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Wells Fargo Resists the Resistance on Guns
by Harold Hutchison
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Trump Floats Making Border Security
a Condition for NAFTA Agreement
by Haris Alic
{ freebeacon.com } ~ President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration may make tougher border security measures... a condition for the United States supporting any modernized version of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The president took to Twitter to declare Mexico, "whose laws on immigration are very tough," needs to step up its efforts to prevent illegal crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump added the country could not accept "what is happening" and that his administration would explore any option available, including the ongoing NAFTA negotiations, to ensure the security of America's southern border. "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," the president tweeted....
White House stands by Trump's
VA pick amid allegations of improper conduct
by Gabby Morrongiello
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ White House physician Ronny Jackson maintains President Trump's support to lead the Veterans Affairs Department... the White House said Tuesday, hours after the Senate delayed Jackson's confirmation hearing due to damaging allegations against his leadership style. "Admiral Jackson has been on the front lines of deadly combat and saved the lives of many others in service to this country," deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. Gidley continued, "He's served as the physician to three Presidents — Republican and Democrat — and been praised by them all. Admiral Jackson's record of strong, decisive leadership is exactly what's needed at the VA to ensure our veterans receive the benefits they deserve."... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/white-house-stands-by-ronny-jackson-amid-allegations-of-improper-conduct .
mad-Maxine Waters Says She Hears
Voices Everywhere She Goes - An Echo in Her head?
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ mad-Maxine Waters is at it again, pretending that the election is merely a suggestion by some racist, ignorant rednecks... in those unimportant parts of the country. are incapable of making a decision for something as complicated as being president and she and her despicable ilk need to correct our mistakes. Elections that they lose never end but are instead battles that are refought on a daily basis. She tells the unisex MSNBC talking head that Democrats should, in her opinion, make impeachment a centerpiece of the midterm elections. It’s not that they’ve been able to find any crimes by President Trump despite devoting the entirety of a crooked FBI, DOJ and portions of the Intelligence community to that effort. For Democrats like mad-Waters the bar is much lower than the high crimes and misdemeanors stated in the Constitution. Putting America first and reversing the destructive policies of the “Commie liar-nObamie” is sufficient grounds for removing a duly-elected President in the globalist Democrat view... https://rickwells.us/waters-voices-everywhere-head/.Democrats, Media Bash DNC Lawsuit Over Election Hacking
by Andrew Kugle
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Democratic lawmakers and members of the media have criticized the Democratic National Committee's civil lawsuit against... the Donald Trump campaign, the Russian government, and Wikileaks. The DNC filed the lawsuit Friday in federal court, accusing the Trump campaign of conspiring with Russian agents and WikiLeaks. The New York Times reported the suit came as a surprise to even Democratic Party leaders. Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier (Calif.) said the lawsuit is "ill-conceived." "I think this lawsuit is ill-conceived," Speier said. "And I'm not very supportive of it."... http://freebeacon.com/politics/democrats-media-bash-dnc-lawsuit-election-hacking/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=c8f1aaf319-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-c8f1aaf319-45611665Carter Center Sued for Providing
Support to Terrorists, Defrauding Taxpayers
by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Trump administration is seeking the dismissal of a suit alleging the nonprofit helmed by former president Jimmy Carter has used taxpayer funding... to provide material support to international terrorist groups, including Hamas. The Zionist Advocacy Center, which filed the recently unsealed suit in 2015, alleges the Carter Center received more than $30 million in taxpayer grants while violating federal statutes barring it from using the cash to provide material support to terror groups. The plaintiffs maintain the Carter Center has violated the law by hosting designated terrorists at is facilities, as well as by providing various forms of assistance to the Palestinian terror group Hamas and other known terror entities, according to recently unsealed court documents... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/carter-center-sued-providing-support-terrorists-defrauding-taxpayers/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=c8f1aaf319-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-c8f1aaf319-45611665 .
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Wells Fargo Resists the Resistance on Guns
by Harold Hutchison: You may have heard about how Citibank and Bank of America have decided to enact their own form of gun control. To wit: Even though certain semiautomatic rifles and magazines are legal, Bank of America will close the account of any merchant who tries to sell them. Furthermore, any Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder who sells long guns to young adults aged 18-20 (who may legally purchase them) is also out of luck with those banks. Wells Fargo took a brave stand against such efforts. So, naturally, the American Federation of Teachers has decided to boycott Wells Fargo. Of course, we all know how the FBI failed to pass on actionable tips that the Parkland school killer. Or how the bumbling Broward County Sheriff’s Office didn’t act despite numerous calls involving the shooter. Never mind the school resource officer who showed an unconscionable yellow streak. The teachers union is covering for all that incompetence and instead scapegoating the law-abiding Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights.
This is part of a pattern that is going to force the Right to do some serious re-thinking. We may very well win court victories affirming the right to own semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 in the next decade. But if the Left convinces banks to close the accounts of anyone who makes or sells the AR-15 to law-abiding citizens, then we have a problem. In essence, we will have the legal right to buy an AR-15, but banks will shut down sales. It won’t stop there — the Left will push credit card companies to act as well. In essence, buying any gun the Left wants banned could become a cash-only business.
The Left is trying to gain in the corporate boardrooms what it cannot get through legislation or the courts. This was done before, albeit back then, they used the power of the federal government with Operation Chokepoint — one of Barack liar-nObama’s “pen and phone” attacks on our rights. Operation Chokepoint failed between a combination of the sunlight of a free press and action by lawmakers.
Chokepoint II, the sequel, though, is going to be much harder to fight. Part of it will have to be with a carrot and stick approach to companies. Despite Wells Fargo’s other misdeeds, it is taking the right stand on the Second Amendment, and it should be supported in that — with our dollars if possible. The second extraordinary measure may be to pass legislation that prohibits banks and financial institutions from engaging in discrimination against entities for either the sale of a legal product or for exercising their constitutional rights.
The threat to our rights is extraordinary. If the Left can get banks to cut off FFLs who don’t meet certain conditions, other rights will fall. Imagine if the Supreme Court sides with free speech in the Masterpiece Cakeshop and NIFLA cases — and the Left then pressures banks to close accounts of businesses or crisis pregnancy centers. Do you think they will stop there, or will they reinforce those successes? The time to act is now.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55515-wells-fargo-resists-the-resistance-on-guns
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Progressive Ideology Trumps Student Safety
by Arnold Ahlert
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Digenova - This Proves Mueller and
His Investigation a Fraud from The Beginning
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ A DC US Attorney is supposed to make the decision as to whether or not to prosecute McCabe... what should be an easy decision to make. If the deep state hijacks this process in order to protect Hussein liar-nObama, which could easily happen, it could trigger some very nasty responses by the American people. One might think this is a job for the Attorney General, since it has nothing to do with collusion and everything to do with lying to the FBI. But we don’t have an Attorney General, our AG is an Absent Guy, who they wind up once in a while to stumble his way through speeches. Tucker Carlson responds to the information from Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, who the left was beside themselves over when they thought they could make some hay over her Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr., has never been interviewed by the Mueller and his merry band of witch hunters... https://rickwells.us/digenova-mueller-investigation-fraud/.Rand Paul flips, supports Mike Pompeo for secretary of state
by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Monday voted for Mike Pompeo to serve as secretary of state... a last-minute change that allowed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to come up with a majority in favor of the nomination. But despite that change, the committee hit a snag: Senate rules say committees can only send a nominee to the Senate floor with a positive recommendation if all votes there are from senators who are in the room. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., was not there, and voted "yes" by proxy because Isakson was in Georgia for the funeral of a friend. That means according to the Senate's rules, it was a 10-10 tie. Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., asked if Democrats would agree to a voice vote to sent Pompeo to the floor with a positive recommendation, but Democrats said they were worried about that precedent. Corker then asked for another vote, and Pompeo was sent out of the committee with an official positive vote of 10-9. Despite that technicality, it was Paul's decision to flip his vote that made the positive recommendation possible... .
More Dem Collusion as DNC and
Mueller Conspire on Witch Hunt Lawsuit
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Lou Dobbs begins with the announcement by Reps Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy that they’ve reached a secret agreement... for document production to their committees by the DOJ, without providing any specifics as to how, how many, what, when and in what stage of redaction those documents will be delivered. We’re supposed to just trust that Mr. Benghazi Committee and Establishment Bob are acting in our interests and not those of the swamp creatures. That’s more or less exactly the type of shenanigans we expected when these two suddenly, out of nowhere, became the face of the investigation into DOJ corruption. Shall we say, along with Rosenstein, Wray and Sessions, the faces of the cover up. The best way to obstruct is to be on the inside, pretending to be objective and transparent. On Sunday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes revealed on Maria Bartiromo’s program that there was absolutely no intelligence information underlying the undertaking of the Russia-Trump collusion investigation. It was completely crafted as a political witch hunt without a shred of evidence or anything else indicating that the collusion or any crimes existed... https://rickwells.us/dem-collusion-dnc-mueller-lawsuit/.Liberal Law Professor Alan Dershowitz
Continues to Defend Trump
by C. Mitchell Shaw
{ thenewamerican.com } ~ In the wake of the FBI raids on the home and offices of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen... the president has an odd defender: famed liberal law professor and liar-Clinton supporter Alan Dershowitz. And Dershowitz is making what are perhaps the best arguments in Trump’s defense anyone has made so far — all based on the Constitution. Other leftists are busying themselves by claiming that Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to put him in the White House and by trying to justify the FBI seizure of communications and documents that are clearly a matter of attorney/client privilege. But Dershowitz is standing out from the crowd by speaking publicly in defense of the president — or more accurately, in defense of the constitutional issues involved. Dershowitz recently took a pounding for saying that the seizure of privileged communications is not something the Left should encourage, much less celebrate. Speaking to CNN the liberal civil-libertarian said, “I am not a supporter, I am not a defender of Donald Trump the person, I’m a defender of civil liberties and basic due process,” adding that the issue here is not to sacrifice constitutionally-protected civil liberties in an effort to “get Trump.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/28811-liberal-law-professor-alan-dershowitz-continues-to-defend-trump .
Add These Voter Fraud Cases to the Growing List
by Jason Snead
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Despite the lack of media coverage, evidence of election fraud continues to mount... This week, The Heritage Foundation added 26 new entries to its election fraud database, bringing the searchable ledger to a total of 1,132 proven instances of election fraud. That includes 983 cases that ended in a criminal conviction, 48 that led to civil penalties, 79 where defendants were enrolled in a diversion program, and 22 cases of official or judicial findings of fraud. Americans should be alarmed. These entries represent irrefutable evidence that fraud has impacted elections in 47 states, and across all levels of government... https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/04/19/add-these-voter-fraud-cases-to-the-growing-list/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVdNek4yUTBZemt4WlRJdyIsInQiOiJzM0RYQkwxclR4OHJiYTNhUXVONGxlbFwvbUU0WWI4SG42QlJhRHF2Y3FMRXptQUNSM3BsS2lpeHpcL1lcL0ZcL2o4SkZMb0dvNkJXdjdiR0ZXV2ZhZHk2Mnp0Zk9YNlUwYWExTVdOZnpzMHFZRDRhdk96a1NmT1drYk5sdVRiZXFEWkIifQ%3D%3D .
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Progressive Ideology Trumps Student Safety
by Arnold Ahlert: In the end, it was all about gun control, not safety. “Two months after a massacre in Parkland made security the top focus in Broward County schools, many parents and students say the school district is doing too little to ensure safety,” the Sun-Sentinel reports. “An emotionally charged school security forum at Plantation High drew hundreds who complained about what they saw as an ineffective response by the school district both before and after the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas” that claimed 17 lives.
Those who expected genuine school security following the massacre have a lot to learn about the progressive mindset. On the first day back from spring break, clear backpacks and ID lanyards were issued to students, and police officers were stationed at the four doors students were allowed to enter. Band instruments and sports equipment were turned over to teachers and coaches, non-clear back packs were confiscated, and a number of bags were searched.
All well and good, but an essential element was apparently a bridge too far: neither metal-detecting wands or metal detectors are part of the equation. “It feels like being punished,” Principal Ty Thompson complained. “It feels like jail, being checked every time we go to school.”
That a “jail” is preferable to a slaughterhouse apparently eludes Thompson.
Moreover, the clear back pack requirement is apparently devolving into the farce it always was. Some students have added non-clear liners to them, and others have placed sheets of paper in them with the words “clear backpacks are stupid,” or “this backpack is probably worth more than my life.” Several students have criticized the lack of privacy, and female students are embarrassed by being forced to display feminine products they’d rather keep under wraps.
Michael Dorn, executive director of the non-profit campus safety organization Safe Havens International, gets to the heart of the Left’s absurd determination to promote a feel-good solution in lieu of real security. “They take a book and hollow it out and put a gun in the book,” he explained. “This is not an anomaly. It’s a repeatedly used method. They buy all of these different containers and put the gun in there, or they put it in a tennis shoe or wrap the gun in their gym shorts. They get a rifle and put it in a musical instrument case.”
Moreover, as senior student and forum attendee Angelina Lazo implied, despite the massive failures evinced by the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) during the shooting, little has changed. “Why do we have clear backpacks if they aren’t being enforced?” she asked. “Why do we have BSO everywhere if they aren’t doing their job and just seem to be hanging around our campus?”
Not just hanging around. Just over a month after the shooting, Deputy Moises Carotti was suspended for falling asleep in his patrol car while on duty. “Of all the schools in America, you would think this would be the safest one right now,” declared Sen. Marco Rubio at the time. “This is so outrageous it’s almost impossible to believe.”
Is it? We may soon find out. Last Wednesday, Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey Levenson ordered the release of a redacted version of the footage captured by exterior cameras at Marjory Stoneman the day of the shooting.
The Broward County School Board and the Broward State Attorney’s Office had sought to block the release. The Board insisted it would weaken school security, and the Attorney’s Office contended the tapes were part of an ongoing criminal investigation and might present problems with regard to the prosecution of the murderer. Levenson decided otherwise, noting the video is not part of an active investigation and that the “potential harm” to Stoneman’s security measures are “outweighed by the strong public interest in disclosure.” The BSO has until May 2 to appeal the ruling.
Whether the tapes will reveal anything as damning as former school resource officer Scot Peterson’s refusal to enter the school while the massacre was taking place remains to be seen. Nonetheless, the failure of the Broward County Sheriff’s Department, headed by political hack Scot Israel, is beyond dispute.
So is Israel’s ongoing arrogance, for which he is facing a historic no-confidence vote from the union representing his own deputies. When asked by reporter Bob Norman whether he lied when he asserted that Peterson was the only deputy at the school — despite radio transmissions by his own department revealing the presence of three other deputies — Israel told Norman he was disappointed by the newsman’s “constant reporting” and “misrepresentations.”
That exchange took place in late March, just prior to Israel’s visit to the Weston Democratic Club — where he “blamed partisan Republican politics for the criticism against his agency,” as ABC News characterized it.
If one wishes to address charges of partisan politics, one need look no further than the Democrat/Media Complex’s lionization of Parkland students advocating gun-control and blaming the NRA for something it had nothing to do with, and compare it to the equally-orchestrated marginalization of their pro-Second Amendment peers. Even Barack liar-nObama got in on the act, asserting that if Parkland students (along with Dreamers and Black Lives Matter activists) “make their elders uncomfortable, that’s how it should be.”
If anyone should feel uncomfortable, it’s Obama. A bombshell exposé by Paul Sperry reveals the former president’s efforts to racialize school discipline standards — eagerly embraced by Broward County school officials and the sheriff’s office in the form of the PROMISE program — has engendered the “highest percentage of ‘the most serious, violent [and] chronic’ juvenile offenders in Florida, according to the county’s chief juvenile probation officer,‘” Sperry writes.
Nonetheless, when the PROMISE program was criticized by Broward student Kenneth Preston at the April 10 meeting of the Broward County School Board, Superintendent Robert Runcie characterized the attempt to connect it to the shooting as “reprehensible.”
Not nearly as reprehensible as the action taken by the Board itself. In response to the shooting, the state established the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, named after the hero football coach who died while protecting students. It allocated $67 million statewide for training and payments enabling certain school employees to be armed. The Board unanimously voted to decline participation.
Adding insult to injury, the Board and Runcie decided to leave the PROMISE program in place. “We’re not going to dismantle a program in this district that is serving and helping kids appropriately because of news that is not fact-based,” he said.
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, weapons possession, fighting, bullying and attempted suicide all rose for Broward high schools between 2013 and 2015. Additionally, state data reveal that Broward County has the highest level of weapons-related incidents in South Florida.
Those are the facts. Thus, while the progressive clarion calls for gun control remain front and center, and the race-based PROMISE program that shields minority student miscreants remains in place, all students ultimately remain as vulnerable as they ever were.
At the meeting, Runcie insisted changes to the status quo are “not going to happen overnight.”
Really? Why not? ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55511-progressive-ideology-trumps-student-safety
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Kim's Latest Olive Branch:
No More Nuclear Tests
by Nate Jackson
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Tuesday Top Headlines
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee narrowly endorses Mike Pompeo for secretary of state after Trump intervenes with Rand Paul (Axios)
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“Pure carnage” as van hits pedestrians in Toronto: 10 dead, 15 injured and man arrested (National Post)
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Bombshell: FEC records indicate liar-Hillary’s campaign illegally laundered $84 million (The Federalist)
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“Real Indian” running against Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren sues after city tells him to stop calling her “Fake Indian” (Fox News)
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Sharing nude photos of current or ex-partners protected under First Amendment, court rules (Dallas News)
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Carter Center sued for providing support to terrorists, defrauding taxpayers (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Policy: If current laws had been followed, there would have been no Waffle House shooting (The Daily Signal)
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Jordan - Clapper Leaked Dossier Briefing
to CNN, Leaker Richman Had Special FBI Access
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) says the thing that jumped out at him most about the Comey memos was... the fact that it was Comey himself who provided the “news hook” that enabled CNN to run with the dossier story. His briefing President Trump gave it enough of a hint of legitimacy that it was then within the low journalistic standards to present the Democrat fabrication as fact. Jordan says he believes that pathological liar and former DNI James Clapper was the one who orchestrated the briefing and then immediately afterwards informed CNN that the briefing had taken place. They were then reporting on an actual meeting, the additional layer of protective cover they were looking for to run the “salacious and unverified” work of liar-Clinton fiction. Jordan points out another inconsistency in the narrative of James Comey, his claims that the memos were personal and that, despite them being classified government documents, his making them public wasn’t really a leak. Comey shared them with individuals inside the FBI, McCabe, Jim Baker and Jim Rybicki, all of whom have been removed from their top FBI positions... https://rickwells.us/jordan-clapper-leaked-dossier-cnn/.Vulnerable red-state Democrats
ensure Mike Pompeo's confirmation
by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Sen. Joe Donnelly on Monday became the third Democrat to announce support for Mike Pompeo to become the next secretary of state... assuring Pompeo's confirmation as early as this week. Donnelly, of Indiana, said in a statement that Pompeo "is capable of advancing U.S. interests and leading the State Department." Sens. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced they will also vote for Pompeo. All three represent "red" states that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and all are fighting for re-election in 2018. Many analysts have rated the races in all three states as "toss up," so the senators' decision to support Pompeo could help sway voters' decisions. Trump won Indiana with nearly 57 percent of the vote... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/vulnerable-red-state-democrats-ensure-mike-pompeos-confirmation.
Palestinians: New Twist on an Old Lie
by Bassam Tawil
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Denial of Jewish history in Jerusalem and the existence of the Jewish Temple has always been a central component... of the Palestinian narrative and ideology. Palestinians, like members of all societies, disagree on many things. Nevertheless, when it comes to the historical connection between Jews and Jerusalem, Palestinians manage to unite in lies: Palestinian political leaders, academics and religious leaders have long promoted the false narrative that Jerusalem was, and remains, an Arab and Islamic city. We are currently witnessing a new twist on this old lie. It seems that some Palestinians are now trying to deceive the world into believing that they do, indeed, recognize the Jewish people's historic connection to Jerusalem. The problem is that Palestinian officials tell their people one thing in Arabic and the rest of the world another thing in English. One of these con artists is Husam Zomlot, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) diplomatic mission in Washington... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12204/palestinians-jerusalem-lie .
The Dire Consequence of the Republicans Losing Congress
by Lloyd Marcus
{ trevorloudon.com } ~ Sammy, our greyhound, is around 100 years old in dog years. His health is failing. Mary and I hate leaving Sammy with our pet-sitter... but we must fly to Arizona to help propel Debbie Lesko to victory in the Congressional 8th district race. https://bit.ly/2J4rRtQ Shockingly, polling shows Lesko and her Democrat opponent are neck and neck. Folks, we cannot allow democrats to regain control of the House and Senate. Folks, I get it. You’re busy earning a living, raising a family and taking the kids to soccer. House and Senate races appear pretty boring and unimportant. However, they are extremely important. Our booming economy, reversals of liar-nObama’s destructive executive orders and Trump restoring power to We the People confirm that Trump is well on his way to making America great again. If the Democrats win back the House and Senate, all Trump’s progress for us will stop. After impeaching Trump, Democrats will revert back to their America in which achievers are demonized and punished. Remarkably, Democrats leftists view our country as the greatest source of evil on the planet. Consequently, Democrats will continue their mission to make America last... http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/04/the-dire-consequence-of-the-republicans-losing-congress/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29 .
Maria Bartiromo Interviews Ron DeSantis
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Kim's Latest Olive Branch: No More Nuclear Tests
by Nate Jackson: Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea and nuclear puppet of China, announced over the weekend that the Hermit Kingdom will immediately suspend testing of missiles and nuclear weapons, as well as scrap its nuclear test site altogether. Of course, Kim couched the announcement as having achieved his goal of developing those weapons, making further testing unnecessary. And, notably, he stopped short of saying North Korea would dismantle its nuclear arsenal. Yet we’ve come a long way from regular missile tests and Kim’s threat last year of “thousands-fold” vengeance against the U.S. “North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site,” Trump said publicly. “This is very good news for North Korea and the World — big progress! Look forward to our Summit.” Privately, however, Trump says he’ll believe it when he sees it. After all, the Kim family dictatorship has a long history of making promises only to break them, and Kim’s express purpose up until now was developing weapons capable of striking the U.S.
Kim is set to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in next week and with President Donald Trump sometime in May or June. The latter meeting was announced on the same day Trump laid out his plan for steel tariffs that would hit China. Coincidence? Nope.
There is no doubt that apparent concessions by North Korea are in response to punitive sanctions issued last fall and, more recently, to Trump’s tariffs. Trade negotiations between the U.S. and China are indeed about unfair economic practices on the part of Beijing, but they’re also about convincing China to rein in North Korea. Progress may indeed be happening, even if Kim’s announcement is simply meant to keep talks on track for the time being.
Kim surely hopes that some olive branches will do the trick without having to abandon his nuclear program entirely. But one thing we’re fairly confident of: Trump won’t be making any liar-nObama-Iran deals. He won’t win a Nobel Peace Prize either. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55513-kims-latest-olive-branch-no-more-nuclear-tests
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Jackasses Bray Again: DNC
Suing Trump Campaign
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Nunes Reveals - No Official Inter
Behind Trump Probes - Coup by State Dept and FBI
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Maria Bartiromo begins her interview with Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes by revisiting a topic from his previous appearance four weeks earlier... At that time he had been seeking access to an electronic communication from the DOJ and FBI in order to understand how the Trump-Russia sham investigation began. He says, “What we’ve found now, after the investigators have reviewed it, is that in fact there was no intelligence” supporting the Trump investigation and that nothing passed within the “Five Eyes” channels to our government. Now they’re going to take a look inside the State Department, says Nunes, because they believe there are “some major irregularities at the State Department, and we’re trying to figure out how it is that this information, about Mr. Papadopoulos, of all people, who was supposedly meeting with some folks in London, how that made it over across into the FBI’s hands.”... https://rickwells.us/nunes-trump-coup-state-dept-fbi/.Confirmed: John Brennan Colluded
With Foreign Spies to Defeat Trump
by GEORGE NEUMAYR
{ spectator.org } ~ 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 under liar-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. John Brennan’s CIA operated like a branch office of the liar-Hillary campaign, leaking out mentions of this bogus investigation to the press in the hopes of inflicting maximum political damage on Trump. An official in the intelligence community tells TAS that Brennan’s retinue of political radicals didn’t even bother to hide their activism, decorating offices with “liar-Hillary for president cups” and other campaign paraphernalia... https://spectator.org/confirmed-john-brennan-colluded-with-foreign-spies-to-defeat-trump/.
11 senators are about to make a big mistake
by Marc A. Thiessen
{ aei.org } ~ For the first time in the history of the republic, it appears increasingly likely that a majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote against... the president’s nominee for secretary of state. If this happens, it would be a black mark not on Mike Pompeo’s record, but on the reputation of this once-storied committee. There are no instances of a secretary of state nominee ever receiving an unfavorable committee vote since such votes were first publicly recorded in 1925. Before that, the committee voted in closed session. Democrat hanoi-John Kerry was approved in a unanimous voice vote, including from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who opposes Pompeo. Democrat lkiar-Hillary Clinton was approved 16 to 1, despite concerns about foreign donors to the liar-Clinton Foundation. Madeleine Albright was approved unanimously, with the strong support of my former boss, the committee’s conservative then-chairman, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), who called Albright “a tough and courageous lady” and voted for her despite saying that she was “sincerely wrong” in some of her foreign policy views. Other Democrats, including Warren Christopher and Cyrus Vance, were also approved unanimously in committee, as were Republicans Colin Powell, James A. Baker III and George P. Shultz. Indeed, no secretary of state going all the way back to Henry Kissinger had ever received more than two negative votes in the Foreign Relations Committee — until Donald Trump became president... http://www.aei.org/publication/11-senators-are-about-to-make-a-big-mistake/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldVNFpUZ3paVE5sWlRNMSIsInQiOiIrTmt5RVNxd3E4MWJXdUgyRUtVdmlFMTVycG1xQXhGK0NIRnRsd01SMmlDeTFkeEhlMHIxNVUzNXJwZ3R6NlN2WXVpMHdJT3BGYkp3Y2JFeEErRGY1T013Tjh3c295c3k0WjFoR3ZrRnY0cmNnTWpoWHppNFF1a2phY0F5WnlTUCJ9.
Large protests return to the Iranian city of Kazeroon
by Joyce Karam
{ thenational.ae } ~ Mass protests returned to Iran on Friday in the southwest city of Kazeroon... with social media videos showing hundreds demonstrating during the weekly prayers and on the streets. Videos that emerged early on Friday showed some of largest public gatherings since the protests started last December. Iranian users on Twitter used hashtags with the various spellings of #Kazeroun, #Karzeroon and in Persian #كازرون to document the events. “Massive protest during Friday prayer in Kazeroun” one tweet showing a protest inside the city mosque said. Another highlighted presence of Iranian women in the mosque chanting anti-regime slogans alongside men... https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/large-protests-return-to-the-iranian-city-of-kazeroon-1.723398.Left & Right April 17, 2018
by Tom McLaughlin
Stalinism Is Here, Totalitarianism Is Here, It’s Time to Rise Up
by S.Noble
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Totalitarianism is here. Stalinism is here. Our Bill of Rights is under attack each and every day... Bill O’Reilly has an article up on his website worth reading about this very issue and it’s titled, ‘The Stalinists Are Here‘. They are here and have been here for decades. The Totalitarians are everywhere around us and they have already taken to force and violence. In his article, O’Reilly brings up several examples. One was a recent incident with the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, a liberal man himself. The Stalinists told him to pull the National Rifle Association’s video channel from Apple’s streaming platform or he would suffer consequences. He courageously refused and reportedly said, “Democracy without discourse is not a democracy.” We are a Constitutional Republic....
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Jackasses Bray Again: DNC Suing Trump Campaign
by Thomas Gallatin: Spite is a pretty lousy political message, but Democrats appear hell-bent on preaching it anyway. Case in point: On Friday the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks, alleging the three acted in an election collusion conspiracy. DNC Chairman Tom Perez claimed, “During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump’s campaign.” He added, “The conspiracy constituted an act of previously unimaginable treachery: the campaign of the presidential nominee of a major party in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the Presidency.” In other words, Democrats need money and want their base to know that they are still committed to the #Resistance. Trump responded, “Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the Debbie Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man and liar-Clinton Emails.”
Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, called the lawsuit a “sham … filed by a desperate, dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent Democrat Party.” He added, “With the Democrats’ conspiracy theories against the President’s campaign evaporating as quickly as the failing DNC’s fundraising, they’ve sunk to a new low to raise money, especially among small donors who have abandoned them.” Parscale also said that he would be working aggressively to uncover DNC corruption if the lawsuit were not immediately dismissed.
But the DNC’s ignoble lawsuit hasn’t earned the ire of just Republicans — many commie-Bernie Sanders supporters responded negatively as well. Tim Canova, a commie-Sanders supporter who challenged Wasserman Schultz in her 2016 primary, stated, “They [DNC] still haven’t done a postmortem of why they lost the election, because the explanation for everything is Russia.” He also astutely noted, “They were losing midterm elections before anything got hacked.”
Ironically, the DNC believes that ignoring both the voice of the people via the 2016 election results and the facts will constitute a winning formula for convincing voters that they are working to “save democracy.” Do they even know what that word means? (Never mind the fact that the U.S. is a constitutional republic, whose representatives are democratically elected.) Since the moment of Trump’s election victory, Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media have been incessantly beating the drum of a supposed Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy with no supporting evidence to justify the charge. Even Robert Mueller’s special investigation, ostensibly initiated to investigate Russian collusion, now appears to have given up on that narrative and instead looks to be angling for an obstruction case. This smells of the desperation of an organization that has run out of any constructive ideas and has instead relegated itself to the proverbial peanut gallery. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55518-jackasses-bray-again-dnc-suing-trump-campaign
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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
It’s no secret that liberals are really socialists, and that some actually have crossed over to being full-on co
mmunists. We all know that.
It’s also no secret that the overwhelming vast majority of all liberals, be they garden variety, socialists or communists, are also idiots.
Nobody with a working brain cell is going to argue with that assessment.
Liberals will argue that assessment, but that pretty well proves my point, doesn’t it?
The problem is that abject idiots have completely taken over the democrat party, our education system, the bulk of the mainstream media, and in some cases, elements of our judicial system. In fact, abject liberal idiots are now mentoring future idiots, indoctrinating them in the ways of idiocy, and raising idiotic behavior to an art form.
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Is Mueller Done?
by William L. Gensert
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Sen Cotton - Shameful Dems Playing
Politics with Critical Pompeo Nomination
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Margaret Brennan asks her guest, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), about the nomination of CIA Director Mike Pompeo... to replace outgoing globalist Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and the Democrat opposition to his confirmation. She quotes the ethically challenged New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez as saying he doesn’t know which Mike Pompeo to believe, “A Congressman who advocated for striking Iran and North Korea and criticized the diplomatic deals there, or the one who now says he wants to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran and negotiate with North Korea.” She asks, “Is this driven by politics or a change of conviction?” Cotton replies to the question as it relates to Democrat opposition and their typical obstructionism, saying, “It’s driven 100% by politics, Margaret.” He clarifies for her, since there was confusion in the response, that Mike Pompeo has not changed his position, that he’s committed to diplomatic solutions everywhere... https://rickwells.us/cotton-dems-politics-pompeo/.What's a Greater Leap of Faith: God or the Multiverse?
by Brian Keating
{ prageru.com } ~ How did we get here? Given the daunting odds against it, how is any kind of life possible?... Those who have religious faith have an answer: God. Those in scientific circles have a different answer: The Multiverse. In this week’s video, Brian Keating, Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, explains the multiverse theory and poses a sincere question: Who’s taking the bigger leap of faith? https://www.prageru.com/videos/whats-greater-leap-faith-god-or-multiverse.Trump goes after 'obstructionist'
lawmakers for opposing Mike Pompeo
by Anna Giaritelli
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump criticized "obstructionist" members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Monday... over opposition to CIA Director Mike Pompeo's nomination to lead the State Department. "Hard to believe Obstructionists May vote against Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State. The Dems will not approve hundreds of good people, including the Ambassador to Germany. They are maxing out the time on approval process for all, never happened before. Need more Republicans!" Trump tweeted Monday morning. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Democrats on the committee announced Sunday they will not support Pompeo for secretary of state when they vote Monday evening. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said earlier Monday that Democrats are playing with fire by not approving Trump's top diplomat... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-goes-after-obstructionist-lawmakers-for-opposing-mike-pompeo.Sunday Talks – Explosive Interview With Devin Nunes
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo... to discuss the origin of the counterintelligence operation, that began in July 2016, against the Trump campaign. Last week the FBI released the original “electronic communication” (EC) documents that underpinned the origin of the FBI counterintelligence operation. The first half of this interview contains some stunning information: the raw intelligence product within the EC did not come through official intelligence channels. Meaning, the origin of the 2016 counterintelligence operation, which was specifically started by CIA Director John Brennan sharing his ‘raw intelligence product’ with the FBI, was not an official product of the U.S. intelligence community. Brennan was NOT using official partnerships with intelligence agencies of our Five-Eyes partner nations; and he did not provide raw intelligence -as an outcome of those relationships- to the FBI....Collusion, Conspiracy and a Coup D’Etat
by S.Noble
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Colluders are running free and appear to be behind a massive conspiracy to take down the President... It’s not really about Trump in the end. It’s a war between right and left and the left will do anything to win the election they will not concede was lost. Newly-uncovered texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and his lover Lisa Page “strongly suggest” coordination between high-ranking officials at the liar-nObama White House, CIA, FBI, Justice Department and former Senate Democratic leadership right from the beginning of the Trump-Russia collusion set up. In the least, the liar-nObama White House was briefed by the FBI and others about the probe of the Trump campaign. There are so many actors in the drama, it’s hard to keep it all straight. In this article, we are discussing three of them....
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Is Mueller Done?
by William L. Gensert
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The American people have turned against Robert Mueller, and that’s the least of his problems.
Late on the Friday afternoon of February 16, 2018, Mueller indicted 13 Russians for such heinous crimes as creating fake identities on Facebook and Twitter and organizing rallies, both for and against Donald Trump, as well as spending more than $100,000 on political ads -- all this, for the purpose of interfering with the United States Presidential Election -- keep in mind, not a single indicted person will ever see the inside of an American courtroom since there is no extradition treaty between our country and Russia.
After almost a year of investigating, that’s all he had: fake Twitter and Facebook accounts, some minor rallies and a paltry sum spent on political advertising. The left went bananas ululating at the top of their lungs:
“Smoking gun!” “Smoking gun!”
It was the first time in years anyone on the left supported guns! Progressives and their adjuncts, the mainstream media, made it out to be a big deal, but for those of us looking closely, it smacked of desperation.
What has he done lately?
Well, there was…
And then, there is…
Actually, he did ask Rod Rosenstein to give a referral to Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office for a warrant to search the office, home, and pied-à-terre of Michael Cohen. For Mueller, this was an attempt to distance himself from what many see as an abrogation of attorney/client privilege.
Yet, it was something he needed to do, because if he can’t turn Cohen, he’s beginning to realize he has nothing -- and there is the added advantage that “taint” team or no “taint” team, every single damaging thing found in those raids will either be leaked to him or leaked to the press.
Well, not “nothing,” he does have loads of prosecutable crimes committed by key liar-nObama administration figures including the big man himself, liar-Clinton camp figures, FBI agents, active, retired, and terminated, especially, James “the bitch is back” Comey.
In fact, the more Mueller investigates Trump, the more he discovers crimes committed by the people who engineered his own appointment as well as his ideological brethren.
It was a shrewd, if underhanded, move by the special counsel, even if it was a Hail Mary. It looked as if he might finally be able to force someone to tell him what he wanted to hear.
Then, it happened. Donald Trump granted a pardon to Scooter Libby, who was the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney during the George W. Bush administration.
In 2007, Libby was convicted of perjury as a result of the investigation into the leaking of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity. President Bush commuted Libby's 30-month sentence but didn’t grant a pardon. Libby’s alleged crimes happened a decade ago and according to the Washington Post:
“Cheney’s chief of staff Scooter Libby was dealt a severe injustice by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who knew early on that another official, Richard Armitage, had leaked Valerie Plame’s name. Fitzgerald asserted that Libby had lied to prosecutors rather than mistakenly recalled a phone call with now-deceased reporter Tim Russert. The case should never have gone forward or, if it had, a memory expert should have been permitted to testify, and President George W. Bush should have granted Libby a full pardon before leaving office.”
Why is that significant to Mueller and his investigation?
As the venerable Andrew C. McCarthy has pointed out, the warrant to search Cohen’s offices and homes would probably not been approved had the only crime been a violation of campaign contribution laws the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about the one night stand she had with the president more than a decade ago, which almost always involve only a return of the donations and a fine, with no jail time. There must have been evidence of other, more significant crimes. As of today, we don’t know what those crimes might be, but it wouldn’t be out of hand to assume they involve potentially substantial prison sentences.
Mueller is smart, because there aren’t many men Cohen’s age, with his money, who would be willing to do time to prevent Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Most would probably say anything to avoid a five, ten, or even twenty-year prison sentence -- even something untrue.
Trump’s pardon of Libby was brilliant. It sent Cohen a message that he wasn’t going to go to jail. If the president was willing to pardon someone who worked for Dick Cheney, probably the man most hated by those on the left and the media, at least until Donald Trump came along, he would pardon Cohen as well.
The Libby pardon took all the air out of Mueller’s attempt to “turn” Cohen. I would have loved to be in the room when Mueller got the news -- time to hit the Johnny Walker Black heavy or beat his dog or something.
If anything, it shows Mueller that Donald Trump is a different kind of Republican. I like Mitt Romney and I think he would have made a decent president, certainly better than Barack liar-nObama, who admittedly set the bar low. Yet, does anyone believe Romney would play dirty like Mueller plays? Or would he fold his hand and accept impeachment rather than fight?
Then something else happened. Rudy Giuliani joined Team Trump.
Trump and Giuliani together are an entirely different animal; they won’t give up; they will fight to the death. Throw in Inspector General Horowitz’s investigation the report will drop in May and U.S. Attorney John Huber’s criminal investigation of the FBI with grand jury power, as well as the public tiring of his witch-hunt, and Mueller must realize he is not on the winning side and unless he has evidence of something criminal on Trump -- and after almost a year that doesn’t seem likely -- he can’t possibly win. In fact, he must be wondering whether many of his witnesses are about to be charged with crimes themselves.
I think Mueller realizes this and has had enough. He’s a smart guy and I think he understands it is time to cut his losses and salvage whatever is left of his reputation.
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Is 'Old-fashioned' Returning?
by Cal Thomas .
Chuck Todd Fumes as His Conflicts
of Interest With Wife's Politics Become Known
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Libtard propagandist Chuck Todd doesn’t want to acknowledge that when a man and a woman get married they are treated as a unit, a couple... each connected to the other, emotionally and legally. It’s a simple concept and also one that is prominent in his Jewish faith. He can claim convenient ignorance, but nobody outside of his fellow libtards are buying it. His wife, Kristen Denny Todd, is a libtard Democrat political insider who once earned her living as Senator Jim Webb’s spokesperson in his 2006 Senate campaign. She also worked with Senator Webb during 2014 and 2015 as a campaign strategist, reportedly on an unpaid, volunteer basis when he ran as a candidate for the Democrat nomination that was the property of liar-Hillary Clinton. Chuck Todd apparently likes, when it’s politically expedient to do so, to think of himself and his wife as two separate individuals who just happen to share a home, two kids and a bank account. The US Government treats them as a married couple and the laws applying to married couples, including tax laws, apply to them. That’s a reality that Chuck can’t simply talk away, but there are other instances where he is more than willing to attempt to do so... https://rickwells.us/todd-conflicts-interest-wifes-politics/.
Belgium: First Islamic State in Europe?
by Giulio Meotti
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The French acronym of Belgium's ISLAM Party stands for "Integrity, Solidarity, Liberty, Authenticity, Morality"... The leaders of the ISLAM Party apparently want to turn Belgium into an Islamic State. They call it "Islamist democracy" and have set a target date: 2030. According to the French magazine Causeur, "the program is confusingly simple: replace all the civil and penal codes with sharia law. Period". Created on the eve of the 2012 municipal ballot, the ISLAM Party immediately received impressive results. Its numbers are alarming. The effect of this new party, according to Michaël Privot, an expert on Islam, and Sebastien Boussois, a political scientist, could be the "implosion of the social body". Some Belgian politicians, such as Richard Miller, are now advocating banning the ISLAM Party....
Conspiracy or No Conspiracy, That is
the Question Debated by diGenova and Dershowitz…
by sundance
Jaws Perez Defends New Russia Distraction
to Protect liar-nObama/liar-Clintoin Mobsters
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ DNC Chairman Thomas “Jaws” Perez might be the one who needs a bigger boat before all of the fallout from his frivolous lawsuit against the Trump campaign... WikiLeaks and the shark-eating Russians hiding under his bed. He made the rounds of the friendly propagandists on Sunday, explaining how they’re supposedly filing the suit, not for the obvious propaganda and fundraising benefits that they’re already using it for, but in the interest of protecting the country. Who knew the globalist Democrats were such patriots? Perez made virtually the same pitch regardless of which Sunday program he was on, reading from the talking points in front of him. On Meet the Press he joined fellow leftist Chuck Todd, who began by asking him why he didn’t just wait for the Mueller witch hunt to run its course. Indicating that he thinks the Mueller thing could drag out for a very long time if Democrats are successful, Perez says there are statute of limitations considerations. He said, “I don’t know when Director Mueller’s investigation is going to end nor would I ever ask him.” Perez refers to the special counsel as the Director. Given the bias of the FBI and the invisibility of Director Wray, he’s probably correct. Mueller was put back in charge with Rosenstein at DOJ. Wray and Sessions are just feckless figureheads... https://rickwells.us/perez-obama-clinton-mobsters/.
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Waffle House Shooting Hero: He Was Going To Have To Work To Kill Me.
Kim Jung Un Says He’s Suspending Nuclear Program: Trump’s Strategy Working.
Should George Washington U. Change Name Away From Our Slave-Owning 1st POTUS?.
Israel: An Island of Stability In A Sea Of Chaos.
Dem Rep. Speier On DNC Lawsuit: “Ill-Conceived,” “Not Supportive Of It”Not Supportive Of It”.
NASA’s Brand New, Planet-Hunting Space Telescope.
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Is 'Old-fashioned' Returning?
by Cal Thomas
{ townhall.com } ~ "It's a modern changing world
Everything is moving fast.
But when it comes to love I like
What they did in the past." -- The Everly Brothers, 1962
Call me old-fashioned -- and I've been called worse -- but do I sense the possible end to the sexual revolution, which exploded in the '60s and whose fallout continues today.
Women complain that men won't commit, whether in a dating relationship or marriage. The #MeToo stories that have emerged since the exposure of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment of numerous women in Hollywood have also contributed to their frustration. Harassment victims feel used and abused by men who, apparently, were never taught that women are co-equals in the human race and thus deserving of respect, even honor. I know, that last part sounds old-fashioned.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has written about a new book by Joanna Coles, chief content officer of Hearst magazines and the former editor of Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire, titled "Love Rules." The book focuses on avoiding unhealthy relationships in the digital age.
Coles spoke to Dowd about the young women she knows who feel "obligated" to have sex with men they don't particularly like and what appears to be a growing "disillusionment with the hookup culture" at Middlebury College, as expressed by Leah Fessler in an article for the website Quartz.
What especially intrigued me about Dowd's column was this line from Coles: "No one wants to go back to sock hops and going steady, but to attempt to separate emotions from sex is not only illogical, given that emotion intensely augments pleasure, but also impossible for almost all women."
As a product of the sock hop and going steady generation I rise to its defense.
So, "no one" wants to return to a system that largely prevented the emotional, relational and, yes, physical problems encountered by modern lifestyles? Isn't it the very definition of "insanity" when one expects different results while repeating the same behavior?
There were certain "rules," way back when, about how men should treat women though Hugh Hefner would later blow them up. The rules mostly worked for people who conformed to them. Yes, I know women experienced other problems then.
The societal wreckage caused by the hookup culture, easy divorce and co-habitation without commitment doesn't need studies, though there have been some, chiefly by the late Judith Wallerstein, who spent 25 years studying the effects of divorce on children. She ultimately found that the pain from their parents' breakup continued to cause them distress well into adulthood.
Common sense and experience also reveal certain things about human relationships, which work best and which don't, especially for women, who mostly bear the burden when men don't "love, honor and cherish" them until death they do part. For those of a certain age, that's what couples used to pledge to each other when they married.
Dowd quotes Coles as saying modern sex is "bleak." It doesn't have to be. Millennials would do well to consult their old-fashioned and long-married grandparents. Or they can put on a "Golden Oldies" radio station and hear Don and Phil Everly sing:
"I'm the kind who loves only one
So the boys say I'm old fashioned.
Let them laugh, honey I don't mind.
I've made plans for a wedding day for you and me.
That's old fashioned.
That's the way love should be."
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The Fall of James Comey
by David Limbaugh .
Levin - Mueller Probe an
Impeachment Fishing Trip - Comey a Clown
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ After observing that he doesn’t remember anything blowing up on anyone the way Jim Comey’s book tour has blown up... on the disgraced former FBI Director, Brian Kilmeade asks Mark Levin, “What’s this book tour doing for Comey and this investigation?” The investigation in question is the criminal referral against Comey’s former deputy, Andrew McCabe. Levin says, “He’s done enormous damage to himself. He’s exposing himself to the American people as a very petty, superficial man.” He describes Comey as “conducting himself like a complete Bozo the Clown” who is damaging the FBI in the process. Levin reminds us that this guy was in charge of the FBI and his number two now has a criminal referral as well as the rampant criminal, treasonous political activity by Strzok, Page and others under his leadership. He details what he believes was an attempt by Comey to threaten to blackmail President Trump, which like the book tour, didn’t work out so well... https://rickwells.us/levin-mueller-impeachment-fishing/.Trump eases up on Mueller and Rosenstein
with eye on bringing Russia investigation to a close
by Gabby Morrongiello
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump might finally be ditching his urge to fire deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein... after spending months angrily venting to aides and members of his legal team about the widening scope of the Russia investigation. Questions surrounding Rosenstein’s fate have loomed large over the special counsel probe ever since it became clear that investigators were looking beyond possible collusion between Trump associates and Russia actors during the 2016 election and into financial and federal crimes committed by individuals in Trump’s orbit. In early April, following a raid on the hotel room and office of Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen, the president insisted he and his legal team were “very calm and calculated” in their response to the incident. But behind the scenes, and later on Twitter, Trump lashed out at Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller. The episode marked one of many public displays of frustration by Trump since his attorney general recused himself from the Russia inquiry last May, paving the way for the ongoing special counsel investigation....
Desperate Dems Beg to Be Spanked -
Trump Wants Servers From DNC, DWS
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ The Democrat arrogance has once again emerged and resulted in what is a supremely stupid and self-injurious act... that invites serious consequences. Just as they invented a Russia collusion hoax to cover up their own dirty deeds, which is now coming back to haunt them, the Democrats, through the DNC, have sued President Trump’s campaign as a means of extending the narrative. The problem for them, and one they surely must have been aware of, is that they have opened the door for discovery and the acquisition of evidence against them. They really must be getting desperate, going for broke, as in the long run the knowledge of their crimes in the hands of their victims can only lead to more legal issues. Then again, perhaps they don’t anticipate there being a “long run.” A victory in the 2018 midterms with impeachment to follow immediately thereafter might be the objective that, in their determination, makes the prospect of a long-term consequence disappear... https://rickwells.us/trump-servers-dnc-dws-dems/ .
Comey memos show Valerie Jarrett's
CNN daughter a useful tool for Democrats
by Monica Showalter
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The memos are out from former FBI Director James Comey, and one of the big takeaways is how useful a tool Valerie Jarrett's daughter, Laura Jarrett... could be for the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign while she was employed at CNN. CNN, it seems, helped orchestrate the set-up of President Trump when it pressed the then-FBI director to have a meeting with Trump so that the matter could be leaked and the press would have a credible reason to report as news all the otherwise slimy opposition research contained within the Steele dossier. Up until then, Fusion GPS, the purveyor of the unverified garbage written by its Moscow sources, was having a bad time getting anyone to print it in the press, and had shopped it around for a year, drawing no buyers. The press knew it was unverified garbage and didn't want to wreck its reputation by going there. But then Comey briefed Trump about the existence of the dossier, and suddenly the matter was leakable. And by an interesting coincidence, it was CNN that did the leak....
No official intel used to start FBI probe
into Trump campaign-Russia collusion: Rep. Nunes
by Matthew Kazin
{ foxbusiness.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Sunday his review of FBI and Justice Department “electronic communication” documents shows... no intelligence was used to begin the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. “We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation. We know that Sidney Blumenthal and others were pushing information into the State Department. So we’re trying to piece all that together and that’s why we continue to look at the State Department,” Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” Nunes, R-Calif., cited the Five Eyes agreement as a way of knowing no intel was used. The U.S., along with Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, make up the “Five Eyes,” or countries that share intelligence in a more-trusted fashion than other arrangements, like NATO, particularly due to years of trust and a common language... https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/no-official-intel-used-to-start-fbi-probe-into-trump-campaign-russia-collusion-rep-nunes.
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The Fall of James Comey
by David Limbaugh
{ cnsnews.com } ~ I originally assumed that former FBI Director James Comey is an honorable and truthful man who was striving to be objective and avoid undue political influence. He has earned my change of mind.
Our law enforcement and judicial institutions should operate, to the extent possible, above politics to ensure equal justice under the law.
The term "justice is blind" is more than a cliche. Justice, by definition, must be administered impartially, without regard to wealth, power, gender, race, religion or any other special status. The law must guide the judicial system, from start to finish — from the decision to indict to the verdict of guilt or acquittal.
Comey presents himself as a consummate professional, a moral paragon, dedicated to the law and consciously above rank political concerns. He has systematically undermined this carefully crafted image with his unseemly forays into the public arena, his professional decisions, his public statements, his book and his interviews.
FBI officials and agents I've met have always been highly professional, discreet and circumspect — so close to the vest that they won't even share with friends information pertaining to ongoing investigations. They want to make clear that they operate with no favoritism and that their allegiance is to justice and the law.
I assumed Comey would be no different. He initially projected a patina of professionalism, as we witnessed during parts of his news conference in which he announced he wouldn't prosecute liar-Hillary Clinton and during his congressional testimony. He came off as consciously committed to operating above the political fray and following the law.
As his news conference unfolded, it became obvious that he was trying to be all things to all people, but instead of pleasing everyone, he alienated most. He meticulously documented the litany of damning facts against liar-Clinton as if he were presenting a closing argument to a jury. But then he essentially told us that none of that mattered because she hadn't intended to break the law. My BS antenna started sending me strong signals, which were later confirmed when consulting the relevant statutes. He couldn't have laid out a better case for gross negligence and even willful criminal behavior, yet he chose to characterize her actions as noncriminal. If this weren't bad enough, we later learned that he drafted a statement clearing liar-Clinton of charges two months before the FBI interviewed her in its probe. His twisting the law into a pretzel to avoid prosecuting liar-Clinton screams that political considerations were paramount and superseded any legal analysis.
Moreover, Comey admitted in his interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that he factored the likelihood ofliar-Clinton's winning the election into his decision to publicly announce reopening her email investigation, fearing that she would immediately become an illegitimate president. He might as well have just worn a sign into his interview reading "political animal."
Comey's decision to write a tell-all book about an ongoing investigation on which he was the senior investigator and for which he could be a witness was abominable. It has gravely diminished him and the FBI, and it has contradicted his claim that he is concerned with protecting the image and integrity of the bureau. I doubt that Comey would have ever been appointed to such a position in the FBI had people known he was the type to air dirty laundry and share inside information on matters that demand discretion. Indeed, many current and former colleagues are recoiling with disdain.
Some of Comey's statements in the book and interviews were particularly inappropriate. His duty of professionalism didn't end when he left office. His comments on Donald Trump's appearance were especially petty, more fitting for a teenage Twitter thread than from a former high-ranking law enforcement official.
Even worse was his reckless opinion to Stephanopoulos that it's "possible" that Trump obstructed justice, even though he admitted there is no evidence. Then there were his gratuitous statements that the Russians may have something on Trump and that it's possible the alleged incident involving prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room happened. How could anyone watch that interview and still respect Comey's intellectual honesty?
Free speech guarantees certainly apply to this publicity hound, but they don't insulate him from our reasoned opinion that he has no business saying Trump behaved like a mob boss or that he is morally unfit to serve.
Comey's conduct in this affair has been disgraceful. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that he made "serious mistakes," that he won't admit his mistakes and that both Democrats and Republicans called for his termination. Former attorneys general, judges and lead prosecutors believe that Comey violated his duty to preserve, protect and defend the FBI. He violated Justice Department policies and tradition. And he leaked four memos, at least one of which was classified, to a friend for publication instead of turning them over to investigators.
I suspect that Comey began writing this book expecting financial profit and professional and personal vindication. I'm afraid he'll have to settle for the big bucks alone. I would feel sorry for him if he weren't so sanctimonious.
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One Percent Chance Comey Not
A Self-Dramatizing Fruitcake
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Monday Top Headlines
by Political Editors: Trump rightly complains it will take nine years to get all his nominations approved (The Washington Post)
by Political Editors: Trump rightly complains it will take nine years to get all his nominations approved (The Washington Post).
Senate panel may vote against backing Pompeo’s nomination for secretary of state (The Wall Street Journal)
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Future Democrat voters: Caravan of refugees arrives at U.S.-Mexico border and ask for asylum (The Daily Wire)
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Waffle House attack stopped by a REAL heroic mass assault survivor: “I saw the opportunity and I took it” (The Tennessean)
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Trump announces abstinence-focused changes to liar-nObama-era teen pregnancy prevention program (The Daily Wire)
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Humor: DNC files lawsuit alleging nation should never, ever stop focusing on 2016 election (The Onion)
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Policy: Four key questions before the Trump-Kim meeting (The Daily Signal) ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55519-monday-top-headlines
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55519-monday-top-headlines
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Swamp Grass Grassley - Bumbling
Tool of Rinos and Dems Attacking Trump
by /rickwells.us
{ /rickwells.us } ~ Senator Charles Grassley is the embodiment of the kind of do-nothing, tottering old fools that have infested the Republican Party... and which permit the globalist Democrats and establishment thugs to run all them over. He’s like an unarmed cop holding up his hand and blowing a whistle to stop a terrorist. He’s useless and isn’t handling things with the sense of urgency the deserve. Judge Jeanine is polite but asks questions that expose the simpleton for what he is. She asks what he thinks about the letter to AG Jeff Sessions from eleven Republican House Members, calling for him to investigate Crooked liar-Hillary, Comey, McCabe, Lynch and others. She says, “Here we are, almost a year and a half into the Trump administration and they’re still asking Sessions to do what they’ve been asking him to do for almost a year.” He plays dumb, or maybe he’s not really playing at all, saying, “I wouldn’t be surprised that some of that might be going on and we don’t really know about it, because of the traditions within the Justice Department and the FBI not to talk about ongoing investigations.” He says everybody involved in law enforcement should follow the facts where they take them....
FEC Sued for Ignoring
liar-Clinton-DNC Money Laundering Operation
by Alice Greene
{ punchingbagpost.com } ~ A pro-Trump PAC is suing the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for ignoring its complaint regarding a money laundering scheme... that allowed liar-Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign to bypass legal donation limits. In a complaint filed last December, the Committee to Defend the President (CDP) claimed the liar-Hillary Victory Fund instructed big-name donors to send money to state parties, which would send that money to the DNC. In some cases, the entire transaction took less than 24 hours. This method enabled deep-pocketed donors to circumvent federal campaign donation limits by sending money to state and local organizations rather than donating directly to liar-Clinton, even though the money ended up going back to her campaign. The FEC in December said it received the CDP’s complaint and would conduct an investigation, but, like most crimes involving Crooked liar-H, nothing happened... http://punchingbagpost.com/fec-sued-for-ignoring-clinton-dnc-money-laundering-operation/?pb_list=pb_list .
Iran threatens to ‘annihilate’ Israel,
as Hezbollah boasts of reach of rockets
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As tensions rise, Zarif says he doesn’t
believe Iran heading to war with Israel
by JACOB MAGID
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Despite rising tensions and mutual warnings traded between Tehran and Jerusalem in recent weeks... Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview to be aired Sunday on American television that he did not believe the two countries were “headed towards regional war” “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 US support and trying to find smokescreens to hide behind,” Zarif told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “And I do not believe that the smokescreens work anymore,” he said, according to a transcript released ahead of the screening. But he stressed that Israel was escalating tensions “by violating Syrian airspace, by violating Syrian territory… on a routine basis.”... What the hell is Iran doing in Syria anyway..
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One Percent Chance Comey Not
A Self-Dramatizing Fruitcake
by: Ann Coulter
{ freedomsback.com } ~ There have been a lot of questions about why Trump fired James Comey, ever since he announced to NBC’s Lester Holt — incomprehensibly — that it was his decision, citing, by my count, at least a half-dozen different reasons.
On Sunday night, that question was answered. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Comey for showing the American people why he was so badly in need of firing.
Interviewed on his new book, “A Higher Loyalty,” it quickly became apparent that one of Comey’s favorite formulations is: I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether so-and-so sodomized a chicken. It’s possible. I don’t know.
Here he is on ABC News, accusing Trump of hiring prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow possibly — I don’t know:
“I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013. It’s possible, but I don’t know.”
And here he is on ABC accusing Trump of colluding with Russia:
“More words I never thought I’d utter about a president of the United States — but it’s possible that he is compromised by Russia. It is stunning, and I wish I wasn’t saying it, but it’s just — it’s the truth. … It’s possible.”
And here he is being interviewed by USA Today on Russian influence:
“I don’t know if President Trump has been compromised by the Russians. And these are words I never thought would come out of my mouth about an American president, but it’s possible. I’m not saying it’s likely, I don’t know, and the honest answer is it’s possible.”
None of this says anything about the president. It tells us only that Comey has a low opinion of Trump, which I already knew.
But ABC’s George Stephanopoulos replied to one of Comey’s “it’s possible” formulations, saying: “That’s stunning. You can’t say for certain that the president of the United States is not compromised by the Russians?”
It’s not “stunning.” It’s a sleight of hand. Ask me to give you my odds that Hillary Clinton eats small children for breakfast. IT’S STUNNING! COULTER SAYS 1 PERCENT CHANCE!
HERE’S ANOTHER: I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I can’t say that James Comey was not a transvestite prostitute in Laredo, Texas, for 20 years, turning tricks at $5 a customer. I cannot say that. It’s possible.
Comey says that based on his years of experience in “the criminal investigation business,” the fact that the prostitute story bothered Trump so much suggested that it was true.
“Trump’s continuing focus on it surprised me,” he said. “When someone constantly brings up to deny something you’re not asking about, that’s an interesting fact. I think I put in the book the proverb, ‘Only the guilty flee where no man pursues.’ And so that struck me.”
1) Bringing up the prostitute story a handful of times hardly constitutes a neurotic fixation. CNN has brought it up 1,583,749,996 times. Trump has brought up the size of his inaugural crowd more frequently.
2) I don’t find it particularly suspicious that someone would be obsessed with the one accusation that could do him the most damage. Name one other thing in the dossier that anyone knows about. The prostitutes peeing on the bed is the weirdest — it stands out. I can see both a guilty man and an innocent man fixating on that story.
Comey only sees the guilty man.
Speaking of neurotic obsessions, I couldn’t help but notice that Comey is obsessed with telling us how ethical he is. In the ABC interview alone, Comey used the word “truth” 42 times; “honest” 28 times, “ethical” 10 times — “integrity,” “principle” and “moral” at least five times apiece.
That’s more than I hear in church on Sunday, and the preacher isn’t taking about himself.
Comey’s talking about himself.
“The lesson I’ve learned,” he said, “is that … it helps you see things more clearly and realize things like truth matters, integrity matters. Those ethical values are what are going to last. And when you have to explain what you’ve done someday to your grandchildren, that’s what will matter. Your grandkids won’t understand that people — angry at me, or the vice president of the United States was telling me people were going to die because of me. What they’ll want to know is, ‘What was your North Star?'”
The “Real Housewives” engage in less self-referential preening.
Comey even takes the time to tell us that other people think he’s a pillar of integrity, too! For our edification, he recalled liar-nObama telling him: “‘I appointed you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability.’ And then he looked me in the eye” — had he been staring at Comey’s crotch? — “and he said, ‘Nothing has happened, nothing, in the last year that has changed my view of that.'”
I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the former director of the FBI carries 8-by-10 glossies of himself wherever he goes. It’s possible. I don’t know.
{ freedomsback.com } ~ There have been a lot of questions about why Trump fired James Comey, ever since he announced to NBC’s Lester Holt — incomprehensibly — that it was his decision, citing, by my count, at least a half-dozen different reasons.
On Sunday night, that question was answered. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Comey for showing the American people why he was so badly in need of firing.
Interviewed on his new book, “A Higher Loyalty,” it quickly became apparent that one of Comey’s favorite formulations is: I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether so-and-so sodomized a chicken. It’s possible. I don’t know.
Here he is on ABC News, accusing Trump of hiring prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow possibly — I don’t know:
“I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013. It’s possible, but I don’t know.”
And here he is on ABC accusing Trump of colluding with Russia:
“More words I never thought I’d utter about a president of the United States — but it’s possible that he is compromised by Russia. It is stunning, and I wish I wasn’t saying it, but it’s just — it’s the truth. … It’s possible.”
And here he is being interviewed by USA Today on Russian influence:
“I don’t know if President Trump has been compromised by the Russians. And these are words I never thought would come out of my mouth about an American president, but it’s possible. I’m not saying it’s likely, I don’t know, and the honest answer is it’s possible.”
None of this says anything about the president. It tells us only that Comey has a low opinion of Trump, which I already knew.
But ABC’s George Stephanopoulos replied to one of Comey’s “it’s possible” formulations, saying: “That’s stunning. You can’t say for certain that the president of the United States is not compromised by the Russians?”
It’s not “stunning.” It’s a sleight of hand. Ask me to give you my odds that Hillary Clinton eats small children for breakfast. IT’S STUNNING! COULTER SAYS 1 PERCENT CHANCE!
HERE’S ANOTHER: I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I can’t say that James Comey was not a transvestite prostitute in Laredo, Texas, for 20 years, turning tricks at $5 a customer. I cannot say that. It’s possible.
Comey says that based on his years of experience in “the criminal investigation business,” the fact that the prostitute story bothered Trump so much suggested that it was true.
“Trump’s continuing focus on it surprised me,” he said. “When someone constantly brings up to deny something you’re not asking about, that’s an interesting fact. I think I put in the book the proverb, ‘Only the guilty flee where no man pursues.’ And so that struck me.”
1) Bringing up the prostitute story a handful of times hardly constitutes a neurotic fixation. CNN has brought it up 1,583,749,996 times. Trump has brought up the size of his inaugural crowd more frequently.
2) I don’t find it particularly suspicious that someone would be obsessed with the one accusation that could do him the most damage. Name one other thing in the dossier that anyone knows about. The prostitutes peeing on the bed is the weirdest — it stands out. I can see both a guilty man and an innocent man fixating on that story.
Comey only sees the guilty man.
Speaking of neurotic obsessions, I couldn’t help but notice that Comey is obsessed with telling us how ethical he is. In the ABC interview alone, Comey used the word “truth” 42 times; “honest” 28 times, “ethical” 10 times — “integrity,” “principle” and “moral” at least five times apiece.
That’s more than I hear in church on Sunday, and the preacher isn’t taking about himself.
Comey’s talking about himself.
“The lesson I’ve learned,” he said, “is that … it helps you see things more clearly and realize things like truth matters, integrity matters. Those ethical values are what are going to last. And when you have to explain what you’ve done someday to your grandchildren, that’s what will matter. Your grandkids won’t understand that people — angry at me, or the vice president of the United States was telling me people were going to die because of me. What they’ll want to know is, ‘What was your North Star?'”
The “Real Housewives” engage in less self-referential preening.
Comey even takes the time to tell us that other people think he’s a pillar of integrity, too! For our edification, he recalled liar-nObama telling him: “‘I appointed you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability.’ And then he looked me in the eye” — had he been staring at Comey’s crotch? — “and he said, ‘Nothing has happened, nothing, in the last year that has changed my view of that.'”
I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the former director of the FBI carries 8-by-10 glossies of himself wherever he goes. It’s possible. I don’t know.
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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
Randa Jarrar is, or was a tenured professor at Fresno State University who, last week, tweeted her disgust for former First Lady Barbara Bush upon the 92 year old death.
Jarrar tweeted, “Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal,” and she added…“Fuck outta here with your nice words.”
Jarrar also sent forth this tweet, “PSA: either you are against these pieces of shit and their genocidal ways or you’re part of the problem. That’s actually how simple it is. I’m happy the witch is dead. Can’t wait for the rest of her family to fall to their demise the way 1.5 million Iraqis have. Byyyeeeeeee.”
With a Fresno State University investigation under way, Jarrar is on leave for the rest of this semester, and she has left the country even as her supporters rally on her behalf.
Let’s get something straight here…
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President Trump and
the Attorney-Client Privilege
by Judge Andrew Napolitano .
Levin - Mueller Probe an
Impeachment Fishing Trip - Comey a Clown
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ After observing that he doesn’t remember anything blowing up on anyone the way Jim Comey’s book tour has blown up... on the disgraced former FBI Director, Brian Kilmeade asks Mark Levin, “What’s this book tour doing for Comey and this investigation?” The investigation in question is the criminal referral against Comey’s former deputy, Andrew McCabe. Levin says, “He’s done enormous damage to himself. He’s exposing himself to the American people as a very petty, superficial man.” He describes Comey as “conducting himself like a complete Bozo the Clown” who is damaging the FBI in the process. Levin reminds us that this guy was in charge of the FBI and his number two now has a criminal referral as well as the rampant criminal, treasonous political activity by Strzok, Page and others under his leadership. He details what he believes was an attempt by Comey to threaten to blackmail President Trump, which like the book tour, didn’t work out so well... https://rickwells.us/levin-mueller-impeachment-fishing/.Trump eases up on Mueller and Rosenstein
with eye on bringing Russia investigation to a close
by Gabby Morrongiello
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump might finally be ditching his urge to fire deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein... after spending months angrily venting to aides and members of his legal team about the widening scope of the Russia investigation. Questions surrounding Rosenstein’s fate have loomed large over the special counsel probe ever since it became clear that investigators were looking beyond possible collusion between Trump associates and Russia actors during the 2016 election and into financial and federal crimes committed by individuals in Trump’s orbit. In early April, following a raid on the hotel room and office of Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen, the president insisted he and his legal team were “very calm and calculated” in their response to the incident. But behind the scenes, and later on Twitter, Trump lashed out at Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller. The episode marked one of many public displays of frustration by Trump since his attorney general recused himself from the Russia inquiry last May, paving the way for the ongoing special counsel investigation....
Desperate Dems Beg to Be Spanked -
Trump Wants Servers From DNC, DWS
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ The Democrat arrogance has once again emerged and resulted in what is a supremely stupid and self-injurious act... that invites serious consequences. Just as they invented a Russia collusion hoax to cover up their own dirty deeds, which is now coming back to haunt them, the Democrats, through the DNC, have sued President Trump’s campaign as a means of extending the narrative. The problem for them, and one they surely must have been aware of, is that they have opened the door for discovery and the acquisition of evidence against them. They really must be getting desperate, going for broke, as in the long run the knowledge of their crimes in the hands of their victims can only lead to more legal issues. Then again, perhaps they don’t anticipate there being a “long run.” A victory in the 2018 midterms with impeachment to follow immediately thereafter might be the objective that, in their determination, makes the prospect of a long-term consequence disappear... https://rickwells.us/trump-servers-dnc-dws-dems/ .
Hayward Bay Fault Line MORE DANGEROUS
Than San Andreas: It’s A ‘Ticking Time Bomb’
by MAC SLAVO
{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ Scientists are now saying that the “Big One” in California may not be caused by the San Andreas fault line... but by the Hayward Bay fault line. It is now thought to be the “ticking time bomb” fault line and more dangerous than the San Andres. The scariest scenario for the next major earthquake may not be from the San Andreas Fault though that one still threatens, but from the Hayward Fault that runs along the east side of the San Francisco Bay. According to KTUV, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake along the Hayward Fault could kill as many as 800 people and injure 18,000, according to results of a new research released Wednesday. The U.S. Geological Survey, citing findings from a simulated tremor with an epicenter in Oakland, said the disaster would cause 400 fires that could destroy 50,000 homes... https://freedomoutpost.com/hayward-bay-fault-line-more-dangerous-than-san-andreas-its-a-ticking-time-bomb/Bongino Explodes on liar-Clinton
Troll Who Dodges Same Question Six Times
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Dan Bongino carves up liar-Clinton henchweasel, Philippe Reines... exposing him as a blatant liar who dodges multiple efforts to have him answer a simple question regarding the DNC and liar-Clinton crimes upon which the Russia, Russia, Russia was based. Noting that the frivolous lawsuit filed by the DNC against the Trump camp has no merit and that those who are filing the suit are the actual ones who colluded with Russians, Dan Bongino asserts that the lawsuit that should be filed is one against liar-Hillary Clinton for the sleazy political dossier that she commissioned and she and the DNC paid for. The wormy Reines claims that “the people who should be protecting us,” the ones who see the crimes the Democrats have committed, have abrogated their responsibility. Their responsibility is to do what the criminal Democrats tell them to do. Refusal to do so is dereliction of duty, in their book. He took a long time to say nothing, most importantly, refusing to admit that liar- Hillary Clinton financed the dossier through Fusion GPS....
President Trump and
the Attorney-Client Privilege
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{ townhall.com } ~ A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump was an outwardly happy man because of the utterance of one solitary word from the lips of special counsel Robert Mueller to one of Trump's lawyers. The word that thrilled the president and his legal team was "subject."
It seems that Mueller and one of Trump's lawyers had been negotiating the terms under which the president would submit to an informal interrogation by Mueller and his team of prosecutors and FBI agents. Mueller's request for such an interview was not unusual.
Investigators are usually looking to trap an unwary potential defendant into lying to them -- a crime in that environment, even though the potential defendant is not under oath -- or unwittingly admitting to them an allegation for which they need proof. The potential defendant often believes -- foolishly, as history has shown -- he can actually talk the investigators out of indicting him.
In preparation for this type of interview, the government often tells the lawyer for the person being interviewed whether that person is a witness, a subject or a target. A witness is a person whose knowledge and memory the government wishes to examine. A subject is a person whose behavior is under criminal investigation. A target is a person whom the government plans to indict.
When Trump and his team learned that he was just a subject and not a target, they rejoiced. And then, in a series of bizarre events, all hell broke loose, and his joy turned to gloom. Here is what happened.
In the course of its continuing investigation of Trump, Mueller's team came across evidence of criminal behavior on the part of Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime New York City lawyer. Because the evidence was related to activities that took place in New York City, Mueller sent the evidence to the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan.
After a team of federal prosecutors there examined whatever Mueller brought them, in conjunction with what they already knew about Cohen, they applied to a federal judge for search warrants of venues where they believed Cohen kept files of his work. The search warrants were executed simultaneously at 5:30 in the morning two Mondays ago.
Cohen's lawyers then filed a motion that asked a federal judge to prevent the federal prosecutors in Manhattan from examining what the FBI seized -- enough to fill a small pickup truck -- arguing that it was Cohen's records of the legal work he had performed for his clients and thus was protected by the attorney-client privilege.
In opposition to Cohen's motion, federal prosecutors argued that Cohen and Trump have engaged in behavior together that may have been criminal or fraudulent and that they used the attorney-client privilege to mask their communications.
The federal prosecutors also argued that Cohen was not truly performing legal work for Trump; rather, they said, he was a fixer of Trump's image and a trickster to Trump's adversaries. Then they revealed that the source of their purported knowledge of the Trump-Cohen relationship was surveillance of Cohen, whose telephone calls, emails and text messages the feds had been capturing for months.
That means that federal prosecutors have overheard the president of the United States in telephone conversations he believed were protected by privilege, in which he was talking to a man under criminal investigation who he has said was his lawyer.
When all this came to a head this past Monday in the federal courtroom of Judge Kimba Wood, she confronted a legally unusual situation. Trump's lawyers demanded that everything seized from Cohen be turned over to Trump because he was and is -- as far as Trump knew -- Cohen's sole client.
Cohen claimed he has three clients, and he demanded that all that was seized be examined by a neutral special master to determine what is privileged and what is not. The prosecutors demanded that they have access to all that was seized, because the seizure had already been approved by another federal judge when he signed the search warrants that triggered the FBI's seizures.
Judge Wood ordered the FBI to copy all that was seized and send copies to lawyers for Trump and for Cohen and to federal prosecutors; and then the lawyers can argue to the court what is privileged and what is fair game for the prosecutors' use. In the course of those arguments, federal prosecutors will see what was seized, whether privileged or not.
The attorney-client privilege protects from scrutiny or revelation the confidential communications of a client to his lawyer that are integral to the lawyer's legal work for the client. The privilege does not apply to casual conversations between client and lawyer or if the lawyer is doing nonlegal work or if the client is committing a crime, a fraud, a tort or a regulatory violation and is consulting the lawyer about that.
Now we have a very perilous situation for the president. Records of whatever work Michael Cohen has been doing for him in the past 10 years will soon be in the custody of federal prosecutors who expect it to be evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the president himself. These are the best federal prosecutors in the country. They are civil service-protected and can only be fired for cause, and they have been listening to the president's phone calls to his confidant and "fixer" and will soon see the fixer's files.
Has Trump been in cahoots with a bad guy as federal prosecutors have alleged? Is this prosecutorial team in Manhattan more dangerous to Donald Trump than Mueller and his crew in Washington? Was evidence about Trump the real goal of those early-morning FBI raids? Is the president no longer just a subject and now a target of a new team of federal prosecutors? Who can safely confide in a lawyer after this?
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Cuomo's Parolee Voting Decree:
Good Politics, Bad Policy
by Jordan Candler
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Comey Under FBI Investigation -
Nobody Calling it a 'Matter' This Time Around
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Catherine Herridge was able to confirm that egomaniac James Comey, who can’t keep his mouth shut... despite him digging his legal jeopardy hole deeper every time he opens it, is in fact under criminal investigation by the same FBI that he used to head up. She states that it is an investigation by the Inspector General, but the IG is an internal affairs watchdog that has no authority to investigate former employees. Either Comey was never really fired, which is unlikely, or he is being investigated criminally by FBI agents. It may be being conducted under some sort of special assignment to review information uncovered by the IG, in which case, again, it’s a regular criminal investigation. She says the issues under review are his leaking of memos, mishandling of classified information, and communications with individuals outside of the FBI, including reporters... https://rickwells.us/comey-fbi-investigation-matter/.‘It will not be accepted!’: Trump
slams OPEC for keeping oil prices ‘artificially’ high
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DoJ: Manafort suspected as serving as 'back channel' to Russia
by Rick Moran
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Paul Manafort is going to jail. He made millions of dollars working as a consultant to a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party... and didn't pay a dime in federal taxes. In fact, he sought to hide his money through an elaborate shell game of dummy corporations. But there has always been a question about why special counsel Robert Mueller was so interested in him. He is not being charged with any crime related to "Russian collusion" with the Trump campaign. For that matter, no one charged in the Muller probe so far is being accused of collusion with Russians to swing the election. Manafort sought to squash his indictment by claiming in a civil suit that Mueller did not have the authority to investigate his money-laundering and tax evasion. His defense team claims that Mueller's powers to investigate went only as far as looking into matters directly related to Russian collusion....
JW Files FOIA for All Comey
Communications With Inquisitor Mueller
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit seeking all of James Comey’s communications with Robert Mueller... following a statement by Comey admitting that he had already provided those documents to Mueller and his merry band of witch hunters. In setting up the interview David Asman asks what must be one of the dumbest questions he’s ever asked, albeit with full knowledge of what his response will be. He asked Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch, “Is the DOJ, despite the memos coming out, is the DOJ still protecting Jim Comey? Is there stuff that you still can’t get your hands on about Jim Comey?” Farrell replies, “Absolutely, I mean this is a living example of the deep state. This is sort of the Department of Justice still manned by an army of Sally Yateses, who are interested in preserving the institution, who are in sort of a hull defilade, hunkered down mode. And they’re not interested in releasing anything that might be potentially awkward or embarrassing. So there’s a lot of double-talk and a lot of foot dragging.”... https://rickwells.us/judicial-watch-foia-comey-mueller/.
JW Videos
Comey is an ‘Anti Trump Activist’ and Cannot be Trusted.
Tom Fitton’s Video Weekly Update – April 20, 2018.
Chris Farrell: Comey Stole Government Documents.
Chris Farrell: The level of FBI and DOJ Corruption is Staggering.
Tom Fitton: ‘Comey got a Special Deal from the FBI Because he was Going after Trump’.
Inside Judicial Watch: liar-Clinton & Mueller – A Tale of Two Investigations.
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Cuomo's Parolee Voting Decree: Good Politics, Bad Policy
by Jordan Candler: Admitting that he’s “unwilling to take no for an answer,” New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week circumvented the state legislature by signing a dubious executive order authorizing voting rights for 35,000 parolees. The process is rather cumbersome, as The New York Times explains: The mechanism through which Mr. Cuomo plans to do so is unusual: He would consider pardons for all 35,000 people currently on parole in New York, as well as any new convicted felons who enter the parole system each month. … Mr. Cuomo’s executive order would require the commissioner of the state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to submit a list of every felon currently on parole, as well as a list of those newly eligible for parole, beginning May 1. … The commissioner would continue to submit an updated list each month, with each parolee “given consideration for a conditional pardon that will restore voting rights without undue delay,” according to the order.
The parolee-voting-rights concept is hardly novel. Numerous states have made it lawful for parolees to vote in elections. What’s disturbing in New York’s case (and others) is the process. Cuomo is governing through fiat because the state legislature isn’t comporting to his line of thinking. The Times reports that “the Republican-controlled Senate has opposed many of Mr. Cuomo’s proposed criminal justice reforms.” Fellow Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia pulled the same thing (unlawfully at first).
But just because a governor is engaged in a policy war with lawmakers doesn’t justify ignoring the legislature. That’s a slippery slope that won’t lead anywhere good. Besides, there’s a strategic angle to Cuomo’s decision — wooing minority voters to overshadow Cynthia Nixon, an actress with hopes of replacing Cuomo as governor. But again, a strategy does not equal good policy.
Heritage Foundation fellows Hans von Spakovsky and Roger Clegg addressed the issue of felon voter rights in a recent column. They appropriately write:
It is precisely because such a high percentage of criminals who are released are so unimproved that they find their way back into prison (nationally, more than half) that it makes sense to wait some period of time, as Florida does, to make sure that the felon really has turned over a new leaf. After that period of time … then the felon could have the right to vote restored. It should be rather like a naturalization ceremony, at a courthouse with friends and family present to celebrate, some official making a nice speech, American flags, and the felon raising his right hand. Now that would be a way to incentivize the reintegration of the felon back into civil society.
The fact that our politicians play games with felon voters should at the very least compel these former prisoners to think twice about the people they support politically. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55463-cuomos-parolee-voting-decree-good-politics-bad-policy
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Sessons Warns He Might Consider
Quitting if Rosenstein Fired - Need a Pen, Jeff?
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ It’s what many American patriots would refer to as a “two-fer,” taking out two turkeys with one stone... if the phantom Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned from his position following the firing of Rod Rosenstein. From all appearances it seems that Sessions has quit already. Aside from stumbling through a speech here or there, he’s been completely MIA, especially when it comes to matters of holding his allies in the liar-nObama/liar-Clinton/scum-Soros Mafia deep state accountable for their crimes and subversion against our President. Maybe he could persuade Christopher Wray to join him in the walk out. We could easily arrange plenty of help packing up their paperweights and pictures, although they’d need to carry the classified documents they plan on stealing out the doors themselves. Let us get that door for you, Jeff...Amnesty, Abortion, and Big Spending:
Inside the Left’s Policy Playbook
by Charles Fain Lehman
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Mass amnesty, trillions in Medicare spending, and publicly funded abortion are just some of the ideas in a set of policy proposals... that a left-leaning policy group gave to Democratic bigwigs this past week. These and other proposals were provided to Democratic taste-makers, and obtained by the Free Beacon, at the 2018 Democracy Alliance fall conference held this week in Atlanta. Attendees received copies of Everyone's Economy, a report from left-leaning public policy organization Demos. The organization is chaired by Amelia Warren Tyagi, daughter of Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D., Mass.), and funded by liberal billionaire scum-George Soros. The brief's stated goal is to outline "an economic agenda that places both race and class at the forefront," while responding to the populist appeals of President Donald Trump. Many of its proposals conspicuously benefit Democratic constituencies, with questionable gain for or outright harm to others... http://freebeacon.com/politics/amnesty-abortion-big-spending-inside-lefts-policy-playbook/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f44b7a4f2f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f44b7a4f2f-45611665 .
Federal Biofuel Mandates Are an Expensive Flop
by Michael Tennant
{ thenewamerican.com } ~ Federal biofuel mandates have failed to accomplish their stated objectives while forcing consumers to pay higher prices for food and fuel... a new American Action Forum (AAF) report concludes. Congress created the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in 2005 to reduce the United States’ dependence on foreign oil by replacing it with corn-based ethanol and other biofuels. Two years later, lawmakers set targets for biofuel-gasoline blends and imposed a mandate to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. In reality, according to AAF’s Philip Rossetti, “the RFS is probably not improving either energy security or the environment.” The 2007 law’s “targets have proven to be too ambitious,” particularly when it comes to advanced biofuels, Rossetti finds. On the one hand, production of advanced biofuels has never met the mandates. On the other, while ethanol production has met the mandates, it has never exceeded them, suggesting that “the real demand for ethanol … has plateaued and is likely less than the mandate requires,” so “the mandate is artificially inflating demand for ethanol.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors/item/28795-federal-biofuel-mandates-are-an-expensive-flop.The Iran Protests No One Is Covering
by Aaron Kliegman
{ freebeacon.com } ~ For months, the Iranian people have taken to the streets to protest against their government... a cruel and oppressive Islamist theocracy that claims a monopoly on morality. These are not just demonstrations about economic struggles and water shortages—results largely of the regime's corruption and incompetence. The popular protests also show a growing rejection of the Islamic Republic's brutal rule, and even its existence altogether. Unrest continues to spread throughout the country, with Iranians getting bolder and angrier. The potential consequences for Iran and the Middle East could be transformational. Yet the media have completely ignored these recent developments, to the point that only someone following certain Iran watchers and Iranian activists on Twitter can even know of their existence. The casual news consumer became well aware of the anti-government protests that broke out in Iran on Dec. 28. What appeared to start as demonstrations focused on the regime's economic policies quickly became aimed at the government itself, with frustrated Iranians across the country—including working-class citizens from peripheral provinces, the regime's supposed base of support—calling for an end to the ayatollahs' rule. The protests prompted countless op-eds and news stories. But the momentum supposedly fizzled out after about two weeks, and the protests were quickly forgotten. Even the careful news watcher would be excused for thinking the regime succeeded in suppressing the protests and restoring "order." That's not what happened, however. "A careful review of the evidence clearly indicates that the protests were not a short-lived phenomenon with temporary impact," notes Prof. Ivan Sascha Sheehan, the incoming executive director of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. "Rather, they marked a turning point and permanent change in the trend of events and political calculations in Iran."... http://freebeacon.com/blog/iran-protests-no-one-covering/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f44b7a4f2f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f44b7a4f2f-45611665 .
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Democratic Party Sues Trump Campaign, Russia And Wikileaks.
Palestinians Will Continue Paying Terrorists Blood Money.
Iranian Woman Seized For Not Wearing Hijab.
Diamond & Silk Take On Governor Cuomo Stupidity.
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The Kids Should Vote, They Say
by Brian Mark Weber: The 2020 presidential election could get very interesting. Think about it: A whole slate of ancient leftists and unknown upstarts will likely battle it out to be their party’s standard-bearer. Bernie Sanders might try again to win the nomination stolen by liar-Hillary Clinton in 2016. Or we could see loose lips-Joe Biden or Elizabeth dinky-Warren going head-to-head against Donald Trump. And if Democrats get their way, your neighborhood 16- and 17-year-olds might be standing in line with you on Election Day. But they won’t just be handing out “I Voted” stickers. They’ll actually be voting.
by Brian Mark Weber: The 2020 presidential election could get very interesting. Think about it: A whole slate of ancient leftists and unknown upstarts will likely battle it out to be their party’s standard-bearer. Bernie Sanders might try again to win the nomination stolen by liar-Hillary Clinton in 2016. Or we could see loose lips-Joe Biden or Elizabeth dinky-Warren going head-to-head against Donald Trump. And if Democrats get their way, your neighborhood 16- and 17-year-olds might be standing in line with you on Election Day. But they won’t just be handing out “I Voted” stickers. They’ll actually be voting. The Washington, DC, city council is considering a bill introduced by Ward 6 council member Charles Allen lowering the voting age to 16. But unlike other small cities around the country that have passed similar measures, the District of Columbia is treated in some ways as a state — which would allow these DC adolescents to cast a ballot for our next president. That would require congressional approval.
This isn’t the first time the Left has tried to tap into the frustrations of young people in order to advance its agenda. In 1971, fresh off the Vietnam War protests across the nation, Congress passed the 26th Amendment, which gave citizens 18 and older the right to vote.
The argument at the time was that anyone old enough to be sent off to fight in an unjust war ought to be able to vote. In the 1960s, when leftist politicians saw the lengths to which young people were willing to protest against the establishment, they just couldn’t wait to bestow political power upon their draft-dodging brethren and like-minded fellow travelers.
Today’s argument for allowing 16-year-olds to vote is based on the same premise. If the Parkland school shootings taught us one thing, it’s that scum-George Soros-funded teens can be just as rebellious as their 1960s counterparts. But today’s youth protesters are willing to go even further than the Woodstock generation: They’re perfectly willing to trash constitutional rights if it means forcing their policies and ideology on the rest of us.
The Washington Post thinks adults failed the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and that “maybe it would make sense to give them and their cohort a bigger say in their future.”
Would it make sense? As David Davenport writes at Forbes, “If it is a question of maturity, researchers generally agree that the brain is still developing until the mid-20s, with moral reasoning and abstract thought coming later in the cycle than previously thought.”
More problematic is that studies show a significant number of high school students lack proficiency when it comes to U.S. history, civics and the Constitution. Some can’t name a senator or member of Congress in their home districts, or even the president of the United States for that matter. So why push voting rights for kids who don’t know the first thing about government? The Leftmedia is drooling over the possibilities.
Joshua Douglass at CNN suggests, “The students are fed up with our politicians and are using their voices to demand change. Imagine if they could also vote and turned out in significant numbers. Would meaningful gun reform legislation be more likely to pass? Would our politicians actually be more responsive to the public will?”
Well, the cat’s out of the bag. This isn’t merely about opening the door for today’s passionate and thoughtful youth to participate in our democracy. Nor is it about ensuring that future citizens will stand up for freedom of speech or constitutional rights. Quite the opposite, in fact. This is about using the Parkland tragedy to infiltrate the impressionable minds of young people to repeal the Second Amendment. Period.
And make no mistake: David Hogg and his Twitter-savvy acolytes will be further trained to fight for a broad range of causes and issues in the future. Democrats don’t view these kids as thoughtful citizens but as loyal soldiers in an army ready to tear apart the fabric of our Constitution. Think about it: No one would be pushing voting rights for 16-year-olds if they were marching for the protection of the unborn, defense of the Second Amendment or preservation of traditional marriage.
The media tell us that no generation of youth has ever been so poised to make an impact at the ballot box as Millennials. But that generation can already vote, so what about those behind them? If these budding leftists are given voter ID cards in time for the next presidential election, chances are they’ll have lost interest in this whole citizenship thing.
Heck, with Donald Trump’s roaring economy, these kids might actually have to show up for work and pay taxes by 2020 — at which point they’ll find out that not all bosses allow their employees to walk out of work to join a protest. And by then maybe they’ll understand that shouting down alternative ideas or trampling upon constitutional rights makes one a left-wing agitator, not a responsible citizen.
To all those 14-year-olds hoping to vote in two years, here’s some advice: Read the Constitution, study history and learn about our political system. You’ll see right through those adults currently using you to push their leftist agenda, and you’ll earn the right to one day cast your vote for president. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55482-the-kids-should-vote-they-say
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DNC and liar-Clinton Sue
Trump for Russia Collusion - It Never Stops
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ The Democrats are throwing everything they can think of at President Trump and the Republicans... in order to distract and attempt to redirect the fingers of blame and criminal misconduct away from them, their institutional corruption, their attempts to steal the 2016 election, and the subsequent, ongoing coup against President Trump and the millions of American patriots who voted for him. On Friday the foul mouthed snaggle-toothed DNC Chairman Thomas Perez, along with Minnesota jihadist scum-Keith Ellison, his deputy, sued the Trump presidential campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks, claiming a broad illegal conspiracy to help Trump win the 2016 election. Just because four or five Congressional “investigations,” and one by a DOJ witch hunter have turned up nothing doesn’t mean they’re through making the claims. They’re building on the rumors they’ve created over the past year and a half, now relying on the crooked judiciary to provide them a victory without the need for any real proof. liar-nObama appointed judges will do or say anything to advance the globalist agenda... https://rickwells.us/dnc-clinton-sue-trump-russia/.The Future of Israel Looks Good
by EFRAIM INBAR
{ meforum.org } ~ At 70, Israel stands strong, yet debates about its health persist. The radical Israeli Left seems most concerned about the country’s future... arguing that there is great urgency in solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; otherwise, Israel is doomed. The Left contends that Israel’s democratic character, its international legitimacy, and its ability to withstand protracted conflict all are threatened by the ongoing stalemate. Indeed, Israel has faced existential threats from its neighbors since its establishment. And as a small state its existence is precarious. Moreover, Jews with a historical consciousness remember that a Jewish state was twice destroyed by powerful empires. So nothing can be taken for granted. However, this article argues that time seems to be on Israel’s side. A review of the balance of power between Israel and its foes, and of the domestic features molding Israel’s national power such as its economy, social cohesion and political system, and of Israel’s standing in the international community, validates the assessment that Israel has the dominant hand for the foreseeable future....
Turkey’s president is holding
Americans hostage. Why aren’t we doing anything about it?
by Aykan Erdemir, Eric S. Edelman
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ On April 16, an American pastor unjustly detained in a Turkish prison for 18 months will finally get to defend himself in court... Andrew Brunson, a Presbyterian minister from North Carolina, faces up to seven years of pretrial detention under Turkey’s draconian state of emergency. Brunson is not a prisoner but a hostage, whom Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is cynically using to extort concessions from the United States, a fellow member of NATO. It is high time for President Trump to press for Brunson’s immediate and unconditional release. For over 20 years before his sudden arrest, Brunson had preached peacefully in Turkey’s third-largest city, Izmir. Initially, Turkish authorities charged Brunson with membership in an armed terrorist organization. Later they added charges of espionage and attempting to overthrow the government, although there is no evidence to support any of these accusations. Brunson’s attorneys finally received the indictment last month, but only after it had been leaked to the media. The 62-page indictment is a muddled collection of conspiracy theories based largely on ludicrous accusations from three “secret witnesses.” If convicted, Brunson faces a life sentence. Brunson is a respected member of his community and didn’t quit his post even after surviving a far-right militant’s armed attack in 2011. When Turkey’s religious minorities, particularly Christians and Jews, became scapegoats following the abortive coup in July 2016, Brunson, like many other church leaders, came under increasing pressure...Fifty-One Members of Congress Back MEF's UNRWA Policy
by meforum.org
{ meforum.org } ~ April 20, 2018 – Fifty-one members of Congress have signed a Forum-originated letter to President Trump... The letter, sent by Rep. Doug Lamborn (Republican of Colorado) asks to declassify a State Department report on how many individuals currently considered “Palestine refugees” by the United Nations fit the U.S. government definition of refugee. The United States has provided over $1 billion to these “refugees” via the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) over the past four years. The Forum has long sought the end of U.S. recognition of fake Palestinian refugees who did not live in 1946-48 in what is today Israel. The State Department report in question came in reply to the Kirk Amendment to the 2012 Appropriations bill which, inspired by the Forum, directed the State Department to figure out the number of real refugees. The 2014 and 2015 Appropriations bills reaffirmed this requirement. Finally, in 2015, the State Department delivered the report to Congress, but classified it, hoping thereby to conceal its contents from U.S. taxpayers....
Use Iran Sanctions to Stop Assad
by Mark Dubowitz & Richard Goldberg
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ Since the weekend military strike against chemical-weapons sites in Syria... the debate in Washington has centered on whether the strike went far enough. But policy makers should consider another question of equal importance: Is the U.S. prepared to cut off the financial lifelines that keep Bashar Assad in power? The Islamic Republic of Iran spent roughly $15 billion last year to bolster its longtime strategic partner in Damascus. It bought arms for Mr. Assad’s military and financed the foreign Shiite militias, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, that fight for the Syrian dictator. Iran’s annual contribution to Hezbollah alone stands at between $700 million and $800 million. Tehran has deployed its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to Syria and has lent money to Mr. Assad to finance imports such as petroleum. Iran extended a $1 billion line of credit in 2017, on top of the $5.6 billion it had already provided. This credit is provided through the Islamic Republic’s Export Development Bank, while all funds ultimately run through Iran’s central bank. A Syria strategy that leaves these Iranian financial spigots open is doomed to fail. Why haven’t they been blocked? For fear of jeopardizing the 2015 nuclear accord, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which relieved sanctions on Iranian banks, regime assets and economic sectors. This policy paralysis needs to end, and this weekend’s military strike, conducted in close coordination with France and Britain, should lead to a trans-Atlantic understanding that allows true financial warfare against the Iran-Syria nexus to commence....
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Trump Oversees Biggest Cuts to Regs in Quarter-Century
by Political Editors: The Competitive Enterprise Institute has released its Ten Thousand Commandments, an annual report on the scope, size and cost of federal regulations. Those regulations amount to a “hidden tax” on Americans, as well as a severe limit on Liberty. The good news is that President Donald Trump has followed through on his campaign promise to cut federal regulations, and his initial efforts have produced the most significant cutting of government red tape in more than 25 years. Here are some of the highlights thus far per the CEI:- Federal regulations and intervention cost Americans $1.9 trillion in 2017.
- Federal regulation is a hidden tax that amounts to nearly $15,000 per U.S. household each year, more than Americans spend on any category in their family budget except for housing.
- In 2017, 97 laws were enacted by Congress during the calendar year, while 3,281 rules were issued by agencies. Thus, 34 rules were issued for every law enacted.
- If it were a country, U.S. federal regulation would be the world’s eighth-largest economy, ranking behind India and ahead of Italy.
- Many Americans are concerned about their annual tax burden, but total regulatory costs exceeded the $1.88 trillion the IRS collected in both individual and corporate income taxes in 2017.
- Some 67 federal departments, agencies, and commissions are currently working on 3,209 new regulations in various stages of development.
- The five most active rulemaking entities — the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Transportation, Treasury, and the Environmental Protection Agency — account for 1,359 rules, or 43 percent of all proposed regulations currently under consideration.
- The 2017 Federal Register contained 61,308 pages, the lowest count since 1993 and a 36 percent drop from Obama’s 95,894 pages in 2016, the highest level ever recorded.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55464-trump-oversees-biggest-cuts-to-regs-in-quarter-century
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Return of the Feckless Chick-Fil-A-Phobes
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DOJ Inspector General Investigating
James Comey for Release of Classified Memos
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ According to Fox News Catherine Herridge reporting, Inspector General Michael Horowitz is investigating the unauthorized distribution of classified memos... by former FBI Director James Comey. The Wall Street Journal is also reporting that two of the four memos Director Comey gave to his friend Daniel Richman contained classified information. According to the WSJ report: “At least two of the memos that former FBI Director James Comey gave to a friend outside of the government contained information that officials now consider classified, according to people familiar with the matter, prompting a review by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog.”... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/04/20/doj-inspector-general-investigating-james-comey-for-release-of-classified-memos/.Sanctuary Laws Have Driven
California Cities to Full-Fledged Mutiny
by Andrew
{ conservativefreepress.com } ~ “There is a Revolution going on in California,” President Trump tweeted on Wednesday... “Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept. Jerry Brown is trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border, but the people of the State are not happy. Want Security & Safety NOW!” Our commander-in-chief is rarely wrong, and he certainly called it correct in this tweet. There is indeed something going on out in California. This week, Los Alamitos voted for the second time to pass an ordinance exempting itself from the new sanctuary laws that went into effect in January. And in what might be even bigger news, the San Diego Board of Supervisors voted to support the Trump administration in their lawsuit against the state. Said lawsuit, brought by the Justice Department last month, targets the new laws as being outside the realm of a state’s local rights. The DOJ argues that California is not just restricting their law enforcement officers from actively participating in deportation raids and other means of enforcing federal law, but are indeed coercing them into defying federal immigration law....
liar-nObama Brags on Gun Confiscation
Agitator Punks - Better Americans Than Patriots
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Nobody really expected Hussein liar-nObama to keep his arrogant... upturned globalist nose out of the affairs of the United States for very long, precedent and tradition mean nothing to the enemy of America, particularly on an issue as vital to their conquest as our disarmament. The foreign piece of something someone stepped in and tracked into the United States wrote an article in Time in which he criticized American grownups for not being more childlike, for not taking at face value the words of corrupt politicians who want to enslave us but are prevented from completing the transition, or at least obstructed to a degree in the process, by our Second Amendment. liar-nObama falsely blamed guns for our homicide rate he says is unlike that of any other nation. He’s right that our homicide rate is noteworthy. At number 92 on the UNDOC list, it’s much, much lower than he insinuated. His beloved homeland of Kenya is near the top at number six, with the most violent nations being some of those liar-nObama most vigorously imported our “replacement population” from... https://rickwells.us/obama-gun-confiscation-punks/ .
The Dangers of Failing Middle East States
by KOBI MICHAEL AND YOEL GUZANSKY
{ meforum.org } ~ In an address to a prominent British think tank, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently argued that before establishing a Palestinian state... it would be necessary to internalize what had happened in the broader Middle East during the past few years—a reference to the collapsing regional order and the attendant proliferation of failed states. "It's time," he said, "we reassessed whether the modern model we have of sovereignty, and unfettered sovereignty, is applicable everywhere in the world." Netanyahu expressed a wider and deepening concern over the long-term consequences of the on-going Arab upheavals, euphorically misdiagnosed at their onset as the "Arab Spring." These upheavals have toppled a number of established regimes and destabilized several states at a horrific human and material cost. But they also have called into question the century-long Arab system based on territorial nation-states by accelerating processes and undercurrents that have long been in operation, turning many of these entities into failed states. By most accepted measures, the Palestinian Authority is also a failed entity. Would a Palestinian state fare any better?....
Justice Department IG reportedly
probing Comey memos over classified material
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Return of the Feckless Chick-Fil-A-Phobes
by Michelle Malkin
{ cnsnews.com } ~ Move over, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Another unhinged liberal pathology is back:
Chick-fil-A-phobia.
Perhaps, in the interest of public health, the CDC should launch a weekly C-F-A-P surveillance report to map the recurrence of this culturally infectious disease. Early-onset symptoms include fear of pressure-cooked poultry, allergic reaction to waffle potato fries and an irrational hatred of cow costumes. Anti-Christian prejudice and coastal elitism are common comorbidities associated with this debilitating progressive condition.
Ground zero for the latest outbreak? The headquarters of The New Yorker magazine. This week's issue online features the bigoted lament of writer Daniel Piepenbring, who decries the fast-food chain's "creepy infiltration" of the Big Apple and warns against the company's "pervasive Christian traditionalism." Chick-fil-A opened its fourth location in the city last month. The largest franchise in the country, it seats 140, employs 150, and along with the other NYC locations, donates an estimated 17,000 pounds of food to a local pantry for the homeless and hungry. The company is reportedly on track to become the third-largest fast-food chain in the world.
What are the Chick-fil-A-phobes so afraid of?
A private business succeeding in the marketplace based on its merits, without coercion or cronyism.
An enterprise that values hard work, honesty and integrity.
A family-owned American Dream come true that creates jobs, pays taxes, satisfies customers of all backgrounds and gives back to the community.
Horror of horrors, what menaces these sandwich-sellers of faith be!
Chick-fil-A's corporate mission to "glorify God" and "enrich the lives of everyone we touch" leaves The New Yorker scribe terminally heartsick about the "ulterior motive" of its restaurant execs. So do the founding family's commitments to faithful marriages, strong families, Sundays off and the highest standards of character for their employees. The frightened New Yorker critic is especially perturbed by the "Bible verses" enshrined at Chick-fil-A's Atlanta headquarters and by the restaurant's popular bovine mascots -- which he dubs "morbid" and the "ultimate evangelists" -- whose ubiquity on New York billboards and subway corridors is akin to a "carpet bombing."
Notice, by the way, how these hysterical Chick-fil-a-phobes have no qualms about the success of Jewish-owned delis or the spread of Muslim halal food shop operators in New York City who openly pay tribute to their faiths. Imagine a reporter freaking out over Quran verses or Torah citations hung up on a business owner's wall. Welcome to Social Justice 101, where discriminating against Christian-owned business in the name of opposing discrimination is the definition of tolerance.
We've been here before, of course. It was a liberal activist reporter and gay marriage advocate at The New York Times, Kim Severson, who helped launch the first nationwide witch hunt against Chick-fil-A in 2011. The former vice president of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association used her straight-news platform to invoke fear of "evangelical Christianity's muscle flexing" and spread false and libelous attacks on Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy and his family as "anti-gay." Her propagandizing in the radical rag of record helped stoke boycotts and regulatory crackdowns by pandering Democrat Mayors Thomas Menino in Boston, Rahm Emanuel in Chicago, and New York City's Bill de Blasio.
Ultimately, those media-manufactured efforts to stifle Chick-fil-A's free enterprise and First Amendment rights failed. The company's products have proved irresistible to customers on all sides of the political spectrum. Gastronomical satisfaction trumps anti-Christian zealotry and zealous anti-Trumpism.
And that's what chaps the thin hides of the far-left journalists at The New York Times and The New Yorker who choke at the sights and smells of good, old-fashioned capitalism.
If leftists only want to eat and drink at a global fast-food company whose progressive CEO shares their Democrat-supporting, gun-grabbing, open-borders, gay marriage-boosting values, they should stick to Howard Schultz's Starbucks cafes.
Oh, wait...
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Welfare Reform Again
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scum-Eric Holder for Prison, Not President
by Daniel John Sobieski
{ americanthinker.com } ~ If President Trump could hand-select his 2020 Democratic opponent, he could do no better than former liar-nObama attorney general scum-Eric Holder... the only Cabinet official held in contempt of Congress for withholding documents in the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. He is the poster child for the Deep State corruption that festered under liar-nObama and the politicization of both the DOJ and FBI. The former A.G., who is arguably responsible for the homicide of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, murdered by guns scum-Holder and liar-nObama funneled to Mexican drug lords, is in fact considering such a bid: Former Attorney General scum-Eric Holder let the cat out of the bag Tuesday night during a visit to the very friendly confines of MSNBC, acknowledging he is "thinking" about a 2020 presidential run to challenge President Donald Trump....
Turkey Targeting Greece - Again
by Uzay Bulut
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Turkey has been harassing Greece consistently. Most recently, this week, on April 17... two Turkish fighter aircraft harassed the helicopter carrying Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the Greek Armed Forces Chief Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis as they were flying from the islet of Ro to Rhodes. With the illegal seizures and occupation of northern Cyprus in 1974 and the Syrian city of Afrin this March -- with virtually no global response -- Turkey apparently feels unchallenged and eager to continue; this time, it seems, with the oil-and-gas rich islands of Greece. Another provocation by the Turkish government recently took place when three young Greek men recently paid tribute to a dead pilot by planting five flags in some islets in the Aegean. According to the Turkish media, Turkey first urged Greece to remove the flags, then carried out a military operation against a tiny islet... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12199/turkey-targeting-greece-again .
SPLC Pulls Controversial ‘Anti-Muslim
Extremist’ List After Legal Threats
by PETER HASSON
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Southern Poverty Law Center has removed an online list of “anti-Muslim extremists”... after British Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz threatened to sue the SPLC over his inclusion on the list. The list is the fourth article in two months the SPLC has deleted over accuracy concerns. The left-wing nonprofit first published the list in November 2016, offering it as a “field guide” to journalists. In addition to Nawaz, the list included Somali-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who advocates against female genital mutilation, among other issues. Ali blasted the SPLC’s “deeply offensive smears” in an August 2017 op-ed for The New York Times...SPLC is a corrupt organization. http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/19/splc-maajid-nawaz-muslim-extremist/?utm_medium=email .
Are Republicans Draining or Filling the Swamp?
by Chris Talgo and Lennie Jarratt
{ americanthinker.com } ~ On March 9, 2010, Democratic Party speaker of the House Nancy Pulosi said, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."... Pulosi's infamous words referred to the 2,300-page Affordable Care Act, now more commonly known as "liar-nObamacare." Democratic leadership, anticipating voter backlash, rushed to cram their controversial health care bill through Congress before the 2010 midterm election. Democrats were in such a hurry to send the bill to President Barack liar-nObama, they didn't have time to read it. liar-nObama signed his "legacy bill" on March 23, 2010. Eight months later, Democrats paid a steep price at the polls. The Tea Party shockwave that resulted is the biggest turnover election since the Great Depression. Republicans gained 63 seats in the House of Representatives, six in the Senate, and 680 in state legislative races....
U.S.-based Imam Advocates Violence
Against Israel in Anti-Semitic Sermon
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Welfare Reform Again
{ townhall.com } ~ When President liar-Bill Clinton signed the welfare reform act in 1996, which he negotiated with then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, the left claimed people would starve. They didn't. According to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, between 1996 and 2000, the employment rate for single mothers increased from 63 percent to 76 percent. In addition, the overall poverty rate has declined over the last half-century. Many able-bodied people who once relied on a government check found jobs and started earning a paycheck.
Good news, but the sideshow that has attached itself to so much of the Trump administration has distracted many from things that actually affect people's lives.
President Trump last week signed an executive order, the purpose of which is, according to a White House press release, to reduce poverty in America "by promoting opportunity and economic mobility."
Some of that is already happening with unemployment numbers the lowest they've been in 17 years.
The press release says that in 2017, "the Federal Government spent more than $700 billion on low-income assistance." It notes that since modern welfare began during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, the system has become a large bureaucracy with little incentive for people to look for work.
Conservatives like to say they measure success not by how many people receive government assistance, but by how many don't. It is more than a sound bite. Helping people become independent of government is real compassion.
The executive order addresses what for many has become an addiction to government: "While bipartisan welfare reform enacted in 1996 was a step toward eliminating the economic stagnation and social harm that can result from long-term Government dependence, the welfare system still traps many recipients, especially children, in poverty and is in need of further reform and modernization in order to increase self-sufficiency, well-being, and economic mobility."
The order also stresses the need for better social networking to become more involved in helping able-bodied people to acquire the skills, education, child care and especially the motivation to work. I would add that churches and religious institutions that benefit from tax breaks should be encouraged to do more to help poor people find employment.
The president cites another key to reducing the welfare rolls: "Address the challenges of populations that may particularly struggle to find and maintain employment including single parents, formerly incarcerated individuals, the homeless, substance abusers, individuals with disabilities and disconnected youth..."
Education choice should be another component of welfare reform. A good education for a child currently living in poverty is a ticket out of the system and into a better life.
I have written before about the nation of Singapore, where unemployment hovers around 2 percent. That's because the country has no welfare programs. If one is capable of working and doesn't work, he gets no check from the government. The truly needy are cared for. Knowing that government is a last resort and not a first resource and that if you don't work, you won't have money to buy food, is a powerful incentive to find a job.
What the administration should do to help sell its welfare reform initiative is locate people who benefitted from the 1996 legislation and who are working and supporting their families and feature them at public events. Optimism almost always overcomes pessimism and the story of people overcoming odds is America's story.
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"Firewalls" and "Taint Teams" Do
Not Protect Fourth and Sixth Amendment Rights
by Alan M. Dershowitz .
Comey's Dog Ate McCabe's Homework -
Only Hope to Flip on liar-nObama/liar-Clinton
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Judicial Watch’s Chris Farrell joins Gregg Jarrett, filling in for Lou Dobbs, who starts of the discussion by stating... “Looks like the wheels of justice finally caught up with McCabe, although his defense will likely be what he put in his op-ed, in the Washington Post after he got fired.” Jarrett paraphrases what McCabe said then as, “Gee, I was, you know I was really busy and I was kind of confused and, you know, I might have made a mistake but I tried to correct it. That ain’t going to fly is it? The IG said that his lies were knowingly and intentionally made.” Farrell shakes his head that they are not going to fly, that McCabe “is a very experienced agent of twenty some odd years, Deputy Director of the FBI. And this, you know, the dog ate my homework, gee I forgot stuff is not going to fly, not for a second.”... https://rickwells.us/comey-dog-ate-mccabe-homework-flip/.DNC launches multimillion-dollar lawsuit
against Russian government, Trump campaign, WikiLeaks
by Katelyn Caralle
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Democratic National Committee on Friday filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Russian government, the Trump campaign, and WikiLeaks... alleging a conspiracy between the three entities to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign in order to get Donald Trump elected. “During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump’s campaign,” DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement, the Washington Post reported. The complaint was filed in a federal district court in Manhattan, N.Y., on Friday, and alleges that Trump campaign officials worked in conjunction with the Russian government to hurt Democratic presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton...The DNC are losing their minds for sure. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/dnc-files-lawsuit-against-russian-government-trump-campaign-wikileaks .
Giuliani Just Revealed His Game-Changing
Plan to Deal With Mueller, Russia Investigation
by CILLIAN ZEAL
{ westernjournal.com } ~ When Donald Trump wants to lawyer up, he doesn’t fool around... And now that the Mueller investigation has kicked into high gear over stuff it wasn’t even supposed to be investigating in the first place, he’s brought in a old friend from good ol’ Gotham. According to the New York Post, Rudy Giuliani — the former presidential candidate and mayor of New York City during 9/11 — will be joining the president’s legal team and hopes to put an end to Mueller’s intrusions in “a week or two.” Giuliani joins Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow on the legal team dealing with Mueller. For those of you who didn’t grow up or live in New York City before Giuliani was mayor, this move might seem a bit strange to you. However, Giuliani made his name as a tough-as-nails federal prosecutor, aggressively going after the mob in an era where doing so risked ending up with your bullet-riddled remains in the trunk of a ’78 Chrysler Cordoba abandoned on the Cross-Bronx Expressway... https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/giuliani-just-revealed-his-game-changing-to-deal-with-mueller-russia-investigation/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune.The American “Inability to Understand” Jihadis
by Robert Spencer
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ One of the biggest ongoing problems of U.S. foreign policy is a failure to understand what we’re really up against... This problem is nothing new, although Barack liar-nObama took it to new heights by banning all mention of Islam and jihad from counterterror training, with many of his loyalists still in place and hampering our ability to deal realistically with the jihad threat today. This myopia goes back decades. In Theodore H. White’s America In Search of Itself, there is this telling passage about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979. Khomeini’s Islamic regime was a government, but not in any sense that American diplomats were used to dealing with. What set Khomeini and his regime apart from the likes of Kim and Mao was Islam, and few, if any, foreign service professionals in the State Department understood that or knew how to deal with it... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269941/american-inability-understand-jihadis-robert-spencer .
Mitch McConnell Slams the Door on “Protect Mueller” Bill
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"Firewalls" and "Taint Teams" Do
Not Protect Fourth and Sixth Amendment Rights
by Alan M. Dershowitz
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ *The Fourth and Sixth Amendments prohibit government officials from in any way intruding on the privacy of lawyer/client confidential rights of citizens.
*The very fact that this material is seen or read by a government official constitutes a core violation. It would be the same if the government surreptitiously recorded a confession of a penitent to a priest, or a description of symptoms by a patient to a doctor, or a discussion of their sex life between a husband and wife.
*The recourses for intrusions on the Fourth and Sixth Amendments are multifold: the victim of the intrusion can sue for damages; he or she can exclude it from use by the government in criminal or civil cases; or the victim can demand the material back. But none of these remedies undo the harm to privacy and confidentiality done to the citizen by the government's intrusion into his private and confidential affairs.
*The very fact that this material is seen or read by a government official constitutes a core violation. It would be the same if the government surreptitiously recorded a confession of a penitent to a priest, or a description of symptoms by a patient to a doctor, or a discussion of their sex life between a husband and wife.
*The recourses for intrusions on the Fourth and Sixth Amendments are multifold: the victim of the intrusion can sue for damages; he or she can exclude it from use by the government in criminal or civil cases; or the victim can demand the material back. But none of these remedies undo the harm to privacy and confidentiality done to the citizen by the government's intrusion into his private and confidential affairs.
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Many TV pundits are telling viewers not to worry about the government's intrusion into possible lawyer/client privileged communications between President Trump and his lawyer, since prosecutors will not get to see or use any privileged material. This is because prosecutors and FBI agents create firewalls and taint teams to preclude privileged information from being used against the client in a criminal case. But that analysis completely misses the point and ignores the distinction between the Fifth Amendment on the one hand, and the Fourth and Sixth Amendments on the other.
The Fifth Amendment is an exclusionary rule. By its terms, it prevents material obtained in violation of the privilege of self-incrimination from being used to incriminate a defendant – that is to convict him of a crime. But the Fourth and Sixth Amendments provide far broader protections: they prohibit government officials from in any way intruding on the privacy of lawyer/client confidential rights of citizens. In other words, if the government improperly seizes private or privileged material, the violation has already occurred, even if the government never uses the material from the person from whom it was seized.
Not surprisingly, therefore, firewalls and taint teams were developed in the context of the Fifth Amendment, not the Fourth or Sixth Amendments. Remember who comprises the firewall and taint teams: other FBI agents, prosecutors and government officials who have no right under the Fourth and Sixth Amendments, even to see private or confidential materials, regardless of whether it is ever used against a defendant. The very fact that this material is seen or read by a government official constitutes a core violation. It would be the same if the government surreptitiously recorded a confession of a penitent to a priest, or a description of symptoms by a patient to a doctor, or a discussion of their sex life between a husband and wife. The government simply has no right to this material, whether it ever uses it against the penitent or the patient or the spouse in a criminal case.
So, let's not dismiss the potential violation of the rights of Michael Cohen and his client, if it were to turn out that included among the materials seized by the government in the raid were private or confidential information or documents.
The recourses for intrusions on the Fourth and Sixth Amendments are multifold: the victim of the intrusion can sue for damages; he or she can exclude it from use by the government in criminal or civil cases; or the victim can demand the material back. But none of these remedies undo the harm to privacy and confidentiality done to the citizen by the government's intrusion into his private and confidential affairs.
An equally important harm is to important relationships that are protected by the law: between lawyer and client, priest and penitent, doctor and patient, husband and wife, etc. If an ordinary citizen, seeing that even the president's confidential communications with his lawyer can be seized and perused, he or she will be far less willing to engage in such communications. As a society, we value such communications; that is why our laws protect them and that is why it should be extremely difficult for the government to intrude upon them, except as a last recourse in extremely important cases.
From what we know, this case does not meet those stringent standards. Much of the material sought by the warrant could probably be obtained through other sources, such as bank, tax and other records that are subject to subpoena. Moreover, the alleged crimes at issue – highly technical violations of banking and election laws – would not seem to warrant the extreme measure of a highly publicized search and seizure of records that may well include some that are subject to the lawyer/client privilege.
Someday soon, the government is going to have to justify its decision to conduct this raid. I challenge any reader who is not concerned about this raid to honestly answer the following question: If the raid had been conducted on liar-Hillary Clinton's lawyer's office and home, would you be as unconcerned? The truth now!
The Fifth Amendment is an exclusionary rule. By its terms, it prevents material obtained in violation of the privilege of self-incrimination from being used to incriminate a defendant – that is to convict him of a crime. But the Fourth and Sixth Amendments provide far broader protections: they prohibit government officials from in any way intruding on the privacy of lawyer/client confidential rights of citizens. In other words, if the government improperly seizes private or privileged material, the violation has already occurred, even if the government never uses the material from the person from whom it was seized.
Not surprisingly, therefore, firewalls and taint teams were developed in the context of the Fifth Amendment, not the Fourth or Sixth Amendments. Remember who comprises the firewall and taint teams: other FBI agents, prosecutors and government officials who have no right under the Fourth and Sixth Amendments, even to see private or confidential materials, regardless of whether it is ever used against a defendant. The very fact that this material is seen or read by a government official constitutes a core violation. It would be the same if the government surreptitiously recorded a confession of a penitent to a priest, or a description of symptoms by a patient to a doctor, or a discussion of their sex life between a husband and wife. The government simply has no right to this material, whether it ever uses it against the penitent or the patient or the spouse in a criminal case.
So, let's not dismiss the potential violation of the rights of Michael Cohen and his client, if it were to turn out that included among the materials seized by the government in the raid were private or confidential information or documents.
The recourses for intrusions on the Fourth and Sixth Amendments are multifold: the victim of the intrusion can sue for damages; he or she can exclude it from use by the government in criminal or civil cases; or the victim can demand the material back. But none of these remedies undo the harm to privacy and confidentiality done to the citizen by the government's intrusion into his private and confidential affairs.
An equally important harm is to important relationships that are protected by the law: between lawyer and client, priest and penitent, doctor and patient, husband and wife, etc. If an ordinary citizen, seeing that even the president's confidential communications with his lawyer can be seized and perused, he or she will be far less willing to engage in such communications. As a society, we value such communications; that is why our laws protect them and that is why it should be extremely difficult for the government to intrude upon them, except as a last recourse in extremely important cases.
From what we know, this case does not meet those stringent standards. Much of the material sought by the warrant could probably be obtained through other sources, such as bank, tax and other records that are subject to subpoena. Moreover, the alleged crimes at issue – highly technical violations of banking and election laws – would not seem to warrant the extreme measure of a highly publicized search and seizure of records that may well include some that are subject to the lawyer/client privilege.
Someday soon, the government is going to have to justify its decision to conduct this raid. I challenge any reader who is not concerned about this raid to honestly answer the following question: If the raid had been conducted on liar-Hillary Clinton's lawyer's office and home, would you be as unconcerned? The truth now!
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The Smearing of a Trump Judicial Nominee
by Guy Benson .
clown-Schumer - Not Trump,
But All Other Presidents Deserve to Have Picks Confirmed
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ With the obstructionist Senate Democrats opposing the nomination of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State... at a time when there are serious international issues that demand the attention of a capable professional on all sides, and with Mike Pompeo being a very capable individual, it’s interesting to listen to how Democrats addressed the issue when it was Hussein liar-nObama’s choices that needed approval. In November of 2013, Democrats voted by a margin of 52 to 48, along party lines, to ban the use of the filibuster to prevent nominees from being confirmed. At the time Majority Leader dinky-Harry Reid derided Republicans for “blocking nominees” in the pursuit of unrelated legislative goals. He said, “For the first time in the history of our republic, Republicans have routinely used the filibuster to prevent President liar-nObama from appointing an executive team and from appointing judges. The need for change is so, so very obvious. It’s clearly visible. It’s manifest we have to do something to change things.” It’s unfortunate that he was able to get so many activist judges through the system as a result....
Devin Nunes, Bob Goodlatte and
Trey Gowdy Respond to Release of Comey Memos
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ “We have long argued former Director Comey’s self-styled memos should be in the public domain... subject to any classification redactions. These memos are significant for both what is in them and what is not. Former Director Comey’s memos show the President made clear he wanted allegations of collusion, coordination, and conspiracy between his campaign and Russia fully investigated. The memos also made clear the ‘cloud’ President Trump wanted lifted was not the Russian interference in the 2016 election cloud, rather it was the salacious, unsubstantiated allegations related to personal conduct leveled in the dossier. The memos also show former Director Comey never wrote that he felt obstructed or threatened. While former Director Comey went to great lengths to set dining room scenes, discuss height requirements, describe the multiple times he felt complimented, and myriad other extraneous facts, he never once mentioned the most relevant fact of all, which was whether he felt obstructed in his investigation... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/04/19/devin-nunes-bob-goodlatte-and-trey-gowdy-respond-to-release-of-comey-memos/.Key DOJ and FBI Names Likely to
Surface Amid IG Investigative Reports and Referrals
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ With Inspector General Michael Horowitz submitting a criminal referral for fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe... and with knowledge of federal prosecutor John Huber paralleling Horowitz for months within the investigation; it might be worthwhile going through the names of some officials likely to surface in the next few days/weeks. The most interesting people in the ongoing investigation are those principals who clearly were in/around the center of 2015/2016 activity; were caught in 2017, yet remain inside the FBI and DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) ie. Main Justice... ."Belgium companies sold deadly
chemicals to Assad in violation of sanctions"
by Benjamin Weinthal
{ jpost.com } ~ Antwerp’s Criminal Court has opened cases against three Flemish companies for the alleged violations of EU sanctions... relating to the sale of illegal chemicals to the Syrian regime, according to a Wednesday report from the Belgium newsweekly Knack. The magazine reported that the Belgian companies – AAE Chemie, Danmar Logistics, and the shut-down Anex Customs – exported the chemicals to the Syrian regime, which included isopropanol, a chemical that can be used in the manufacturing of sarin nerve gas. Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime used sarin gas in a massive chemical attack on civilians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta in 2013, resulting in the deaths of 1,4000 people. The joint media report said: “UN Comtrade statistics show that Belgium was the only EU member state that continued to export [iso]propanol to Syria since EU sanctions were imposed in 2013.” The report also showed that Belgium had sold deadly chemicals to Lebanon. The criminal trial in Antwerp involving the companies is slated for May 15... http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Belgium-companies-sold-deadly-chemicals-to-Assad-in-violation-of-sanctions-551224As Republicans dither on
liar-nObamacare, Democrats plot its expansion
by Philip Klein
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ When Republicans fail to advance a limited government agenda when they have power, it does not merely entrench the status quo... it paves the road for liberals to fulfill their expansionist dreams when they’re in charge. There is no better example of this than on healthcare policy. For decades, Republican inaction and acquiesce has allowed liberals to make uneven yet substantial progress toward their ultimate goal of imposing government-run healthcare on the United States. This time, Republican dithering may just enable Democrats to reach that promised land. In 1994, Republicans cheered after defeating President liar-Clinton’s push for national healthcare.They moved on to other issues, and avoided comprehensive free market healthcare reform when they had unified control of government during the second Bush administration. Democrats regrouped, learned from their mistakes, and honed their policies and messaging as they waited for their next opportunity. When given the chance, they passed liar-nObamacare....
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The Smearing of a Trump Judicial Nominee
{ townhall.com } ~ Did you hear the one about the 'racist' Trump judicial nominee? Wendy Vitter, whom the president has selected to a federal District Court bench in Eastern Louisiana, declined at her confirmation hearing this week to weigh in on the correctness of the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education striking down segregation. The Left-wing outrage industry -- already eager to see her defeated -- seized on the exchange to paint Vitter as a crypto-segregationist:
“Do you believe that Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided,” Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, asked. “I don’t mean to be coy,” Vitter responded. “But I think I get into a difficult area when I start commenting on Supreme Court decisions which are correctly decided and which I may disagree with. Again, my personal, political or religious views I would set aside. That is Supreme Court precedent. It is binding. If I were honored to be confirmed I would be bound by it, and of course I would uphold it.” After a pause, Blumenthal repeated the question. Vitter said: “Again, I would respectfully not comment on what could be my boss’ ruling, the Supreme Court. I would be bound by it. And if I start commenting on ‘I agree with this case’ or ‘don’t agree with this case’ I think we get into a slippery slope.”
This clip made the rounds, with liberal commentators melting down over how astonishing and amoral her response was. Take a look at some of these headlines. But the very same former Assistant US Attorney who many on the Left and others were favorably quoting earlier in the week regarding the FBI raids against President Trump's personal attorney took to Twitter to expose what he described as the "deceit" involved in launching this smear:
What Vitter was doing in this instance was resorting to -- or retreating to -- a version of the 'Ginsburg Standard,' established by ultraliberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during her 1993 confirmation hearings. At the time, she said she would decline to comment specifically on any cases or issues that may come before her as a justice. Here's a contemporaneous New York Times report:
In her opening statement to the committee, which began its hearings today on the nomination, Judge Ginsburg also sought to set a clear boundary on what kind of questions she was willing to answer. She said she would not discuss specific cases or issues that might come before her. "It would be wrong for me to say or preview in this legislative chamber how I would cast my vote on questions the Supreme Court may be called upon to decide," she said. "A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process." Although such unwillingness to engage in specifics has frustrated and annoyed some senators in the past, it was clear today that it will make no difference for Judge Ginsburg, who seems bound to win Senate approval easily.
Indeed, she sailed through by a 96-3 vote. As Ken White (aka "Pope Hat") says, "a significant number of nominees" have adopted a similar approach to answering questions about specific cases. Vitter undoubtedly believes Brown v. Board was rightly and justly decided, as do all Americans beyond the racist fringe. But like others before her, she chose not to go down the path of opining on the wisdom or rectitude of various Supreme Court rulings on any subject. If there were any shred of evidence at all that she might not believe in racial integration, that would certainly be cause for serious alarm. But her response to this question does not constitute such evidence. Also, a conservative attorney points out that Vitter specifically says she's bound by the Brown v. Board precedent:
My strong guess is that Vitter knows that this specific decision is a no-brainer, but discerned that if she started offering her views on "easy" cases, the line of questioning would proceed to much more controversial matters like Roe, Heller, Obergefell, etc. You may think it was a tactical error to stay silent on this narrow question in order to avoid the category entirely others have weighed in on settled, slam-dunk cases like Brown without wading into others. You may think that judges should be more transparent on such matters in general. But that's not the point of this nasty attack. The point of this nasty attack is to imply that the nominee, and the man who nominated her, are retrograde racists. I cannot speak to the qualifications of Ms. Vitter for the position, and I happen to agree that her past anti-abortion activism and initially incomplete disclosures are reasonable issues for opponents to raise; conservatives would do the same if the ideological shoe were on the other foot.
But this particular smear, which has gained a great deal of attention just perform a web search of her name, seems grossly unfair and misleading. I'll leave you with this: The Time Magazine piece I quoted above asserted that Vitter once advanced the "false statement" that Planned Parenthood kills 150,000 American females per year. But that claim is absolutely true if one believes that (a) each abortion ends a life, and (b) roughly half of all abortions in America target unborn females Planned Parenthood performs approximately 300,000 abortions per year. Each element of that belief is backed up by science. Pro-choice or pro-abortion people may not believe that those lives ought to be legally recognized or protected, but that opinion does not change the scientific facts. It's almost as if journalists are overwhelmingly biased on the issue of abortion.
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Patriots' Day and the Flags of Our Forefathers
by Mark Alexander
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Levin Urges Trump to Ignore
Mueller - DOJ Can't Indict Sitting President
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Mark Levin has read the Comey memos and says, “These memos actually help the President... there is nothing incriminating in them.” He holds up the memos, saying, “See these redacted areas? They incriminate Comey, because he said he didn’t release classified information. At the bottom of a number of these pages it says “classified.” Levin characterizes President Trump in the content of the memos as being furious about these allegations, about prostitutes and you know, and so forth. And he continually denies it, that didn’t happen and so forth and so on.” Noting a statement by Rosenstein to President Trump last week informing him that he’s not the target of an investigation but a subject, Levin says, “Let’s get something straight.” He has two memorandum, “one under the Nixon administration, one under the liar-Clinton administration.”... https://rickwells.us/levin-trump-ignore-mueller-doj/.Rosenstein tells Trump he
is not a target of Michael Cohen investigation
by Matt Richardson
{ foxnews.com } ~ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Trump last week that the president is not a target in the Michael Cohen investigation... and that the investigation is focused solely on Cohen, the president's personal attorney, a source familiar with the probe told Fox News on Thursday. Trump has been told previously that he is not a target of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. The source also said the Cohen investigation, together with the abrupt departure of John Dowd from Trump's legal team, slowed, but did not halt talks about Trump sitting down for a potential interview with Mueller. The FBI last week raided the office, home and hotel room of Cohen. Federal agents reportedly obtained documents related to several issues, including Cohen's payments to adult-film star Stormy Daniels in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election... ttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/19/rosenstein-tells-trump-is-not-target-cohen-investigation.htmlKurds Make Huge 9/11 Capture
by JOE SAUNDERS
{ westernjournal.com } ~ The Kurds have come through again. Eighteen years after thousands of Americans died in the attacks of 9/11... one of the remaining men suspected of recruiting the terrorist hijackers has been captured by Kurdish militia forces allied with the United States in Syria. And showed just how important American support for the Kurds really is. According to Agence France-Presse, Mohammed Haydar Zammar, a Syrian born German national linked to 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta was arrested Wednesday by the Kurdish People’s Defense Forces, a militia group fighting Islamic State group terrorists in Syria... https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/report-kurds-capture/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativebyte&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance .
Did James Comey Try To Set Trump Up on Salacious Dossier?
by Jim E
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ We called it. Last night, here at The Political Insider, we reported... that the fabled memos of former FBI Director James Comey outlining his discussions and meetings with President Trump would be released to Congress. In the piece, we noted that you shouldn’t “count on the substance of the memos to remain a secret from the public for very long either.” Just like clockwork, some of the memos were leaked last night, revealing Comey’s deeply-held memories about his talks with President Trump. And we’re just learning that Comey may have revealed that President Trump was set up in one meeting in order to have the infamous Trump dossier, which documented Trump frequenting Russian prostitutes, reported in the press... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/james-comey-memo-dossier/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_4_20_2018&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI .
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Fresno Professor Under Fire For Trashing Barbara Bush On Day She Died.
backstabber-Chuck Grassley Must Come From The rino-John McCain Wing Of The GOP.
Could The Sanctuary Status Backlash Turn California Republican?.
Syria, Russia STILL Keeping Chemical Weapons Inspectors Out.
Another Example Of Chuck clown-Schumer’s Flip-Flop Disease.
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Patriots' Day and the Flags of Our Forefathers
by Mark Alexander: April 19th is Patriots’ Day, commemorating the anniversary of that date in 1775 when American militiamen at Lexington and Concord fired the “Shot Heard ‘Round The World” — the opening volley of the American Revolution. We hold this historic date in high esteem, along with those days commemorating the anniversaries of our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and its Bill of Rights. Indeed, our publication takes its name in honor of this first generation of American Patriots — and all those since. Unfortunately, Patriots’ Day receives little attention nationally, and even less in educational institutions, where our nation’s stirring and singular history is rarely taught to young people.
The most basic principles of American Liberty and Rule of Law, and the generational sacrifices of millions of Americans who have honored their oaths “to support and defend” Liberty’s enshrinement in our Constitution, are often not understood or appreciated by many young people — and too many adults.
So undervalued are our forbear’s historic sacrifices for Liberty that among the ranks of entrenched ideological leftists are those who view our nation’s flag with contempt. This is often combined with a deep insecurity-driven fear of the Liberty and self-determination it represents and, consequently, a loathing of those willing to defend it.
In our conservative East Tennessee community, the American flag is commonly displayed on houses and, to commemorate Memorial, Independence and Veterans Days each year, is attached to every power pole on the main thoroughfares.
Among the fixed residential flag poles in our community is a 20-foot standard in front of our house.
I installed that pole in June of 1994, on the 50th anniversary of D-Day — the beginning of the end of World War II. I erected it as a humble but fitting tribute to a neighbor, my father’s lifelong best friend and fellow WWII veteran. So close were these two men that we always referred to my father’s friend as “uncle.”
In 1944, my “uncle” was a young Army second lieutenant leading a machine gun platoon on the front lines of notable battles against Hitler’s Wehrmacht in France and Germany until the end of the war. On several occasions in urban combat, he killed the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Though a strong and tough individual of formidable stature well into his 80s, he recounted those battles with great pain and occasional tears for the loss of life — on both sides.
He has since departed this life, but it’s for him — and for all who have defended Liberty at risk of their own life — that our flag flies high and proud.
Last month, our flag greeted a gathering of Vietnam combat veterans at our home, some of whom recently returned to that country to make their peace. It was an extraordinary evening, but punctuated by a question asked by one of those decorated veterans which sparked some antipathy. That question: “Do some people object to your flag?”
It was the fifth time I’d been asked a similar question in recent months, and it stemmed from a plastic yard sign across the street from our flag that asserts, “Hate Has No Home Here” — in multiple languages. Some similar signs popped up in front of a few other residences occupied by “liberals,” ostensibly in response to the clash of socialist and fascist haters in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer.
All but a handful of those signs disappeared after a month or so.
Of course, there’s nothing inherently wrong with the message on that yard sign, other than such signs are the epitome of trendy “virtue signaling” and may be intended to project that the views of those occupants have higher moral authority and standing than those of their neighbors. Notably, posting yard signs and applying bumper stickers is most often the full extent of the “sacrifice” these folks undertake to change the world.
According to the Chicago-based activists who produce and market the signs, they’re needed because, “Hate, unchecked, can make neighbors feel fearful and unwelcome in their own communities. … It’s easy to hate people we don’t know.” But what about the neighbors we do know?
In a conversation with my friend about his sign, he explained that it is aimed at “jingoistic flag-wavers” and all those deplorable people who did not support liar-Hillary Clinton.
The implications of that explanation notwithstanding, I genuinely like all our neighbors, regardless of their political affinities. I grew up in a home steeped in the principles set forth in the Greatest Commandments (Matthew 22:35-40) and was taught early that there’s good to be found in just about everyone from any walk of life. As a result, I treasure relationships with many friends and colleagues who hold a wide spectrum of beliefs.
To maintain relationships with a few of them, as a rule I avoid engaging in any Chardonnay-soaked political debate with folks whose views are antithetical to those I share with generations of Patriots who have devoted their lives to Liberty for all.
I subscribe to, and recommend Thomas Jefferson maxim: “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
Of course, Jefferson also advised, “Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.”
When pondering the deeply held political beliefs of those who errantly embrace statism, without understanding that its terminus is, irrevocably, tyranny, I recall with a smile how kindly Ronald Reagan put it: “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
For the record, I don’t display yard signs or bumper stickers which project political or social virtues, opting instead for action over imagery. (Disclaimer: In recent years a few of my likeminded prankster friends have littered our yard with liar-nObama and liar-Clinton campaign signs — under cover of darkness. All such fraternal insults are answered in kind!)
But make no mistake: I’ll defend my neighbor’s right to post his yard sign.
For me, and for American Patriots nationwide, that defense is, in small part, what our flag represents — and has embodied since the original 13-star Patriot flag was raised after those first shots fired at Lexington Green.
Thus, I’ll always fly our nation’s flag with due honor and pride, and lower it on occasion, as I did at sunrise today in memory of and respect for Barbara Bush. Our flag reflects our gratitude for generations of Patriots who sacrificed their personal safety in defense of Liberty, and the innumerable and extraordinary personal sacrifices under that banner. ~The Patriot Post
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