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TheFrontPageCover
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The shadow war between Israel 
and Iran takes center stage
by Ishaan Tharoor 
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President Trump Wide-Ranging Interview on Fox and Friends
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Donald Trump called-in to ‘Fox & Friends’ morning show for a wide-ranging interview on numerous subjects... Topics included: the Iranian nuclear agreement; Ronny Jackson’s withdrawal decision; Michael Cohen and possible North Korea summit. Additionally, President Trump shared his disappointment with the Justice Department; noted James Comey’s book was likely a big mistake; and also thanked Kanye West for his support.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/04/26/president-trump-wide-ranging-interview-on-fox-and-friends/.
Cornyn Laments 'Despicable' Treatment of VA Nominee; 
Sen. Tester 'Should Be Ashamed of Himself'
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by Susan Jones
{ cnsnews.com } ~ Rear Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson withdrew from consideration as President Trump's Veterans Affairs secretary... on Thursday without ever getting a chance to publicly defend his reputation. In a statement, Jackson said the allegations about his drinking and pill-pushing "are completely false and fabricated. If they had any merit I would not be selected and promoted to serve in the important role as physician to three presidents over 12 years." Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said on Thursday that Jackson’s withdrawal just shows how low some Democrats are willing to go...  https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/cornyn-laments-despicable-treatment-va-nominee-sen-tester-should-be-ashamed?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWTJJeU5qY3lNRFZsTlRReSIsInQiOiJaUkEwUzlhZkpIZEZab3k1VDg1V0I4Vm45NytIVWlWWm5cLzdYbWhmTWZ1SjYzUkJtdzMzREVjNnBtZHZwSkZ6dW1ldTZVMUtpRHVLano1K1lnOUE4UFBPaVwvZk5JQTBYUDZDcTI3Q0FSdDdKcUhUSUNqeERXMlFrZURpQVZ4djk3In0%3D.
N. Korea Shuts Down Nuclear Site Because It Collapsed
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by Denise Simon
{ trevorloudon.com } ~ North Korea’s mountain nuclear test site has collapsed, putting China and other nearby nations at unprecedented risk of radioactive exposure... two separate groups of Chinese scientists studying the issue have confirmed. The collapse after five nuclear blasts may be why North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared on Friday that he would freeze the hermit state’s nuclear and missile tests and shut down the site, one researcher said. The last five of Pyongyang’s six nuclear tests have all been carried out under Mount Mantap at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea’s northwest. About 200 people are feared dead in North Korea after underground tunnels at a nuclear test site that was feared to be unstable reportedly collapsed, crushing 100 people in the initial cave-in and 100 others when the tunnels again gave way on top of rescuers...  http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/04/n-korea-shuts-down-nuclear-site-because-it-collapsed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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White House Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow 
Discusses China, Trade and Meeting With Apple CEO Tim Cook
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ An interesting discussion this morning on CNBC with White House economic adviser  Larry Kudlow... beings to highlight the principal purpose of his forte’. President Trump is the first U.S. president who came to the table of economic policy with a plan of action that is uniquely his own. POTUS doesn’t need “advisers” to frame possible policy, he already has the program mapped out; POTUS needs ‘advisers” who are not actually “advisers” per se’ but rather a sales-force to explain and advance his program agenda to the world markets as the policies are implemented….
White House releases photo of Mike Pompeo meeting Kim Jong Un
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by Anna Giaritelli
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The White House followed through on President Trump's promise to share photos from then-Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo's... meeting earlier this month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders posted pictures of the two men at the time of their meeting over Easter weekend. "Great to have Secretary Pompeo confirmed. He will do an excellent job helping @POTUS lead our efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. photos from previously confirmed Easter weekend trip," Sanders wrote...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house-releases-photo-of-mike-pompeo-meeting-kim-jong-un 
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The shadow war between Israel 
and Iran takes center stage
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by Ishaan Tharoor
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ The rumblings of an open conflict between Israel and Iran in Syria are growing louder. When President Donald Trump launched yet another one-off missile salvo against the Syrian regime, it came on the heels of a suspected April 9 Israeli strike on an Iranian facility at a Syrian air base, which drew howls of condemnation from the regime's patrons in Moscow and Tehran.

Though Israel didn't acknowledge responsibility for the attack, it fit a familiar pattern. Since 2012, the Israelis are believed to have launched more than 100 strikes on suspected Iranian-linked positions in Syria. Israeli officials privately argue that these measures are necessary to prevent a permanent Iranian threat on their borders and stymie the flow of weaponry to Iran's Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

"No matter the price, we will not allow a noose to form around us," Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israel Radio over the weekend. But he cautioned against talk of outright hostilities. "I hope not," he said when asked whether war was imminent. "I think that our primary role is to prevent war, and that requires concrete, real deterrence as well as readiness to act."

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made similar appeals for calm in a Sunday interview with CBS News, though he accused the Israelis of escalating "tension by violating Syrian airspace."

"I do not believe that we are headed towards regional war. But I do believe that, unfortunately, Israel has continued its violations with international law, hoping to be able to do it with impunity because of the U.S. support and trying to find smokescreens to hide behind," Zarif said.

Still, Zarif warned that Israel was playing a risky game. "They should expect that if they continue to violate territorial integrity of other states, there'll be consequences," he said. "The easiest answer would be to stop - to stop these acts of aggression, to stop these incursions."

But the Israelis have made clear that an entrenched Iranian presence in Syria marks a new red line. They point to the new threat of Iranian drones, potentially armed with explosives, entering Israeli airspace, as well as the old threat of rockets launched from southern Lebanon. The April 9 strike, according to one account, was Israel's first direct attack on Iranian equipment and personnel and killed a senior Iranian drone commander.

Last week, the Israeli military leaked details and satellite images of the existence of an Iranian "air force" in Syria, including civilian planes they claimed were ferrying shipments of arms. The leak was supposed to signal to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the powerful military organization that dominates Iran's foreign policy decisions, that Israel had new targets already in sight should the Iranians or their proxies attack.

From the Iranian perspective, their presence in Syria is a legitimate defense of their beleaguered ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad. And they see their capacity to threaten Israel from next door as a potential deterrent against a long-standing regional foe.

"Israeli leaders frequently threaten to bomb Iran, so having strong military proxies near Israel's borders gives Iran some protection," wrote Ben Hubbard and David Halbfinger of the New York Times. "If Israel attacks Iran, the thinking goes, it knows it can expect a painful response from Hezbollah in Lebanon, and perhaps from other militias now operating in Syria."

The deepening tensions come at a time of growing discontent within the Islamic Republic. A tanking economy has blown the lid on popular frustration with the regime and even prompted Zarif's putative boss, President Hassan Rouhani, to complain about the costly war effort in Syria. But the prospect of broader confrontation with Israel - and the likely upcoming drama over Iran's nuclear deal with world powers - may persuade regime hard-liners that now is the time to circle the wagons.

"The shadow war has come to light after the decision by the Iranian leadership to proceed with the IRGC's plans to establish permanent bases in Syria. This was not a unanimous decision," wrote Anshel Pfeffer in the Times of London. "The faction in Tehran led by the country's president, Hassan Rouhani, is in favor of investing in Iran's domestic economy the huge amounts of money these bases will cost. But the IRGC has the ear of the nation's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and it is keen to capitalize on the investment it has made in propping up the Assad regime for the past seven years."

The way forward is treacherous. "Iran is determined to entrench its positions in Syria, and Israel is determined to prevent them," said Amos Yadlin, a former commander of Israeli military intelligence, to Pfeffer.

He suggested that Russia, whose forces help prop up the regime's air defenses and whose diplomats are key interlocutors to both the Iranians and the Israelis, will play a critical role. "Conflict is inevitable unless Putin steps in to prevent it," Yadlin said. But recent events suggest that the Russians have limited influence over Iran and are more concerned about reinforcing the Syrian regime.

At the same time, some foreign policy figures in Washington seem keen on letting Israel continue its covert campaign against the Iranians. They see Israeli strikes as necessary at a time when President Trump wants to disengage from the Syrian conflict and outsource the stabilization of the country to Iran's Sunni Arab rivals.

But other experts contend that this does not amount to a real strategy. "There is a pathway to containing and deterring Iran in Syria ... but it requires more than just Israel's itchy trigger finger and cheerleading from the sidelines by Arab autocracies," wrote Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution, who argued for more robust diplomatic engagement from the Trump administration and cautioned against alienating allies by pulling out of the nuclear deal.

In February, the International Crisis Group issued a report warning that the current atmosphere of tensions made "miscalculation more likely" in Syria. Since then, the risks of an escalation have only intensified.

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Sat/Med - AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
SCOTUS Appears to Lean Trump's 
Way on Travel Ban 
by Thomas Gallatin
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DOJ Hiding Damaging Strzok-Page Texts, 
Released Safe Ones to Congress
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Ron DeSantis isn’t fooled by the latest stunt pulled on Congress and the American people... by the den of vipers that is the totally corrupt Sessions Justice Department, claiming to have turned over all of the text messages between treasonous love-snakes Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. DeSantis says, “I think this is incomplete production. I mean, we know their texting habits of how often they were texting in other periods. And so this is the period December of 2016, during the Trump transition, all the way up until the firing of James Comey and then the appointment of Robert Mueller as a special counsel. Yet there’s only forty-some pages there, there’s gaps, some of the stuff is incomplete.” “So I don’t think that this is a full production,” says DeSantis. “I think that there’s more questions that this raises, and we’re going to have to go back to the Justice Department and ask them why they weren’t able to recover the full Strzok-Page text messages.”...  https://rickwells.us/doj-hiding-strzok-page-congress/
DNC Lawsuit Could Backfire like 
a Scene from ‘Hunt for the Red October’ 
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{ patrioticviralnews.com } ~ In case you haven’t heard, the DNC is on the warpath. They lost a critical election... because their cheating and illegal ways were exposed. Given a taste of truth, the American people spoke in a loud voice. In classic Democratic fashion, they’re looking to unload blame wherever they can. Their tactic? They’re going to sue anyone and everyone. So far, the list includes Russian intelligence agents, Trump and his campaign and WikiLeaks. It’s hard to say what their hopes are, because the lawsuit has little chance of doing the DNC any good. First, Trump’s campaign has been under investigation for over a year. All that happened is that they proved Trump didn’t collude with Russia. As for Russian spies, a number of them have been brought to justice. If a lawsuit can award the DNC anything, it will open the door for Trump’s people to be similarly awarded, since they were the actual targets of Russia’s malicious meddling...
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Even Liberal Media Confesses: 
mad-Maxine Waters’ Hypocrisy is “Cringe-Worthy” 
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{ patriotnewsdaily.com } ~ When a liberal politician like Rep. mad-Maxine Waters can draw condemnation from the liberal media, like, whoa, you know she stepped in it... Not only is mad-Waters a progressive, she’s a BLACK, FEMALE progressive, which puts her on such hallowed ground that we’re shocked that anyone at the Washington Post dared to take a swipe at her. Not only is she a BLACK, FEMALE Democrat, but she’s someone who has never had one good thing to say about Donald Trump. That doesn’t just put her above criticism in liberal circles, it makes her a kind of living deity. This is a woman that is so cherished by the leftist media that when Trump had the audacity to question her IQ a fair and reasonable question for anyone who has listened to this woman speak, the left said it was a racist attack. But the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake couldn’t hold his tongue when mad-Waters went on MSNBC this week and made a fool of herself. Perhaps cognizant of her low IQ, host Chris Hayes kindly asked mad-Waters to explain how it was that she could say former FBI Director James Comey had no credibility when he was in charge of liar-Hillary Clinton’s email investigation, but now rush to his defense as he gallops around on his anti-Trump book tour...
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US Senator’s Testimony Straight Out of Islamist Playbook 
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by MEIRA SVIRSKY 
{ clarionproject.org } ~ Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) denounced anti-Islamist Muslims organizations on the floor of the Senate... calling them “anti-Muslim organizations” and saying that “they preach intolerance.” Murphy made the remarks during the course of the confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo. In the dystopian world that has become partisan politics in the U.S., Pompeo has been subjected to witch hunt-like tactics unlike any other presidential nominee in the past. Ironically, the organizations Murphy named are some of the most respected organizations fighting against Islamist terrorism. In addition, they have been tireless advocate for Muslims and non-Muslim alike who do not believe in political Islam, i.e. a government run by Islamic  sharia law...  https://clarionproject.org/u-s-senator-islamist-playbook/
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Respected Conservative Mag: CIA Director 
Colluded with Foreign Powers To Destroy Trump
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by JOE SAUNDERS
{ westernjournal.com } ~ This is definitely not the collusion case liberals are trying to make... but it’s one Americans should be thinking about. When the lefty British newspaper The Guardian published an article earlier this month touting the role of British intelligence agencies in fomenting suspicions that the Donald Trump campaign had been aided by Russia, The Guardian editors were no doubt hoping to feed Americans doubts about the duly elected president. But a writer for the conservative magazine American Spectator had an entirely different take on it — and argued it points the finger back at the kind of “Deep State” obstruction to the Trump administration that Trump supporters have been warning about since before Trump’s inauguration. In an April 19 piece, Spectator writer George Neumayr wrote that The Guardian had unintentionally provided proof that former CIA Director John Brennan was using any weapon that came to hand to try to ensure the election of liar-Hillary Clinton in 2016 — and keep his own job...
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SCOTUS Appears to Lean Trump's Way on Travel Ban 

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               Solicitor General Noel Francisco, representing the Trump administration, astutely noted that of the eight countries barred under the travel ban, only six of them are Muslim-majority nations. In fact, he said, “The vast majority of the world, including the vast majority of the Muslim world,” was not included in the ban. Francisco added, “It would be the most ineffective Muslim ban that one could possibly imagine, since not only does it exclude the vast majority of the Muslim world, it also omits three Muslim-majority countries that were covered by past orders.
               Justice Samuel Alito appeared to agree with Francisco and pointed out that Trump’s executive order affected only 8% of the world’s Muslim population. “If you look at what was done,” Alito said, “it does not look at all like a Muslim ban.
               Katyal repeatedly referenced Trump’s campaign rhetoric as evidence to support the charge that the ban was designed to target Muslims, but he also conceded that the actual language of the executive order instituting the travel ban did not specifically target Muslims. Francisco countered that campaign rhetoric was irrelevant and that the actual language of the executive order should be what is judged by the law. The statute that gives the president broad regulatory authority over alien entry into the U.S. states:
               Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
               While the Left and much of the mainstream media have from the very beginning erroneously labeled Trump’s travel ban as a Muslim ban, it has done so not based upon the actual language of the EO but upon their anti-Trump bias. Recall the actual  reason Trump ordered the travel ban was to protect American citizens, one of the primary responsibilities of the president. Due to the fact that several countries’ vetting standards did not meet U.S. safety standards, Trump acted. The good news is that it appears the majority of the SCOTUS justices are seeing through the partisan bias and are looking at the letter of the law. The judges that have so thoroughly undermined the Rule of Law in their rulings on DACA should learn a thing or two.  ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/55596-scotus-appears-to-lean-trumps-way-on-travel-ban

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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War and the Separation of Powers 
by Judge Andrew Napolitano  
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Grassley Protects Rogue Mueller Coup -
 Gets Graham/Fein-stein Belly Rub
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Senator Chuck Grassley, the bumbling, illiterate fool who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee... has made his bed. He and his girly-boy partner in sedition, Lindsey Graham, Thom Tillis and rino-Jeff Flake have chosen to lay down in the swamp with the Democrat snakes rather than to stand up for our President. They have joined in the COUP in an effort to insulate the grand inquisitor, to make him an invincible, untouchable force for evil. The swamp RINOs have chosen to be a party to an unjust and unwarranted witch hunt rather than acknowledge a rogue investigation that is politically motivated and focused solely on removing President Trump by any means possible has gone completely out of control.  Graham and Tillis are up for reelection in 2020 and Grassley in 2022. rino-Flake is being dumped like the trash he is at the curb this year and will not seek reelection in the face of enormous voter rejection and unpopularity. Maybe the others think Americans will forget their treachery and escape a similar fate – they’re wrong. The nauseating betrayals have to stop...
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Bret Baier Interviews James Comey
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Former FBI Director James Comey strategically, and intentionally, showed up 20 minutes late... for a scheduled live interview with Fox News Bret Baier thereby limiting the amount of time available for questions. There are two segments to the interview. The first segment is 20 minutes long. In the first segment James Comey showcases his forward-moving legal defense strategy. Comey outlines that he was kept in the dark, and did not know, about almost all of the central elements within the actions taken by those under his leadership.
‘These are the Emails liar-Hillary Doesn't Want you to See'
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{ judicialwatch.org } ~ On April 25, 2018, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel... to discuss Judicial Watch’s release of 281 pages of liar-Clinton emails containing classified information and discussions connected to the liar-Clinton Foundation.  https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/tom-fitton-emails-hillary-didnt-want-see/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=on+the+air&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180427005648.
Trump considering former House 
Veterans Affairs' chair Jeff Miller for VA secretary
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by Gabby Morrongiello
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump is looking seriously at former House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chair Jeff Miller to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs... a senior White House official told the Washington Examiner. The retired Florida congressman left the House in 2016 after serving eight terms on Capitol Hill, during which he became a major advocate for the nation's veterans. Miller, a conservative Republican, helped usher a $16 million bipartisan VA reform plan through Congress in 2014 when the second-largest federal agency was beset by scandals. The bill was signed into law three years after he was named chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. Miller emerged as a leading candidate for VA secretary after White House physician Ronny Jackson withdrew his nomination early Thursday. The Navy doctor faced an uphill confirmation battle in the Senate after allegations of excessive drinking and improper drug distribution emerged. Jackson denied all of the claims made against him...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-considering-former-house-veterans-affairs-chair-jeff-miller-for-va-secretary 
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Diamond and Silk Go Off On Rep Sheila Jackson Lee: Don’t Try To Mix My Words 
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“That’s Not What Trump Said” Sarah Sanders Goes Off On Jim Acosta For Lying
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Gen. Mattis on Russian Mercenaries in Syria: I Ordered Their Annihilation
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Israel’s UN Ambassador Exposes Iran’s Central Induction And Recruitment Center In Syria”
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President Trump Pledges His Support To America’s Wounded Warriors
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Michael Goodwin: James Comey Is A Scam And Fraud 
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War and the Separation of Powers 
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano 
{ townhall.com } ~ A popular way to begin the first day of class in constitutional law in many American law schools is to ask the students what sets the U.S. Constitution apart from all others. Usually, they answer that it's the clauses that guarantee the freedom of speech, privacy and due process.

Yes, each of those guarantees -- if upheld -- is vital to restraining government, but the overarching and most important unique aspect of the Constitution is the separation of powers. The constitutions of many totalitarian countries pay lip service to free speech, privacy and due process, but none has the strict separation of powers that the U.S. does.

Under our Constitution, the Congress writes the laws, the president enforces them and the courts interpret them; and those powers and functions may not constitutionally be mixed or exchanged. The Congress also declares war. The president also wages war. The courts also invalidate the acts of the other two branches when they exceed their constitutional powers.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the separation of powers is integral to the Constitution not to preserve the prerogatives of each branch of government but to divide governmental powers among the branches so as to keep power diffused -- and thereby limited and protective of personal freedom.

James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, wanted not only this diffusion by separation but also tension -- even jealousy -- among the branches so as to keep each in check.

Thus, even if one branch of government consented to ceding an essential power to another branch, such a giveaway would be unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has ruled, because the core functions of each branch of the federal government may not be delegated away to either of the other two without violating the separation of powers.

I am writing about this not as a history or constitutional law mini-lesson but rather because it's necessary background information to address a real and contemporary problem. Two weeks ago, on the basis of evidence so flimsy that his own secretary of defense rejected it -- and without any legal or constitutional authority -- President Donald Trump dispatched 110 missiles to bomb certain military and civilian targets in Syria, where the president argued the Syrian government manufactured, stored or used chemical weapons.

Trump did not seek a congressional declaration of war, nor did he comply with the U.N. Charter, a treaty to which both the U.S. and Syria are signatories. Though Trump did not articulate any statutory basis for his use of the military, his predecessors often cited as legal support for their unconstitutional uses of military force two statutes -- one enacted in 2001 and the other in 2002, each known as the Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF.

The AUMFs refer to either the Taliban or al-Qaida or their affiliated forces in Afghanistan or Iraq as targets or to pursuing those who caused the attacks in America on 9/11 or those who harbor weapons of mass destruction.

Can the president legally use military force to attack a foreign land without a serious threat or legal obligation or a declaration of war from Congress? In a word: No. Here is the back story.

The Constitution is clear that only Congress can declare war and only the president can wage it. Federal law and international treaties provide that -- short of defending the country against an actual attack -- without a congressional declaration of war, the president can only constitutionally use military force to repel an enemy whose attack on America is imminent or to defend U.S. citizens and property in foreign lands from foreign attack or in aid of an ally pursuant to a treaty with that ally.

In the case of Trump's bombing Syria earlier this month, none of those conditions was met.

Prior to the strike on Syria -- but no doubt prodded by the prospect of it -- a bipartisan group of senators offered legislation supported by the president that would rescind both AUMFs, which are now seriously outdated and of no useful moral or legal authority, in favor of an unconstitutional mishmash that would permit a president to strike whomever and wherever he pleases. The president would be restrained only by a vote of Congress -- after hostilities have commenced.

Such a statute would give the president far more powers than he has now, would directly violate Congress' war-making powers by ceding them away to the president, would defy the Supreme Court on the unconstitutionality of giving away core governmental functions, would commit the U.S. to foreign wars without congressional and thus popular support, and would invite dangerous mischief by any president wanting to attack any enemy -- real or imagined, old or new -- for foreign or domestic political purposes, whether American interests are at stake or not.

The proponents of this legislation will argue that Congress would retain its war-making powers by its ability to restrain the president. That is a naive contention because congressional restraint, which can come only in the form of prohibitory legislation or withdrawal of funds, would certainly be met by a presidential veto -- and a veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote of both the House and the Senate.

What's going on here? It is little more than the lust of the military-industrial complex and its allies in both major political parties in Congress for war. War unifies disparate politics, arouses deep patriotic instincts, enhances the government's success in obtaining the people's sacrifices, enriches arms-makers and kills innocents. War is the health of the state.

The Constitution, written in war's aftermath, strictly limits its offensive use only to when the people's representatives in Congress have recognized a broad national consensus behind it.

When Donald Trump ran for president, he condemned foreign wars that have served no real American purpose and he condemned presidential war-making; and he promised to end both. Where is that Donald Trump today?

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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Schools Are Teaching Kids to Use Their 
Body, Not Their Mind, To Affect Politics 
by Marina Medvin  
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Trump says Comey ‘guilty of crimes,’ 
warns DOJ he won’t ‘stay away’ forever 
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by Brooke Singman 
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump, in a fiery exclusive interview with "Fox & Friends," blasted former FBI Director James Comey... on Thursday as a “liar and a leaker” who is “guilty of crimes” -- while issuing a stern warning to the Justice Department about the Russia probe. He said he tries to "stay away" from the Justice Department's affairs, "but at some point I won't." He suggested the DOJ hasn't adequately scrutinized Comey and others amid the focus on the Russia probe. "Our Justice Department should be looking at that kind of stuff, not the nonsense of collusion with Russia. There is no collusion with me and Russia, and everyone knows that,” he said...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/26/trump-comey-is-guilty-crimes.html.
Trump warns Senate Democrat will 'have a big price
 to pay' for disclosing Ronny Jackson allegations
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by Anna Giaritelli
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump on Thursday predicted Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is going to have serious problems... as a result of his comments on Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. "For Jon Tester to bring up stuff like 'candy man' and the kinds of things he was saying and then to say, 'Well, you know, these are statements that were made.' There is no proof of this," Trump told Fox News. The White House announced Thursday morning that Jackson is withdrawing his nomination. "For him to be doing this to this man and his family, I think Jon Tester has to have a big price to pay in Montana. I don't think people in Montana — the admiral is the kind of person that they respect and admire — and they don't like seeing what's happened to him," he added on "Fox and Friends."...
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220 Airstrikes on Palestinians; World Yawns
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ While all eyes are set on the weekly demonstrations organized by Hamas and other Palestinian factions along the border... between the Gaza Strip and Israel, as part of the so-called March of Return, a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus is facing a wide-scale military offensive and ethnic cleansing by the Syrian army and its allies. The war crimes committed against the Palestinians in Yarmouk camp have so far failed to prompt an ounce of outrage, much less the sort of outcry emerging from the international community over the events of the past four weeks along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The international community seems to differentiate between a Palestinian shot by an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian shot by a Syrian soldier. In the first case, Hamas and several Palestinian groups have been encouraging Palestinians to march towards the border with Israel, with some even trying to destroy the security fence and hurling stones and petrol bombs at Israeli troops...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12221/palestinians-airstrikes 
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90 Mostly Far-Left Muslims Are Running for Political Office
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by S.Noble
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Donald Trump’s so-called travel ban — which is NOT a travel ban of Muslims — has motivated some 90, mostly far-left, Muslims... to run for office and most are Democrats so far, we could only find far-left Democrats. They are also motivated by a far-left community organizer named Nadeem Mazen. CNN, and other outlets, blatantly lied about the ban, and what follows is one example of how they distorted the truth: “the travel ban which temporarily kept immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the US”. The truth is the travel ban is a temporary ban on TERROR nations, not Muslims, and it is meant to last until the government can get the vetting right. Muslims have been lied to on this issue. A ban of this nature has been implemented by modern presidents routinely, including Barack liar-nObama...  http://www.independentsentinel.com/90-mostly-far-left-muslims-are-running-for-political-office/
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Special master named to review documents in Michael Cohen case
by LYDIA WHEELER

{ thehill.com { ~ The federal judge overseeing the case against President Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen... on Thursday appointed a former federal judge to review the documents seized in a raid of his office and hotel room, according to multiple reports. Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York appointed Barbara Jones — who served a 16-year term on the Manhattan’s federal court and is now a partner at law firm Bracewell — to serve as the “special master" and  decide which of Cohen's materials are protected by attorney-client privilege and what can be reviewed by federal prosecutors, the The New York Post reported.  The quick decision came after Wood received a letter   Thursday morning from federal prosecutors in Manhattan withdrawing their objection to Cohen's request for a special master. Prosecutors had initially pushed for the use of a Justice Department "taint team" to perform the review, but cited new developments in changing their position...  http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/385027-special-master-named-to-review-documents-in-michael-cohen-case.
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Schools Are Teaching Kids to Use Their 
Body, Not Their Mind, To Affect Politics 
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by Marina Medvin 
{ townhall.com } ~ Teachers and school administrators have been supporting and encouraging student walkouts in protest of “gun violence.”

I: “What are you protesting?”

Kid: “Gun violence.”

I: “Ok. No one disagrees with you. ‘Gun violence,’ an ambiguous term by which you mean gun crimes, is already prohibited by every state of these United States as either murder or brandishing or other type of criminal assault. Go back to class.”

What they are actually attempting to protest is the ability of anyone to possess a gun. Former Supreme Court Justice Stevens laid out a logical explanation for what the politics behind these school walkouts are really attempting to achieve: “a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment.” 

But these kids are not being taught to understand, rationalize and articulate the problem. These kids are taught that ambiguous, nonsensical terms like “gun violence” are fine to use, instead of particularizing the problem and articulating the solution, like Justice Stevens had to point out. These kids are being taught that using their bodies in protest, as opposed to using their minds in intellectual discourse, is smarter. Teachers are encouraging kids to walk out of class in lieu of studying the psychological causes of the shootings, our legal processes, and the American government.

Even private schools have jumped on this political bandwagon of walkouts and have sent emails to paying parents saying that kids will be supported by teachers for the 4/20 walkout. Even though only 6% of school shootings take place in private school and private schools are disproportionately less likely to experience a school shooting, school administrators encouraged those kids to walk out  instead of to sit-in and to discuss the disproportionality of public school shootings and the potential reasons behind the disparity.

It is worrisome to me as an American to see the political mockery that these students, encouraged by teachers and school administrators, have made of the tragic deaths of our innocent school kids. And the administrators’ role in this is significant: students are not being encouraged to think as individuals and to patiently debate without a physical component. Students are instead being taught that the physical component together with groupthink is the answer to their problems. This significantly diminishes their ability to rationalize in their own self interest. This significantly diminishes their ability to think objectively and to deeply understand the solutions they are supporting. 

Go back to Justice Stevens’s proposition, for instance. The gun-ban position is very appealing to these kids, because is sounds so simple on its face - “No gun, no shoot! Problem solved!”

Right? Wrong. Keep thinking. 

In the real world, humans do not always follow the rules. This is an inalienable attribute of humanity. People will break the rules, bad people will exist, and bad things will happen. There is nothing that we can do to stop them. The human race has not yet been able to uncover the secret to ridding the world of murder, larceny, and rape. Maybe because those crimes are not always cut and dry and I can tell you from a criminal defense attorney’s perspective that in fact most of these allegations are not ever so simple as acts that are right or wrong; that is why we have a jury system and a 12-person jury must take time to deliberate to reach a unanimous verdict.

There is no legislation that will prevent the inevitability of human nature. 

Murder is illegal. Yet people commit murders. Drug possession is illegal but it does not stop drug possession.

Legislation of bad behavior does not eradicate the bad behavior. Legislation of gun possession will only eliminate possession rights for the law-abiding individuals who possessed weapons for personal security. For it is the law-abiding who abide by the law. And the law abiding are not the ones who you are worried about. More importantly to consider in this balance is that law-abiding Americans have used their firearms in self-defense 3.6 times as often as criminals have used them for “gun violence,” according to studies conducted by our the CDC. Moreover, many states already have increased penalties for committing crimes with a gun. These increased penalties have not stopped gun-related crimes.

We can safely assume that if someone has decided to break the law by intending to commit mass murder, then gun possession deterrence will not stop them. So what does punishing the law-abiding via gun prohibition actually achieve in the quest to stop school shootings? 

And if we are to protect our schoolchildren against “gun violence,” then how do we do that disarmed? Instead, the only proactive rational response to defend against “gun violence” in schools can be to increase school security protocols restricted access, cameras, ALICE drills, etc and to add armed and trained guards. To guard our schools as preciously as we guard our banks, police departments and courthouses. Many schools agree and have implemented armed security measures.

So why are students not demanding armed guards and physical protection? After all, a law does not physically manifest itself and magically appear between a shooter and his victim to prevent the shooter from killing his victim. A law does not instantaneously defend - it simply creates deterrence. And we know the deference does not stop crime. Why are kids not demanding immediate protection, physical protection from an expectedly non-law-abiding shooter? Because they are being publicly encouraged not to think think via rational self-interest, but to support a groupthink cause. 

As we know, some intelligent individuals disagree with this. Justice Stevens, for one, disagrees and articulates why. This is all natural and part of expected political discourse. But I am not seeing respectful discourse from most students who disagree. 

Other than Donald Trump’s listening session, we are not hearing much of an intelligent discussion from the students. Instead we are seeking physical protests and their kid leader regurgitating Twitter politics.

There are some important exceptions to this generality, such as Kyle Kashuv, a free-thinker student who is knowledgeable about our rule of law and has found an intellectual way to discuss the problems. ”I truly believe this livestream -- learning about our Constitution and finding ways to save lives without infringing on our Constitution -- is the best way to sanctify the day and remember those who were lost in the Parkland shooting and in Columbine," Kashuv told CNN. "I created this event to do just that.” He does not have much public support from schools and school administrators. 

These are all issues that need to be discussed and debated in class. Kids need to be taught how to rationalize and how to research, not how to regurgitate. Kids need to be taught individualism, not mob mentality and groupthink. Kids need to be taught to use their minds to affect politics, not their bodies. That’s the point of school. They can learn how to protest all on their own, I promise.

Without the teachers doing their jobs, even with strong at-home parental intervention attempts, individual thinkers like Kyle Kashuv will become more and more rare. As parents we need to strongly revaluate the roles of our public schools, private schools, and home schooling.

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Fri/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
liar-Hillary's $84M Campaign Money Laundering 
by Political Editors
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Nunes, Meadows - DOJ, State Dept 
Still Obstructing - Pull The Trigger, Impeach
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Continuing to keep America updated on the evolving situation with the liar-nObama/liar-Clinton/scum-Soros... orchestrated corruption at the DOJ, FBI, State Dept and Intelligence agencies, Reps Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Devin Nunes (R-CA) joined Sean Hannity on Wednesday evening with some more in the never ending series of revelations of corruption and abuse of power. Hannity starts by noting that he’s been hearing rumblings that there is “a possibility that Strzok-Page memos were actually handed over to the State Department last week and we haven’t had them revealed. He asks Congressman Meadows if he’s heard that, to which he replies, “What we do know, Sean, is there another tranche of Peter Strzok-Lisa Page text messages that actually have been vetted by the DOJ.” He says, “We’re just waiting on the Inspector General to release those. He gave that release on Friday. We’ve been expecting those documents each and every day. As of tonight, as of right now we don’t have those. We have let our displeasure be known to the DOJ officials. Hopefully we’ll receive those tomorrow.”...  https://rickwells.us/nunes-meadows-doj-impeach/.
A warning on health-care price setting as envisioned by AB3087 
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by Benedic N. Ippolito and Jeffrey Clemens 
{ aei.org } ~ When tasked with explaining the United States’ exceptionally high spending on health care... a prominent economist was famously succinct: It’s the prices, stupid! Assembly Bill 3087 takes this lesson to heart by proposing direct state regulation of health-care prices. Soberingly, all but one prior effort at this kind of price regulation collapsed. Price setting can under-deliver for many reasons, but its downfall is all but assured if California doesn’t learn from past failures. The desire to take on health-care prices is understandable. The United States spends almost 18 percent of gross domestic product on health care — nearly twice that of many other wealthy countries. California, with nearly $300 billion per year in health-care spending alone, is no exception. Yet Americans spend more, not because they use more, but because they pay higher prices. AB3087 proposes to task an independent state agency with setting payment rates for all health-care providers. Such authority conveys substantial power to alter the market. However, the temptation for regulators to overreach presents a threat to rate setting’s success...
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Scott Pruitt’s Email Account Is Nothing Like liar-nObama-
Era Predecessor’s — She Created A False Identity
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by MICHAEL BASTASCH
{ dailycaller.com } ~ When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt heads to Capitol Hill on Thursday... he’s prepared for lawmakers to grill him over his use of multiple email accounts. Pruitt’s staff prepared him with responses on two dozen subjects surrounding alleged overspending and ethics violations, including “whether he improperly maintained a secret email address, ‘sooner7@epa.gov,'” The New York Times reported Wednesday. EPA’s inspector general launched an investigation into Pruitt’s email at the urging of Democratic lawmakers in April. Pruitt used four email accounts — one of which is no longer in use — according to EPA. The big question Pruitt faces is whether all his government accounts searched in response to Freedom of Information Act requests...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/25/scott-pruitt-email-account-lisa-jackson-false-identity/?utm_medium=email 
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Christians Deceived by the LGBTQ Movement
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by Lloyd Marcus
{ americanthinker.com } ~ For crying out loud, Lloyd – another article about how the LGBTQ movement seeks to ban Christianity?... Folks, I keep talking about this because too many fellow Christians still don't get it. California pro-LGBTQ Assembly Bill 2943 threatens free speech and freedom of religion for Christians. It uses the state's consumer fraud statute to make it illegal to "distribute resources, sell books, offer counseling services, or direct someone to a biblically based model for getting help with gender confusion and homosexuality." Meanwhile, Christians believe the LGBTQ movement's lie that they seek only Christian love and acceptance. The truth is, the LGBTQ movement seeks to bury Christianity, bullying us into silence and extinction. Christians have told me to stop posting my articles about LGBTQ aggression on their Facebook pages. A Christian told me not to post articles on his Facebook page about Planned Parenthood illegally trafficking aborted baby body parts...
Why Hasn't Mueller Questioned Natalia Veselnitskaya?
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by Daniel John Sobieski
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Veselnitskaya was, and still is, after all, the poster child for Russian collusion... whose 20-minute meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. was to be the deathblow to the Trump administration. Yet, by her account, she has yet to be interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller: A Russian lawyer who discussed sanctions with Donald Trump Jr. in New York during his father's 2016 campaign for the US presidency said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller has not contacted her and she thinks he isn't interested in finding the truth. In an interview with The Associated Press, Natalia Veselnitskaya also detailed her recent meeting in Berlin with the US Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US election as well. Interestingly, it was Manafort's home, hotel, and office that were raided at the behest of Mueller, whose team admitted in a court filing that the Veselnitskaya meeting was a motive for the Manafort raid...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/why_hasnt_mueller_questioned_natalia_vesilnitskaya.html 
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liar-Hillary's $84M Campaign Money Laundering 

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              This is a significant event and yet passed with almost no word from the mainstream media. As Margot Cleveland of The Federalist observes:
               Yet even with the overwhelming evidence of tsunami-level campaign-finance criminality — more than $84 million — the media instead chases the cloud cast over President Trump because of the $130,000 payment his attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels, and claims that payment constituted an illegal campaign contribution. One wonders what it will take to break through the mainstream media blackout. Maybe a few pointed unpresidential tweets from our commander-in-chief?
               Cleveland’s point on the media’s reaction demonstrates just how in the tank the MSM was for liar-Clinton and essentially remains to this day. Partially, the Leftmedia ignores the story to maintain the illusion that the reason voters rejected liar-Clinton was due to sexism rather than the fact that she was a deeply flawed and compromised candidate, and secondly the media would rather focus negative attention on Trump.
               Finally, and what is the most ironic aspect of this latest revelation, is the fact that Democrats have been the biggest driving force pushing for and creating campaign-finance laws for the express purpose of cleaning up the influence of “dark money” in politics. The sheer degree of hypocrisy displayed by both liar- Clinton and the DNC in seeking to undermine the essential “spirit,” if not the letter, of the law — their law — is deplorable. But as is often the case, politics breeds a class of elitists who view themselves as being above the law — laws they establish to control everyone else.   ~The Patriot Pos
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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Facebook Publishes Removal Policies, 
but Bias Remains 
by Louis DeBroux
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The Mueller Coup Bill is a Threat to theConstitution
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by Daniel Greenfield
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The Mueller coup bill which got out of the Senate Judiciary Committee... has troubling implications even far beyond the politics of the moment. The idea of an independent prosecutor has always been controversial. Far too much power has already shifted away to the unelected officials of the judiciary and away from officials elected by voters. Democrats turned on the idea after the Starr-liar-Clinton era, but now they would like to make the special counsel into a permanent institution at the discretion of any friendly federal judge. The bill doesn't just empower an endless coup effort by Mueller and his team of liar-Clinton/liar-nObama allies. It provides for a dramatic power shift. It allows DOJ figures and judicial allies to launch a permanent investigation, much like the one aimed at Trump, that turns into an endless witch hunt...
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King - liar-nObama Made America Unable 
to Enforce Immigration Laws - Undo the Damage
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Laura Ingraham notes that the illegal squatter agitators, including one individual named Alex Mensing of Pueblos Sin Fronteras... who are helping the invaders that were part of the illegal caravan from Central America to force their way into our country. She tells Congressman Steve King that the concern is “We’ve got American lawyers and other non-governmental organizations, almost working hand in glove, de facto, with media outlets to push Mexico” to put the political pressure on Mexico and keep it all going. King says, “Watching this caravan make its way towards the United States, and divert towards Tijuana, I’m seeing the way they’re facilitating this with the media and with the immigration attorneys.” He points out, “There’s federal statutes that prohibit and create a felony for contributing and aiding and abetting illegal immigration.”...  https://rickwells.us/king-obama-immigration-laws/
John Bolton Informs DC Staffers that 
He’s Cleaning House with High-Level Shakeups 
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by Rebekah Baker  
{ westernjournal.com } ~ John Bolton will be making some big changes to the National Security Council... according to a recent Fox News report. As the newly appointed national security adviser in the Trump administration, Bolton has warned NSC employees that staff changes are coming, including a flood of new people and a structure reorganization, Fox News reported Wednesday via a Trump administration source. Bolton reportedly told staffers in a Wednesday morning memo that these staff changes may include high-level director positions. “The source said that while some at the National Security Council (NSC) welcome Bolton’s changes, the news will upset many White House staffers who are overworked and overwhelmed as a result of the administration’s mercurial foreign policy,” Fox reported...
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Religious Liberty Attorney Confirmed to Federal Bench 
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by Bill McMorris
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Religious liberty advocates received a boost in federal courts after the Senate confirmed one of the nation's leading First Amendment attorneys... to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate voted to approve President Trump's nominee, Kyle Duncan, to Louisiana's Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. Duncan is the former general counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit law firm that "exists to defend the free exercise of all faiths, from Anglican to Zoroastrian," as it says on its website. The group has been involved in some of the most high profile religious liberty cases in the nation in recent years, helping nuns at the Little Sisters of the Poor and religious business owners at Hobby Lobby resist the liar-nObama administration's contraception and abortifacient mandate. It also successfully defended the rights of Muslim prisoners and Sikh soldiers to abide by their religious teachings. Duncan joined the firm in 2012 after serving as Louisiana attorney general and participated in the Hobby Lobby case. Becket president Mark Rienzi praised his former colleague on his confirmation. Rienzi said Duncan was a talented attorney and stalwart defender of the Constitution. He said religious liberty attorneys often find themselves facing strict hurdles to federal service, dubbing it the "stained glass ceiling," but said Duncan's two-year tenure at Becket would benefit Americans going through the federal judicial system...
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mad-Maxine Waters Hopeful 
Illegal Search Will Give Her Trump Scalp
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Subhuman rabid mongrel Democrat mad-Maxine Waters of California... has abandoned any efforts to disguise her attacks on President Trump as somehow being legitimate. She and her scumbag Party are upset that their espionage criminal and racketeer lost so she’s going to do whatever she can to interfere with President Trump’s ability to govern and ultimately remove him from office. The delusional California cur seems to believe that she is endowed with superior moral character and intellect, which entitle her with the right and the ability to overrule the decisions and wishes of the rest of us, to correct the “mistakes” our “undersized little redneck brains” have allowed us to make, particularly in the area of electing President Trump. This wicked witch is going to “save us from ourselves” no matter what it takes and the end justifies the means. She’s not worried about the existence of any legal, ethical or Constitutional merit to her COUP effort. She’s not even any longer concerned with hiding her blatant subversion against this nation. mad-Waters admits she’s targeting President Trump but is too stupid or dishonest, likely both, to recognize that there are legal requirements for removal, called impeachable offenses, in the Constitution. He must have committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Being a white guy that she doesn’t like isn’t enough...  https://rickwells.us/maxine-waters-trump-scalp/ 
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DNC, DCCC Pay $1.3 Million for liar-Hillary Group’s Lists 
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by Joe Schoffstall
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) paid $1.3 million... to a "resistance" group led by liar-Hillary Clinton for the acquisition of its lists, filings show.  liar-Clinton launched Onward Together in April of last year with the intent of providing funding to established liberal groups that could quickly counter President Donald Trump using direct action and protests. Last May, liar-Clinton pushed $800,000 from her campaign funds to her group. The DNC, which is millions of dollars in debt, found a way to cut hefty checks to liar-Clinton's group even as they neglected state Democratic parties...  http://freebeacon.com/politics/dnc-dccc-pay-1-3-million-hillary-groups-lists/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=1c646cd49e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-1c646cd49e-45611665
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Facebook Publishes Removal Policies, but Bias Remains 

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              In response, Facebook published its internal guidelines for how its 7,500 worldwide content reviewers determine what should be removed for violations of policies regarding “hate speech, violent threats, sexual exploitation and more.” Facebook also promised to review how data from its 2.2 billion users is accessed and used by third parties.
               The data privacy issue distressed many Facebook users after the revelation that a company called Cambridge Analytica purchased personal information on 50 million people and used it to provide advice to Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 elections.
               A couple of things should be noted about this revelation. First, the information was collected as a result of a personality quiz voluntarily downloaded by 270,000 users who agreed to allow the app to collect personal information on themselves and their friends. While those friends have a legitimate complaint regarding third-party use of their personal information, the reality is that this is the very basis of Facebook’s revenue model; namely, collecting user’s demographic information and personal preferences and selling it to marketers, who create targeted ads. Facebook is free to end users for a reason, and users should be aware that if you are not paying for the product, then you are the product.
               Of course, any protests and hand-wringing from the Left here is entirely disingenuous. Barack liar-nObama employed a nearly identical method of gathering personal information during in 2012. When users downloaded hisliar-nObama 2012 Facebook app, his campaign collected mountains of personal data on more than 190 million people, almost four times that of the Trump campaign.
               And far from being described in dark and conspiratorial terms, the Leftmedia celebrated liar-nObama’s mining of user data in advancing the progressive political agenda done without end users’ knowledge or permission. Time magazine positively glowed, declaring data-mining Facebook would “transform the way campaigns are conducted in the future.”
               Nor was the liar-nObama campaign shy about what they had done. Carol Davidsen, director of data integration and media analytics for liar-nObama for America, bragged, “We ingested the entire U.S. social graph. … We would ask permission to basically scrape your profile, and also scrape your friends, basically anything that was available to scrape. We scraped it all.”
               The other aspect of the congressional hearings was Facebook’s reputation for showing bias favoring progressive users/viewpoints and against conservative users/viewpoints.
               When questioned, Zuckerberg blamed any discrepancies on innocent human error, acknowledging that accusations of bias are a “fair concern,” but promising that he endeavors to avoid “any bias in the work that we do.
               That is, of course, utter nonsense. Zuckerberg admitted an inherent liberal bias in Silicon Valley corporations, and independent studies confirmed an intentional leftist bias in how user content is displayed in the newsfeed.
               Facebook jumped at the opportunity to use accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 elections to justify further alienation of conservative/Republican viewpoints. While liar-Hillary claims a Russian troll farm cost her the election (among a hundred other things) by spending $46,000 on Facebook ads, the claim is ludicrous considering that is a drop in a very large bucket compared to the $81 million in ad buys by the liar-Clinton and Trump campaigns.
               In an effort to supposedly combat “fake news,” Facebook changed its newsfeed algorithm to prioritize allegedly trustworthy news sources. Yet the actual impact has been a significant increase in traffic to liberal/progressive sites and articles, and a significant decrease to conservative sites/articles. For example, following the change, the left-leaning New York Daily News saw a 24.18% increase in traffic, and the right-leaning New York Post saw an 11.44% decrease. Other conservative sites dropped as much as 55%. Meanwhile, liberal sites were either unaffected or saw an increase.
               This should come as no surprise, considering Facebook’s head of news partnership is none other than former NBC and CNN anchor Campbell Brown. Rather than denying partisanship, Brown embraces it, announcing at a recent tech forum, “This is not us stepping back from news. … This is us changing our relationship with publishers. … It’s having a point of view, and it’s leaning into quality news. … We are, for the first time in the history of Facebook, taking a step to try to define what ‘quality news’ looks like and give that a boost.
               Of course, to progressives like Brown, “quality news” is that which advances a leftist worldview.
               And while Facebook has announced an appeal process for post removals, the bias remains. The Diamond and Silk page (two Trump-supporting black women with 1.6M followers) was censored this month for being “unsafe to the community,” yet the Facebook pages of racist anti-Semites Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton remained active.
               Facebook users should be aware of several things. One, Facebook exists to make money, and users are the product. Don’t expect privacy. Two, Facebook is a reflexively leftist partisan organization, using its influence to advance progressivism. Three, the First Amendment binds government infringement of free speech, but does not apply to corporations. (Non) Buyer beware.   

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55572-facebook-publishes-removal-policies-but-bias-remains

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Fri/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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CA Wants to Ban Christian 
Guidance...No, Seriously 
by Jordan Candler 
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Friday Top Headlines 
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“Peace and prosperity”: Korean leaders plan declaration after rare summit (Reuters)
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House Republicans accuse U.S. intelligence community of “significant … tradecraft failings” in report on Russian interference (The Washington Post)
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Senate panel approves bill to protect special counsel (The Hill)
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Recovered FBI agent texts include reaction to James Comey’s firing (CBS News)
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Facebook said it ignored terms and conditions of app that collected user data on 87 million accounts (The Washington Times)
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Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez admonished by Ethics panel, which says he broke the law (The Hill)
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Feds could save billions by cutting duplicative programs (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Paul Ryan forces out House chaplain (New York Post)
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Deputy union says it has “no confidence” in Broward Sheriff Scott Israel (Sun-Sentinel)
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Bill Cosby guilty on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault (USA Today)
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Trump keeps some JFK documents sealed until 2021 as Archives release final batch (The Dallas Morning News)
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Global warming update: Likely coldest April since 1895 (Watts Up With That)
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Humor: Liberals urge nation to respect minorities’ opinions until those opinions contradict them (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: How federal consumer agency puts your financial data at risk (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: Sanders’ “jobs” program would undo our real economic progress (The Daily Signal)   
Senate confirms Mike Pompeo as Trump's secretary of state
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by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Senate on Thursday confirmed Mike Pompeo to serve as secretary of state with the help of a few red-state Democrats... facing tough re-election bids. Pompeo was approved in a 57-42 vote that cleared him to start work a day ahead of a critical NATO summit scheduled for Friday. Six Democrats ended up voting for Pompeo: Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Doug Jones of Alabama, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Bill Nelson of Florida. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, also voted for him...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/senate-confirms-mike-pompeo-as-trumps-secretary-of-state 
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Comey Tries Using liar-Clinton Just Lie Defense -
Leaks Weren't Classified, Only Did it Once
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Former FBI Director James Comey continued his suicidal efforts to provide his enemies with more ammunition on a daily basis... his latest donation coming in a town hall with Anderson Cooper. It’s probably great for book sales and he’s going to have plenty of time for writing a sequel, “How I Guaranteed I’d Get Locked Up” while behind bars in a federal prison. Skyping interviews might be tougher to work out, though. The fact that Cooper asked him some difficult questions, much tougher than what the FBI likely asked criminal target liar-Hillary Clinton in July of 2016, is an indication that the shiny luster might be fading from Mr. Comey’s protective leftist veneer. Comey was dutifully shoveling out the manure, creating the familiar double standard for deep state criminals versus the rest of Americans, when Cooper surprisingly pushed back on the ridiculous assertions. He said, “But you did leak memos. I mean is it okay for somebody at the FBI to leak something, an internal document, even if it’s not classified? Isn’t that leaking?”...  https://rickwells.us/comey-clinton-lie-defense-leaks/
The Special Election Statistics Scam
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by Daniel Greenfield
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ A Democrat lost Tuesday night, but House Democratic Leader Nancy Pulosi still said Wednesday that she’s “thrilled”... with the results in Arizona’s special House election. And there are a host of reasons for her to feel that way. Democrat Hiral Tipirneni lost to Republican Debbie Lesko by just 6 percentage points and forced Republican outside groups to spend more than $1 million in a district carried by President Trump by 21 percentage points. In 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney won the district by 25 percentage points. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland called the loss “a victory.” “We didn’t get the golden ring, but we pushed them in a district where they should have won by 20 points to winning by 75 percent less and they spent a lot of resources,” Hoyer told USA TODAY... 
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U.S. Citizens Fund UN Arms Trade 
Treaty Which Impacts U.S. Gun Ownership 
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by Catherine Frompovich 
{ activistpost.com } ~ Recently, I received an email from U.S. Senator Rand Paul regarding an issue which may upset, or be near and dear to... the hearts of many Americans; it stated the USA taxpayer is the second largest DIRECT financial funder of the U.N.’s global gun ban!  Did you know that?  Of course, most people probably don’t, and such information is one of the reasons I’ve been saying for umpteen years, “Get the USA out of the UN; get the UN out of the USA.” Ever since I can remember having gained some “political senses or savvy many years ago,” I truly feel the UN is a one world government oligarchy noun: oligarchy; a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. Ref: Online Dictionary – in this case, the entire world population – whose agenda is total global control over every aspect of every person’s and humankind’s overall life, living, sovereignty, freedoms and technology advances to promote what has been revealed as the UN’s overarching agenda, i.e., Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 with total subservience from every nation state and its population!...
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liar-Hillary’s Money Laundering Scheme
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by Matthew Vadum
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ While it obsesses over an aging porn star, Russians, discredited ex-FBI officials, and pimple-faced gun-grabbers... the mainstream media has been ignoring an explosive federal lawsuit unearthing a huge illegal money-laundering conspiracy said to have been masterminded last election cycle by the Democratic National Committee and the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign. It is yet another facet of the plot by which liar-Clinton, possibly in league with then-President liar-nObama, broke the law in an attempt to rig the election. Throughout his agonizingly long presidency, liar-nObama serially abused his powers as the nation's Chief Executive to undermine his political opponents. Against this backdrop, the DNC and liar-Hillary’s campaign “allegedly used state chapters as strawmen to launder as much as $84 million in an effort to circumvent campaign donation limits, and the Federal Election Commission ignored complaints exposing the practice,” according to a Fox News report that has been gathering dust since April 16. The civil proceeding, filed against the FEC earlier this month in the nation’s capital, spells out a vast left-wing criminal conspiracy while providing detailed evidence from FEC filings to support the claim that Democrats orchestrated the scheme to do an end-run around federal campaign limits...  https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270004/hillarys-money-laundering-scheme-matthew-vadum 
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Senate panel approves bill to protect special counsel
by JORDAIN CARNEY 

{ thehill.com } ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday to protect special counsel Robert Mueller... In a 14-7 vote, the panel approved the bipartisan proposal that deeply divided Republicans on the committee. With every committee Democrat backing the legislation, only one Republican was needed to secure passage. In the end, four Republicans voted for the bill: Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.)... Voters need to vote these rinos out.  http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/384990-senate-panel-approves-bill-to-protect-special-counsel
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CA Wants to Ban Christian Guidance. No, Seriously 

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by Jordan Candler:  California Assembly Bill 2943, which was introduced in February and is the subject of a critical forthcoming vote, is chock-full of feckless scientific assertions on human sexuality. More importantly, it takes animosity toward Christianity to a whole new and worrying extreme and even evokes fears of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, in which the government enacts a proscription against books.

               According to the bill, “Contemporary science recognizes that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender is part of the natural spectrum of human identity and is not a disease, disorder, or illness.” Many scientists would disagree with that — and nature certainly does — but, alas, the text cites the state’s “compelling interest in protecting the physical and psychological well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals” as justification for AB 2493, which “would include, as an unlawful practice prohibited under the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, advertising, offering to engage in, or engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with an individual.”
               AB 2493 elucidates, “‘Sexual orientation change efforts’ means any practices that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation. This includes efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.” David French alarmingly observes that this “would actually — among other things — ban the sale of books expressing orthodox Christian beliefs about sexual morality.” French elaborates on the scheme here, but here’s the bottom line: Biblical spiritual guidance, no matter in what form, will no longer be tolerated if this bill becomes law.
               Making matters even worse, “fact-checkers” are flat-out lying about the implications of the legislation. Snopes.com, addressing conservative fears that AB 2492 ensnares even the Bible, definitively asserts that the “bill does not seek to outlaw all religious or moral instruction regarding sexuality and sexual orientation, nor would it ban the sale or possession of generic religious texts such as the Bible. Christian dogma might form the basis of efforts to change a person’s sexual orientation, but the Bible itself is not a ‘gay conversion therapy’ manual.”
               Writing in The Federalist, Robert Gagnon offers some perspective on this tripe: “Snopes’ insistence that California Assembly Bill 2943 would not result in the Bible being banned in California is akin to Snopes calling ‘demonstrably and clearly false’ the claim that Joseph Stalin killed everyone around him.” He continues, “Sure, it is virtually impossible that California will immediately attempt to ban the sale of the Bible itself. Not even the hard Left in California has that kind of chutzpah. But citations of Bible verses in the context of declaring homosexual practice and transgenderism to be morally debased could indeed get one into serious trouble with the law if it comes in the context of selling or advertising a product or service.”
               More to the point, leftists are never content. Just because Snopes can’t or won’t read between the lines doesn’t mean conscientious Americans can’t. The Left prefers incremental approaches to large policy changes, which explains its “progressive” moniker — only progress in this form means a step-by-step nullification of rights. And while the plan would ultimately be an unwise one, this AB 2493 garbage helps us to understand the real and energetic effort to split California into three.   

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55547-ca-wants-to-ban-christian-guidance-no-seriously

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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Judge: It's Illegal for Trump 
to End (Illegal) DACA 
by Thomas Gallatin
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Fitton Has New Emails Proving liar-Clinton 
Espionage Crimes - Does Sessions Care?
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{ rickwells.us } ~ In the interest of time and recognition of the sad state of affairs when it comes to blatant corruption in the DOJ... and Congressional leadership, you may want to go ahead and utter something along the lines of “Sure, they got the evidence, and nothing will come of it,” or “Now Sessions will sit on it,”  or “Nothing will happen, they’re above the law” now, as you’ll certainly be making those comments by the time you finish reading this. Judicial Watch has again produced the goods on the criminals in the liar-nObama regime, primarily on the untouchable royal criminal, liar-Hillary Clinton. Today they released 281 pages of newly uncovered emails from the State Dept that liar-Clinton sent and received using her unsecured bootleg server. Despite her lies to the contrary, many of them contained classified information, some of them so much so that the entire documents were redacted. The emails, dated 2010 through 2013, expose conspiracy between the liar-Clinton State Department and the liar-Clinton Foundation and outside agents, such as former British Prime Minister and globalist, Tony Blair. JW reports that ten of the emails contain classified information which had to be redacted “in the interest of national defense or foreign policy.” They included information as to confidential sources, and involve Israel and the Middle East... Session why aren't you doing what JW is doing?  https://rickwells.us/fitton-emails-clinton-sessions/ 
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Congressmen Call for Disclosure 
of U.S. Aid to Palestinian Terrorists
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by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Members of Congress hope to compel the State Department to disclose the amount of U.S. aid money the Palestinian Authority... has given to convicted terrorists and their families, according to a congressional communication viewed by the Free Beacon that calls for a complete freeze in U.S. aid to the Palestinian government. Reps. David McKinley (R., W.V.) and John Ratcliffe (R., Texas) are circulating a letter to Republican offices urging them to join an effort to compel the State Department to detail the amount of taxpayer money that has been used by the Palestinian government to pay terrorists under a longstanding policy known as "pay to slay." Following passage of the Taylor Force Act, which requires the Palestinian government to stop these payments or face a full cutoff in aid, the lawmakers are seeking to immediately freeze U.S. aid to the Palestinians until the State Department explains to lawmakers how it plans to enforce the new law...   http://freebeacon.com/national-security/congressmen-call-disclosure-u-s-aid-given-palestinian-terrorists/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=1c646cd49e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-1c646cd49e-45611665
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Ronny Jackson withdraws from VA nomination
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by Katelyn Caralle
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Ronny Jackson, President Trump's controversial pick to lead the Department of Veterans affairs... announced in a Thursday statement he is withdrawing from the nomination. “Going into this process, I expected tough questions about how to best care for our veterans, but I did not expect to have to dignify baseless and anonymous attacks on my character and dignity,” Jackson said. Jackson said that under this administration, the false allegations were able to distract President Trump from going forward with his confirmation process, which he says would ensure the best care is given to veterans...  Democrats should be ashamed of themselves.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ronny-jackson-withdraws-from-va-nomination   
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Republicans help send Robert Mueller 
protection legislation to Senate floor
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by Kelly Cohen
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday sent legislation to the full Senate floor... that would protect special counsel Robert Mueller if President Trump decides to make changes to leadership atop the Justice Department. The bipartisan legislation, finalized earlier this month, gives Mueller and other special counsels 10 days to challenge their firing through a judicial review in the courts. All the committee's Democrats and four Republicans helped send the bill to the floor. Democrats had originally said they were hesitant to support the language because of an amendment proposed by Chairman Chuck Grassley. But Grassley unveiled a revised amendment later Wednesday that removed language that mandated Mueller’s office to report to Congress if the scope the probe changed...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/republicans-help-send-robert-mueller-protection-legislation-to-senate-floor 
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Joy Reid Hires Man Who Bragged About Affiliations With Nazis 
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by RYAN SAAVEDRA 
{ dailywire.com } ~ On Wednesday, troubling allegations surfaced involving embattled MSNBC host Joy Reid surrounding her decision to hire a cybersecurity expert... the man Reid hired allegedly bragged about his affiliations with neo-Nazis in online posts. Jonathan Nichols, the man Reid hired, was tasked with proving that Reid did not write numerous homophobic and bigoted blog posts on her now-defunct blog. However, investigative reporters at Mediaite, the outlet that first revealed Reid's posts, discovered today that Nichols bragged about his affiliations with neo-Nazis before locking down his social media accounts. “Like are most of you aware that I NOT ONLY know Andrew (stromfront admin), but I was the principal element live tweeting his release from prison,” tweeted Nichols on December 9, 2017, according to online records obtained by Mediaite. “If you try REALLY HARD you’ll see that I’m connected to the leadership of Stormfront. If you try just a bit harder you’ll figure it out.”...  https://www.dailywire.com/news/29881/report-joy-reid-hired-man-who-bragged-about-ryan-saavedra 
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Judge: It's Illegal for Trump to End (Illegal) DACA 
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               Bates essentially ordered the Trump administration to continue implementing an illegal program, in fact declaring that any attempt to end it is illegal. So what exactly is the point of laws? Recall that it was Barack liar-nObama who circumvented Congress via executive order to implement his DACA program — a move he had previously and repeatedly (and rightly) insisted was unconstitutional and therefore illegal. liar-nObama’s similar attempt to implement Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) was blocked by the courts. Why? Because it circumvented Congress’s authority and responsibility. Almost comically, Bates effectively ruled that Trump doesn’t have the executive authority to rescind an illegal executive order. It’s not the Trump administration that should explain its position; it’s this judge.
               Justice Department spokesman Devin O'Malley responded to the ruling, stating, “Today’s order doesn’t change the Department of Justice’s position on the facts: DACA was implemented unilaterally after Congress declined to extend benefits to this same group of illegal aliens. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously defend this position.”
               It has become quite apparent that the U.S. Supreme Court will need to make a ruling on this issue, and the sooner the better. Sadly, it is also apparent that too many judges are guided by the rule of men instead of the Rule of Law.   ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/55571-judge-its-illegal-for-trump-to-end-illegal-daca

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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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John Brennan's Secret Trip to Moscow
by Daniel John Sobieski
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Macron Brings liar-nObama Message Back to Congress - 
Globalist Dems, Rinos Eat it Up
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{ rickwells.us } ~ A joint session of Congress was assembled Wednesday for a rare lecture from a totalitarian... one who has much less in common with the American people than the often vilified Vladimir Putin. For some reason, perhaps in exchange for his support on getting tougher with Iran, French President Emmanuel Macron came to the Capitol and stunk up the place like the a despicable little Pepé Le Pew, hopelessly in love with scum-George Soros, himself, and global government. Rather than a patriotic message of united support for our respective nations, one containing Pro-French language as well as recognition of American exceptionalism, sovereign borders and independence, those things were derided by the globalist Macron. His was an address that could have easily been delivered by his notorious early supporter, Hussein liar-nObama. Included in Macron’s remarks  was a call to fight the make believe phantom of “climate change,” stating his claimed belief that the United States will return to the global welfare and wealth redistribution suicide pact of the Paris Climate Accord...  https://rickwells.us/macron-obama-congress-globalist/
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The Hannity Rule
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by JEFFREY LORD
{ spectator.org } ~ So you want to be a journalist — or you are one now? In light of the news that the media finds that Sean Hannity’s friendship with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen... should have been noted in every Hannity-Cohen interview, and with the news that the Guardian is now making Hannity’s private real estate dealings a news story? Now the new rules of journalism are clear — and the Trump Administration is responding quickly. Henceforth, all practicing journalists in the United States must fill out a required Form for Transparent Journalism and file with the U.S. Office of Journalism that the Trump Administration has now established by executive order within the Department of Justice, retroactive to April 1, 2018. It is known informally as “The Hannity Rule.”...  https://spectator.org/the-hannity-rule/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=8030a6bf8f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-8030a6bf8f-104608113
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Giuliani met with Mueller to 
discuss possible Trump interview: report
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by MAX GREENWOOD
{ thehill.com } ~ Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani met with special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday... to reopen negotiations over a possible interview with President Trump, The Washington Post reported. Giuliani, Trump's newly appointed personal lawyer, cautioned that Trump and his advisers remain opposed to a possible interview with Mueller's investigators who are examining possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Giuliani also sought answers from Mueller on when the investigation is expected to end, according to the Post... No interview, Rudy G.  http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/384900-giuliani-met-with-mueller-to-discuss-possible-trump-interview-report
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Hundreds of French VIPs Sign Condemnation of Radical Islam

{ restoreamericanglory.com } ~ In the wake of an outbreak of violent antisemitism in many of France’s Jewish neighborhoods – coinciding not coincidentally... with the influx of thousands of Islamic refugees – more than 300 French actors, artists, and politicians have signed a manifesto condemning the rise of hatred in their country. The condemnation, published in Sunday’s edition of the Le Figaro newspaper, says that it’s time for the people of France to speak out against the changing tide of civilization…before there is nothing left to save. “We demand that the fight against this democratic failure that is antisemitism becomes a national cause before it’s too late,” the signatories write. “Before France is no longer France.” The manifesto decries the “quiet ethnic purging” of Jewish working-class communities, driven primarily by the Islamist ideologies quickly gaining a foothold in refugee strongholds....
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Night Stalker Arrested -This Guy Should Be The Poster Boy For Death Penalty 
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Judge Napolitano: On Supreme Court Hearing On Trump’s ‘Travel Ban’
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Iran FM: If US Exits Deal, Iran Likely Will Too
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WSJ Economist Greg Ip: Trump Shouldn’t Be Blamed For US, China Trade War
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Dennis Miller SLAMS commie-Bernie Sanders Job Proposal
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John Brennan's Secret Trip to Moscow
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by Daniel John Sobieski
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The Russians say he did, and while some might say, well, these are the same Russians who helped put together the Steele dossier filled with "salacious and unverified" material, and may once again be playing with us, there is evidence that Brennan, the man who voted for communist Gus Hall for president, did make the trip in March 2016 for purposes unknown:

"It's no secret that Brennan was here," claimed Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov. "But he didn't visit the Foreign Ministry.  I know for sure that he met with the Federal Security Service the successor agency to the Soviet KGB, and someone else."
 
No further remarks clarify what Brennan was allegedly doing in Moscow or what he discussed with the FSB. Syromolotov insists it had nothing to do with Russia's withdrawal from Syria.
 
Sputnik News, a Kremlin-controlled propaganda outlet, quotes CIA Director of Public Affairs Dean Boyd as affirming that Brennan did, in fact, discuss Syria during the visit.  "Director Brennan," he allegedly said, "reiterated the US government's consistent support for a genuine political transition in Syria, and the need for President Bashar Assad's departure in order to facilitate a transition that reflects the will of the Syrian people."

The website GlobalSecurity.Org goes into somewhat more detail about Brennan's Moscow trip without clearing up confusion about what the purpose of the trip might have been:

News of the CIA chief's visit to the Russian capital was first made public on Monday by a Russian foreign ministry spokesman and subsequently confirmed by the CIA.

"It's no secret that Brennan was here," the Interfax news agency quoted foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Syromolotov as telling journalists in Moscow.
 
He added that the visit was not linked to Moscow's decision to start withdrawing military forces from Syria, which President Vladimir Putin announced on March 14.
 
Dean Boyd, director of the CIA's Office of Public Affairs, confirmed Monday that Brennan visited Moscow.
 
"Director Brennan traveled to Russia in early March to emphasize with Russian officials the importance of Russia and the Assad regime following through on their agreements to implement the cessation of hostilities in Syria," said Boyd.
 
He added that Brennan "also reiterated the U.S. government's consistent support for a genuine political transition in Syria, and the need for Assad's departure in order to facilitate a transition that reflects the will of the Syrian people."

Now, there are plenty of legitimate reasons for a CIA director to make a trip to Moscow, but when a Russian deputy foreign minister says he didn't visit the Foreign Ministry itself but did visit the KGB's successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB), it raises some eyebrows.

Consider that John Brennan is a Trump-hating perjurer who lied to Congress about secret surveillance. He is the crown prince of a Deep State fiefdom that has its own agenda. The end justifies the means in their world, and Brennan may have been up to his eyeballs in developing that "insurance policy" against a Trump victory. 

Certainly, he ruthlessly defended his CIA turf. The mind hearkens back to the day when an op-ed in the Washington Post, that right-wing rag, called for Brennan to be fired for conducting illegal surveillance of the Senate Intelligence Committee and then lying about it:

Brennan was asked by NBC's Andrea Mitchell whether the CIA had illegally accessed Senate Intelligence Committee staff computers "to thwart an investigation by the committee into" the agency's past interrogation techniques. The accusation had been made earlier that day by Sen. Dianne Fein-stein (D-Calif.), who said the CIA had "violated the separation-of-powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution." Brennan answered:
 
As far as the allegations of, you know, CIA hacking into, you know, Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. I mean, we wouldn't do that. I mean, that's – that's just beyond the – you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do. ...
 
And, you know, when the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.
 
(You can see the video of Brennan's answer here.)
 
Now we know that the truth was far different. The Post's Greg Miller reports:
 
CIA Director John O. Brennan has apologized to leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee after an agency investigation determined that its employees improperly searched computers used by committee staff to review classified files on interrogations of prisoners. ...
 
A statement released by the CIA on Tuesday acknowledged that agency employees had searched areas of that computer network that were supposed to be accessible only to committee investigators.  Agency employees were attempting to discover how congressional aides had obtained a secret CIA internal report on the interrogation program.
Brennan once proudly admitted that he voted for Communist Party leader Gus Hall and openly supports liars and perjurers like Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, and James Comey. The possibility that he went to Moscow to personally obtain a copy of the dossier and similar material is real. As I wrote here recently, Brennan may have colluded with foreign spies to help liar-Hillary Clinton.

There is another scenario as plausible as the one asserting that Team Trump, and perhaps President Trump himself, colluded with the Russians. It is that John Brennan himself colluded with the Russians to help liar-Hillary win to guarantee his continued tenure as CIA director. It involves the infamous anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, used by Brenan and others as a pretext for a Trump investigation bonanza. As the American Spectator reported:

An article in the Guardian last week provides more confirmation that John Brennan was the American progenitor of political espionage aimed at defeating Donald Trump. One side did collude with foreign powers to tip the election – liar-Hillary's.
 
Seeking to retain his position as CIA director underliar-Hillary, Brennan teamed up with British spies and Estonian spies to cripple Trump's candidacy. He used their phony intelligence as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into Trump, which led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to Trump Tower and gave cover to Susan Rice, among other liar-Hillary supporters, to spy on Trump and his people. ...
 
The Guardian story is written in a style designed to flatter its sources they are cast as high-minded whistleblowers, but the upshot of it is devastating for them, nonetheless, and explains why all the criminal leaks against Trump first originated in the British press. According to the story, Brennan got his anti-Trump tips primarily from British spies but also Estonian spies and others. The story confirms that the seed of the espionage into Trump was planted by Estonia. The BBC's Paul Wood reported last year that the intelligence agency of an unnamed Baltic State had tipped Brennan off in April 2016 to a conversation purporting to show that the Kremlin was funneling cash into the Trump campaign.
 
Any other CIA director would have disregarded such a flaky tip, recognizing that Estonia was eager to see Trump lose its officials had bought into liar-Hillary's propaganda that Trump was going to pull out of NATO and leave Baltic countries exposed to Putin. But Brennan opportunistically seized on it, as he later that summer seized on the half-baked intelligence of British spy agencies also full of officials who wanted to see Trump lose.
 
The Guardian says that British spy head Robert Hannigan "passed material in summer 2016 to the CIA chief, John Brennan." To ensure that these flaky tips leaked out, Brennan disseminated them on Capitol Hill. In August and September of 2016, he gave briefings to the "Gang of Eight" about them, which then turned up on the front page of the New York Times.

Could it be that Brennan himself is the leaker of classified information and is up to his eyeballs in using foreign sources to gather dirt on President Trump for the purpose of keeping him out of the White House? Brennan's briefing of Sen. Harry dinky-Reid, which included information from the Steele dossier, certainly is a key indicator of his participation in the campaign to keep or kick Donald Trump out of the White House:

According to "Russian Roulette," by Yahoo! News chief investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff and David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of the left-wing Mother Jones magazine, Brennan contacted dinky-Reid on Aug. 25, 2016, to brief him on the state of Russia's interference in the presidential campaign. Brennan briefed other members of the so-called Gang of Eight, but dinky-Reid is the only who took direct action.
 
Two days after the briefing, dinky-Reid wrote a letter to then-FBI Director James Comey asserting that "evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump's presidential campaign continues to mount.

dinky-Reid's letter referred to some public reporting about Trump campaign associates' links to the Kremlin, but he also included a reference to information that may not have been made public at the time. He cited allegations that were included in the infamous Steele dossier about Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign at the time.

It would seem that the trip to Russia we should be investigating is not Carter Page's, but rather John Brennan's.

News of the CIA chief's visit to the Russian capital was first made public on Monday by a Russian foreign ministry spokesman and subsequently confirmed by the CIA.
 
"It's no secret that Brennan was here," the Interfax news agency quoted foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Syromolotov as telling journalists in Moscow.
 
He added that the visit was not linked to Moscow's decision to start withdrawing military forces from Syria, which President Vladimir Putin announced on March 14.
 
Dean Boyd, director of the CIA's Office of Public Affairs, confirmed Monday that Brennan visited Moscow.
 
"Director Brennan traveled to Russia in early March to emphasize with Russian officials the importance of Russia and the Assad regime following through on their agreements to implement the cessation of hostilities in Syria," said Boyd.
 
He added that Brennan "also reiterated the U.S. government's consistent support for a genuine political transition in Syria, and the need for Assad's departure in order to facilitate a transition that reflects the will of the Syrian people."

Now, there are plenty of legitimate reasons for a CIA director to make a trip to Moscow, but when a Russian deputy foreign minister says he didn't visit the Foreign Ministry itself but did visit the KGB's successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB), it raises some eyebrows.

Consider that John Brennan is a Trump-hating perjurer who lied to Congress about secret surveillance. He is the crown prince of a Deep State fiefdom that has its own agenda. The end justifies the means in their world, and Brennan may have been up to his eyeballs in developing that "insurance policy" against a Trump victory. 

Certainly, he ruthlessly defended his CIA turf. The mind hearkens back to the day when an op-ed in the Washington Post, that right-wing rag, called for Brennan to be fired for conducting illegal surveillance of the Senate Intelligence Committee and then lying about it:

Brennan was asked by NBC's Andrea Mitchell whether the CIA had illegally accessed Senate Intelligence Committee staff computers "to thwart an investigation by the committee into" the agency's past interrogation techniques. The accusation had been made earlier that day by Sen. Dianne Fein-stein (D-Calif.), who said the CIA had "violated the separation-of-powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution." Brennan answered:
 
As far as the allegations of, you know, CIA hacking into, you know, Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth.  I mean, we wouldn't do that.  I mean, that's – that's just beyond the – you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do. ...
 
And, you know, when the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.
 
Now we know that the truth was far different.  The Post's Greg Miller reports:
 
CIA Director John O. Brennan has apologized to leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee after an agency investigation determined that its employees improperly searched computers used by committee staff to review classified files on interrogations of prisoners. ...
 
A statement released by the CIA on Tuesday acknowledged that agency employees had searched areas of that computer network that were supposed to be accessible only to committee investigators. Agency employees were attempting to discover how congressional aides had obtained a secret CIA internal report on the interrogation program.

It would seem that the trip to Russia we should be investigating is not Carter Page's, but rather John Brennan's.

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Thurs/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Alfie and Haleigh and Charlie and Jahi 
by Michelle Malkin  
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Has Europe Even Tried to Fight Anti-Semitism?
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by Yves Mamou
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On April 18, 2018, two young men, both wearing Jewish skullcaps, were insulted by a group of Muslims... and whipped with a belt in a clearly anti-Semitic attack in Prenzlauer Berg, one Berlin's most fashionable neighborhoods. The violent assault, partly filmed by one of the victims, sparked national indignation in Germany. One of the attackers can be heard on the video clearly shouting "Yahudi" (Arabic for "Jew"). "It is intolerable for young men to be attacked here just because they are wearing a kippah," said Heiko Maas, the German Foreign Minister. "Jews must never again feel threatened here. It is our responsibility to protect Jewish life." The incident echoes another case of anti-Semitism last December in Berlin. Then also, someone filmed a man, apparently born in Germany, insulting a Jewish restaurant owner, Yorai Feinberg, in the street. The aggressor made clear his understanding of the Holocaust and his compassion for the Palestinian cause. Although there was no violence, the case ignited public indignation...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12211/europe-antisemitism-fight
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A New Deal With Iran Will Fail And 
Pave The Way For War Between Iran And Israel 
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by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton 
{ trevorloudon.com } ~ President Trump is meeting with France’s leader Macron. Though ostensibly a socialist, he seems to have at least some spine and I have watched their interactions hopefully... My primary focus is the deal with Iran. Of course the media’s focus is on stupid questions about Michael Cohen. I actually enjoyed seeing Trump smack the reporter from ABC for asking such an irrelevant question while we are hosting a major ally. It’s rude and just moronic. Jonathan Karl asked Trump whether he was considering a pardon for his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, after he was raided by the FBI. “Stupid. Stupid question,” Trump replied at Karl, glaring at him. Macron was surprised and amused and I don’t blame him. The topic should be Iran, who is poised to get missiles from the Trump administration in a new Iranian nuclear deal. I’m watching both sides here. The joint press conference with Presidents Trump and Macron just finished and I think its safe to say that unless a lot more is being offered up by Iran than we know about, the Iran deal is probably dead. Both Macron of France and Merkel of Germany are pressing Trump to stay in the deal. Asked whether he would be willing to stay in the Iran deal, Trump said: “We’ll see. People know my views on the Iran deal. It was a terrible deal. It should have never ever been made. It’s insane. It’s ridiculous. It should never have been made. But we will be talking about it.” He’s right of course, but what Trump says and what is going on behind the scenes may be two different things here...
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Federal Judge: Mr. Trump, You Have 90 Days To Restart DACA 
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by Matt Vespa
{ townhall.com } ~ Well, the battle over what to do for recipients enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals... has been thrown back into the frying pan. Like crabgrass, this issue keeps arising—and causing headaches for the Trump administration. The Trump White House decided to gradually phase out the constitutionally questionable program, effectively rescinding an executive order issued by former President liar-nObama. Yet, politically, they couldn’t leave almost one million illegal aliens subject to immediate deportation; the political consequences would be too great. So, they added in a six-month enforcement delay, affording Congress time to pass a DACA fix. In other words, the Trump White House gave Congress time to pass the law the right way. Well, Democrats weren’t playing ball. This was the best option since close to a dozen state attorneys general threatened to sue the Trump administration should they do nothing on DACA. White House lawyers felt rightly that they couldn’t defend the law in court. So, here we are. Failed DACA fixes, government shutdowns over illegal aliens, and Democrats turning down the legalization of 1.8 million illegals, putting them on the pathway to citizenship, in exchange for border wall funding. It’s been a whirlwind—an issue that’s been a thorn in the side of the administration. Health care is the other one. So, what’s new? Well, a federal judge says DACA has to be restarted, though he gave Department of Homeland Security three months to better elaborate on why this program should go (via NYT)... Why didn't the Fed. Judge get the dems to start a fix.  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/04/25/federal-judge-mr-trump-restart-daca-n2474307?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad
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Supremes Lean Toward Trump In Travel Ban Hearing
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by KEVIN DALEY
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The U.S. Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Wednesday over the lawfulness... of President Donald Trump’s travel sanctions. Though a tenuous majority appeared to favor the administration, the liberal bloc peppered Solicitor General Noel Francisco with brutal hypotheticals and heart-wrenching examples of migrants denied entry to the United States since Trump took office.  Justice Elena Kagan asked Francisco how thoroughly the court could review a ban on migration from Israel enacted by an openly anti-Semitic president, while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wondered why a ten-year-old with cerebral palsy from a sanctioned country was denied a visa, despite exceptions proscribed for immigrants seeking medical care...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/25/supreme-court-trump-travel-ban/?utm_medium=email
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$46,654: Annual Cost of Detaining 
Illegal Alien Exceeds Average American Income 
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by Terence P. Jeffrey 
{ cnsnews.com } ~ The federal government paid a “bed rate” of $127.82 per day to house each illegal alien detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement... in fiscal 2016, according to ICE data published in a new report by the Government Accountability Office. Even if you do not count the extra day in that leap year, that works out to $46,654.30 for each detention bed occupied by an illegal alien for 365 days. The approximately $46,654 it cost to house a detained illegal alien for 365 days in fiscal 2016 was approximately $104 more than the average income for Americans 15 and older that year—which, according to Census Bureau Table PINC-01, was $46,550...  https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/46654-annual-cost-detaining-illegal-alien-exceeds-average-american?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpNek9HWXpNRFk1TmpaaSIsInQiOiJKWkZhN25BdTZYTVdrTFZLMGtoR1NDNHVodmhERGQrV2FUSlhndDhIYVRHVmhPeEMwcHdRRGZcL0lWbU1VcXgydVhVd2NUODhRanNcLzRsWGU2Z1VXdGVTWmxcLzllamEyTWdJZGdHUW51U2ZoRThTd01DZVZwQUtNZHdrcW5iYjg5OSJ9 
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Alfie and Haleigh and Charlie and Jahi 
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by Michelle Malkin 
{ townhall.com } ~ When British hospital officials tried to pull the plug on 23-month-old toddler Alfie Evans on Monday night in arrogant defiance of his parents' wishes, many Americans took to Twitter to count their blessings that they live in a country that would not allow such tyranny.

"Stories like Alfie Evans make me realize how grateful I am to live in America where freedom still exists," one young social media user wrote.

"Folks, is this what we want for America? Parents rendered helpless before the gods of socialized medicine?" retired Army Lt. Col. Allen West asked.

Alfie's plight comes less than a year after another British baby boy with a rare genetic condition, Charlie Gard, was taken off life support after his parents lost a similar battle with judges and medical officials.

"WAKE UP AMERICA! We cannot let this happen in the U.S.," social media user Dian tweeted.

But it has happened -- and continues to happen -- in America. How quickly the public forgets.

In 2005, medical experts and child welfare bureaucrats in the state of Massachusetts deemed 11-year-old Haleigh Poutre "virtually brain-dead," in a "persistent vegetative state," and not worth saving after she suffered such brutal beatings and sexual abuse by her stepfather that she was left in a coma. Doctors at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield and extermination agents at the Massachusetts Department of Social Services won a court order to remove Haleigh's ventilator and feeding tube. They collaborated on a "treatment" schedule to starve her of nourishment and oxygen until she succumbed to "death with dignity."

Haleigh and higher powers had other plans.

As state officials prepared to remove Haleigh's life support, the supposedly impossible happened: She emerged from the vegetative state that all the smarty-pants in lab coats had concluded was "irreversible." She began breathing on her own and picked up toys on command.

"There has been a change in her condition," a DSS spokeswoman grimly announced. "The vegetative state may not be a total vegetative state."

Like Alfie, Haleigh had an army of grass-roots pro-family and pro-life supporters who helped pressure the state-sanctioned murderers and bungling bureaucrats to back down. Fast forward to 2018. At 24, Haleigh lives with adoptive, loving parents. She is confined to a wheelchair, but attends school and occupational therapy. She laughs, she smiles, she lives.

Among Haleigh's prominent guardian angels: the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, founded by Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, after a Florida judge ordered brain-injured Terri to be deprived of water and food, leading to her death by dehydration after 13 days in 2005. As Schindler noted after Haleigh's life was saved:

"This is just one incident that made headline news. Indeed, most of the general public is completely unaware of how much these types of decisions are made every day and how our medical rights have been eroded by laws that have been changed to make it easier to deliberately kill our medically vulnerable."

Back in Britain, Alfie defied the medical professionals and survived the night off the ventilator as his parents begged court officials to take him to Rome. Benefactors have offered to pay for transportation and medical care; Italy granted Alfie citizenship.

As Alfie's life hangs in the balance, I think of another child written off by the experts here in the U.S.: Jahi McMath, whom medical experts declared "brain dead" after a routine tonsillectomy gone wrong in 2013. Children's Hospital Oakland pushed to have all life-sustaining medical treatment terminated; the professionals predicted quick deterioration.

But Jahi's mother a professional nurse, Latasha "Nailah" Winkfield, refused to give up on her child. California declared Jahi legally brain dead, so with the Schiavo Foundation's help, Winkfield moved with her daughter to a long-term care facility in New Jersey.

Medical ethics writer Wesley Smith visited Jahi last fall and reported: "At the time of the tragedy, I believed ... that Jahi was, indeed, dead. But I now have strong doubts. It's nearly four years later, and Jahi's body still has not broken down. Her skin remains smooth. There are no foul odors in her room as would be expected when a brain-dead person's body deteriorates. She has experienced no visible bodily decline... Disabled is not dead."

So, where are all the left's human rights champions when you need them? Once again, there have been no rallying cries from Hollywood celebrities, no tweetstorms from the self-anointed guardians of children who embrace gun control in the name of saving lives and abortion in the name of choice.

Alfie's life matters and Charlie's life matters and Haleigh's life matters and Jahi's life matters because all lives matter. Parents' rights are human rights. If we yield to the culture of death and the culture of expediency that permeate government-run health care systems around the world, no lives are safe.

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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Pompeo Nomination Officially 
Moving to the Senate Floor 
by Katie Pavlich  
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President Trump Puts Obnoxious 
ABC Reporter in His Place for Stupid Question
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Libtard MSM propagandist Jonathan Karl “Marx” is filling in for Jim Acosta as the most obnoxious person in the room... He garnered the wrath of President Trump on Tuesday when, in a joint press event with French President Macron, Karl asked an irrelevant, totally inappropriate and hostile political attack question. As the two leaders were seated, taking questions regarding the “Iran deal” in which Hussein liar-nObama and hanoi-John Kerry acted as agents of the terrorist nation rather than officials of the United States government, and our policies towards that nation in the future, Karl saw it as the perfect time to be a disrespectful, arrogant ass. He shouted over the other reporters, asking, “Mr. President, what about Michael Cohen, are you considering a pardon for Michael Cohen?” Apparently aware from President Trump’s reaction that he had gone too far with his attention and sound bite seeking, Karl followed it up with a weak, “No?”...
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Trump Admin To Grant Iran Missiles Capable of Destroying Israel 
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by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Trump administration is poised to legitimize Iran's ballistic missile program... granting the Islamic Republic the ability to produce and test a series of missiles capable of striking Israel, according to those familiar with U.S. concessions during ongoing talks over the future of the landmark Iran nuclear deal. After weeks of pressure from European countries, senior Trump administration officials handling the talks are said to have conceded to a demand that Iran only restrict ballistic missile activity to its longer range missiles, leaving untouched its mammoth arsenal of short-range and medium-range missiles that could easily hit Israel and other Middle Eastern nations. The concession, which comes after months of wrangling over the future of the nuclear deal ahead of a May deadline, has roiled congressional officials and administration insiders who have been pressuring the White House to stand firm against these European demands...   http://freebeacon.com/issues/trump-admin-grant-iran-missiles-capable-destroying-israel/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=df399d06f3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-df399d06f3-45611665 
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U.S. Air Force to Ramp Up Commitments 
to Space Amid Chinese Threat 
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by Natalie Johnson
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The United States Air Force is accelerating investment in space as Chinese advancements threaten to penetrate American systems... in the previously uncontested domain, top service officials said during a congressional hearing Tuesday. Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Air Force secretary Heather Wilson and chief of staff General David Goldfein both identified China's space innovation and "rapid growth" in military capabilities among their top concerns facing the service in the coming years. "Some of the work they're doing in space, it's very aggressive," Goldfein said. "We built our space architecture in an era when space was a rather benign domain, so … we're very focused on taking some bold moves in this budget to increase our ability to defend what we have in space."...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-air-force-ramp-commitments-space-amid-chinese-threat/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=df399d06f3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-df399d06f3-45611665
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Netanyahu Hires an Israeli Jew Who Believes in Jesus 
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{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office made waves this week when it hired long-time pro-Israel YouTube activist Hananya Naftali... as its new deputy social media adviser. Israel Today has featured Naftali's informative video clips a number of times. The material is as solid as it gets. What makes Naftali "controversial" for many Israelis is his unabashed faith in Yeshua (Jesus). We avoid calling Naftali a "Messianic Jew" because in a previous video he himself denied belonging to any particular denomination, instead explaining that he's "just a normal guy who made his own decision to follow Jesus."...
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Why Gina Haspel Should Be Confirmed as CIA Director
by Elise Cooper

{ americanthinker.com } ~ As Mike Pompeo takes his place as secretary of state, his designated successor at the agency he left, the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel... is facing a battle for confirmation as the organization's new director. Opponents have thrown out the argument that Haspel, a CIA veteran, participated in the war on terror over the last two decades. But Haspel should be confirmed as CIA director because she is on the side of justice and patriotism. Leftists are criticizing her for making terrorists uncomfortable. Those against her are willing to ignore her high qualifications and instead criticize her for playing a role in enhanced interrogations. The argument is absurd. Leon Panetta, president liar-nObama's CIA director and secretary of defense, said in his book: "The CIA got important, even critical intelligence from individuals subjected to these enhanced interrogation techniques." Yet critics, as reported in the New York Times, claim she oversaw "torture of terrorists" in the overseas black sites, where enhanced interrogation, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and confinement were common. One of the Times articles went on to say the terrorists suffered, "psychological damage." It never mentioned that Special Forces training includes these enhanced interrogation methods. These critics are more concerned about those who committed horrific acts of violence than those who suffered at the terrorists' hands. Not surprisingly the New York Times was not the only media publication trying to defame Haspel. Other press organs joining the bandwagon have included The Daily Beast, NPR, and the Washington Post, just to name a few...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/why_gina_haspel_should_be_confirmed_as_cia_director.html
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Pompeo Nomination Officially 
Moving to the Senate Floor 
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by Katie Pavlich 
{ townhall.com } ~ After making it out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 11-9 Monday evening, CIA Director Mike Pompeo's nomination to be the next Secretary of State is headed to the Senate floor for a full confirmation vote on Thursday. 

“Make no mistake: America is uniquely blessed, and with those blessings comes a duty to lead. As I have argued throughout my time in public service, if we do not lead the calls for democracy, prosperity, and human rights around the world, who will? No other nation is equipped with the same blend of power and principle," Pompeo said during his confirmation hearing two weeks ago. 

"Senators, if confirmed, I would raise my hand and swear an oath to defend our Constitution for the seventh time in my life. The first time was as an eighteen-year-old West Point cadet. With this oath, I would commit to defend the exceptionalism enshrined in our Constitution, which provides for our obligation to engage in diplomacy and model the very best of America to the world," he continued. 

Before the Committee vote Monday, President Trump berated Democrats for obstructionism. 

After a discussion with President Trump, Republican Senator Rand Paul voted in favor of Pompeo after vowing to oppose him. 

"As you know, with the success of what will hopefully soon be Secretary of State Pompeo, everybody was very surprised. I heard 10 minutes before the vote yesterday on committee that, 'He will not be approved at committee' -- which would be the first time in many, many decades that something like that would have happened with regard to a Secretary of State," Trump said. "Except I spoke to Rand Paul, and Rand Paul has really never let me down. Rand Paul is a good man. And I knew things that nobody else knew.  And Rand Paul said, 'I'm going to change my vote,' and he voted, and everybody was surprised."

The full Senate voted will ensure Pompeo is sworn in before the meeting between President Trump and North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un in June.

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KANYE WEST

KANYE WEST

I heard an excellent analogy by Rush about slavery, the plantation and the viciously rabid left's machinery. As long as blacks (or even latinos or any brown skinned people) obediently stay in line w/ their agenda - they'll be allowed to continue to enjoy the "benefits" GIVEN to them by the left's machinery. It very much is intellectual slavery - where the radical left ARE the "plantation". And now Kanye West must be WOOPED for his expressing Free Thought - w/ OUT permerssion from the OWNERS of the plantation.

Kanye West better be preparing for what could be a storm from the "@metoo" movement. Accusations of sexual misbehavior might be in the horizon if West doesn't completely disavow his words - and put on his LEASH again. This is where his wife Kim will have to obediently step up FOR her fellow plantation owners or feel the viciousness of their wrath as well.

Luis

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Thurs/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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American Ingenuity Defies Carbon 
Emissions Orthodoxy 
by Jordan Candler
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Thursday Top Headlines 
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GM adding 700 workers at SUV plant in Tennessee (Fox Business)
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Trump administration wants it to be easier to shop hospital prices and move doctors (Washington Examiner)
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Trump travel ban looks poised for victory at U.S. Supreme Court (Bloomberg)
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Trump’s VA nominee Ronny Jackson withdraws after new allegations raised (NBC News)
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EPA chief Pruitt faces congressional grilling on spending, ethics (Reuters)
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French President Emmanuel Macron urges Congress to fight “virus of fake news” (National Review)
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North Korea’s nuclear test site has collapsed, which may be why Kim Jong-un suspended tests (South China Morning Post)
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Migrant “caravan” at U.S.-Mexico border prepares for mass crossing (Reuters)
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$46,654: Annual cost of detaining illegal alien exceeds average American income (CNS News)
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Judge rules New York City bar can refuse service to Trump supporter wearing MAGA hat — refuse to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, though… (Fox News)
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Chicago is trying to pay down its debt by impounding innocent people’s cars (Reason)
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Millennials blame boomers for ruining their lives (Axios)
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Policy: How Trump should define success in Syria (The National Interest)
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Policy: Here’s what may lie behind North Korea’s latest moves (The Daily Signal)   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55598-thursday-top-headlines
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Secret Gowdy/Goodlatte DOJ Deal to 
Hide 800.000 Docs From America - Dobbs, Desantis
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Ron DeSantis (R-FL) gives President Trump high marks for his handling of the Iran situation... and for not hiding in the safety of the business as usual of his predecessors, most egregiously that of his Islamic predecessor, Hussein liar-nObama, that got us into the mess we’re in. He applauds him for being willing to take the bull by the horns on both Iran and North Korea and do what needed to be done. Dobbs then turns “to the deep state and the investigations into the liar-Clinton investigation. You have led a group of eleven lawmakers calling for a criminal referral on Comey, liar-Clinton, McCabe et al. Have you gotten a response from either FBI Director Christopher Wray or Attorney General Jeff Sessions?” DeSantis replies, “Not directly, but the next day after we sent the letter McCabe was referred for criminal prosecution for false statements. Then the day after that Comey was referred to the Inspector General an internal affairs watchdog that cannot compel him to do anything.”...  https://rickwells.us/secret-gowdy-goodlatte-deal-doj/.
Citizens' Grand Juries Are the Only Way to Get Justice
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by Larry Klayman  
{ newsmax.com } ~ The American people — that is those who care about eliminating what now appears to any sane individual to be a dual system of justice are not stupid... While predictions by Sean Hannity during last night’s show that the hammer is about to come down on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, his compromised leftist prosecutors, James Comey, liar-Hillary and liar-Bill Clinton, Barack liar-nObama, Loretta Lynch and others who Sean claimed near sole credit for having ensnarled in supposed government criminal investigations, this is no time to drink the Fox host’s “Kool Aide” — designed to boost his viewership and Nielson ratings. While one or even two lower level officials, such as former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, may suffer some consequences for their allegedly nefarious actions — as a sacrificial lamb — this will likely be it, based upon past and present history about the way that the Washington, D.C., legal establishment works. To put it bluntly, you, the party that controls the Justice Department, must protect my back and we will do the same when we reclaim power in the executive branch. In short, there is a “dishonorable gentlemen’s agreement” among the Washington D.C. establishments of both political parties that its “game” to go on Fox News or CNN as the case may be, boast of one’s so-called strong actions on behalf of justice, raise money, get reelected, or appointed to some higher government post, but then walk away from one’s oath of office and do nothing of substance...  https://www.newsmax.com/larryklayman/grand-jury-justice-mueller/2018/04/24/id/856407/
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Rahm Emanuel Warns Democrats of Misusing Impeachment 
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by Jack Heretik
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Chicago Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel warned fellow Democrats against misusing impeachment... saying it is not a "political tool." Many Democrats want to use impeachment against President Donald Trump as a key point of their platform in the 2018 midterm elections. However, Emanuel warned his fellow Democrats against using the "serious legal and constitutional" option of impeachment, according to Axios. "I lived through the liar-Clinton White House," Emanuel said. "This is a serious legal and constitutional, not political, issue. … I couldn't be angrier at Donald Trump. … That said, you don't just flippantly say: We're for impeachment."...  http://freebeacon.com/politics/rahm-emanuel-warns-democrats-of-misusing-impeachment/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=4180ad1952-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-4180ad1952-45611665
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Gretchen Carlson Will Return to TV With Documentary Specials 
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by Conor Beck
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson is returning to TV with a new series of documentary specials on A&E Networks... The series marks Carlson's first television venture since leaving Fox News in 2016 after accusing then-Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes of sexual harassment. At least one of the specials will focus on Carlson's efforts to shine a light on workplace sexual harassment, Politico reports. "It has now been confirmed that our voices are amplified and actually get heard when we stand together, and I am proud to partner with Lifetime to make change happen by presenting the heartbreaking, but previously untold, stories of everyday working women," Carlson said in a statement...  http://freebeacon.com/culture/gretchen-carlson-return-tv-documentary-specials/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=4180ad1952-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-4180ad1952-45611665
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SCOTUS Comes Down Against Inventors in Oil States Case 
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by Charles Fain Lehman
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Inventors' rights can be revoked through a controversial administrative process... the Supreme Court ruled by a seven-to-two margin on Tuesday, a move that promises to continue the trend of invalidation of hundreds of existing patents. The case, Oil States v. Greene's Energy, concerns an administrative tribunal called the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). As the Free Beacon has previously reported, the PTAB is responsible for reviewing patents whose validity have been challenged. The PTAB runs on a host of procedures alien to federal court proceedings: lower evidentiary standards, the ability of anyone to challenge a patent right, and a broad interpretative standard for PTAB administrative judges. Because of these procedures, the PTAB has a track record of striking down more or less every patent that passes in front of it: A former federal judge once called PTAB tribunals "patent death squads."...
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American Ingenuity Defies Carbon Emissions Orthodoxy 

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               The benefits of natural human innovation are far too often taken for granted. That’s a shame because much heartache could otherwise be avoided — including when it comes to emissions control. According to Investor’s Business Daily, “The latest report from the Environmental Protection Agency shows that the emission of so-called greenhouse gases declined by 2% in 2016 from 2015 and 11% from 2005. No major industrial economy on Earth has made as much progress as the U.S. And no, we’re not claiming this as a victory for Donald Trump or anyone else in government. It’s due to fracking and the replacement of high-CO2 fuels like coal with far-cleaner natural gas.
               EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt succinctly responded, “This report confirms the president’s critics are wrong again: One-size-fits-all regulations like the Clean Power Plan or misguided international agreements like the Paris Accords are not the solution. The U.S. has reduced greenhouse gas emissions more than any country on Earth over the last decade.” Moreover, he proclaimed, “American ingenuity and technological breakthroughs, not top-down government mandates, have made the U.S. the world leader in achieving energy dominance while reducing emissions — one of the great environmental successes of our time.”
               For the record, foreign nations are actually purchasing U.S. coal at increasing rates, with nearly 100 million short tons of it being shipped from the U.S. in 2017. However, this is a mutually beneficial arrangement — it bolsters the U.S. economy while helping foreign nations meet their energy needs, which, ironically, underscores just how flawed the Paris accord is; these foreign nations’ energy problems were mostly created by their reliance on renewables.
               But it gets even better: These countries’ embrace of U.S. coal in the meantime will hopefully put them on a path toward finding their own innovative solutions to carbon emissions like we are here in the U.S. As Investor’s adds, “American companies are reducing our greenhouse gas output without being ordered to do so by dictatorial green bureaucrats. That’s a lesson the rest of the world could learn from.” The results speak for themselves.  
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55523-american-ingenuity-defies-carbon-emissions-orthodoxy

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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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DHS Sec. Vows Illegal ‘Caravan’ Members
 Will Be Prosecuted, Asylum-Seekers 
Held Until Adjudicated 
by Craig Bannister   
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Gowdy and Goodlatte Running Cover for l
iar-nObama Deep State DOJ -Secret Doces We'll Never See
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{ rickwells.us } ~ What’s the best possible outcome for a deep state Justice Department that has two compromised committee chairmen... in their pocket who are running interference and making it look like they’re demanding action when in fact they are merely providing a facade behind which to conceal the liar-nObama regime and the shadow government’s criminal and treasonous actions? You make a secret deal with those two corrupted agents of the political establishment and deep state, Reps Goodlatte and Gowdy, to give released information that the American people are demanding only to them and withhold most of it in perpetuity. You agree to fork over to the Congressional secret keepers only one third of the total documents sought and they have to review them at DOJ, along with a select group of staffers who are sworn to secrecy. We’re told to “trust” big-talker Benghazi Gowdy and do-nothing Goodlatte that revelations will be forthcoming. Fool us once, shame on you and there won’t be a second time, this isn’t going to fly...  https://rickwells.us/gowdy-goodlatte-obama-deep-state-doj/ 
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Supreme Court closely divided 
on Trump's travel ban during arguments
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by Melissa Quinn
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A closely divided Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with a case challenging the legality of President Trump’s travel ban... which restricts travel to the U.S. for foreign nationals from five Muslim majority countries. The justices gathered on the last argument day to consider one of the most high-profile and highly anticipated cases before the court this term. At issue in the case is whether the president exceeded his authority under federal immigration law and whether the ban violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. The case marks the first time one of the Trump administration’s policies is being reviewed by the Supreme Court. It drew significant attention not only from legal minds and academics, but also from lawmakers and celebrities who attended the argument, including Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, White House counsel Don McGahn, and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/supreme-court-closely-divided-on-trumps-travel-ban-during-arguments
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TheDCNF Files Lawsuit To Disclose 
Comey And liar-nObama Meetings
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Daily Caller News Foundation and the watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday... seeking records to determine the actual number of times and reasons former FBI Director James Comey met with then-President Barack liar-nObama. The request by the two organizations was filed because the former FBI director claimed he rarely met with liar-nObama, and he was an independent and nonpartisan leader of the nation’s top law enforcement agency. The parties filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Comey’s impartiality about his relationship with liar-nObama was sharply called into question by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary when its chairman, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, uncovered a private, undisclosed meeting Comey held with liar-nObama on Jan. 5, 2017, two weeks before Trump’s inauguration...
Syria to Chair UN Conference on Chemical Disarmament 
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by MEIRA SVIRSKY 
{ clarionproject.org } ~ Yes, you read that headline right. In the dystopian world of the United Nations... Syria will chair the UN conference on global chemical and nuclear disarmament. Syria has consistently used chemical weapons on its people, including the latest instance earlier this month on April 7, 2018, in which 42 people, including many children, were killed in a gas attack in Douma. The U.S. retaliated for that attack in a missile strike April 14. “Having the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad preside over global chemical and nuclear weapons disarmament will be like putting a serial rapist in charge of a women’s shelter,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, in a statement. The charade will continue for nearly a month, from May 28 until June 24, in Geneva...
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Maine Democrats Quash Bill to Criminalize FGM 
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by MEIRA SVIRSKY  
{ clarionproject.org } ~ A bill to criminalize female genital mutilation (FGM) in Maine was squashed by House Democrats... due to political correctness and misplaced concerns about Islamophobia. The vote ironically came during the “Week of the Young Child.” The bill would have held the mutilator, consenting parents and/or guardians and the transporters accountable for their part in perpetrating the FGM and exacted penalties from each of these parties. Instead of passing the bill, all the House Democrats save for one, voted against the bill amid ad hominem cries against one of the bill’s sponsors, Republican legislator Rep. Heather Sirocki. Specifically, the Southern Poverty Law Center published emails between Sirocki and a Maine member of ACT for America, which the law center bogusly claims is “the largest anti-Muslim hate group in the United States.”...  https://clarionproject.org/maine-democrats-squash-bill-criminalize-fgm/ 
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DHS Sec. Vows Illegal ‘Caravan’ Members
 Will Be Prosecuted, Asylum-Seekers 
Held Until Adjudicated 
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by Craig Bannister  
{ cnsnews.com } ~ President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prevent the illegal alien caravans from entering the U.S., and DHS Sec. Kirstein Nielsen released a warning to illegal border-crossers.

In a Monday morning Tweet, Trump announced his instructions to the DHS:

“Despite the Democrat inspired laws on Sanctuary Cities and the Border being so bad and one sided, I have instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security not to let these large Caravans of people into our Country. It is a disgrace. We are the only Country in the World so naive! WALL”


Trump then Tweeted his plan to make securing the border a prerequisite for any new free trade agreement with Mexico:

“Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from going through Mexico and into the U.S. We may make this a condition of the new NAFTA Agreement. Our Country cannot accept what is happening! Also, we must get Wall funding fast.”


Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen then issued a statement promising to stop, arrest and prosecute members of the illegal alien caravan from Central America:

“DHS continues to monitor the remnants of the ‘caravan’ of individuals headed to our Southern border with the apparent intention of entering the United States illegally. A sovereign nation that cannot – or worse, chooses not – to defend its borders will soon cease to be a sovereign nation. The Trump Administration is committed to enforcing our immigration laws – whether persons are part of this ‘caravan’ or not.”


Nielsen also warned illegal aliens who plan to claim “asylum” when caught that they won’t be released into the U.S. pending their court date. Instead, they’ll be held in detention until it’s determined whether or not they’re legitimate asylum-seekers:

“If members of the ‘caravan’ enter the country illegally, they will be referred for prosecution for illegal entry in accordance with existing law.”

 

“For those seeking asylum, all individuals may be detained while their claims are adjudicated efficiently and expeditiously, and those found not to have a claim will be promptly removed from the United States.

“DHS, in partnership with DOJ, is taking a number of steps to ensure that all cases and claims are adjudicated promptly – including sending additional USCIS asylum officers, ICE attorneys, DOJ Immigration Judges, and DOJ prosecutors to the Southern border.”


But, even illegal aliens legitimately seeking asylum should do so in another country – such as Mexico – she advised:

“DHS encourages persons with asylum or other similar claims to seek protections in the first safe country they enter, including Mexico. While we are committed to doing everything we can on the border to secure our nation, we need Congress to do their job as well. I join the President in asking Congressional leadership to work with the Administration to pass legislation to close the legal loopholes that prevent us from securing our borders and protecting Americans. I stand ready to work with any member who in good faith seeks to support DHS’s mission and secure our country.”


“Again, if you enter the United States illegally, let me be clear: you have broken the law. And we will enforce the law through prosecution of illegal border crossers,” the DHS secretary reiterated.

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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Toronto Van Attack — 
It's the Crime, Not the Tool
by Nate Jackson
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Roger Stone Demands DNC 
Preserve Server for Discovery in Response to Lawsuit
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Roger Stone wrote a letter in response to the harassment lawsuit of the DNC... in which he is named as a defendant, demanding that they “preserve their database servers and equipment for future review and discovery. He’s asked, “What do you think you are going to find if you do gain access to the DNC’s servers?” Stone replies, “First of all, let me say that this lawsuit is completely meritless. It’s bogus, it’s baseless. It alleges that I worked with Donald Trump and the Trump campaign, and the Russian state and the Russian military, and Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, and Jared Kushner, the President’s son-in-law and others to hack the Democratic National Committee and to give the hacked material to WikiLeaks.” “That never happened. In fact, as you may recall,” says Stone, “the Democratic National Committee never allowed the FBI to actually examine their servers, so whether or not they were hacked at all is a reasonable question.”...  https://rickwells.us/roger-stone-dnc-server/.
Sessions Is Back (Maybe): Issues Huge 
Announcement on Trump-Cohen Investigation 
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by BEN MARQUIS
{ westernjournal.com } ~ The Justice Department’s Southern District of New York and the FBI... acting on a referral from the Robert Mueller Special Counsel investigation — recently raided and seized documents from an office, home and hotel room associated with President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen. Bloomberg just reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided not to recuse himself from that particular investigation, though he reportedly did leave open the option of stepping back in regard to certain aspects of that investigation, if warranted in the future. In the eyes of the liberal media, that non-recusal stands in stark contrast to Sessions’ prior recusal from the Mueller-led Russian collusion investigation and other matters related to the 2016 presidential campaign...  https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/sessions-trump-cohen-investigation/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativevideos&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance 
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Jordan to revoke citizenship of PA President Abbas 
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by JULIANE HELMHOLD 
{ jpost.com } ~ The Kingdom of Jordan began the process of revoking the Jordanian citizenship of about 30 Palestinian Authority... and Fatah officials and their families, London-based Arabic language newspaper Raialyoum reported Wednesday. The officials who are slated to lose their citizenship include Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Palestinian Authority negotiator Ahmed Qurei ("Abu Ala").  They also stated that there would be major changes in the visa arrangements for entry into Jordan of the senior officials, granting them only temporary visitor's rights.  Many Senior Palestinian Authority and Fatah officials, including Abbas and his two sons, were given Jordanian citizenship over a decade ago, a Jordanian official disclosed in early 2011...  https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Jordan-to-start-revoking-Palestinian-leaderss-citizenship-552691?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=25-4-2018&utm_content=report-jordan-to-start-revoking-palestinian-leaderss-citizenship-552691 
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Republicans hold on to Arizona House seat
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by LISA HAGE
{ thehill.com } ~ Republican Debbie Lesko is projected to win Arizona’s nationally watched special election... fending off a strong challenge from Democrats who have been overperforming in deep-red seats. Lesko, a former state senator, defeated Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, a former emergency room doctor and first-time candidate, on Tuesday night in a solidly Republican district that President Trump won by 21 points in 2016. The Associated Press called the race minutes after the first batch of votes came in, which were all early ballots. Lesko leads with 53 percent, compared to Tipirneni who’s at 47 percent. Those results are likely to change as in-person Election Day ballots are counted. But even with the early call by the AP, Lesko won by a closer-than-expected margin, significantly underperforming compared to past Republicans in the district. Democrats and political observers were quick to suggest those early results should be a warning for Republicans in November as they navigate much tougher House races...
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CNN Exposed as Driving Force Behind Dossier’s Leak

{ totalconservative.com } ~ The James Comey memos, released by the Justice Department last week, not only revealed that Robert Mueller has a less-than-zero chance... of indicting President Trump on obstruction of justice charges, but they also shed light on just how and why the infamous Steele Dossier originally came to represent the Russia investigation in the public consciousness. As you may remember, no one had ever heard of this mysterious dossier until December 2016, when CNN reported that President-elect Trump and President liar-nObama had been briefed on the salacious document by intelligence officials. Shortly thereafter, BuzzFeed took the extraordinary step of actually publishing the dossier in full. Suddenly, the “Trump colluded with the Russians” narrative, up till then only believed by a handful of kooks in the far-left online media, was all over the place. Thanks in part, of course, to one piece of “intelligence” above all – a dossier-derived tidbit about hookers, the Moscow Ritz-Carlton, and the things done with urine behind closed doors. One question never answered about that dossier was why the intelligence community felt the need to inform Trump and liar-nObama about it at all. This was a piece of garbage-level political propaganda bought and paid for by the liar-Clinton campaign – none of it verified and much of it quite silly. Much later on, of course, we found out that the Department of Justice had relied on that unverified, silly document to secure a warrant to spy on an American citizen – Carter Page. But at the time, it seemed odd that this trash would even be on the FBI’s radar, much less be something they felt the need to brief the incoming president on...  http://totalconservative.com/cnn-exposed-as-driving-force-behind-dossiers-leak/
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Toronto Van Attack — It's the Crime, Not the Tool

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               The immediate thought for most rationale people is to consider all the other attacks in recent years perpetrated by jihadis with vans or trucks plowing into crowds of people to kill as many as possible. Even The New York Times reported, “The carnage was reminiscent of deadly attacks by Islamic State supporters using vehicles that have shaken up Nice, France, Berlin, Barcelona,  London and New York.” The attack in Nice left 85 people dead.
               Yet Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said, “The events that happened on the street behind us are horrendous, but they do not appear to be connected in any way to national security based on the information at this time.” In other words, authorities aren’t convinced this was radical Islamic jihad. Instead, indications are the perpetrator is mentally ill. At the same time, said Toronto Police Service Chief Mark Saunders, “We don’t rule out anything.” Witnesses described the attack as deliberate, so we’ll await the investigation.
               One thing is certain: If this man had killed 10 people with a gun instead of a van, we’d be hearing calls to ban the tool he used rather than address the underlying issue.   ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/55540-toronto-van-attack-its-the-crime-not-the-tool

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TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Bluffing at the Border 
by Harold Hutchison
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Calif City Deceives Patriots - 
Not Really Challenging Sanctuary State Law
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{ rickwells.us } ~ The City of Upland, California held public hearings over the matter of challenging the SB-54... the sanctuary state law, on Monday, April 23rd, but did so in the most restrictive and deceptive manner, effectively doing nothing to address the problem. The usual open borders commie suspects were in attendance in support of the criminal Democrats, from poor, een-o-cent eemeegrant squatters, to racist Latino agitators, to Democrat operatives, to the NAACP.  The pro-America contingent in attendance was led to believe that the city was joining others in defiance of the unconstitutional state law but, as one of their mealy-mouthed attorneys points out at the 2:40 point in the video, that was not the case. The cockroach tells the City Council, the “Staff is not recommending a broad motion which would put Upland into the Huntington Beach case as a party, where we might be subject to a retaliatory lawsuit and incur a lot of legal fees.” Instead they’re hiding behind a “credible fear,” to borrow from the border crashers who manipulate their way into US resident status, of a law suit, effectively surrendering before a fight out of fear that they might get hit. This is what happens when you have cowards in positions of power and those who pretend to be cowards in order to secure an easy path for promoting their open borders agenda...  https://rickwells.us/city-deceives-patriots-sanctuary/.
Judge Napolitano Says There’s ‘No Question’ 
Democrats Tried To Frame President Trump
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by NICK GIVAS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano accused Democrats of trying to frame President Donald Trump... Tuesday on “Fox & Friends.” “It looks like a brazen plot simply to frame the President of the United States,” said host Steve Doocy about the Russia probe. “Yes, it does,” Napolitano replied. “It looks like it was commenced by his most virulent political enemies. Particularly Sid Blumenthal who’s sort of the fixer if you will, for liar-Hillary Clinton and that branch of the Democratic Party.” “There’s no question that the Democrats are behind a lot of this,”  Napolitano added...
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Maine: House Democrats Vote To Allow Female Genital Mutilation
by ROBERT SPENCER

{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ “By a final vote of 77-70, the House killed the FGM ban in a mostly party-line vote… Last week House Democrats passed a toothless bill that wouldn’t actually ban FGM.” Why did they do this? Flagrant Islamopandering, trying to get the votes of Maine’s growing Somali Muslim community. FGM is mandated in Islamic law: “Circumcision is obligatory for every male and female by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr ‘clitoris’ this is called khufaadh ‘female circumcision’].” — ‘Umdat al-Salik e4.3, translated by Mark Durie, The Third Choice, p. 64. Why is it obligatory? Because Muhammad is held to have said so: “Abu al- Malih ibn Usama’s father relates that the Prophet said: ‘Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women.’” — Ahmad Ibn Hanbal 5:75...This is America not a foreign country and this law should be banned.  https://freedomoutpost.com/maine-house-democrats-vote-to-allow-female-genital-mutilation/ 
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White House pushes Senate to 
reschedule Ronny Jackson's confirmation hearing
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by Gabby Morrongiello
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The White House will submit a request to the Senate this week to swiftly reschedule a confirmation hearing for Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson... President Trump's embattled pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. "We'll be making a request to Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Isakson," legislative affairs director Marc Short told reporters Wednesday. "We think he deserves his chance to have a fair hearing." Jackson, who was originally scheduled to appear before the Senate panel on Wednesday, is currently being investigated by Isakson and ranking member Jon Tester, D-Mt., for allegations that he improperly distributed prescription drugs and was intoxicated during work hours...
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POTUS Is Right There ARE Stupid Questions 
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Trump Warns Iran Not to Restart Nuclear Program
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Nancy Pulosi Knocks Her Own San Fran. District Over Free Speech, Says Don’t Shout Down Speakers
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France’s Macron: We Wish To Work On A New Deal With Iran
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The Left’s Plan To Discredit Trump’s Economic Boom
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Rep. Rooney (R-FL) Explains His Plan To Limit ‘Career Politicians’
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Erasing History: The Genocide Turkey Prefers You Forget
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Sean Hannity’s Rights Were ‘Blown Up’ in Effort to Get Trump
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Bluffing at the Border 

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               Mexico, with its officials standing aside, also seems to think the same thing. President Trump responded by declaring that he might include demands on immigration and border security in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Specifically, Mexico may be forced to act against migrants passing through that country to the United States to keep NAFTA. This is leverage — the Art of the Deal as applied to NAFTA.
               President Trump also instructed the Department of Homeland Security to deny the caravan entry into the U.S. The caravan did disperse to a degree after Trump deployedthe National Guard to the border. In essence, these migrants found out he wasn’t bluffing. The problem is, we can’t indefinitely use soldiers and airmen for a job that requires more Border Patrol agents. The wall is part of that solution, and the $1.6 billion recently authorized for it is a start, but there are hundreds of miles of border wall to build.
               Meanwhile, it’s obvious that some countries in Central and South America have real problems. Venezuela’s been run into the ground by dictators Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador have rampant violent crime. We can understand why people want out — and why they don’t want to wait for paperwork.
               As of now, Mexico seems to be betting that either Democrats win Congress and can stymie the wall or that President Trump will back down. Trump is hoping that Mexico will give in with NAFTA on the line. In a sense, it is eyeball-to-eyeball on border security and immigration, and who blinks first could very well be determined by the midterm elections.   ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/55536-bluffing-at-the-border

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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Tale of Two Protests  
by Thomas Gallatin
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Michael Flynn to campaign for GOP Senate candidate
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by Katie Leach
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is set to campaign for a Montana Republican... making this his second campaign appearance for a GOP candidate in the months after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI as part of the special counsel's Russian investigation. "It is time to stand up for our #American Heroes," Air Force veteran and Republican Senate candidate, Troy Downing tweeted. "I am excited to announce that American Patriot @GenFlynn will be joining me in #Montana very soon. Details to come!" If elected Senator, Downing has repeatedly promised to support Trump’s agenda. Using Flynn as a campaign surrogate could be seen as a pledge to that. This follows Flynn's appearance at a March campaign event for Omar Navarro, a Republican competing to unseat Rep. mad-Maxine Waters, D-Calif., in the 2018 midterm election...
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Congress Pursues liar-Clinton for Hiding Fusion GPS Payments 
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{ amgreatness.com } ~ As I reported here, the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission last year alleging... that liar-Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign finance laws by not revealing their payments to Fusion GPS. In an October 25, 2017 filing with the FEC, the watchdog group accused the liar-Hillary for America campaign and DNC of failing to “accurately disclose the purpose and recipient of payments for the dossier…effectively hiding these payments from public scrutiny.” The complaint was filed one day after the Washington Post confirmed that both entities paid Perkins Coie – a politically-connected law firm – to retain Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump, which resulted in the infamous dossier. But the FEC could not confirm whether an investigation is being conducted: “A provision of federal campaign finance law requires that any Commission action on an enforcement matter be kept strictly confidential until the case is resolved,” FEC spokesman Christian Hilland told me via email this morning. If any action had been taken, the findings would be posted on the commission’s website; no investigation related to the Center’s complaint is currently listed.  According to the Center, the liar-Clinton campaign and DNC paid Perkins Coie more than $12 million during the 2016 election cycle; all payments were recorded as “legal services.” No payments to Fusion GPS were itemized on disclosure reports by either group. Corey Goldstone, a spokesman for the Campaign Legal Center, told me via email that “normally, a campaign files a report with the FEC listing the people and companies it paid money to and what that money was for. The liar-Clinton campaign and the DNC did not comply with their legal obligation to disclose their payments to Fusion for opposition research. Instead, they concealed the fact that any payments were made to Fusion at all.” Goldstone said the complaint is still pending at the FEC. Now Congress is stepping in...
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Caught! liar-nObama’s DOJ Tried 
to Interfere in liar-Clinton Foundation Investigation
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by Joe Scudder
{ eaglerising.com } ~ The Inspector General’s report on Andrew McCabe reveals a phone call he got reprimanding him for the liar-Clinton Foundation investigation... In August 2016, amid an ongoing liar-Clinton Foundation investigation, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe received a phone call from the principal associate deputy attorney general Matthew Axelrod. Whatever McCabe’s problems, he told the IG that he considered that call way over the line. Axelrod was angry with the FBI for investigating the liar-Clinton Foundation and was calling to say so. Other experts agree with McCabe that such a call is wrong. Yet Axelrod did it anyway. Did he act on his own without fearing any possible consequences? Or was he ordered or pressured to try to get the investigation stopped? The Washington Times reports, “ liar-nObama Justice Dept.’s attempts to influence investigations exposed in McCabe probe.”...
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IEA Declares OPEC Has Accomplished 
Its Mission: Oil Is Now “Balanced” 
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by Bob Adelmann 
{ thenewamerican.com } ~ “It’s not for us to declare on behalf of the Vienna agreement the OPEC production-cut agreement in force since January 2017... that it is ‘mission accomplished’, but if our outlook is accurate, it certainly looks very much like it,” said the International Energy Agency (IEA) last week. Those production cuts, aided by the rolling disaster in Venezuela that continues to take crude oil production off the world market, have, according to the IEA, brought down the world’s crude oil stocks within shouting distance of OPEC’s goal: the five-year average of those stocks. Compliance among members of the OPEC cartel and its friends including Russia has been extraordinarily high, with Saudi Arabia helping things along by cutting its own production far more deeply than the agreement called for. U.S. production, estimated to approach 11 million barrels a day by the end of the year twice what it was just seven years ago, has been unable to match the production cuts and worldwide demand, which has greatly surprised to the upside...
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Senior Iranian Official Boasts of IRGC Presence Abroad

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ Iran will not back down from supporting terrorist proxies in the region and spreading its Islamic ideology abroad... a senior official in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has reiterated. IRGC's operations "are not limited to Iran," Ali Fadavi, the IRGC's naval commander, said in an interview Monday with the Farsi language Jamaran site and reported by Al Arabiya. Fadavi openly discussed the fact that IRGC operatives are currently "fighting the enemy thousands of kilometers away from our borders" – an offensive force posture seen as "necessary" to spread Iran's revolutionary ideology. "Guarding the Islamic revolution does not only mean guarding one country and one government, i.e. Iran. The IRGC's primary objective is not protecting Iran's national security, he said, but to spread Shi'a Islamist ideology across the entire Middle East and Muslim world....
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Tale of Two Protests 9lurlJqsv1rOIdVZuAaKy9R5TSacZusbuaN-Iowc2wqaCXx9hAxyd94ZaFinnflT0N6cpepzsULWWCbpkhMvI1jCbpTzanGrSNjicntAx1jUSZeRsBFRe4bHR0QIT8F1kWQp85MJRzV2V69WlBdQdPV7aELHGkamRk7L1ZJiaHA=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=?width=450by Thomas Gallatin:  Over the weekend, a small band of approximately two dozen neo-Nazi white supremacists gathered for a public rally in Newnan, Georgia, a small town just 38 miles southwest of Atlanta. Similar to the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, counterdemonstrators showed up to protest against the white supremacists. Many of those counterprotesters were members of the violent, extreme leftist group antifa. Recall that last year’s rally turned violent as members of both groups clashed, leading to the death of one young woman who was murdered by a white supremacist when he drove his vehicle into a group of counterprotesters. The incident created a national outcry, especially from Democrats and the mainstream media, who blamed President Donald Trump for creating a toxic environment and for failing to condemn white supremacists. Trump did in fact condemn the message and behavior of white supremacists, but he also called out the violence of antifa, something the MSM would not tolerate.
               Back to the recent Newnan rally, which, thanks to advanced planning by city officials, included a heavy police presence and clearly designated areas for protesters. That helped prevent any opportunity for violent clashes, and only 10 antifa counterprotesters were arrested for failing to remove their masks. Prior to the event, Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. (and gubernatorial candidate) Casey Cagle said he was “praying for Newnan.” He added, “We must condemn the bigotry spread by hate groups. Our thoughts are with Sheriff Yeager, city officials, and all law enforcement officers who are working to protect residents and we hope the protests remains nonviolent.” Since the rally and counterprotest occurred without any violence, the mainstream media gave it little national attention.
               So what made the outcomes between Newnan and Charlottesville so different? The simple answer is politics. In Charlottesville, leftists, led by a politically motivated mayor, saw an opportunity to conflate the controversy surrounding the decision to remove Confederate statues with those advocating white supremacy — they rolled it all together and indicted Trump for stoking racism. City officials sympathetic to their cause took little action in keeping the protesters and counterprotesters from violently attacking each other. It resulted in an escalation that left one young woman dead. After the violence, Democrats and the MSM laid blame for it solely at the feet of the white supremacists while excoriating Trump for his statement that both sides bore blame.
               Newnan city officials by contrast preserved both civility and Americans’ First Amendment rights. It’s exactly what we should expect from our elected officials — not political posturing, but enforcement of the law. The trouble is no one will remember Newnan, while the narrative surrounding Charlottesville lives on.   ~The Patriot Post
 https://patriotpost.us/articles/55542-tale-of-two-protests

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America's Unsustainable Empire 
by Pat Buchanan  
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Wednesday Top Headlines 
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Republicans hold on to Arizona House seat (The Hill)
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Trump saves millions of working-class families from liar-nObamaCare penalty (Washington Examiner)
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VA nominee Ronny Jackson in jeopardy as Senate delays hearing amid “serious allegations” (USA Today)
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Judge effectively sentences baby Alfie to death, denies parents request to seek treatment in Italy (The Daily Wire)
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At White House state dinner, Trump, Macron call for new nuclear deal with Iran (AFP)
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Trump: “Wherever there’s trouble” in Middle East, “Iran is behind it” (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Trump administration to grant Iran missiles capable of destroying Israel (The Washington Free Beacon)
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commie-Bernie Sanders proposal promises jobs to all Americans (The Hill)
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is sitting on $477 million (The Weekly Standard)
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CDC buried data supporting defensive use of firearms (New American)
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Settled science: Global warming likely to be 30% to 45% lower than climate models project (Reason)
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Hardly a stir when Starbucks denied a cop (American Thinker)
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Forget dividing into three states, California might just secede (Fox News)
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In a first, 2020 census to count same-sex couples (NBC News)
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Some couples are refusing to have kids because Donald Trump is the president (The Resurgent)
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1,049,200 “serious offenses” reported in nation’s public schools in 2015-16 (CNS News)
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Policy: Democrats’ latest Big Government idea: Guaranteed jobs for everyone! (Investor’s Business Daily)
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Policy: Turns out, the rich will pay a bigger share of income taxes under GOP tax cuts (Investor’s Business Daily)  ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55575-wednesday-top-headlines
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The Senate’s Blind Spot on Terrorism in Yemen 
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by Alexandra N. Gutowski 
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ On Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee pressed hard on top administration officials to justify U.S. support for the Saudi war effort in Yemen... where hunger and cholera cause tremendous suffering. Senators certainly should be asking these tough questions, yet their narrow focus resulted in a missed opportunity to ask equally important questions about the opaque U.S. mission to fight terrorism in Yemen, which the Trump administration has conducted with growing intensity. At Tuesday’s hearing, the senators’ questions focused intently on America’s ability to improve  Saudi Arabia’s conduct of the war and advance a political resolution to the conflict. In that regard, the administration’s witnesses sought to demonstrate how American support encourages responsible behavior by the Saudi-led coalition that is battling Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. On an operational level, the Saudi-led coalition has implemented several procedures, consistent with American best practices, to reduce civilian casualties. For example, the Saudis have put in place a No Strike List, tightened their rules of engagement, and replaced cluster munitions with more precise alternatives, according to the Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Karem. On the diplomatic side, American support ensures that the Saudis do not pursue alternative security partnerships, which may not entail any pressure to reduce civilian casualties or move towards a political solution, as noted by Ambassador David Satterfield, the acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. Important as these issues are, the counterterrorism (CT) mission remains the primary U.S. line of effort in Yemen, where both Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Islamic State maintain a strong presence. American troops are directly engaged in disrupting AQAP and the Islamic State, whereas the U.S. military provides only limited non-combat support to the Saudi-led effort to defeat the Houthis...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/alexandra-n-gutowski1-the-senates-blind-spot-on-terrorism-in-yemen/
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Spain: Jihad Continues
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by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Ten members of an Islamic State jihadi cell have been sentenced to combined prison terms of nearly 100 years... for a plot to bomb landmarks and behead infidels in Barcelona. The cell, composed of five Moroccans, four Spaniards and a Brazilian, was separate to and independent of the jihadi group that killed 16 people in Barcelona and nearby Cambrils in August 2017. The case shows that Spain continues to be a prime target for jihadis, many of whom are striving to reconquer al-Andalus, the Arabic name given to those parts of Spain, Portugal and France occupied by Muslim conquerors also known as the Moors from 711 to 1492. Many jihadis believe that territories Muslims lost during the Christian Reconquest of Spain still belong to the realm of Islam, and that Sharia law requires them to re-establish Muslim rule there. The court heard how the jihadi cell — called "Islamic Fraternity, Group for Preaching Jihad" — was created in 2014 at a mosque in Terrassa, a city located 30 kilometers from Barcelona, with the objective of creating a global Islamic Caliphate...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12202/spain-jihad
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California law would effectively ban the Bible 
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{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ California lawmakers about to take a step that will infuriate God-fearing Americans...  A new bill that is working its way through the California House could ban the sale of the Bible. The legislation will make it an “unlawful business practice” for any transactions that engage in “sexual orientation change efforts with an individual.” The bill then goes on to define “change efforts” as “efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings towards individuals of the same sex.” As far as the Bible is concerned, sex is something that occurs in marriage between a man and a woman. I want you to think about that. This legislation is literally suggesting banning books...Theses Liberals are clearly taking things too far.  https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/california-law-ban-the-bible/?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=pna1&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=pna1 
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Mueller’s Appointment is Result of Illegal Leaks 
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by ANDREW
{ conservativefreepress.com } ~ President Donald Trump said Saturday that it was only through former FBI Director James Comey’s illegal leak of classified information... that Robert Mueller was appointed as the special counsel for the Russia investigation. As such, he implied, Mueller’s entire scope of inquiry was null and void. Whether this is a line of argument being pursued by the president’s lawyers or just something Trump is spitballing on social media, it is a powerful cause-and-effect statement that could have wide-ranging implications for the Mueller team. “James Comey’s Memos are Classified, I did not Declassify them,” Trump tweeted. “They belong to our Government! Therefore, he broke the law! Additionally, he totally made up many of the things he said I said, and he is already a proven liar and leaker. Where are Memos on liar-Clinton, Lynch & others?” Trump then wrote: “James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a Special Council? Therefore, the Special Council was established based on an illegal act? Really, does everybody know what that means?”...
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‘You are classless’: Stormy’s lawyer throws down 
on Martha MacCallum after she humiliates him for lying
by Renee Hayes

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Stormy Daniels’ lawyer was just called out on national television for being a liar... and he’s not too happy about it. Michael Avenatti explained his absence from the Fox News Channel by telling CNN over the weekend that Fox doesn’t “seem to want me on their shows much.” According to Fox host Martha MacCallum, that’s not true. MacCallum who hosts Fox News Channel’s “The Story” made a point to deliver her audience a “program note” to address Avenatti’s claim. “That is not actually the case,” MacCallum said. “In fact, Mr. Avenatti was scheduled to appear on this show tomorrow night. But this morning, he abruptly canceled the interview despite his pledge to appear on Fox News this week. “So, there you go. That is our true story, on that.” she ended....
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America's Unsustainable Empire 
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by Pat Buchanan 
{ townhall.com } ~ Before President Trump trashes the Iran nuclear deal, he might consider: If he could negotiate an identical deal with Kim Jong Un, it would astonish the world and win him the Nobel Peace Prize.

For Iran has no nuclear bomb or ICBM and has never tested either. It has never enriched uranium to bomb grade. It has shipped 98 percent of its uranium out of the country. It has cameras inside and inspectors crawling all over its nuclear facilities.

And North Korea? It has atom bombs and has tested an H-bomb. It has intermediate range-ballistic missiles that can hit Guam and an ICBM that, fully operational, could hit the West Coast. It has shorter-range missiles that could put nukes on South Korea and Japan.

Hard to believe Kim Jong Un will surrender these weapons, his ticket of admission to the table of great powers.

Yet the White House position is that the Iran nuclear deal should be scrapped, and no deal with Kim Jong Un signed that does not result in the "denuclearization" of the peninsula.

If denuclearization means Kim gives up all his nukes and strategic missiles, ceases testing, and allows inspectors into all his nuclear facilities, we may be waiting a long time.

Trump decides on the Iran deal by May 12. And we will likely know what Kim is prepared to do, and not prepared to do, equally soon.

France's President Emmanuel Macron is in D.C. to persuade Trump not to walk away from the Iran deal and to keep U.S. troops in Syria. Chancellor Angela Merkel will be arriving at week's end with a similar message.

On the White House front burner then are these options:

Will North Korea agree to surrender its nuclear arsenal, or is it back to confrontation and possible war?

Will we stick with the nuclear deal with Iran, or walk away, issue new demands on Tehran, and prepare for a military clash if rebuffed?

Do we pull U.S. troops out of Syria as Trump promised, or keep U.S. troops there to resist the reconquest of his country by Bashar Assad and his Russian, Iranian, Hezbollah and Shiite allies?

Beyond, the larger question looms: How long can we keep this up?

How long can this country, with its shrinking share of global GDP, sustain its expanding commitments to confront and fight all over the world?

U.S. planes and ships now bump up against Russians in the Baltic and Black seas. We are sending Javelin anti-tank missiles to Kiev, while NATO allies implore us to bring Ukraine and Georgia into the alliance.

This would mean a U.S. guarantee to fight an alienated, angered and nuclear-armed Russia in Crimea and the Caucasus.

Sixteen years after 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, we are still there, assisting Afghan troops against a Taliban we thought we had defeated.

We are now fighting what is left of ISIS in Syria alongside our Kurd allies, who tug us toward conflict with Turkey.

U.S. forces and advisers are in Niger, Djibouti, Somalia. We are aiding the Saudis in their air war and naval blockade of Yemen.

The last Korean War, which cost 33,000 U.S. lives, began in the June before this writer entered 7th grade. Why is the defense of a powerful South Korea, with an economy 40 times that of the North, still a U.S. responsibility?

We are committed, by 60-year-old treaties, to defend Japan, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand. Voices are being heard to have us renew the war guarantee to Taiwan that Jimmy Carter canceled in 1979.

National security elites are pushing for new naval and military ties to Vietnam and India, to challenge Beijing in the South China Sea, Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea.

How long can we sustain a worldwide empire of dependencies?

How many wars of this century -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen -- turned out to have been worth the blood shed and the treasure lost? And what have all the "color-coded revolutions" we have instigated to advance "democracy" done for America?

In a New York Times essay, "Adapting to American Decline," Christopher Preble writes: "America's share of global wealth is shrinking. By some estimates, the United States accounted for roughly 50 percent of global output at the end of World War II. ... It has fallen to 15.1 percent today."

Preble continues: "Admitting that the United States is incapable of effectively adjudicating every territorial dispute or of thwarting every security threat in every part of the world is hardly tantamount to surrender. It is rather a wise admission of the limits of American power."

It is imperative, wrote Walter Lippmann, that U.S. commitments be brought into balance with U.S. power. This "forgotten principle ... must be recovered and returned to the first place in American thought."

That was 1943, at the height of a war that found us unprepared.

We are hugely overextended today. And conservatives have no higher duty than to seek to bring U.S. war guarantees into conformity with U.S. vital interests and U.S. power.

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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Harry dinky-Reid and 
the Liberal Voter ID Scam Exposed 
by Wayne Allyn Root  
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Deal Struck: DOJ Will Hand 
Over liar-Clinton Docs to House Committees 
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by Scott Kelnhofer 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ The Republicans who chair the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee said in a statement Monday... that the Justice Department has agreed to turn over documents related to the DOJ’s investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server. The 1.2 million documents outline the FBI’s decision to not recommend charging liar-Clinton for her use of a private email server. The documents also provide the evidence behind the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant request for Trump campaign aide Cater Page. Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte and South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy released a joint statement confirming the deal with the DOJ to obtain the documents, but provided no other details, including when the documents would be made available...  https://www.westernjournal.com/deal-struck-doj-will-hand-over-clinton-docs-to-house-committees/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal 
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Entitlement Rogues: Alive and Well on America's Campuses
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by Jason D. Hill
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ On Monday, April 16, twenty students were arrested at Yale University after refusing to leave the school’s financial aid office during a rally... They were demanding that Yale remove what they regard as a financial burden for its low-income students on financial aid. The burden in question was the Student Effort requirement which requires students on significant financial aid to make a financial contribution of between $2,800 and $3,350 to their education by working on campus. Chief among the protestors was an international student on a student visa from Pakistan, Shaheer Malik, who objected to the having to work up to 10 hours per week in the library scanning barcodes on the grounds that such work robbed him of his ability to fully enjoy the social activities that constitute the Yale experience. Other students complained that having to work was unfair because it discriminated against them based on their economic status whereas as their wealthier counterparts were spared the injustice of having to work.  The protestors prove once more that there are people in our county that fail to realize that immigration is a privilege and not a right; that their parents’ procreative choices are not the fiscal responsibility of others to bear; that our country was founded on political equality not economic equality; and that the task of assuming responsibility for one’s life as an adult supersedes any social activities or play time that might be part of the Yale experience...  https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269936/entitlement-rogues-alive-and-well-americas-jason-d-hill
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What De Blasio Does with Poor People When No One’s Looking 
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by CILLIAN ZEAL 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rode into office back in 2013 on a platform dedicated in part to class warfare... It was us vs. them, de Blasio said, and he would be the champion of the 99 percent. So, how’s that worked out? Well, a look at his tax returns reveals just how serious Mayor de Blasio is about helping the impoverished of New York City. You may be surprised to learn that he’s not too big on giving. Actually, you probably won’t be. According to the New York Post, the mayor gave just $350 to charity in 2017. That’s out of a gross income of $223,449. That represents roughly 0.16 percent of his income...
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They Laughed at Us When We 
Raised Hell Over liar-nObamacare’s Death Panels
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by Kemberlee Kaye
{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ In February, Republicans used the awful budget deal to kill an liar-nObamacare provision that was never implemented... the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). During the great liar-Obamacare debates, then-Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin referred to IPAB as a ‘death panel.’ IPAB, if triggered, would’ve granted Medicare cutting authority to 15 unelected bureaucrats if spending exceeding certain thresholds. This board would’ve been able to prioritize cost-cutting measures over care. Hypothetically and in the worst case scenarios, a tiny group of oversight immune government employees would be able to decide someone’s fate if the price tag were deemed to hefty. Republicans were mocked and accused of concocting a nefarious ‘death panel’ to fear monger their way into an electoral win. But then you look at what’s happening in the U.K., first with Charlie Gard and now with Alfie Evans. In both cases, a court, not a doctor and caretaker, decided it was in the best interest of the baby to pull the plug...  https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/04/they-laughed-at-us-when-we-raised-hell-over-obamacares-death-panels/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Stop The Left’s War On America
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by BRIGITTE GABRIEL
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Those of us who oppose the radical left’s agenda too often respond by attacking singular issues... without regard for the greater battle being waged. If there’s one consistent beat to which the radical left marches, it is the demonization of Western civilization. Non-leftists have failed to produce an antidote to this far more poisonous message. Schools have been brainwashing impressionable minds for decades yet, suddenly, we’re shocked at the lack of knowledge our young people have about this nation, its founding, its laws and the tremendous strides it has made for humanity. The United States of America is portrayed — constantly — as a nation with an evil, unjustified founding. This is the bigger picture on which conservatives and all patriotic Americans need to focus...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/18/stop-the-left-war-on-america/
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Harry dinky-Reid and 
the Liberal Voter ID Scam Exposed 
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by Wayne Allyn Root 
{ townhall.com } ~ Please ignore the advertising slogan “What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas.” It’s not true. Las Vegas is the crossroads of America. What happens here is a sure sign of what's happening everywhere. So, I’ve uncovered the biggest liberal scam in America, going on right here in Las Vegas.

It revolves around my home community in the suburbs of Las Vegas. I live in exclusive Anthem Country Club. There are about 1500 beautiful homes behind the gates of Anthem. These homes are together worth around $1 billion dollars, behind the gates of just one country club, in just one Las Vegas suburb.

What’s the amazing appeal of Anthem Country Club? It’s got a big beautiful wall around it. And thick iron gates in front, protected by armed guards. The result? There is virtually no crime inside walled, gated, armed Anthem. 

I’ve lived here for almost 17 years. My kids grew up here. They played outside every day from morning to night and I never worried for one moment. Because of the wall, the gates and the armed guards, my kids were as safe as if they lived in “Mayberry R.F.D.” Life is good behind the gates of Anthem. 

In the rest of Las Vegas…not so much. In the rest of Vegas…lots of crime, lots of fear. Proving walls and gates and lots of armed guards are a good thing, if you want your family to be safe.

But wait. Anthem recently added a new feature to keep our residents safe. Every vehicle entering our gates must show government-issued photo ID. Anyone entering our community- guests, gardeners, maids, nannies, pool cleaners, handymen, plumbers, electricians, delivery persons- must provide state or federal government-issued photo ID, or they will be denied entry. Every single one of them.

There are many lessons we can learn from studying Anthem Country Club.

Lesson #1) If you want your family and children to be safe, BUILD A WALL

 
Preferably a wall that is also surrounded by armed guards. The Vatican understands this lesson. Mexico understands- because they have a wall on their Southern Border. Many rich liberals in America who live in gated communities, or gated private estates, or doorman buildings understand this lesson too. They just don’t want you to have a wall. They clearly think their children are more important than yours. They clearly think you’re stupid, as they argue walls and guns are unnecessary.

Lesson #2) Liberal Democrats are hypocrites
 
Guess who lives inside the protected walls of Anthem Country Club? Former United States Democrat Senator Harry dinky-Reid. You know, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader...and most importantly, the former chief water carrier and bottle washer of President liar-nObama, who spent his entire Senate career fighting viciously against a wall. dinky-Harry and his liberal buddies argued walls were terrible and unnecessary things.

dinky-Harry could have retired anywhere in Vegas…or anywhere in America for that matter. But he chose to live behind the walls… and gates…and armed guards…and now photo ID required for entry…of Anthem Country Club. dinky-Harry is my neighbor! Welcome to the neighborhood.Can I bring a cake by?

But dinky-Harry, don’t liberals hate walls and gates and armed guards and photo ID? Don’t liberals call those things “racist.” According to liberals, aren’t those things meant to “discourage minorities from entering?” Yet behind these "racist" gates lives Harry dinky-Reid and the entire dinky-Reid clan. Interesting.

Lesson #3) The argument against Voter ID is a total scam

How do all those gardeners and maids and pool cleaners and handymen drive through the gates of Anthem Country Club every day? The answer: they ALL already have government issued photo ID. 

So, I guess it’s a lie when liberal politicians claim poor people and minorities don’t have photo ID, or its too difficult for them to get, or its “racist” to ask them for it. I guess they all already have it. I guess they are thrilled to show it to earn a paycheck. Just not to vote. That would be “racist.” 

I guess we just proved the liberal argument is a scam. Voter ID is the easiest and simplest request in the world. Heck, they have it inMexico.You can't vote in Mexico without a government issued ID card- complete with photo and biometric thumbprint. Voter ID is the simplest request in the world-ifyou really wanted to stop "foreign interference" in US elections. 

But Voter ID is a big issue for Democrats because they want and need election fraud. They can’t win without it. They want their voters to vote multiple times, with no questions asked. They want illegals to be able to vote by the millions for Democrats. Asking for government-issued ID and checking for legal citizenship would ruin all that. 

Folks, we’re being scammed. We need a wall. And we need Voter ID. Everyone knows it- even Harry dinky-Reid and his liberal friends. All the proof we need of this scam is right here in the suburbs of Las Vegas. What happens here, is happening everywhere.

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Three Californias — Dreamin' or Nightmare? 
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Mick Mulvaney is making sweeping changes to the consumer agency he temporarily leads, including its name... The symbolic tweak has been overlooked as Mulvaney has pursued numerous other, more concrete changes, such as delaying a major new federal regulation of payday lending. Yet, it’s an example of the Trump appointee’s talent for pleasing Republicans and ticking off liberals every chance he gets. From the time its doors opened in 2011, the agency was known as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Usually, people just called it “the CFPB.”...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/mick-mulvaney-quietly-changes-the-cfpbs-name 
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Why Iran Doesn’t Attack
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by JED BABBIN
{ spectator.org } ~ Or at least not yet — the growing likelihood of an Iranian war with Israel... For more than a year, Iran has been building permanent military bases in Syria close to the Israeli border. Since the first reports of this activity were published in November 2017, Israel has made it clear that it would not permit the Iranians to do so because the threat to Israel is far too great. From these bases, Iran has been operating drones over Israeli airspace. It has dozens, perhaps hundreds, of its Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps troops operating from those bases. On at least four occasions — from February 10 to April 17 — Israel has attacked those bases. Israel’s April 9 strike on the “T-4” base near Homs killed about seven Iranian officials or soldiers, including an IRGC colonel commanding the drone operations. Though several Iranian leaders have spoken in terms of an imminent war with Israel, Iran has not even conducted any small attacks in response to Israel’s attacks on its bases. Why?...  https://spectator.org/why-iran-doesnt-attack/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=17b6e219e9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-17b6e219e9-104608113
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How Much Do Canadians Really Pay for Health Care?
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{ spectator.org } ~ It’s a lot more than you have been told by the Democrats and the media... A recent survey conducted by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 51 percent of U.S. adults support   single-payer health care. This isn’t a poll of actual voters, of course, but it does suggest that the propaganda campaign conducted by the Democrats and the “news” media is having an effect. The system they most often hold up as a paragon of the single-payer approach to health care is, of course, Canada’s “Medicare” program. But, before deciding to emulate the Canucks, we should consider what they really pay for health care and what they get for their money. The usual talking point single-payer advocates trot out when asked about this goes thus: According to OECD, health care in the U.S. costs about twice what Canadians pay. If the single-payer advocate is uncharacteristically articulate for a lefty, they will quote another OECD canard about life expectancy to show that we are paying more money, yet receiving worse overall care. As it happens, both of these talking points are meaningless. Canadians pay far more for healthcare than is commonly believed and life expectancy is useless in determining the quality of a healthcare system. Let’s start with how much Canadians actually pay. The OECD arrives at its figures by the hopelessly simplistic method of dividing a nation’s total health care expenditure by its population. Thus, Canadians pay about $5,500 a head while we pay a little over $10,000 apiece for our system. But these figures are meaningless to actual Canadian families. What matters to them is how much they pay for coverage, via taxation. The Fraser Institute, a non-partisan think tank based in British Columbia, reports that the average two-adult family pays more than $12K annually. And it gets worse...
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{ washingtontimes.com } ~ Tucked inside the inspector general’s report on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe... was the story of an August 2016 phone call from a high-ranking Justice Department official who Mr. McCabe thought was trying to shut down the FBI’s probe into the liar-Clinton Foundation at a time when liar-Hillary Clinton was running for president. The official was “very pissed off” at the FBI, the report says, and demanded to know why the FBI was still pursuing the liar-Clinton Foundation when the Justice Department considered the case dormant. Former FBI officials said the fact that a call was made is even more stunning than its content. James Wedick, conducted corruption investigations at the bureau, said during 35 years there he never fielded a call from the Justice Department about any of his cases. He said it suggested interference...  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/23/justice-departments-attempts-influence-investigati/
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Three Californias — Dreamin' or Nightmare? 

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              And if voters speak in the affirmative for CAL3 in the November referendum — and then Congress approves — the Left Coast could grow in its electoral blueness by creating three Californias.
               Before you roll your eyes, states have reconfigured in America’s past. Granted, it’s been a while, but West Virginia was once part of Virginia, as was Kentucky. At our nation’s founding, on July 4, 1776, Tennessee was part of North Carolina. The evolution of territory that creates the federation of states that, together, create our nation has not been static. But is the prospect of having three states feasible, and is it really a good idea?
               The CAL3 effort is led by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper, who purports to see greater efficiency, accountability and lower taxes. The billionaire has worked his proposal significantly closer to a vote since his initial efforts starting in 2014. Now, having far exceeded the 365,880 signatures required on a statewide petition for a referendum, Draper has submitted a filing showing 600,000 supportive names to bring the proposal to a vote this November.
               Appearing last week on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Draper cheerfully lobbied that smaller governments would be able to address the failures of the mammoth state, citing the explosion of homelessness and a failed education system in California. “I think that these three new states are going to empower people to realize what’s possible in government. The education system is just about the worst in all 50 states, and it’s the biggest state,” Draper posited. He had responded in an email to an earlier Fox News interview, “This is a great opportunity for Californians who want better education, safer streets, better infrastructure, better healthcare, lower taxes, and want to be empowered and represented in government.
               So what’s the CAL3 plan? The singular state would be carved into three sections — Northern California, Southern California and California — that would all operate as separate governments divided at county lines that would attempt to balance population. Some Californians, based on the current fights regarding sanctuary status, may find it advantageous to revamp and reconstitute their government, but the electoral math yields two Left states, Northern California and California, separate from the more conservative Southern California through careful cartography.
               Northern California, as proposed in the referendum, would begin at the Oregon-California line in the north and include all citizens down to San Jose, just south of San Francisco. Its new neighbor, California, would span from Monterey to Los Angeles, hugging the coastline leaving Southern California to hold Fresno, Bakersfield and San Diego.
               But is Draper’s effort driven by the desire for accountable government or just more government under Democrat control?
               In the new governments, the current populations would produce 18 U.S. representatives for Northern California, 16 for California and 19 for Southern California, to go along with two U.S. senators for each of the three states. Overall, the Electoral College would add four votes. Politically, Democrats gain a boost despite the division.
               Will it happen? It’s been tried before, twice in California. The first was in 1859, when Californians wanted to split the state in two, but the War Between the States interrupted the effort. It happened again in 1941, when Northern Californians wanted to merge with Southern Oregonians to create a potential new state, Jefferson. Is the third time the charm? Likely, no.
               Not only must the voters of California support the measure, but the U.S. Senate and House would have to give it a thumbs up. That’s doubtful because other states might not be keen to dilute their own power in presidential politics. And Republicans are hardly keen to award Democrats at least two more senators.
               Here’s a better idea, California. Instead of segregating your geography to reflect a homogenous set of Democrat ideas and to game the political math, why don’t you diversify your existing government to become more tolerant of ideas that actually work? Start with honoring existing laws that value citizenship and reducing the size of government, which should lower your tax burden and increase your working population — that, in turn, is a way to address those in the tent cities of the homeless and unemployed.
               The real goal of increasing governments is to increase government power, not really empowering its citizens. Not only should voters say “No!” to CAL3, they should work against their existing failed state government. The California Dream has become a nightmare at the hands of radical leftists.   ~The Patriot Pos
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