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The Courage to Think
by Caroline C. Lewis
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Gowdy Gets Heated With Anti-Trump
FBI Agent Strozik: 'I Don't Give a Damn'
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Gowdy questioned Strzok on why specifically he was let go from the Mueller investigation... How long did you talk to him when he let you go? He responded: My recollection it was a short meeting, somewhere between 15 to 30 minutes, probably around 15 minutes. And your testimony is: Bob Mueller did not kick you off because of the content of your texts; he kicked out you off because of some appearance he was worried about, Gowdy said. My testimony — what you asked and what I responded to — is that he kicked me off because of my bias, Strzok responded. I’m stating to you it is not my understanding that he kicked me off because of any bias — that it was done based on the appearance. If you want to represent what you said accurately I’m happy to answer that question, but I don’t appreciate what was originally said being changed... https://rickwells.us/gowdy-anti-trump-strzok/Gohmert and Desantis Discuss Strzok Testimony and Fallout
by sundanceRussia and Iran increasingly threaten Israel's security from Syria
by Yochanan Visser
{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ As Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu arrived in Moscow for the third time in six months to hold “very important talks”... with Russian president Vladimir Putin the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shot down a Syrian or Iranian drone which was already flying in Israeli airspace 10 kilometers. The interception of the drone by a Patriot missile triggered the code red alarm in Israeli communities in the northern Jordan valley and on the Golan Heights. No damages or casualties were reported, however. The new provocation by the Iranian axis in Syria underlined the importance of Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow now that the Iranian-Russian backed pro-Assad coalition is on the verge of launching an offensive to ‘liberate’ the Kuneitra province which borders on Israel. Israeli and Arab media reported on Wednesday that after seizing more than 70 percent of the territory of the Daraa province in southwest Syria and laying siege on Daraa city, where the uprising against Assad started in 2011, the Syrian army and its Shiite allies are now approaching the Israeli border on the Golan Heights...The SCOTUS Confirmation Process Has Gotten Out of Hand
by Alan M. Dershowitz.
Sessions Announces New Taskforce to Tackle Fentanyl
by Charles Fain LehmanThe Courage to Think
In early June, young conservative women gathered at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit to hear from women like Judge Jeanine Pirro, Dana Loesch and Kellyanne Conway along with thought leaders like Professor Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro. Turning Point USA stands as the largest and fastest growing student organization dedicated to fighting socialism and defending free-market principles. Founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk (at 18 years old), the organization has grown to over 1,300 chapters across the country with student training of over 5,000. TPUSA’s communication director, Candice Owens, boldly defends conservative principles and articulately rejects the promotion of “victim mentality” for women and minorities.
The conference room swelled with several hundred young women excited about the future of conservatism and their place in it. Their questions revealed not only the high stakes for being a conservative but their courage to stand for principles despite the consequences.
One young woman asked about how to start a club, knowing that doing so could adversely affect her chances for admission at an elite university. Another girl said that she wore a conservative T-shirt to school and her entire town has boycotted her parents’ business. Some have endured physical violence. Another mentioned that a person at her school posted a suggestion that she commit suicide. It received 500 likes.
The political climate has become increasingly intolerant, vengeful and hateful. No longer being bullied solely by their peers, young conservatives face persecution by teachers, administrators and a culture that seems stacked against them.
However, these young women display a different type of resiliency. While no research can define every individual in a generation, some trends are worth noting. Generation Z, the post-Millennial generation born between 1995-2010, comprises those between the ages of eight and 23. According to Forbes, this generation tends to be more fiscally conservative and entrepreneurial, with 72% of high school students desiring to own a business. They value both independence and independent thinking.
This perhaps accounts for the many young women at the TPUSA conference who described their conservative “conversion” that occurred after reading and listening to reasoned arguments. They are not afraid to “come out” publicly as conservatives.
Though the media long to portray Gen Z as gun control advocates in the mold of David Hogg, they conveniently ignore the conservative voice, Kyle Kashuv, another Parkland shooting survivor, who counters the gun control lobby with reasoned arguments for the 2nd Amendment.
In addition, Kendall Jones, a former college cheerleader and avid hunter, spoke about how, at the age of 19, she became one of the most cyber-bullied teens in the world for posting pictures of her hunts on social media. Kendall has endured death threats and “Kill Kendall Jones” hate pages, emerging as a model of how to be unmoved by the opinions of others.
Thinking independently has less to do with age or generation and more to do with raw courage, bravery and conviction. Yet in any generation, a remnant remains to speak up, stand up and shape up society. The young women at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit pay a high price for their beliefs despite physical, social and cultural abuse. The courage of these young conservative women who think for themselves and stand up for their beliefs should be admired, applauded and emulated. Their courage should inspire all conservatives to turn our faces to the wind and stand boldly for the enduring principles of liberty and freedom.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57050?mailing_id=3624&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3624&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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Trump Reassures NATO After
Winning Concessions
by Jordan Candler
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Gowdy Clashes With Strzok Over Agent’s Impeachment Talk:
‘I Don’t Give a Damn What You Appreciate’
by Paul Crookston http://freebeacon.com/politics/gowdy-strzok-clash-impeachment-dont-give-damn-appreciate/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=019c7dc4e1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-019c7dc4e1-45611665
Nunes Leaves in Middle of Hearing
Following Questions on Russia Probe
{ rickwells.us } ~ dummycrats-Democrats on the House Rules Committee expressed frustration when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes... was allowed to leave a panel hearing on a bill before they could ask questions about his panel’s investigation into Russia’s influence in the 2016 presidential election. dummycrats-Democrats tried to grill Nunes about his committee’s probe while he sat to testify about a bill Wednesday, CNN reported. Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.) began to ask about President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner’s statement to the House Intelligence Committee, according to the report. But Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) interrupted her, CNN reported. He broke up the committee for a recess and later dismissed Nunes before dummycrats-Democrats could ask him any more questions. In all my years on the Rules Committee, I don’t ever recall an instance where any member was prevented from asking questions of a witness, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said in a statement to CNN. “What is Chairman Nunes trying to hide? Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) ripped Nunes for leaving... https://rickwells.us/nunes-leaves-hearing-russia-probe/
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Jim Jordan Discusses Strzok Testimony and Admission
of Receiving Dossier Material from Bruce Ohr
by sundanceRod Rosenstein Drops A Dozen
New Indictments Against Russian Hackers
by Andrew West.
Black Leaders Call for Civility,
Rebuke Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters
by Katrina Trinko.
Trump Reassures NATO After Winning Concessions
The Hill reports, “Trump on Wednesday told other leaders behind closed doors he wants them to spend 4 percent of their GDPs on defense… He later pressed allies to hit the 2-percent goal ‘immediately,’ rather than through a gradual increase. It remains unclear if any commitments were made to accelerate spending. French President Emmanuel Macron denied that NATO allies will increase defense spending beyond previously set goals, according to The Associated Press.” But Trump wouldn’t have said what he did if his goals weren’t accomplished.
As we noted yesterday, Trump’s focus is more about balancing the economic playing field rather than securing military alliances. The tariffs he has imposed are directly targeting unfair trade deals. And based on Trump’s remarks at the NATO summit, he managed to get what he was after. We’ll see exactly how this all plays out in the months ahead.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57073?mailing_id=3624&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3624&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
TheFrontPageCover
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The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back
by Pat Buchanan
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Friday Top Headlines
by Media Editors: In UK, Trump throws fuel onto Britain’s fiery political debate over Brexit (Fox News) .
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Three dummycrats-Democrats introduce “Abolish ICE” proposal, then say they’ll vote no (The Daily Wire)
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Surprise: Senate schedule longest in 47 years, summer break “shortest in decades” (Washington Examiner)
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The DOJ has turned the Russia investigation into a puzzle designed never to be solved (The Federalist)
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Gun-rights groups sue California over registration failures that could result in gun owners being locked up (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Universities block movie that tells “untold story” of Roe v. Wade from filming on campus (The College Fix)
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Humor: More protective MAGA helmets now available for Trump supporters brave enough to go out in public (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Despite its dark past, Berlin continues to appease a regime seeking to murder six million Jews (The Washington Free Beacon)
Louie Gohmert Tells FBI Agent Peter Strzok He’s a Liar –
“Did You Use That Smirk When You Lied To Your Wife”
by sundanceHaley team: China and Russia ‘must
immediately stop’ delivering oil to North Korea
by Joel Gehrke.
Fake History That Inspires Today’s Progressives
by CROSBY KEMPER III & REX SINQUEFIELD.
House puts aside Peter Strzok fight
to authorize US intelligence programs
by Susan Ferrechio.
U.S. Muslim Leaders Mourn Jordanian MB Leader
by John Rossomando
{ investigativeproject.org } ~ A who's who of anti-Israel radical leaders in the U.S. Muslim community mourned last week's death of Ishaq al-Farhan... the co-founder of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood political wing, the Islamic Action Front (IAF). "May God have mercy on the thinker, the Islamic leader, and Jordanian national personality, Professor Dr. Ishaq al-Farhan. He lived for his religion, his Umma and Palestine, from which he descended, and people remember his virtues ... This is a great loss, not only for Jordan, Palestine and the Islamic movement, but also a loss for this whole Umma Islamic nation," wrote American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) National Policy Director Osama Abu Irshaid. Sabri Samirah, who worked as chairman of the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), posted video of al-Farhan's funeral from Jordan on Abu Irshaid's Facebook timeline. IAP was the propaganda arm of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee, and Marzook served on its board. The Palestine Committee was created to serve Hamas politically and financially, court records show. Samirah served as IAF's spokesman during a period of exile in Jordan for due to his pro-Hamas sympathies that began in 2002. He returned to the U.S. in 2014... Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization..
The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back
{ townhall.com } ~ With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pulosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated.
The Republican Party of Bush I and II, of Bob Dole and rino-John McCain, is history. It's not coming back. Unlike the Bourbons after the Revolution and the Terror, after Napoleon and the Empire, no restoration is in the cards.
It is over. The GOP's policies of recent decades -- the New World Order of George H.W. Bush, the crusades for democracy of Bush II -- failed, and are seen as having failed. With Trump's capture of the party they were repudiated.
There will be no turning back.
What were the historic blunders?
It was not supporting tax cuts, deregulation, conservative judges and justices, or funding a defense second to none. Donald Trump has delivered on these as well as any president since Reagan.
The failures that killed the Bush party, and that represented departures from Reaganite traditionalism and conservatism, are:
First, the hubristic drive, despite the warnings of statesmen like George Kennan, to exploit our Cold War victory and pursue a policy of permanent containment of a Russia that had lost a third of its territory and half its people.
We moved NATO into Eastern Europe and the Baltic, onto her doorstep. We abrogated the ABM treaty Nixon had negotiated and moved defensive missiles into Poland. rino-John McCain pushed to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, and even to send U.S. forces to face off against Russian troops.
Thus we got a second Cold War that need never have begun and that our allies seem content to let us fight alone.
Europe today is not afraid of Vladimir Putin reaching the Rhine. Europe is afraid of Africa and the Middle East reaching the Danube.
Let the Americans, who relish playing empire, pay for NATO.
Second, in a reflexive response to 9/11, we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, dumped over the regime in Libya, armed rebels to overthrow Bashar Assad in Syria, and backed Saudi intervention in a Yemeni civil war, creating a humanitarian crisis in that poorest of Arab countries that is exceeded in horrors only by the Syrian civil war.
Since Y2K, hundreds of thousands in the Middle East have perished, the ancient Christian community has all but ceased to exist, and the refugees now number in the millions. What are the gains for democracy from these wars, all backed enthusiastically by the Republican establishment?
Why are the people responsible for these wars still being listened to, rather than confessing their sins at second-thoughts conferences?
The GOP elite also played a crucial role in throwing open U.S. markets to China and ceding transnational corporations full freedom to move factories and jobs there and ship their Chinese-made goods back here, free of charge.
Result: In three decades, the U.S. has run up $12 trillion in merchandise trade deficits -- $4 trillion with China -- and Beijing's revenue from the USA has more than covered China's defense budget for most of those years.
Beijing swept past Italy, France, Britain, Germany and Japan to become the premier manufacturing power on earth and a geo-strategic rival. Now, from East Africa to Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, and from the South and East China Sea to Taiwan, Beijing's expansionist ambitions have become clear.
And where are the Republicans responsible for building up this potentially malevolent power that thieves our technology? Talking of building a Reagan-like Navy to contain the mammoth they nourished.
Since the Cold War, America's elites have been exhibiting symptoms of that congenital blindness associated since Rome with declining and falling empires.
While GOP grass roots have begged for measures to control our bleeding southern border, they were regularly denounced as nativists by party elites, many of whom are now backing Trump's wall.
For decades, America's elites failed to see that the transnational moment of the post-Cold War era was passing and an era of rising nationalism and tribalism was at hand.
"We live in a time," said U2's Bono this week, "when institutions as vital to human progress as the United Nations are under attack."
The institutions Bono referenced -- the U.N., EU, NATO -- all trace their roots to the 1940s and 1950s, a time that bears little resemblance to the era we have entered, an era marked by a spreading and desperate desire of peoples everywhere to preserve who and what they are.
No, Trump didn't start the fire.
The world was ablaze with tribalism and was raising up authoritarians to realize nationalist ends -- Xi Jinping, Putin, Narendra Modi in India, Erdogan in Turkey, Gen. el-Sissi in Egypt -- before he came down that elevator.
And so the elites who were in charge when the fire broke out, and who failed to respond and refused even to recognize it, and who now denounce Trump for how he is coping with it, are unlikely to be called upon again to lead this republic.
TheFrontPageCover
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Care about those poor, helpless and
hopeless Palestinians? Immediately
end their United Nations relief
by Caroline B. Glick.
Peter Strzok Denies Bias Affected His Work, Claims He
Sent Anti-Trump Text Messages ‘Out of Deep Patriotism’
by JACK CROWE.
Jim Jordan Questions FBI Agent Peter Strzok
About Steele Dossier and Contacts With Media
by sundanceLegislation to Combat scumbagp-Soros-Funded
Antifa In US At Federal Level
by PAMELA GELLERFBI agent Strzok’s hearing hijacked
by angry dummycrats-Democrats
{ gopusa.com } ~ Embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok’s Thursday appearance in front of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees was disrupted when he refused to answer questions... and angry dummycrats-Democrats tried to hijack the hearing. House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte threatened Strzok with criminal liability if he refused to answer a question from Rep. Trey Gowdy, as Strzok insisted that FBI lawyers counseled him not to answer any questions about ongoing investigations. “Mr. Strzok, you are under subpoena and are required to answer the question,” Goodlatte asserted... http://www.gopusa.com/?p=50134?omhide=true
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Gowdy Slams Strzok While Dems Cheer Claim
That Anti-Trump Bias Is Rooted in ‘Patriotism’
by Rusty
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Nowhere was the partisan and obstructionist nature of the dummycrats-Democrat Party more obviously displayed than at this morning’s congressional hearing with Peter Strzok... While Republicans were seeking and demanding answers for the FBI agent’s damning biased anti-Trump text messages, dummycrats- Democrats were stalling, trying to prevent him from answering, and actively cheering some of his testimony. Strzok played key roles in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s original Russia probe as well as the liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation while referring to Trump in vulgar terms and openly discussing that his agency would “stop” his Presidency. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) got involved in a testy exchange with the combative interviewee very early on. Gowdy opened with comments indicating that Strzok’s vast text messages with his lover, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, demonstrated “textbook bias” against President Trump, something that should never be glaringly apparent for someone involved in an investigation of that person....
Care about those poor, helpless and
hopeless Palestinians? Immediately
end their United Nations relief
by Caroline B. Glick
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ On Monday, seven former US ambassadors to the UN sent a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisting that the administration restore full funding to UNRWA, the UN agency that funds so-called Palestinian refugees.
Since UNRWA was established in 1949, the US has given nearly $5 billion to the agency tasked with perpetuating refugee status among descendants of Arabs who left Israel in the 1948-1949 pan-Arab invasion.
In January, then-secretary of state Rex Tillerson informed the UN that the US was slashing its assistance to UNRWA by 50%, from $260 million to $130 million.
At the time, citing UNRWA’s support for terrorism and economic corruption, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley recommended ending US financial assistance for the agency outright.
The issue of UNRWA, and the US’s involvement with the group, hasn’t received much attention in the intervening months. But now that the former ambassadors have brought it up, it is worth taking a second look at UNRWA and considering whether they are right, and what their bipartisan position tells us about the bipartisan consensus that controlled US policy toward Israel and the Palestinians until President Donald Trump took office.
UNRWA and its supporters present the agency as an organization dedicated to supporting Palestinian refugees. But this is a lie.
UNRWA is a political warfare organization that deliberately perpetuates the misery of innocent people.
It indoctrinates them from the cradle to the grave to support and engage in terrorism and genocide against the Jewish state and its people. It exists not to help the descendants of Arabs who left Israel at its inception, it exists as a tool of political warfare in the never-ending war to annihilate the Jewish state. As then-Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser said in 1960, “If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist.”
UNRWA’s distinctively non-humanitarian purpose is baked in. Refugees worldwide are helped by the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees. UNHCR targets its services to real refugees – people who meet the definition of the Refugee Convention of having lost their state home due to persecution. UNRWA targets its services to people of Palestinian descent it calls “refugees” for political reasons; fewer than 1% of the UNRWA refugees would actually meet the Refugee Convention definition.
UNHCR finds refugees and gives them help; UNRWA finds people who need help and makes them refugees.
The UNHCR is responsible for helping refugees find asylum and settle in another country. Today it cares for nearly 66 million refugees worldwide. It has one staffer for every 6,000 refugees.
UNRWA, in contrast, is responsible for preventing Palestinian refugees from gaining asylum or resettling anywhere. It is responsible for 5.2 million refugees and has one staffer for every 186 refugees.
Over the past 70 years, UNHCR has permanently resettled tens of millions of refugees. It found permanent homes for 189,300 refugees in 2016 alone.
UNRWA has resettled no refugees in its 69-year history.
It is now responsible for the fifth generation of descendants of the Arabs who left Israel in 1948-49.
Every dollar the US transfers to UNRWA is a dollar used to perpetuate this misery. And it is arguably a dollar spent in breach of US law. According to the US Law on Derivative Refugee Status, spouses and children of refugees can apply for derivative status as refugees. Grandchildren are explicitly ineligible for that status. But by funding UNRWA, the US funds an agency that has required the perpetuation of refugee status of the Arab refugees from 1948-49 for five generations.
For years, then-US senator from Illinois Mark Kirk tried to compel the State Department to reveal how many Palestinian refugees actually left Israel during the pan-Arab invasion. Due to his efforts, in 2013, the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved an amendment to the annual State Department foreign operations appropriations bill requiring the State Department to report how many of the 5 .2 million Palestinians on UNRWA’s rolls were actual refugees.
Rather than reveal the number, which is estimated to stand at 20,000, or 1% of the number UNRWA claims, the State Department classified the figure in 2015. It still refuses to release it.
Former president Barack liar-nObama’s administration’s position was to accept UNRWA’s numbers as true. The liar-nObama State Department insisted that any accounting for the actual number of refugees or attempt to remove the millions of “refugees” who have been Jordanian citizens for most of the past 70 years from its refugee rolls, would be detrimental for chances of peace.
That is, despite the fact that during the 2008 presidential race liar-nObama said he did not support the Palestinian demand that UNRWA’s “refugees” be permitted to immigrate to Israel and, as Nasser said, cause Israel to “cease to exist,” his administration’s actual policy was to legitimize this position. By refusing to reveal how many Arabs who left their homes in Israel in the 1948-49 pan-Arab invasion of Israel receive support from UNRWA, liar-nObama enabled the Palestinians to insist that more than 5.2 million people, all but 20,000 of whom have never stepped foot in Israel and have no ties to the country, should be permitted to enter Israel as citizens and so destroy the Jewish state.
UNRWA’s existential rejection of Israel’s right to exist is not the only reason it is a deeply problematic, indeed, toxic organization. On a daily basis, UNRWA personnel and facilities are used to advance the physical annihilation of Israel.
UNRWA schools and clinics in Gaza have been used repeatedly by Hamas to store missiles and rockets and to launch projectile attacks on Israel. Several of their employees are senior Hamas terrorists. In the past year and a half, two senior UNRWA employees in Gaza were elected to senior leadership positions in Hamas. Funding UNRWA funds Hamas.
As multiple researchers have copiously documented over decades, UNRWA schools indoctrinate Palestinian children to hate Israel and Jews and to seek their annihilation. UNRWA employees throughout the Middle East praise terrorists, praise Nazis, and call for the annihilation of the Jewish people. By funding UNRWA, the US pays their salaries.
This brings us to the seven US ambassadors and their letter to Pompeo.
Former UN ambassadors Thomas Pickering and Edward Perkins, who served under president George H.W. Bush; Madeline Albright and Bill Richardson, who served under president liar-Bill Clinton; John Negroponte, who served under George W. Bush; and Samantha Power and Susan Rice who served under President Barack liar-nObama, claimed in their letter that funding cuts “put into question the ability of UNRWA to continue to deliver education and healthcare services to millions of people.”
Oddly, they think this is a bad thing.
But it is a good thing.
Consider the case of Hamas terror master Suhail al-Hindi. Hindi was elected to a senior leadership position in the terror group in 2011 and reelected in 2017.
During this entire period, Hindi worked as principal of an UNRWA high school and chairman of the teachers’ union for UNRWA schools in Gaza.
UNRWA only fired him from his position as principal in 2017. For six years the agency ignored the problem hoping everyone would forget or not notice.
Why do the former ambassadors want US taxpayers to support a school system run by the likes of Hindi? Then there are the clinics they express such concern for.
During the course of Hamas’s 2014 war against Israel, on July 31, a team of commandos from the Maglan unit entered an UNRWA clinic in Khan Younis to seal an attack tunnel that was dug out from its floor.
Three soldiers, St.-Sgt. Matan Gotlieb, St.-Sgt. Omer Chai and St.-Sgt. Guy Algernaty, were killed when the clinic exploded on top of them. Twenty other soldiers were wounded in the blast.
The IDF discovered afterwards that Hamas-UNRWA constructed the clinic not only as the starting point of an attack tunnel, but as a booby trap. Twelve barrels, each containing 80 kg. of explosives were built into the walls.
Why do the ambassadors wish to build more UNRWA clinics? This then brings us to the question of the seven former envoys’ motivation in writing the letter in the first place. The seven wrote that ending US financial support for UNRWA will have “national security ramifications for our closest allies, including Israel and Jordan.”
This is true enough. But at least in Israel’s case, those ramifications would be positive. The less money UNRWA has, the less damage it can do to the Palestinians and to Israel. With less money, UNRWA can teach fewer Palestinians that they should strive to become suicide bombers. With less money, they can build fewer booby trapped clinics and fewer attack tunnels under the floors of their examination rooms.
With less money, UNRWA becomes a less attractive option for millions of Arabs for whom accepting cradle-to-grave welfare payments from UNRWA has substituted work as an economic model. “Employed” on the UNRWA dole, they have been able to take low paying jobs as terrorists.
Obviously, as former UN ambassadors, the seven signatories know all of this. So obviously, they weren’t motivated to write due to some sort of deep seated desire to improve the welfare of the Palestinians. They were also clearly not motivated by genuine concern for Israel’s security, much less for the cause of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Indeed, given what we know – and what they know – about UNRWA, it is impossible to attribute any positive justification to their actions. Rather, the only logical explanation for their decision to sign and send the letter to Pompeo is that they want to perpetuate US assistance to UNRWA because they like what it does. They think it is a good idea to doom Palestinians to perpetual misery and ensure that they will never, ever accept Israel’s right to exist in secure borders unmolested by war and terrorism and demonization.
That is, like UNRWA, the seven former senior diplomats were motivated by rank hostility to Israel. This is remarkable.
Power, Rice, Pickering, Perkins, Albright, Richardson and Negroponte represent the top tier of Washington’s bipartisan foreign policy clique. Together, they have played key roles in shaping US policy towards Israel for 30 years. And they like UNRWA.
Pompeo should thank them for their letter. He should thank them for reminding him to reconsider the administration’s position on the UN agency. And then he should follow Haley’s advice from January and end all US funding to UNRWA.
Furthermore, Pompeo should declassify the data on the actual number of Palestinian refugees and he should call for their cases to be dealt with by the UNHCR, without prejudice. And then he should announce that out of concern for the welfare of the Palestinians and in the interests of peace and regional security in the Middle East, the US believes the time has come to shut UNRWA down completely.
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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
Oh, for the love of GOD…what will liberals be offended by next?
Apparently, they are now pretending to be offended by…Cowboys. That’s right…cowboys…as in the Wyoming Cowboys, the namesake of the University OF Wyoming.
Here’s the deal…
The University of Wyoming has unveiled a new slogan, “The world needs more cowboys,” and critics, including liberal snowflake faculty members and Native American whoo-whoo Indian groups, are calling the new slogan…sexist…racist and counterproductive to university recruitment…because it excludes at least 80 different genders that liberals have been pretending exist, and people of color.
Associate professor and liberal indoctrination specialist, Ellen Currano, claimed she honestly thought the new slogan was a joke until she looked it up and discovered that “The world needs more cowboys” was indeed a serious slogan.
Oddly, I felt the same way regarding Currano’s claim to be offended by the slogan…that both she, and it were jokes, until I looked it up…
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The dummycrats-Democratic
Party’s Christian problem
by DAVID LIMBAUGH
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Peter Strzok Testifies To Joint Session of Congress
by sundanceLiberman: Israel should close its Irish embassy
by TOVAH LAZAROFF
{ jpost.com } ~ Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman called on Israel to close its embassy in Dublin in response to the Irish Senate vote... to advance legislation that would criminalize trade with east Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the West Bank. On Thursday, the Foreign Ministry met with Irish Ambassador Alison Kelly. The foreign ministry summoned her for a conversation to protest the legislation’s advancement, even though Ireland’s government has opposed it. No further action was taken after the meeting. "There is no point in summoning the Irish ambassador to Israel for a reprimand,” Liberman wrote on his twitter account. “Israel should immediately close its embassy in Dublin. We will not turn the other cheek to those who boycott us,” Liberman wrote. Ireland has made it clear that it opposes any boycotts against areas of Israel within the pre-1967 lines. It has vigorously opposed any Israeli activity over those lines. But its opposition to the private member’s bill is more about strategy and legality. It believes that the legislation runs counter to European Union law and would harm its ability to be involved in any Middle East peace process...rino-McCain may resign to push
Kavanaugh confirmation through Senate
{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ With a tight battle looming to confirm Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice... one Republican senator may make a sacrifice to push the nominee through. Sen. rino-John McCain (R-AZ) could finally step down — and have someone appointed in his place — if he is not well enough to make the trip to Washington to vote in favor of the nominee, ABC analyst Alex Castellanos reported on Tuesday. “There’s some word that if rino-McCain is not able to vote and his vote is needed, he might resign and let someone appoint a senator who would support this judge,” Castellanos said. If rino-McCain were to step down, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, would appoint a replacement...
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Trump shares letter from
Kim Jong Un heralding start of 'meaningful journey'
by Naomi Lim.
Rod Rosenstein requests 93 federal
prosecutors help vet Brett Kavanaugh: Report
by Diana Stancy Correll.
The dummycrats-Democratic
Party’s Christian problem
by DAVID LIMBAUGH
{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ People on the left are outraged when you question their patriotism, their dedication to the nation as founded and their respect for the Constitution as originally written, but they continually vindicate our concerns.
The most recent example is the left’s unhinged mania at Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s inclusion on President Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court appointees.
In times of perceived crisis — and this is certainly one of those times for leftists — they show their colors, and you can color them militantly opposed to Barrett, in large part because of her Catholicism.
And guess what else. Rumor is that she frequents a Bible study, as well.
Forget Barrett’s distinguished career and formidable legal credentials. The leftist media went bonkers, unapologetically displaying their bigotry when it comes to Christians.
One commentator pointed out that Barrett “went to Notre Dame. She is very Catholic.”
Get that? She’s not only an evil Catholic; she’s very much a Catholic.
Another pundit said, “It’s kind of a dubious position, but I’m sure that if Trump does pick a woman, she’ll be known as the Aunt Lydia of the Supreme Court” — a derogatory reference to the villainous character in the popular show The Handmaid’s Tale.
This is reminiscent of Dianne Fein-stein’s astounding alarm, expressed during Barrett’s appellate court confirmation hearing in the Senate, that Barrett’s Catholic “dogma lives loudly within” her.
When leftists aren’t denying their prejudice, they often selectively cite Scripture to “prove” that Jesus Christ was a social justice warrior or that the Bible mandates open borders.
Oh, yes, and Jesus didn’t judge people as we dastardly conservatives do. In a 2010 piece, liberal professor Michael Shermer quoted the oft-misinterpreted passage in which Jesus begins, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Then Shermer declared:
Would any red-blooded, gun-toting, Hummer-driving, hard-drinking, Bible-toting conservative today say anything like this? (Matthew 5:43-44): “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
It is astounding that leftists see themselves as tolerant and nonjudgmental, but I’ll let their record speak for itself on this.
But when they’re not cherry-picking Scripture to shame immigration hawks or to pander to Christian voters during political campaigns, they show us another side.
I’m not saying that no leftists are Christians, but I am saying that far too many of them show a hostility toward Christianity and Bible-believing Christians. It’s more than just a disdain for political conservatives who are also churchgoing Christians.
My 2003 book, Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity, documents the left’s pattern of discrimination against Christian influences in culture, Christian values and Christian religious liberty.
When I appeared on “Hannity & Colmes” for an interview on the book, I had great difficulty getting an airing with liberal co-host Alan Colmes because he couldn’t get over the subtitle.
I was friendly with Alan, and he was respectful, but he insisted on my defending his inferred premise that I was saying that liberals can’t be Christian.
As I explained to Alan, I would never suggest that liberals can’t be Christian, and indeed, I know many who are. I happen to believe that in many cases, their political worldview is at odds with a biblical worldview, but I don’t presume to challenge the authenticity of their faith.
No — my point is that irrespective of their deep-felt faith or lack thereof, they too often are at odds with biblical Christianity and Bible-believing Christians in the media, at universities and other schools, in our culture, and in the political sphere.
And is it any coincidence that the overwhelming number of mocking atheists on Twitter, in my admittedly anecdotal experience, are flaming leftists? I don’t think so.
Barack liar-nObama infamously disparaged Bible-and gun-toting Americans who live in small Midwestern towns.
“It’s not surprising,” said liar-nObama, that “they get bitter and cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
That statement set off alarm bells for me for many reasons, not the least of which was that Christians are supposed to cling to Jesus Christ. Their faith in him is central to the religion.
There is not only no shame in trusting and depending on Christ; it is essential as the road to their salvation and their Christian living. What’s more telling than liar-nObama’s appalling statement is that he was wholly unaware what he was revealing about himself with it.
It’s not just liar-nObama but the dummycrats-Democratic Party at large. Is its frequent disrespect for the God of the Bible, Christian home-schoolers and the constitutionally protected religious liberty of Christians indicative of something or just a matter of my imagination?
How about dummycrats-Democrats’ hostility to voluntary prayer in public schools, their selective excising of Christian history from public school textbooks, their allergy to Christian-themed hymns in public schools or their dislike of Christmas displays in the public square?
How about leftist Hollywood’s routine depiction of Christians as fanatical lunatics? Remember when thedummycrats-Democratic National Committee denounced God in three votes and took the word and concept of God out of the party platform at the 2012 convention?
If you don’t like my anecdotal impressions, what do you make of the Pew Research Center’s reporting that just 45 percent of dummycrats-Democrats believe in the God of the Bible and a significantly lower percentage of white Democrats do?
According to Pew, “in their beliefs about God, nonwhitedummycrats-Democrats more closely resemble Republicans than white dummycrats-Democrats.”
This fact alone, coupled with Kanye West’s admiration for Donald Trump, should have dummycrats-Democrats quaking in their boots — but I digress.
If dummycrats-Democrats don’t want to be perceived as being anti-Christian in their attitudes and policies, they’d better regroup, because plenty of people have taken notice.
You can’t convince me they’re unconcerned about it, or they wouldn’t spend so much time defending themselves against the charge.
They definitely don’t want Middle America to believe these things about them, so they’ll continue to deny their prejudice during election season, but one of these days, to quote one of their Christian icons, their chickens will come home to roost.
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Social Security, Medicaid
Rapidly Nearing Collapse
by Louis DeBroux
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Unleash the Potential of Federal Lands
by Daniel Di Martino.
Ethiopia-Eritrea: A New Hope for Peace
by Ahmed Charai.
Why Do Palestinian Leaders Oppose Helping Their People?
by Bassam Tawil.
Justice Dept pulls virtual trigger for online 3D guns
by BOB UNRUH.
liar-nObama-Nominated Judge
Orders Return to Catch and Release Policy
by Shawn
{ fixthisnation.com } ~ liar-Obama-nominated Judge Dolly Gee dealt a blow to both the Trump administration and the rule of law on Monday with a ruling that orders a return to the failed... unethical, illegal catch-and-release policies that have allowed illegal immigration to get to the unmanageable state it is in today. Gee ruled that when an illegal immigrant crosses into the U.S. with a minor child, they must be processed and immediately released to await their court date. In practice, this means that very few of these migrants will ever be seen by immigration officials again. They will descend into the shadows and wait until we once again have a legislature and/or president who deems them fit for amnesty. Gee’s ruling comes about as a result of a case in which the Department of Justice asked the court for a revision to the 1997 Flores decision, in which the court ruled that child migrants could not be detained for more than 20 days. In order to get around the family separation crisis that led to so many terrible headlines, the Trump administration wanted to revise that ruling so that children and adults could be kept in detention together, solving two problems at once. In her decision on Monday, however, Gee stomped on any possibility of a compromise. The only solution thus left on the table is a return to catch-and-release; in other words, the abdication of American immigration law....
Social Security, Medicaid Rapidly Nearing Collapse
Several recent reports combine to paint a frightening picture for America’s economic future if corrective action is not taken swiftly.
The first is a recent report by the Social Security Board of Trustees. It reveals that for the first time since 1982, the program must dip into its trust fund to pay benefits because the fund is now running a $200 billion annual deficit even as the number of beneficiaries (60 million and rising, with an average of 10,000 Baby Boomers a day retiring through 2029) continues to skyrocket.
This skyrocketing increase in beneficiaries is occurring at a time when Americans are having fewer children, or none at all (a staggering 60 million children have been aborted since Roe v. Wade, equivalent to killing the entire populations of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Georgia). These are children who will never live to enter the workforce or have families.
When FDR established Social Security, there were 42 workers for every beneficiary. Today that ratio is 3:1 and quickly approaching 2:1. There are simply not enough workers to fund the full benefits for 60-80 million retirees.
Even worse, bankruptcy is even nearer than we thought. According to researchers from Harvard and Dartmouth, the Social Security Trustees have been using antiquated accounting methods (which they describe as “steering by sextant and dead reckoning” rather than using “global-positioning-systems”) and outdated demographic information to paint a rosier picture of Social Security’s future than is warranted. Updated projections from the Trustees report that the program will be insolvent within 16 years, but with their outdated accounting methods, insolvency is likely to occur within the next 10 years.
Politicians talk of a Social Security “trust fund,” but as the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein notes, the trust fund is “an accounting fiction that pretends that spending doesn’t ultimately all come from the bank accounts of taxpayers.” He further notes that, with politicians borrowing from it for decades to cover general budget expenditures, the “trust fund” is nothing more than $3 trillion in IOUs, meaning the money is gone unless we raise taxes on current workers to repay the IOUs.
This is nothing more than “generational theft.” We must either slash benefits to current retirees by 25% or more, or raise payroll taxes significantly on current workers, placing a tremendous burden on working families.
Up through 2010, retirees received more in benefits than they paid in contributions. That year, a couple received about $20,000 less than they paid in, and that ratio is getting worse each year. That is compounded by the fact that inflation drains even more from retirement accounts. According to a new study, Social Security benefits, due to rising costs and inflation, provide 34% less purchasing power than just 18 years ago.
Clearly, the answer is private retirement accounts, which not only accrue wealth far greater than Social Security benefits (which are now losing money for retirees), with even modest returns on investment “allow[ing] middle-income earners to retire on six-figure incomes,” but unlike Social Security, there are property rights in private accounts.
Americans would be shocked and outraged to discover that the Supreme Court has twice ruled that there is no right to Social Security benefits, regardless of how long or how much has been paid into the system. In Helvering v. Davis (1937), the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Social Security, agreeing with Asst. AG Robert Jackson’s argument: “There is no contract created by which any person becomes entitled… [to] a claim for any particular sum of money. Not only is there no contract implied but it is expressly negatived, because it is provided in the act, section 1104, that it may be repealed, altered, or amended in any of its provisions at any time.”
The Supreme Court further expanded that ruling in Flemming v. Nestor (1960), concurring with the government’s argument that a beneficiary acquires no property right to benefits, stating that the claim that Social Security benefits are “fully accrued property rights” is “wholly erroneous.” For those who still doubt that Congress can reduce or even eliminate benefits at any time, the Social Security Administration states it right there on its website.
So, barring a rare display of political bravery, which President George W. Bush and Speaker Paul Ryan were politically crucified for attempting with partial privatization, Congress will kick the can down the road until the house of cards collapses. Social Security is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme, legal only because it is run by the government and more despicable because government forces us to participate in the fraud.
The situation with Social Security is bad enough, but Medicaid is even worse, projected to be insolvent in just eight years. Couple this with a $20 trillion national debt, rising federal spending and an estimated $91 trillion in unfunded entitlement liabilities, and the situation is dire. The time to act is now, before the wolf eats us.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57028?mailing_id=3621&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3621&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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Trump Takes on NATO
by Political Editors
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Goodlatte and Gowdy Give Lisa Page Attorney Three Options
to Avoid Contempt Charges Scheduled for Friday 13th
by sundanceCongress Needs to Make Changes to the Final NDAA
by Hayden Morse.
Congress Renews Push to
Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terror Group
by Adam KredoGOP Prepares for New Civil War
with ‘Unmasking ANTIFA’ Act of 2018
by Andrew WestUnited States Designates Iran-backed
Militant Group in Bahrain a Terrorist Organization
by Hunter Lovell.
Trump Takes on NATO
by Political Editors: If we’ve learned anything about President Donald Trump, it’s that he hates bad deals. He especially hates those bad deals that are costing the American taxpayer. Trump has repeatedly blasted how unfairly the U.S. has been treated in international trade. These unfair trade deals have been his primary justification for imposing tariffs. But Trump has also voiced criticism of America’s historical military alliances, specifically in regards to the U.S. having borne the lion’s share of defense costs. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in particular has been one of Trump’s favorite targets, as he again made clear last week in Great Falls, Montana, stating at a rally, “I’m going to tell NATO, ‘You got to start paying your bills. The United States is not going to take care of everything.’”
On Tuesday, Trump headed to the NATO summit where many of Europe’s leaders have been wondering just how serious he is about balancing the scales. If last month’s G7 summit indicated anything, it’s that Trump will not be moved simply because of historical precedent. For Trump, the U.S. has been getting a raw deal and he intends to rectify it. But it would be a mistake to see this as simply a play by Trump to get NATO allies to spend more on their military defense. For Trump, this ultimately is about rebalancing the U.S.‘ economic relationship with Europe.
After arriving at the NATO summit, it didn’t take the president long to deliver his message. Trump once again aired his grievance to NATO’s European leaders that the U.S. was “spending far too much” on defense. But Trump aimed his most pointed criticism at Germany. Speaking to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump said, “Germany, as far as I’m concerned, is captive to Russia because it’s getting so much of its energy from Russia. Explain that. We’re supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.” Trump added, “I think it’s very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where we’re supposed to be guarding against Russia.”
Trump was referencing a pipeline deal that Germany and Russia have brokered. Germany is the European Union’s leading importer of natural gas from Russia, amounting to 40% of the country’s annual natural gas purchases. Trump further noted, “The former chancellor of Germany is head of the pipeline company that’s supplying the gas. You tell me, is that appropriate? I’ve been complaining about this from the time I got here.”
Trump’s complaint is legitimate and NATO nations known it. But like when a new boss comes in calling for changes to an underperforming, recalcitrant company, the old management will often chafe angrily against those demands. While several European leaders have expressed concerns that Trump is not committed to NATO, the facts simply don’t support this accusation, as White House officials recently noted that Trump had done more to secure NATO allies than Barack liar-nObama did in his “first six years in office.” For example, it was Trump who gave the green light to supply Ukraine with long-requested weapons to defend itself against Russian aggression, something liar-nObama repeatedly refused to do. Far from abandoning NATO, Trump is working to reform it, to whip it back into shape. And in so doing, he’s rebalancing our military alliance commitments with NATO nations as well as working to pave the way for a level economic relationship between the U.S. and Europe.
According to NATO’s defense spending agreement, member nations are to spend 2% of their GDP on defense. Below is a graph showing where nations currently stand. (Note: Not all NATO nations are represented on the graph. However, all those nations that meet the defense spending obligation are represented.)
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57032?mailing_id=3621&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3621&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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Vulnerable dummycrats-Democrats
Should Hope for GOP Unity on Kavanaugh
by Marc A. Thiessen
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Grassley, Meadows find more evidence of political bias at FBI as Strzok, Page summoned to testify (CNS News)
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Jim Jordan targeted by deep-state-tied group in Ohio State abuse scandal, Matt Gaetz says (Washington Examiner)
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Good news: Taking the task “to serve and protect” to the next level: Pasco firefighters help save man, then return to save his lawn (Tampa Bay Times)
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Humor: New study reveals humanity just one “coexist” bumper sticker away from world peace (The Babylon Bee)
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Sanctuary Cities | America’s Safest Space for Outlaws
by MICHELLE MALKIN
{ crtv.com } ~ Illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes are being set free to roam the streets... And the results of these Sanctuary City policies are disastrous for law-abiding American citizens. We talk to Brian McCann whose brother was murdered by a convicted illegal alien and hear his pleas to lawmakers to enforce immigration policy. We hear from Utah Senator Mike Lee on the importance of rule of law and interview Robert Law from the Federation for American Immigration Reform about the need to overhaul our visa system. Finally, we sit down with investigative reporter Michele McPhee who found evidence that officials turned a blind eye to the Tsarnaev brothers before they bombed the Boston marathon.
dummycrats-Dems’ Derangement Over Kavanaugh
by Lloyd Billingsley.
EIA: U.S. Shortly to Become
“the World’s Leading Producer of Crude oil”
by Bob Adelmann
{ thenewamerican.com } ~ The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) proclaimed on Tuesday that, if its forecasts are correct, “the United States will average nearly 12 million barrels a day (mbd) … in 2019 … making the U.S. the world’s leading producer of crude oil.” Those forecasts could understate the U.S. oil industry’s production, as it builds into its calculations the present bottlenecks of pipeline capacity, being experienced especially in the Permian Basin. One month ago, IHS Markit, the global information marketplace, focused on what’s happening in the Permian Basin and concluded that, even with those bottlenecks currently slowing the flow of crude from wellheads to refineries along the Gulf Coast, it expects a “stunning” increase in production there between now and 2023. Total crude-oil production will nearly double over that time to 5.4 mbd once the 41,000 new wells and $308 billion in new investment have been completed. Said Daniel Yergin, IHS Markit’s vice chairman: “In the past 24 months, production from just this one region — the Permian — has grown far more than any other entire country in the world. Add in another 3 mbd by 2023 — more than the total present-day production of Kuwait — and you have a level of production that exceeds the current production of every OPEC nation, except Saudi Arabia.”...
dummycrats-Democrats Release List Of All The
Awesome Questions Republicans Asked Peter Strzok
by Chuck RossRyan Warns Ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Over Defying Subpoena
{ newsmax.com } ~ House Speaker Paul Ryan is warning former FBI lawyer Lisa Page that she must appear for a private interview with two House committees... investigating the Justice Department or the House could take action against her. Page's attorney said late Tuesday that she would not appear for a private interview Wednesday with the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees, despite a subpoena. In response, House Judiciary Chairman Robert Goodlatte said Page has known for months about an interview, and the committee will use "all tools at our disposal" to obtain it. If a witness does not respond to a subpoena, the full House can vote to hold that person in contempt of Congress. Ryan said Wednesday the House will "do what we need to do to protect this branch of government" and that he stands behind Goodlatte. "A subpoena to testify before Congress is not optional, it's mandatory," Ryan said...
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Vulnerable dummycrats-Democrats Should Hope for GOP Unity on Kavanaugh
by Marc A. Thiessen
It is difficult to imagine any Republican senator opposing President Trump’s nomination to the Supreme Court of Brett M. Kavanaugh, a judge with impeccable credentials, strong intellect and sterling character. If Republicans stay united, Kavanaugh’s confirmation as the next associate justice is assured. And no one is praying harder for Republican unity than the three dummycrats-Democratic senators — Joe Manchin III (WV), Heidi Heitkamp (ND) and Joe Donnelly (IN) — who voted to confirm Justice Neil M. Gorsuch and who are up for reelection this fall in states Donald Trump won by double digits.
A Supreme Court fight is already a nightmare for these vulnerable dummycrats-Democrats. The Left understands that Kavanaugh’s nomination is an existential threat to its activist judicial agenda, so it is going to throw everything it has at him in a multimillion-dollar sliming. The confirmation hearings are going to make the infamous Robert H. Bork hearings seem like a kumbaya session by comparison.
Caught in the crossfire are Manchin, Heitkamp and Donnelly, all of whom were hoping to steer a steady course down the middle to reelection but will now have to spend the next couple of months getting pushed and pulled by both sides. The dummycrats-Democrats’ left-wing base will demand that they vote “no” on Kavanaugh, while the trio’s pro-Trump constituents will demand they vote “yes.” And the confirmation fight will dominate the final months of their campaigns.
That’s a nightmare. But so long as Republicans are united, Manchin, Heitkamp and Donnelly more or less get a free vote. They won’t pay much of a price if they end up as the 51st, 52nd and 53rd votes confirming Trump’s nominee, adding a bipartisan veneer to the final vote. But if any Republicans defect, the nightmare becomes a disaster, because each of these red-state dummycrats-Democrats suddenly becomes the deciding vote. That is the last thing they want. If any dummycrats-Democrats provide the swing vote that puts Trump’s nominee on the High Court, many on the Left will be furious and abandon them on Election Day. But if they are the deciding vote against Trump’s nominee, then voters in their states — which all voted for Trump decisively — would be more energized and determined to throw them out of office. It’s a no-win situation.
Normally, it is the job of a party’s Senate leadership to protect vulnerable incumbents by giving them political cover to do what they need to do to win reelection. But in this case, the dummycrats-Democratic leadership seems to be throwing these three senators under the bus. Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Ill., the No. 2 dummycrats-Democrat in the Senate, suggested on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this past weekend that these vulnerable red-statedummycrats-Democrats should sacrifice their reelection to stop Trump’s nominee. “They understand it’s a historic decision,” he said. “It’s about more than the next election.”
That is unprecedented. scumbag-Durbin just told these dummycrats-Democrats to commit political suicide. It is shocking that one of its own leaders just gave the left-wing base license to demand that these senators vote in such a way that will virtually guarantee the loss of their seats. Don’t expect these senators to forget it if they are still in office for the next leadership election.
Red-state dummycrats-Democrats want to get this vote over with as quickly as possible. A delayed vote could backfire terribly. Right now, dummycrats-Democrats enjoy a significant enthusiasm advantage in the 2018 midterm elections. In a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll last month, 63% of dummycrats- Democrats rate their interest level as a “9 or 10” on a 10-point scale, while only 47% of Republicans do the same. Any delay in Kavanaugh’s confirmation can only help Republicans close that enthusiasm gap. According to the Post, 26% of all Trump voters said the Supreme Court was most important factor in their vote, compared with just 18% among liar-Hillary Clinton’s voters. The Supreme Court motivates the Right more than the Left. The best way dummycrats-Democrats can guarantee a strong GOP turnout in key Senate races is to make the Supreme Court an election issue this November.
So, conservatives are hoping that Republicans stay united. But deep in their hearts, red-state dummycrats-Democrats are praying for GOP unity as well.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/57039?mailing_id=3621&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3621&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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Have Jordan Accusers Reported
Abuse at Their Work Places?
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‘I Felt Threatened’: Fox News Anchor Shannon Bream
Flees Supreme Court As Leftist Mob Grew ‘Volatile’
by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton'Fortify Syrian border with an iron wall'
{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) on Wednesday spoke about the dangers on Israel's northern border... At an event commemorating the anniversary of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's passing, Edelstein said, "Jabotinsky's legacy require us to fortify the Syrian border with an iron wall." "For dozens of years, the leaders of this State despised Jabotinsky and made him out to be a dangerous person," Edelstein explained. "Today, it's clear how wrong they were, and how important his legacy is." "Today, we are witness to the creation of a new reality on the Syrian border. We don't know who will control the area in the future, and how long the bloodbath will continue. Jabotinsky's legacy obligates us to fortify the Syrian border with an iron wall... https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248757
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Video shows how bad scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters’
district really is
by Jerry McCormick.
GOP bill would make first-time illegal
border crossing a felony, send sanctuary city funds to ICE
by Anna Giaritelli
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., introduced legislation Tuesday that would reclassify a first-time illegal entry at the border as a felony instead of a misdemeanor... Her Zero Tolerance for Illegal Entry Act would change the punishment for those apprehended illegally entering the U.S. for the first time to one year and one day in prison, which therefore makes it a felony. Today, the misdemeanor offense comes with jail term of up to six months. The Tennessee lawmaker said she is proposing the change because she believes it would prevent would-be illegal entrants from coming to the U.S., and encourage migrants to apply for asylum at ports of entry instead of using smugglers to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border then cross between ports... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-bill-would-make-first-time-illegal-border-crossing-a-felony-send-sanctuary-city-funds-to-ice
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Ancient city gate uncovered in
the Galilee may have tie to biblical King David
by AMANDA BORSCHEL-DANHave Jordan Accusers Reported
Abuse at Their Work Places?
by DOV FISCHER
{ spectator.org } ~ In the viciously cynical American political environment where we now live, it no longer is about quality and competence, skills and ability. It is about destruction of the opponent: destroy them, their character, their children, their family. Just destroy them. For example, let’s show pictures of a girl crying at the southern border when her mother puts her down for a moment — and then let’s tweet that we hope that the President’s child gets kidnapped and sexually abused. Let’s destroy that kid.
Let’s destroy Melania. She never hurt anyone. Seems a really decent person. Many women that famous, that rich — frankly that above-average in appearance — would reek of arrogance and self-importance. And yet she is so modest. She dresses modestly. She speaks softly and with humility.
Y’know what? Let’s destroy her anyway!
So you get a racist bigot like Chelsea Handler mocking Melania’s accent. A fair-minded person would think: “For a woman born in Slovenia near the border of Croatia, who basically does not even have to speak to make millions of dollars in modeling, she speaks English fabulously.” But Chelsea instead mocked Melania’s accent, something Handler never would dare do to someone hailing from south of our country. But it’s Melania — so let’s destroy her!
And, no, I haven’t seen Chelsea lately. Last I remember on the Chelsea front, she swore that she would leave America, move to Spain, and never come back if Donald Trump were elected President. He got elected; she stayed. So she not only is a bigot and racist, but also a brazen liar. Trifecta. She also promised that, if he were elected, she would “blow her head up.” On that she gets a pass.
“Let’s destroy.” Let’s check into their histories, do “oppo research.” There must be something. Nothing the past ten years? OK, look back another ten years. Nothing? Go back another ten. What was he doing in grad school? How about college? How about half a century ago in high school?
And so, it turned out in 2012 that 65-year-old Mitt Romney, when he was in high school — fifty years earlier — pulled pranks. Drugs? No. Sex? No. Even then, the guy was a good kid, a Mormon. Not a drinker. Not a smoker. Maybe, despite the Mormon ban on coffee, maybe once sneaked a sip of frappucino without inhaling? He was a teenager. “Well, if that’s all we got… let’s destroy him with that!”
And what was liar-Clinton doing as a teenager? Or Kennedy — any and all of them? Or Jesse Jackson? Or Elizabeth dinky-Warren? Or Kamala Harris? Kamala does not actually generate her interesting story until she starts consorting publicly with another woman’s husband whose powerful standing in California politics raises her station overnight.
And now the Seedier Media are going after Rep. Jim Jordan. They think maybe they got something on him from thirty years ago. Maybe he was not johnny-on-the-spot to know that a pervert doctor at the college wrestling team in Ohio was doing perverted stuff. Not that he did anything wrong. But that — thirty years ago — he did not know or believe or say.
This is so vicious, so base, the endless character assassination — leveled by hypocrites and phonies who, in front of their own very eyes, see the evil and villainy of the scumbag-Keith Ellisons and liar-Hillary Clintons, the liar-Bill Clintons and scumbag/mad-Maxine Waterses who should be ostracized and vomited out of the body politic. scumbag-Keith Ellison is a Jew-hater who hobnobbed with Farrakhan and whose anti-Jewish snide remarks have been caught on tape. liar-Hillary is a felon. Her husband is the sequel to Raging Bull: Raping liar-Bill. And scumbag/ mad-Maxine: at this moment in American history, suddenly that name will never be the same.
But all those crooks and knaves are fine for the dummycrats-Democrat liberals smelling blood in the water near Jim Jordan. So let us consider a bit more deeply — in a case where an underling knows about abuse, which Jordan did not — what it means to speak out against abuse at the workplace. What it means in real life to be employed as a grunt at a place where the boss, or someone a bit less high up, is abusive — sexually abusive, physically abusive, emotionally abusive. Many inevitably encounter something like this at some job, but we prefer not to discuss it. Well, may as well discuss it:
I have been an attorney at three of America’s most prominent and distinguished law firms. I had serious responsibilities when practicing law, handling multi-million-dollar complex civil litigation cases. The way it works at the large firms is that the partners and senior associates call on you or on others among your peers when they need staffing — for legal research in preparation for bringing motions, for drafting complaints or some discovery requests. Lots of research and drafting. You often become part of a team that may include two associates of different experience levels, all working under a partner’s or senior associate’s direction. Over a period of time, you eventually get to work with most of the partners in your practice section. And you want that. You want them to get to know you and your work, as you begin inching up the ladder.
There was a partner at one firm, a real pig. All the associates knew it. We talked about it over lunch. And we knew there was not a thing we could do about it. Go to the managing partner and report the pig? First of all, he probably already knew, too. But without the most hard and irrefutable evidence, you would just get yourself fired. Yes, yes, it is unlawful to fire a whistle-blower. World-class law firms know how to unload undesirable associates lawfully. Such a firm is not going to remove a major source of income, a rainmaking partner with a brilliant mind, simply because some associate with pristine principles and archaic notions of spiritual right and wrong has come to town. Interestingly, a few years later — long after my friends and I had moved respectively to other firms — word got back to us that, at a firmwide retreat at that old firm, the pig apparently was sitting at a bar with a female associate, drank a bit too much, touched or said what he should not have — and, to some degree, got punished. But only temporarily before being restored to his former glory.
I worked at another firm. Another pig, a different kind. This one did not bother people sexually, but was the most foul-mouthed viciously abusive curser. He would holler four-letter words up and down the hall. The legal secretaries tried their darnedest not to get assigned to him. Everyone knew his abusive mouth — because he shouted down the hall so loudly. I deftly was able to avoid working with him for more than a year. One day I got cornered: several of my cases recently had settled, my workload was light, and he needed an associate. It was my lucky day. I sat with him in his office and quietly clenched my jaws. He was cold, no personality. With this guy, cold was good. Cold, no personality meant no cursing, no yelling, no insulting. Interestingly, there was one moment of actual unabashed warmth and charm: as he was assigning the project to me, his desk phone rang. It was a client. Suddenly, life, charm, warmth. Even a giggle. The client conversation ended, the phone returned to its rest. And thenceforth back to the day the music died.
That is life in corporate America and in the whole world, from the communists in Ayn Rand’s We the Living to the employees at the National Broadcasting Company. Powerful people who sometimes get into their heads that they can abuse anyone who draws a paycheck from them. I encountered it a third time when I was one of three personal attorneys to a fabulously rich guy. An eccentric billionaire with a “b.” It was the easiest, cushiest job I ever had: a six-figure salary paid in 52 equal high installments, with a relatively super-light workload and an actual requirement to leave the office every day at 5:00 p.m. and a matching job requirement virtually never to bring work home. Beyond cushy. The Caucasian guy maintained an office staff comprised of lots of really pretty, young Asian women. I had my office, and each of the other two attorneys had their offices. There were a few other employees on hand: the boss’s “Girl Friday,” the front desk receptionist, the financial guy.
It soon became clear that the boss was a person whose attitude towards and treatment of women was appalling. One day, his Girl Friday quit, claiming he had overstepped boundaries. Two months later, one of the pretty Asian young ladies came into my office, also tears. The boss saw she now had begun wearing an engagement ring, and he ordered her to take it off: “The women who work here do not wear engagement rings.” She had been showing it off and now was devastated. Why tell me? My yarmulka: “I heard you used to be a rabbi. I needed to cry to someone.” And then a few days later another comes in crying: “The boss wants me to use a different first name at work. He doesn’t like my name, says it sounds too ethnic, and he doesn’t want me using that name at work. He wants me to tell people that my name is ‘Tiffany.’”
It is not easy to walk up to the boss and to call him out. You know you probably are going to get fired… or he will find a way, with someone else’s legal counsel, to create an opportunity to downsize your position at the first possible opportunity. So I went home, and I discussed the matter with the love of my life. In my prior marriage the conversation would have gone one way, but with my second wife I knew we would be on the same page: no amount of money ever will justify avoiding doing the right thing. If I have to give up the job, then I give up the cushy job. G-d will find me another job. We are not going to starve the rest of our lives if we do the right thing. So I took the steps needed to leave the job immediately. On my last day there, I told the lady with the engagement ring that, partly because of her ring, I was quitting my job. And I thanked her. I added that I would not blame her for doing so, too.
I know of a religious congregation. A woman in the congregation sought a pastoral session with the clergyman, and she reported that a married member of the congregation’s Board of Directors had forced a kiss on her. She was crying. The clergyman soon after learned of a second such incident with a second woman. The clergyman knew that, if he spoke out and blew the whistle, he would face a really difficult time with the management of the congregation. The congregants themselves were the most wonderful people, but the Board of Directors were a mix of the best and the least-best. The clergyman, after prayer and consulting with his spouse, reported the matter to an internal committee of the Board and demanded that the violator be removed from the Board and from all congregational honors. The reaction of the Committee was a mix of (i) “we will have to investigate it,” and (ii) “the allegations better be accurate —or else.” They investigated. The allegations were accurate. The violator was stripped of his Board position and all honors. And then, when it all calmed down, his friends on the Board and he began the quiet methodical campaign to implement the “Or Else” component.
That is how it works in real life. It happens to pastors in churches. It happens to attorneys at law firms. It happens to coal miners. It happens to stock traders. It happens in every industry, trade, and profession. It happens in the real world. And then there is Hollywood.
Meryl Streep publicly praised Harvey Weinstein as “god.” She did not know? And the clapping seals loved it, cheering and gleefully giggling at the Academy Awards.
Streep jumped to her feet, applauding Roman Polanski at the Academy Awards ceremony. She did not know he was a convicted child rapist? His very name elicited long and overwhelming standing applause, even from the guy at whose home the rape took place. Everyone stood and cheered — the same sorts who a few years later would stand and cheer scumbag-Robert De Niro for cursing the duly elected President of the United States. They did not know they were standing and cheering for a child rapist?
Ashley Judd, who enjoys historical significance as the first American whose mind has landed in a planet outside our known galaxy, detoured completely into an alternate zone of reality after President Trump’s election. But, while insanely trying to associate the President with incestual inclinations, never had the courage to tell the women of Hollywood about Harvey Weinstein. And she knew. She could have spoken out years earlier and spared other victims. But she was a coward. And she knew.
No one at CBS spoke out about Charlie Rose. No one knew? No one at NBC spoke out against Matt Lauer. No one knew?
Where were all the heroes and moralists and keepers of the public standards when the abusers were right under their well-sculpted-and-reshaped noses at their places of work, and they turned the other way for years and years to preserve their positions, get cast for movie parts, while holding their silence? And now they want to tackle Congressman Jim Jordan on the eve of his subpoenaing Rod Rosenstein or others at the Department of Justice because, thirty years ago, maybe he heard a rumor that he did not report in a different time, a different era? And he did not know.
It all is cynical and dishonest beyond words. Jim Jordan is a good man. He is a very honorable man. If we are going to go back thirty years to start digging up bones and skeletons, looking to destroy people who conducted themselves thoroughly properly for their time and place, though perhaps differently from what today’s standards would expect, let us take John Kennedy’s name off the airport sign at Idlewild because he fooled around with Judith Exner, if not Marilyn Monroe. Let us remove the name “Roosevelt” from the FDR Drive that runs up Manhattan’s east side because the man prevented refugees from Hitler from finding safety in this country, and he actually just-plain hated Jews. Let us revisit Al Sharpton’s role in instigating riots that led to death, and in advocating deathly violence against police, and in expressing so much hate against gays and Asians — so get him out of the public arena. Let us demand Kirsten Gillibrand’s resignation for aiding, abetting, and eagerly associating with the liar-Clintons — long after we all knew that liar-Bill would force himself on one woman, then another.
The campaign to destroy Rep. Jim Jordan is despicable stuff and nonsense. There is a reason that we have statutes of limitation and laws of repose. Otherwise, let us open a new category of litigation and start suing anyone we ever have met for anything that ever has happened. The eighth-grade kid who stole your cookie. The adult who knew it and did not whistleblow. The bus driver who laughed at you when you ran to catch the bus at age 14, and then closed the door just before you got in. The general practice family doctor at whose office you sought to be treated for symptoms of a virus, but who first told you that he wanted to check for an inguinal hernia — even though you insisted that you did not have any iguanas at home but were coughing phlegm and sneezing mucus.
If we had even one television news station dedicated to coverage of Hollywood and Broadway stars who knew of abusers at work but who never reported them, that channel would have enough to cover 24-7. Maybe when TMZ or “Access Hollywood” ratings start to slump.
So stand with Jim Jordan. He is a good man. And let him subpoena the records as Congress delves deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Deep State. And if you must get a daily fix on the politics of destruction and character assassination leveled against good people — now that Admiral Jackson has been defamed viciously, and the Trump Family seems to be enjoying a brief post-Peter-Fonda respite — fear not. The next campaign of personal destruction is about to launch: We now have a fabulous world-class United States Supreme Court justice nominee, with only two months available for the dummycrats-Democrat left and their Seedier Media to destroy a wonderfully dignified human being and perhaps an entire family.
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Trump's SCOTUS Nomination
Provides Little Resistance Ammo
by Thomas Gallatin
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House Freedom Caucus Is Standing By Jim Jordan
by Chuck RossGermany Outlaws Turkish Boxing Gang
by Soeren Kern.
Israel launches Patriot missile against Syrian drone
by ANNA AHRONHEIMDid Mayor De Blasio Cross the Border Illegally?
by Cortney O'BrienWrecking NATO
by Shoshana Bryen
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The Washington Post headline blared, "Trump is bent on wrecking NATO. Prepare for catastrophe."... The Post fears that President Trump's diplomacy will benefit Vladimir Putin to the detriment of American and European interests. European Council president Donald Tusk sniped, "Dear America, appreciate your allies. After all, you don't have that many." The NATO countries are, indeed, among America's closest allies, but some of them appear more interested in oil, natural gas, and trade with Iran than in the Fulda Gap. Some of our "closest allies" have been working overtime to undermine America. If Mr. Trump is irritated with them, there is a reason. Iran is preparing to take $300 million in cash out of German banks to get ahead of impending U.S. banking sanctions. While American intelligence officials are concerned that the money will finance terrorism, the German government says it has "no evidence" to that effect. According to the German newspaper Bild, "Iran ... says that they need the money 'to pass it on to Iranian individuals who, when travelling abroad, are dependent on euros in cash due to their lack of access to accepted credit cards.'" The German government appears to think that one million Iranian tourists might need $300 each – or perhaps 300 tourists might need $1 million each....
Trump's SCOTUS Nomination Provides Little Resistance Ammo
While Kavanaugh was not the flashiest pick as some of the others potential nominees may have been, he was by far the safest choice in light of the dummycrats-Democrats’ determined resistance. Former President George W. Bush, who originally tabbed Kavanaugh for the DC Circuit Court back in 2003, offered his full-throated support, stating that Trump had made an “outstanding decision” and that Kavanaugh was a “brilliant jurist” who “will make a superb Justice of the Supreme Court of the United State.” And maybe more importantly, Sen. rino-Susan Collins (R-ME), who is one of two moderate Republicans that dummycrats-Democrats have targeted to swing their way, struck a positive note, stating, “Judge Kavanaugh has impressive credentials and extensive experience.”
However, the reality is that no matter who Trump chose, dummycrats-Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media were committed to engaging the #Resistance, doing everything in their power to prevent Trump from replacing Kennedy — famously or infamously known for being the Court’s swing vote — with a constitutionally committed conservative justice. Fordummycrats- Democrats, it is a hill worth dying on. In fact, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) called the issue a “life-and-death” scenario and even suggested thatdummycrats-Democrat senators up for reelection in red states need to be willing to lose in an effort to prevent confirmation.
scumbag-Durbin further opined, “They [dummycrats- Democrats] understand it’s an historic decision. It’s about more than the next election. It’s about what future the United States of America is going to chart.” scumbag-Durban’s comments were clearly intended for those three dummycrats-Democrats up for reelection in states that Trump won. Those dummycrats- Democrats, who previously crossed the aisle to vote in favor of Justice Neil Gorsuch last time — West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp and Indiana’s Joe Donnelly — will now be faced with even greater party pressure this time to toe the line.
The dummycrats-Democrats’ strategy in opposing Kavanaugh will be two-fold. First will be an attempt to make the issue of liar-nObamaCare central by raising questions as to whether Kavanaugh would continue to support it as constitutional. Kavanaugh’s past remarks on liar-nObamaCare are something dummycrats-Democrats will undoubtedly target. Secondly, dummycrats-Democrats will attack his Roman Catholic faith in order to call into question his stance on abortion. As far as Kavanaugh’s judicial record, dummycrats-Democrats have little ammunition to challenge him on, therefore they will seek to attack his personal beliefs and not his commitment to upholding the Constitution. Ultimately, the dummycrats-Democrat Party’s endgame is to convince those dummycrats-Democrats in tight election races not to break ranks while at the same time convincing one or two moderate Republicans to do just that.
One thing is becoming increasingly obvious, as evidenced by House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi’s (D-CA) recent stratospheric hyperbole: “Civilization as we know it today is at risk in this election. We have to win. We have to win.” dummycrats- Democrats are entering panic mode.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57026?mailing_id=3619&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3619&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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A #WalkAway Movement
Whose Time Has Come
by Arnold Ahlert
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Russia Investigation Infected by
Hyper-Political Bias Against Pres Trump
{ rickwells.us } ~ The ongoing probe into alleged collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign was “infected by hyper-political bias against President Trump,”... Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said Friday. Appearing on The Ingraham Angle, Fitton discussed FBI memos detailing the pressure of FBI agent Peter Strzok put on former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to ultimately get a warrant on Carter Page. He said that the memos are confirmation Strzok and his allies were looking for excuses to target Trump’s team: “Oh, it’s further confirmation that the Trump-Russia investigation was infected by this hyper-political bias against President Trump, where they’re looking for excuses to target his team.” Fitton further addressed Strzok’s statement on Carter Page, in which Strzok said “At the minimum, the letter provides a pretext to interview...
DOJ Attorney Lisa Page Refuses To Testify To Congress
by sundanceTrump, NATO head Stoltenberg have testy exchange at summit
by Edmund DeMarcheMichael Flynn Joins International Lobbying Firm
by Chuck Ross Tedra Cobb Tells Supporters She Wants
‘Assault Rifle’ Ban But ‘Cannot Say That’ in Public
by Stephen GutowskiA #WalkAway Movement Whose Time Has Come
"What do these people stand for? What is their platform? All I can figure out so far is ‘We hate Trump’ and ‘We love illegal immigrants.’"—openly gay Brandon Straka, founder of the #WalkAway campaign, 2018
Of all the things exposed by the 2016 election — the rank corruption at the highest levels of national law enforcement, the astounding arrogance of judicial branch members who substitute political ideology for law, and the profound devolution of a mainstream media into a de facto Ministry of Truth whose "truth” is the advancement of the progressive agenda — none was more cathartic than the exposure of the “tolerant” American Left as the nation’s foremost promulgators of hate and hysteria.
For decades, these self-appointed doyens of “enlightened” thinking have tasked themselves with fundamentally transforming a fundamentally flawed America into a socialist utopia run by globalist elites answerable to no one but themselves. Globalist elites whose commitment to “social justice” amounted to remaining wholly immune to the damage they inflicted on “deplorable” Americans while enriching themselves.
On Nov. 8, 2016, their self-serving construct was conspicuously rejected.
Ever since, the wisdom of an electorate rejecting that odious status quo — the one former president Barack liar-nObama assured us would be his “third term” with liar-Hillary Clinton in charge — has been completely validated. All one would have to do to realize the level of bankruptcy that attends progressive ideology is substitute Barack liar-nObama’s name for Donald Trump’s. And imagine the Left’s reaction if a comedian stated liar-nObama’s mouth is Putin’s c—k holster, a high school mural depicted liar-nObama’s severed head, a Hollywood celebrity tweeted someone should “rip” Malia or Sasha from Michelle liar-nObama’s arms and put one or the other in a cage full of pedophiles, or a Republican House representative urged conservatives to “push back” and “create a crowd” so that liar-nObama administration officials understood “they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!”
Just for starters. Brandon Straka has had enough. “The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement,” his campaign’s Facebook page states. “It is a video campaign movement, dedicated to sharing the stories of people who can no longer accept the current ideology of liberalism and what the dummycrats-Democratic Party has become. … Some here have wanted to leave for some time, but have feared the consequences they might suffer from friends or family if they walk away.”
Attorney Alan Dershowitz revealed some of those consequences, explaining that his “friends” on Martha’s Vineyard have shunned him for defending Trump’s constitutional rights. He cites one of them as saying that if he appeared at one of her parties she’d “stab him through the heart.”
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough defends such puerile close-mindedness. “As my grandmother would say, Alan, when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas,” Scarborough sniffed. “And so he can’t try to undermine Robert Mueller … and then be shocked that he’s not allowed to go to the finest spots on Martha’s Vineyard.”
Scarborough’s contempt is shared by Washington Post columnist Abby Ohlheiser, who dismisses the #WalkAway campaign as a conservative-orchestrated mirage. “As the Internet fragments, our understanding of what it means to go ‘viral’ has become complicated, and increasingly meaningless. A hashtag claiming to capture a movement among liberals has gone viral, in this case, almost exclusively on the right-wing Internet, as a reinforcement of one of its binding ideas,” she writes. “There’s little actual evidence to suggest that #WalkAway represents a mass conversion of millions — or even thousands — of dummycrats- Democrats to the Trump Train since Straka’s video.”
As columnist David Catron explains, Ohlheiser misses the point, especially with regard to black Americans who have been one of the dummycrats-Democrat Party’s most reliable voting blocs — and thus taken for granted. “A ‘Great Awakening’ isn’t required,” he writes. “All that is needed is about 5 percent more African-Americans to vote Republican and another 5 to 10 percent to simply stay home. … That means, to quote Reagan, ‘We win, they lose.’”
Unfortunately for dummycrats-Democrats, it’s not just black Americans Straka is recruiting. “If you are a person of color, an LGBT person, a woman or an American immigrant, the dummycrats-Democratic Party wants you to know you are a victim,” Straka says in a video he posted May 26. “This is perhaps the dummycrats-Democratic Party’s greatest, and most insidious, lie.”
Lie? Political platform is more like it. Without the continued cultivation of victimization that fuels big-government dependency, dummycrats-Democrats are in serious trouble. Straka notes what their concern has engendered. “The dummycrats-Democratic Party that I once loved has joined forces with the extremist left.”
Don’t take his word for it. DNC Chairman Tom Perez has dubbed socialist dummycrats-Democrat commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “the future of our party” following her defeat of incumbent Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional District primary.
commie-Ocasio-Cortez makes it clear what that future portends: “free” Medicare for all, the abolishment of ICE, a federal government-imposed jobs guarantee, housing as a “human right,” mobilization against climate change, gun control and higher education “for everyone.” And like many of her fellow dummycrats- Democrats, she supports impeaching Donald Trump.
Moreover, like commie-Bernie Sanders, who owns three homes and earned over a million dollars in 2016, commie-Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist, working class “girl from the Bronx” bona fides are conspicuously lacking. While she was born in the Bronx, her family moved to Yorktown Heights, a wealthy Westchester County suburban town, when she was five — a detail her biography conspicuously omitted until she subsequently “tweaked” it.
Maybe that’s because Westchester is the eighth-richest county in the nation.
“Do as I say, not as I do” hypocrisy and extremism are beginning to take a toll. “For far too long, the left has controlled the narrative in this country in news and media while the ‘silent majority’ on the right have done what they always do — remained silent,” the #WalkAway Facebook page continues. “The left has been allowed for so long to reinforce the narrative that everybody on the right is a bigot, a racist, a homophobe, a misogynist, etc. But the left has become so extreme, it’s now time to fight back.”
Now? Conservatives have been fighting for quite some time. Fighting against Hollywood, academia, the media and the dummycrats-Democrat Party, along with the faction of GOPers who spinelessly acquiesce to the progressive agenda. Fighting against #NeverTrump blowhards like backstabber-Bill Kristol, George Will, Max Boot, Bret Stephens and others whose “principles” would have abided undiscovered Deep State machinations, a leftist Supreme Court, the continued hollowing out of Heartland America, and the open-borders/amnesty agenda a liar-Clinton presidency would have surely inflicted on the nation. The same “principles” that have them rooting for dummycrats-Democrats to prevail in November.
Straka has other ideas. “This is a movement of patriots of all walks of life — men, women, black, brown, white, straight, LGBTQ, religious, non-believers, who share something very important in common… WE ARE AMERICAN and we will not surrender our country!” Amen to that.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57002?mailing_id=3617&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3617&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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Is a Trump Court in the Making?
by Pat Buchanan
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Mueller reveals tenuous link between Manafort charges and Trump
by Byron York.
Voters in Key Swing District Reject ‘Abolish ICE’ Push
by Susan CrabtreeSix wrestling coaches defend
Jim Jordan against allegations he ignored abuse claims
by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Six former Ohio State University wresting coaches defended Rep. Jim Jordan on Monday against accusations... the GOP lawmaker ignored complaints of abuse by a team doctor when he was an assistant coach there. “I fully believe that Jim did not know of any allegations of sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss at the Ohio State University,” former OSU assistant coach Rex Holman said in a letter released Monday signed by four other assistant coaches and a former head coach. “Jim is a leader that was very protective of his athletes. He would ask how you were doing in an effort to understand your mental state. It wasn’t a formality, but a genuine request to communicate. He wanted to make sure you were OK and help problem solve.” A group of former college wrestlers has accused the Ohio Republican of failing to act on talk of the abuse during Jordan’s time coaching at the school, which lasted from 1987 until 1995....
Islamist Foothold Discovered Here in America
by Daniel KrygierNew HHS Documents Reveal that ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’
Processed During Obama Years Included Violent Criminals,
Drug Smugglers, and Human Traffickers
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ Judicial Watch today released 224 pages of documents containing nearly 1,000 summaries of Significant Incident Reports (SIRs) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)... revealing that “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) processed during the liar-nObama administration included admitted murderers, rapists, drug smugglers, prostitutes, and human traffickers. The documents, from the HHS Administration for Children and Families reported to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), are for the approximate six-month period May to November 2014. They were produced to Judicial Watch after a three-year delay in response to a November 12, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking. To the extent any information may be contained in the SIRs or SIR Addenda that is considered exempt from disclosure under 5 (U.S.C. § 552(b)(6), all non-exempt, segregable portions of the reports should be provided...
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Is a Trump Court in the Making?
{ townhall.com } ~ If Mitch McConnell's Senate can confirm his new nominee for the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump may have completed the capture of all three branches of the U.S. government for the Republican Party.
Not bad for a rookie.
And the lamentations on the left are surely justified.
For liberalism's great strategic ally and asset of 60 years, the judicial dictatorship erected by Earl Warren and associates, may be about to fall.
Judicial supremacy may be on the way out.
Another constitutionalist on the court, in the tradition of Antonin Scalia, could ring down the curtain on the social revolution the court has been imposing since the salad days of Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Among the changes Warren's court and its successors succeeded in imposing: The de-Christianization of all public institutions in America. The social war of the 1970s over forced busing for racial balance in the public schools. The creation, ex nihilo, of new constitutional rights, first to an abortion, and then to homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
But while the confirmation of a new Trump justice may bring an end to the revolution, it will return power to where it belongs in a constitutional republic, with elected legislators and elected executives.
There will not likely be any sudden and radical rollback of changes wrought in six decades. For some of those changes have become embedded in the public consciousness as the new normal, and will endure.
Roe v. Wade may be challenged. But even if overturned, states like New York and California, which had liberalized abortion laws before Roe, are not likely to re-criminalize it.
Affirmative action, however, racial discrimination against white males to promote diversity, may be on the chopping block.
Why did it take until Trump to restore constitutionalism to the Supreme Court, when the Warren Court had been a blazing issue since the 1950s and Republicans held the presidency for 28 years from 1968 to 2016, and had managed to elevate 12 justices?
Answer: Every GOP president save Bush II, has appointed justices who grew to believe the court had a right to remake America to conform to their image of the ideal liberal democracy. And they so acted.
Said Ike ruefully on his retirement: Two of my worst mistakes are sitting up there on the Supreme Court.
The two were Warren, who, as California's governor, had pushed to put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps in World War II, and William Brennan, the most radical justice to sit in over half a century.
Nixon came to office committed to rein in the court by naming "strict constructionists." Yet three of the four justices he named would vote for Roe v. Wade in 1973. Harry Blackmun, whom Nixon rushed onto the bench after his Southern nominees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell were trashed and rejected, became the author of Roe.
Nixon's fourth nominee, William Rehnquist, was his best, a brilliant jurist whom Reagan himself would elevate to chief justice.
Gerald Ford's sole nominee, John Paul Stevens, confirmed 97-0 in the Senate, turned left soon after his confirmation to join Blackmun.
Reagan named Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman, and Scalia.
But when his effort to elevate Judge Robert Bork failed, he turned to Anthony Kennedy of California, whose seat Trump is filling today.
Over 30 years, Kennedy's vote proved decisive in 5-4 decisions to uphold Roe, to discover homosexuality as a constitutional right, and to raise same-sex unions to the legal level of traditional marriage.
George H.W. Bush's first choice was David Souter, who also turned left to join the liberal bloc. Bush I got it right on his second try in 1991, naming the constitutionalist Clarence Thomas.
As for George W. Bush, he chose John Roberts as Chief Justice to succeed Rehnquist and then Sam Alito as associate justice.
Thus, of 15 justices Republican Presidents have named since World War II, five -- Warren, Brennan, Blackmun, Stevens and Souter -- became liberal activists. Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor, both Reagan choices, became swing justices and voted with the court's liberals on critical social issues.
dummycrats-Democratic presidents have done far better by their constituents.
Of seven justices named by LBJ, liar-Clinton and liar-nObama, every one -- Thurgood Marshall, Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor -- turned out to be predictably and consistently liberal.
Clearly, the advisers to George W. Bush and President Trump looked back at the successes and the failures of previous GOP presidents, and have done a far better job of vetting nominees. They reached outside for counsel.
It was Trump's 2016 pledge to draw his nominees to the high court from a list of 20 judges and scholars supplied by the Federalist Society that reassured conservatives and helped him unite his party and get elected.
On the issue of judicial nominees and justices to the Supreme Court, Trump has kept his word.
And the next Supreme Court may one day be called the Trump Court.
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Family Separation Not
Trump Administration's Fault
by Hans von Spakovsky
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Wednesday Top Headlines
by Media Editors: As NATO summit begins, Trump says allies “must pay more,” the U.S. “must pay less” (CNS News) .
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Here’s what happened the last time dummycrats-Democrats tried to deny Kavanaugh a court seat (The Daily Signal)
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DNA tests, criminal charges complicate effort to reunite illegal alien families (The Washington Times)
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Trump hits two more countries with visa sanctions for refusing to take back deportees (The Daily Caller)
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commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with another surprise election win — in a district she wasn’t even running in (New York Daily News)
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The UN Fraudulently Addresses
"Extreme Poverty" in the United States
by Francis Menton.
Israeli spacecraft aims for historic moon landing… within months
by STUART WINER AND SHOSHANNA SOLOMON
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Save the date. On February 13, 2019, an Israeli-built unmanned spacecraft is expected to land on the moon... having blasted off from Earth two months earlier, project managers said at a news conference Tuesday. If all goes well, the SpaceIL spider-like craft will give Israel entry into the exclusive club of just three nations that have so far achieved a controlled landing on the moon’s surface. The probe will be launched sometime in December from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, officials said during the media event, held at an Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) space technology site in Yehud. It is scheduled to land on February 13, 2019...Trump pardons ranchers whose
arrests led to armed occupation of wildlife refuge
by Andrew O'ReillyMexico Creates ‘Police Force’ to
Stop Illegals from Crossing Its Southern Border
by Randy DeSoto The Inauthentic Flip-Flopping of commie-Bernie Sanders
by Daniel Greenfield.
Family Separation Not Trump Administration's Fault
by Hans von Spakovsky
The furor over the family separation issue — children not being kept with their parents who have been detained for illegally entering the country — is odd. This is not some new phenomenon suddenly imposed by the Trump administration. It happened during the liar-nObama, Bush, and liar-Clinton administrations, too.
Where did the policy come from? In 1997, then-Attorney General Janet Reno settled a lawsuit, Flores v. Reno, filed in California challenging the liar-Clinton administration’s detention of juvenile migrants taken into custody by the INS. In the settlement, the government agreed that it could detain unaccompanied minors for only 20 days before releasing them to the Department of Health and Human Services for placement either in foster care or with their parents, close relatives, or a legal guardian. A controversial decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit extended this 20-day limit to juveniles who illegally cross the border with their parents.
So the reason that children can’t stay with their parents who are being prosecuted under federal immigration law is because of a court’s misinterpretation of a settlement agreed to by the liar-Clinton administration — not the Trump administration.
Keep in mind that those parents would be instantly reunited with their families if they did the right thing — volunteered to return to their native country. By breaking the law and bypassing our legal immigration process, those parents are responsible for what is happening to their children.
President Trump signed an executive order on June 20 directing that families who enter the country illegally be kept together “to the extent permitted by law.” This is an obvious reference to the Flores settlement and the limits it places on the government. But at least Trump is trying to do something about that. The executive order directs the attorney general to go to the California court with jurisdiction over the Flores case and ask the court to modify the settlement agreement to allow the government to keep families together while the parents are detained.
The current outrage over this was generated by a recent Associated Press story about 2,000 children separated from their parents. The hypocrisy of the critics and protesters is demonstrated by their lack of concern for the much larger number of children who are placed in foster care when their parents are incarcerated. We don’t fail to arrest, prosecute and jail Americans who commit crimes because they have children.
In 2016 alone, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 20,939 children were placed in foster care because their parents were incarcerated. In 2015, the number was 21,006. So the number of American kids who are placed in foster care because their parents are incarcerated is exponentially larger than the number of children who are also separated from the parents because their parents broke federal immigration law.
Another reason for the separation problem is immigrants who enter the county illegally making false asylum claims to avoid being deported. If an immigrant follows the law by presenting himself at a port of entry with his family and claiming asylum, then his family will stay together. It is when immigrants who are caught illegally crossing the border then claim asylum that they risk being prosecuted for illegal entry. They are then separated from their children because of the liar-Clinton-era settlement.
Many immigrants claiming asylum pass through countries such as Mexico with their own generous asylum laws. If an immigrant doesn’t claim asylum before he gets to the U.S., that is a clear indication that he is coming here for economic reasons, not because he has a valid asylum claim.
No one wants to see families separated — and that includes the families of immigrants and of American citizens. But one of the consequences of breaking the law is that you may be separated from your children when you go to prison. Moreover, they may end up in foster care because of your misdeeds. That applies whether you are committing a domestic crime such as assault or robbery, or violating federal immigration law by illegally crossing — or recrossing — our border.
~The Patriot Post
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Framing Creation
by Tom McLaughlin
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Chinese Aviation Firm Seeking Investment in U.S. Aircraft Makers
by Bill Gertzdummycrats-Democrats Endorse Judicial Tyranny
by Tom Trinko
{ americanthinker.com } ~ It's very clear that dummycrats-Democrats -- the politicians, not all the people who vote for them -- hate democracy... dummycrats-Democrats don't believe that power is from the people; rather dummycrats-Democrats believe that the elites, which in the minds of dummycrats-Democrats is made up solely of dummycrats-Democrats, should rule the rest of us. We can see this in the dummycrats-Democrats refusing to accept the results of the 2016 election. We can see it in the dummycrats-Democrats enthusiasm for the administrative state where unelected, unaccountable, unfireable bureaucrats can create thousands of pages of rules and regulations which average Americans have to follow. But we see it most clearly in the panic that dummycrats-Democrats are experiencing over the idea that Trump will be nominating someone to the Supreme Court who will decide cases based on what the law says rather than what they think the law should say....The 2018 Medicare Trustees Report: Fiscal and Policy Challenges
by Joseph Antos and Robert E. Moffit Entire Thai soccer team, coach
freed from cave after daring rescue, Navy says
by Edmund DeMarche and Travis FedschunWe Should Be Very Skeptical of This Jim Jordan Witch Hunt
{ patriotnewsdaily.com } ~ Other than perhaps Devin Nunes and Mark Meadows, we can think of very few Capitol Hill Republicans that dummycrats-Democrats would love to take down more than Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan... Jordan, a card-carrying member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, has been an ardent supporter of the president and a fierce critic of the Robert Mueller investigation. Together with Nunes and other patriots in the House, Jordan has been instrumental in shedding a light on the many misdeeds of the liar-nObama-era Justice Department, thus making it ever more difficult to the dummycrats-Democrats to pull off their legal coup against Donald J. Trump. We’re apparently supposed to take it as coincidence that he just happens to suddenly be facing multiple accusations that he stood by and allowed student wrestlers to be sexually assaulted while working as an assistant coach at Ohio State University. Hmm. For the record, we’re not saying that we flat-out don’t believe the accusations to be true. Perhaps they are. And if they are, then Jordan will have to face the political and, perhaps, legal consequences for whatever his role was in allowing this abuse to go on. We have no problem with that; we’re not in the business of protecting those who protect molesters – not by a long shot. But we are skeptical. Damn skeptical....
Framing Creation
by Tom McLaughlin
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The older camera had rendered me thousands of great images over five years. It was always within reach, and with its 24.1 megapixel capability I could enlarge images with little blurring if I didn’t crop them too much. Colors were good, automatic focus worked well, and I have several lenses for it. When Nikon introduced the D850 last September — a full-frame DSLR for half the price of Nikon’s flagship D5, and with equivalent capabilities, I had to have it. It’s biggest advantage is that it shoots at a remarkable 45 megapixels. It’s also very fast, has great dynamic range, and enormous versatility in low light.
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That manner of seeing is especially acute just before and after sunrise, then again just before and after sunset. If there are clouds or mist to filter and reflect light at those times, I feel like I’m in heaven. Living on the side of a west-facing hill in Lovell gives me more opportunities at twilight, especially after a summer thunderstorm. In South Portland, there are several places within a five or ten-minute drive where I can watch the sun before and after it clears the Atlantic horizon before breakfast.
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Trump Supporters Compared To Cultists
by Cal Thomas
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Former FBI Lawyer Lisa Page
to Face Questioning About Anti-Trump Texts
by Ron SachsBombshell: Hunt for Seth Rich's murderer turns up 'witness'
{ wnd.com } ~ The convoluted case of the murder in Washington, D.C., of dummycrats-Democrat operative Seth Rich has taken another turn... with a lobbyist who has been investigating the case claiming that there has been found a “credible” witness. The announcement from Jack Burkman, a Washington-based lawyer and lobbyist, was revealed by the Gateway Pundit blog, which posted a disclaimer that the “shocking information” was given to the blog and it will report after Burkman’s event on Tuesday. Burkman told the Pundit, “We believe that we have reached the beginning of the end of the Seth Rich murder investigation. After two long hard years of work, we have a witness who is prepared to identify the two killers of Seth Rich.” The Pundit reported Burkman gave an exclusive interview on Sunday, where he said, “One is reportedly a current DEA agent, the other is reportedly a current ATF agent.”... http://www.wnd.com/2018/07/bombshell-hunt-for-seth-richs-murderer-turns-up-witness/.
How the EPA and the Pentagon
Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat
by Abrahm LustgartenRobert Mueller Lead Attorney Coordinated
Investigative Strategy With Four AP “Reporters”
by Chuck Ross .
Amy Coney Barrett vs. Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
by PAUL KENGOR.
Trump Supporters Compared To Cultists
{ townhall.com } ~ Bob Corker, the outgoing Republican senator from Tennessee, recently compared supporters of President Trump to members of a cult. The Washington Post quoted Corker as saying: "It's becoming a cultish thing, isn't it? It's not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be of -- purportedly -- of the same party."
Purportedly? It would be nice to know what the Republican Party stands for these days, especially when it comes to spending and debt, but I will leave that for another day.
The Post story says "...the Republican Party appears united now not by fealty to ideas or policies but to a man, who defied the odds to win the presidency and who has magnetically drawn the party's power base to himself."
Doesn't that reasoning also describe the rise to power of Barack liar-nObama and liar-Bill Clinton -- the former this country's first African-American president, the latter the former governor of a Southern state with a great gift of gab, though personally flawed in ways similar to President Trump? Why did the media not label liar-Clinton followers cultists? Why weren't people who appeared to worship President liar-nObama regarded as blind followers of a cult-like leader? Answer: because they are dummycrats-Democrats, and the standards are different fordummycrats- Democrats.
Corker is right about how the GOP focused less on ideas and more on winning, but that could describe both parties at varying points in history.
What Corker and the Post fail to grasp is the level of anger directed at both parties. Too often, dummycrats-Democrats and Republicans appear to care more about their own political careers than the careers and lives of voters. Trump supporters transcend party loyalty, as does Trump. But -- and this is key -- they believe he cares about them and so they are willing to forgive his past personal indiscretions and current lies because they think his policies and the more positive direction of the country benefit them more than it does the political and media class.
Cultists reject any evidence that proves their faith is wrong. Trump supporters believe he is taking the country away from elitist snobs who care little about Middle America, except at election time. He is channeling their anger and frustration about broken government and dysfunctional Washington. They are glad he has an opportunity with his Supreme Court appointments to undo some of the judicial activism the Founders never intended for the court to practice and to again make the Constitution central to the nation's governing life.
They have grown tired of being stereotyped as yahoo hillbillies and uneducated Bible-thumpers who, according to Barack liar-nObama, "get bitter" and "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them..." Trump is their revenge and they are enjoying it. Look at the crowds the president continues to draw from his base as he travels. Their level of enthusiasm for him is at the level of a presidential campaign.
The support the president is receiving isn't just about him. It appears to stem from a sense of gratitude from people who have been ignored by many politicians and now believe they have a champion who listens to and speaks for them. Is he a perfect champion? Of course not. What politician, what human, is perfect? But Trump supporters believe his policies are far better than those advocated by liar-Hillary Clinton and the dummycrats-Democratic Party, which seems to be trending more socialist every day.
People who embrace socialism after its demonstrated failures all over the world --Venezuela and Cuba are two examples -- are more like cultists than Trump supporters. And labeling them as cultists will only serve to drive more of them to the polls in the next two elections.
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The Values Underlying Independence Day
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Patriot Prayer Rally Interrupted by Antifa
Qatar: End Gaza riots by letting Gazans work in Israel
{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ The Gulf Arab state of Qatar has called on Israel to issue thousands of entry permits to Gazans living in the Hamas-ruled Strip... allowing them to work in Israel, arguing that such a move would reduce tensions and end the ongoing wave of “kite terrorism” and balloon bomb attacks. Since March 30th, tens of thousands of Gaza rioters have gathered on the Israel border, clashing with IDF forces and attempting to breach the security fence. In recent weeks, however, the rioters have shifted from direct attacks on the border to the use of improvised explosive or incendiary devices, attached to balloons and kites, then flown over the border into Israeli territory. The resulting fires have caused millions of dollars in property damage. Israeli forces have responded by targeting the terrorist cells responsible for launching the ‘balloon bombs’ and terror kites...This offer will not work for they hate Israelis.
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Top Iranian general: Forces in Syria
‘awaiting orders’ to destroy Israel
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ In a recent speech, the deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) boasted that the “Islamic army in Syria” in the Golan Heights... was awaiting orders to eradicate the “evil regime” of Israel. He also said the Tehran-backed Hezbollah terror group had 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel. “We are creating might in Lebanon because we want to fight our enemy from there with all our strength,” he stated. “Hezbollah today has tremendous might on the ground that can on its own break the Zionist regime. The Zionist regime has no strategic-defensive depth.” “Today an international Islamic army has been formed in Syria, and the voices of the Muslims are heard near the Golan,” he said. “Orders are awaited, so that… the eradication of the evil regime Israel will land and the life of this regime will be ended for good. The life of the Zionist regime was never in danger as it is now.”... https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-iranian-general-forces-in-syria-lebanon-awaiting-orders-to-destroy-israel/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=ba7bedf2e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_09_11_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-ba7bedf2e4-54638825
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McConnell Destroys dummycrats-Democratic Opposition
To Potential SCOTUS Nominee: ‘The Apocalypse Hasn’t Come Yet’
by Julia CohenSo, You Think You're Tolerant?
by Dave Rubin{ prageru.com } ~ Are you tolerant? You probably think so... But who is tolerant in America today? Is it those on the left, or those on the right? In this video, Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report analyzes this question and shares his experience.
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{ townhall.com } ~ The Declaration of Independence - which was signed on July 3, 1776, for public release on July 4 - was Thomas Jefferson's masterpiece. Jefferson himself wrote much about the declaration in the 50 years that followed.
Not the least of what he wrote offered his view that the declaration and the values that it articulated were truly radical - meaning they reflected 180-degree changes at the very core of societal attitudes in America. The idea that farmers and merchants and lawyers could secede from a kingdom and fight and win a war against the king's army was the end result of the multigenerational movement that was articulated in the declaration.
The two central values of the declaration are the origins of human liberty and the legitimacy of popular government.
When Jefferson wrote that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, he was referring to the natural law. The natural law teaches that right and wrong can be discerned and truth discovered by the exercise of human reason, independent of any commands from the government. The natural law also teaches that our rights come from our humanity -- not from the government -- and our humanity is a gift from our Creator.
Even those who question or reject the existence of the Creator -- was Jefferson himself among them? -- can embrace natural rights, because they can accept that our exercise of human reason leads us all to make similar claims. These claims -- free speech, free association, free exercise or non-exercise of religion, self-defense, privacy, and fairness, to name a few -- are rights that we all exercise without giving a second thought to the fact that they are natural and come from within us.
The view of the individual as the repository of natural rights was not accepted by any governments in 1776. In fact, all rejected it and used violence to suppress it. To the minds of those in government in the mid-18th century, the king was divine and could do no wrong, and parliament existed not as the people's representatives but to help the king raise money and to give him a read on the pulse of landowners and nobility.
Jefferson and his colleagues had no difficulty breaking from this type of ancient regime. Unlike the French, who destroyed their monarchy, the American colonists seceded from theirs -- and they did so embracing natural rights. Regrettably, they did not recognize natural rights for African slaves or for women. We all know and profoundly lament the sorry history of those errors.
The idea that each human being possesses inherent natural rights by virtue of one's humanity is not just an academic argument. It has real-life consequences, which Jefferson recognized. Those consequences are implicated when government seeks to curtail rights for what it claims is the protection of another's individual rights, the common good or the good of the government itself.
Jefferson recognized that you can consent to the curtailment of your rights but you cannot consent to the curtailment of mine. To Jefferson, government can take away your rights without your consent only if you have violated someone else's rights.
Surrendering rights is also implicated in the second radical idea that underscores the Declaration of Independence. It is the concept that no government is valid unless it enjoys the consent of the governed. This, too, was unheard of in 1776, because British kings did not claim consent of the governed as the basis for legitimacy.
Yet consent of the governed is perfectly consistent with natural law. Under natural law, what is yours is yours and what is mine is mine. If I attempt to take your land or car or cellphone, you can stop me, either directly or through the government we have both consented to. If one of us has not consented to the government's existence, it can still enforce natural rights as the agent of the person whose rights are being violated -- just as it does for bank depositors when it captures a bank robber.
This idea of consent of the governed was a serious issue in the days and years following July 4, 1776, because about one-third of the adults living in the United States in the last quarter of the 18th century remained loyal to the king of England after the Revolution, and they did not consent to the new popular form of government that took the British government's place. The new government was thrust upon them without their consent.
The last letter Jefferson wrote was to his enemy-turned-friend John Adams, in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the declaration - a day on which both Jefferson and Adams would die. In that letter, Jefferson argued that the greatest achievement of the declaration was its arousing men to burst free from the chains imposed upon them by superstition and myth by bringing about a recognition of their individual rights and an embrace of self-government.
Today the Jeffersonian ideals of individual natural rights and government's legitimacy's being conditioned upon the individual consent of the governed have themselves become myths.
In Jefferson's day, the voters knew all that the government did, and it knew nothing about them. Today government operates largely in secrecy, and it knows our every move and captures our every communication.
In Jefferson's day, the government needed the people's permission to tax and regulate them. Today the people need the government's permission to do nearly everything.
Do you know anyone who has consented to the government? Do you know anyone who could avoid the government by not giving consent? Do you consent to the government by voting? Do you consent to the government if it is run by those you voted against? Did you consent to a government that steals liberty and property and prosperity and gives them away?
Happy Fourth of July.
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Leftists Ramping Up
Administration Confrontations
by Thomas Gallatin
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Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
by Samuel ChamberlainCorrupt FBI and DOJ Not Only Caught Redacting Their Criminal Acts –
They’re Now Caught CREATING Fraudulent Documents
by Jim HoftCALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’: City Becomes First
in the Nation to Test UNIVERSAL INCOME
by Lukas Mikelionis Judge rejects Trump request to
alter agreement on release of immigrant kids
by JOSH GERSTEIN .
Daily Beast Uncovers Devious Papist Plot
to Destroy America: The Federalist Society
by Alex Griswold.
Leftists Ramping Up Administration Confrontations
In Richmond, Virginia, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon was confronted in a book store by a woman who called him a “piece of trash.” Upon witnessing the harassing behavior, the store owner told the woman to leave, which she initially refused to do until he called the police. The store owner explained, “Steve Bannon was simply standing, looking at books, minding his own business. I asked [the antagonist] to leave, and she wouldn’t. And I said, ‘I’m going to call the police if you don’t,’ and I went to call the police and she left. And that’s the end of the story.” The owner then noted, “We are a bookshop. Bookshops are all about ideas and tolerating different opinions and not about verbally assaulting somebody, which is what was happening.”
But, as it turns out, the story didn’t end there. Upon learning of the incident, former liar-Hillary Clinton aide Philippe Reines exposed the name and address of the bookstore along with the name of the owner, writing that the woman “took the opportunity to call [Bannon] a ‘piece of trash.’” When Reines was called out for seeking “a public beatdown” of the store, he disingenuously responded, “I’m providing a service to the public by providing the contact information the bookstore posted on their website — presumably with the hope of being contacted. I present facts [without] encouraging any behavior.” But he absurdly added, “I’d point out through [sic] it’s possible this woman stopped a book burning.”
Meanwhile, on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was exiting a restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, when he and a colleague were surrounded by several people and harangued with shouts of “Abolish ICE” and “No justice, no peace.” At one point an individual is heard shouting, “We know where you live, Mitch. We know where you live.” Eventually, as McConnell enters his car and drives off, someone says, “We did good, fellow citizens.”
It should come as little surprise that dummycrats-Democrats have increasingly approved of the tactics of fascism as their party has increasingly embraced the agenda of the extreme Left. Rather than attempting to defend the “merits” of this bankrupt ideology (which is understandable, given the fact that leftist ideology is opposed to the whole concept of merit), they instead have supported the tactics of intimidation via verbal assault and shaming in seeking to pressure Republicans and conservatives to kowtow to their political demands. Are any elected dummycrats- Democrats willing and bold enough to definitively break with their party and call out this dangerous and deeply divisive behavior of the unhinged Left?
~The Patriot Post
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