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Acid Attacks, Witchcraft and Britain's Diversity
by Daniel Greenfield 
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Thursday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  Trump saboteur pens NYT op-ed that has Washington abuzz (The New York Times)
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How Bob Woodward went from journalistic goat to hero overnight (Investor’s Business Daily)
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Five takeaways from Day 2 of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing (The Daily Signal)
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Sen. Fein-stein dropped an absurd fake abortion stat during Kavanaugh confirmation hearing (Washington Examiner)
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Nike’s distasteful Colin Kaepernick “Just Do It” ad just dropped early (CBS News)
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Kaepernick campaign created $43 million in buzz for Nike (Bloomberg)
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commie-Sanders introduces bill taxing big corporations for employees’ welfare benefits (National Review)
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Six key moments from social media hearings (The Daily Signal)
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Sessions getting serious about tech company crackdown, will meet with state attorneys general (CNBC)
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The media continue to report the fake news that Trump’s tax cuts blew a big hole in the budget (American Thinker)
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Parkland father shreds Dianne Fein-stein for “radical” anti-gun agenda (The Washington Times)
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Resistance torches Devin Nunes’ family after he dared to expose intel agencies’ collusion with dummycrats-Democrats (The Federalist)
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China warns it will retaliate if U.S. slaps on new tariffs (CNBC)
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Tariffs on steel, aluminum, and lumber blamed for spiking home construction prices (Reason)
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Humor: Senate dummycrats-Democrats vow to impotently shake fists while Kavanaugh is confirmed (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: National security must shift to focus on the slow-burning threats of nation-states, not the flash of a terrorist attack (Washington Examiner)
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Policy: commie-Bernie Sanders is wrong about workers on welfare (Bloomberg Opinion)   
 
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Kavanaugh won't say if a sitting 
president must comply with subpoena
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Supreme Court hopeful Brett Kavanaugh declined to answer Wednesday whether a sitting president can be required to comply with a subpoena... a question dummycrats-Democrats were expected to revisit during this week's confirmation hearings. “As a matter of the canons of judicial independence, I can’t give you an answer on that hypothetical question,” Kavanaugh told Sen. Dianne Fein-stein, D-Calif., the top dummycrats- Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kavanaugh’s views on executive power, including whether a sitting president is required to respond to a subpoena, are expected to be a key part of his confirmation hearing, especially given the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. During Wednesday morning's questions, he cited previous answers from sitting Supreme Court justices who also declined to give their views on hypothetical cases. “I follow the precedent of the nominees who have been here before,” he said. Kavanaugh was also asked specifically about the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 1974 case U.S. v. Nixon, which forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes. President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee called the unanimous decision one of the four “greatest moments in Supreme Court history." The court, he said, “stood up for a moment of judicial independence” during a national crisis. “No one is above the law,” Kavanaugh said of the president...
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dummycrats-Dems Flameout, Kavanaugh 
Shines At Confirmation Hearing 
{ conservativehq.com } ~ Americans who might have been wondering what Congress would be like if dummycrats-Democrats regain the majority in the midterm election got a taste of what government... by the ascendant Far Left “progressive” wing of the dummycrats-Democratic Party would be like during yesterday’s Kavanaugh confirmation hearing and it was downright scary. A veritable Who’s Who of Leftwing radical groups showed-up to disrupt the hearing, shout vulgarities and get thrown out of the hearing room. The “Women’s March” took credit for much of the disruption, tweeting: We're disrupting the Kavanaugh hearings every few minutes, with hundreds of women prepared to get arrested to prevent these hearings from moving forward. And of course, good liberal grifters that they are, they added the obligatory request for money: “Make a donation today to support the brave women organizing to #SaveSCOTUS…” Islamist Linda Sarsour was also there for her turn before the cameras and was promptly removed from the hearing after shouting the hearing was a “travesty of justice.” Other Far Left disrupters were removed for interrupting Senators by shouting “please vote no.” The trash talk got so hot that Judge Kavanaugh’s two young daughters had to be hurriedly escorted from the room after accompanying him into the hearing. Later, the disruptions got so overbearing that dummycrats-Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, a former chairman of the Committee, became so exasperated that he said he didn’t care which side the protesters were on he wasn’t going to stand for the interruptions. But Leahy’s complaints rang a little hollow given that  dummycrats-Democrats actually conspired to put the whole circus in motion...  http://www.conservativehq.com/node/28677
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What if Mueller appointment is 'totally unconstitutional'?
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{ wnd.com } ~ President Trump is hardly alone in suggesting the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller was and remains “totally unconstitutional,” which begs the question... What might happen should a lower court case on the matter ever reach the Supreme Court following the presumed confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh? Just days after Trump fired FBI Director scumbag-James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that grounds existed to appoint a special counsel. In his order appointing Mueller III as special counsel, Rosenstein limited Mueller’s role to leading “the investigation confirmed by then-FBI Director scumbag-James B. Comey in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including … any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a).” That last bit refers to a part of the federal code that says that the jurisdiction of a special counsel is to include “the authority to investigate and prosecute federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, the Special Counsel’s investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses.” Several law scholars have made cogent arguments the appointment was flawed. Lower court cases affirming constitutionality have been questioned, including Steven Calabresi, one of the founders of the Federalist Society and a law professor at Northwestern...
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Trump Issues Weighty Warning to Syria, 
Russia, Iran- ‘Don’t Let That Happen’ 
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ As Syria builds up forces for what is expected to be a battle to obliterate the last major pocket of resistance to the regime of dictator Bashar Assad... President Donald Trump is leading a battalion of American voices warning Syria not to make a mistake it will regret. About 3 million people live in Idlib Province in northern Syria. Russian officials last week said an attack on the region was necessary. Russia and Iran have provided key military aid that has enabled Assad to score military victories over the rebels who have been fighting his government for the past seven years, according to The Hill. “Idlib is the last major stronghold of terrorists who are trying to gamble on the status of the de-escalation zone and hold civilians as human shields and bring the armed formations ready for negotiations with the Syrian government to their knees,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said last week. “So, from all standpoints, this ‘abscess’ has to be liquidated,” he said, according to the Voice of America. Not so fast, Trump  tweeted Tuesday. “President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib Province. The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. Don’t let that happen!” Trump tweeted. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley also sent a warning...  https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-issues-weighty-warning-syria-russia-iran-dont-let-happen/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriottribune&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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California dummycrats-Dem Party Walks 
Back Boycott of Popular Burger Chain

{ themadpatriots.com } ~ “Et tu In-N-Out?” tweeted California dummycrats-Democratic Party head Eric Bauman last weekend. “Tens of thousands of dollars donated to the California Republican Party… it’s time to #Boycott InNOut – let Trump and his cronies support these creeps…perhaps animal style!” In a landscape of dubious left-wing political strategies and objectives, this was one of the most misguided. Bauman’s call for a boycott of the popular California-based burger chain was met with immediate backlash…including from within the dummycrats-Democratic Party. For the first time, dummycrats-Democrats appeared to understand that they don’t actually gain anything from shrinking the party in this bizarre way. For the first time, they seemed to recognize that this “you’re either with us or against us” mentality will eventually lead to a whole bunch of Americans saying, “Yeah, you know what, we’re against you.” It was idiotic from the word go, this aborted attempt at a boycott. This was ten times worse than the backlash against Chick-fil-a and Hobby Lobby, and those were already wretched examples of consumer protest in the first place. But In-N-Out didn’t even do anything! They donated to one of the two major political parties in the state…and that’s all. For that grievous sin, those in search of a tasty burger are supposed to head over to McDonalds? Ridiculous...
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Acid Attacks, Witchcraft and Britain's Diversity
by Daniel Greenfield 


{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ 465 of them occurred in London. Most of the acid attacks are taking place in East London. The borough of Newham tops the acid attacks chart with 85 last year. What’s so special about Newham? 

Nothing the media will tell you. 

Newham has the second highest Muslim percentage population and the lowest native British population in London. Tower Hamlets, which has the highest Muslim population percentage, has the second highest rate of acid attacks. 

None of the two dozen media explainers pretending to explain why London became the world’s acid attack capital have bothered citing that simple statistic. Instead there’s lots of mumbling about poverty, gang violence and the need for household cleaner control. To add on to the failed knife control policy. 

The UK boasts the highest number of recorded acid attacks in the world. It narrowly beats out Bangladesh for the honor only because it has more transparent crime statistics and because a sizable percentage of the population of that Muslim country has relocated to the cozy boroughs of London. 

Bangladeshis are one of the largest populations making up Newham and Tower Hamlets. Add on the Pakistanis, also world champions of acid hurling, and three other countries and minorities who also figure prominently in those areas, and it’s clear that immigration transplanted acid attacks to the UK. 

London has an acid attack problem for the same reason that it has an Islamic terrorism problem. And it has them for the same reasons it has an honor killing problem, a sex grooming gang problem, an FGM problem and a witch problem. 

Yes, witch problem. 

British Department of Education statistics show that there were over 1,400 child abuse cases between 2016 and 2017 based on the belief of the parents that their children were witches or demons. 

Acid attacks in London were up 500% since 2012. And witchcraft and demonic possession child abuse is up 900% since 2011. Those numbers show just how immigration and diversity are transforming the UK. 

In 2012, there was already the one thing that no government could be without in a crisis: an action plan. The “National Action Plan to Tackle Child Abuse linked to Faith or Belief” debuted. It noted that, “Cases of adults inflicting physical violence or emotional harm on children they regard as witches or possessed by evil spirits are known across the world.” Except that they weren’t common in the UK in 500 years. 

The action plan's example was Kristy Bamu, a teenage boy, who was tortured for days, and had his teeth smashed, before being drowned by his sister and brother-in-law for being a witch. 

The Bamus were from the Congo. The murder happened in Newham which has a sizable population of Congolese immigrants. Believing that children are witches is common enough in the Democratic Republic of Congo that there are 50,000 “child witches” living on the streets of Kinshasa. 

How many child witches will there be living on the streets and dying in the flats of London in a decade? 

Despite the British government’s action plan, the number of child abuse witchcraft cases just keeps rising. No amount of action plans can solve a problem whose roots are buried in faith and culture. 

Trying to convince people who believe in witchcraft and demonic possessions that they shouldn’t torture children is as futile as convincing people who believe in the supremacy of Islam not to kill. 

Between 2016 and 2017, not only were there over 1,400 cases of witchcraft child abuse, but there were over 5,300 recorded cases of women and girls who had undergone female genital mutilation. 

33% of the cases had come through Somalia. 88% had come out of Africa. 

Mutilating girls in this fashion is illegal in the UK. But the law is effectively not enforced. The few prosecutions ended in acquittals or dismissals. 

Police reports of FGM cases meanwhile rose from 137 in 2014 to 647 in 2016. A 372% increase. 

Newham, one of the “youngest and most diverse” boroughs, has hundreds of girls estimated to be at risk for FGM. Newham has its own Female Genital Mutilation Prevention Service and the NHS has a special clinic for FGM victims serving women from Waltham Forest, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Redbridge. Newham takes third place for FGM among London’s boroughs. Top honors went to Southwark. Only 57% of the population of Southwark was born in the United Kingdom. 

But between the acid attacks, the witchcraft and the genital mutilation, Newham truly has it all. 

“Honour” based violence, everything from honor killings to FGM to forced marriage, reported to the police rose from 3335 in 2014 to 5105 in 2016. 

What do a 500% rise in acid attacks, a 900% increase in witchcraft child abuse and a 372% rise in FGM police reports have in common? They’re the wages of diversity and demographic change. 

Islamic terrorism is only the most obvious and explosive charge in the clash of cultures. 

FGM, honor killings and witchcraft child abuse, all efforts by traditional cultures to control their children, only increased because of the transition of these immigrant groups to the UK. Like Islamic terrorism, these forms of abuse are a reaction to and rejection of a new society. The difference is that the violence of Islamic terrorism or the Muslim sex grooming gangs are external, directed at the surrounding culture, while torturing and killing your own children is violence directed internally within the community. 

Both types of brutality are a clear statement that an immigrant group feels that its values are threatened by living in the UK and that it seeks to protect those values through violence. 

Diversity is a mechanical talking point in the modern world. A pause inserted into every sentence. A cliché beaten to death in every pamphlet. But diversity not only brings acid attacks, witch torture, Islamic terrorism, honor killings, FGM and a thousand other horrors into the United Kingdom, those horrors are also a response to and a rejection of the same diversity that immigration advocates adore. 

Parents torturing their children and terrorists blowing themselves up in London are not only clear evidence that diversity has failed, they are diverse attacks on diversity by very diverse populations. 

It’s fashionable for the smart set to believe that the majority, white people, hates diversity. But it’s the bombers and stabbers, the torturers and mutilators, who truly hate diversity. And so they have doubled down on the same measures that they used to keep their children in line in their own home countries. 

They don’t want their children turning British and they’re willing to mutilate their genitals, smash out their teeth, run them over, and marry them off at a young age to make certain that they don’t. 

And some of those children grow up convinced that the way to redeem themselves in the eyes of their parents, to prove that, despite all evidence, they haven’t been tainted by British ways, is to run over members of the hated native population in the streets, stab them, shoot them or blow them up. 

Al Qaeda and ISIS have gained so many adherents in Europe and America because diversity is hated. Immigrant populations hate diversity far more than the biggest right wing activist ever could. 

Conservatives make rational arguments against the blind worship of diversity. Muslims fight and die to stop it. Immigrant groups mutilate, abuse and kill their own children out of hatred of diversity. 

Maybe it’s time to listen to those rational arguments. 

Either that or watch another 900%, 500% or 300% spike in honor killings, witchcraft child abuse, acid attacks and genital mutilations. Or the latest round of Islamic terrorist attacks tearing through London. 

Arguments, even the most rational ones, can be ignored. Violence can’t. 

Rational arguments warn of the consequences of stupid behavior. But the consequences are an even better argument. And, unlike arguments, the more you ignore them, the worse the consequences get.

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TheFrontPageCover
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Murders And Land Appropriation Efforts - 
Liberal Heads Explode
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by Scott Morefield
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Sen. Ben Sasse TOTALLY Schools dummycrats-Dems 
Over Their Disruption at Supreme Court Hearings 
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{ eaglerising.com } ~ Nebraska’s Republican Senator Ben Sasse delivered an incredible opening speech shredding the liberals for their obstruction of the American system of appointing judges to the U.S. Supreme Court... Sasse excoriated the dummycrats-Democrats mostly because he rightly sees that all the theatrics against Brett Kavanaugh has nothing at all to do with anything Kavanaugh has said or done. It’s all about the  dummycrats-Democrats  pushing their left-wing agenda and not about confirming a judge. Sasse — not the most reliable of Republicans — hit the nail on the head with this one. Meanwhile, there are reports of some of the other antics over this hearing...  https://eaglerising.com/62124/sen-ben-sasse-totally-schools-democrats-over-their-corrupt-plan-of-disruption-at-supreme-court-hearings/
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Latest Polling Suggests dummycrats-Dems 
Set to take Back House in Midterms 
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{ saraacarter.com } ~ A new report by The Hill claims “signs of a blue wave are increasing,”... citing the latest polls as well as fundraising efforts by the dummycrats-Democrat and Republican parties. According to the publication, recent polling shows “nothing but doom and gloom for the GOP.” Suffolk University, USA Today and TIPP polling all show dummycrats-Democrats leading by 11 points. Reuters/Ipsos and Emerson College polls have dummycrats-Democrats up by 13 points and ABC/Washington Post polls put the party at a 14 point lead. USA Today found that 58 percent of voters would like a dummycrats-Democratic Congress to “stand up to Trump.” Fundraising is also going well for dummycrats-Democrats. The Hill reports, “ dummycrats-Democrats also enjoy a fundraising advantage, one that is perhaps bolstered by polls showing their party is more enthusiastic about turning out to vote this November, figures borne out by the higher turnout in dummycrats-Democratic primary contests in states across the country.” dummycrats- Democrats have raised $621 million for House races this year compared to $470 million for Republicans. dummycrats- Democratic Senate candidates have raised $368 million, compared with $258 million for the Republicans running for those same seats...I really do hope these figures are wrong.  https://saraacarter.com/latest-polling-suggests-democrats-set-to-take-back-house-in-midterms/
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Pro-Abort scumbag/liar-nObama Backer Introduces Kavanaugh:
He’s ‘Best Choice Liberals Could Reasonably Hope For’ 
{ cnsnews.com } ~ Lisa Blatt, a pro-abortion attorney who backed Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and then liar-Hillary Clinton for president... and who says she wished Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had “all nine votes” on the Supreme Court, introduced Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Judiciary Committee yesterday, saying Kavanaugh was the best Supreme Court nominee “liberals could reasonably hope for in these circumstances. “I am also a liberal dummycrats-Democrat and an unapologetic defender of a woman's right to choose,” Blatt told the committee in her introduction of Judge Kavanaugh. “My hero is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for whom I had the great fortune of serving as a law clerk,” she said. “I proudly voted for liar-Hillary Clinton. I voted for President scumbag/liar-nObama twice. And with my apologies, Mr. Chairman, for this one, I wish Senator Fein-stein were chairing this committee. “And yet I am here today to introduce Judge Kavanaugh, and urge the Senate to confirm him as the next associate justice of the Supreme Court,” she said. “Now if it were up to me Justice Ginsburg would have all nine votes but that's not our system and the reality is that the presidency and the Senate are in Republican hands,” Blatt said. “Judge Kavanaugh is the best choice that liberals could reasonably hope for in these circumstances.”...  https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/pro-abort-obama-backer-introduces-kavanaugh-hes-best-choice-liberals?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpnek56TTRObUZpTnprMyIsInQiOiJNYzNqd1wvd0lFYTVvcVdYRktiYkpYdUNTZEZmYzhVbm5hTGFqS28rVlpLWWxDOERYOVVjYUl6dkpSQVYrR21ZZGFBRUVOQXZGQjhGNFZIa1Z5empWV292d0JRQmdneEYraldsZHU5MGU3UVAzaGZ1cU93cFd4eit3alFWcEliRkkifQ%3D%3D
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Brit Hume: The Lesson Of Woodward’s Book About Trump Being 
A Disaster Is That The Never Trump People Were … Wrong? 
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{ hotair.com } ~ Hats off to Brit here, who somehow converts a book-length indictment of Trump’s basic fitness to be president into an indictment of the people who spent the entire 2016 campaign warning... that Trump was unfit to be president. For sheer degree of difficulty, it’s the finest subject-changing knock on NeverTrumpers I’ve ever seen. John quoted WaPo’s summary of Woodward’s book at great length in his post but there are so many jaw-dropping bits that no excerpt can do them justice. You have to read the story. There’s this…And lots, lots more. There’s Gary Cohn stealing trade directives off of Trump’s desk to stop him from signing them, Trump calling his condemnation of white supremacists after Charlottesville the biggest mistake he’d made, John Dowd telling Trump that he did so terribly in their mock interview that he’d end up in prison if he sat for one with Mueller Dowd denies it, of course, and on and on. And yet the lesson, apparently, is that NeverTrumpers are idiots because sporadically they call on people like Mattis or Kelly to resign in protest. Compared to the “fake news!” dismissals that’ll greet the book on Tucker and Hannity tonight, Brit’s spin is next-level. I feel like Ron Burgundy: I’m not even mad. That’s amazing!...  https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09/04/brit-hume-lesson-woodwards-book-trump-disaster-never-trump-people-wrong/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680
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Tucker Carlson Tackles South African Farm 
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by Scott Morefield

{ townhall.com } ~ Tucker Carlson is a man who’s never been afraid of tackling sacred cows, but when the Fox News host waded into the South Africa land appropriation issue last Wednesday night, even he was likely not prepared for the backlash he was about to endure.

Indeed, Carlson’s Wednesday segment calling South African President Cyril Ramaphosa "a racist" and decrying the U.S. State Department’s lackluster response to the spectre of uncompensated land grabs and the ongoing slaughter of mostly white South African farmers brought the ire of all the ‘Usual Suspects,’ including the Anti-Defamation League, Right Wing Watch, the establishment media, liberals of all stripes, and even the South African government itself.

Because if you take umbrage at the targeting of white people because of their race, you must be a “white nationalist,” or something.

But the wailing and gnashing of teeth hit a stratospheric level when President Trump himself, a regular Tucker Carlson Tonight viewer, promised via tweet to look into the issue along with a mention for Carlson and Fox News.

Needless to say, if it hadn’t happened before, liberal heads were definitely exploding all over the place now. And predictably, they played the “R-word” with gusto. 

“White farmers: how a far-right idea was planted in Donald Trump's mind,” read the Guardian headline, as if white people being murdered and displaced is somehow only a “far right” concern. To the Guardian - To paraphrase something my mother said a time or two - If the “far right” were against jumping off bridges, would you be for it?”

“WTF,” tweeted David Rothkopf. “Seriously, WTF.  The president, who doesn't know where South Africa is and wonders when they changed the name from South Shithole is concerned about the appropriation of land from "white farmers"?!  Down deep beneath his racist veneer are many layers of even deeper racism.”

“Cool that Tucker Carlson is acting as direct pathway communicating narratives between white nationalists and the President of the United States,” tweeted Reveal’s Aaron Sankin.

HuffPost’s Jessica Schulberg called Trump’s tweet a “blatant nod to white nationalists in South Africa.”

The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple, who mockingly calls Carlson’s show “White Grievance Tonight,” noted a couple of minor differences in the Fox News host’s Wednesday and Thursday broadcasts, one of which included a stunning revelation by Wemple himself. 

“And whereas Carlson on Wednesday accused Ramaphosa of changing the country’s constitution to facilitate stealing, here’s how he phrased matters on Thursday night: ‘The president of the country, Cyril Ramaphosa, has pledged to change South Africa’s Constitution in order to legalize the seizure of property without compensation. That’s currently being debated in the Parliament in South Africa.’ Sounds like democracy in action.”

Did you catch that last sentence? - “Sounds like democracy in action.”

In other words, The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple is totally cool with “democracy” “acting” to steal people’s land without compensation. 

At least we know where he stands.

There’s plenty more, but you get the picture. Only “white nationalists” and “racists” are against South African farm murders and taking people’s land without compensation, because only “white nationalists” and “racists” would be concerned that the victims this time happen to be white people and seem to be targeted simply because of that one immutable characteristic.

By that logic, should those us concerned when blacks are victimized on the basis of race be considered “black nationalists?”

Carlson himself spoke to the double-standard the next day. 

“As land seizures based on skin color shows, South Africa is once again becoming a place where an entire group of people is targeted for discrimination and violence on the basis of their skin color,” Carlson said on Thursday as he addressed some of the blowback from his previous day’s segment. “We oppose that obviously. It was wrong 25 years ago, it is wrong now.”

"In the west, we punish only the guilty. We do not punish their descendants or everyone with the same hair and eye color ... No one is alleging that the individual farmers in South Africa stole their land, they're saying that people who resemble them, hundreds of years ago did, and that is enough,” he continued. “The elites see no problem with this standpoint, and that should worry you. A lot."

By the logic liberal elites and the South African would-be land grabbers employ, the United States should give all its land back to the descendants of Native Americans. Hell, maybe Israel should find out who the descendants of the Canaanite tribes are so they can give their land back too.

"This is not an appeal to a racial group," Carlson told the Chicago Tribune Friday in an interview. "This is an appeal to universal principles that protect all racial groups that are true regardless of people's color. We don't mete out justice based on what people look like."

The Tribune piece, entitled “Fox's Tucker Carlson stunned by reaction to stories on South Africa,” goes on to paint the issue as a “white nationalist” one alone. But Carlson had a comeback for that too - “Joseph Stalin loved his daughter. I love my daughters. Does that make me a Stalinist? That's such a stupid question I don't know what to say.”

Predictably, none of the media hand-wringers gave the Fox News host a modicum of credit for also opposing Apartheid:

"Everyone in the country understands what these are, they're racial attacks,” Carlson said on his show. “OK say defenders of the South African government in this country, the white South African government also seized land on racial grounds. That is absolutely true, they did do that. And it is one of the reasons so many decent people opposed Apartheid. Apartheid was evil and wrong.”

“Things have changed though,” he added. “Now our elites endorse the idea of a racial spoils system, and that is the scariest part. Our ruling class now believes in collective punishment. That is the opposite of justice."

It’s also the opposite of human decency, given that these vilified “white farmers” generally aren’t out there robbing, raping, murdering, and running drugs. Instead they are, you know, FEEDING the entire freaking country. 

Sadly, people who draw comparisons to Zimbabwe aren’t far off. The Daily Caller’s Chris White reported that country’s similar land confiscation effort “destroyed the country’s once thriving agricultural sector and forced the government to rely on international aid to feed 25 percent of its population,” resulting in a $12 billion decline in agricultural revenue between 2000 and 2009.

None of that will matter to liberals, of course, because to them, the perception of being against murdering white people and taking their land for free is far worse than actual starving black children. 

Though they’ll often defend the land grabs, it’s hard for even a liberal to defend the outright farm murders, at least vocally. So instead they cite reports, like this one by AgriSA, saying farm attacks are “down” to “only” 561 attacks and 47 murders of course, “down” also are the numbers of farmers - you know, what with all the rapes and gruesome murders and all, still making the job of being a South African farmer literally the “most dangerous job in the world.” 

As to exactly how many, DailyMail reports that “none of the figures can be verified because the South African government has refused to release farm murder statistics since 2007. Some of the killings are reported to have been barbaric, with farm owners tortured, raped, burned alive and slaughtered in front of their families.”

But even so, it’s a “conspiracy theory” to say white people are being persecuted,” despite the above evidence ... and the below quote from a prominent South African leader:

“I’m saying to you, we’ve not called for the killing of white people, at least for now. I can’t guarantee the future,” South African politician and leader of the country’s third largest political party Julius Malema told Turkish media earlier this year in a clip played by Carlson. Further, the man who once said he wants to “cut the throat of whiteness” responded with a hearty “"cry babies, cry babies!" when asked if he understood that his statement could be considered a call to genocide.

Move along. There’s nothing to see here, and you’d better shut up. You wouldn’t want someone to call you a “white nationalist,” now would you?
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Texas dummycrats-Democrats' Reckless Call to Decriminalize Illegal Border Crossings
by Hans von Spakovsky  
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Senate lets Kavanaugh hearings continue after brief clash 
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by Alex Pappas
{ foxnews.com } ~ Senate leaders found a way to let Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing continue into the night... after a brief floor clash between Republicans and dummycrats-Democrats. Earlier, Senate  dummycrats- Democratic leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer, D-N.Y., had objected to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s request for the committee to continue meeting after 2 p.m. But McConnell, using a parliamentary maneuver, adjourned the Senate for the day -- because commitees can meet as long as they like when the Senate  is not in session. The clash between the parties came as Kavanaugh, President Trump’s pick to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, appeared for the second day of his confirmation hearing before the  Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s the first day senators have to question Kavanaugh. Senate dummycrats-Democrats grilled Kavanaugh on abortion, guns and other issues Wednesday, getting down to substance after an opening day of partisan fireworks -- even as protesters continued to disrupt his confirmation hearing...
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Why Was Andrew Weissmann Kept 'in the Loop' by Bruce Ohr?
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ A week ago, August 27th, Bruce Ohr, the demoted former Associate Deputy Attorney General, testified before the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees... Among the newsworthy items that emerged, a few stand out. One of course is that his wife Nellie began working for Glenn Simpson's opposition research outfit, Fusion GPS, back in 2015 -- adding fuel to the speculation that she was involved as an FBI contractor in illegally mining NSA databases for information on GOP presidential candidates. Another item, highlighted by Chuck Ross at The Daily Caller, was that Ohr kept a number of FBI and DoJ colleagues "in the loop" regarding his highly irregular contacts with Christopher Steele, the "former" MI6 spook. Specifically: Sources familiar with Ohr’s testimony before the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Ohr informed Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page about his interactions with Steele and Simpson. He also informed Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann about his dossier-related work. Weissmann is now serving as right-hand man to Robert Mueller at the special counsel’s office. It seems to me that the question that needs to be asked is: Why Andrew Weissmann? Why was Ohr keeping Weissmann, who was at the time head of DoJ's Criminal Fraud Section, in the loop on what to all appearances was a Counterintelligence investigation? If Ohr kept Weissmann in the loop out of friendship, that still breaks the first rule of conspiratorial operations: need to know. Unless ... Weissmann was contributing or could potentially contribute something of value to the conspiracy.  What Weissmann's contribution to the Russia hoax might have been is suggested by his previous career...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/why_was_andrew_weissmann_kept_in_the_loop_by_bruce_ohr.html
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dummycrats-Democrats say 
no Republican is “qualified” to hold office
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{ ipatriot.com } ~ Republicans need conservatives who will work well with Trump rather than RINOs like rino-McCain & Co. who work well with dummycrats-Democrats... What do dummycrats- Democrats bring to the table to offer the American people? Sucking the life out of the economy? Inviting foreign invaders to take over? Cursing Republicans as being subhuman bigots? Making America a lowly state in the New World  Order? Warping young ignorant minds with their indoctrination propaganda? Lemmings follow and do as they are told. Intelligent, thinking, morally righteous Americans see through their lies and understand that dummycrats-Democrats are the poison that will kill the Golden Goose. rino-McCain will be sorely missed – by dummycrats-Democrats. The Arizona RINO did more to advance the cause of dummycrats- Democrats than he ever did that of Republicans with Reagan, Bush, or Trump as president. Other RINOs have threatened President Trump if he ousts indolent AG Jeff Sessions who hasn’t lifted a finger against dummycrats-Democrat crimes and sits on his thumb as Trump people are persecuted. The Washington elites are in terror of his installing someone like Trey Gowdy who would go after the corrupt swamp rats like a bloodhound because they know they would be caught in the dragnet. Both senators from the two states of Arizona and Alaska have been fighting Trump tooth and nail to help dummycrats-Democrats obstruct his agenda – betraying their voters in the process. The leftwing media keeps its viewers in the dark about Trump’s achievements and dummycrats-Democrat machinations by telling them what to believe because most are too shallow-minded to investigate the facts for themselves. dummycrats- Democrats do not want to see Trump successfully fill the Supreme Court and lower courts with Constitutionalists as they are the left’s go-to kangaroo courts to overturn law from the bench as Republicans make anti-corruption laws to undo leftism. Their media portrayal of Trump as a despotic tyrant falls on its face with informed viewers... It should read dummycrats-dems are not qualify to hold office.  https://ipatriot.com/democrats-say-no-republican-is-qualified-to-hold-office/
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Russia Opens a New Front in Its 
War Against Ukraine: the Sea of Azov
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ After more than four years of constant combat, the artillery still thunders daily in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region along the 250-mile-long, entrenched frontlines of Europe’s only ongoing land war... There, Ukraine’s military remains locked in combat against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists, foreign mercenaries, and Russian regulars. For years, the physical effects of the war have remained more or less geographically quarantined to the Donbas battlefield. This summer, however, Russian naval forces have stepped up their harassment of Ukrainian merchant vessels in the Sea of Azov, effectively blockading the body of water through which roughly 80 percent of Ukraine’s exports pass. “Russia’s actions to impede maritime transit are further examples of its ongoing campaign to undermine and destabilize Ukraine, as well as its disregard for international norms,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Thursday in a statement. “We call on Russia to cease its harassment of international shipping in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait,” Nauert said...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08/31/russia-opens-a-new-front-in-its-war-against-ukraine-the-sea-of-azov/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1dWaU56a3pOV1poWldJeSIsInQiOiJkZ1U4cUdINDFsaHVXNWJ4RE5hN1N6dkMrU2RxcEppRFYxaDUxZCtNTTlZRWNjTTlPckJJRm5WTExDTStueVRFWk1scVJGUUhoVGdUMDBONmF6dGx0dWdXcmdIQW1Edm5VVEFJcmsrWjkrd2JzUVljU3dORWZJMDVYWE1HMWF4TiJ9 
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Demolish Arab outpost east of Jerusalem 
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{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ The Israeli Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against an illegal Arab outpost built next to an Israeli town east of Jerusalem... giving a green light to the outpost’s demolition. The outpost, Khan al-Ahmar, was built in the 1990s on land belonging to the Israeli town of Kfar Adumim east of Jerusalem. The encampment is home to some 170 Bedouin, who have expanded the community in recent years with the aid of foreign governments. Israeli courts approved the outpost’s demolition, but in July the Supreme Court froze plans to evacuate Khan al-Ahmar, pending an appeal by residents. Israeli security forces had been preparing for the planned demolition, which was set to commence just hours before the court intervened. But on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled against the residents, rejecting their claims and clearing the way for Khan al-Ahmar’s evacuation. “It is feared that there will be large riots and violence during the demolition, especially by non-residents, given the calls on social media to come and take part in violent protests,” Justice Yitzhak Amit said...
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Texas dummycrats-Democrats' Reckless Call to Decriminalize Illegal Border Crossings

by Hans von Spakovsky 

 

When you knowingly cross the border into another country — any country — without permission, that’s a crime, right? Yes, in every country in the world.
               Some aspiring dummycrats-Democratic candidates in Texas want to change that. They think we should decriminalize  unlawful border crossings.
               Others on the left want to go even further. They would essentially gut the power of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).
               Three candidates running for office in Texas have floated a scheme to remove the power of ICE without actually getting rid of the agency, which has been what protesters and even members of Congress have been advocating over the past several months. This includes Representative socialist-Beto O'Rourke (D., Texas), who is running for the U.S. Senate; Lupe Valdez, who is running for governor; and dummycrats-Democratic congressional candidate Veronica Escobar.
               Most people would say that this scheme is reckless and irresponsible — one that, if enacted, would endanger public safety. And the latest report from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) shows why. Perhaps these candidates should read that  report. Certainly, the residents of the Lone Star State should, as they are the ones who have been the victims of crimes by illegal  aliens — crimes such as murder, rape, assault, robbery, and the like.
               The Texas DPS, which includes among its divisions one of the most storied state law-enforcement agencies in America, the Texas Rangers, collected data on all of the illegal aliens booked into Texas jails between June 1, 2011, and July 31, 2018 — more than 175,000.
               Those illegal aliens have been charged with 273,000 criminal offenses. That includes arrests for:

  • 505 homicides;

  • 30,408 assaults;

  • 3,212 sexual assaults;

  • 2,022 sexual offenses;

  • 365 kidnappings;

  • 5,396 burglaries;

  • 1,569 robberies;

  • 34,555 drug charges;

  • 15,100 thefts;

  • 2,754 weapons charges; and

  • 22,213 obstructing-police charges.

Many of these charges are still pending, but these arrests have already resulted in more than 112,000 convictions, including 225 murder convictions, 12,540 assault convictions, 152 kidnapping convictions, 1,567 sexual-assault convictions, and 1,076 sexual-offense convictions.
               The number of crimes committed in Texas by illegal aliens may actually be higher. In total, more than 261,000 aliens were arrested in Texas from 2011 to 2018, of which more than 175,000 were immediately identified as being in the U.S. illegally. However, according to the Texas DPS report, these crime numbers only include aliens who “previously had an encounter” with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “that resulted in their fingerprints being entered into” the department’s “IDENT” database. Aliens who get into the country successfully without being detected by DHS, but who are later arrested by Texas law enforcement for violating a state law, aren’t in the DHS system and “do not appear in these [Texas] counts.” Yikes.
               An additional 10,182 aliens who are in prison in Texas have since been identified as being in the country illegally through investigations conducted by the Texas DPS. They were charged with more than 6,000 criminal offenses, including 81 homicides.
               These numbers also do not include illegal aliens convicted of federal crimes in Texas, such as Gustavo Tijerina-Sandoval. Tijerina-Sandoval, a repeated border-crosser, was convicted in June in a federal prosecution for murdering Javier Vega Jr., a U.S. Border Patrol officer. Vega was on a family fishing trip when he was killed. His father was also shot.
               An additional chilling point is made at the end of the Texas DPS report. The 273,000 criminal charges against more than 175,000 illegal aliens only count the criminal charges lodged between 2011 and 2018 against these aliens. But over the course of their entire criminal careers, these illegal aliens have actually been charged with more than 437,000 criminal offenses, including 969 homicides; 49,422 assaults; 651 kidnappings; 5,282 sexual assaults; and 3,227 sexual offenses.
               The bottom line here is that these crimes, committed against hundreds of thousands of Texans, need not have occurred. We must enhance our border security to make it as difficult as possible for illegals to get across the border; and we must efficiently find and remove criminal aliens who get into the country — and keep them out.
               Instead, we have political candidates, protesters, and members of Congress who want to take away ICE’s authority, provide sanctuaries for criminal illegal aliens, and extinguish the line between legal and illegal aliens.
               How many more families have to suffer losses like those who mourn Mollie Tibbetts, Kate Steinle, and many others before liberals realize that their attitude endangers public safety and causes families all over the country to experience terrible tragedies that could have been avoided?

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/58022?mailing_id=3716&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3716&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Iran, Iraq, and scumbag/liar-nObama 
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by Lewis Morris
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dummycrats-Democrats Manufacture “Gun Control”
Propaganda Moment During Kavanaugh Hearing
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ During the senate confirmation hearing today the full antics of the dummycrats-Democrat political apparatus were on display... One of their choreographed and manufactured moments happened when a man named Fred Guttenberg was staged to shake the hand of Judge Kavanaugh during one of the recess breaks. Fred Guttenberg is one of the parents from the February Parkland High School shooting, a dummycrats-Democrat and a gun control proponent. Judge Brett Kavanaugh, like most of America, had no idea who the guy was who was trying to grab him. It was an entirely staged event put on by Senator Dianne Fein-stein, the dummycrats-Democrat party, and coordinated with prior notification to media to anticipate the moment. Here’s how it was scripted. Yesterday in a revealing tweet Fred Guttenberg admitted to his crisis acting when he announced he had a role to play at the hearing: U.S. Senator Dianne Fein-stein admitted she invited Mr. Guttenberg so he could participate in the carefully scripted  moment: Notice how she didn’t take any opportunity to introduce Judge Kavanaugh to Mr. Guttenberg during her prior meetings with the nominee. Nor did she take any time to introduce Guttenberg to Kavanaugh during her remarks. No, this was a manufactured moment intended to capture a optic for narrative distribution...
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Pentagon Plans to Deploy Space-Based Missiles 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Pentagon is studying the deployment of space-based missiles and new sensors to counter the growing threat of high-speed missile attacks from China and Russia... senior defense officials said Tuesday. Michael Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said a network of 1,000 missile interceptors deployed on satellite launchers, could be built for $20 billion—not at a cost of hundreds of billions as critics of space weapons assert. Griffin, a long-time missile defense expert, said missile threats are increasing and space-based defenses are needed to counter the threats. China has conducted "dozens" of tests of a new hypersonic missile that is designed to strike the United States, he said, and Russia also is moving ahead rapidly in building maneuvering hypersonic missiles...
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Trump Says Conflicted Mueller is Leading an Illegal Investigation
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ President Trump said Tuesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is heading up “an illegal investigation”... rife with conflicts of interest, including for Mueller himself. Trump made the remarks during a wide-ranging exclusive Oval Office interview with The Daily Caller. Asked whether Mueller’s expansive investigation would interfere in the 2018 election, the president dismissed the whole inquiry as “illegal.” “I view it as an illegal investigation. It should have never been started. It should have never been allowed to start. You know, I’m not a target of this investigation, just in case you don’t realize.” That’s also what former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey told Trump  multiple times in early 2017, before the president fired him, prompting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint Mueller as special counsel...  https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/04/trump-mueller-conflicted/
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Man intentionally crashes truck into FOX 4 studios in Dallas, 
starts 'ranting' before arrest, officials say 
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by Travis Fedschun
{ foxnews.com } ~ A man who was upset about an officer-involved shooting intentionally crashed his truck into the side of the studios for FOX 4 in Dallas early Wednesday... before jumping out of the vehicle and started "ranting" before he was arrested, officials said. In a Twitter post, FOX 4 said that after crashing the vehicle in the building, the man got out and "started ranting." Dallas police investigated for several hours to make sure nothing was in a bag left outside, the station reported. No injuries were reported as a result of the incident, which took place just before 7 a.m. ET...  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/05/man-intentionally-crashes-truck-into-fox-4-studios-in-dallas-starts-ranting-station-says.html
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dummycrats-Democrats Make Another Fake 
Scandal Out of Withheld Kavanaugh Docs

{ totalconservative.com } ~ dummycrats-Democrats have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at Brett Kavanaugh to keep him from becoming the next Supreme Court justice... Because they cannot actually attack his professional credentials and because they cannot, by the numbers, actually block his nomination in the Senate, they’ve gone to great lengths to manufacture bizarre, fake  controversies that they hope will somehow catch fire. First they said he was an abortion extremist who would overturn Roe V. Wade, in the hopes they could turn quasi-Republicans like rino-Susan Collins and rino-Lisa Murkowski against him. Then they came up with the absurd reasoning that the Michael Cohen plea deal somehow made Kavanaugh an illegitimate nominee. Hell, through ProPublica, they even tried to get “dirt” on  Kavanaughby having Washington Nationals fans send them pictures of the judge enjoying a game. Not sure what that was supposed to accomplish, but you’ll not be surprised to learn it went nowhere. So anyway, here we are, only a few days before Kavanaugh’s hearing is set to take place, and the dummycrats-Democrats are trying one more time to throw something at the wall in the vain hope that it will stick. This time around, they’re saying that President Trump is thwarting them from getting a full picture of Kavanaugh’s time spent in the Bush White House by withholding 100,000 documents dating to that time. Trump is claiming executive privilege to keep the documents under wraps; the dummycrats-Democrats – led by Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer – say he’s covering for his nominee...These dummycrats-dem are sick people.
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Iran, Iraq, and scumbag/liar-nObama 

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by Lewis Morris:  Recently declassified interrogation reports from a decade ago confirm a greater degree of Iranian involvement in the Iraq War than previously acknowledged.

             Qais al-Khazali, a prominent Shiite politician and militia leader in Iraq, was captured and interrogated by coalition forces in 2007 for his suspected role in the death of five American soldiers. At the time, Khazali revealed that his group and other Iraqi Shiite militias had received training and arms directly from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard. This was during the height of insurrectionist violence targeting U.S. and allied troops in an effort to drive them from Iraq.
               Khazali also revealed information about trips he took to Iran with Moqtada al-Sadr, one of the most powerful militant Shiites in Iraq. He told interrogators that Sadr and several other Iraqi political figures were sympathetic to Iran.
               Khazali’s group won 15 seats in Iraq’s assembly in May. It’s only a sliver of the 329-seat total, but the group’s rapid growth signifies that Iran may be gaining influence in the Iraqi power structure. The Trump administration is currently mulling whether to declare Khazali’s group a terrorist entity. Khazali now claims that he is not connected to Iran, but we have only his word to confirm that.
               These reports further detail Iran’s role in dragging out the  Iraq war and causing the deaths of American troops there. This was part of its long-term strategy to become the premier power in the region, a strategy that was rewarded by our previous president.
               Barack scumbag/liar-nObama began helping Iran’s cause by unilaterally abandoning Iraq. After that, the country spiraled into chaos, the Islamic State rose to power, and much of the hard-fought gains of the U.S. coalition were rolled back. He then rubbed salt in the wound by sending Iran a pallet of $400 million in cash.
               The money, which was in gold, U.S. dollars, Swiss francs, and other currencies, was part of a $1.7 billion settlement over disputed funds from an arms deal dating back before the 1979 Iranian revolution. This payout came “coincidentally” at the same time the U.S. was working to release U.S. citizens held in Iran and trying to put together the Iranian nuclear deal.
               scumbag/liar-nObama vigorously defended his actions and belittled any charge that the money was a ransom payment. When asked why $400 million had to be paid in cash, the State Department insisted that it was the only way to make a payment since Iran and the U.S. do not have any banking ties per U.S. law.
               No matter whether scumbag/liar-nObama’s lackeys at State believed their own excuse about the lack of banking ties, that cash will be used to support terrorist activities. The U.S. will see — or more likely has already seen — that ransom money used against us to kill Americans somewhere in the world.
               President Donald Trump has played a much stronger hand with Iran. By pulling out of the nuclear deal, he signified that the U.S. will not be snowballed or bullied into working with the terrorist state. Unfortunately, a significant amount of damage has already been done by our previous president, leaving Americans and our allies less safe.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58027?mailing_id=3716&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3716&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Wed/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Circling the Wagons for Elizabeth dinky-Warren 
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by Political Editors
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Wednesday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  Three takeaways from Day One of Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight (The Daily Signal)
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Kavanaugh hearings are merely an audition for 2020 dummycrats-Democrats (Washington Examiner)
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scumbag-Durbin admits that dummycrats-Dems oppose Kavanaugh nomination because he is Trump’s pick (CNS News)
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Parkland victim’s dad claims Kavanaugh wouldn’t shake hands but that’s not what happened (The Daily Wire)
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Another dummycrats-Demo upset: Socialist Pressley beats 10-term Rep. Capuano in Boston primary (Yahoo News)
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FBI investigation looms over Florida dummycrats-Democrat gubernatorial candidate socialist-Andrew Gillum (CBS News)
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Trump suggests Woodward is a “ dummycrats-Dem operative” (The Hill)
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Trump responds to Nike (The Daily Caller)
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Nike stock plunges after tapping Kaepernick as “Just Do It” campaign poster boy (PJ Media)
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Health law’s constitutionality is back in focus with GOP lawsuit (The Wall Street Journal)
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Trump flirts with government shutdown that Republicans are racing to avoid (Bloomberg)
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Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl will be rino-John McCain’s successor in the U.S. Senate (AZ Central)
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Mueller will accept some written answers from Trump (The New York Times)
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announces he will not seek reelection (Fox News)
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Amazon is second U.S. company to reach $1 trillion market value (ABC News)
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Google won’t tell Congress if it’s working with China on censored search engine (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Goodbye Facebook? Why some small businesses are quitting the social network (NBC News)
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Oops! The EPA published the Social Security numbers of people who filed FOIA requests (Reason)
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Humor: dummycrats-Democrats demand Kavanaugh submit to DNA test to prove he’s not actually Hitler (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Labor unions can be great institutions again (Washington Examiner)
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Policy: What about “below the fold” regulatory actions? (American Action Forum)   
 
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scumbag-Dick Durbin Admits: dummycrats-Dems Plotted
to Disrupt Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Hearing 
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{ breitbart.com } ~ Sen. scumbag-Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court... that he and other dummycrats-Democrats participated in a conference call on how to disrupt the hearings. scumbag-Durbin was responding to a question by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who cited an NBC News tweet from earlier in the morning that reported that Senate dummycrats-Democrats had planned over the Labor Day weekend to use protests and interruptions. The hearing had already been disrupted several times by protesters — led by the anti-Trump and dummycrats-Democrat-aligned Women’s March, which claimed credit — and several senators also interrupted proceedings with interjections. Sen. Tillis asked: “I’m reviewing a tweet by NBC that said ‘dummycrats-Democrats plotted coordinated protest strategy over the holiday weekend all agreed to disrupt and protest the hearing, sources tell me.’ And, subsequent, ‘ dummycrats-Dem leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer led a phone call, and committee members are executing now.’ So, I just want to be clear: none of the members on this committee participated in that phone call or that strategy before the documents were released yesterday? Are you suggesting that this allegation is false?”... All the sources that I have read the allegation is not - not false.   https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/04/dick-durbin-admits-democrats-plotted-to-disrupt-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-hearing/
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dummycrats-Democrats’ War on Woman Behind Kavanaugh 
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freebeacon.com } ~ A Mexican-American White House lawyer whose grandparents escaped the Holocaust was accused of flashing a white power sign during Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday... Zina Gelman Bash, seen on television directly behind and slightly to the left of Kavanaugh as he faced the Senate Judiciary Committee, was spotted making what appeared to be the "OK" symbol with her right hand resting on her left arm: the index finger touching the thumb with the other three fingers up. Some left-wing Twitter users began circulating images and photos of Bash and accused her of making the sign as a white power move; the idea that the "OK" symbol was a white supremacist symbol was falsely circulated by users of the site 4chan to troll the public last year. Nevertheless, some Twitter users argued Bash was still guilty of a racist gesture... I don't see anything unusual.
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The Senate’s Unremembered Ex-POW
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{ spectator.org } ~ His path to distinguished service in the United States Senate  led through the Naval Academy... aerial combat over hostile territory, and long years of confinement, beatings, and torture in the Hanoi Hilton. He was a man worth remembering. No, his name was not rino-John McCain. Six years before rino-McCain’s election to the Senate, Alabama voters sent retired Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton to Washington’s upper chamber. Both the parallels and the divergences in Denton and rino-McCain’s lives tell something about the last few decades of our political history. Twelve years older than rino-McCain, Denton was born in Mobile in 1924, the same year as George Herbert Walker Bush. After studies at the Jesuits’ Spring Hill College, Denton transferred to Annapolis where in 1946 he graduated in a class that included a young man from Americus, Georgia, named Jimmy Carter. Denton excelled academically, earning a master’s in international relations from George Washington University and winning the Naval War College’s award for best thesis. Diligent in his study of philosophy and history, he was respected as a strategic thinker. Denton, at 41, was one of the oldest active American pilots in Vietnam when his A6A Intruder, leading a squadron of 27 other aircraft, was shot down over North Vietnam in 1965. His friend and contemporary, George H.W. Bush, meanwhile was one of the youngest American pilots in the Second World War. Denton suffered imprisonment for nearly eight years, McCain for nearly six. Both men gained national and international attention for defiant courage during their ordeals...
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“There has been an Air of Violence, Intimidation, and 
Lawlessness at the Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings”
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by Tom Fitton
{ youtube.com } ~ As Tom says in his important video, “There has been an air of violence, intimidation, and lawlessness at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.”... And the assault was led by none other than Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer! Please help Judicial Watch make certain that Judge Kavanaugh gets the respect – and Senate approval -- he deserves.
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Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer on 
Impeaching Trump: ‘The Sooner the Better’
by Mikhael Smits

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Sen. Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer (D., N. Y.) told a Brooklyn crowd Monday he wanted to impeach President Donald Trump, and "the sooner, the better."... Flanked by security and staff holding signs saying "MEET SENATOR CHUCK scumbag/clown-SCHUMER," scumbag/clown-Schumer stopped to speak via megaphone with several people off-camera. In a video of the interaction released Monday, scumbag/clown-Schumer was asked about impeachment and expressed support for the idea: MAN (off camera): "When y'all gonna impeach Trump?" SEN. CHUCK scumbag/clown-SCHUMER: "Sooner the better." MAN: "‘Sooner the better?' That's not answering the question."  scumbag/clown- SCHUMER: "Gotta get a few Republicans [inaudible].  WOMAN (off camera): "We’re trying. We’re voting."  scumbag/clown-SCHUMER: "We’re dummycrats-Democrats. We’re on your side." WOMAN: "So am I."  scumbag/clown-Schumer had been notably quiet on the question of impeachment prior to his unscripted remarks; when asked just last month about prospective reprisal were Trump to pardon former Trump associates Michael Cohen or Paul Manafort, scumbag/clown-Schumer demurred. "I’ve said what I’m gonna say," he said.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi (D., Calif.) had previously resisted calls from the party base to seek impeachment, claiming it was "not a priority."  Before calling Monday for impeachment, scumbag/clown-Schumer had previously used the president’s legal trouble to seek a delay of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, which is underway on Capitol Hill...
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Circling the Wagons for Elizabeth dinky-Warren 
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by Political Editors:  Elizabeth dinky-Warren has long insisted that she is of Native American heritage based on little more than family “lore.” We teased her for it during her first Senate run in 2012, and we most recently rebuked her doubling down on the issue for political race-bait points against Donald Trump.

             Now her fellow tribesmen at The Boston Globe and Harvard — leftists invested in her agenda — have (and to use mixed metaphors) circled the wagons to lend “legitimacy” to her simultaneous claims that this supposed heritage helped advance her career. After six years of stonewalling, Warren released a trove of documents from her academic record to her friends at the Globe. See how transparent she is?
               Dutifully, the Globe’s story, “Ethnicity not a factor in Elizabeth dinky-Warren’s rise in law,” used those documents and interviews with dinky-Warren and her former colleagues in academia to purportedly debunk the “narrative” of her “political enemies.” Yet the story proceeds to admit that she did use her “minority” status for gain in her academic career.
               Essentially, the Globe and her Harvard cronies are splitting hairs. dinky-Warren may not have used her heritage in interviews for jobs, but that’s likely because it might have led to someone disproving the claim, ending her little charade too quickly. But it’s unquestionable that she used it to advance her career.
               “My family is my family, but my background played no role in my getting hired anywhere,” dinky-Warren protested. Well, you know, other than when she played up that “background” while employed at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. The latter, according to the Boston Herald, “prominently touted dinky- Warren’s Native American background … in an effort to bolster their diversity hiring record.” She was also featured as Native American in The Harvard Crimson in 1996.
               This story might be little more than a flash in the pan if dinky-Warren wasn’t still trying to advance her career with such identity politics. And no matter the blood in her veins, the saga speaks poorly of her honesty and character.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58028?mailing_id=3716&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3716&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Will the Split-Roll Property Tax Destroy California?
by Wayne Lusvardi
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Oil Prices Have Been Rising & $4 A Gallon Gasoline 
Would Put Enormous Stress On US Economy
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{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ Thanks to increasing demand and upcoming U.S. sanctions against Iran, oil prices have been rising... and some analysts are forecasting that they will surge even higher in the months ahead.  Unfortunately, that would be very bad news for the U.S.  economy at a time when concerns about a major economic downturn have already been percolating. In recent years, extremely low gasoline prices have been one of the factors that have contributed to a period of relative economic stability in the United States. Because our country is so spread out, we import such a high percentage of our goods, and we are so dependent on foreign oil, our economy is particularly vulnerable to gasoline price shocks. Anyone that lived in the U.S. during the early 1970s can attest to that. If the average price of gasoline rises to $4 a gallon by the end of 2018 that will be really bad news, and if the average price of gasoline were to hit $5 a gallon that would be catastrophic for the economy. Very early on Tuesday, the price of U.S. oil surged past $70 a barrel in anticipation of the approaching hurricane along the Gulf Coast. The following comes from Fox Business… U.S. oil prices rose on Tuesday, breaking past $70 per barrel, after two Gulf of Mexico oil platforms were evacuated in preparation for a hurricane. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $70.05 per barrel at 0353 GMT, up 25 cents, or 0.4 percent from their last settlement. If we stay at about $70 a gallon, that isn’t going to be much of a problem...  https://freedomoutpost.com/oil-prices-have-been-rising-4-a-gallon-gasoline-would-put-enormous-stress-on-us-economy/
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Iran admits: Regime working with scumbag-Soros organization 
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by Gary Willig
{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif said Sunday that the Iranian government has worked closely with billionaire scumbag-George Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) organization... Zarif made the remarks in response to questions raised in the Iranian parliament. According to Zarif, the activity began before he entered his current position, and he boasted that he had succeeded in "keeping the activity organized." OSF has funded a number of far-left organizations in Israel which seek to change the policy of Israel's government. According to NGO Monitor, among the top beneficiaries of OSF funding is Human Rights Watch, which has been criticized for targeting, and falsely libeling, the state of Israel. Another is J Street, which describes itself as “pro-Israel” but has been termed anti-Israel by others for, among other things, welcoming proponents of a boycott on Israel at its national conference and honoring IDF soldiers who refused orders. Another recipient of OSF funding is the Institute for Middle East Understanding, which, NGO-Monitor reports, is headed by staff who have accused Israel of war crimes and have termed Israel an “apartheid state. The extreme-left Israeli group B’Tselem also receives OSF funds. B’Tselem is notorious for publishing one-sided reports, and for inflating Arab civilian casualty figures. For example, the group included hundreds of Hamas policemen in Gaza as “non-combatants,” and counted Sheikh Ahmed Yassin – then the leader of Hamas – as not a definite combatant...
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Massive MS-13 Bust in California
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ “Murder, violent assaults and drug trafficking among charges against alleged MS-13 members,” read the Fresno Bee headline last week... The story got little attention at the national level, despite the gravity and scope of the crimes. According to Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims, the investigation began with 14 homicides in the town of Mendota and in Fresno County between 2015 and 2017. “The homicides are extremely violent in nature,” Mims said in the press conference. “Most as a result of hacking injuries” and knife attacks. Police confiscated seven guns, 57 knives, 10 machetes, and 270 rounds of ammunition. The investigation eventually covered at least 30 homicides in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Houston and New York City. “The investigation uncovered a wide range of criminal activity, including murder, violent assaults and drug trafficking by MS-13 cells operating in and around Mendota and Los Angeles,” U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott told reporters. “MS-13 members were using the remote area of our county as an extension of their larger operation in Los Angeles,” Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp said, “and created a home base to continue to operate their unlawful activities while ingraining themselves in our community.” A full 25 members of the MS-13 gang, ages 18 to 31, face charges for murder, violent assaults and drug trafficking, but it wasn’t just a local or California issue...
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Kavanaugh Hearing Back on Track After 
dummycrats[-Dems’ Attempt to Shut it Down 
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by David G. Savage, Jennifer Haberkorn and Sarah D. Wire
{ libertyheadlines.com } ~ Senate dummycrats-Democrats wasted no time Tuesday in moving to block the confirmation hearingof Brett M.  Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee... refusing to allow Republicans to even introduce the candidate. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) had barely begun his introductory remarks when dummycrats-Democrats on the committee repeatedly interrupted and called for the proceeding to be halted until members had more time to review documents concerning Kavanaugh’s past activities working in the White House for President George W. Bush. The disruption was part of a coordinated plan by the dummycrats-Democrats to disrupt the hearing, as several news organizations reported on Tuesday, including Kasie Hunt of NBC News. “What is the rush?” asked Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker (D-N.J.). “What are we trying to hide?” Most dummycrats-Democratic members of the committee joined in the protest, refusing to allow Grassley to put the hearing back on track. Kavanaugh sat silently, smiling, even as several audience members shouted their support for the dummycrats-Democrats’ protest. Several were removed from the chamber. At one point, Kavanaugh began to introduce his family, but again was interrupted by dummycrats- Democrats. dummycrats-Democrats were responding to the White House’s decision on Monday to withhold about 100,000 documents concerning Kavanaugh’s past work. dummycrats- Democrats had requested millions of pages of documents. More than 40,000 new pages were released shortly before Tuesday’s hearing began. dummycrats-Democrats complained that did not give them enough time to review them. “What is being done here is unprecedented,” says Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the former committee chairman...Every dummycrats-Democrat ‘would be held in contempt of court because this whole process is supposed to be a civil one…’  https://www.libertyheadlines.com/kavanaugh-hearing-democrats-shut-down/
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scumbag-Ellison chased from own event over abuse claims
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{ wnd.com } ~ U.S. Rep. scumbag-Keith Ellison, D-Minn. – the deputy chairman of the dummycrats-Democratic National Committee and a candidate to be the top law-enforcement officer in Minnesota... was confronted at a campaign event by investigative journalist Laura Loomer about domestic-violence allegations brought against him by two women. Loomer pressed  scumbag-Ellison about a 2005 police report filed by Amy Alexander, a dummycrats-Democratic activist, reported the Gateway Pundit blog. Loomer apparently had the police report in hand on Saturday as she followed  scumbag-Ellison, continually asking him to explain the claims in the document in light of his denials. The congressman did not respond to Loomer and instead heading to his car and was driven away. On Aug. 11, a woman named Karen Monahan accused scumbag-Ellison of being physically and verbally abusive towards her.  scumbag-Ellison denied that claim as well, but Monahan responded, “You know you did that to me.”  scumbag-Ellison, a supporter of the Hamas-affiliated Council on American-Islamic Relations, was spotted recently wearing a “No Borders” T-shirt. And he wrote to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos last month demanding the company stop selling books by any author condemned by the extremist Southern Poverty Law Center...
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Will the Split-Roll Property Tax Destroy California?
by Wayne Lusvardi
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Eight hundred fifty thousand signatures have been gathered in California in support of a voter initiative that would supposedly increase property taxes by 2020 for commercial and industrial properties to get around Proposition 13 property tax protections. The initiative would leave small business and residential properties alone. It is called the California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act. But raising property taxes on leased commercial properties would result in lower tax revenues.

What Is Split-Roll Property Tax?

A split roll tax means applying a tax formula for commercial and industrial properties different from the formula applied for residential properties. The tax roll is an official breakdown or list of all the properties to be taxed.

California Proposition 13 protects property-owners from very high or very low re-assessed property values each year by increasing the base value of a property by not-to-exceed 2% per year for inflation. The market value of properties is taxed at a 1% base tax rate and is re-assessed upon re-sale, not each year. Activists want the reassessments pegged to market value appreciation not a fixed 2% each year.

Existing:

Base Market Value: $2,000,000
Base Tax @1%: $20,000/year

Annual Adjustment @2%: $20,400 – 1st year

Annual Adjustment @2%: $20,808 – 2nd year 

Income Property Markets Work Inversely to Taxes

Most policy-makers think higher tax rates result in greater tax revenues. But income-producing property markets work inversely by lowering property values when taxes are increased. This market adjustment process is called by the term "tax capitalization," which means converting the net income of a commercial property into a higher or lower value depending on the change in net income. 

Split Roll Added Tax Estimate Omitted "Tax Capitalization"

The California Legislative Analyst (LAO) has forecast that a split roll property tax would generate $10 billion annually in net additional taxes.

The state Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) was contacted to inquire if its tax revenue estimate considered market capitalization of the higher property tax. Brian Uhler of the LAO stated in an email:

We did review the economic literature on tax capitalization and there is empirical evidence suggesting it occurs in California (for example, here [1] and here [2]) ... tax capitalization likely would reduce commercial market values under a split roll scenario. This would offset somewhat the revenue gains from assessing the properties at market value. But this offsetting effect probably would be minor relative to the size of the revenue gain from market value asset.

The empirical evidence of tax capitalization cited by the LAO deals with non-income-producing single-family residential properties and is thus irrelevant.

Former Alameda county assessment appraiser Charles B. Warren, American Society of Appraisers (ASA), Pleasant Hill, California, stated:

There are four problems with the split roll.
 
1. More taxes > less value for income producing properties.
 
2. Competently valuing properties is a proven challenge for today's assessors see SEC v City of Victorville. Doing actual the revaluation isn't going to happen overnight.
 
3. When implemented, some businesses will simply close. Some will relocate. If some relocate that will create an oversupply of commercial space on the market and higher vacancy rates, which would create a compound decline in commercial property rents and values. Some may find a way to reorganize as non-profits to escape unequal tax burdens e.g., Hobby Lobby, credit unions.
 
4. Even if properly administered, tax assessments will follow the market roller coaster ... down as well as up.  Are the jurisdictions prepared for a shrinking property tax base? In 2008 to 2009, commercial property values declined by about 35% due to the larger economic recession. These wild value swings are what led to the passage of Prop. 13 in the first place in 1978.

Leased Commercial Properties Caught in a Vise

During the first few years of the new proposed law commercial and industrial property leases may not be able to increase rents to pay for the higher property taxes until leases are renewed typically five- to ten-year intervals. Commercial leases have rent stop cap clauses that do not allow rents to exceed monetary inflation. So leased income producing commercial properties would be caught in a vice between higher property taxes and rent caps with the only option being to decrease property values dramatically.

Will Split Roll Tax Increases Exceed 2% per Year?

The new proposed tax is a bet for inflation and property appreciation greater than 2% per year.

Nationwide, Moody's Real Capital Analytics Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI) grew by 5.6% annually from 2001 to 2016, but with three negative years: 2001 (-2.2%), 2008 (-8.5%), and 2009 (-25.6%). How much of the 5.6% per year average annual price appreciation will be reduced by the new added tax is anyone's guess.

Stabilized Market Adjustment:

Base Market Value: $2,000,000
Base Tax @1%: $20,000/year

Annual Adjustment @5.6%: $21,120 – 1st year

Annual Adjustment @5.6%: $22,302 – 2nd year

If annual adjustments are going to be market-based rather than a fixed 2% per year, it would be more workable to adjust assessed values on a ten-year average than on actual up-and-down market changes in value each year.

An example of how increased taxes lower values would be to assume that a property with a current $2-million market value is currently under-assessed at $500,000 due to Prop 13 restrictions. The current taxes at a 1% tax rate of base value would be $5,000 under Prop. 13, but taxes should be $20,000 (1% of $2 million). However, if taxes are increased by $15,000 assuming a 5% cap rate, the resulting value would be $1.7 million, or $300,000 (15%) undervalued. So the state would never achieve their minimum tax.  It would probably fall short by 15%. 

If we can assume that historical commercial property appreciation will average 5.6% per year over ten years, it could take ten years for a commercial property to recover its value. It would take about two to three years before any added taxes could be collected.

If California were seriously interested in raising commercial property taxes, the state would merely lower the existing 2%-per-year inflation adjustment to, say, 1.5%.

A Split Roll Property Tax Would Not Be Equalized

The proposed tax increase would exempt properties of businesses with 50 or fewer employees. According to the California Employment Development Department, as of 2017, there were 58,419 businesses in California with 50 or more employees, constituting only 29.3% of all businesses. So an unequal 30% of all businesses would bear the added tax burden.

And this would apparently leave the commercial properties of California's 268,096 non-profit organizations with total assets of $758 billion and reported total income of $454 billion per year, untouched by the added tax even if they rented space in the same commercial building with taxable businesses.

Split-Roll Property Tax Is Incompetently Designed

California has a history of what is called "perfect storms," where everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Witness the property tax crisis of 1975 that resulted in Proposition 13, the California Energy Crisis of 2001, the State Budget Crisis of 2008 to 2012, or the 2017 Oroville Dam failure. The next crisis may involve the split-roll property tax.

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Bipartisanship or Caving In?
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by Cal Thomas 
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Judge Kavanaugh Hearings Instantly Descend Into Chaos 
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{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ The hearings to confirm future Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh began today, and it’s exactly the kind of pointless showboating you’d expect... There’s essentially a 100% chance that Kavanaugh will be confirmed, so dummycrats-Democrats are merely trying to put as much bureaucracy in front of Republicans as possible to prolong it. dummycrats-Democrats already dumped an unprecedented number of documents on Congressional Republicans prior to the Kavanaugh hearings…. then proceeded to complain as Republicans continued to provide the documents they requested dummycrats- Democrats immediately interrupted Sen. Chuck Grassley’s attempts to merely introduce Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearings, and within an hour of beginning, Kamala Harris was tweeting about why the hearings should be postponed because they’re not “transparent or fair,” as she called to have the  hearing adjourned. And speaking of interruptions, left-wing protesters also interjected at numerous times. Among those arrested included Women’s March leader and Sharia Law enthusiast Linda Sarsour. In total, over 20 people were arrested within the first hour...
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dummycrats-Dems Deploy Alinsky Tactics – Create Chaos, Crisis
During Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings – Children 
Escorted From Chambers Under Armed Guard
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ From the first moment the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing began to confirm Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh... the insane influence of the far-left political apparatus was obvious. As screaming protesters responded to the cues of dummycrats-Democrats on the committee the coordination and optics were transparent. Creating chaos and crisis is a typical Alinsky political strategy to advance left-wing causes. The childish antics, visible rage and unhinged behavior will backfire in a significant manner.  Don’t look away; these crazy ideologues are the people who are trying to win the 2018 election. Imagine if they ever had political power again. Unfortunately, when the hecklers in the audience began screaming out of control, it became unsafe for Judge Kavenaugh’s children to remain in the Senate Chamber. His two young daughters, Margaret (13) and Liza (10), were rushed from the hearing room under armed guard for their safety and protection.  “It was very unpleasant for young children,” said one insider.  More than 22 people have been arrested so far. This is the modern dummycrats-Democrat party. Do not look away.  This is their authentic nature....
CNN Asks socialist-Andrew Gillum How 
He'll Pay For $33 Trillion Plan He Fails Big Time 
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{ dailywire.com } ~ CNN's Dana Bash repeatedly pressed Florida dummycrats-Democratic gubernatorial candidate socialist-Andrew Gillum on Sunday... over his support for a $33 trillion government-run health care system and how he intends to pay for it. "A study earlier this summer from George Mason University estimates that Medicare for all, that plan, would cost the government $33 trillion — with a T — dollars over the next decade, which obviously would require a significant tax increase," Bash said. "Are you ready to tell the people of Florida that they need to pay a lot more in taxes to fund your health care plan?" socialist-Gillum struggled mightily in responding to Bash's question as he tried to deflect from answering the question, saying that the $33 trillion health care program could save the government money. Not satisfied with socialist-Gillum's response, Bash continued to push him over how he plans to pay for the astronomically-expensive program.  socialist-Gillum responded by claiming that Florida couldn't do it alone; taxes would not be raised, and that 700,000 people would be helped, before he claimed that it was a personal issue for him as he claimed that he had a rough childhood. Still unable to answer the question, socialist-Gillum blamed President Donald Trump and Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis for health care being expensive before he finally admitted that he will raise taxes on Florida businesses to pay for his plan...
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Sen. Rand Paul Fights for Life on Senate Floor 
{ americanlibertyreport.com } ~ Hard-charging conservative Sen. Rand Paul recently took fellow Republicans to task in a battle to defund the taxpayer-funded abortion clinics known as Planned Parenthood... In an epic struggle that played out the Senate floor, the Kentucky conservative fought an uphill battle to bring his pro-life amendment to a vote. Senate leadership had blocked the measure over fears it would emerge as a “poison pill” that would hold up spending appropriations for Defense, Education, Labor and other government allocations. Known for holding firm to his convictions, Sen. Paul took to the Senate floor and BLASTED members of his own party. “The dirty little secret is the Republican leadership is blocking my amendment,” Paul reportedly said. “What is more important to these Republicans? Saving lives or spending money?” Sen. Paul has earned a reputation for pulling no punches. He consistently voices the need to stay close to the core conservative values outlined by the GOP. When addressing pro-life concerns, the senator has been a refreshing reality check against abortion forces. Pro-life voters will have an opportunity to make their voices heard at the ballot box come November...
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As Kavanaugh Hearings Loom, One Senate 
dummycrats-Dem Regrets Abolishing Filibuster
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ dummycrats-Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said Sunday that her party should not have invoked the so-called nuclear option... and abolished the legislative filibuster for judicial nominees. The remarks come just before Judge Brett Kavanaugh will appear for confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Republican lawmakers expect Kavanaugh will be confirmed if he acquits himself well at the hearings. “I would’ve liked to see 60 votes, no matter what the judge is,” Klobuchar told NBC. “I don’t think we should’ve made that change, when we look back at it. But it happened because we were so frustrated, because President scumbag/liar-nObama wasn’t able to get his nominees.” But Klobuchar added that neither party is likely to reimpose the filibuster over judicial nominations, since doing so would cede a huge tactical advantage...
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Bipartisanship or Caving In?
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by Cal Thomas

townhall.com } ~ In the days following the death of Sen. rino-John McCain (R-Ariz.), there have been mournful cries lamenting the lack of bipartisanship for which his eulogizers and friends claim he stood.

Dictionary.com defines bipartisan this way: "representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions."

If only.

To dummycrats-Democrats and the left, bipartisanship is when Republicans give in to their demands and vote in favor of their legislation. rino-McCain most famously did that when he first supported scumbag/liar-nObamacare and then cast the deciding vote against its repeal. Many conservatives viewed his vote as payback for President Trump's criticism of him.

Can anyone recall when dummycrats-Democrats exhibited bipartisanship? Has a contemporary dummycrats-Democrat member of Congress voted to preserve human life in the womb at any stage? How many dummycrats-Democrats supported the Trump agenda of lower taxes? How many supported his overturning regulations that hampered business growth? Though both policies appear to be working, dummycrats-Democrats refuse to say so.

Republicans demonstrated more bipartisanship, which some have called "caving in" than dummycrats-Democrats and they have gotten nothing for it, certainly no favorable editorials from major newspapers and their columnists.

Examples abound. Here's just one. In 2015, under the Breitbart.com headline "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Caves, But Majority Leader dinky-Harry Reid, Wants Full Surrender From Speaker John backstabber-Boehner As Well," there was this: "Republican leadership in the Senate is fully caving to the demands of dummycrats-Democratic lawmakers calling for a so-called "clean" Department of Homeland Security funding bill that leaves President scumbag/liar-nObama's executive amnesty intact..."

The several government "shutdowns" caused many Republicans to cave as dummycrats-Democrats and their media allies falsely claimed the elderly would be denied their Social Security checks and national parks would close.

Between the Reagan and Trump administrations, Republicans feared cutting taxes because of dummycrats-Democrat charges they were "insensitive" and hated government. When President George H.W. Bush caved on his promise not to raise taxes in exchange for dummycrats-  Democrats cutting spending, he got nothing for abandoning his supposed "read my lips" pledge.

Throughout the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, Republicans behaved like deer caught in headlights, reluctant to oppose much of what the president wanted for fear of being branded "racists."

Bipartisanship should at the very least mean putting country ahead of self and the public before re-election efforts. That's the ideal, but as I have said before, the only place you will find a politician with convictions these days is in prison.

As long as re-election and donor pandering are the primary concerns of most politicians, there can be no meaningful bipartisanship.

Republicans should focus more on winning the economic, social, foreign policy and political arguments and worry less about whether they are liked. Electoral victory followed by policies that work and promote the general welfare are more important than being praised for a willingness to compromise with a party whose principles so often diverge from theirs.

When rino-McCain ran for president, dummycrats-Democrats didn't praise his bipartisanship. Rep. John Lewis, (D-Ga.), who now praises rino-McCain in death, said during his 2008 campaign that rino-McCain's campaign rallies reminded him of those for the segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace, a dummycrats-Democrat by the way. Lewis later claimed his remarks were "misinterpreted," which is hard to believe, whether you read them in or out of context.

I'm all for getting along with the "other side," but that side has to be willing to meet in the middle and give something in return. dummycrats-Democrats don't do that. Instead, they use the word bipartisan as a weapon, not a tool and too many Republicans have gotten their pockets picked as a result.
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Tues/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCove

TheFrontPageCover
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A historical novel ... that's also hilarious?
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Jon Kyl to finish out rino-John McCain's term
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Former Sen. Jon Kyl is heading back to the Senate to replace the late Sen. rino-John McCain, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said on Tuesday... "I am deeply grateful to Senator Kyl for agreeing to succeed his friend and colleague of so many years. Every single day that Jon Kyl represents #Arizona in the U.S. Senate is a day our state is well-served," Ducey  tweeted.  Kyl, a former three-term senator from Arizona who retired in 2012, had been name-checked as a possibility to fill out the next two years until a special election is held in 2020, according to a GOP official familiar with the move. Kyl's appointment also earned the stamp of approval from Cindy rino-McCain, the late senator's wife. "Jon Kyl is a dear friend of mine and rino-John’s. It’s a great tribute to rino-John that he is prepared to go back into public service to help the state of Arizona," rino-McCain said in a tweet Tuesday afternoon. Kyl is serving as the sherpa for Judge Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court. The confirmation hearings for Kavanaugh began Tuesday morning...
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Iran has Moved Missiles into Iraq and Syria
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{ founderscode.com } ~ Two planes have moved weapons from Iran to Beirut via Damascus. The airline is known as Qeshm Fars Air and is used by both the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as well as al Quds, but led by Qassem Soleimani... The weapons are bound for Hezbollah. Meanwhile, Iran has also been moving missiles to Iraq and Syria. These are short range missiles  which Iran says are for defensive activities. There are two types of missiles. They are the Zelzal Fateh-110 and the Zolfaqar. Both have ranges estimated up to 700 km. That means based on the locations, they can strike both Riyadh and Tel Aviv. This too is being managed by Qassem Soleimani. This is not fully a new condition for Iran as they have been transferring missiles to the Houthis in Yemen where some have been launched at Saudi Arabia. The number of transferred missiles is unknown at this time but it appears the most recent transfer to Iraq is designed to supply Iraq as a forward operating base for Iran. Officials of the West have said that the missiles are being manufactured in al Zafaraniya, which is East of Baghdad. Another location that has been noted is Jurf al Sakhar, north of Kerbala. The al Zafaraniya location is producing warheads using the same operations owned by Saddam Hussein. Shiite engineers have been recruited and hired to make all locations fully operational. So, what does European intelligence have as a response to all of this considering they are still working to stay in the Iran nuclear deal. Not so much it seems...  https://founderscode.com/iran-has-moved-missiles-into-iraq-and-syria/ 
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There Were no FISA Hearings on Warrant to Surveil Page
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Justice with Judge Jeanine” on the Fox News Channel to discuss news that no hearings were conducted regarding the FISA surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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dinky-Warren Exposed After Paper Publishes 
the One Thing She's Been Hiding for Years
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{ redrightvideos.com } ~ The Boston Globe ran the defense for far-left dummycrats-Democrat Elizabeth dinky-Warren this weekend... The far left rag insisted that Harvard University never considered dinky-Warren as Native American in their hiring process. The Boston Globe reported they came to this conclusion after analysis from several interviews and university documents. “Although critics have charged that Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren, D-Mass., has advanced her career with a narrative that she is a distant descendant of Cherokee and Delaware tribes, Harvard University never considered her ethnicity when it hired her as a law professor, according to a report Saturday.” However, the Boston Globe found overwhelming evidence that proves otherwise! The Globe examined hundreds of documents, many of them never before available, and reached out to all 52 of the law professors who are still living and were eligible to be in that Pound Hall room at Harvard Law School. Some are dinky-Warren’s allies. Others are not. Thirty-one agreed to talk to the Globe — including the law professor who was, at the time, in charge of recruiting minority faculty. Most said they were unaware of her claims to Native American heritage and all but one of the 31 said those claims were not discussed as part of her hire. One professor told the Globe he is unsure whether her heritage came up, but is certain that, if it did, it had no bearing on his vote on dinky-Warren’s appointment. dinky-Warren’s political enemies have long pushed a narrative that her unsubstantiated claims of Native American heritage turbocharged her legal career, enabling an unlikely rise from being a commuter college graduate to holding an endowed professorship at the top of the Ivy League...
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Electronic health records blamed for doctor burnout
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{ wnd.com } ~ The Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom charges the scumbag/liar-nObamacare   requirement that doctors use electronic health records... has caused a surge of burnout in the medical profession, explains Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. “The EHR is causing doctors to leave their patients,” said Twila Brase, the president of CCHF and the author of “Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth About Electronic Health Records.” “Congress forced doctors to buy and use computerized record systems to collect and report patient data to the government. And it’s wreaking havoc on their practices and their patients.” A new report in the American Journal of Medicine found that over just three years as scumbag/liar-nObamacare was being implemented, “physician burnout increased significantly, from 45.5 percent to 54.4 percent.” “Parallel studies of all U.S. workers during the same period showed no changes,” the report found. It also said studies “show the doctors spend more face time on their EHRs than with their patients.”...  https://www.wnd.com/2018/09/obama-requirement-blamed-for-doctor-burnout/
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A historical novel ... that's also hilarious?
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by DAVID LIMBAUGH

wnd.com } ~ I want to tell you about one of the funniest books I’ve read in a while. It’s a novel called “Armstrong,” and it imagines that Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Written as a letter to Custer’s wife, Libbie, it is a page-turning adventure that’s genuinely clever and engrossing. There is also a real history to the story, and conservatives will recognize a certain cultural and patriotic conservatism, including a strong affirmation of marriage and America’s military heritage. The book is set at the tail end of Reconstruction and offers, in its own comic way, an ideal of reconciliation that some might find instructive for our times.

The book’s wholesome and redeeming message does not detract from its hilarity. It is anything but preachy and is entertaining throughout as the nonstop action drives the story forward – rapidly. The only thing that slowed me down was my involuntarily pausing every other paragraph while silently laughing at the witty dialogue. There are politically incorrect utterances, but they add an authenticity to the historical setting.

It’s rare to find a book a dad can enjoy and pass on to his teenage children. Sure, there will be some jokes and historical and political references they won’t get, but the story will keep them entertained. They’ll laugh at Custer’s outrageous exploits, and they’ll probably learn something, too. It may even spark in them an interest in the history of this period.

The book has been praised not only by novelists Winston Groom (“Forrest Gump”) and Stephen Coonts (“Flight of the Intruder”) and screenwriter Rob Long (“Cheers”) but by historian Bradley Birzer at Hillsdale College. Birzer wrote in The American Conservative that he “thoroughly enjoyed” this “satirical alternative history,” and he praised the author, H.W. Crocker III, saying that “Crocker knows his history, so his anti-history is knock-down, pain in the stomach, hilarious.” If you like learning history while laughing, you’ll like this book.

Full disclosure: H.W. Harry Crocker is a friend of mine. But I also know him from his history books and novels. I reviewed his first novel, “The Old Limey,” many years ago and noted that it’s “a great book, an absolute gut-buster.” This book is just as good, if not better, because as wild as the story seems and as quixotically fearless as Custer is here depicted, many of the experiences and characteristics Crocker attributes to him are founded in fact.

Custer really was a daring and highly successful cavalry officer. He was indeed the “Boy General” of the Union Army at the age of 23. He attended the wedding of a Confederate officer a friend from West Point during the Civil War. He liked the Southerners he fought against, and he was fond of his Indian scouts. Though a handsome man and a flirt, he was famously devoted to his wife, Libbie which Crocker demonstrates throughout the letter. And I understand that Custer truly did have a remarkable affection for and rapport with dogs, horses and other animals – even if not quite to the exaggerated degree shown in the book.

The Custer character in “Armstrong” is bigger than life – brave, bold and buoyant no matter the circumstances – and the other main characters are equally colorful, including a multilingual Native American scout and Christian convert, an eccentric Southern cardsharp who wears an eye patch decorated with the Confederate battle flag, and a large cast of beautiful women.

Custer’s life is saved by one – Rachel, a white woman held captive by the Sioux, who spirits him off the battlefield. Custer is inducted into their tribe in a hysterical scene – one that explains the eye-catching art of the book’s cover, which has Custer, muscular arms folded, highlighting a tattooed image of his wife, an image put there by the Indians.

Rachel and Custer escape from the Sioux, and through a series of rollicking escapades, he ends up posing as a marshal, Marshal Armstrong, who forms a ragamuffin army of his own to liberate a town from a villain who has enslaved it. But Rachel has designs of her own.

I won’t reveal any more about the plot, but if you grew up watching Westerns on television – or if you missed out on that experience – you will love “Armstrong,” which is pitched as the first in a series of “Custer of the West” novels. I am looking forward to the next one. Humor is hard to pull off for an entire novel, especially one grounded in history, but my friend Harry really delivers in this marvelous satire. One of my favorite books in college was “Don Quixote,” and at least in terms of its endlessly droll dialogue, “Armstrong” is reminiscent of it. I am happy to recommend it to you.
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Political Grandstanding at rino-McCain's Memorial Service 
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by Thomas Gallatin
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Sen. Tina Smith’s Husband 
Has $1 Million in Bermuda Hedge Fund 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Missouri's Claire McCaskill isn't the only dummycrats-Democratic senator up for reelection with money invested in a notorious offshore tax haven... Financial disclosure forms for Minnesota senator Tina Smith, a still little-known lawmaker who inherited her seat last December after Al Franken resigned, reveal an investment valued at between $500,000 and $1 million in a hedge fund based on the island territory of Bermuda, one of the world's most notorious tax havens. The offshore asset is held by her husband, Archie Smith, an independent investor who had a prolific investment career working for various funds—he was once named the Wall Street Journal's stock picker of the year. Smith's financial disclosure reveals a vast investment portfolio valued at up to $12 million, mostly consisting of assets owned by her husband. One of the larger investments on the disclosure is the up to $1 million in "Pine Grove Offshore Fund Exempted Company Class A," which, though described in the filing as a hedge fund based in New Jersey, is actually based in Bermuda, according to its initial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund's most recent filing, from February 2018, shows it remains in Bermuda. The fund declines to disclose the amount of assets under its control...
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This Ex-POW Senator Never Sold Out Conservatives, So 
Media All But Ignored Death Compared to rino-McCain’s 
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Before we begin this article, let’s first address all the objections people who are already firing off emails based on the headline will have... Sen. rino-John McCain deserved to be honored. Many of us at The Western Journal may have disagreed with him or the politicization of his death, but he was a war hero who served his country both in the military and through public service. The funny thing, however, is that the  media never praised rino-McCain’s public service unless it involved selling out conservatives. Other than that, he was considered a far-right-wing racist reactionary  whose choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate brought about a time of populist “shedding and cold rocks.” But, as was pointed out time and time again during the memorial service and funeral, rino-McCain was a POW. That’s what we were honoring — not the fact that rino-McCain occasionally engaged in the kind of “bipartisanship” the media likes, which is the kind in which the compromise involves Republicans doing what dummycrats-Democrats want and dummycrats-Democrats not calling them racist for once. Right? Well, as the  American Spectator pointed out, when another Vietnam POW who went on to serve as a senator died, we didn’t exactly have the Capitol Rotunda affair that we had for rino-McCain. “Six years before rino-McCain’s election to the Senate, Alabama voters sent retired Rear Adm. Jeremiah Denton to Washington’s upper chamber,” Joseph P. Duggan wrote in a piece published Sunday. Denton was in detention longer and had a more distinguished military career before his imprisonment in Vietnam after his A6A Intruder was shot down. “After their release in 1973, Denton and rino-McCain continued naval service. Denton was promoted to rear admiral and served as commandant of the Armed Services Staff College before retiring in 1977. rino-McCain overcame catastrophic injuries and torture to return to the air pilot’s seat. In 1977, the Navy assigned him to Capitol Hill as its liaison (de facto lobbyist) to the Senate,” Duggan wrote...
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Cruz Releases 27-Second Video to 
Expose Beto O’Rouke; It May Seal the Deal for Texas 
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Texas is widely regarded as a solidly red state, even as demographic changes and an influx of West Coast liberals... have transformed certain counties and cities like Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio into blue islands in the vast sea of red. As such, a tight race is shaping up for a Senate seat in the state this midterm election, as incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is fending off a challenge from dummycrats-Democrat Robert “Beto” O’Rourke. The odds are in favor of Cruz prevailing, but the outcome is far from certain. Cruz can’t afford to ignore or overlook O’Rourke and must meet and defeat his challenger head on. In what can only be described as a hilarious bid to remind Texas  voters of their traditional American, conservative and family values, Cruz’s campaign just posted a video to Facebook which highlights O’Rourke’s decidedly non-conservative, non-family-friendly and non-traditional language on the campaign trail. As a caption on the post, Cruz wrote, “A lighthearted reminder: A Labor Day picnic is a great place to bring the kids. A Beto O’Rourke rally? Not so much…” Note: Video contains censored profanity...  https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/cruz-releases-27-second-video-expose-beto-orouke-may-seal-deal-texas/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune
VIDEO:  https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/cruz-releases-27-second-video-expose-beto-orouke-may-seal-deal-texas/?jwsource=twi
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Can Donald Trump Be Subpoenaed?
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{ observer.com } ~ It appears that most legal scholars agree that a president of the United States cannot be indicted while he’s still in office... So, can a sitting president be forced to comply with a subpoena  While Donald Trump has indicated that he would “love to sit down with Robert Mueller” and tell his side of the story, his lawyers have advised against it. Now that Michael Cohen has directly implicated him in alleged campaign violations, Mueller may force Trump’s hand. The question of whether a sitting president can be forced to comply with a subpoena is a complex legal issue. On one side of the debate, Rudy Giuliani maintains that Mueller can’t force Trump to testify. “We don’t have to,” Giuliani told ABC News host George Stephanopoulos. “He’s the President of the United States. We can assert the same privilege as other presidents have.” Giuliani is correct in asserting that Trump is not the first president to face a subpoena. Thomas Jefferson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and liar-Bill Clinton were all asked to testify and/or turn over documents and recordings during the course of legal proceedings while they were in office. However, the law on whether the current president can be forced to meet with criminal investigators is just as murky as whether or not he can be indicted...
http://observer.com/2018/08/can-donald-trump-be-subpoenaed/?utm_campaign=national-politics&utm_content=2018-04-09-14350166&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=channel-national-politics-distribution 
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Judge Jeannine Pirro claims Trump Was Framed
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{ westernjournal.com } ~Judge Jeanine Pirro has been an ardent defender of President Donald Trump during the tumult of his administration... And there’s a good reason for that, according to her — she thinks he’s being “framed.” In an interview Sunday on business magnate John Catsimatidis’ radio show on WNYM-AM, the Fox News host blamed the opposition for trying to obstruct the Trump administration with manufactured controversy. “Nobody is looking at the corruption. It’s all one-sided, the corruption on the part of the  dummycrats-Democrats,” Pirro said, according to The Hill. Listen to the interview here. Pirro’s declaration comes about the 4-minute mark. “This president was framed,” Pirro said. “It’s that simple.” And she wasn’t throwing that word around lightly, either. “The crisscrossing and the incestuous nature of our government in an attempt to prevent the outsider president that we wanted from getting elected is frightening,” she said...
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Political Grandstanding at rino-McCain's Memorial Service 
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by Thomas Gallatin:  On Saturday, the life of rino-John McCain was memorialized. Personally chosen by the senator himself before he died, eulogies were given by the past two presidents, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and George W. Bush. Both men were political opponents who defeated rino-McCain in his two bids for the White House, so the fact that scumbag/liar-nObama and Bush were chosen could have provided a magnanimous moment where petty political grievances were subordinated to the greater importance of paying tribute to an individual who, for better or worse, lived a life of service to the nation he loved.

             But sadly, there was no transcending the immediate  political climate. This included the public slights via non-invitations of both President Donald Trump (granted, who wouldn’t have attended anyway) and, more surprisingly, McCain’s 2008 running mate, Sarah Palin. These were sad expressions of personal bitterness, either by rino-McCain himself or his family, but worse, the needlessly contentious and self-righteous words spoken in rino-McCain’s honor served only to taint the event with the spirit of politicalanimosity.
               It was clear that even though Trump was absent and his name never mentioned, his presence was heavy in the mind of several speakers. scumbag/liar-nObama obviously alluded to Trump when he said, “So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty. Trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. It’s a politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but in fact is born of fear. John called on us to be bigger than that — he called on us to be better than that.
               Bush also took the opportunity to offer not-so-veiled criticisms of Trump, stating, “[rino-John McCain] respected the dignity inherent in every life — a dignity that does not stop at borders and cannot be erased by dictators. Perhaps above all, John detested the abuse of power. He could not abide bigots and swaggering despots. There was something deep inside him that made him stand up for the little guy — to speak for forgotten people in forgotten places. … If we are ever tempted to forget who we are, to grow weary of our cause, rino-John’s voice will always come as a whisper over our shoulder: We are better than this. America is better than this.
               It is profoundly sad for our culture that this funeral remembrance of a public servant’s life boiled down to a myopic focus on grievances with another individual. That such cynical  political grandstanding was approved by so many may signify that our society has lost something far more important than one senator. Who really “wins” in that scenario?

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58014?mailing_id=3714&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3714&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Labor Day and the American Worker 
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by Nate Jackson
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Tuesday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings launch amid partisan fireworks, high stakes for Supreme Court (Fox News)
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Five topics likely to come up as Kavanaugh hearing begins (The Hill)
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Fact check: Trump administration challenges Washington Post Hispanic passport story (The Daily Signal)
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Immigrants, fearing immigration crackdown, drop out of nutrition programs (Politico)
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Illegal aliens who exploited Motor Voter to register in North Carolina still on rolls (The Washington Times)
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U.S. cancels $300 million in aid to Pakistan (CNS News)
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Republicans consider dropping second phase of tax cuts after SALT backlash (Bloomberg)
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Plus 14 — dummycrats-Democrats surge in new midterm election poll (Washington Examiner)
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Nike’s pathetic Colin Kaepernick “Just Do It” campaign (National Review)
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It wasn’t just rino-McCain’s memorial — Left turns Aretha’s funeral into anti-Trump circus (The Resurgent)
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Lexington tourism impacted by Red Hen controversy (Hot Air)
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Chicago’s violent Labor Day weekend leaves at least six dead; more than 1,000 shot since Memorial Day (Fox News)
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Communities push back on “Drag Queen Story Hour” for children (The Daily Wire)
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In-N-Out boycott not happening, California dummycrats-Democrat now says after calling for boycott (Fox News)
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Humor: Socialists gather on Labor Day to protest concept of labor (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Rubio moves the ball forward on paid family leave (National Review)
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Policy: The Internet doesn’t need a fairness doctrine (National Review)   
 
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Left or Liberal?
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{ prageru.com } ~ Tell the average American you’re a liberal and they’ll assume you’re on the political left... Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism like a belief in capitalism and free speech have more in common with conservatism than with the identity politics and racial resentment preached by the left.
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dummycrats-Want to ‘Raid Medicare to Pay for Socialism’ 
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{ breitbart.com } ~ Donald Trump criticized dummycrats-Democratic Socialists on Thursday for promising leftist dreams of universal health care through Medicare.,,  “They  want to raid Medicare to pay for socialism,” Trump said during his rally in Indiana, as the crowd booed.  dummycrats-Democrats like Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders and his endorsed candidates connie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and socialist-Andrew Gillum have joined the fight for universal health care through Medicaid, and the idea polls well in their campaigns. Trump warned that socialism would hurt the economy, citing the political and economic disaster caused by socialist policies. “Somehow I don’t see Indiana being the next Venezuela,” he said. “That’s what would happen too.” Trump warned Republicans that dummycrats-Democrats would run on raising their taxes, shut down coal mines, cutting spending to the military, abolishing ICE, and loosening border security and immigration laws...
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Brett Kavanaugh hearing repeatedly 
interrupted by dummycrats-Dem objections, protests 
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by Alex Pappas and Judson Berger
{ foxnews.com } ~ Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing turned into a political spectacle within moments of Tuesday's kickoff... as top dummycrats-Democrats tried to overtake the session with a rapid-fire string of objections and protesters shouted and screamed from the audience. The chaos led Republican Sen. John Cornyn to remark, "This is the first confirmation hearing subject to mob rule." More than an hour and 15 minutes after the hearing began, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, moved past dummycrats-Democratic attempts to delay and delivered his opening statement, over the  sustained shouts of protesters who were being escorted out of the room. "Judge Kavanaugh is one of the most qualified nominees – if not the most qualified nominee – I have seen," Grassley said. The disruptions continued as lawmakers attempted to make opening statements. Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch struggled to deliver his prepared remarks, as protesters audibly shouted over him...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/04/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-interrupted-by-democratic-senators-protests.html
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Mattis Sets Preconditions for U.S. Troops’ Withdrawal from Syria
by David Adesnik

{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ In a rare press briefing this week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis identified three conditions that must be met before U.S.troops  withdraw from northeast Syria... But those conditions will not be met easily. Tension may arise between the Pentagon’s commitment to a responsible withdrawal and President Trump’s vow to withdraw the troops “very soon.”  Mattis’ first precondition is the defeat of the Islamic State, a point on which he is in full agreement with the president. The secretary’s second, related prerequisite is the training of local forces capable of providing security after the U.S. departure, a subject the president has not addressed. Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who appeared with Mattis, said that training those forces “is going to take some time,” but did not elaborate. Mattis’ final precondition, which may complicate matters, is for the Syrian peace process in Geneva “to start making traction towards solving this war.” Since 2012, the Syrian government and opposition have engaged in talks based on the principles of the Geneva Communique, yet progress remains elusive. That document requires the establishment of a transitional governing body with “full executive powers,” an intolerable demand for the Assad regime. In December 2015, UN Security Council Resolution 2254 confirmed the foundational role of the Geneva Communique while calling for free and fair elections in Syria within 18 months. Then-Secretary of State hanoi-John Kerry called UNSCR 2254 “a milestone because it sets out specific concepts with specific time frames.” None of the resolution’s targets were met, because neither Assad nor his patrons in Tehran and Moscow had any intention to comply...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/david-adesnik-mattis-sets-preconditions-for-us-troops-withdrawal-from-syria/ 
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Mueller, scumbag-Comey, and 
the Deep State Rescue of Sandy Berger
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ In April 2005, a Republican-led Department of Justice did something quite unusual. After catching a dummycrats-Democratic operative stealing and destroying highly relevant classified documents... the DoJ punished him as though he had stolen the Snickers bars from the office vending machine. On October 28, 2005, another curious event took place in those same halls of justice: an allegedly Republican special prosecutor indicted a White House advisor of his own party for a series of process crimes unrelated to the original intent of his investigation. As will become clear, this double injustice not only foreshadowed future injustices, but it also served as a practice run of sorts for the players involved. Several of these players would come center stage once again in the long-running political drama that debuted in 2016. The dummycrats-Democratic operative on that barely warm seat in 2005 was former liar-Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, since deceased. The attorney general at the time, the feckless Alberto Gonzales, had been on the job less than two months when the Berger deal went down. Gonzales’s deputy attorney general, scumbag-James Comey, however, had been on the job for more than a year. It was under scumbag-Comey’s supervision that the DoJ reviewed the case against Berger. It was a doozy...
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Labor Day and the American Worker 
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by Nate Jackson:  Today is Labor Day, and that means the “unofficial” end of summer on a day of celebration of the American worker. The holiday originated in the late 19th century and was born of the labor movement, though many Americans, led by President Grover Cleveland, pushed for and secured a September date to distinguish it from the socialist/communist “International Workers Day,” or “May Day,” on May 1. Labor Daywas made an official federal holiday in 1894.

             In any event, let’s take the opportunity to survey some good things happening in the American economy and for the workers we celebrate.
               Last year, Republicans in Congress passed — without a single dummycrats-Democrat vote — major tax reform, allowing Americans of all stripes to keep more of their own money. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s administration has enacted an aggressive agenda of deregulation. In part as a result of these moves, the economy is now growing at better than 4%, the headline unemployment rate is now below 4% (including record-low unemployment for minorities), and median household income is up more than 4%. It’s no wonder consumer confidence is the highest in two decades and optimism among blue-collar laborers is soaring.
               Yes, we repeatedly highlight those numbers because the mainstream media would rather focus on Trump’s latest tweet or tiff. Why? Because a good economy is bad for dummycrats- Democrats.
               In fact, Trump’s very election is a response to bad   dummycrats-Democrat policy that created the financial crisis of 2008. After eight long years of economic stagnation under Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, liar-Hillary Clinton really didn’t even bother campaigning in the “Rust Belt” and called an awful lot of Americans — the ones most hurt by the scumbag/liar-nObama economy — backwards, pessimistic, and downright “deplorable.” On the other hand, Trump was telling American workers that he remembered them and wanted to help them. That has become a mutually beneficial relationship.
               So keep in mind that things are looking up, and with that, a happy Labor Day to those Americans taking a break from laboring today!

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57999?mailing_id=3714&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3714&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Obama still man of mystery

The very things we still do not know about Obama are frightening.  The things hes done to this country a disgrace.  

What is hidden in the stuff he sealed?  One can only wonder.   His school records, where he was really born; who were his real parents.  

The sham of a man and president he was thank God he is no longer pres of this country w/his apology tours and ignoring of the US constitution.   His disgusting disregard for the separation of powers and what he did to the institutions of this nation.

His ignoring of fed immig law is a/o thing 

just all of it everything he has done yet we still i am sure have not seen all of it.

Yet what of him, the person WHO IS HE?   NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE ; IT WAS ALL HIDDEN AND STILL IS .  MAYBE SOMEDAY WE SHALL FIND OUT. 

THE LIES AND MANIPULATIONS FROM HIM AND HIS PURE HATRED OF AMERICA IS NAUSEATING.   

ONE DAY MAYBE WE WILL KNOW THE REAL OBAMA.   A SCARY THOUGHT

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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Another Judge Targets Christianity, 
Discards Constitution
by ALAN KEYES
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Pirro: At some point, Trump ‘absolutely 
must’ get involved in DOJ investigations 
{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ Pirro began by calling attention to the fact that, for over a year now, Trump, correctly, has allowed the Department of Justice’s investigation into himself to continue unimpeded... and he has done so despite what has been unearthed. To briefly recap, investigators have found that the investigation was prompted by former FBI director scumbag-James Comey who, upon being fired, leaked classified memos of his communications with the president. They found that scumbag-Comey’s successor, Robert Mueller, who continues to head the inquiry, put together a so-called “dream team” consisting mostly of individuals harboring anti-Trump sentiments. This included FBI lovers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, who were let go following the discovery of text messages in which they voiced their anti-Trump bias, although Mueller kept this hidden from the public for some time...
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Lack of FISA court hearings on 
Carter Page warrants sparks fierce debate
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The court overseeing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act didn't hold any hearings on the applications targeting onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page. But does that matter?... According to President Trump's allies, it is a big deal. A bevy of legal experts, some of whom are anti-Trump, disagree. After his conservative watchdog group found out Friday, via a filing in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, that there were no hearings, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said it was"disturbing" that the FISA court "rubber-stamped" the four spy authority warrants on Page. Trump seized on Fitton's complaints, as well as that of former Secret Service agent and Fox News commentator Dan Bongino, quoting them in tweets accusing the Department of Justice and the FBI of being "completely out to lunch" instead of fighting corruption and bending to a "police state." The revelation added to concerns by Republicans aligned with Trump who have condemned the FBI for relying on the Trump dossier, which contained unsubstantiated claims about the president's ties to Russia, in their FISA warrant applications, and for omitting that the dossier had dummycrats-Democratic benefactors...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lack-of-fisa-court-hearings-on-carter-page-warrants-sparks-fierce-debate?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_09/02/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief
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Iran Moving Ballistic Missiles Into Iraq, As Predicted
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{ lidblog.com } ~ Reporting from Reuters, based on sources in Iran, Iraq, and Western intelligence agencies indicate that Iran is providing short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) to Shia militia forces in Iraq... Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shi’ite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in the Middle East and to give it the means to hit regional foes, Iranian, Iraqi and Western sources said. … has transferred short-range ballistic missiles to allies in Iraq over the last few months. Five of the officials said it was helping those groups to start making their own. And it is indeed a disquieting development.  In a post in July 2017, I previewed the likelihood of it in an extended analysis of the Syria-Iraq situation at the time.  I won’t rehash that analysis here, but it provides the background for the following important point about the new Iranian move. This move is not about the twilight status of the “Iran deal,” or JCPOA, as the Reuters article suggests.  It’s about Iran’s geostrategic situation and intentions...  https://lidblog.com/iran-moving-missiles-iraq/
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Trump Will Challenge Mueller’s Conclusions
 With a “Counter-Report”

{ patriotnewsdaily.com } ~ According to President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, the president’s legal team is preparing to create a “counter-report” to refute whatever findings Special Counsel Robert Mueller may present to the Deputy Attorney General, Congress, or the American people... Giuliani still maintains that a report is essentially the furthest that Mueller can go with his investigation; DOJ experts believe that it would not be within Mueller’s authority to indict a sitting president. As such, Giuliani’s “counter-report” would act as a measuring device, seeking to undermine the special counsel’s findings by pointing out the myriad problems with Mueller’s team, the initiation of the Trump/Russia investigation, and the bias of the former FBI director himself. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Giuliani said that at least part of the report would focus on the question of whether the investigation itself was create in a “legitimate” way – a question that has been shrouded in doubt for months. The former New York mayor said that the bulk of the report would be based on open-source information. “I don’t think there’s anything in it that isn’t publicly available in some form or another,” he told the site. “There is no secret grand jury material here…It’ll be our report, put out on personal stationary, and it would be in response to their report. We may have to use it in court or Congress.” The Beast spoke to a retired federal prosecutor named Glenn Kirschner who said “it was highly unusual for a rebuttal report” to be issued in this fashion. “This sounds to me like pure PR nonsense,” he said. “They are making an announcement that they will issue a rebuttal to a report that we don’t know when it is coming out or what it will contain.”...
Congress waits, waits, waits for Sally Yates documents
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ scumbag/liar-nObama appointee Sally Yates was acting attorney general under President Trump for just 10 days — from Jan. 20, 2017 until Jan. 30, 2017 — but by any measure they were consequential days... Even now, two issues from Yates' brief tenure are still of interest to congressional investigators. One was the series of events that led Yates, in charge of the Justice Department, to reject the president's executive order temporarily suspending the admittance into the United States of people from some Muslim nations. The second is Yates' role in the FBI's questioning, apparently on dubious premises, the president's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, four days into the new administration — questioning that ultimately led to Flynn's guilty plea in the Trump-Russia investigation. Both are matters of great public significance and interest — and on both, the Justice Department is refusing to allow the Senate Judiciary Committee access to documents from Yates' time in office. On Feb. 23, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley  wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking for "all emails to, from, copying, or blind-copying Ms. Yates from Jan. 20, 2017, through Jan. 31, 2017." Grassley also asked for all of Yates' other correspondence from that period, plus records of her calls and meetings. The reason Grassley cited — his committee has direct oversight authority over the Justice Department — was that Yates' order to the Justice Department not to defend the president's executive order cost the administration precious time as it prepared to fight the inevitable legal challenges. The Department did not have its facts together when a federal judge in Washington state demanded them, setting the stage for the judge to issue a temporary restraining order ...  
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Another Judge Targets Christianity, 
Discards Constitution
by ALAN KEYES

wnd.com } ~ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; (United States Constitution, Amendment I)

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. (The U.S. Constitution, Amendment IX)

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. (The U.S. Constitution, Amendment X)

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; … nor shall any state … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (The U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV, Section 1)

Judge Denise Casper has ruled against a Christian’s access to a program that routinely hoists privately owned flags over a city building, concluding that other flags are acceptable because they’re not religious. “The city’s policy of excluding non-secular flags is viewpoint neutral because it excludes religion as a subject matter of speech on the flagpole. … The city has permissibly chosen to exclude religion as a subject matter, rather than as one perspective among many on other subjects.” “Judge endorses ban on Christian flag”

There are times when a federal judge’s blatant disregard for the unambiguously plain language of the U.S. Constitution defies all reason and common sense. Because this is an assertion about the Constitution, Americans who are not lawyers much less, constitutional scholars often assume that they are forbidden from using their common sense to criticize some judge’s idiocy. However, the Constitution relies, directly or indirectly, on the reason and common sense of ordinary citizens to perform the most important function of sovereign power, which is to choose the people responsible for its use. American citizens have to make judgments about all the officials in the governments national, state and local who are supposed to represent them.

People often remark on the fact that, in comparison with all the written constitutions subsequently produced, the U.S. Constitution is remarkable for its brevity and, with few exceptions, its use of language readily understood by ordinary folks. Tragically, self-serving elitists determined to impose oligarchic rule on the people of the United States, have encouraged the view that constitutions, laws and other legal documents are simply beyond the purview of untrained minds. They have become, like the arms of medieval knights, totems of power, upon which those uninitiated in the arcane mysteries of the legal profession may only look upon from afar and never presume to touch.

I supposed this is why federal judges like Denise Casper assume their errant nonsense will not be closely scrutinized by members of the sovereign body of the people charged, in their capacity as voters, with overseeing through their elected representatives the use and abuse of government powers derived, according to America’s founding premises, from their consent. In the case we are considering, Judge Casper pretends to treat religious speech as one subject matter and non-religious speech as a matter of various perspectives. Given the great variety of religions, this is a distinction that makes no difference, except to provide cover for blatantly prejudicial discrimination against any and all religious perspectives.

But it also distracts from the most relevant fact, which is that the U.S. Constitution forbids interference with the free exercise of religion. This prohibition applies to religious expression, whether as subject matter or as a matter of perspective. One could argue that this prohibition forbids imposing this or that religious perspective upon conscience, by force of law. But it does not forbid interfering with religion in general as the subject matter of speech. However, when the people of the United States who ratified the Constitution, Christianity was the predominant religion among them. Christ parted from his followers with the command to “Go and teach all nations.” Teaching requires speech. Therefore, the use of speech to share religious subject matter is essential to the free exercise of the Christian religion.

Ages before Americans produced the U.S. Constitution, Christ’s imperative made it right according to God to preach the Christian religion. Christians did so as individuals. But they also did so as communities. Hence the fact that constitutions adopted by the various states before the U.S. Constitution, including that of Massachusetts, referred to God’s authority. More to the point, they implemented the Christian understanding that God’s authority, by his endowment of right, substantiates the meaning of justice i.e., determines its content. Most states referred to this fact in their constitutions, flags and other tokens of sovereign authority. Their power to do so was a matter of unalienable right, endowed by God. It was therefore among the powers not delegated to the United States Congress shall make no law, etc. and therefore “reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people.”

But it was also clear evidence that, before ratification of the U.S. Constitution, Americans possessed the individual right freely to honor God, according to their Christian religious conscience, in speech, writing and other forms of expression. The Ninth Amendment explicitly forbids any construction of the enumeration of rights in the Constitution that denies or disparages the retained and therefore antecedent rights of the people. This immunity from interference this prohibition entails, first attested in the context of the government of the United States, is then affirmed in respect of the states, by the 14th Amendment.

The logic that makes nonsense of Judge Casper’s decision is not rocket science. It is not some arcane mystery fathomable only to legal initiates. It was and is the common sense of the American people, rooted in reverence for the pre-eminence of God. Without which, the whole idea of our self-government as a people has no logically reasonable foundation in principle. Soon and very soon, we must fully awaken to this truth, or it will perish.
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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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THE POISONED CITY
by Anna Clark
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hanoi-Kerry: U.S. Paid a Price for 
Not Enforcing scumbag/liar-nObama’s Red Line in Syria 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Former Secretary of State hanoi-John Kerry said on Sunday that the United States paid a price for not enforcing former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama's red line in Syria... "We paid a price for the way it played out without the red line being enforced by the bombing," hanoi-Kerry said on CBS's "Face the Nation." In 2012, during the early days of the present Syrian civil war, scumbag/liar-nObama drew the now infamous "red line" when he stated the United States would intervene if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on his own people. In the fall of 2013, the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was working with Syrian and Russian leaders to ensure Assad's stockpile of chemical weapons would be turned over and destroyed. A deal was reached, and the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and fellow dummycrats-Democrats applauded the achievement. The agreement was struck a year after scumbag/liar-nObama drew the "red line" but the regime has since been accused multiple times by the United Nations and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) of using chemical weapons. Despite not enforcing the red line, hanoi-Kerry said the scumbag/liar-nObama administration completed it's objective by removing chemical weapons from Syria... That is completely bull, he should of acted but didn't.  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/kerry-u-s-paid-price-not-enforcing-obamas-red-line-syria/
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Progressives: The Real World vs. Neverland
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ "Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child," Cicero astutely observed. For many self-described progressives today, however, this seems not to be a drawback... On the contrary, like adolescents -- insisting that they are grown-ups when their parents get in the way of their fun, but then running home for all their basic needs and creature comforts -- such people seem to give no thought to the past and equally little to the future. Many people like this are said to suffer from a "Peter Pan Syndrome": the inability or unwillingness to grow up. In thought, they seem to lean to the political left. They  want the government to take on the role of parent, even if that involves maxing out the country's "credit cards," so that even for a short time, they can live beyond what they earn. Possibly in a hurry not to concern themselves with "dreary details," they pressed for a huge health-care bill, passed in 2010, that forever changed how we receive − or do not receive − medical care. It seems the details of the bill were too time-consuming and complex for the world of tweets and sound bites for them to pay attention to what it actually contained. When the bill was being debated, former House Speaker Nancy Pulosi famously said, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."...
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Federal Judge Will Continue Accepting DACA 
Applications Despite Believing The Program Is Illegal
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ A federal judge in Texas announced Friday that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program can continue to accept applications... and operate as written despite it likely violating federal law. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen rejected the request by seven states to issue an injunction and promptly discontinue the DACA program. Hanen asserted that while he understands the program is presumably unlawful and will ultimately be struck down if challenged in his own court, he kept DACA in place as the appeal continues, reported CNN. “Here, the egg has been scrambled,” Hanen wrote. “To try to put it back in the shell with only a preliminary injunction record, and perhaps at great risk to many, does not make sense nor serve the best interest of this country.” The states – Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia – filed the lawsuit arguing that DACA could only be established by the legislative branch and by circumventing congress, the program was thereby unconstitutional, according to The Washington Post...
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Senate Republicans arm in arm with 
Trump as midterm elections enter homestretch
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Senate Republicans head into the homestretch of a promising midterm election campaign arm in arm with President Trump... a mutually beneficial alliance that was hardly predictable at this time last year. Last Labor Day, tensions flared over the collapse of legislation to repeal scumbag/liar-nObamacare and emotions were raw in the aftermath of a white supremacist march on Charlottesville, Va., with charges and counter-charges flying from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other. Fast-forward 12 months: the infighting has largely ceased, as have the public airing of grievances. The president and his Senate allies have put lingering differences aside to focus on expanding their party’s slim, 50-seat majority. A string of shared accomplishments, plus a 2018 battleground that runs right through the heart of Trump country, have helped keep afloat this once-unlikely détente. “Results matter,” Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., a Trump confidant, told the Washington Examiner. “His agenda’s working.”...
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Lanny Davis Tries to Explain Why 
Giddy CNN Journalists Ran With His False Story
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ CNN is still refusing to retract its false story about Donald Trump and the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Fusion-GPS sponsored Russians... even as the source of the story, Lanny Davis, continues to explain how he misled the network. The basic issue is that CNN was so hungry to push a narrative, they were willing to promote Davis’s demonstrably false rumor and innuendo as fact; and mislead their audience about the entire construct of their spin.  Embarrassing Bananas.
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THE POISONED CITY
by Anna Clark

us.macmillan.com } ~ On a hot day in the summer of 2014, in the Civic Park neighborhood where Pastor R. Sherman McCathern preached in Flint, Michigan, water rushed out of a couple of fire hydrants. Puddles formed on the dry grass and splashed the skin of the delighted kids who ran through it. But the spray looked strange. “The water was coming out, dark as coffee, for hours,” McCathern remembered. The shock of it caught in his throat. “Something is wronghere.”

Something had been wrong for months. That spring, Flint, under direction from state officials, turned off the drinking water that it had relied upon for nearly fifty years. The city planned to join a new regional system called the Karegnondi Water Authority, and while it waited for the KWA to be built, it began bringing in its water from the Flint River. McCathern didn’t pay much attention to the politicking around all this; he had enough to worry about at his busy parish. But after the switch, many of his neighbors grew alarmed at the water that flowed from their kitchen faucets and shower heads. They packed public meetings, wrote questioning letters, and protested at city hall. They filled clear plastic bottles from their taps to show how the water looked brown, or orange, and sometimes had particulates floating in it. Showering seemed to be connected with skin rashes and hair loss. The water smelled foul. A sip of it put the taste of a cold metal coin on your tongue.

But the authorities “said everything was all right and you could drink it, so people did,” McCathern said later.1 Residents were advised to run their faucets for a few minutes before using the water to get a clean flow. As the months went by, the city plant tinkered with treatment and issued a few boil-water advisories. State environmental officials said again and again that there was nothing to worry about. The water was fine.

Whatever their senses told them, whatever the whispers around town, whatever Flint’s troubled history with powerful institutions telling them what was best for them, this wasn’t actually hard for people like McCathern to believe. Public water systems are one of this country’s most heroic accomplishments, a feat so successful that it is almost invisible. By making it a commonplace for clean water to be delivered to homes, businesses, and schools, we have saved untold lives from what today sound like antiquated diseases in a Charles Dickens novel: cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever. Here in Flint, it was instrumental in turning General Motors—founded in 1908 in Vehicle City, as the town was known—into a global economic giant. The advancing underground network of pipes defined the growing city and its metropolitan region, which boasted of being home to one of the strongest middle classes in the country.

McCathern is a tall, bald man with a thin mustache and a scratchy rasp in his baritone voice. At the time of the water switch, he had led the nondenominational Joy Tabernacle Church for about fifteen years. It was founded in the YWCA in downtown Flint, where it held baptisms in the swimming pool. But in 2009, it made a home in Civic Park, when a Presbyterian church closed after eighty-five years and gave its sanctuary over to the young and hopeful congregation.

By then, Civic Park, one of America’s oldest subdivisions, was “a desert of deserted historically significant homes,” the pastor said. Built between 1917 and 1919 by General Motors and DuPont and Company along curving, tree-lined boulevards, the tidy houses were designed for Flint’s autoworkers and their families. But over the years, the neighborhood was blighted by vacancy. Empty two-stories with lurching front porches and crumbling roofs sat alongside crisply painted homes where Flint residents—they sometimes call themselves “Flintoids” or “Flintstones”—still lived their lives. When the sound of gunshots on the street outside interrupted services, McCathern gave a nod to the church musicians, urging them to play louder. Some called Joy Tabernacle a “thug church,” he said, but McCathern saw the good. The young men filling his pews built a proud society, if not by getting their names on the honor roll, then by tagging their names with spray paint. In the end, people just want to be seen.

The ghosts of the past went well beyond Civic Park. Between General Motors and the United Auto Workers (which won the right to collectively bargain in Flint’s sit-down strike in the 1930s), the city had been a flourishing hub for American innovation. There were more than a hundred different manufacturing establishments in town—ten of them employed at least a thousand people—and they made not only automobiles, but paints, varnishes, tools, dies, cotton textiles, and a wealth of other products.5 Flint had one of the highest per capita incomes in the nation and, despite being severely segregated, it was a magnet for African American migrants from the South. When Vice President Hubert Humphrey stopped by during the campaign for the 1964 presidential election, he praised Flint for “zooming ahead with unbelievable economic growth and progress.” Workers earned wages that “are very good,” Humphrey said, “and because of the great labor management program in this community over many years, there has been a constant rise in the standard of living.”

Away from the assembly lines and the executive suites, the people of Flint felt that the city shouldn’t just be a place to work; it should also be a place to thrive. Charles Stewart Mott, an auto pioneer who became GM’s largest single stockholder and a three-term mayor, created a nationally renowned community schools program that provided education, skills-building workshops, and social services. His influence is still felt through the C. S. Mott Foundation, a philanthropic power broker headquartered in the city. The Parks Department had a robust Forestry Division that cultivated a beautiful thicket of willow, oak, and elm trees along the avenues. The Michigan School for the Deaf expanded into new buildings that served hundreds of students from around the state. And on a green campus just east of downtown, the city invested in its cultural life by developing the Flint Symphony Orchestra, as well as a state-of-the-art stage and auditorium, schools for both the performing arts and visual arts, a youth theater, a sunny public library, museums of local history and classic cars, the largest planetarium in the state, and the sweeping Flint Institute of Arts, which lined its galleries with everything from Matisse paintings to Lichtenstein silk screens to carved African masks.

But in the latter part of the twentieth century, GM closed most of its plants in the city and eliminated almost all the local auto jobs. Smaller companies followed suit or simply shut down for good. Between 1998 and 2013 alone, nearly 150 of them exited the downtown area. With the shuttered businesses came the shuttered houses and schools. More than half the population, which had reached a high point of nearly two hundred thousand in 1960, disappeared. Some twenty-two thousand left between 2000 and 2010, an 18 percent drop in just ten years, and the fourth-largest population loss in the country, behind only Detroit, New Orleans—which had suffered Hurricane Katrina—and Gary, Indiana. Not long later, Flint’s population plunged below a hundred thousand for the first time since 1920. The empty structures they left behind were both disheartening and dangerous, not only because they were prone to break-ins and fires, but also because they literally crumbled onto the sidewalks where people passed by. At the same time, the Flint metro region—that is, the suburbs—grew exponentially. It was a widening circle of wealth with a deteriorating center.

With so much lost, Flint needed help. An emergency plan. A large-scale intervention of some kind. But not only was there no hope of a bailout—of the kind given to the auto industry and Wall Street banks in 2008 and 2009—the State of Michigan exacerbated Flint’s woes by dramatically reducing the money that it funneled to its cities. In a practice called revenue sharing, the state redistributes a portion of the money it collects in sales taxes to local governments. That plus property taxes are what cities use to pay for public services. But between 1998 and 2016, Michigan diverted more than $5.5 billion that would ordinarily go to places such as Flint to power streetlights, mow parks, and plow snow. Instead, the state used the money to plug holes in its own budget. This was highly unusual. As Michigan made cuts, forty-five other states managed to increase revenue sharing to their cities by an average of 48 percent, despite a national economic downturn that affected everyone. Among the five states where revenue sharing declined, Michigan slashed more than any other, by far. For Flint, this translated into a loss of about $55 million between 2002 and 2014. That amount would have been more than enough to eliminate the city’s deficit, pay off its debt, and still have a surplus. But the money never came, and, at the same time, Flint was thumped with the Great Recession, the mortgage crisis, a major restructuring of the auto industry, and a crippling drop in tax revenue.

If you wanted to kill a city, that is the recipe. And yet Flint was very much alive. In 2014, the year of the switch to a new source of drinking water, it was the seventh-largest city in the state. On weekdays, its population swelled as people commuted into town for work in the county government, the region’s major medical centers, four college campuses, and other economic anchors. For all the empty space, teens in shining dresses still posed for prom photos in the middle of Saginaw Street, the bumpy brick road that is Flint’s main thoroughfare. Parents still led their children by the hand into the public library for Saturday story time. Older gentlemen lingered at the counter of one of Flint’s ubiquitous Coney Island diners, and the waitresses at Grandma’s Kitchen on Richfield Road kept the coffee flowing. For about ninety-nine thousand people, Flint was home.

And they did what they could to fill the gaps. When Pastor Sherman McCathern and his congregation at Joy Tabernacle realized that Civic Park was not on anyone’s list of priorities, they launched their own programs to fix up the neighborhood. They covered over the vacant windows and doors “to take the abandonment look away,” helping people to imagine what a healthy Civic Park could look like. They paid young men to mow lawns and board up empty homes. People who never dreamed of owning a place of their own moved into some of the left-behind houses. The church created the Urban Renaissance Center to serve as a social ministry for single parents, seniors, ex-offenders, recovering substance abusers, and anyone else who walked in the door. In its vision for Flint, they adopted President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s campaign slogan, which itself was an adaptation of an old union worker chant: “Yes, we can!” Inspired by these efforts, local institutions such as the University of Michigan’s Flint campus and Habitat for Humanity started to work alongside the church. “The community was at one time totally ignored by everybody,” McCathern said. “But because young people stood up, now everybody came on board.” You could feel a shift in the momentum. You could see the change. “It was a different Flint that was coming.”

But on that sweltering summer day, there was that water pouring out of the fire hydrant, as children sprinted back and forth through its spray. Dark as coffee.

This is the story of how the City of Flint was poisoned by its own water. It was not because of a natural disaster, or simple negligence, or even because some corner-cutting company was blinded by profit. Instead, a disastrous choice to break a crucial environmental law, followed by eighteen months of delay and cover-up by the city, state, and federal governments, put a staggering number of citizens in peril.

Their drinking water, it turned out, was full of lead and other toxins. No amount of lead exposure is safe. There is no known cure for lead poisoning. The threat invaded the most intimate spaces of people’s lives: their bodies, their homes, their meals, the baths they gave their children, the formula they fed their babies. Yet it will be years before we can fully assess the effect of lead exposure on a whole generation of children. We must wait for them to grow up and see.

The tainted water also triggered an outbreak of deadly Legionnaires’ disease, a severe form of pneumonia caused by waterborne bacteria that can be contracted by inhaling tiny droplets. And, according to one research team, the water switch correlated with a serious drop in fertility for women in Flint and a 58 percent increase in fetal deaths. In an echo of how women once ingested lead to control their reproduction, an estimated 275 fewer children were born than expected during the emergency.

When residents noticed that there was something odd about their water, they asked for help. But they were routinely dismissed. Among the many ravages attributed to the water crisis—the rashes, the hair loss, the ruined plumbing and pipes, the devalued homes, the diminished businesses, the homeowners who left the city once and for all, the children poisoned by lead, the people sickened or killed by Legionnaires’ disease—the lost faith in those who were supposed to be working for the common good was among the most devastating. That this happened in the Great Lakes State, which is surrounded by one fifth of all the freshwater on the face of the Earth, makes it all the more haunting.

Fifty years ago, civil unrest tore through American cities—Flint included—and revealed how inequality was built into their very foundations. It cued a national reflection from which the Kerner Report emerged, a six-volume investigation into the riots of the 1960s by a bipartisan presidential commission. With passion, the Kerner Reporturged the country to recommit to its cities and to rebuild them as places of opportunity. “These programs will require unprecedented levels of funding and performance,” the authoring commission wrote, “but they neither probe deeper nor demand more than the problems which called them forth. There can be no higher priority for national action and no higher claim on the Nation’s conscience.” Avoiding the issue, it warned, was itself a choice. And it was one that would send cities on a downward spiral.

That’s exactly what happened. After decades of negligence by both public and private actors, the well-being of residents in twenty-first-century Flint sat atop a teetering tower of debt, dysfunctional urban policy, disappearing investment, disintegrating infrastructure, and a compromised democratic process. It didn’t take much to tip the city into catastrophe.

Flint was not alone. Thousands of communities across the country are in a similarly precarious situation. From Akron to Albany, South Bend to St. Louis, Baltimore to Buffalo, Flint is just one of a large class of shrinking cities. Once among America’s finest communities, they have been hollowed out by generations of public policy that incentivized suburban living. The subsidized freeways, shopping malls, and segregated real estate all contributed to an outmigration of mostly middle- and upper-class people—white folks first, and then, more recently, African Americans and other communities of color. The cities they left are pressured to cut spending at all costs while at the same time maintaining the services and infrastructure designed for a much larger population. It is impossible. There isn’t enough money to fix a broken window at city hall, and there certainly isn’t enough to upgrade the aging lead-laced water infrastructure.

The Flint water crisis illustrates how the challenges in America’s shrinking cities are not a crisis of local leadership—or, at least, not solely that—but a crisis of systems. Paternalism, even if it is well meaning, cannot transcend the political, economic, and social obstacles that relegate places such as Flint to the bottom. The chronic underfunding of American cities imperils the health of citizens. It also stunts their ability to become full participants in a democratic society, and it shatters their trust in the public realm. Communities that are poor and communities of color—and especially those that are both—are hurt worst of all.

If “Watts” came to represent the twentieth-century urban crisis, then “Flint” represents that of the twenty-first. Systemic inequality and disenfranchisement are at the heart of both tragedies. But what happened in Flint reveals a new hydra of dangers in civic life: environmental injustice, the limits of austerity, and urban disinvestment. Neglect, it turns out, is not a passive force in American cities, but an aggressive one.

While there is moral cowardice in the story of Flint, there is also heroism. It’s found most especially in the lionhearted residents who chose, again and again, to act rather than be acted upon. They turned themselves into top-notch community organizers and citizen scientists, and they built relationships with a diverse ensemble of professionals—including journalists in Detroit and Ann Arbor, a regulations manager at the Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago, an engineer who was working from her suburban home, a pediatrician at a local hospital, and a team of scientists and civil engineers all the way down in rural Virginia—to make themselves visible.

This city did not deserve what happened to it. Neither does any other shrinking city. Half a century after the Kerner Report tried to inspire a new approach to urban life, we are at another crossroads between how things were once done and how we can choose to do them in the future. In a way, public drinking water systems are the perfect embodiment of the ideal that we might reach toward. The sprawling pipelines articulate the shape of a community. House by house, they are a tangible affirmation that each person belongs. They tie the city together, and often the metropolitan region as well. If only some have good, clean water and others do not, the system breaks down. It isn’t safe. The community gets sick. But when we are all connected to the water, and to each other, it is life-giving—holy, even.
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American Bar Association gives Kavanaugh unanimous “Well-Qualified” rating (National Review)
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With Kavanaugh on track for confirmation, dummycrats-Democrats regret triggering “nuclear option” (The Washington Times)
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Federal Judge Deals Major Blow to DACA, 
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Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Communist Party is intensifying covert influence operations in the United States that include funding Washington think tanks and coercing Chinese Americans... according to a congressional commission report. The influence operations are conducted by the United Front Work Department, a Central Committee organ that employs tens of thousands of operatives who seek to use both overt and covert operations to promote  Communist Party policies. The Party's United Front strategy includes paying several Washington think tanks with the goal influencing their actions and adopting positions that support Beijing's policies. "The Chinese Communist Party has sought to influence academic discourse on China and in certain instances has infringed upon—and potentially criminally violated—rights to freedoms of speech and association that are guaranteed to Americans and those protected by U.S. laws," the report says...  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-communist-party-funds-washington-think-tanks/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2e642da690-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_31_07_03_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2e642da690-45611665
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{ jpost.com } ~ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday said at a meeting with left-wing group Peace... Now and members of the Knesset that Trump's negotiation team had offered him a peace deal based on a confederation with Jordan. Abbas commented that he would agree to such a plan under the condition that Israel were part of the confederation. "I want a three-party confederation with Jordan and Israel and I am asking Israel to accept such a proposal," Abbas was quoted as saying. According to him, it was Israel that refused to negotiate on important issues and even to meet him in the past. "I met Trump four times," Abbas emphasized, arguing that he was in favor of a demilitarized state of Palestine. "I have a problem with Netanyahu, not with the Likud," he clarified... We really didn't hear what Trump offered.
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Palestinian leaders want to sabotage ... Palestinians
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{ wnd.com } ~ Some Muslims living in East Jerusalem say they want to vote in the coming Jerusalem municipal elections to have a voice in bettering their own communities and situations... And officials in Jerusalem, under Israeli jurisdiction, say there’s no reason they shouldn’t. Except that Muslim officials have ordered the residents not to vote through a “fatwa,” a nonbinding but authoritative legal opinion. It’s because Muslim leaders want their people to continue to be at odds with Israel, according to Bassam Tawil, a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East who writes for the Gatestone Institute. “Palestinian leaders and their religious clerics do not want to see Arabs live a comfortable life under Israel,” he wrote. “They are afraid that the world would see that Arabs can have a good life under Israeli sovereignty. They are also afraid that Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip will start envying the Arabs living in Israel – and then demand from their leaders similar conditions,” he writes...  https://www.wnd.com/2018/09/palestinian-leaders-want-to-sabotage-palestinians/ 
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Another day, another dumycrats-democratic socialist candidate revealed as a complete joke... And no, we’re not talking  commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her lack of geopolitics knowledge here. The stakes are slightly smaller here — but the joke here is way  bigger. As it turns out, everything about Julia Salazar — a self-described dummycrats-democratic socialist running for New York state Senate — is a complete fraud. And she was outed by her own family. Salazar has gotten a lot of media coverage as of late, at least for someone running for the dummycrats-Democrat nomination for a state Senate seat in Brooklyn. Part of it is her unique Jewish background and her alleged working-class roots. “She was born in Colombia, and her father was Jewish, descended from the community expelled from medieval Spain,” a piece in the left-leaning Jewish periodical the Forward reads. “When her family immigrated to the United States, they had little contact with the American Jewish community, struggling to establish themselves financially. “Now that identity has propelled her into politics. The 27-year-old is now running for a New York State senate seat as a dummycrats- Democratic Socialist, one of a new generation of politicians who are racing to the left in the Trump era. Most of these young guns are taking aim at Israel as criticism of the Jewish state becomes increasingly expected from progressives. In this, Salazar may have been ahead of her time. She’s been there, done that and moved on.”...
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Impeachment Is Just a Liberal Fantasy

by Marc A. Thiessen
 

Michael Cohen’s decision to plead guilty for making hush-money payments on Donald Trump’s behalf has raised the prospect that if dummycrats-Democrats take control of Congress, they might try to impeach the president over a matter completely unrelated to a perceived criminal conspiracy with Russia. Good luck with that: Even if dummycrats-Democrats win back both the House and Senate, there is zero chance a two-thirds majority of senators will convict President Trump for paying off an adult-film star.
               It would be the height of hypocrisy if dummycrats-Democrats tried to remove the president over allegations of illegality relating to extramarital affairs. During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, congressional dummycrats-Democrats told us the private sexual conduct of a president does not matter, and that lying under oath to cover up a “consensual relationship” is not an impeachable offense. Then-Rep. Charles E. scumbag/clown-Schumer, D-N.Y., said President liar-Bill Clinton’s lies under oath about his sexual relationship with a White House intern might have been illegal, but declared the scandal “a tawdry but not impeachable affair” — right before heading off to a fundraiser with liar-Clinton. At the time, Rep. Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif., declared that the Starr investigation “vindicates President liar-Clinton in the conduct of his public life because we’re only left with this personal stuff” and that Founding Fathers “would say it was not for the investigation of a president’s personal life that we risked our life, our liberty, and our sacred honor.
               But now that a Republican president is accused of covering up an affair, suddenly dummycrats-Democrats are channeling their inner Kenneth W. Starr.
               Today, dummycrats-Democrats are outraged and appalled when Trump attacks special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and calls his inquiry a “witch hunt.” But back then, then-Sen. Joe loose lips-Biden called the Starr investigation … wait for it … a “witch hunt.” Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., declared Starr was “out of control” and accused him of having a “fixation of trying to topple the president of the United States.” Rahm Emanuel, then a White House senior adviser, accused Starr of engaging in “a partisan political pursuit of the president” while White House special counsel Lanny Davis (who is now representing Cohen) said Starr was a “desperate prosecutor who can’t make a case on Whitewater” and who should face “possible removal because of his conduct.
               The fact is, dummycrats-Democrats were not alone in their concern that an investigation into Whitewater morphed into a perjury probe against liar-Clinton for lying about his relationship with Lewinsky. Many Republicans agreed that independent counsels had too much power. So in 1999, the GOP-controlled Congress, in its wisdom, let the independent counsel law expire. We were promised that investigators answerable to the Justice Department would be more focused on their original purpose.
               Well, it seems like we’re right back where we started. Federal prosecutors were supposed to be investigating Russian collusion. Instead, we have an inquiry into the Trump Organization’s finances and whether Trump’s payments to Stormy Daniels violated campaign-finance laws. Both might be worthy of scrutiny but at least under the precedent dummycrats-Democrats set during the 1990s, they are not grounds for impeachment.
               If  dummycrats-Democrats do try to impeach Trump over anything but a criminal conspiracy with Russia, they will regret it. The president was legitimately elected by Americans who knew about his lecherous past and supported him anyway. Indeed, Trump’s election was a direct result of the dummycrats- Democrats’ victory in the culture war of the 1990s. Republicans are now simply playing by the rules dummycrats-Democrats established. Millions of Americans absorbed the lesson that liar-Clinton and his dummycrats-Democratic enablers taught us — that a president’s “personal stuff,” as Pelosi put it, does not matter — and chose Trump. They will consider any effort to impeach him over it an effort to invalidate their votes. And the blow back will be tremendous. If you thought the “deplorables” were mad in 2016, just wait until 2020.
               This does not mean Trump is out of the woods legally. Once he leaves office, Trump may have to face consequences for anything illegal he might have done. When Clinton left office, he was forced to give up his Arkansas law license for five years and paid a $25,000 fine as part of a deal with the independent counsel to avoid a perjury prosecution — which resulted in him being disbarred from practicing law before the Supreme Court.
               If Mueller finds conclusive evidence that Trump entered into a criminal conspiracy with Russia, then by all means impeach away. But absent such evidence, the idea that Stormy Daniels is going to bring down Trump is a liberal fantasy. If dummycrats- Democrats are upset that they cannot remove Trump over this, well, sorry — they set the precedent.

~The Patriot Post
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August Confirmations Overcome 
dummycrats-Dem Obstruction 
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by Jordan Candler
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Trump calls for action from Supreme Court over 
Justice Department’s FISA warrant ‘fraud’ 
{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ A legal reckoning maybe coming to the highest offices of the FBI and Justice Department... President Donald Trump pressured the Supreme Court on Wednesday to pursue charges against the officials responsible for using a salacious and unverified dossier to spy on his presidential campaign in 2016. Quoting Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett in a Wednesday evening tweet, Trump accused the government of engineering “a fraud on the court” when federal investigators completely ignored the lies contained in a dossier to undermine his presidency. The president alleged that the FBI used the dossier to obtain eavesdropping warrants even though former DOJ Attorney General Bruce Ohr warned agents that the charges contained in the document were false. Republicans have long maintained that the so-called Steele dossier formed the basis for multiple Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) applications for a warrant to electronically monitor a short-term Trump campaign aide throughout 2016. The document was collected by former British spy Christopher Steele on behalf of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and it relied upon third and fourth-hand accounts from controversial sources tied to the Kremlin. President Trump would like the Supreme Court’s chief justice, who is responsible for overseeing the FISC, to direct Rosemary Collyer the FISC’s presiding judge to subpoena the agents and prosecutors responsible for using unverified evidence paid for by the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign to spy on her opponent in the 2016 election...
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Facebook Admits to Blocking Conservative 
for Using Words ‘Illegal Alien’
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{ eaglerising.com } ~ Facebook admitted this week that it blocked a conservative for daring to use the words “illegal alien” on its service... So, now these tech giants are banning us just for using terms they don’t like. The social media giant’s admission came after William Gheen, head of Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, said that his post had been removed and he was slapped with a 24-hour ban for daring to include the words “illegal alien” in his post. Gheen said he couldn’t understand what the problem was and he complained to the social media giant. But ultimately, Facebook admitted that it was wrong to block the  conservative and to ban him from its service. So, that’s how it is, huh? Now conservatives can’t even use common phrases if liberals don’t like them. This is what it is coming to America. Liberals are using their positions as tech leaders to destroy you. Are we going to sit back and let this happen?...
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Racial Discrimination at Harvard and America’s ‘Elite’ Universities
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ The Justice Department made news on Thursday when it filed a “statement of interest” in a long-running lawsuit against Harvard University... that supported claims of Asian-American students that the university is discriminating in its admission process. In fact, the evidence uncovered during the discovery process of the pending lawsuit seems overwhelming that Harvard is violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and has imposed a racial quota system, including a ceiling on the number of Asian-American students accepted, no matter how outstanding their qualifications. The Justice Department’s filing is in opposition to a motion recently filed by Harvard asking a federal court in Boston to throw out the lawsuit without a trial. In 2014, Students for Fair Admission filed its lawsuit under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of “race, color, or national origin.” Although Harvard is a private university, Title VI applies because the university receives federal funds. The lawsuit claims Harvard is using its admissions policy to keep out Asian-American students in the same way it infamously discriminated against Jewish students in the 1920s and 1930s...
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The “New” Left: The dummycrats-Democratic 
Socialists of America  
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by Matthew Vadum
{ capitalresearch.org } ~ The dummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America, an activist group, has no intention of becoming a full-fledged political party. There is no need... The socialist candidates it backs are winning elections, and it is already well-represented among sitting members of the U.S. Congress. One of its endorsed candidates recently defeated the fourth-highest-ranking member of the dummycrats- Democratic Party’s leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, a development that led the media to shower the dummycrats-DSA with flattering publicity. A radical leftist upstart’s unexpected trouncing of a key member of the House  dummycrats-Democratic leadership in a primary is sending shockwaves through the  dummycrats-Democratic Party establishment. I refer to dummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member and first-time candidate commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, at the time a 28-year-old of Puerto Rican ancestry, who crushed longtime U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley, a 56-year-old Irish-American Catholic, in the June 26 primary election for the 14th congressional district in New York, covering parts of the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx. Crowley chairs the House dummycrats-Democratic  Caucus, the fourth-highest leadership position among House dummycrats-Democrats, and he was a leading contender to become House Speaker, if dummycrats- Democrats regained control of that chamber. commie-Ocasio-Cortez’s victory made her an instant star in leftist circles.  dummycrats-Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Tom Perez promptly hailed her as “the future of our party.”...
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Two Prosecutors Exit Mueller Team
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{ cnn.com} ~ Prosecutors Ryan Dickey and Brian Richardson are no longer working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office... leaving 15 attorneys left on the team, according to a report by CNN. Special counsel spokesman Peter Carr said that their departures were unrelated to any allegations of wrongdoing or political bias. CNN reported, “Both lawyers were relatively junior but frequently spotted members of Mueller’s corps. Both have worked on court cases that Mueller opened as part of his investigation into Russian interference and coordination with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.” Dickey specializes in cybercrime and worked on two Russia-related computer crime cases after joining Mueller’s team in November of 2017. Richardson had previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and worked with Mueller to prosecute Alex van der Zwann, who plead guilty in February to lying to investigators...
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August Confirmations Overcome dummycrats-Dem Obstruction 
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by Jordan Candler:  In June, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell scrubbed August recess, explaining, “Due to the historic obstruction by Senate dummycrats-Democrats of the president’s nominees, and the goal of passing appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled.”

             The move ensured that dummycrats-Democrat  obstruction would face reprisal and that important issues like confirming judicial nominees would be addressed. At the time, Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) made this critical observation: “We still have 271 nominations to confirm.” Which made August the perfect time to push them through.
               That work is ongoing, but it’s already paid dividends. In fact, on Tuesday alone, the Senate sent seven district court nominees to their respective benches, with eight more nominees slated for confirmation in the coming week. That being said, the backlog remains large.
               As The Daily Signal recently reported, “Of the 179 current and known future federal court vacancies, 160 are on district and specialty courts, according to the Judicial Crisis Network, which monitors judicial appointments. … Trump has 80 pending district and specialty court nominees awaiting Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, and 26 more awaiting a Senate floor vote.” The Signal adds, “It would require votes on at least 10 judges per week for the rest of the year to confirm all of Trump’s nominees for the district and circuit courts, [The Heritage Foundation’s Thomas] Jipping said.
               That’s a massive workload left, but just image how much bigger it would be if McConnell hadn’t canceled August recess. Yet there remains another opportunity to ease the backlog. The Signal notes “it’s possible the Senate would take action in a lame-duck session after the November midterm elections.” McConnell should take advantage of this timetable as well, since — this month’s achievements aside — dummycrats-Democrats will continue obstructing to the extent they can.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57962?mailing_id=3710&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3710&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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The Americas and 'Gun Violence' 
by Brian Mark Weber
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We Must Fight Back
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by Thomas O'Malley
americanthinker.com } ~ The Left is out for blood.  In recent years, they have come to see their ideological opponents not as fellow Americans with whom they happen to disagree on certain issues... but as fundamentally bad people who do not deserve a voice and who should be silenced. If they ever gain power in government again, they will not seek reconciliation with the other side or to bridge the partisan divide. Instead, revenge will be the order of the day.  It is absurd to think that the same people who consider Donald Trump a fascist and his supporters “deplorable” want anything other than revenge. Someday, dummycrats-Democrats will regain control of the House, Senate and Presidency; if not in  2020, then in 2024 or later. And when that day comes, conservatives had better be prepared. Polls show that Republicans are much less enthusiastic than dummycrats-Democrats about voting in this year’s midterms. Conservatives must turn out to vote in November. The stakes are too high for them to stay home. Most Republicans don’t realize just how dire the situation is. If dummycrats-Democrats regain the House in 2018, that will be the end of the Trump agenda, and conservatives may not get another chance to implement such an agenda. dummycrats- Democrats in Congress will probably attempt to impeach President Trump, which will likely fail in the Senate, but the attempted impeachment will divide the country like nothing else since the Civil War. The next dummycrats-Democratic president will likely appoint very liberal justices to the Supreme Court who have no respect whatsoever for the Constitution. A Leftist Supreme Court would tear the Constitution to shreds, and you can say good-bye to your 1st and 2nd Amendment rights. If the Supreme Court can find abortion and same-sex marriage in the 14th Amendment, meant to give citizenship to freed slaves, God knows what else they can find in the Constitution. Perhaps in the future the Supreme Court will rule that the 1st Amendment right of freedom of speech doesn’t apply to hate speech, or that the 2nd Amendment actually mandates gun control...
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Italy and Hungary Create 'Anti-Immigration Axis'
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini have pledged to create an "anti-immigration axis"... aimed at countering the pro-migration  policies of the European Union. Meeting in Milan on August 28, Orbán and Salvini, vowed to work together with Austria and the Visegrad Group — the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — to oppose a pro-migration group of EU countries led by French President Emmanuel Macron. Orbán and Salvini are seeking a coordinated strategy ahead of the March 2019 European Parliament elections to defeat the pro-immigration  Party of European Socialists (PES), a pan-European party representing national-level socialist parties from all EU member states. The objective is to change the political composition of European institutions, including the European Parliament and the European Commission, to reverse the EU's open-door migration policies...
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The F-35 Stealth Fighter vs Russia's S-300 Anti-Aircraft System
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ As an avid reader of Aviation Week, I became interested in the F-35, the newest Department of Defense fighter plane... The DOD had sold nine initial units to our ally Israel. I thought it was a wise decision for three reasons: 1. It provided actual testing for the new aircraft under realistic battle conditions. Aviation Week noted that Israel used several of its F-35s to attack more than 50 Iranian military installations in Syria. All these were presumably protected by the Russian-built Anti-Aircraft system S-300. Their latest design with more powerful radars, is being sold worldwide. Israel had a chance to study an earlier version, sold to Cyprus. The F-35 attack was completed in less than 90 minutes, a notable achievement in military intelligence, as well as in operational planning and coordination. Aviation Week didn’t tell us how many F-35s took part in the operation, and whether they returned safely; presumably they all did. Aviation Week did not reveal the tricks Israeli pilots used to evade the S-300 AA system. 2. A June 5, 2018 Report of the Government Accountability Office [GAO] is quite critical of the F-35 joint strike fighter-bomber. Many experts doubt the viability of the aircraft to meet the various requirements of all the DOD services. In particular, the Report criticizes the design of the helmet-mounted display that presents the necessary operational data to aid the pilot. In other words, while the aircraft itself provides propulsion and carries the required air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, the electronics, associated with the helmet, represents the “brain” of the F-35. It so happens that Israeli engineers have much experience in this field, following the design of the IAF [Israel Air Force] Lavie fighter that was never built. Apparently, the DOD expects that some of the design experience for the display will be carried over to the F-35. 3.  Finally, allowing the F-35 to be sold now lowers the huge procurement cost for the DOD, about 400 billion dollars. The buy-decision is due in October 2019. In the wake of the successful air strike, what will Russia do now?  Obviously, there will be some redesign and improvement of the Russian S-300 system to make it saleable to “non-captive” customers...
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Giuliani Says OHR May Have Committed 
FELONY, Calls for DOJ Investigation 
{ hannity.com } ~ Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani slammed anti-Trump DOJofficial Bruce Ohr Thursday evening... calling for an investigation into whether he or his wife committed a federal crime by concealing payments from the dummycrats-DNC. Giuliani blasted Ohr on social media just one day after he testified before Congressional leaders on Capitol Hill, saying “What are the odds the DOJ or Mueller have begun an investigation of Bruce Ohr for violating 18 USC sec. 208? That’s a federal felony unless he disclosed all facts to the DOJ and has a written waiver. How many of you know what that is?” “Ohr’s wife was financially benefitted by Ohr, a DOJ official, advancing the Steele phony dossier. Her firm got some part of the $1.02 million paid by liar-Hillary and dummycrats-DNC. A crime unless he has a written waiver from scumbag/liar-nObama’s politicized DOJ which is possible,” he added. Ohr and his wife made national headlines earlier this year when it was revealed the couple had strong ties to ‘Trump Dossier’ author Christopher Steele and shady opposition firm Fusion GPS...  https://www.hannity.com/media-room/rudy-on-fire-giuliani-says-ohr-may-have-committed-felony-calls-for-doj-investigation/
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JW Videios of the Week
No One has Ruled Out if liar-Clinton’s Email Server was Compromised
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Tom Fitton’s Weekly Update – August 31, 2018
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Chris Farrell: Bruce Ohr is the Linchpin of the Steel Dossier Controversy
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The Americas and 'Gun Violence' 
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by Brian Mark Weber:  A new study shows that countries in North and South America are the most violent in the world when it comes to deaths perpetrated using firearms.

             U.S. News & World Report reveals, “Half of all global deaths from gun violence occur in six countries in the Western Hemisphere, according to a new study that exposes trends in fatal shootings, particularly in the cause of death.” Topping the list in the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation study are Brazil, the United States, and Mexico.
               Yet one of the more interesting results of the study is that the U.S. actually ranks 30th in the rate of homicides with guns, which, given the prevalence of firearms in our nation, flies in the face of those claiming that more guns cause more violence. The trick to ranking the U.S. second overall is suicides. More on that below.
               First, let’s consider “gun violence,” a politically charged term devised by the media and leftist politicians to blame guns and avoid focusing on the real problem. As gun-rights advocates rightly say: Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. The factor making up most of the homicides has nothing to do with flag-waving, Bible-thumping, country-music-loving gun owners in America’s flyover country (as the Left would have us believe); instead, the violence is mostly caused by gangs, drugs, and the breakdown of our culture and values in cities that have been run by dummycrats-Democrats for generations.
               Even Jenn Christensen at the virulently anti-gun CNN  admits, “If you were to look on a map, the highest numbers of gun-related homicides are concentrated in a belt that stretches from Mexico through the Caribbean to Brazil.” Citing the study, she acknowledges, “Many of these homicides involve drug cartels,” and asserts, “There’s a problem with organized crime and the illegal gun trade.
               The Left perpetually ignores fatherless homes, roving gangs, drug trafficking, and other social and cultural maladies that lie at the root of the problem here at home and elsewhere in the West. Areas where guns are more prevalent do not experience a higher rate of gun crime or violence. America’s most violent places are the cities and states where guns are banned, whereas low homicide rates are reported in locations with fewer gun restrictions, such as Idaho, New Hampshire, and even deep-blue Vermont.
               Aaron Bandler writes at The Daily Wire that after Washington, DC, outlawed guns, “annual homicides rose from 188 in 1976 to 364 in 1988, and then increased even further to 454 in 1993.” Lest some attempt to deny that correlation, he adds, “The gunban was struck down by the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, and homicides have steadily declined since then to 88 yearly murders in 2012.” Bandler adds that the Crime Research Prevention Center shows that “nearly 99 percent of mass public shootings have occurred in gun-free zones.”
               Of course, violence is high in these gun-free zones because criminals and other deranged individuals know that there’s virtually no chance that they’ll encounter resistance from an armed citizen. It’s no wonder that crime is lower where right-to-carry laws have been passed. Gun-rights defender John R. Lott Jr. writes, “Right-to-carry laws reduced both the frequency and the severity of mass public shootings; and to the extent to which mass shootings still occurred, they took place in those tiny areas in the states where permitted concealed handguns were not allowed.”
               Finally, suicides account for more than two-thirds of our nation’s “gun deaths.” Leftists prefer to lump these self-inflicted deaths with homicides to add shock value to their statistics, but suicide is far different than gang-related murder, even if the same tool is used. And while the U.S. may be second in suicides with guns, it’s 48th in suicides overall. Furthermore, firearms were used in just over half of American suicides — which means people bent on ending their lives will find another way.
               In any case, it’s pretty clear that we don’t have an epidemic of “gun violence” in this country, despite the Leftmedia’s incessant desire to repeat the association. In fact, a range of statistics show that more guns are actually helping to keep Americans safe from the real problems that plague our society. The recent spate of knife attacks in Great Britain is proof that those who seek to inflict harm upon innocent people will find the means. Just as American leftists refuse to address the root causes of violence, London’s mayor is now calling for knife control. That’ll work about as well as gun control in DC.
               As long as the innocent are prevented by the government from protecting themselves, their families, their businesses, and their communities, those who seek to terrorize will have the upper hand. Countries in the Americas should address the real root causes of violence rather than pushing for failed solutions that empower violent people while keeping responsible citizens from defending themselves.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57981?mailing_id=3710&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3710&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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China Hacked liar-Clinton's 
Not-So-'Private' Email Server? 
by Thomas Gallatin
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Federal DOJ Arrests Five New Mexico Terror 
Training Suspects After Multiple Local Charges Dropped
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Thankfully, it looks like lawful common sense has interceded… The FBI on Friday announced that it has arrested all five of the New Mexico compound suspects, just days after multiple charges were dropped against those involved. The suspects were charged with violating federal firearms and conspiracy laws. The announcement comes as local prosecutors dropped charges in the death of a 3-year-old boy at the property. Taos County District Attorney Donald Gallegos said Friday his office will now seek grand jury indictments involving the death. Gallegos said seeking indictments will allow more time to gather evidence. “The defendants, Jany Leveille, 35, a Haitian national illegally present in the United States, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40, Hujrah Wahhaj, 37, Subhanah Wahhaj, 35, and Lucas Morton, 40, are charged in a criminal complaint that was filed earlier today in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico,” the bureau said in a statement...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/31/federal-doj-arrests-five-new-mexico-terror-training-suspects-after-multiple-local-charges-dropped/ 
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That Time Mueller FBI Colluded With Russians
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Recently released documents reveal “confirmed socialist” former spy Christopher Steele “appeared to ask” former fourth-ranked Justice Department official Bruce Ohr... for help on behalf of a Russian oligarch who once spent $25 million at the request of then-director Robert Mueller’s FBI. Steele famously compiled the opposition research dossier then-FBI Director said contained “personally sensitive aspects” that were “salacious and unverified,” and was paid for by liar-Hillary for America and the dummycrats-Democratic National Committee (DNC). That dossier cited information drawn from a “senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure,” a “former top-level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin,” a “former senior intelligence officer,” a “former top-level Russian intelligence officer and Kremlin insider,” and a “former top Russian intelligence officer,” indicating Steele colluded with Russians to compile it for the liar-Clinton campaign and dummycrats-DNC. Now, in addition, the new documents suggest that Steele approached Ohr on behalf of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska “after rumors the U.S. might impose sanctions.”...
Disturbing – FISA Court States No Hearings Conducted Before
Issuing Title-1 Warrant Allowing Surveillance 
Over Trump Campaign
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Well this is troubling on many levels. According to a responsive filing from the FISA Court, there wasn’t any hearing on the sketchy FISA application... submitted by the DOJ/FBI to conduct FISA Title-1 surveillance on Carter Page. Even more disturbing, according to the secret court, it is customary to just accept and review the FISA applications as presented without judicial inquiry into the content. As disturbing as this appears, this might actually begin to answer many of the questions we have carried surrounding the entire Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process. Back in April 2017 Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, declassified a FISA court ruling that had/has massive potential implications.   The 99-page ruling, written by FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer, outlined structural issues and admissions by the DOJ and FBI about violations of search queries within the NSA and FBI database...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/31/disturbing-fisa-court-states-no-hearings-conducted-before-issuing-title-1-warrant-allowing-surveillance-over-trump-campaign/
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The ‘Religion’ of Burning Man 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ As Burning Man comes to an end this weekend, wealthy hippies and counterculture types will soon leave the Black Rock Desert in Nevada and return to normal society... perhaps with a newfound sense of community or maybe some new enlightenment. Or a police record for drug possession. The festival is known for many things—heavy drug use not least among them—like its themes of "radical inclusion," the celebrities it attracts—noted miniature submarine enthusiast Elon Musk is a regular attendee—and of course the tradition that gives it its name, the burning of an enormous effigy of a man. But as this secular mecca has grown in popularity, another of its elements has taken on greater importance: the art installations that fill the desert before being set ablaze like the Man. Fortunately for those of us who can't make it out to Nevada this year, there is another way to see some of the art normally reserved only for the "Burners," as attendees like to call themselves. The Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., is currently home to some re-creations of Burning Maninstallations and even a few pieces that escaped the end-of-festival flames. The exhibit—titled "No Spectators" after a Burner rallying cry for engagement—takes up both floors of the Renwick and has six additional statues scattered throughout D.C. Beginning the tour inside the museum, visitors are immediately greeted with an enormous, ornate paper arch. It is, the placard next to it says, inspired by religious structures. While religiously influenced, this is entirely a secular work of art. It's adorned with black and white photographs, many of which are oddly reminiscent of a gothic carnival sideshow, the focus of which is most often man and nature. It is a religious artifact for the a religious and serves as the perfect piece to start the tour as it gives visitors an idea of what's to come, and, indeed, an idea of what Burning Man actually is: a secular religious gathering...
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Media eager to believe Russia hacked liar-Hillary's 
home-brew server but dismiss report that China did
by Jack Hellner
 
{ americanthinker.com } ~ President Trump saw a story from the Daily Caller on Fox News that said China hacked liar-Hillary's non-secure computer and, instead of actually investigating the media... went into attack mode on Trump by saying he had no evidence of the actual hack to protect liar-Hillary, the Justice Department, and the intelligence agencies because, if true, they didn't do their job.  President Trump tweeted early Wednesday that China was behind a hack of former presidential opponent liar-Hillary Clinton's emails, in an apparent reference to an article published by the conservative Daily Caller website. "liar-Hillary Clinton's Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China," the president tweeted. "Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps scumbag-Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc., their credibility will be forever gone!" U.S. intelligence agencies have pointed to Russia as the nation who orchestrated the hacking of emails of top officials at the dummycrats-Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election. There's also this headline from Reuters: "Trump, without evidence, blames China for hacking liar-Clinton emails."...  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/media_eager_to_believe_russia_hacked_hillarys_home_brew_server_but_dismiss_report_that_china_did.html
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China Hacked liar-Clinton's Not-So-'Private' Email Server? 
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by Thomas Gallatin:  Earlier this week, The Daily Caller News Foundation published a story with a serious allegation: A Chinese-owned company successfully hacked liar-Hillary Clinton’s infamous and supposedly “private” unauthorized home email server and obtained copies of virtually every email that passed through the server throughout the entirety of her term as secretary of state. According to the DCNF, “The Chinese firm obtained liar-Clinton’s emails in real time as she sent and received communications and documents through her personal server, according to the sources, who said the hacking was conducted as part of an intelligence operation.”

             President Donald Trump commented, “Report just out: ‘China hacked  liar-Hillary Clinton’s private Email Server.’ Are they sure it wasn’t Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information!
               The following day, an FBI official pushed back on the report, stating, “The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised.” Notice that the FBI did not outright deny the report as false. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) noticed, asserting, “It’s not surprising that the FBI ‘has not found any evidence’ regarding liar-Clinton’s servers being breached. Like I stated to former FBI agent Peter Strzok in the House Judiciary hearing, it was the scumbag/liar-nObama-appointed Intelligence Community Inspector General that discovered the breach. It was not the FBI that found it, so their statement was technically correct, but very deceptive in its omission.
               It has long been suspected and assumed that liar-Clinton’s home-brew server was compromised. And with China having successfully breached the Office of Personnel Management back in 2015, hacking liar-Clinton’s server would have been a cakewalk. In fact, liar-Clinton may have suspected as much. In one of the emails collected from her “private” server,  liar-Clinton wrote, “Even weirder — I just checked and I do have your state but not your gmail — so how did that happen. Must be the Chinese!
               Once again this story appears to reveal one of the oldest tactics from the liar-Clinton political playbook: attacking their opponents for engaging in unethical behaviors they themselves are guilty of committing.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57983?mailing_id=3710&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3710&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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The Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal
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by Cal Thomas 
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Canada trade talks fizzle, Trump moves on Mexico-only deal
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Trump administration and Canada failed to come to an agreement on the president's bilateral trade deal with Mexico Friday... prompting the White House to submit the deal to Congress without Canada even while planning to continue talks between the two countries. "Today the president notified the Congress of his intent to sign a trade agreement with Mexico -- and Canada, if it is willing -- 90 days from now," U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said. He is scheduled to resume negotiations on Wednesday. Friday was previously considered a deadline for the deal because under Trade Promotion Authority, the law covering submitting trade deals to Congress, Trump must give lawmakers 90 days notice. Friday, Aug. 31, is 90 days before incoming President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a NAFTA critic, officially takes office, so a deal submitted by Friday's deadline then would still be handled by Mexico’s current president, Enrique Peña Nieto. The decision to move  forward without an agreement from Canada sets up a potential showdown between the White House and lawmakers, many of whom have expressed skepticism of proceeding on a deal without Canada's approval because that would damage NAFTA. Another potential sticking point is that the administration's original notice to Congress that it was entering talks said it was going to renegotiate NAFTA. Some lawmakers argue that, accordingly, anything submitted to Congress must involve all three NAFTA countries...
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Mattis Authorizes National Guard Troops 
To Stay On The Border For Another Year
by Will Racke
dailycaller.com } ~ Defense Secretary James Mattis authorized the National Guard troops deployed to the southwest border to stay there for another year... the Pentagon confirmed Friday. Mattis granted a 12-month extension of the current deployment order, which authorizes up to 4,000 guardsmen to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents until Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. The extension permits the same deployment through Sept. 30, 2019, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jamie Davis told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s the same mission, the same set up,” Davis said. The border deployment, dubbed Operation Guardian Support, kicked off April 13 in response to President Donald Trump’s call to use the military to guard against rising illegal  immigration. A joint operation with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the mission aims to provide surveillance and logistical support to border agents, freeing them up to interdict drug and human smuggling...
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Most Red-State Senate dummycrats-Democrats 
Voting Against Trump Judges 
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{ breitbart.com } ~ President Trump continues to appoint federal appellate judges at a record pace. However... Senate dummycrats-Democrats up for reelection in 2018 in states carried by Trump are mostly voting against those nominees, sharpening the battle lines over one of the nation’s highest-profile political issues heading into a midterm election that will set the course of the next two years. Senators on Thursday confirmed two more federal judges: Marvin Quattlebaum and Julius Richardson, both for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. With them, President Trump has confirmed 14 appellate judges thus far this year and 26 during his presidency. That is a record for being 19 months into a presidency. Adding 26 district court judges and one Supreme Court justice results in a total of 53 federal judges. That total number lags behind recent presidents only because district court judges district courts are the trial courts have historically been confirmed unanimously with little or no debate...  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/21/most-red-state-senate-democrats-voting-against-trump-judges/
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Israeli Warships Get Missile Defense Boost
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The Israeli Navy will soon receive a significant boost in its operational capabilities after it was announced that Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) entered into an agreement... to equip Israel’s newest and most powerful warships – the Sa’ar 6 – with Barak-8 missile defense systems. The Barak-8 is a sophisticated missile defense system that can intercept aircraft and is equally adept at countering incoming missile threats. The platform is currently in service with the Israeli Navy as well as the Indian Navy and air force. This development comes on the heels of an announcement by the Israeli Ministry of Defense that it awarded a contract to Israel’s Elbit Systems for the delivery of electronic warfare suites to the Israeli Navy. The Sa’ar 6 class of corvettes includes a series of four new warships that will be used alongside other naval assets to patrol Israel’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The Sa’ar 6 is a formidable platform brimming with sophisticated weaponry and electronic surveillance equipment. It will be armed with 40 Barak-8 missiles as well as multi-round launchers equipped with C-Dome interceptors produced by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. The C-Dome is a point defense  missile system capable of intercepting short-range rockets and artillery and was based on the combat proven Iron Dome and Barak 1 designs. The Barak-8 and C-Dome missile defense  systems will be able to provide the navy with a formidable multi-tiered defense capability against a variety of threats including aircraft, drones and sea-skimming cruise missiles like the Chinese C-802 and Russian Yakhont, both of which were supplied to Hezbollah via Iran. The Sa’ar 6 will also be fitted with an Oto Melara 76mm Super Rapid gun mount, which offers high rate of fire against air and surface targets. To address long-range surface threats, the Sa’ar 6 will deploy the combat-proven, sea skimming IAI Gabriel IV and Boeing RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Rounding out the weapons package will be two torpedo launchers for MK54 Torpedoes, and two 30mm Rafael Typhoon remote, stabilized weapons platforms. The warship will also accommodate helicopters like the AS565 Panther of the Maritime Helicopters Squadron. The Panther, which is also known in Israel as the Atalef, is a versatile platform that can be used for combat assault, anti-submarine warfare as well as search and rescue operations...
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Iran Needs a Whiff of Grapeshot
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ A “whiff of grapeshot” is how English historian Thomas Carlyle described Napoleon’s method of stopping a Royalist riot during the French Revolution... Napoleon ordered his men to fire cannon loaded with “grapeshot,” shrapnel, directly into the mob, killing some and scattering the rest. The saying has lived on as a lesson in deterrence: decisive and brutal force used at the right time can avoid a more serious engagement with higher casualties. The failure to learn this lesson about deterrence has compromised our now four-decades old conflict with Iran. The mullahcracy’s latest burst of braggadocios threats and empty boasts about “controlling” the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz is a good opportunity to display some old-school deterrent action. We rich, comfortable moderns, of course, look on such brutal methods as relics of our savage past––barbarous behavior beneath our morally superior sensibilities. Don’t we live in the “international rules-based order,” where all agree that lethal force should be used only as a last resort, and that diplomacy and “engagement” should be the best way to resolve conflicts? Of course, the history of just the last century shows empirically that this is a pipe dream. In the real world our enemies and rivals live in, force isn’t an adjunct to diplomacy, but diplomacy is a “technical adjunct” to force, as Robert Conquest described the diplomacy of the Soviet Union, and what an advisor to Lyndon Johnson called a “weapons system” for the North Vietnamese. Moreover, diplomacy will work with the most determined aggressor only after national prestige has been maintained by a consistent punishment of those who break their word or cheat on their agreements, or by determined actions that threaten the aggressor’s own power and prestige. Ronald Reagan’s world-changing diplomacy with Mikhail Gorbachev worked not because the Soviets shared our principles and aims, but because diplomacy was preceded by Reagan’s military pushback against Soviet adventurism in Grenada, Afghanistan, and El Salvador; by his unpopular and much decried deployment of hundreds of U.S. cruise missiles and Pershing 2 ballistic missiles in Germany and other NATO countries in order to counter the Soviet SS-20s; and by a military build-up, and the Strategic Defense Initiative to build anti-missile networks, that the Soviets did not have the money or technical skills to match...
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The Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal
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by Cal Thomas

townhall.com } ~ Sexual scandals and inappropriate behavior are as old as the Bible. I give you (1 Corinthians 5:1) in which Paul writes: "It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father's wife."

In more modern times, there have been sex scandals involving TV evangelists from Aimee Semple McPherson in the '20s to Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart in the '80s. And there have been more recent examples, too, Ted Haggard, Bob Coy, Bill Gothard.

But at least those scandals involved adults; what has happened within the Roman Catholic Church involves children and for that reason it is the greater sin.

A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, grand jury released a report after a two-year investigation into six of the state's dioceses and found 301 "predator priests" who were "raping little boys and girls."

It is not the first time such allegations have been made, but it may be the first time the allegations have been so exhaustively detailed, including the naming of priests and their alleged victims.

In Ireland, where Pope Francis visited last week and issued another apology but took no responsibility for un-priestly behavior, more stories surfaced detailing what happened to unwed mothers and their babies seven decades ago in a home created for girls and women who became pregnant out of wedlock. The girls and women were abused, their babies either buried in the home's yard, or forcibly taken from them to be adopted, all this from a church that claims to be "pro-life."

Writes the Irish Examiner: "Between 1991 and 2011, the numbers of atheists, agnostics, and those with no religion in Ireland increased more than four-fold to 277,237. This group included 14,769 children of primary school age and 14,478 of secondary school age."

Is it any wonder?

Last Sunday, the former top Vatican diplomat in the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a frequent critic of Pope Francis, released an 11-page letter in which he claimed the Vatican hierarchy has been complicit in covering up for some abusers and their protectors. Vigano claims Pope Francis knew about accusations that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick had sexually abused seminarians for years before the public learned about it and that when those accusations became public he refused to punish McCarrick, instead allowing him to choose powerful American bishops.

During a brief meeting with reporters on his return to Rome, the Pope was asked if Vigano had informed him in 2013 about Cardinal McCarrick's record of abuse and whether his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, had sanctioned the cardinal as Vigano claims. The New York Times reported Francis did not deny it, saying he would not "dignify" the allegations with a response.

The Catholic Church and the Pope's few defenders have said much of this behavior took place years ago and is only now coming out. There should be no statute of limitations when it comes to sins within any church, including attempts to cover them up.

Surely the Catholic Church's leadership is familiar with (James 3:1): "Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly." Then there is this command from God Himself: "you must purge the evil from among you." (Deuteronomy 17:7)

If that isn't enough for the Catholic Church to purge these evil priests and those who covered for them, they might consider the words of Jesus, who they presume to serve: "If anyone causes one of these little ones -- those who believe in me -- to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." (Matthew 18:6)
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Legalizing the Constitution
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by Deana Chadwell 
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Iran’s Facebook operation 
shows that it never restrained its hackers 
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{ thehill.com } ~ Facebook on Tuesday dismantled an expansive, covert Iranian influence operation aimed at American, British, Latin American, and Middle Eastern audiences... Posing as independent news and civil society organizations, state-sponsored actors created hundreds of fake Facebook  pages and Twitter accounts, which were also suspended  on Tuesday, and Iranian state media created dozens of counterfeit YouTube channels. The operation, dating back to as early as 2011, tricked hundreds of thousands of people into following bogus accounts. Deploying the  expertise in social engineering they have developed  through their many spear phishing campaigns, Iranian cyber operators manipulated Americans and others into possibly sharing content and attending real-world events hosted by fake personas. The influence campaign is one of the first reported cases of Iranian operatives  exploiting U.S. social media to target audiences outside  Iran, according to cybersecurity firm FireEye which tipped off the tech giants to the suspicious activity. The exposure of this multi-year cyber campaign should dispel the myth that Tehran put a tight leash on its hackers during and after negotiating the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Yet even the Trump administration has downplayed the Iranian cyber threat, despite pulling out of the JCPOA in response to Iranian provocations ranging from missile launches to ongoing support for terrorists...
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Radicalized dummycrats-Democrats: 
Destroying the Country and Their Own Party
by Jake Hoffman

{ americanthinker.com } ~ From the wee hours of the morning on November 9, 2016, as they grappled with the sting of President-Elect Donald Trump triumphing over the anointed Queen of the Swamp, dummycrats-Democrats have been radicalizing by the minute... Objective Americans have witnessed the transformation of JFK-style classical liberals into Marxist protégés even the namesake himself would be proud to call his pupils, not to mention the hostile takeover of the  dummycrats-Democratic Party by the "three home-owning multi-millionaire," commie-Bernie Sanders, and "I'm not an expert on American-Israeli policy, but let me comment on it anyway" commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The dummycrats-Democratic Party is soon to be more aptly referenced as the dummycrats-Democratic Socialist Party. And it's not as if the  dummycrats-Democrats don't have the resolve to combat such a monumental shift to the left. They've certainly been known to fight when something has truly mattered to them – like the times when they fought tooth and nail to unanimously oppose the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, giving citizenship to freed slaves and an equal right to vote for all, respectively.  Or the time when they overwhelmingly opposed abolishing slavery by fighting to kill the 13th Amendment. If dummycrats-Democrats really opposed the radicalization of their own party, they would fight it, but the quiet truth is that they welcome it...
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A secret mission to Iran 
{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ Arutz Sheva has discovered that Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar recently visited Iran on a secret diplomatic mission... He was sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin. All official sources have refused to confirm details such as the purpose of the visit and the exact dates. It is possible that Rabbi Lazar's visit to Iran is connected to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's attempts to prevent Iran from establishing itself in Syria. Earlier this week, the foreign ministers of both Iran and Syria signed an agreement to tighten military and security cooperation between their countries.  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/251407
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dummycrats-Democrats losing
 their minds over Trump, Limbaugh says
by wnd.com 
{ wnd.com } ~ A dummycrats-Democrat who served in the liar-Bill Clinton administration and now teaches at the University of California at Berkeley has concluded that impeaching President Trump is not a good idea... Not because the evidence of wrongdoing isn’t there. Not because there aren’t enough votes in the House and Senate. Not because of anything like that. It’s because it wouldn’t reverse President Trump’s actions in totality. It wouldn’t erase him from the roster of presidents. It wouldn’t undo the laws he’s signed, the appointments he’s made and the executive orders he’s issued. Talk radio star Rush Limbaugh was flabbergasted. “He’s losing his mind! They all are! It’s hilarious.” The demand for the unprecedented and extra-constitutional “annulment” comes from liar-Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Now a professor at Berkeley, he wrote in Newsweek: “The only way I see the end of Trump is if there’s overwhelming evidence he rigged the 2016 election. In which case impeachment isn’t an adequate remedy. His presidency should be annulled.”...
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Monkeying Flack: Media Ignored 
scumbag/liar-nObama’s Use Of Anti-Semitic Trigger Words
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{ lidblog.com } ~ The MSM has to stop monkeyingaround. They continue to promote the theme as every Republican is a racist and that it is impossible for a dummycrats-Democrat to hate anyone... Only hours after he won the Republican primary for the race for Florida Governor, the media has risen as one to smear Ron DeSantis as a “racist.” Aaaaannnnd the media smear campaign begins right on time. They attacked Ron DeSantis by spinning his words into a different meaning but that same mainstream media never attacked scumbag/liar-nObama’s anti-Semitic bigotry that needed no spin to understand. On Wednesday morning, DeSantis was warning Florida not to fall for his dummycrats-Democrat opponent’s socialist agenda, but his choice of an ages old saying to describe the folly of voting for failed socialist policies was the perfect avenue for the lying media to smear DeSantis as a “racist.” Latest: Monkeying Flack: Media Ignored scumbag/liar-nObama's Use Of Anti-Semitic Trigger Words In a Monday appearance on Fox News, DeSantis warned Florida not to “monkey up” the state by voting for socialism. “Let’s build off the success we’ve had on Gov. Scott. The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases bankrupting the state. That is not going to work,” DeSantis said on Fox...
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Legalizing the Constitution
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ I once had a bumper sticker that read, "Legalize the Constitution." Occasionally, I would find myself having to explain it and often to defend it. Really? Not only is the Bill of Rights no longer understood or venerated, but confusion reigns.

The most important, the First Amendment, seems most prone to misuse. It reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Seems simple, yet we find ourselves at a point in our history where its import is ignored, repudiated, or twisted all out of proportion.

The First Amendment starts with the phrase "Congress shall make no law." So this limits the activities of Congress – not of states, or individuals, or schools, or any other group. Just Congress. A community can pass a law against obscene language in public if it wants to. A teacher can limit the amount of speech and its contents in her class – she isn't Congress. A pastor should be able to say anything from the pulpit that his congregation will tolerate.

Secondly, it keeps Congress out of the business of setting up a national religion – common at the time of writing. It keeps Congress – not anyone else – out of regulating religious practice. Nothing in this statute prohibits states, or cities, from doing so. I suspect that if Michigan continues its march toward Islam, at least some of its cities will take advantage of that freedom.

Thirdly, Congress is forbidden to make any law that abridges freedom of speech. This is where we are up against a hard wall. There can be, in this country, no national law enforcing political correctness. This means that federal law enforcement cannot arrest, incarcerate, try, or convict anyone for an utterance just because it is offensive to someone. If I fail to utilize the correct nongendered pronoun, I could be imprisoned in Canada, but the First Amendment prohibits that here.

So does that mean that a company can't fire a person because he was overheard badmouthing the boss? Or propositioning a female employee? Or calling someone the N-word? No. The business belongs to those who own it, and since private ownership of property is another of our cherished rights, the business can hire and fire whom it will. There are social and financial consequences, and the Bill of Rights doesn't protect us from those. If Facebook and Twitter keep offending conservatives, we'll just leave – life without them is possible – but the government has to stay out of it.

Does it mean that the president can't remove the top-secret security clearance from some ex-bureaucrat? No. A security clearance gives a person the right to know, not the right to speak about what he knows. That's why the word "secret" is involved.

Fourthly, "freedom of speech" just means that no federal legal action can be taken against you for something you say. That is not an absolute – threatening to kill or harm someone is illegal. Inciting to riot is as well. Shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater will land you in some trouble. Lying under oath can cost you. Common sense prevails.

"Freedom of speech" does not protect you from the negative social consequences of being linguistically obnoxious. It does not abrogate laws against slander and libel. It merely means that the federal government can't grab you out of your bed in the middle of the night and throw you in a dungeon for complaining about the powers that be.

I like a Jordan Peterson quote I recently ran across: "Free speech isn't merely the right to criticize those in power, and it's also not only the right to say what you think. It's actually the right to think."  I would add that it is also the responsibility to think – before you speak. Every right has a concurrent duty, and the more important the right, the more onerous the obligation. It is horrifying to hear elected officials and other limelight individuals saying in public that our president should be killed. If they don't like Trump's policies, then argue against them, but don't advocate his death.

It is embarrassing to hear our fellow Americans screaming obscenities, which are neither thought nor speech. Taboo words and phrases are linguistically interesting in that they originate not the language center of the brain, but rather in the limbic system – they come boiling up out of the brain stem without a single cogent thought behind them.

What's more, actions are not the same as speech, though courts have disagreed with me. Burning flags, throwing rocks through windows, burning effigies are not discourse – they are temper tantrums. If a person can't articulate his grievances in actual language, then he hasn't thought, hasn't convinced anyone in power of the rightness of his cause, and it's likely he doesn't even know what his cause is.

The First Amendment keeps the government from denying us the right to gather in groups, carry placards, chant slogans, sing songs – yes, but the key word in the amendment is "peaceably." Demonstrations we are seeing in the streets these days are not peaceable. Nor are those assembling speaking in any coherent sense. In fact, lately, many such protests have been attempts to deny others their rights to freely assemble and to speak. 

The First Amendment does not protect us from hearing things we find objectionable. We have no right to go through life without being offended. We have no right to be shielded from those with whom we disagree. We have no right to coerce others to agree with us. I am a Christian, and as such, I have an obligation to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with my fellow man. That is the "practice" of my religion. Yet many today think the expression of my gratitude for my free salvation is an effort to "force" my religion on them. "Force" involves violence, not speech.

Speaking of which, does "freedom of religion" apply to jihadi activity? Is Islam even a religion? One of these days, SCOTUS will have to figure that out. The First Amendment really doesn't protect us from anything but the federal government; however, the federal government does have the responsibility to protect its citizens from "all enemies, foreign and domestic." We'll have to wait and see.

How does the First Amendment affect education? It should not have limited what I as a teacher could say in my public-school classroom – my atheist colleagues could say what they thought, but these days, Christian teachers must be careful. Those who think there is any such thing as neutrality are mistaken. If we limit our children's view of the world by excluding God from the classroom, we have taught them, by default, that God isn't. Schools have hidden behind that sloppy thinking for generations.

We cannot protect the Constitution if we don't take the time to think it through, if we don't even know what it says. It is not a bludgeon with which to accost or silence our opponents. It is not an invitation to lie or manipulate. It is meant to defend honorable citizens from a government's tendency to become dishonorable. Our Constitution – the most astounding covenant outside of the Bible – deserves not only "legalization," but reverence, care, and protection.
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Why Do Ex-liar-Clinton Attack 
Dogs Davis and Stephanopoulos Get a Pass?
by Larry Elder 
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DOJ's Bruce Ohr kept Mueller deputy
'in the loop' about anti-Trump dossier, sources say 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ Embattled Justice Department official Bruce Ohr had contact in 2016 with then-colleague Andrew Weissmann, who is now a top Robert Mueller deputy... as well as other senior FBI officials about the controversial anti-Trump  dossier and the individuals behind it, two sources close to the matter told Fox News. The sources said Ohr's outreach about the dossier – as well as its author, ex-British spy Christopher Steele; the opposition research firm behind it, Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS; and his wife Nellie Ohr's work for Fusion – occurred before and after the FBI fired Steele as a source over his media contacts. Ohr's network of contacts on the dossier included: former FBI agent Peter Strzok; former FBI lawyer Lisa Page; former deputy director Andrew McCabe; Weissmann and at least one other DOJ official; and a current FBI agent who worked with Strzok on the Russia case. Weissmann was kept "in the loop" on the dossier, a source said, while he was chief of the criminal fraud division. He is now assigned to Special Counsel Mueller’s team. The list includes several figures who have since attracted the scorn of President Trump as he decries the Russia probe and those involved in its early stages. Trump has been particularly tough on Ohr, given his wife Nellie’s past work for Fusion GPS, as the president alleges bias against him inside the department. Just Thursday morning, Trump complained on Twitter about Nellie Ohr's Fusion work and exclaimed, "Bruce was a boss at the Department of Justice and is, unbelievably, still there!"...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/30/dojs-bruce-ohr-kept-mueller-deputy-in-loop-about-anti-trump-dossier-sources-say.html
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Dots Connecting Quickly: Bruce Ohr Worked With
Andrew Weissmann, While Nellie Ohr Worked For Fusion GPS in 2015
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Last Sunday, Rep. Darrell Issa was being interviewed by Maria Bartiromo about the testimony of Bruce Ohr when Issa...innocuously said that Nellie Ohr was working for Fusion GPS in 2015. Previous to that statement by Issa the timeline for Nellie Ohr working with Fusion GPS began in April of 2016 simultaneous to Fusion beginning the contract work for the liar-Clinton Campaign and sub-contracting of Chris Steele. If the 2015 date was correct, this was a big deal; a VERY BIG deal. Well, today amid other revelations within an excellent report by Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller, the 2015 date is confirmed: If Nellie Ohr began working for Fusion-GPS in “late 2015”, an entire set of prior suspicions now gains a lot more traction. We have long suspected that Fusion-GPS was one of the contractors with access to the FBI/NSA database. The contractors were conducting political opposition research by exploiting the FISA 702(16)(17) process which would be available for counterintelligence purposes; hence the DOJ-National Security Division....
Maryland Islamic Schools Tied to Iranian Regime 
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{ clarionproject.org } ~ A sheikh tied to the Iranian regime is currently teaching at two Maryland Islamic schools and leads a mosque in the state and teaches at another... Clarion Project discovered. In addition, his daughter is posting pro-Hezbollah propaganda that glorifies violent jihad. Sheikh Abdul Jalil Nawee is a Shiite cleric trained at a radical university in Iran. He has been the resident alim (religious leader) of the Idara-e-Jaferia Islamic Center in Burtonsville since November 2013. The facility was described as “one of the largest Islamic Centers on the East Coast.” He was appointed by the mosque’s president, Syed Mohammed Naqvi, after Moulana Rafiq Naqvi fell ill. The Islamic Center that Sheikh Jalil leads also runs the Jaferia Islamic School, a private school that teaches children between the ages of 5 and 15. He is also educating children and teenagers at the Muslim Community School and Alim Academy in Montgomery County, where he teaches classes on the Quran. This educational body also has extensive links to the Iranian regime. The Muslim Community School is for pre-kindergarten through 8th grade and has a pre-school division for children ages two to four. The Alim Academy is for grades 9 through 12... Why is this being allowed when we are not to teach Christianity in our schools. This is totally wrong.  https://clarionproject.org/maryland-islamic-schools-tied-to-the-iranian-regime/
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Oh Dear: More Devastating Leaks From Bruce Ohr Testimony
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ It will be very interesting when the joint committee releases the transcript from Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr... In another article  containing information from Bruce Ohr’s closed-door testimony we highlight two key points (emphasis mine): Kim Strassell – […] Congressional sources tell me that Mr. Ohr revealed Tuesday that he verbally warned the FBI that its source had a credibility problem, alerting the bureau to Mr. Steele’s leanings and motives. He also informed the bureau that Mrs. Ohr was working for Fusion and contributing to the dossier project. The admission that Nellie Ohr was contributing to the dossier is a really important specific point. We always suspected some of the dossier content was attributable to Mrs. Ohr, this confirms that suspicion. Additionally, on the day before Mr. Ohr testified to congress, embarrassingly the New York Times launched a proactive defense surrounding his predicted testimony; within the August 27th article they cited Fusion GPS as a source saying Nellie Ohr never worked on the dossier...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/31/oh-dear-more-devastating-leaks-from-bruce-ohr-testimony/
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Making Iran Sanctions Hit Harder This Time 
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{ bloomberg.com } ~ While the Trump administration’s reimposition of U.S. sanctions on Iran earlier this month grabbed the headlines... a more significant date is Nov. 4, when the truly crippling penalties — including those on Iranian oil — are slated to return. If the sanctions are to have the desired effect on Iran’s economy and behavior, Washington has just weeks to lay the groundwork by issuing clarifications, plugging loopholes, and more actively helping U.S. partners find alternatives to Iranian oil. One of the primary challenges involves Iran’s high-volume sale of a type of ultralight oil known as condensates, which are byproducts of oil and natural-gas production. There are two types:  Lease condensates are derived from the production of crude oil during the fracking process, while plant condensates come from natural gas processing plants and crude oil refineries. Both types are termed “petroleum products” by the U.S. for the purposes of Iran sanctions, but are not considered crude oil. Iran produces and exports a large amount of plant condensates that it often classifies as crude oil. Yet when the Barack scumbag/liar-nObama administration cranked up oil sanctions, a loophole allowed nations to buy Iranian condensates without violating them, which provided the regime with additional cash even as its crude-oil export revenues declined. As reported in the New York Times, this scheme yielded Tehran an estimated $1.5 billion in a three-month period of 2014 alone...
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Why Do Ex-liar-Clinton Attack 
Dogs Davis and Stephanopoulos Get a Pass?
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by Larry Elder

townhall.com } ~ Lanny Davis represents Michael Cohen, the lawyer who secretly taped his then-client, now-President Donald Trump.

If you're keeping score, Davis is the same defense lawyer who represented President liar-Bill Clinton during the investigation by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. To defend liar-Clinton, Davis employed what at the time seemed audacious: a grab-him-by-the-throat-and-rip-his-head-off strategy to vilify Starr. Starr's poll numbers dropped. Davislater admitted, "Whenever I went off the facts and into attacks on Starr, I felt very uncomfortable."

To defend his current client, Davis went on television and said that Cohen has the goods on Trump and can prove Trump directed him to break campaign finance law to pay off Stormy Daniels. Or something like that. Davis' interviewer? George Stephanopoulos.

Yes, this would be the same Stephanopoulos, now ABC News' "chief news anchor," who worked as communications director during the liar-Bill Clinton presidential campaign and as liar-Clinton's senior adviser in the White House. Stephanopoulos worked with Davis to employ the aforementioned scorched-earth, attack-Starr strategy. Shouldn't there have been some sort of disclosure by ABC?

But, hey, today's today. Davis insists he only wants "the truth" to come out about Trump's misdeeds. Davis then went on a one-day whirlwind tour of every news and broadcast network where he pitched a crowdfunding campaign to help pay Cohen's legal bills. The "truth" may set you free, but it is not delivered for free.

Watching Davis and Stephanopoulos discuss the Trump/Cohen/Robert Mueller affair was surreal. These men, while defending liar-Clinton 20 years earlier against an investigation they thought illegitimate and charges they thought bogus, designed the very strategy Trump is employing that Davis and Stephanopoulos now decry. Trump is simply following it, only with far more legitimate reasons to question rationale for the investigation and the goals and biases of some of the investigators and lawyers involved.

In June 1998,Tucker Carlson described the way Davis, Stephanopoulosand others "trashed" Starr to defend liar-Clinton. Carlson wrote: "liar-Clinton campaign chairman James Carville may have been the first liar-Clinton partisan to attack the independent counsel publicly, but it's clear that the anti-Starr propaganda machine had been under construction for some time. As early as 1995, says formerliar-Clinton confidant Dick Morris, George Stephanopoulos and other administration strategists were devising ways to discredit Starr."

Today, Davis and Stephanopoulos just want "truth."

Remember, the Mueller investigation started with a search to determine whether Trump illegally colluded with the Russians to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. Will Stephanopoulos tell his viewers about a story uncovered by the Conservative Review's Jordan Schachtel and One America News Network correspondent Jack Posobiec? Based on their research, BizPac Review reported in a headline, "Lanny Davis Reportedly Making Bank as a Registered Foreign Agent for Putin-Tied Oligarch." The law firm Davis co-founded, Davis Goldberg & Galper, according to Schachtel, "is a registered ACTIVE foreign agent for Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, who is a close ally of Russian pres Vladimir Putin." Schachtel also said Foreign Agents Registration Act documents "show Lanny Davis personally lobbied for Firtash."

One more thing about Davis, Cohen and the infamous dossier. Law professor Paul Butler recently claimed on MSNBC: "The Steele dossier keeps getting corroborated by Mueller and reporters. It says that there were two go betweens, the Trump campaign and Russia. The first one was Paul Manafort, and when Manafort resigned from the campaign, Michael Cohen took it over. So we know Manafort is now just chilling, waiting to get through the second trial so he can get his pardon from Trump. So Cohen is the man, if you believe the dossier." Exactly, if you believe the dossier that Butler just insisted "keeps getting corroborated." Except it isn't.

On another show, Davis said that Cohen was "never, never in Prague," and added, "the dossier, so-called, mentions his name 14 times, one of which is a meeting with Russians in Prague. Fourteen times false."

Twenty years ago, liar-Clinton defenders Davis and Stephanopoulos claimed the President's lies about sex were inconsequential. Gloria Allred called his denial and later admission under oath a "sex lie."

So we've gone from collusion to an investigation on payments to a porn star and a Playboy model. So Trump, an ex-playboy with a flashy lifestyle, who spent $66 million of his own money on the campaign, directed his lawyer to break campaign laws to conceal a payment of $130,000. Whatever one thinks about these alleged affairs, they were consensual. Respected liberal writer Christopher Hitchens wrote a book in 1999, called "No One Left to Lie To," about the liar-Bill Clinton impeachment. Hitchens writes about "believable accusations of rape and molestation" including three cases he knew of where Clinton had been accused of rape. One might have thought such accusations would have aroused the media's curiosity even more than alleged voluntary payments for alleged voluntary affairs.

Maybe some reporter will ask ABC's "chief news anchor" the following question: Do rumors of rape by your ex-boss warrant at least as much curiosity as Trump's so-called hush money about alleged consensual affairs?
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