviewed during the FBI’s scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation was hit with false statement charges – even though investigators believed some witnesses were untruthful. “Somebody needs to be resolving how they exercise discretion, because a whole bunch of people are facing jail time, or flipping in one probe, and the agents openly discussed how other people in the scumbag/liar-Clinton probe could have been charged with the same offense,” former Justice Department senior official James Trusty told Fox News. Of the six Trump campaign associates charged in dirty cop-Mueller’s long investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, five have been charged with violating U.S.C. 1001 — making false statements to FBI agents. Those charged include: former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos; former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn; former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen; and former associates of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort—Alex van der Zwaan and Rick Gates. But according to the report released in June by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on the FBI’s handling of the scumbag/liar-Clinton email investigation, federal prosecutors and FBI agents told the independent watchdog that witnesses in the probe lied during interviews, but that agents and prosecutors did not pursue false statements charges...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/false-statement-charges-abound-in-mueller-probe-discouraged-in-clinton-case
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Climatologist Dr.Judith Curry Hits BS Button 
On Sea Level Rise Fear Mongering
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{lidblog.com} ~ Good News! We’re not going to drown. At least not from the sea level rising... That’s what the scare tactics of those pushing the climate change hypothesis keep telling us. Writing on her website, Dr. Judith Curry hit the BS button on the sea level rise claims pushed by the scaremongers. The available evidence shows the following: Sea level was apparently higher than present at the time of the Holocene Climate Optimum (~ 5000 years ago), at least in some regions. Tide gauges show that sea levels began to rise during the 19th century, after several centuries associated with cooling and sea level decline. Tide gauges also show that rates of global mean sea level rise between 1920 and 1950 were comparable to recent rates. Recent research has concluded that there is no consistent or compelling evidence that recent rates of sea level rise are abnormal in the context of the historical records back to the 19th century that are available across Europe. She adds that any sea level rises we’ve seen have had nothing to do with mankind, The slow emergence of fossil fuel emissions prior to 1950 did not contribute significantly to sea level rise observed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The recent acceleration in mean global sea level rise (since 1995) is caused by mass loss from Greenland that appears to have been larger during the 1930’s, with both periods associated with the warm phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. She reminds us to remember that the real reason for predicting the sea level rises is “providing support for the hypothesis of human-caused climate change.”  So when they come up with computer models, suggests Dr. Curry, they ignore the natural sea level variations. Or to put it another way, they are saying it’s raining without looking out the window...  https://lidblog.com/sea-level-rise/
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The Long Road to Energy Independence
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by Lewis Morris:  America’s energy outlook is changing significantly for the better, which is obviously welcome news … that you’re unlikely to hear from the mainstream media.

             Last week, the United States officially became a net oil exporter, a dramatic shift for the country’s energy sector. It’s been 75 years since we could say that we ship out more oil than we take in.
               Increased oil production in Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania are responsible in part for this new state of affairs. And a recently discovered oil and natural gas reserve in Texas and New Mexico should keep the pumps going for years to come. The massive reservoir contains 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 46.3 billion barrels of oil. It’s the largest such resource ever assessed and is enough to fuel the United States alone for up to seven years.
               President Donald Trump campaigned on American energy independence, and since taking office, Trump has initiated several steps to move toward that goal. Those include relaxed federal restrictions on oil and natural gas exploration and drilling, and lifting draconian Barack scumbag/liar-nObama-era restrictions designed to bring an end to coal production in the U.S.
               True energy independence has been a stated goal of every president since Richard Nixon, but no one ever went about it correctly or whole-heartedly. Several Republican and Democrat presidents embraced a policy concoction of more regulation, a reliance on “alternative” energy sources, and austerity measures to manage America’s energy needs. Not surprisingly, all fell short of energy independence.
               Meeting America’s energy needs means producing more energy (a.k.a. supply-side economics) — it’s as simple as that. Our last president, who laughably insists he is responsible for America’s current energy boom, was in favor of driving up energy costs for consumers to force less usage (a.k.a. demand-side economics.) The scumbag/liar-nObama administration was also in favor of betting the ranch on unproven clean-energy technologies that were prohibitively expensive and not all that efficient or clean.
               The energy boom that we are currently experiencing makes us less reliant on foreign energy producers, which in turn improves our national security. It also means more jobs to produce energy here at home, and that means a strengthened economy. Good news all around. Well, except for the climate doomsayers.
               At the recent climate conference in Poland, alarmists continued their tirade against CO2 emissions, claiming that the world has just 10 years to lower those emissions before we reach the point of no return on rising surface temperatures. They also literally mocked the Trump administration’s efforts to tout fossil fuels.
               Many nations at the conference unquestioningly accepted the UN’s latest report, which calls for unspecified drastic changes to industrial emissions. The United States, joined by Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, challenged the report’s findings, with each nation saying they would only note the report rather than accept it.
               The U.S. also refused to reaffirm the Paris climate deal at November’s G20 summit, much to the consternation of ecofascists. Yet by following its own policies, the U.S. has lowered emissions during seven out of the last 10 years — something that none of the nations supporting the Paris accords can say. That proves as much as anything that Paris emissions-control standards are about control, not emissions.
               Climate change is a ruse to hide a leftist takeover of the economy. America’s rising energy production, and the vigorous economy that comes with it, stands in the way of that goal. So expect leftists to continue targeting Trump’s energy policy and to continue screaming hyperbolic claims that he is destroying the Earth.  ~The Patriot Post  

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 13, 2018 at 8:37am
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Thought Police Target 'Homophobic' Athletes
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by Nate Jackson
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Trump’s ‘Great Wall’ Isn’t What’s Being Built
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{nationalreview.com} ~ Making the click-through worthwhile: what you’re not hearing about the slowly spreading wall or bollard fence along our southern border... trying to make sense of President Trump’s negotiating strategy in the funding fight, an ugly scene in France, and some kind words for the Three Martini Lunch podcast.  Trump in yesterday’s meeting with Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer and Nancy Pulosi: “One thing that I do have to say is, tremendous amounts of wall have already been built, and a lot of — a lot of wall. When you include the renovation of existing fences and walls, we’ve renovated a tremendous amount and we’ve done a lot of work.” As I’ve detailed in two  articles for NRO, it is more accurate to say that under previously passed legislation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection continues to pay contractors to replace sections of spotty or insufficient fencing with 18-foot-tall bollard walls — tall steel bars with gaps in between them so that Border Patrol officers can see what’s happening on the other side. A border-wall contractor argued in March, “If your wall is see-through, you’re basically a fence.” For what it’s worth, the Border Patrol prefers the slats because it’s easier to see migrants approaching, attempting to climb the wall, or trying to evade authorities. You can get a sense of the bollard wall in this CBP photo of Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan touring the San Ysidro port of entry with Rodney S. Scott, the chief patrol agent for San Diego Sector, and CNN reporter Chris Cuomo...  https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/trumps-great-wall-isnt-whats-being-built/  
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Was Cyntoia Brown sentenced 
to life in prison for self-defense? Nope.
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ A lot of people have been forwarding me articles about Cyntoia Brown, who was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery when she was a 16-year-old prostitute... Recent news coverage includes this very sympathetic piece from CNN and another from NPR, as well as a deluge of similarly sympathetic coverage from a variety of other sources. Brown unsuccessfully argued self-defense at her trail. The court sentenced her to life in prison. She will first be eligible for parole after serving 51 years of her sentence. It seems Ms. Brown has been getting a great deal of attention in recent years, arguing that she deserves clemency because of her status as a victim of sex trafficking. This attention includes a full-blown documentary, a social media campaign (#FreeCyntoiaBrown), and support from such people I guess I’m supposed to know as Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, and Kim Kardashian: This attention reached a crescendo last week when the Tennessee supreme court unanimously affirmed Ms. Brown’s conviction and life sentence in this decision (embedded below). The case is a combination of arguably legitimate public policy issues should a 16-year-old be subject to a life sentence, even for murder? and social hysteria nonsense victims of sex trafficking, which I guess means prostitutes should be immunized not just against minor offenses such as truancy and underage drinking, but also murder. I’m sure reasonable people could take opposing positions on all those issues...
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Ted Cruz Criticizes Pulosi For Wanting To Turn
Cameras Off During White House Meeting
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Texas Senator Ted Cruz lauded President Trump’s performance during Tuesday’s Oval Office exchange with Democratic leaders... During Tuesday night’s edition of Fox News’ “Hannity,” Cruz also criticized Rep Nancy Pulosi, calling her stated desire to take the discussion off-camera a result of being “scared” because she’s on the “losing end of the argument.”Fox News host Sean Hannity began the segment by comparing Cruz’s own 2013 filibuster on healthcare to Trump’s “fighting on borders now.” “Why don’t we see more of this in the Republican Party?” he asked. “I think you are exactly right,” Cruz responded. “The American people have for a long time been frustrated with Washington, frustrated that too many elected officials don’t follow through on their promises, and they want us to do what we said we would do.” Cruz called the president’s Oval Office debate with Democratic leaders “terrific.”...
VIDEO at the site.
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Now That The Supreme Court Isn’t Their Puppet,
Liberals Want To Destroy It  
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{thefederalist.com} ~ Concerted opposition to the independent judiciary has begun to percolate on the left with little scrutiny... Last week, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s former spokesman Brian Fallon, and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna rallied activists seeking to enervate judicial independence through proposals like court-packing and term limits for justices. Left-wing influencers like Democratic Rep.-Elect commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attorney Michael Avenatti have endorsed the former propositions already. Progressive websites like Vox.com have repeatedly challenged the notion of judicial review. And dozens of leading lawyers on the left are organizing academic support for such ideas. The list goes on. Yes, the proximate cause of the movement is the most contentious Supreme Court confirmation in history. But while it appears to be mostly a reaction to a single nominee’s confirmation to a single seat, the fever pitch is really 60 years in the making. For most of that time, progressive jurists circumvented the normal constitutional amendment process by reading into the law meanings that were never there to impose desired social policies on the nation, exceed the enumerated powers, and traverse protections of individual rights. Their jurisprudence was innocuously rationalized by the existence of a “living Constitution.” Sometimes such decisions were characterized by activism of the court imposing its preferred policies on legislatures, like in the Miranda, Roe, and Obergefell decisions. Other times they were characterized by restraint, permitting the political branches to act contrary to statute or the Constitution, like in Chevron, Gonzales, and Sebelius cases. Often they were joined by liberal justices appointed by Republicans. They might have been earnest and well-meaning, but their rulings were also offensive to the rule of law and to millions of informed and motivated voters...
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.Reveal the Congressional Hush Fund Hypocrites
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{americanthinker.com} ~ Which is worse: candidate, businessman, and then still private citizen Donald Trump using his own money to make what scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton might call "bimbo eruptions"... go away to protect his brand and himself from personal embarrassment, or Congress using taxpayer money in a slush fund to pay off those sexually harassed by sitting officeholders? As Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America, notes in USA Today: Literally a year ago – as the #MeToo era was erupting – the nation was waking up to news that a secret congressional "hush fund" had been used by Members of Congress to pay off accusers of sexual misconduct. Taxpayer money – yours and mine – was used to pay off these alleged victims. ...Nobody knows how many congressmen and Senators are involved, and if  Pulosi is a willing participant to keep all of this a secret she will forfeit credibility on every other issue. ...What we know already is devastating. We know congressmen John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Blake Fahrentold (R-Tex.) used this "hush fund" to settle with alleged victims. Both men have already left Congress. We also know that none of the beneficiaries of this slush fund has been threatened with indictment and incarceration for campaign finance violations since suppressing such information, as Rep. Nadler puts it, amounts to committing a fraud on the American people using their own money...
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Thought Police Target 'Homophobic' Athletes
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by Nate Jackson:  Celebrities and athletes are enlightened philosophers who can pontificate from on high to impart their profound wisdom upon the unwashed masses. Unless they deviate from leftist groupthink, that is. A recent spate of rhetorical assaults upon rogue celebrities and athletes by the Rainbow Mafia reminds us again that some Americans seem to think freedom of speech and individual liberty are things to be mercilessly crushed under the jackboots of the thought police.

             The man getting the most attention is University of Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray, who won the Heisman Trophy Saturday night only to be dragged through the mud by USA Today’s Scott Gleeson over “homophobic” tweets Murray made … when he was 15. Murray went from what should have been one of the greatest moments of his life to a perfunctory apology for his “poor choice of word that doesn’t reflect who I am or what I believe.” And it was all thanks to a vindictive Leftmedia eager to punish “wrongthink” about any favored group such as homosexuals.
               Murray, who was drafted to play baseball for the Oakland A’s, is hardly alone, however. Gleeson wrote (as if he were merely an innocent observer), “Murray, 21 now, joins several other famous athletes to find themselves thrust in a negative spotlight as a result of their old tweets resurfacing in the midst of big accomplishments. The Milwaukee Brewers’ Josh Hader had racist, homophobic and misogynistic tweets resurface from when he was 17 years old this past summer. Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen saw racist tweets resurface from his teenage years ahead of the NFL draft. And Villanova Final Four Most Outstanding Player Donte DiVincenzo had a profane tweet with racist rap lyrics surface on the Internet right after he helped the Wildcats win a national title.”
               Gleeson is part of the problem, waiting for a moment of accomplishment to destroy a target. Baltimore Ravens lineman Patrick Ricard, Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu, and Atlanta Braves pitcher Sean Newcomb are also recent victims of media-generated outrage over using the “wrong” words. And then there’s comedian Kevin Hart, who will no longer host the Oscars after “homophobic” comments just happened to surface after the Academy Awards organizers asked him to host. The list could — and unfortunately will — go on.
               To be clear, we’re not defending some of the words in question, which are indeed crass and offensive and aren’t part of what should be a better response to gender dysphoria. But humans have always had a knack for saying awful things about one another. In this case, it’s the rabid heterophobic gender deniers who ought to apologize for aiming to destroy accomplished people over offhand teenage snark.  

~The Patriot Post  

https://patriotpost.us/articles/59970?mailing_id=3935&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3935&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 12, 2018 at 6:09pm
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SCOTUS Stumbles in Refusal 
to Review Abortion Funding
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by Thomas Gallatin  
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President clashes with Pulosi, 
scumbag/clown-Schumer on border wall
by  ART MOORE  

{wnd.com} ~ Meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday in an effort to avoid a government shutdown, President Trump... the incoming speaker of the House, Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer, D-N.Y., engaged in a contentious exchange over funding the border wall. In front of reporters and TV cameras, tensions rose when Pulosi threatened a “Trump shutdown” if Democrats and Republicans couldn’t agree on a budget. Trump said he would be “proud” to shut down the government for the sake of border security. “If we don’t get what we want,” Trump said. “I will shut down the government.” When Pulosi argued Trump had the power to pass a budget — with Republicans in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress — the president pointed out that the legislation required 10 Senate Democrats to move to a final vote. Pulosi said they came to the White House to negotiate a budget in “good faith,” asking to keep the debate private. “That’s not bad, Nancy. It’s called transparency,” Trump said...
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'Scary' That scumbag-Comey Doesn't See a Duty 
to Give FISA Court Complete Information
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey told Congress last week that he remembers signing a FISA court application relating to Carter Page in October 2016... but he said he doesn't remember if the application stated that the information had been verified. scumbag-Comey also told the House Judiciary Committee he never met nor spoke with Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier; he doesn't know how Steele's information reached the FBI; and he doesn't know "in particular" how the FBI went about investigating the information Steele provided. scumbag-Comey told an incredulous Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) he did not know, while serving as FBI director, that the law firm Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS at the behest of the Democrat National Committee and the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign. And scariest of all to at least one congressman, scumbag-Comey said he didn’t see a “legal duty” to present exculpatory evidence to the FISA court. "Martha, here's what's scary, here's what absurd," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Fox News’s Martha McCallum Monday night... Once again he is lying.  https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/rep-jordan-scary-comey-doesnt-see-duty-give-fisa-court-complete-information
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Trump Signs Bill Aimed at Assisting ISIS 
Genocide Victims in Iraq and Syria
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by Susan Crabtree
{freebeacon.com} ~ President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Tuesday that will help channel U.S. humanitarian and rebuilding assistance to Christians, Yazidis, and other religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria... who were the victims of ISIS genocide. The measure, which comes after nearly a year and a half of lobbying from various humanitarian groups, ensures that the U.S. aid may come through the federal government or other entities, including faith-based groups. It also enables the State Department, in collaboration with other federal agencies, to conduct criminal investigations and apprehend individuals identified as alleged ISIS members, and to identify warning signs of genocide and threats of persecution. Additionally, it encourages foreign governments to identify suspected Islamic State perpetrators in security databases and security screenings to assist with their capture and prosecution...  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-signs-bill-aimed-assisting-isis-genocide-victims-iraq-syria/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f929087534-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_11_11_32_COPY_133&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f929087534-45611665
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Canada Grants Bail to Huawei Chief 
Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The CFO of Huawei has been released on bail pending her extradition hearing to the United States... Ms. Meng will have to wear and ankle monitor and travel with security agents until her next hearing on February 6th. A Vancouver judge set a $10 million CAD bail ($7.5 million U.S.) for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou Tuesday, capping a week of increasing trade tensions and strong market reactions around the dispute between the Department of Justice and one of China’s largest hardware companies. The United States had asked the Vancouver court to deny bail for Meng, whose father is a billionaire and a founder of Huawei, calling her a flight risk. Canada has been expected to extradite Meng to the United States over charges that the company improperly took payments from Iran in violation of sanctions against the country. Meng’s next moves will be closely watched, but it is likely with her corporate and family connections that she will be able to make bail. The $10 million CAD includes $7 million CAD cash and $3 million CAD more from five or more guarantors, presented by Meng and her attorney’s as sureties that she would remain in the country...
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Trump Admin. Declares War on Russian, 
Chinese, Iranian Propaganda
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ The State Department has launched a new effort to counter propaganda and disinformation campaigns launched across the globe by a host of rogue nations, including Russia, China, and Iran... according to senior U.S. officials who briefed the Washington Free Beacon on the new undertaking, which they say will put the United States "on the offense" against these countries. The State Department's Global Engagement Center, or GEC, which just received a $40 million cash influx, is refocusing its priorities on what senior Trump administration officials described as a global battle against propaganda that undermines the U.S. role in the world and its national security priorities. As the Trump administration undertakes efforts domestically to address Russian election meddling as well as efforts by Iran and China to disrupt the American political landscape, the GEC will focus outside the U.S. borders to disrupt a range of disinformation operations by rogue nations seeking to increase their influence in regional hotspots. While the GEC's operations largely focus on counterterrorism missions, such as the fight against ISIS, the recent cash allocation to the organization will enable it to expand its reach and put a renewed focus on global propaganda operations, U.S. officials say...
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SCOTUS Stumbles in Refusal to Review Abortion Funding
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by Thomas Gallatin:  The Supreme Court declined Monday to review a lower court’s ruling that prevented two states from ending public Medicaid funding for abortion providers, with the obvious target of those states being the nation’s leading baby killer: Planned Parenthood. The refusal to hear the case came as a surprise to many, as only three of the five conservative justices voted in favor of reviewing the case; Chief Justice John Roberts and newly confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the Court’s left wing.

             The Court’s decision prompted an unusual chastisement from Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote, “What explains the court’s refusal to do its job here? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named ‘Planned Parenthood.’”
               Thomas further argued, “It is true that these particular cases arose after several States alleged that Planned Parenthood affiliates had, among other things, engaged in ‘the illegal sale of fetal organs’ and ‘fraudulent billing practices,’ and thus removed Planned Parenthood as a state Medicaid provider. But these cases are not about abortion rights. They are about private rights of action under the Medicaid Act. Resolving the question presented here would not even affect Planned Parenthood’s ability to challenge the States’ decisions.”
               The root question: Do Medicaid recipients have the right to challenge a state’s determination for who qualifies as a medical provider? Kansas and Louisiana determined that Medicaid recipients were not free to challenge the qualification for acceptable medical providers, specifically that Planned Parenthood failed to meet their qualifications. Thomas’s argument for accepting the case was sound, as he noted the appeals court split: “Five Circuits have held that Medicaid recipients have such a right and one Circuit has held that they do not.”
               The Washington Post speculated that the reason SCOTUS refused review was that “a majority of the court may be steering clear of controversial issues — at least for now.” But does this dodge by Kavanaugh give a foreboding glimpse into the future with respect to any case impacting abortion? Time will tell, but it’s hard to see this as anything other than a big miss by SCOTUS.
               A point of observation. Imagine the tone of the media coverage if the issue before the Court was half a billion in annual government funding of the National Rifle Association, an organization that, unlike Planned Parenthood, exists solely to defend an actual constitutional right.
               On a final note, Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency for the past two years and could have tackled this issue by passing legislation to prevent government funding of Planned Parenthood. They failed to do so.  ~The Patriot Post  

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 93)

Posted by Jake Martinez on December 12, 2018 at 1:00pm

Please Read Part 92:

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 92)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 1, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-92

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that the recent claim of campaign-finance violations will allegedly fuel the Democrats' relentless hounding of President Trump over the next two years, as it fits with their 'stolen election' narrative and is fodder for faux impeachment charges. If True-What wrong, but not surprising about this picture?-You Decide:

The Mueller/Comey/Clinton Collusion to Take Down Trump!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On December 12, 2018:

“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.” —Thomas Jefferson (1785)

There was actual news this week (versus the constant din of media churn) regarding the special counsel investigation into what originally was supposed to focus on Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.

Of course, that mandate immediately turned into an unlimited investigation into all manner of ostensible wrongdoing regarding Donald Trump and his campaign associates, including an investigation into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election. That diversion was prompted by a fake dossier funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey, whose “higher loyalty” was, first and foremost, to Clinton, set the fabrication into motion.

That “collusion” diversion has not turned up anything of substance thus far, so the investigation has now diverted to the question of how then-candidate Trump used his own money to settle some extortion demands associated with past lurid associations — and if so, whether these payments violated campaign-finance law.

What follows is a breakdown of the key developments, but first, an observation on the hypocrisy regarding foreign influence in our electoral process, as well as perjury. At the same time Democrat Party principals are feigning concern about foreign influence of our elections, they are advocating for open borders, pandering to their Hispanic constituents in an effort to change the demographics by flooding voter rolls with “new” constituents. And Democrats are now concerned about perjury after defending Bill Clinton’s lies as president about his sexual assaults?

Never let it be said that Democrats allow abject hypocrisy to get in the way of their political agenda.

The Mueller Investigation

To date, the only known connection Robert Mueller and his team of Clintonistas have made between the 2016 election and Russia was included in his indictment of a handful of Russian hackers last July. But that meddling started a year before Donald Trump announced his candidacy, and the hackers’ objective was to foment discord and to undermine American confidence in our electoral system, not to support Trump.

Arguably, after Trump’s upset election, Democrat Party hysterics, bolstered by the accompanying Leftmedia histrionics and the epidemic of leftist Trump Derangement Syndrome, have done far more to undermine electoral confidence than Russia could ever have hoped to achieve.

Of course, those Russians will never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom. As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy notes, “There are 144 million more people in Russia who will never see the inside of an American courtroom. If Mueller indicts all of them, his stats will be really impressive … and there’ll still be no Trump espionage conspiracy against the election.”

Additionally, he has accumulated some “process crimes,” most notably perjury charges related to the testimony of George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, and Michael Cohen. However, there is nothing that remotely establishes Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. Nothing.

However, the office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, in collusion with the Mueller investigation, filed a sentencing memo regarding its grand jury probe into Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney. The memo noted “Cohen’s extensive, deliberate, and serious criminal conduct,” but asked that he “receive credit for his assistance” to Mueller’s investigation. It added, “Cohen does not have a cooperation agreement … and therefore is not properly described as a ‘cooperating witness’.”

Today, Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in prison after pleading guilty to eight criminal charges, including violations of campaign-finance law. His “cooperation” is no doubt connected to his role in paying off two women extorting then-candidate Trump.

It’s notable that Cohen lied about the timeline of a deal with Russia to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, an ongoing negotiation that was completely legal and that was dropped when the two parties were not able to reach a deal. But Trump did not lie.

All told, over the course of Trump’s 18-month campaign, 14 people associated with Trump had contacts of some sort with Russians. Frankly, given all of Trump’s international business dealings, I’m surprised that number isn’t much higher.

Other than the interminable Mueller investigation, thus far the only related investigation was conducted by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and his team concluded that former CIA Director John Brennan colluded with Comey and other deep-state operatives to provide cover for Clinton.

(Sidebar: Beyond the fact that Comey seeded the Justice Department’s appointment of Mueller and lied about leaking the fake dossier report that ensured it would happen, Mueller’s constitutional authority is questionable given that the special prosecutor and independent counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 expired in 1999.)

Campaign-Finance Violations

Unable to discover any shred of evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to throw the 2016 election in his favor, Mueller is now focused on a possible campaign-finance violation associated with extortion payments to silence two alleged Trump affairs that took place long before he was a candidate. There was nothing illegal about the payments, which were from Trump and not his campaign, but the complaint is that they constituted undisclosed campaign contributions.

Democrats are gleefully hoping that felony charges will emerge from the aforementioned charges filed by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York against Cohen, which he billed to Trump.

Charges can be filed if undisclosed payments constitute a campaign contribution, even though a candidate may donate unlimited funds to his or her own campaign.

(Note that Trump’s private payments should not be confused with the public taxpayer-funded payments of the congressional slush fund used to silence sexual harassment complaints made against members of Congress.)

Regarding this Mueller angle against Trump, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a noted Democrat, offered this observation about the payoffs:

It is absolutely textbook extortion. There ought to be a prosecution of any person — man or woman — who approaches any candidate and says, “Unless you pay me money, I’m going to reveal a sex act that occurred.” That is absolute classic extortion. It is shocking that the special counsel — who has a broad mandate — isn’t looking into the extortion. … It’s clear that [Trump and Cohen] were paying off extortion in order to prevent these issues from coming out for multiple reasons: to protect his family, to protect his brand and the campaign. Let’s remember one more thing: The president can contribute to a candidate as much as he wants. As far as reporting is concerned, it is the campaign that has to report [these contributions]. So if [Trump’s] payments had to be reported, they had to be reported after the election. The reporting time was after the election — so it could not have impacted the election. So the absurd notion that he won the presidency by fraud and should be stripped of the presidency reflects incredible ignorance about the timing here and how these statutes operate.

Dershowitz concluded, “We need a single standard. If you would not go after Bill Clinton, don’t go after Donald Trump. If you are going after Donald Trump, then you have to go after Hillary Clinton. … This is such a danger to the constitutional system that I would hope that true civil libertarians would rebel against it, as I am.”

As political analyst Hans von Spakovsky notes regarding the charges filed by the U.S. attorney in New York: “His theory that anything intended to ‘influence’ an election is a campaign-related expense fails to take into account the statutory limitation on this definition. FECA (52 U.S.C. 30114 (b)(2) specifically says that campaign-related expenses do not include any expenditures ‘used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.’ Given Trump’s celebrity status, the potential liability to these women existed ‘irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.’”

And how do the Trump payments compare with actual illegal campaign contributions in recent years?

According to Andrew McCarthy, “Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was guilty of violations involving nearly $2 million — an amount that dwarfs the $280,000 in Cohen’s case. The Obama Justice Department decided not to prosecute. Instead, the matter was quietly disposed of by a $375,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission.”

Recall, too, that the Justice Department failed to convict former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards after he funneled actual campaign dollars — more than $1 million — to his mistress, Rielle Hunter.

In one election, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took in more than $1 million in revenue and had more than $6 million in expenses that he failed to report. He paid a $138,000 fine.

Of course, Bill Clinton had multiple accusations of rape and sexual assault, and in the Paula Jones case he paid $850,000 to “settle” that matter.

If Democrats are really concerned about campaign-finance violations, let’s put a price on the biggest of those violations — the Leftmedia’s support for Democrat candidates, which is equivalent to billions of dollars in free campaign advertising. Fake news is priceless.

So is this all Mueller and his Democrat team of hatchet men have against Trump after two years of investigation — a question about whether an extortion payoff constituted a campaign contribution, which may provide a pathway to indicting Trump after he leaves office?

We’re not sure, because we’re still waiting on the substance of his report — someday. Regardless, the prospect of campaign-finance violations is sufficient to fuel the Democrats’ relentless hounding of Trump over the next two years, as it fits with their “stolen election” narrative and is fodder for faux impeachment charges.

On James Comey’s Testimony

Related to the Mueller investigation, disgraced former FBI Director James Comey was back in front of Congress testifying about what he no longer can recall. In his testimony last week, Comey was chastised for claiming not to know or recall key facts related to what he admitted was a fake dossier purporting to show Trump’s collusion with Russians. That phony dossier was then used as the basis for a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign, and then, after Trump’s shocking electoral victory, it was used to help launch the special counsel’s investigation.

According to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), “The biggest takeaway is that former FBI Director James Comey, with regard to the two most important investigations … into the Clinton email matter and into the Russia collusion matter, said, ‘I don’t recall,’ ‘I don’t remember,’ or ‘I don’t know’ 245 times.”

Let that sink in.

Typical of Comey’s abject obfuscation was this interaction with House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC):

Gowdy: Do you recall who drafted the FBI’s initiation document for that late July 2016 Russia investigation?

Comey: I do not.

Gowdy: Would you disagree that it was Peter Strzok?

Comey: I don’t know one way or the other.

Gowdy: Do you know who approved that draft of an initial plan for the Russia investigation in late July 2016?

Comey: I don’t.

During his testimony, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) asked Comey, “Is there any need to further investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails based upon the decision that you made not to prosecute?” He replied, “Not that I can possibly see. There’s no serious person who thinks there’s a prosecutable case there. And so, not that can I see.”

That notwithstanding, Comey’s testimony raises the prospect that Hillary Clinton may finally face charges for using a private email server to keep her official communications as Obama’s secretary of state off the grid. She did so to ensure her communications would not be subject to public scrutiny during her then-planned 2016 presidential bid.

Clinton’s unmitigated ethical abuses, including her Benghazi cover-up to protect Obama’s reelection in 2012 and “pay-to-play” donations to the Clinton Foundation when she was serving as secretary of state, are about to be back on the table for possible prosecution.

Accelerating that possibility was last week’s finding by U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth that Clinton’s private email server constituted “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.” Likewise, Lamberth slammed Justice and State: “At worst, career employees in the State and Justice departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this court.”

However, what I believe was most consequential from Comey’s testimony is the emergence again of Clinton’s Russian Fusion Collusion — the dossier and FISA court warrant.

Mueller should be investigating the genuine 2016 election collusion between Clinton, Comey, and the Russians, which had the objective of setting Trump up for a take down in the event he was elected.

Seems to be working thus far.

Impeaching Trump

As we’ve noted many times, the entire Russia investigation was conceived to keep Trump on the ropes and on the defensive as president in an effort to block his agenda.

Democrats are hoping that this underwhelming campaign-finance charge will be their golden ticket to impeaching Trump. California Democrat Adam Schiff, incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, declared, “[Trump] may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time.” New York Demo Rep. Jerry Nadler, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, added, “The president was at the center of a massive fraud, several massive frauds against the American people. It’s now our job … to get to the bottom of this … so we can hold him accountable.”

So far, Democrats have been unable to stop the Trump administration’s extraordinary achievements, so they’re converting their “hate Trump,” anti-peace-and-prosperity platform into an “impeach Trump” charade to rally their constituencies ahead of the 2020 election.

In the meantime, the Democrat-controlled House will, under Nancy Pelosi’s thumb, attempt to inflict “death by a thousand cuts” to keep Trump from further success.

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False statement charges abound in Mueller probe, in contrast to Hillary Clinton case

False statement charges abound in Mueller probe, in contrast to Hillary Clinton case!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Brooke Singman | Fox News-On December 10, 2018:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/false-statement-charges-abound-in-mueller-probe-discouraged-in-clinton-case

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Sen. Rand Paul: Special Prosecutors ‘Find a Person, and They Look for a Crime’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Melanie Arter-On December 10, 2018:

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No, Trump Was Not “At the Center of a Massive Fraud Against the American People”!-Posted on The New American-By R. Cort Kirkwood-On December 10, 2018:

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Sen. Angus King Warns Trump Impeachment Talk Will Only ‘Inflame’ His Base And Make Things Worse!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Daily Caller-On December 11, 2018:

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President Donald Trump talks to media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, for the short trip to Andrews Air Force Base en route to Philadelphia to attend the Army-Navy Football Game. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump warns against impeachment: 'The people would revolt'!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Victor Morton, The Washington Times-On December 11, 2018:

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Tucker Carlson eviscerates Democrats for attempt to remove Trump

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New York attorney general promises to go after and arrest Trump, his family, and his allies

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Trump's Campaign-Finance Problems: DOJ announces agreement with National Inquirer to admit that it paid hush money to protect Trump!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Political Editors-On December 13, 2018:

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Newt Gingrich calls for Robert Mueller to publicly release 70 hours of Cohen interviews

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https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/20/fbi-counterintelligence-trump

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https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/12/20/house-judiciary-chairman-doj-inspector-general-investigating-carter-page-fisa-warrants/

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Why is Lying to the FBI a Crime When the FBI Lies to Us? “Intelligence” Agency Compromised Over Lack Of Action On Obama Birth Certificate, Eligibility!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On December 15, 2018:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/12/15/why-is-lying-to-the-fbi-a-crime-when-the-fbi-lies-to-us/

Obama Was Hand-Picked, NOT a Natural Born Citizen, Congress Knew & Tried to Protect Him!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Dean Garrison-On December 15, 2018:

https://freedomoutpost.com/obama-was-hand-picked-not-a-natural-born-citizen-congress-knew-tried-to-protect-him/

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ObamaCare

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http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/12/14/judge-declares-obamacare-unconstitutional-trump-celebrates-twitter

Nancy Pelosi admits court defeat on Obamacare, but she won’t be giving up

Nancy Pelosi admits court defeat on Obamacare, but she won’t be giving up!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-By Jerry McCormick-On December 16, 2018:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/pelosi-admits-court-defeat/?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=morning&utm_campaign=CNA_20181217-1&utm_term&utm_content

Confused Ocasio-Cortez Just Called Out Obamacare as a Massive Lie!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Bryan Chai-On December 17, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/confused-ocasio-cortez-just-called-obamacare-massive-lie/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

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Dem AGs Set Up Appeal of Ruling That Kills Obamacare!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Cathy Burke-On December 17, 2018:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/appeal-obamacare-repeal-and-replace-individual-mandate/2018/12/17/id/894832/#ixzz5a36aZ6KF

Video: Trump Trump’s The Deep State’s Obama Care!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Operation Freedom-On December 18, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUIJE2WTjUo

Trump Reveals Reason Behind Syria Exit in Early Morning Tweets!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On December 20, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-reveals-reason-behind-syria-exit-early-morning-tweets/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

Establishment Panics Over Trump Ending Wars: Claims He’s “Paving the Way Toward a Second 9/11”: The swamp is 'frightened' by Trump's move toward peace!-Posted on News Wars-By Steve Watson | Infowars.com-On December 21, 2018:

https://www.newswars.com/establishment-panics-over-trump-ending-wars-claims-hes-paving-the-way-toward-a-second-9-11/

Video: Deep State Pushing Back Against Trump’s Syria Withdrawal: The establishment is ready to make their move against POTUS, so now is the time to spread the links across the web to fight back against internet censorship!-Posted on News Wars.com-By The Alex Jones Show-On December 21, 2018:

https://www.newswars.com/watch-live-deep-state-pushing-back-against-trumps-syria-withdrawal/

Video: Why have Democrats done an about face on pulling US troops out of the Middle East?-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News-On December 21, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AX85E9Knrc

Video: Smoking Gun Obama/Clinton Docs Tie Benghazi Weapons to Syria Mess!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On December 24, 2018:

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

Jim Kouri

Obama And Clinton Gun Running Operation: Government Watchdog Uncovers Proof Of Criminality!-Posted on News With Views-By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On January 9, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/obama-and-clinton-gun-running-operation-government-watchdog-uncovers-proof-of-criminality/

A Little Perspective — Please: “Bring Home Our Troops And Rebuild Our Military”!-Posted The Post & Email-By Old Frank-On December 23, 2018:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/12/23/a-little-perspective-please/

Mattis Joins with Trump, Signs Executive Order To Remove Troops from Syria!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On December 24, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/mattis-joins-trump-signs-executive-order-remove-troops-syria/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

Devvy Kidd

Syria: Mr. President, You Made The Right Move!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On December 24, 2018:

https://newswithviews.com/syria-mr-president-you-made-the-right-move/

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Withdrawing from Syria Implements the Trump Doctrine: That’s what it takes to actually win!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On December 24, 2018:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272337/withdrawing-syria-implements-trump-doctrine-daniel-greenfield

Trump The Disrupter Pivots Back To Trumpism – And The Establishment Freaks Out!-Posted on Townhall-By Kurt Schlichter-On December 24, 2018:

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/12/24/trump-the-disrupter-pivots-back-to-trumpism-and-the-establishment-freaks-out-n2537978

President of Turkey Changes Plans, Snubs US Adviser Bolton!-Posted on The Western Journal-By AP Reports-On January 8, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-the-latest-erdogan-not-to-meet-trump-aide-in-apparent-snub/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

Video: Ep. 878 Do Not Cave In. The Dan Bongino Show 12/24/2018!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On December 24, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LSQn74uvns

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Key Democrat Accidentally Revealed Pelosi’s Shocking Plan To Impeach Trump!-Posted on Great American Daily-On January 18, 2019:

https://greatamericandaily.com/democrat-shocking-plan-impeach-trump/

In this file photo, A U.S. Air Force carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Elchin, 25, of Hookstown, Pa., was killed Nov. 27, 2018, by a roadside bomb in Andar, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump pays tribute to four Americans killed in Syria at Dover AFB ceremony!-Posted on The Daily Conservative-On January 22, 2019:

https://www.dailyconservative.com/daily-blog/white-house-death-announcement.htm

Video: Dr. Dave Previews A Must Watch Interview With Charles Woods!-Posted on Operation Freedom-On January 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxP4ofzKsq0

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

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

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

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Blowing a whistle on Benghazi: There’s no hiding four murders!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 6, 2013:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/blowing-a-whistle-on-benghazi-there-s-no-hiding-four-murders

Video: Flynn Signals Dark To Light, [DS][CB] PANIC - Episode 1749b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On December 24, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSqmIjK8OA

Video: Trump makes surprise visit to US troops in Iraq!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News-On December 26, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU2PHxTWFd4

Video: President Trump's Impact: Eight World Leaders Saved!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Operation Freedom-On January 8, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDrfDAWA5Ig

Attorneys Eric Dubelier, left, and Katherine Seikaly, right, representing Concord Management and Consulting LLC, leave federal court in Washington, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, after pleading not guilty on behalf of the company, which has been charged as part of a conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

'Swamp' reigns in Mueller's Trump-Russia probe!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times-On January 10, 2019:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/10/washington-establishment-maze-behind-trump-russia-/

7 Big Takeaways From William Barr’s AG Confirmation Hearing!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH-On January 15, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/15/7-big-takeaways-from-william-barrs-ag-confirmation-hearing/

Please Read Part 94:

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 94)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-94

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4063360053?profile=originalThe Fightin Side of Me!

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

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

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

“Food for Thought”

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

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.
Semper Fi!
Jake
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Environmentalism, Pantheism,
Statism and Pessimism
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Wednesday Top Headlines
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by Media Editors:  Nancy Pulosi mocks Trump’s “manhood” after “wild” Oval Office meet, says she tried to “be the mom” (New York Daily News)
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Trump administration files Supreme Court appeal after Ninth Circuit ruling halting new asylum policy (Fox News)
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More than 3,000 illegals caught in one day (The Washington Times)
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Church puts Baby Jesus in a cage in solidarity with migrants (The Resurgent)
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Judge issues permanent order blocking the government from enforcing contraceptive mandate (Townhall)
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Trump threat to kill NAFTA boosts U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement (The Washington Times)
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McConnell warns against shutdown after Trump spars with Democrats (National Review)
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In reversal, McConnell says Senate will vote on criminal justice bill (USA Today)
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Senate approves massive farm bill (The Hill)
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Google rejects claims of political bias against conservatives (USA Today)
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Tax revenues are at record highs (Investor’s Business Daily)
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China to cut U.S. car tariff to 15% (BBC)
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Jamal Khashoggi is the right TIME Person of the Year for all the wrong reasons (Spectator)
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Nine out of 10 universities restrict free speech (The College Fix)
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Theresa May faces no-confidence vote amid Brexit chaos (Fox Business)
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France upgrades security threat level after jihadi terrorist attack leaves at least 12 injured (The Guardian)
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Humor: Hollywood working on official list of comedians it’s OK to laugh at (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Is the U.S. political system really “structurally biased”? (National Review)
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Policy: The risks of Medicare for All (National Review)  
 
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Trump calls Michael Cohen payouts a ‘simple
private transaction,’ denies campaign contributions
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by Edmund DeMarche
{foxnews.com} ~ President Trump on Monday denied the hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal... in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election were campaign contributions, instead calling them a "simple private transaction.” “So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,” Trump tweeted. Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, recently admitted in a plea deal to violating federal campaign finance laws by arranging payments to Daniels and McDougal on Trump's behalf, according to the plea. Prosecutors on Friday released a sentencing memo calling for Cohen to a “substantial term of imprisonment” for the president’s former fixer. On Monday, Trump took aim at Cohen, saying that if a mistake was made and it was considered a contribution, the “liability” should be with the lawyer. “Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced,” Trump tweeted. “WITCH HUNT!” Meanwhile, an expert campaign finance lawyer said in an interview published Monday that he is not impressed with the Department of Justice's evidence that effectively links Trump to campaign finance violations after the recent release of the Cohen sentencing memo...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/evidence-linking-trump-to-campaign-finance-crimes-is-not-there-top-lawyer-says
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The Utah DOJ scumbag/liar-Clinton Probe,
A Nuclear Power Plant, And An Attempt To Implicate Trump
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{lidblog.com} ~ On 30 November, the end of an eventful week, analyst Jeff Carlson of the blog TheMarketsWork.com  published an article at the Epoch Times... I mentioned Carlson’s article in a post on the Michael Flynn sentencing recommendation last week. In the piece, he presented alongside each other four event threads that he suggested might be related. The common thread, he said, was that “All the activities targeted were either occurring during the scumbag/liar-nObama era or, in the case of the DOJ whistleblower, were directly related to underlying events from that time.” The DOJ whistleblower was Dennis Nathan Cain, who was raided by the FBI in mid-November, in spite of having official whistleblower status accorded by the Department of Justice Inspector General, Michael Horowitz. The second thread involves Chicago Alderman Edward Burke, a longtime fixture in the city’s political scene, who was also raided by the FBI. The raid on Burke took place on 29 November. Jeff Carlson doubts the immediate suggestion of the mainstream media that the raid was about work done by Burke – an attorney specializing in property taxes – for Donald Trump. Chicago sources don’t seem to think that’s it.  They do seem sure that the issues are from recent years, and not from allegations that have “swirled” about Burke in the more distant past. The third thread is about big banks being investigated by DOJ for money-laundering; namely, Danske Bank and Deutsche Bank. DOJ says the probe is related to disclosures from the “Panama Papers,” and is from the period 2013 to 2018...  https://lidblog.com/nuclear-power-plant-sale/ 
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Iran at War
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Kredo says American officials, by which I presume he refers to the Intelligence Community and the deep thinkers at State and the NSC... believe that the Iranian regime is planning a “massive regional war.”  This comes in the wake of the Israeli attack against Hezbollah tunnels into Israel from Lebanese areas under its which means Iranian control, and emergency meetings in Europe between US Secretary of State Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. We have often misread Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s real intentions, so it’s best to be skeptical of this dramatic claim, but there’s certainly some reason to take it seriously. The Iranian/Hezbollah tunnel operation has been under way for years, and the mullahs and their favorite terrorists have long told themselves that Hezbollah “defeate4” Israel in their last battle. Hence, they might believe they could win the next one. There is no doubt at all that they want to destroy Israel, and if they still had a compliant American president in the White House—read “scumbag/liar-nObama”—they might try it. But they’ve got Trump to deal with. And the “mad dog” in the Pentagon. They do not believe they can defeat us on the battlefield. We say we will stand with Israel, and we have just moved a carrier group into the Iranians’ neighborhood. So? I don’t think the Iranian leader and his henchmen want to mess with us. So the question is, do they really believe we will go after them if they unleash the massive regional war? It’s not just a foreign policy matter, as we all know. There are massive demonstrations all over the country, including areas long considered loyal to the regime. The anti-regime demonstrations now embrace all levels of society, from the steelworkers to the Bazaaris, and they are expanding. The mullahs fear these people, and dread a “white revolution” of the sort that brought down the shah forty years ago. On the one hand, they might hope for “patriotic” support for a war against Israel and the United States. On the other hand, they might fear that the Iranian people would support the other side, spelling curtains for the Islamic Republic...
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If Dems Don't Cooperate, 'The Military Will 
Build the Remaining Sections of the Wall'
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{cnsnews.com} ~ In five tweets on this Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump said he looks forward to today's meeting with Democrat leaders... Sen. Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pulosi. And he said if Democrats refuse to give him the $5 billion he wants to build his border wall, Trump said he'll have the military do it. Senate Minority Leader scumbag/clown-Schumer recently tweeted that Senate Democrats expect Trump to go along with them on climate change policies and infrastructure funding if he wants their support. And House Minority Leader Pulosi last week firmly rejected Trump's $5-billion request for what she calls a "immoral, ineffective, expensive" border wall. Failure to reach agreement on the remaining spending bills for Fiscal 2019 could lead to a partial government shutdown later this month. One of the unfinished bills is needed to fund the Homeland Security Department and Trump's long-promised wall. Pulosi tweeted on Monday: "Our country cannot afford a #TrumpShutdown, especially at this time of economic uncertainty. This holiday season, @realDonaldTrump knows full well that his wall proposal does not have the votes to pass the House & Senate, and should not be an obstacle to a bipartisan agreement."
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Trump feuds openly with Pulosi, scumbag/clown-Schumer
as border fight explodes in White House
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump's battle with Democrats to fund a border wall spilled out into public view on Tuesday... as Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif., challenged Trump's request for more border funding and Trump argued back that Americans are demanding a barrier to keep out illegal immigrants. The 15-minute meeting between the political opponents started cordially, but it ran off the rails after Pulosi warned that Trump's hard-line position on the wall would lead to a "Trump shutdown." "I think the American people recognize that we must keep the government open, that a shutdown is not worth anything," Pulosi told Trump in the Oval Office Tuesday. "And that you should not have a 'Trump shutdown.'""A what? Did you say a 'Trump shutdown?'" Trump asked Pulosi. "You have the White House. You have the Senate. You have the House of Representatives. You have the votes. You should pass it a government funding bill right now," Pulosi said. "I can't get it passed in the House if it is not going to pass in the Senate," Trump fired back. "The House we can get passed very easily. ... The problem is the Senate. We need 10 Democrats to vote and they aren't going to do it."...
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Environmentalism, Pantheism,
Statism and Pessimism
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by David Limbaugh

{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Meaning no disrespect to climate alarmists of the past half-century, who have been quite formidable in their doomsday warnings, the modern era has ushered in a new wave of scaremongers who threaten to eclipse their predecessors.

This shouldn't discourage the original enviro-wackos of the 1970s, who hadn't accumulated sufficient empirical data to support their burgeoning secular religion. Give those people a break; how were they to know they'd have egg on their faces for predicting apocalyptic global cooling? We're much more advanced now, so it's not fair to judge them.

Admit it. A full week doesn't pass without some cataclysmic news about climate change. The meteorological activists are brilliantly adept at shoehorning any weather event or natural disaster into their ominous narrative. If world temperatures are cooling — or warming — they attribute it to overall warming. If there's a severe hurricane, it's because of evil capitalist carbon emissions. If California forest fires are caused or exacerbated by their asinine environmental policies, they blame them, too, on the "deniers," because one thing is certain about global warming blowhards: Their supposedly having good intentions means never having to apologize for their consistently failed prophecies. Al Gore, after all, is still an icon of this movement despite his embarrassing record and his unconscionably stratospheric personal carbon footprint.

Have you ever noticed that all proposed solutions for climate change require massive expansions of government control, reduced reliance on free market entrepreneurship, and the surrendering of our national sovereignty to global entities that are hostile to the United States and its founding principles?

it simply a coincidence that the undying adherents of this pantheistic religion are political leftists who want to control every aspect of our lives? If these collectivists believed that the optimal solutions for our alleged environmental problems were market-based, do you think they would obsess over climate change? Ironically, the best remedies have arisen from the free market, but that's a topic for another column.

Just know this: There is a reigning pessimism in the humanist worldview that undergirds climate hysteria, and it has been around for a half-century. When I was in college in the '70s, a labor economist bemoaned the scarcity of the world's resources and said we'd have to tighten our belts because substantial economic growth was no longer possible. In his defense, we were then living under Jimmy Carter's malaise.

It is always a zero-sum game for statists, who seem incapable of imagining the wondrously creative solutions human beings are capable of if unencumbered by the vise of government control and the mandates of elites. Happily for America, Ronald Reagan believed human ingenuity could develop innovative processes to compensate for finite natural resources. Thankfully, he rejected the dismal notion that there's a finite economic pie. Fast-forwarding to today, thank goodness President Trump rejected President scumbag/liar-nObama's similarly fatalistic pronouncement that only a magic wand could restore manufacturing jobs and robust economic growth to the United States. Do we see a pattern here?

As the left ceaselessly bombards us with climate fearmongering, it's no wonder many have bought into hopelessness and despair. It was hardly surprising to see MSNBC anchor Katy Tur telling her audience this week that her life will be meaningless unless we start addressing the climate change problem. "I read that New Yorker article today, and I thought, 'Gosh, how pointless is my life?'" said Tur. "And how pointless are the decisions that I make on a day-to-day basis when we are not focused on climate change every day, when it's not leading every one of our newscasts?"

I suppose many of you will scoff, but I believe this is largely a spiritual issue. There is a marked difference between being good stewards of the earth and worshipping it in place of God, who created it. Generally speaking, our respective worldviews greatly influence our attitude toward the climate change issue, from beginning to end. Secular humanists — those who don't believe in God and tend to think that man is the measure of all things — are likelier to believe that human beings are powerful enough to destroy the planet through carbon emissions. And they are far likelier to believe that this life is all there is — that there is nothing beyond.

The Bible tells us that God has put eternity in our hearts. Accordingly, human beings, said French philosopher Blaise Pascal, have a God-shaped void in their hearts that cannot be satisfied by any created thing. But that doesn't keep nonbelievers from trying to fill the void and find ultimate meaning solely in the material world. Earth worship is just one of the many impotent quasi-spiritual substitutes human beings cling to in place of their Creator. Let us pray for humility and salvation.
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Wednesday AM

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 12, 2018 at 8:21am
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 Buried With Bush
by Tom McLaughlin 
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Mark Meadows wants to be Trump's chief of staff
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., has made plain he would like to be President Trump’s chief of staff when John Kelly departs this month... “Serving as White House Chief of Staff would be an incredible honor,” Meadows said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “The President has a long list of qualified candidates and I know he’ll make the best selection for his administration and for the country.” Trump announced over the weekend that Kelly would be departing the White House at the end of the year. The announcement came as several reports indicated that the relationship had soured and the two were no longer on speaking terms. Meadows as White House chief of staff could have upsides for Trump. Meadows, first elected to the House in 2012, is the current head of the House Freedom Caucus, a band of conservative lawmakers, and he could help push Trump's agenda to the Right. The next White House chief of staff will also have to contend with a swath of congressional investigations, and Meadows is an active member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. That panel is expected to be one of Trump's chief tormentors come 2019, and Meadows would bring insider knowledge of its operations and procedures. In addition to Meadows, others who have emerged on the short list to replace Kelly include former Trump campaign manager David Bossie and acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker...
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FBI Fights to Keep Incriminating 
scumbag/liar-Clinton Docs SECRET  
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by Richard Pollock
{dailycaller.com} ~ The Department of Justice is requesting that the justification of an FBI raid on a reportedly recognized whistleblower’s home remain secret... according to a letter from U.S. Attorney Robert Robert Hur. The letter was sent to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on Dec. 7 in response to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Nov. 30 request to unseal court documents that would show the FBI’s rationale for the raid. The documents could potentially reveal whether the bureau and the magistrate who signed the court order allowing the raid, Stephanie A. Gallagher, knew that the subject was, according to his lawyer, a recognized whistleblower. Sixteen FBI agents raided Dennis Cain’s Union Bridge, Maryland, home on Nov. 19 for six hours, even though Cain told them that he was a recognized whistleblower and handed classified documents over to the agents...  https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/10/doj-clinton-foundation-raid-secret/
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UN colludes with climate protesters to disrupt & shut
down Trump admin. pro-energy event at UN summit
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by Marc Morano  
{climatedepot.com} ~ The United Nations gave its blessing to a massive climate protest during the Trump administration’s pro-energy event today at the climate summit (COP24) in Poland, according to the U.S. delegation... The UN pre-authorized and pre-planned the wide-scale interruption that shut down the Trump White House’s pro-fossil fuel event. Officials from the U.S. delegation told Climate Depot on Monday that the UN informed the U.S.  that the environmental activists would be authorized by the UN  to disrupt the U.S. event for at least “7 minutes” and the green protesters would be granted the floor halt the event and give speeches during the U.S. event. The UN’s support of the climate protesters was in marked contrast to how the UN  treated climate skeptics at the 2016 summit in Marrakech. At that previous summit, armed UN climate cops shut down a press event by skeptics from the group CFACT. The event involved a lifesize cardboard cutout of then President-elect Trump and was immediately halted by the UN. The skeptics were stripped of their UN credentials and expelled the climate summit entirely. Like clockwork, when U.S. Special Advisor the to President, P. Wells Griffith of the Energy Department was speaking, the protesters began to laugh and chant about how the Trump administration was “funny” because they did not want to keep coal, oil and gas “in the ground.” The protesters chanted “keep it in the ground” fossil fuel energy which accounts for over 80% of world energy to both the Trump administration officials as well as the climate skeptics who were seated in the front row... We need to kick the UN out of the USA.
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European Court of Human Rights Blasphemy Laws:
Where a Word out of Place Can Cost Your Life
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ There are, of course, social settings where it pays to watch your words. Saying you fancy the looks of a mafioso's new girlfriend could well prove fatal... Spending time with a bunch of Hamas terrorists while expressing your love for Israel might not lead to your premature demise. In London today, young men who make remarks or play music to other youths on the street can wind up stabbed to death. A recent comment on The Independent website claims, "In this country the UK, some views, regardless of how valid and logical, can result in anything from public rebuke to loss of a job to violence." For the most part, we learn how to avoid words or actions that may offend someone or some group, especially if it is known to be prone to violence. Yet these misfortunes are rare and we live our lives on the assumption that in democratic countries, we can speak freely within the norms of civil society. We recognize that in many countries, racist, homophobic, antisemitic, or "Islamophobic" hate speech can be reported to the police and lead to the arrest and eventual trial of the speaker. The United States' First Amendment to its Constitution protects its citizens from prosecution for free speech, except where there is a credible threat of "Imminent lawless action." If angry exchanges take place, they are just a consequence of living in countries where free speech and unfettered opinion are cherished. We have seen what happens in countries where there is no free speech –as the Soviet Union or present day Pakistan; it often is not pretty and in much of the West is regarded as well worth the trade-off. Particular sensitivities surround religious ideas, and histories. Nowhere is this more apparent today than in the instance of Islam, where anything untoward, especially statements that even a few people may consider blasphemous -- such as young schoolchildren naming a toy teddy bear Mohammad, a common enough name in the Sudan -- might be treated as criminal offences...
Judge rules Trump administration justified in ending
scumbag/liar-nObama-era immigration program
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by Sudhin Thanawala 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ The Trump administration provided adequate justification for its decision to end a program that reunited hundreds of immigrants from Central America with family members in the U.S. ... a federal judge ruled Monday. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler threw out the bulk of a lawsuit that argued the termination of the scumbag/liar-nObama-era Central American Minors program was arbitrary and violated the U.S. Constitution. The program allowed parents legally in the U.S. to apply to bring children or other family members living in Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador to the U.S. One of the goals was to discourage children from making the dangerous journey from those countries to the U.S. to be with family. More than 1,300 people came to the U.S. under the program between 2014 and the end of 2016, according to figures cited in Beeler’s decision. When it ended the program in August 2017, the Trump administration revoked approval for roughly 2,700 additional immigrants who were set to travel to the U.S. ...  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/10/judge-laurel-beeler-rules-trump-administration-jus/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=tGFzAvlakwHGgs%2Fn%2FlvqcwSXPvANJ7fVwJ7XZ7rxi%2B%2BlzK74Fo1Q5FWf0LnFPleP&bt_ts=1544489536846
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Buried With Bush
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~  “Have they buried him yet?” I kept asking last week. Observances of former President George H.W. Bush’s death seemed to go on forever. For a week or more, media were completely dominated by commemorations of his passing. Services held in Maine, Texas, Washington, DC, and elsewhere were extensively covered. Very few stories have that much staying power in America’s public consciousness anymore, so why was it so hard to finally put old George to rest and move on?
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It was a combination of factors, I think. He was the last president from the World War II generation, or “The Greatest Generation,” as NBC’s Tom Brokaw called it. When former senator, presidential candidate, and fellow WWII vet Bob Dole paid his respects to Bush, he had to be assisted to stand from his wheelchair in order to salute. Very few of that generation remain with us and soon they will all be gone. Not only will they be put to rest, but so, we fear, will the values by which they lived.
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To them, family, church, and country mattered most. Not everyone from that era lived by those values but no one disputed them as ideals. Today there is no general agreement on any of them. Bush was married for more than seventy years. That he loved his wife and was loved back by her no one doubted. Except when he lay in state at the Capitol, most remembrances were held in churches where his extended family — and it is extensive — participated. The final theme dominant in the wall-to-wall coverage was his service to country beginning in WWII and continuing through his presidency.
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Five current and former presidents were seated in the front row at Bush’s service in Washington. Of those, all but Trump remain in their original marriages, but lies and coverups of marital infidelities led to the impeachment of President scumbag/liar-Clinton — and may for President Trump as well. Last week’s release of data from the dirty cop-Mueller investigation prompted soon-to-be US House committee chairmen to salivate over the prospect of impeaching Trump for alleged campaign finance violations in the form of payoffs to two professed mistresses. It’s likely that many presidents have been unfaithful and some biographers have documented their infidelities. The same is true of kings, queens, and other past leaders, but publication was usually delayed until after they died. Not anymore.
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Most dictionaries still define family as: “a group consisting of parents and children living in the same household,” but that description is now disputed by many calling themselves “progressives.” They see traditional family as a source of oppression, a haven for “the patriarchy.” Homosexual and transgender activists tend to agree and work to broaden the definition to include almost any grouping of human beings wishing to address themselves as such. If we haven’t reached that point already, most children will soon be born into a collection of people not comprised of a mother, a father, and children.
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Churches are in steep decline across America as well with some predicting that soon the majority of us will be “unchurched.” That’s already true in many “progressive” regions. Religions we used to consider “mainstream” have sanctioned marriage between two men or two women. After over two thousand years, even the Roman Catholic Church is making noises in that direction since the election of Pope Francis in 2013. A preliminary statement emerging from a Synod of Bishops on the family in 2014 called “Relatio post disceptationem” hinted at a relaxing of Catholic teachings on homosexuality and divorce. Prominent bishops attending the synod, however, condemned that document and claimed that most bishops wished to preserve traditional teachings. In the four years since divisions within the Catholic Church have only deepened.
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As for devotion to country, many Americans calling themselves “progressives” dispute the very concept of the nation-state, of national sovereignty, and of national borders. They support abolishing ICE, which stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They marched in Washington, DC recently chanting “No borders! No wall! No USA at all.” Democrat leaders deny they support open borders while consistently blocking serious efforts to control illegal immigration or funding for a wall on our southern border.
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Not only is there widening disagreement about family, church, and country, it seems we cannot even agree on who is a man or who is a woman. More and more “progressive” psychologists, clerics, and politicians are insisting that homosexuals are born that way but men and women are not. People who consider such notions crazy place themselves in danger if they voice their opinions. They could lose their jobs, be forced to undergo “sensitivity training” which some would call brainwashing, and they could be charged with a “hate crime.”
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Buried along with George H.W. Bush, we fear, were the values of the generation that produced him. What comes next, no one knows.
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 11, 2018 at 5:45pm
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The Harvard Crimson's Crumbling PC Agenda
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by Arnold Ahlert  
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Dem Rep. Paid Sister’s Firm Nearly $200,000 
From Campaign Funds During Midterms
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by Joe Schoffstall
{freebeacon.com} ~ A Democratic representative disbursed nearly $200,000 from his campaign funds to a law firm that is owned by his sister throughout the 2018 election cycle... according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings. Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. (D., Mo.) made the payments from his campaign committee, Clay Jr. for Congress, to the Law Office of Michelle C. Clay, LLC, a law firm owned by his sister, Michelle, that does not have a website and whose address appears to be a residential home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C. The first payment to the firm this past cycle was in the amount of $9,000 and was made on Jan. 4, 2017, for professional services fees including fundraising and compliance. In addition to the fundraising and compliance services, the payments to Michelle Clay's firm were marked for community organizing, legal counsel, and record keeping. From Jan. 4 until Oct. 31, 2018, Rep. Clay Jr. disbursed numerous payments ranging from $500 to $10,000 and totaling $198,500 to his sister's firm, the filings show... Were are the dems and the news media on this.
scumbag-Comey is Being Protected by FBI, 
DOJ, and dirty cop-Mueller Investigation
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{judicialwatch.org} ~ JW President Tom Fitton appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on the Fox News Channel to discuss scumbag-James Comey’s hearing and Judicial Watch’s scumbag/liar-Clinton email probe.    https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/tom-fitton-comey-is-being-protected-by-fbi-doj-and-mueller-investigation/
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Iranian Forces in Yemen Demand Arms 
Smuggling Routes Be Opened
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ Iranian-backed forces in Yemen are demanding the reopening of the country's international airport, a stumbling block in tense negotiations taking place this week between warring factions in Sweden... according to U.S. officials and Western sources on the ground who told the Washington Free Beacon this demand by Iran's Houthi rebels would allow Tehran to continue importing weapons and militants in an area of the Middle East that leaves Israel vulnerable to attack. As the peace talks drag on with no sustainable end in sight, Iran's Houthi allies are demanding the Sana'a international airport be reopened, but they are taking issue with proposals that would mandate all planes in and out of the airport be screened by Yemen's Saudi-backed government. Houthi leaders have rejected this compromise, sources confirmed to the Free Beacon, instead seeking to limit the possibility of inspections in order to keep military channels with Iran intact. This latest impasse is being viewed as a sign of the deep divisions that remain between Houthi rebels and Yemen. The international community has hailed the peace talks as a success—as it is the first time in more than two years the legitimate Yemeni government and Houthi rebels have met face-to-face—but after five days of talks, the sides have yet to reach agreement on any of the key confidence building measures on the docket, or on a framework for an eventual peace agreement. The talks are expected to continue through the end of the week...  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-forces-yemen-demand-arms-smuggling-routes-stay-open/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=e0787b85f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_11_02_11_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-e0787b85f1-45611665 
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 President Trump Warns of Illegal 
Immigration Dangers Ahead of Pulosi 
and scumbag/clown-Schumer Meeting
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by Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ President Trump warned that illegal immigrants were bringing crime and disease into the United States... just before his meeting with Democrat leaders Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer and Nancy Pulosi. This meeting is supposed to hash out a budget deal to fully fund the government after the stop-gap spending bill expires in less than two weeks. President Trump is pushing for at least $5 billion dedicated solely to constructing a wall along our southern border with Mexico. He needs 60 votes in the Senate to approve of such a measure. But with only 51 Republican senators, he’s going to have to peel off some Democrats in order to get the border wall funds he wants. Trump has a little leverage left in this congressional term to get the border wall funding, or a figure close to his demand, he desires. So he’s going full bore, outlining how imperative it is that the wall is built... I'm sorry to say this but Trump won't be getting the funds for the wall.  https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-border-funding/?utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_12_11_2018&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
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The Hoax of 'Climate Change'
by Allison Nichols

{americanthinker.com} ~ scumbag/liar-nObama knows. John hanoi-Kerry knows. And scumbag-Al Gore, the man who has made an enormous amount of money perpetuating the biggest hoax foisted on the human race, knows... Human-inspired “climate change” is a ruse.  It is all a control-grabbing, land-grabbing, money-grabbing hoax. For instance, scumbag-Al Gore, the king of carbon credits, whose home has a giant carbon footprint, and who flies all over the world in private jets, has raked in millions from his green investments and "sustainability research." This, after preaching An Inconvenient Truth that fossil fuel is the culprit in “global warming.” The real inconvenient truth is that the earth’s climate has been warming, cooling and dramatically changing since the beginning of time. How many of us know that Chinese sea captains reported melting ice caps as far back as 1434? Mega earthquakes and tsunamis as well as blizzards, raging fires, crippling droughts, powerful storms, horrific tornadoes and scorching heat waves have been around since antiquity. “Climate deniers,” as the alarmists so lovingly refer to us, do acknowledge changes in the climate, but most of us do not accept the premise that human activity the cause. Recently, the hoax has been ramping up. President scumbag/liar-nObama, who has been likened to “Spock” by his climate change cheerleaders, exhorts that slow “climate change” progress can be blamed on “confused, blind, racists shrouded with hate Americans.” scumbag/liar-nObama is a far cry from a cool, rational Spock character; his cynical rhetoric continues to divide Americans and cuts off debate. The latest forecast from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adds fuel to the fire. Their scare tactic is to tell us that we are "doomed.” The panel decries that carbon emissions must fall 45% by 2030. Their forecast is, of course, more poppycock emanating from liberal progressives throughout the world.  And on top of that, in the Federal Climate Assessment report just issued, out has come a dire warning to Americans that climate change will negatively affect Americans physically, socially, and economically. That fact is elementary. Horrible weather does and has had severe ramifications for humans throughout the world since the beginning of time...    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/the_hoax_of_climate_change.html 
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The Harvard Crimson's Crumbling PC Agenda
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by Arnold Ahlert:  Last Monday, a number of national fraternities and sororities filed two separate lawsuits, in state and federal court respectively, challenging Harvard’s ham-fisted attempts to impose sanctions, beginning with the Class of 2021, on students who join off-campus, single-gender social clubs.

             The national organizations for Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, along with Harvard’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, filed the federal lawsuit. They were joined by three unnamed Harvard students who are members of all-male social clubs — students who asked the U.S. District Court in Boston to let them proceed under pseudonyms so they could avoid “harassment and threats” from the public and “retribution” from the college.
               The federal suit alleges that barring members of single-gender final clubs (secretiveall-male groups), sororities, and fraternities from holding leadership positions in recognized student organizations, becoming varsity team captains, or receiving the college’s endorsement for prestigious fellowships, violates Title IX’s ban on sex-based discrimination and the United States Constitution.
               The sanctions were aimed primarily at those final clubs, accused by Harvard in a 2016 report of having “deeply misogynistic attitudes.” Yet as the suit ironically notes, “Harvard succeeded, perversely, in eliminating nearly every women’s social organization previously available to female students at Harvard.”
               The state lawsuit was filed by Delta Gamma’s national organization, Alpha Phi’s International Fraternity, and its Harvard chapter. It also addresses that allegation, noting the sanctions have essentially privileged men. Their organizations “remain open” because they are better equipped to resist the mandate, the suit explains. By contrast, members of women’s organizations “now have limited access” to the same experiences.
               That suit also challenges Harvard’s virtually certain assertion that a private college can do whatever it wants. “Harvard has a special role within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Founded by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636, Harvard has its rights and status enshrined in chapter 5 of the Massachusetts Constitution,” the suit states. “However, by its recent actions, Harvard has breached the very Constitution under which it purports to operate.”
               In addition to an injunction imposed against the sanctions going forward, the state lawsuit seeks financial compensation to offset the costs the sanctions imposed on the affected organizations.
               “Harvard has really shown a disregard for the rights of its students to associate with people they want to associate with,” stated attorney David A. Russcol. “What they do off campus shouldn’t be any of Harvard’s business. It’s disappointing that the plaintiffs have had to take this action.”
               The sanctions were initially rolled out in May 2016, and Dean Rakesh Khurana revealed the mindset behind them in an interview. “At Harvard, we have a very specific mission of educating citizens and citizen leaders for our diverse and interconnected society,” he declared. “We do not believe that it is effective to basically institutionalize segregation.”
               Unless it’s political segregation. A survey of more than 1,000 members of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences revealed that more than 83% of those faculty members self-identified as very liberal or liberal, compared to just 1.6% who identified as conservative or very conservative.
               The right of association, protected by both the First and Fourteenth Amendments, has long been upheld by the courts, beginning as a response to lawsuits filed in the 1950s and 1960s against states attempting to curb the political activities of the NAACP. It would be certainly useful to know if, hypothetically speaking, Khurana believes those sanctions should be imposed on members of a black student association if it refused to open its ranks to members of a white supremacist group.
               For the sake of diversity and interconnectedness.  Regardless, like all social justice warriors, Khurana apparently believes the ends justify the means. According to the Boston Globe, he held a May 2015 meeting supposedly called to “ensure the groups were aware of the latest school policies on alcohol and sexual assault,” the paper reported. Instead, Khurana waved a sheet of paper in the air he claimed contained accounts of sexual assault. “Khurana said that the papers in his hand were very embarrassing to the clubs and that he could not guarantee that they would not be leaked,” the federal lawsuit states. “But, Khurana said, if some clubs became co-ed — systematically and soon — that would help the situation. It was an unmistakable threat.”
               It was an effective one, and no one bore the brunt of that effectiveness more than Harvard’s women’s associations. In 2014, there were nine sororities and all-female final clubs on campus. Now only one still exists, according to the lawsuits.
               Khurana’s efforts to impose the sanctions were driven by a complaint received by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights regarding how Harvard handled allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Thus in 2014, Harvard President Drew Faust ordered the creation of a task force composed of students, faculty, and administrators to address the issue.
               Caitlin Flanagan wrote a lengthy Atlantic Magazine piece in March 2014 revealing that “the contemporary fraternity world is beset by a series of deep problems, which its leadership is scrambling to address, often with mixed results.” Nonetheless, in another article published a month later, she insisted the report produced by the task force “burns with moral indignation that its evidence does not warrant.”
               Flanagan finds the assertion made by 47% of female senior club participants, who reported having nonconsensual sexual contact during their years in college, especially dubious. Those encounters, she explains, “could have happened at the hands of a nonmember, in a location unrelated to a final club and before the victim even participated in a club event. In fact, the club whose event she attended could have been an all-women’s final club. It would be almost impossible to concoct a more meaningless statistic.”
               Not quite. The bogus statistic that either one-in-four, or one-in-five women have been raped or targeted for attempted rape, first asserted in a 1987 Ms. Magazine article, goes to the top of the list.
               Columnist Heather Mac Donald put that stat in  perspective in 2014, noting it was 400 times higher than Detroit’s 2012 combined rate for murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Nonetheless, she wrote, “female applicants are beating down the doors of selective colleges in record numbers.”
               How bogus are Harvard’s sanctions? “A Harvard undergraduate could join the American Nazi party, or could create an off-campus undergraduate chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, without running afoul of the sanctions policy, or any other Harvard student-conduct policy,” the federal suit asserts.
               The real agenda? Harvard wants the power to determine which aspects of freedom of association are “more equal” than others. That the same school eagerly embraced the “minority” bona fides of a certain Harvard professor claiming to be 1/64th to 1/1024th Native American, and claimed that different SAT score standards for prospective students based on factors such as race and sex isn’t discriminatory?
               Is there an off-campus organization for arrogant hypocrites associated with the most overrated college on the planet?  

~The Patriot Post  

https://patriotpost.us/articles/59930?mailing_id=3932&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3932&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 11, 2018 at 3:29pm
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What's Mattis's Plan to Get 
U.S. Out of Afghanistan?
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by Media Editors  
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Meadows: It would be 'an incredible honor' 
to be Trump's chief of staff
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by Andrew O'Reilly  
{foxnews.com} ~ Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., is indicating he is open to becoming the next White House chief of staff following the anticipated departure of John Kelly... Meadows, the chairman of the conservative and highly influential House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill, told Politico in a statement that it would be “an incredible honor” if he was chosen for the post, but acknowledged Trump has a “long list of qualified candidates” to choose from. “Serving as Chief of Staff would be an incredible honor,” Meadows said. “The President has a long list of qualified candidates and I know he'll make the best selection for his administration and for the country.” Meadows’ communication’s director, Ben Williamson, confirmed the statement in a tweet. Meadows’ name has been mentioned on a number of lists speculating who will fill the post vacated by Kelly, the retired Marine general and Department of Homeland Security secretary. The North Carolina lawmaker has been an ardent defender of Trump throughout his presidency. And his nearly six years as a congressman -- including on the House Oversight Committee -- could be helpful to a president investigated by the new House Democratic majority next year...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/meadows-it-would-an-incredible-honor-to-be-be-named-trumps-chief-of-staff
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UN Approves Terror, Torpedoes Peace
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas could not have wished for a better birthday gift than the one with which the United Nations General Assembly presented it last week... In a few days, Hamas will hold a massive celebration in the Gaza Strip to mark its 31st anniversary. Hamas leaders are expected to pass on to their supporters the nice gift the terrorist group has just received from the UN -- a gift that enables them to continue launching rockets at Israel and planning how to kill as many Jews as possible on the way to eliminating Israel and replacing it with an Islamic state. Although a majority of UN member states voted in favor of a US-sponsored resolution condemning the activities of Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, it failed to be adopted at the UN General Assembly. The resolution condemned Hamas for "repeatedly firing rockets into Israel and for inciting violence, thereby putting civilians at risk", and for its use of resources to construct military infrastructure "including tunnels to infiltrate Israel and equipment to launch rockets into civilian areas." Although 87 members voted in favor, and 58 against with 32 abstentions, the resolution failed, because prior to the vote, the General Assembly passed a different resolution requiring a two-thirds majority for endorsing the US-sponsored resolution...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13400/un-approves-terror
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Asylum claims soar 67 percent at U.S. border
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by Stephen Dinan 
{washingtontimes.com} ~ The number of migrants demanding asylum at the U.S. border soared 67 percent in 2018, Homeland Security officials said Monday... swamping an already overloaded system and fueling a testy debate on Capitol Hill over how the government is responding. Both the official border crossings and Border Patrol agents who patrol between the ports of entry reported massive increases, and authorities said the numbers could have been even higher but there’s just not enough space to process and hold people, particularly at the ports. “Migrants may have to need to stay and wait in Mexico until space opens up,” said one official at Customs and Border Protection, who briefed reporters on the new numbers on condition he not be named. “This number would be higher, again, if not for the facility and resource constraints at the ports of entry.” Asylum has become the new soft underbelly of illegal immigration across the border. In fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, nearly 93,000 people — almost a third of migrants who showed up at ports of entry without permission, and 14 percent of those nabbed jumping the border between the crossings — took the first step in claiming asylum...
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Sudden shift in get-Trump talk; 
now it's campaign finance, not Russia
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Prosecutors investigating President Trump made big news Friday, but it wasn't about Russia... Rather, in their sentencing recommendation for fixer Michael Cohen, lawyers with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York wrote that in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, candidate Trump directed Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, who wanted money to keep quiet about sexual dalliances. While such arrangements are legal, prosecutors argued that since the payoffs occurred during the campaign, they were violations of campaign finance laws. Cohen, who is cooperating because prosecutors nailed him for tax evasion and bank fraud in his private business, pleaded guilty to two felony campaign finance violations. So no one has to talk about an "alleged" campaign finance scheme; there's already a guilty plea. But what was really significant about the sentencing memo was that prosecutors specifically said Trump told Cohen to do it. "With respect to both payments, Cohen acted with the intent to influence the 2016 presidential election," prosecutors said. "He acted in coordination with and at the direction of Trump."Those words caused a sudden shift in the debate over investigating the president. What had been a two-year-long conversation about Trump and Russia instantly became a conversation about Trump and campaign finance. "Prosecutors are now implicating the president in at least two felonies," said CNN. "Federal prosecutors in New York say that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to commit two felonies," said NBC's Chuck Todd... You dems are really sick.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-sudden-shift-in-get-trump-talk-now-its-campaign-finance-not-russia?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/10/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief 
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 Federal Judge Opens Discovery Into 
scumbag/liar-Clinton Email Usage
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{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch announced today that, in a ruling excoriating both the U.S. Departments of State and Justice, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ordered both agencies to join Judicial Watch... in submitting a proposed schedule for discovery into whether scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton sought to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a private email system and whether the State Department acted in “bad faith” by failing to disclose knowledge of the email system. The decision comes in a FOIA lawsuit related to the Benghazi terrorist attack. Specially, Lamberth ruled:… the Court ORDERS the parties to meet and confer to plan discovery into (a) whether scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email while Secretary of State was an intentional attempt to evade FOIA; (b) whether the State Department’s attempts to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and (c) whether State has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s requests. Terming scumbag/liar-Clinton’s use of her private email system, “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency,” Lamberth wrote in his MEMORANDUM OPINION:… his President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s State and Justice Departments fell far short. So far short that the court questions, even now, whether they are acting in good faith. Did scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton use her private email as Secretary of State to thwart this lofty goal scumbag/liar-nObama announced standard for transparency? Was the State Department’s attempt to settle this FOIA case in 2014 an effort to avoid searching – and disclosing the existence of – scumbag/liar-Clinton’s missing emails? And has State ever adequately searched for records in this case? At best, State’s attempt to pass-off its deficient search as legally adequate during settlement negotiations was negligence born out of incompetence. At worst, career employees in the State and Justice Departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of scumbag/liar-Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this Court...
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What's Mattis's Plan to Get U.S. Out of Afghanistan?
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by Media Editors:  Does James Mattis really have a plan to get out? Stephen Green leads Scott Ott and Bill Whittle to explore the options.   ~The Patriot Post  
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Lots of Democrats Are Thinking About 2020
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by Media Editors:  Thanks to The Washington Free Beacon for the compilation.  ~The Patriot Post  
 
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Media Makes Bush Funeral About Trump
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by Media Editors:  With repeated insistence that the [funeral of President George H.W. Bush was “not about” President Donald Trump, media talkingheads … made Bush’s funeral about Trump.  
~The Patriot Post  
 
https://patriotpost.us/articles/59920?mailing_id=3932&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3932&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  
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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 11, 2018 at 12:47pm
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Double Take on the Fifth Amendment
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by Robin Smith  
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Going Ballistic: What the Democrats' 
'subpoena cannon' means for Trump
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ With Democrats seizing the House and Republicans keeping the Senate, bills beyond the proverbial post-office-naming will be hard-pressed to make it out of both chambers in the next Congress... The threat President Trump faces from Democrats, then, isn’t legislative obstruction, but the ready-aim-fire of the opposition’s “subpoena cannon.” That’s the term one senior Democratic source used last month in describing to Axios the opposition’s main anti-Trump weapon. Not all of the investigatory weapon’s payload will be fired at once, but the appetite for “resistance” is strong and will tie up significant White House and agency resources. Full disclosure: My wife is a lawyer in the House general counsel’s office, but hasn’t participated in any discussions regarding the Democrats’ plans. In and of itself, there’s nothing wrong with spending time on congressional oversight. Indeed it’s a salutary check, flowing from the “legislative powers” that Article I grants Congress. The Framers assumed Congress would follow the lead of the British House of Commons in questioning executive action. James Wilson, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and future Supreme Court justice, had written that members of parliament were considered “grand inquisitors of the realm. The proudest ministers of the proudest monarchs have trembled at their censures.” Accordingly, George Mason argued at the Convention that members of Congress “must meet frequently to inspect the Conduct of the public offices.” When the first Congress convened in 1789, the House established a select committee to investigate the country’s accounts during the American Revolution, to clear Robert Morris, the superintendent of finances. In 1792, the House authorized a special committee to investigate the military defeat of General Arthur St. Clair. President George Washington ultimately agreed on rules of disclosure that formed the early basis of what we now know as “executive privilege.”...
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Trump's White House chief of staff: Who's 
in the running to replace John Kelly?
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by Kaitlyn Schallhorn 
{foxnews.com} ~ Nick Ayers squashed rumors he could be the next White House chief of staff over the weekend... leaving the question: Who will President Trump pick for the high profile job? Trump announced the departure of John Kelly, one of his first Cabinet picks, last week. “John Kelly will be leaving at the end of the year, we will be announcing who will be taking John's place, it might be on an interim basis, I'll be announcing that over the next day or two,” Trump said of Kelly, the former Homeland Security secretary. Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, was considered to be a shoo-in for the position, but he announced he’s leaving the administration at the end of the year instead. “I am in the process of interviewing some really great people for the position of White House Chief of Staff,” Trump said in a Dec. 9 tweet. “Fake News has been saying with certainty it was Nick Ayers, a spectacular person who will always be with our Make America Great Again agenda. I will be making a decision soon!”...
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Judge Jeanine calls out ‘nonstop personal 
vendetta’ against Trump from dirty 
cop-Mueller’s team, the media
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{dailychristiannews.com} ~ Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller filed sentencing recommendation reports in court on Friday... against both former Trump attorney Michael Cohen and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who’ve run afoul of the law for things entirely unrelated to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign or Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.  Of course, the liberal media seized on the reports as the latest proof that “We’ve got Trump now!” — but Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro saw things differently and excoriated the “Trump-hating” media and dirty cop-Mueller himself for the “personal vendetta” being waged against the president and his associates. In the “Opening Statement” segment of her Saturday Fox News program, Pirro said: “It’s time for the left to fold up their fantasy tents. If they hate Donald Trump so much, maybe they should focus on winning the 2020 election instead of this Russia collusion delusion nonsense that’s been wasting our time, our money and dividing our nation for two years.” She continued: “The nonstop personal vendetta against the president by dirty cop-Mueller and his rabid team of Trump-hating prosecutors, breathlessly reported by the Trump-hating media at every turn, is so intense that they proudly beat their leftist chest any time they issue an indictment against someone, anyone, most are whom are living in Russia and will never be brought to justice here, or anywhere else, for that matter.”...
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Kavanaugh Joins Liberals To Protect 
Pro-Planned Parenthood Ruling
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by Kevin Daley 
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ The Supreme Court declined to review three cases relating to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood at the state level Monday... over a vigorous dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas. The dissent was significant because it indicates that Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the high court’s liberal wing to deny review of a lower court decision that favored the nation’s largest abortion provider.“So what explains the Court’s refusal to do its job here?,” Thomas wrote. “I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named ‘Planned Parenthood.’” “Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty,” Thomas added. “If anything, neutrally applying the law is all the more important when political issues are in the background.” Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch joined the Thomas dissent, meaning there were three votes in favor of taking the case. Since four votes are needed for the Supreme Court to take up a case, the opinion indicates that Chief Justice John Roberts and Kavanaugh joined with the four liberals to deny review...  https://thepoliticalinsider.com/kavanaugh-planned-parenthood/?utm_campaign=TPI_Afternoon_Newsletter_12_10_2018&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
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Republicans introduce new version of end-of-year 
tax bill with an eye toward speedy passage
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ House Republicans have gone back to the drawing board on end-of-year tax legislation... On Monday morning they introduced new legislative text to reform retirement savings, delay scumbag/liar-nObamacare-related taxes, and provide technical corrections to the tax overhaul law they passed last year. If enacted, the bill would also provide tax benefits for communities that have suffered through natural disasters, including last month’s wildfires in California.Much of the legislation, tucked into a separate but unrelated bill to clear its potential path to becoming law, resembles a similar bill introduced by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady R-Texas, two weeks ago. But gone are extensions of tax benefits for various industries, ranging from horse racing to NASCAR to clean energy, as well as text that would call for reform to the Internal Revenue Service. Senate Democrats balked at the tax bill when it was introduced last month. Republicans need several Democrats to support the bill in order to meet the 60 vote threshold to advance legislation and avoid a filibuster in the Senate.
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Double Take on the Fifth Amendment

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by Robin Smith:  A Supreme Court case is getting a great deal of attention in part because it would be contrary to 170 years of precedent and practice. But more attention-getting, it may have an impact upon dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s case involving Paul Manafort in the vastly overreaching special investigation to determine the extent of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

             Oral arguments were heard Thursday in Gamble v U.S. The case involves an Alabama man who was arrested in 2015 for crimes that involved the illegal possession of a handgun. Terrence Gamble, a felon who had already served time in prison for a separate crime, faced both state and federal charges for this second failure to observe laws. The State of Alabama sentenced Gamble to one year in prison while an additional federal charge yielded a 46-month sentence on top of that. Gamble appealed this second sentence to the Eleventh Circuit Court, citing the Fifth Amendment.
               The relevant text states, “nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.” Known more often for “pleading the Fifth” to avoid self-incrimination, the amendment, ratified with the original 10 in 1791, provides protections for citizens to prevent multiple trials for the same charge or offense. Specifically, one accused cannot be retried following an acquittal, following a conviction (without reversal on appeal), or after certain mistrials.
               Gamble’s legal team argues that federalism is permitting the duplication of the conviction and the punishment on the same charge. Yet because American courts have both a state and federal structure, such dual prosecutions are frequent occurrences.
               Each legislated body of law — one federal, the other state — governs the structure of the separate courts, their operations, jurisdictions, codes, regulations, and sentencing, and each is treated as a separated sovereign. Hence, the separate sovereigns doctrine permits the offense, in the case of Gamble, to have been acts against two separate sovereigns. Citing legal precedents in the appeals, in pre-Civil War era rulings the Supreme Court held to the standard of two different offenses. The Court, again, ruled in 1922 in United States v. Lanza that “an act denounced as a crime by both national and state sovereignties is an offense against the peace and dignity of both and may be punished by each.”
               The Wall Street Journal’s analysis of this case further includes Heath v Alabama(1985), which notes, “An offence, in its legal signification, means the transgression of a law. Consequently, when the same act transgresses the laws of two sovereigns, it cannot be truly averred that the offender has been twice punished for the same offence.”
               SCOTUSblog reviewed oral arguments and concluded  that the “majority appears ready to uphold [the] ‘separate sovereigns’ doctrine.” That analysis offered a bit of a play-by-play description of arguments and verbatims of the justices and the arguing attorneys. The conclusion here was pretty simple: It’s doubtful that the 170-year practice and precedent will be overturned. Yet Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Clarence Thomas spoke in favor of a review of the doctrine. Ginsberg has previously suggested a reconsideration of the sovereigns doctrine, while Thomas voiced support of a “fresh examination” of the almost two-centuries-old legal practice.
               Interestingly, all nine of the justices come from Ivy League law schools, where the discussion of double jeopardy is not a new one. Writings such as the Note from The Yale Law Journal, November 2014 edition, strain to separate the question to argue the duplication of punishment: “When the interests of a sovereign state are partially vindicated, the sovereign should be able to impart only as much additional punishment as is necessary to fully vindicate its interests.”
               It’s almost amusing to see the mainstream media and the political Left arguing against the cause of a minority stopped for a traffic violation that resulted in a felony gun charge. Why? Because if the Court holds the current observance of the separate sovereigns doctrine regarding the Alabama man’s case, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for Donald Trump who is likely to face charges by dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s federal team for everything except collusion with the Russians, would still likely face state charges on tax evasion or corporate fraud, despite a possible pardon from Trump. The Left can’t abide that.
               The Supreme Court ruling is expected sometime in 2019. Based on opinions and analysis, it appears highly unlikely that such longstanding precedent would be overturned. Yet it is causing a double take on the Fifth Amendment and yielding some unlikely allies in wishing for a new look at an old doctrine.  ~The Patriot Post  

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