The Republican Party in Congress has shown with the passing of the Omnibus Spending Bill that they have spent too much time in "Farmer Jones' House". Maybe it is time to replace the lumbering elephant with the upright walking pig from Animal Farm. What excuses are they planning on giving us when they abandon their support of the 2nd Amendment?
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Give Me Your Dreamers…
by Ann Coulter
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DOJ Admits They Have a
Grand Jury Empaneled in FBI and DOJ Investigation
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is one of the top three people throughout the entirety of congress... with a comprehensive knowledge of the events surrounding the investigations of the FBI and DOJ. Chairman Goodlatte is one of only four people outside the DOJ who have read the full DOJ FISA application used for a Title-1 Surveillance warrant of Carter Page. The House Judiciary Committee holds the primary statutory oversight over the U.S. Department of Justice. Additionally, Chairman Goodlatte is the congressional office working closest with DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. In short, Goodlatte is the center of all ‘oversight’ information circling the investigations into the DOJ and FBI. However, all of that said, even Chairman Bob Goodlatte doesn’t, and shouldn’t, know what criminal investigations are underway. We’ve explained this dynamic of disconnect numerous times. We really began emphasizing this when AG Jeff Sessions admitted he brought in a prosecutor from outside Washington DC to work with Inspector General Horowitz....United Nations Report
Highlights North Korea Sanctions Violations
by Mathew Ha
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ Last week, the UN Panel of Experts released its latest report on sanctions violations by North Korea and its enablers... The contents of the report indicate that the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign is working, yet there remains much to be done to ensure that Western pressure on North Korea is truly at a maximum. The Panel’s new report uncovered North Korea’s illicit military cooperation with countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Particularly disturbing is the “substantial new evidence” regarding Pyongyang’s support for the development of Syria’s chemical weapons program. North Korean support for the production of Syrian WMD also serves as an apt reminder of Pyongyang’s role in building a nuclear reactor in Syria that Israel destroyed in 2007. The UN also highlighted North Korea’s cyber operations against South Korean shipbuilding companies, such as Daewoo Ship Building & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd, to steal confidential information about warships, submarines, and other naval technologies. Such information would be invaluable for North Korean weapons developers. Specifically, the panel noted that North Korea stole information on “cold launch” technology it could use for its submarine-launched ballistic missile program... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/mathew-ha-united-nations-report-highlights-north-korea-sanctions-violations/.
Lou Dobbs Interviews Wilbur Ross on Tariff’s Targeting China
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross appears on Lou Dobbs show to discuss the ongoing trade initiatives against China and the issues of intellectual property theft... The world's second-largest economy has responded to President Donald Trump's controversial trade tariffs. China's commerce ministry proposed a list of 128 U.S. products as potential retaliation targets, according to a statement on its websiteposted Friday morning. The U.S. goods, which had an import value of $3 billion in 2017, include wine, fresh fruit, dried fruit and nuts, steel pipes, modified ethanol, and ginseng, the ministry said. Those products could see a 15 percent duty, while a 25 percent tariff could be imposed on U.S. pork and recycled aluminium goods, according to the statement...
.Germany at odds with US on condemning Hezbollah in Iran talks
by Benjamin Weinthal
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ Germany’s government has refused to agree to a key U.S. demand to designate the entire Lebanese Islamic militia Hezbollah... and not just a piece of it -- a terrorist organization as part of talks to rein in the nuclear program in Iran. Two sources familiar with the U.S. talks with Germany, France and the United Kingdom over remedying defects in the Iran nuclear deal told Fox News of Berlin's stance, saying that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration is the “least cooperative” of the three European powers. Germany is resisting the U.S. negotiating team appeal---and President Donald Trump's position-- to outlaw all of Hezbollah because that demand, say German diplomats, is linked to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The sources said Germany views the Trump administration as too pro-Israel. As a result, Germany does not want to ban all of Hezbollah, specifically its “political wing,” within its territory, where 950 Hezbollah members raise funds and are recruiting members...Say good-bye to Germany. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/germany-at-odds-with-us-on-condemning-hezbollah-in-iran-talks/.
Bruce Ohr, Fusion GPS, & the DNC-Funded Trump Dossier
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ In this edition of “Inside Judicial Watch,” Jerry Dunleavy sits down with JW Senior Attorney Ramona Cotca to discuss Judicial Watch’s legal battle... to find out what top-DOJ official Bruce Ohr was up to regarding any connection to Fusion GPS. The opposition research firm was responsible for producing the infamous Trump dossier, which was used by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump Team. Bruce was in contact with Christopher Steele, the author of the Trump dossier. In fall 2016, the FBI cut ties with Steele. At the time, Bruce’s wife, Nellie, was an employee for Fusion GPS. This information was not disclosed to the DOJ. Judicial Watch filed two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the Justice Department for records about Bruce and Nellie Ohr’s involvement in the Trump dossier... https://www.judicialwatch.org/video-update/inside-judicial-watch-bruce-ohr-fusion-gps-dnc-funded-trump-dossier/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=action+alert&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180323192249.
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Give Me Your Dreamers…
by Ann Coulter
{ freedomsback.com } ~ Does anyone know why President Trump loves “Dreamers” — i.e.: illegal aliens allegedly brought here before the age of 12 which no federal judge will ever check by their parents which no federal judge will ever check, “through no fault of their own” which no federal judge will ever check?
We’ve been lectured by Mark Zuckerberg about how much better “Dreamers” are than you lazy Americans — especially African-Americans, whose jobs are disproportionately taken by illegals. As former Mexican President Vicente Fox once charmingly put it, illegal immigrants “are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States.”
So why aren’t we being bombarded with television interviews and profiles of these amazing human beings?
Liberals can’t make an argument without producing a victim. Attack the media — they bleat about journalists getting shot in the face while reporting abroad. Complain about FBI corruption — they choke up over G-men putting their lives on the line EVERY DAY! Denounce the Deep State — they moan that CIA officers have been killed in the line of duty.
Isn’t this the moment for our hearts to be breaking over the millions of wonderful “Dreamers” who will suffer unless we amnesty them immediately?
Let’s see ’em! Surely they’ve got a few Einsteins! After all, the media are capable of turning a gang-admiring thug who forcibly robbed a convenience store and assaulted a cop into “Gentle giant, Mike Brown.” They turned jewelry-stealing juvenile delinquent Trayvon Martin into an altar boy.
But even MSNBC dare not show us Trump’s beloved “Dreamers.” The snarling Muslim showcased by the Democrats at their 2016 convention has gotten more airtime than any “Dreamer.”
There are plenty of vague descriptions of “Dreamers,” all of whom seem to be valedictorians. But can anyone identify precisely what they have contributed to our country — other than lots of police work, welfare and protests?
The best “Dreamers” always sound like the “honor student” in Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities: “somebody who attends class, isn’t disruptive, tries to learn, and does all right at reading and arithmetic.”
How about MSNBC interview five new “Dreamers” every night? Five non-hateful ones are probably the most they could get.
As long as Trump is going to keep babbling about these “absolutely incredible kids” — “I love these kids!” — and obstinately refuse to deport them, he must have met thousands of them. He plans to amnesty millions.
Why doesn’t Trump showcase his favorite two dozen “Dreamers”? Let the rest of us decide how “incredible” they are.
But no Glamour magazine profiles, please! We want to know everything, e.g.: How much have they cost the taxpayers in free school lunches and medical care? How many anchor babies have they had? What percentage have been convicted of a felony or killed someone in a drunk driving accident? How many have been admitted to college by taking affirmative action spots intended for the descendants of American slaves?
In 2009, The New York Times’ Lawrence Downes gushed over illegal alien Benita Veliz. Three years later, liberals still hadn’t come up with a better one: In 2012, she was the featured illegal alien at the Democratic National Convention. It only seems like the Democrats have an illegal alien speak at all their conventions. Veliz was the first.
Downes ticked off Veliz’s “impressive” accomplishments: “She was valedictorian at Jefferson High School” — naturally! — “graduating at age 16. She went to St. Mary’s University in San Antonio on a full scholarship.” A scholarship, I note, that otherwise might have gone to a yucky American.
I gather Veliz is the left’s designated baby seal of “Dreamers.”
Veliz is probably a nice lady, but she was valedictorian at a school that Downes would never send his kids to. Jefferson High School is 98 percent minority, less than half the students are “English proficient,” and only 16 percent are ready for college.
HOW DID AMERICA EVER GET BY WITHOUT HER?
Or to use Downes’ more-relaxed standard: “How will this country be a better place once we force Benita Veliz to leave it?”
Off the top of my head: There would be less strain on education budgets, hospital emergency rooms, roads and bridges, and that college scholarship Veliz got would be open to an American kid.
This is a country built by Western Europeans. Immigrants arrived after it was already set up and running well. The idea that any immigrant who hasn’t committed a felony is someone we can’t live without is absurd.
If you’re a yuppie in a rich white area and don’t like cleaning your toilets, the Trump administration has been great for you. But if you’re a Trump voter, you’re scratching your head wondering what happened to those campaign promises that set him apart from every other Republican.
{ freedomsback.com } ~ Does anyone know why President Trump loves “Dreamers” — i.e.: illegal aliens allegedly brought here before the age of 12 which no federal judge will ever check by their parents which no federal judge will ever check, “through no fault of their own” which no federal judge will ever check?
We’ve been lectured by Mark Zuckerberg about how much better “Dreamers” are than you lazy Americans — especially African-Americans, whose jobs are disproportionately taken by illegals. As former Mexican President Vicente Fox once charmingly put it, illegal immigrants “are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States.”
So why aren’t we being bombarded with television interviews and profiles of these amazing human beings?
Liberals can’t make an argument without producing a victim. Attack the media — they bleat about journalists getting shot in the face while reporting abroad. Complain about FBI corruption — they choke up over G-men putting their lives on the line EVERY DAY! Denounce the Deep State — they moan that CIA officers have been killed in the line of duty.
Isn’t this the moment for our hearts to be breaking over the millions of wonderful “Dreamers” who will suffer unless we amnesty them immediately?
Let’s see ’em! Surely they’ve got a few Einsteins! After all, the media are capable of turning a gang-admiring thug who forcibly robbed a convenience store and assaulted a cop into “Gentle giant, Mike Brown.” They turned jewelry-stealing juvenile delinquent Trayvon Martin into an altar boy.
But even MSNBC dare not show us Trump’s beloved “Dreamers.” The snarling Muslim showcased by the Democrats at their 2016 convention has gotten more airtime than any “Dreamer.”
There are plenty of vague descriptions of “Dreamers,” all of whom seem to be valedictorians. But can anyone identify precisely what they have contributed to our country — other than lots of police work, welfare and protests?
The best “Dreamers” always sound like the “honor student” in Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities: “somebody who attends class, isn’t disruptive, tries to learn, and does all right at reading and arithmetic.”
How about MSNBC interview five new “Dreamers” every night? Five non-hateful ones are probably the most they could get.
As long as Trump is going to keep babbling about these “absolutely incredible kids” — “I love these kids!” — and obstinately refuse to deport them, he must have met thousands of them. He plans to amnesty millions.
Why doesn’t Trump showcase his favorite two dozen “Dreamers”? Let the rest of us decide how “incredible” they are.
But no Glamour magazine profiles, please! We want to know everything, e.g.: How much have they cost the taxpayers in free school lunches and medical care? How many anchor babies have they had? What percentage have been convicted of a felony or killed someone in a drunk driving accident? How many have been admitted to college by taking affirmative action spots intended for the descendants of American slaves?
In 2009, The New York Times’ Lawrence Downes gushed over illegal alien Benita Veliz. Three years later, liberals still hadn’t come up with a better one: In 2012, she was the featured illegal alien at the Democratic National Convention. It only seems like the Democrats have an illegal alien speak at all their conventions. Veliz was the first.
Downes ticked off Veliz’s “impressive” accomplishments: “She was valedictorian at Jefferson High School” — naturally! — “graduating at age 16. She went to St. Mary’s University in San Antonio on a full scholarship.” A scholarship, I note, that otherwise might have gone to a yucky American.
I gather Veliz is the left’s designated baby seal of “Dreamers.”
Veliz is probably a nice lady, but she was valedictorian at a school that Downes would never send his kids to. Jefferson High School is 98 percent minority, less than half the students are “English proficient,” and only 16 percent are ready for college.
HOW DID AMERICA EVER GET BY WITHOUT HER?
Or to use Downes’ more-relaxed standard: “How will this country be a better place once we force Benita Veliz to leave it?”
Off the top of my head: There would be less strain on education budgets, hospital emergency rooms, roads and bridges, and that college scholarship Veliz got would be open to an American kid.
This is a country built by Western Europeans. Immigrants arrived after it was already set up and running well. The idea that any immigrant who hasn’t committed a felony is someone we can’t live without is absurd.
If you’re a yuppie in a rich white area and don’t like cleaning your toilets, the Trump administration has been great for you. But if you’re a Trump voter, you’re scratching your head wondering what happened to those campaign promises that set him apart from every other Republican.
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Focusing on the Bigger Threat — Bureaucracy
by Harold Hutchison
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John BOLTON On Replacing
Globalist MCMASTER As Nat’l Security Adviser
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ President Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser, John Bolton... made an appearance in an interview with Fox News, in which, after accepting congratulations and an endorsement of his predecessor, he answered a few questions. The first was related to the non-scandal of President Trump recognizing that Vladimir Putin is the leader of a major global player and will be for another six years and having the good sense to treat him with the respect that position deserves. It’s something Democrats only understood as it pertained to the impostor Hussein liar-nObama and which they have chosen as yet another vehicle for attacks against the President. Bolton is asked, “Is there any scandal in the President ignoring the advice he gets and doing what he wants to do?” Bolton replies, “No, that’s why he got elected, you know. It’s not the function of political officials whether it’s the President or his nominees across the executive branch to do what their subordinates tell them to do.”... https://rickwells.us/bolton-replacing-globalist-mcmaster/Mueller Investigation is the Establishment’s Final Revenge
by Andrew
{ conservativefreepress.com } ~ Even after he had secured the nomination, one will recall, there was talk of the RNC pulling a fast one... at the convention and crowning Ted Cruz, John Kasich, or even Paul Ryan their presidential nominee. Even after he won the election, please remember, there was talk of using the Electoral College to steal it away from him and hand it to liar-Hillary Clinton or some other, more deserving president. Thankfully, none of that nonsense ever materialized. But even though it has appeared for the last year or so that the vast majority of elected Republicans have fallen in line behind Trump, make no mistake about it: The Establishment is still alive and well. They don’t appreciate what this man is doing with foreign and domestic policy, even if they are too afraid to speak out against him publicly. Instead of taking him on politically and losing, they are working behind the scenes to undermine him at every turn. And nowhere is that made more obvious than in the continued farce known as the Robert Mueller investigation... http://www.conservativefreepress.com/politics/mueller-investigation-establishments-final-revenge/.
American Day of Reckoning for Muslim Brotherhood?
by RYAN MAURO
{ clarionproject.org } ~ The Muslim Brotherhood’s sigh of relief after being rescued by Secretary of State Tillerson and National Security Adviser McMaster has been replaced by a sweaty panic... With Tillerson out and Pompeo in and McMaster’s days numbered, it is now probable that the Muslim Brotherhood will finally be designated by the State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, paving the way for its infrastructure in America to begin being dismantled. Groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood network like the Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat ul-Fuqra are likely to see a similar fate. President Trump’s desire to pressure Pakistan and more closely ally with India adds to the likelihood that these Pakistani-led groups will be blacklisted. The incoming secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, was one of the earliest cosponsors of the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act when he was a member of Congress. Now, as secretary of state, he has the authority to designate Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)... https://clarionproject.org/day-reckoning-muslim-brotherhood/Palestinians Tortured; Media Silent
by Bassam Tawil
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ What happens when Palestinians make allegations of torture and assaults on their public freedoms?... If the finger is being pointed at Israel, the international media falls over itself to bring the story to the broadest possible audience. The story would not even end there. Human rights organizations and United Nations agencies would blast Israel for "abusing" Palestinian human rights and the Security Council would hold an emergency session to condemn Israel. The response, however, when Palestinians fall victim to the practices of their own governments -- the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip -- is a completely different one. That is when silence descends upon the international media community hides behind a blue wall of silence... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12064/palestinians-torture-human-rights .
Pennsylvania GOP moves to
oust judges over gerrymandering decision
by REID WILSON
{ thehill.com } ~ A Pennsylvania state representative has introduced resolutions to impeach four of the five state Supreme Court justices... who voted to override congressional district maps they said were unfairly gerrymandered on partisan lines. The resolutions, introduced by state Rep. Cris Dush (R), accuse Justices Kevin Dougherty, Christine Donohue, Debra McClosky Todd and David Wecht of misbehavior in office. In a memo to fellow House members, Dush said the ruling overriding Pennsylvania’s U.S. House district lines amounted to an overstep of judicial authority under the state Constitution, which lays out the path by which a bill becomes a law — in this case, a bill to delineate the district lines after the decennial Census and reapportionment process... http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/379359-pennsylvania-gop-moves-to-oust-judges-over-gerrymandering-decision.
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Focusing on the Bigger Threat — Bureaucracy
by Harold Hutchison: The recent resignation of retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters as a Fox News contributor, citing, among other things, the network’s pro-Donald Trump propaganda complete with discussions about the “Deep State,” is being milked by the mainstream media. Peters has served the country in the United States Army, and when it comes to external threats to the United States, he has generally been on target. But when he is wrong, he can be tragically so. In 2009, he supported the liar-nObama administration’s successful effort to end F-22 production. With a resurgent Russia, it would be nice to have more than 187 Raptors on hand. In this case, his resignation and decision to blast Fox News as a propaganda outlet over the concerns being aired about Robert Mueller investigation could prove to be very mistaken in the future.
When it comes to worries about the Deep State, there are reasons to be worried. Forget, for a moment, the FBI. Look at the IRS scandal and Lois Lerner. Lerner was the apparent point person who ran the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups — and she retired with a six-figure pension and wants her deposition permanently sealed. This is just the most egregious.
The Justice Department has had its share of problems, not least of which was Fast and Furious, where hundreds of semiautomatic firearms were allowed to fall into the hands of drug cartels. Former Attorney General scum-Eric Holder got a contempt of Congress citation, but has walked free, and is even considering a presidential run.
These pre-date the 2016 campaign, including the FBI essentially whitewashing liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a bathroom server for classified information, which Barackliar-nObama apparently knew about according to illicit lovebirds Linda Page and Peter Strzok (unless they lied in their text messages). Oh, and Page and Strzok mentioned an insurance policy in case of a Trump win in the office of then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired last Friday for lying about media leaks. Oh, did anyone mention that McCabe’s wife got over a half million bucks in fund-raising help from Terry McAuliffe, a very close political ally of the liar-Clintons? Well, we did.
We’ve learned that the Christopher Steele dossier, a salacious document that is a low-budget version of the Penthouse Forum, was opposition research paid for by liar-Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the DNC — a fact that those FBI officials applying for FISA warrants didn’t mention.
And Ralph Peters is appalled that there is speculation about elements of the government trying to carry out a soft coup.
The fact is, doubt about the trustworthiness of bureaucrats is increasing — and not just on these issues. NOAA has recently been busted for “adjusting” data to push a climate change agenda. Guess that’s why Democrat AGs and senators wanted to use RICO against “deniers” who were really calling out BS numbers. Keep in mind, stopping global warning was why the Luftwaffe went to biofuels… and ended up having to ground their Tornados.
Nobody is denying Russia is a threat. In fact, we need to re-think staying in New START, and to keep increasing energy production to lower oil prices to hit Vladimir Putin’s wallet and improve our strategic position. But Russia’s threat to us is not as immediate as the threat from “civil servants” who seem to be overstepping their bounds — Ralph Peters’ vehement objections notwithstanding. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54885-focusing-on-the-bigger-threat-bureaucracy
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America's Cloward-Piven
Approach to Illegal Immigration
by Arnold Ahlert
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Intel Report – CLAPPER LIED, Worked
With FUSION GPS Who Had History With Russia
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ In using the more diplomatic language of DC, the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russian election meddling... has concluded that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper misled Congress about disclosing information to CNN. In regular English, they’re saying Clapper lied to Congress about leaking to CNN. The final report was approved by the committee on Thursday and must now be subjected to intelligence agency review. While the committee spent over a year, 472 days investigating and speaking with thousands of witnesses, it found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. That’s not to say they found nothing or that the time was wasted. The deep state Democrats have plenty to be concerned about if we can only get the DOJ to act, and Sessions to appoint a second special counsel. In addition to the ongoing revelations of corruption at the DOJ, FBI, State Department, Intelligence agencies and the entire liar-nObama regime that we are becoming more familiar with on a daily basis, Clapper was singled out specifically for his lying. The report states that “provided inconsistent testimony to the committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN.”... https://rickwells.us/report-clapper-fusion-russia/.
John Bolton on North Korea, China,
Syria, and Other National Security Threats
by Rob Bluey
{ dailysignal.com } ~ The most important strategic fact about the Trump administration is that it faces a range of threats across the entire spectrum... What happened is the country has inherited the consequences of a lot of President Barack liar-nObama’s mistakes. The bills are now coming due on the Trump administration’s watch on nuclear proliferation, the threat of North Korea, the failure of the Iran nuclear deal, the continuing threat of international terrorism, the strategic threats of Russia and China. There are a lot of them out there. They require different levels of attention and response. The president basically is pursuing a Reaganite “peace through strength” foreign policy. A lot of people thought he might be outside the conservative mainstream; I don’t think that’s correct... https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/02/26/john-bolton-sums-north-koreas-role-olympics-outstanding-propagandists/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpnMU1HWXdNak13T1RGaiIsInQiOiJvaHdtclNFTkV2Y3A5aThkeUdWdmxjOXZjRFVzVHVlZmNqalwveDdJQ0lQdm45SGdSemNKT3c2alFvc0hNdFN2NlljMU0xcXlMZFV3eEtEa25BeHNKeitkcG9BTlhBYUVPZDlPb2s0bmJadXhJcjlNeGhZRHhtbUVvaURIRUtHS2wifQ%3D%3D.House Judiciary subpoenas Justice Department
for liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation documents
by Diana Stancy Correll
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., sent a subpoena Thursday evening to the Department of Justice... to gain access to documents related to the agency’s investigation of former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s private email server in 2016. Goodlatte and House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., requested the documents four months ago. “To date, the Department has only produced a fraction of the documents that have been requested,” Goodlatte said in a letter Thursday. “Given the Department’s ongoing delays in producing these documents, I am left with no choice but to issue the enclosed subpoena to compel production of these documents,” Goodlatte added....
Lawmaker’s Measure Targets Funding for Sanctuary Cities
by Rachel del Guidice
{ dailysignal.com } ~ An Arizona lawmaker wants to deny federal funds to sanctuary cities by amending a spending bill keeping the government running through September... The amendment proposed by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., would withhold two kinds of federal grants to cities and other jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing immigration law, The Hill reported. “In other words, if you’re a sanctuary city, and you do not transfer information as required under Title VIII of the U.S. code, then you’re going to lose that grant funding,” Biggs told the news organization. The House Rules Committee, however, rejected the Biggs amendment after convening late Wednesday night... .
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Heh! Trump Vs. loose lips-Biden: Who Ya Got?.
Dana Loesch: Media Does Not Get A Pass For Doing It Right Once.
Common Liberal Arguments For Gun Control, Shot Down.
Dershowitz: Special Counsel Never Should Have Been Appointed.
John Dowd Resigns As Trump’s Lead Lawyer In Mueller Probe.
Trump Authorizes Tariffs On China On China For Intellectual Property.
Report Andrew McCabe Authorized Criminal Probe Of Sessions (While He Was Still In Senate).
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America's Cloward-Piven Approach to Illegal Immigration
by Arnold Ahlert: In 1966, Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven formulated the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It was a plan to overthrow America’s capitalist system by overloading the welfare state bureaucracy with demands that were impossible to meet, thereby precipitating a revolution. That was then. Today, there is another ongoing effort to “crash the system.” But not with welfare recipients. Instead, the foot soldiers exploited by Democrats, their media allies, and more than a few Republicans, are illegal aliens.How does one foment a revolution? First, give its foot soldiers a veneer of legitimacy. In 2013, the Associated Press decided to drop the term “illegal immigrant” from its news coverage. Others soon followed suit, and now the majority of the media use terms like “undocumented immigrant” or “migrant” to describe illegals.
Second, reward those who broke the law. Twelve states and the District of Columbia give illegals drivers’ licenses. The Mexican government issues them Consular ID cards allowing them to open U.S. bank accounts. Five states grant illegals in-state college tuition. Nearly 500 hundred municipalities now define themselves as sanctuary cities, shielding illegal immigrants from the law. Moreover, California has not only declared itself a sanctuary state, but has enacted laws limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities, and prohibiting employers from providing voluntary cooperation with ICE agents, absent a warrant or court order. And in a first for the nation, the state’s Senate Rules Committee has appointed an illegal immigrant to a statewide government job.
This is nothing less than nullification. And nothing made that clearer than a 2010 lawsuit filed by the liar-nObama administration against Arizona, when it attempted to enforce immigration law the administration was conspicuously ignoring. In a 5-3 decision two years later, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Arizona law and in the process, “reinforced the federal government’s primacy in immigration policy,” as The Washington Post crowed at the time.
To his credit, current Attorney General Jeff Sessions has filed a lawsuit against the state based on that premise, but it remains to be seen if this signals a paradigm shift, or merely a long-winded legal fight awaiting a future Democrat administration — one that will undoubtedly withdraw the suit.
In the meantime, Congress is doing absolutely nothing to hold law-defying politicians accountable.
Third, accuse those who would resist the revolution of being small-minded, nativist bigots. The same year the AP changed its stylebook, New York Times editor Lawrence Downes made sure those who resisted would castigated, insisting that “illegal” is often “a code word for racial and ethnic hatred.” Currently, Nation columnist Suman Raghunathan characterizes resistance to illegal immigration as an “ethos of exclusion.” Root columnist Michael Harriot asserts that white people simply hate immigrants. And, Huffington Post contributor Dr. Alvaro Huerta asserts, the Trump administration’s effort to enforce the law is “a racist political platform based on anti-Mexicanism — a long-standing American tradition embraced mostly by millions of white citizens/voters.”
Fourth, institute a disinformation campaign. Americans have been told approximately 11 million illegals reside in the U.S. — for more than a decade. This means we’re supposed to believe just as many illegals have died, or repatriated themselves, as have snuck into the nation or overstayed their visas in that same time period. We are assured that illegals commit fewer crimes than native Americans, or are less likely to be incarcerated, even as the reality that these are wholly avoidable crimes is conspicuously absent from such “analyses.” We are told illegally crossing the border is an “act of love”, that a border wall will be completely impractical, and that mass deportation is impossible, even as the reality of self-deportation, which could be engendered by genuine law enforcement efforts, is no longer part of the conversation.
Fifth, secure federal government collaboration in the effort to advance wholesale lawbreaking. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the 1986 Immigration and Reform Act that granted unambiguous amnesty to 2.7 million illegal aliens. It was supposed to be a one-and-done amnesty, accompanied by promises to seal the border and crack down on businesses who hired illegals. The latter two promises were ignored, and thus we have at minimum a four-fold increase in the number of illegals now demanding amnesty. Moreover, Barack liar-nObama’s unconstitutional granting of temporary legal status to a newly protected subgroup of illegals euphemistically referred to as Dreamers is a direct consequence of that failure.
What about visa over-stayers who outnumber border crashers? Despite the explosion of technology, the Department of Homeland Security cannot track visa overstayers.
Cracking down on businesses that hire illegals also remains a farce. As columnist Theodore Kupfer reveals, an E-Verfiy system that would be the most effective tool by far for combating further illegal immigration, and incentivizing many illegals already here to return home “is not mandatory — and nobody, even among the most restrictionist Republicans, is demanding that it become so,” he writes.
Orchestrated corruption is also part of the mix. A CNS News investigation reveals “more than 1.3 million cases of identity theft were documented by the IRS involving illegal aliens who had been issued Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers” in a five year period between 2011 and 2016. In addition, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) discovered around 1.2 million cases in 2017 alone where illegal aliens filed tax forms using Social Security Numbers that belonged to someone else, or were fabricated.
Both crimes are felonies — yet the IRS couldn’t say whether even a single case had been referred for criminal prosecution.
In the meantime, Congress is doing its best to maintain the odious status quo: the latest gargantuan spending bill will fund sanctuary cities, but unless the GOP capitulates to Democrat demands for a “pathway to citizenship” for the 1.8 million illegals no longer covered by DACA, funding for a border wall will not be part of the package.
Sixth, get the media to continually advance a pro-illegal immigration narrative, or completely ignore the issue when an uncomfortable counter-narrative emerges. For at least four days, Americans were inundated with stories about the bridge collapse in Miami that killed six people, replete with investigative reports regarding why it happened. Yet in 2014, when the EV-D68 enterovirus killed nine children and afflicted over 50 more with full or partial paralysis — likely engendered by “liar-nObama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence,” as The Daily Caller put it — the mainstream media’s silence, coupled with their calculated lack of interest, was nothing short of appalling.
In 1993, Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined the term “defining deviancy down.” In today’s America, nothing is more deviant than the ongoing attempt to foster the idea that the Rule of Law can be ignored when it doesn’t accrue to one’s political interests or ideological sensibilities — and that doing so constitutes “compassion.”
That mindset is the driving force behind the revolution envisioned by Cloward and Piven, and those who embrace it must be seen as the cancerous anarchists they truly are.
Our national sovereignty is at stake.
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Video of Vegas Shooter Finally Released,
Showing How He Brought In the Guns
by MATT AGORIST
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clown-Chuck Schumer Snuck Something Into
The Spending Bill That Is Bad News For Trump
by americanpatriotdaily.com
{ americanpatriotdaily.com } ~ clown-Schumer and backstabber-Mitch McConnell secretly negotiated stuffing the legislation with brand new gun control... “Senate Minority Leader clown-Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi (D-Calif.) endorsed the inclusion of narrow, bipartisan legislation aimed at improving records and information-sharing in the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System — even though gun control advocates say the provision barely moves the needle on firearms restrictions. In return, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are discussing language stating that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can research gun violence. A law banning gun control advocacy by the CDC, known as the Dickey amendment, has long had a chilling effect on such research.” National Association for Gun Rights President Dudley Brown has blasted this scheme...A thing Kennedy would of done. http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/featured/chuck-schumer-spending-bill-bad-for-trump/ .
NOT WINNING – Jordan Will Vote AGAINST Sellout,
Anti-American Spending Bill
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Jim Jordan is upset with the bill that the uniparty leadership of the House and Senate have put together in private... dumped in their laps, and told them they’ve got 48 hours or less to either go along with the establishment program or be an inconsequential “no” vote. He’s asked what he doesn’t like about it, the size of the bill or what the money is being spent on. That’s an easy one, the answer is both. He says, “And it’s not even close to what we told the American people we were going to do. So it’s not just conservatives who don’t like this bill, the American people, when they find out what’s in it and that’s going to take a while.” He says, “We just got it twelve hours ago and we’re going to vote on it here in a few hours, and it’s 2,200 pages that fund sanctuary cities, funds Planned Parenthood, restricts Second Amendment liberties and grows the government at a $1.3 trillion price tag on this legislation, which will lead to a trillion dollar deficit.”...I strongly stand with Rep.Jordan and any Senator who votes no on this bill. https://rickwells.us/jordan-sellout-spending-bill/.Senate Democrats Prevent Stand-Alone Vote for Taylor Force Act
by Natalie Johnson
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Senate leaders have added the Taylor Force Act to the omnibus spending bill after two Democratic senators blocked an effort to pass it as a stand-alone bill... The measure would cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority as punishment for its practice of paying salaries and benefits to terrorists and their families, including those who have murdered Americans. The Taylor Force Act boasts strong bipartisan support, prompting Senate leadership a few weeks ago to hotline the bill, which would set it up to pass by unanimous consent, a parliamentary procedure that expedites passage of noncontroversial legislation. If no senator objects to the move, the measure is passed without the need for a floor vote. But the Taylor Force Act was blocked after Democratic senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Dianne Fein-stein of California rejected the hotline, killing the unanimous consent process and forcing the bill to undergo the Senate's lengthy cloture process, several sources told the Washington Free Beacon. Neither Leahy nor Fein-stein have publicly opposed the bill... .
Trump Admin Warns Palestinian
Leadership It's Skating on Thin Ice
{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ Washington's patience for the Palestinian Authority leadership is nearly spent... Ever since President Donald Trump came to the White House, US-Palestinian relations have been tense, to say the least. Trump's overt affinity for Israel, and his unwillingness to tolerate the outrageous claims and demands of Palestinian leaders is, according to most Israelis, a breath of fresh air. Of course, the Palestinian Authority sees the situation quite differently. President Mahmoud Abbas has become so upset by the Trump Administration that he's taken to spouting personal insults against American diplomats... http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/33634/Default.aspx
.House Intelligence Committee votes to end Russia investigation
by Katelyn Caralle
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The House Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to approve its final report on Russia's interference in the 2016... a vote that also marked the end of the committee's investigation. "We voted today to end the investigation," Jack Langer, spokesman for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, said. The final report said lawmakers found no evidence of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s associates. After over 70 witness interviews and over 300,000 documents collected and reviewed, Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., released a statement saying the report provides recommendations on how to improve election security... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/house-intelligence-committee-votes-to-end-russia-investigation .
White House Briefing
on Congressional Omnibus Spending Bill
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ In 2010 the GOP said give us the House and we’ll put budgets and spending back into regular order. We did, they didn’t... In 2014 the GOP said give us the Senate and then we’ll put budgets and spending back into regular order. We did, they didn’t. In 2016 the GOP said give us the White House and we’ll put budgets and spending back into regular order. We did, and again, they did not. The White House is scheduled to brief media on the latest insufferable congressional Omnibus spending bill. ..
Video of Vegas Shooter Finally Released,
Showing How He Brought In the Guns
by MATT AGORIST
{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ Las Vegas, NV — It’s been close to six months since Stephen Paddock allegedly rented a room inside the Mandalay Bay Casino Resort in Las Vegas and then opened fire on on thousands of innocent people, killing 58 or them and injuring hundreds of others. Since that tragic day, victims, media, activists, and citizens have been calling for the release of surveillance footage that shows Paddock inside the hotel and, until now, these demands have fallen on deaf ears.
In spite of the dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests by local media and lawsuits demanding the release the surveillance footage, somehow the New York Times was able to obtain the exclusive footage allegedly showing Paddock inside the hotel.
In the chilling video, we see Paddock alone and blending in, never looking suspicious and even raising his hands in delight when he won $1,000 while gambling and eating sushi.
However, behind the scenes, Paddock was filling his room with dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
“Over and over in the clips, Mr. Paddock is seen leaving the Mandalay Bay for his home in Mesquite, returning with a dark minivan loaded with suitcases,” the Times reported. “Over and over, valets take his keys; over and over, bellhops stack his luggage on gold carts, helping him transport at least 21 bags over the course of seven days. As they take the service elevator upstairs, Mr. Paddock chats with them. He cracks a joke. He tips.”
The questions as to how Paddock was able to get this small arsenal in his room now appear to be answered thanks to the video—Paddock had the hotel staff load them up for him.
However, upon the release of this video, another question remains. How, exactly, did hotel staff not find bags with hundreds of rounds of ammunition—that would be far heavier than any clothing bags—suspicious?
Also, how, exactly Paddock managed to conceal the small arsenal of weapons from housekeeping is just as big of a mystery as to how he got them in the room in the first place without the staff noticing the weight of the bags.
“Toward the end of the footage, two guests carrying shiny plastic inner tubes get off the elevator, padding out in flip-flops. Mr. Paddock pauses to let them off, then gets on,” the Times reported. “It is the afternoon of Sept. 30. They seem to be on their way to the pool. He is on his way upstairs, where his guns await.”
What the video from the NY Times also reveals is that during the same time he was staying at the Mandalay Bay, he also rented a room at the Ogden just down the street. Internet records show that he researched the artists and setlists of another music festival which would occur just down the road from the Ogden.
This video provides some much-needed insight that the victims and their families—as well as all Americans—deserve to know.
However, it does not explain why he allegedly began shooting into a crowd of country music concert goers. It also does not explain why local police and the FBI have been covering up evidence and contradicting themselves repeatedly. Also a mystery is how the New York Times managed to obtain all this footage from MGM resorts and where is the rest of it. If they possess footage outside of Paddock’s room, surely they have the video of Jesus Campos being the ‘hero’ that police made him out to be. Where is it?
While the release of this footage is certainly a step in the right direction, this case remains shrouded in secrecy and deceit and until all the footage and evidence is publicly released, we all need to constantly keep asking these questions.
VIDEO: https://nyti.ms/2ubwf7F via @nytvideo
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French consulate worker accused
of smuggling weapons for Hamas
by Ruth Eglash & Loveday Morris
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Ingraham CHALLENGES TRUMP
To Stand Against Reckless SWAMP SPENDING
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Laura Ingraham points to a stack of paper on her desk that is equal to the Omnibus spending package... that Congress will have approximately 48 hours to read portions of, revise virtually none of, consider and then either approve or “vote to shut down the government.” If the American people had our way, if we had real representation in DC, they’d pass a short term spending bill and then really get to work. Ingraham points out to the size of the spending bill and declares correctly that nobody is going to read it. They’ll perhaps scan portions, have their staffs do likewise and then vote on what they think is probably in there. She calls it a “business as usual spend-o-rama at a time when voters expected just the opposite, from a President who campaigned against the corruptocrats in DC.” She notes that with the sequester caps gone, Republicans “are linking arms with Democrats. Yes, they’re spending more on things we should not be funding at all and things the President vowed to defund.” She asks, “So how on earth do Republicans expect the voters to turn out in November for them if they can’t live up to the basic precepts of what they campaigned on?”... https://rickwells.us/ingraham-trump-swamp-spending/.As Israel fetes 2007 strike on Syria nuclear reactor,
is Assad building another?
by JUDAH ARI GROSS
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ A US think tank revisits claims that the regime is constructing an underground facility, finding worrying questions but no real answers... While Israel strutted after announcing to the world on Wednesday that it had destroyed Syria’s nascent al-Kibar nuclear reactor in 2007, a US-based think tank published a report the same day suggesting that there is another atomic facility that Jerusalem should be worrying about. The paper, released by the Institute for Science and International Security, revisits a claim made in 2015 by the German daily Der Spiegel that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was constructing another nuclear reactor, this one underground, near the city of Qusayr, along the Lebanese border. The findings of the new report are inconclusive, but determine that the Syrian regime certainly built something in the ground under Qusayr and that some of the claims made by Der Spiegel are supported by publicly available evidence, namely satellite images and geological data... https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-israel-fetes-reactor-strike-is-syria-building-another/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=b357c16700-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-b357c16700-54638825Hannity Investigates Mueller, Turns Out
He’s Not Nearly as Clean as Everybody Said
by NICK GIVAS
{ dailycallernewsfoundation.org } ~ Fox News host Sean Hannity devoted time on his Tuesday show to examining the past of special counsel Robert Mueller and his findings were intriguing... Hannity referred to a report from Fox News’ Sarah Carter, citing Mueller’s career as a prosecutor in the 1980’s. When Mueller was serving as assistant U.S. Attorney, four men were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a crime they did not commit and the special counsel was in charge of the case when it happened. “Robert Mueller’s career has been anything but impeccable,” Hannity said. “One of the worst stains on his record comes from his time Boston, where he served as assistant U.S. attorney and acting U.S. attorney in the 80’s. During this time notorious Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, he was actively engaged by the FBI as an informant. The relationship between Bulger and the bureau was wrought with nothing but corruption and criminal collusion.” “Bulger’s FBI handler, guy by the name of John Connolly covered up for many of the horrific crimes that were committed by Bulger and his associates, including one instance where four men were wrongfully framed and convicted and imprisoned for decades — all for a murder it turns out they did not commit,” Hannity continued. “The men were ultimately exonerated. A judge awarded $101 million in damages, but not before two of the men actually died in prison. Robert Mueller was the U.S. attorney in charge while these men were rotting in prison while certain agents in the FBI under Mueller covered up the truth.”... http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2018/03/21/hannity-digs-up-dirt-on-muellers-past-and-finds-hes-not-so-clean-after-all/.
How Facebook and Social Media Promote Terrorism
by Uzi Shaya
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The nature of Islamic terrorism throughout the world has changed in recent years... Alongside the established and organized groups -- such as Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and even ISIS -- a new and different type terror has been created, one that is nourished ideologically, spiritually, and intellectually by these groups, yet shows no connection -- organizationally or operationally -- to them. This terror is defined by what we refer to as "lone wolves." These are individuals whose nationalistic motives, religious incitement or psychological needs propel them to commit acts of terror without being a member of an organized group or cell. The one unifying aspect for all these lone wolves is social media. Social media networks enable any individual to have his voice and his opinions heard so that his proclamations can resonate with audiences that are far-reaching. Unfortunately, the existing freedoms on social media have been manipulated by terrorist groups to create a threat that poses a clear and present danger to citizens around the world... Doesn't this bring to mind, Austin. TX. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12041/facebook-social-media-terrorism .
Top Trump lawyer John Dowd
resigns after calling for Mueller's ouster
by Sarah Westwood
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ John Dowd, a top attorney for President Trump, resigned just days after calling for the removal of special counsel Robert Mueller... "I love the president and wish him well," Dowd told the Washington Examiner. Dowd told the Daily Beast over the weekend that he hoped the Justice Department would end Mueller's probe into alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. While Dowd claimed initially that he was speaking as a representative of the president, he later backtracked and said he had expressed a personal opinion. Dowd's resignation comes just days after the president hired Joe diGenova, a controversial former prosecutor and legal pundit, to join his legal team. DiGenova argued previously that Trump is the victim of a conspiracy orchestrated by opponents within the Justice Department... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/top-trump-lawyer-john-dowd-resigns-after-calling-for-muellers-ouster .
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French consulate worker accused
f smuggling weapons for Hamas
by Ruth Eglash & Loveday Morris
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ A French national working for his country's consulate in Jerusalem has been detained on suspicion of smuggling weapons out of the Gaza Strip for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Israel's internal security agency said Monday.The consulate employee, identified as Romain Franck, is alleged to have smuggled weapons from Hamas-controlled Gaza to the occupied West Bank on five occasions in recent months, the security agency Shin Bet said in a statement.
He used a diplomatic vehicle belonging to the French consulate which are subject to less stringent security checks, it claimed.
Franck, identified by French media as 24 years old, is suspected of having transferred around 70 pistols and two assault rifles.
"The investigation clearly shows that the employee of the French consulate acted for financial gain, on his own initiative and without the knowledge of his superiors," said the Shin Bet statement. "This is a very grave incident in which the immunity and privileges granted to foreign missions in Israel was cynically exploited."
The Shin Bet said Franck had received the weapons from a Palestinian resident of the Gaza Strip employed at the French Cultural Center there. They said he then transferred the weapons to a Palestinian unit in the West Bank. The weapons were later sold them on to arms dealers, the agency said.
"We take this case very seriously and are in very close contact with the Israeli authorities on this case," said a spokesman for the French Embassy in Tel Aviv, adding that Frank was due to appear in court on Monday when the exact charges would become clear. "They are serious."
Israel also said it had also arrested a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, who works as a security guard at the French Consulate in Jerusalem, as well as several Palestinians from Gaza living illegally - under Israeli law - in the West Bank in connection with the smuggling ring. Six of the individuals will be indicted by the Southern District Court, the Shin Bet statement said.
Some of the suspects were also involved in smuggling money from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, the Shin Bet alleged.
Tensions between Israel and Hamas have increased in recent weeks, with Israel accusing the militant groups of sending civilians to protest along its border fence. Gaza residents have held regular protests near the barrier since President Trump declared Jerusalem as Israel's capital, with several shot dead by Israeli security forces.
Rocket fire from Gaza also increased following the announcement, though has died down in recent months.
On Sunday, the Israeli military said it had destroyed a Hamas tunnel built to infiltrate into Israeli territory. On Thursday, the Israeli military said two explosive devices were detonated toward troops on a routine patrol. Last month, four soldiers were injured when an IED went off next to the fence.
"We are seeing Hamas instigate riots, calling on its civilians to march toward fence and engage with our troops," said Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an army spokesman in a briefing with journalists on Thursday. "We are seeing a pattern here and we will not allow it to become standard operating procedure."
Barry Donadio, a Candidate for Queen Anne’s County Commissioner in Maryland, says he will push for having a Police Officer in every school.
A Maryland Republican Politician is pushing for having a Police Officer in every school in his county. Barry Donadio is a former member of the U.S. Secret Service and now is President of a private security firm in Maryland.
Donadio said, “I have two beautiful daughters currently attending Queen Anne’s County Schools. I support our schools and applaud the steps already taken to keep our children safe, but more must be done, now. I want Police Officers in every one of our schools (including the elementary schools).”
“When I am elected, I am also going increase and improve physical security integrated with information technology security systems. This will allow law enforcement to be notified in real-time in order to decrease response time and mitigate injuries to our school staff and children.”
While other Politicians scramble to make new gun laws to limit the access of firearms (which may take years to take effect), Donadio says his idea to have Police in every school addresses the school safety issue now and not later.
“ With a Police Officer already there in the school, we have a very good chance at denying a target of opportunity to an assailant.” said Donadio.
Donadio is encouraging residents of the local community to not accept a lower standard of school safety than what he has suggested.
#barrydonadio
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Belgium to terminate Saudi mosque lease
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Dobbs, Farrell – Mueller FRUITS OF
A POISONOUS TREE – DOJ Knows Nothing Can Be Used
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Lou Dobbs points out the suggestive remarks by the liar who ran the CIA under criminal pretend ‘president’ Hussein liar-nObama, John Brennan... Whatever Brennan is, he’s undoubtedly corrupt, as in his position he certainly must have known the true origination of Hussein liar-nObama and was therefore an active participant in that fraud, among unknown others. Dobbs addresses comments Brennan made in which he suggested that the reason President Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin on his election victory is because the Russians have something on him. It seems it’s always the Russians with these criminal Democrats. Dobbs notes that the House Intel Committee has something on Brennan, a possible perjury charge from when he lied multiple times about the Steele dossier’s sources and its use at a tool by the deep state. He also raises comments from the previous night’s program made by Alan Dershowitz, saying that Mueller should never have been appointed and the witch hunt farce must immediately cease... https://rickwells.us/dobbs-farrell-poisonous-tree/.3 Major Problems Conservatives
Have With the Government Spending Bill
by Rachel del Guidice
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Major conservative priorities have gone missing in the spending bill to fund the government through September, House lawmakers say... Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, spelled out the worry Wednesday during Conversations with Conservatives, a monthly meeting with reporters hosted by conservative lawmakers and The Heritage Foundation. “I think the real concern for a lot of us is, are we going to continue to fund sanctuary cities, are we going to continue to fund Planned Parenthood, are we going to continue to raise the debt to levels that, quite frankly, are unsustainable and bankrupt our country?” Meadows said. Government funding runs out Friday at midnight, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., hopes for a vote on the omnibus spending bill Thursday....
Massacre of the Innocents
by Dennis Saffran
{https://www.city-journal.org} ~ I’ve written this article once before. It was titled “Fatal Preservation” and appeared in the Summer 1997 issue of City Journal... following the murders of six-year-old Elisa Izquierdo and other New York City children by violent, drug-addicted parents to whose custody they had been returned. I described how a once-sensible liberal reform known as “family preservation,” designed to keep troubled but essentially functional poor families together by providing them with services and counseling, had been carried to ideological extremes, in which judges and social workers zealously “reunified” children with monsters. Later that year, Congress passed, and President liar-Clinton signed, landmark legislation, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA), aimed at curbing the excesses of family preservation. Many in the social-work establishment, including officials in the administrations of New York City’s last two mayors, Bill de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg, have remained hostile to ASFA and committed to the old family-preservation orthodoxy. Now a new spate of child fatalities suggests that de Blasio’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) may be redoubling this commitment. The commissioner brought in to clean up ACS after these deaths has retained the nation’s leading institutional advocate for family preservation to review the agency’s practices. The results could be ominous for the safety of New York’s children... https://www.https://www.city-journal.org/html/massacre-innocents-15647.html?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=4bbf6004ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6c08930f2b-4bbf6004ef-109328273/html/massacre-innocents-15647.html?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=4bbf6004ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6c08930f2b-4bbf6004ef-109328273 .
WH Leaker Found, Much Worse Than We Thought
by JOE SAUNDERS
{ conservativetribune.com } ~ A lawmaker on the House Foreign Affairs Committee just reported where President Donald Trump’s massive White House leak is... If he’s right, Trump’s got more trouble than we thought… and conservatives are about to be proven right again. The White House leaker might have gone too far for his own good. Word that Trump ignored the written advice of his national security advisers to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his rigged election win during a phone call Tuesday had the nation’s capital in an uproar this week, and had some top Republicans saying there is only a short list of possible sources for the leak. And National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster is going to have a lot to answer for....
Tucker aims direct hit at Ralph Peters for dissing
Fox on way out the door: This video clip ‘says it all’
by Samantha Chang
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ During the fiery interview, Peters — a Never Trumper who voted for liar-Hillary Clinton — compared Tucker to a Nazi sympathizer... Here’s what happened: Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, was furious that Carlson had suggested the United States temporarily work with Russia to stamp out a bigger enemy: ISIS. You know, like how the U.S. and the U.K. collaborated with Russian dictator Joseph Stalin during World War II to defeat Hitler. Peters spat out: “You sound like Charles Lindbergh in 1938 saying, ‘Hitler hasn’t attacked us’!” Tucker retorted: “I beg your pardon? You cannot compare me to someone who made apologies for Hitler. And I don’t think Putin is comparable to Hitler. You just compared me to a Nazi apologist because I asked the question: ‘Why does it contravene American interests to make common cause with a group that is trying to kill ISIS?’”....
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Belgium to terminate Saudi mosque lease
by Michael Birnbaum & Quentin Ariees
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ The Belgian government has decided to terminate the long-term lease of the country's largest and oldest mosque to the Saudi royal family, as part of what officials say is an effort to combat radicalization.
The move caps a long-running discussion about what to do about the Grand Mosque of Brussels, a sprawling complex in the heart of the city where worshipers mix with bureaucrats and diplomats headed to the nearby glassy office buildings of the European Union. The mosque, administered by Saudi-backed imams, has been a target of Belgian security services for years. But after radicalized Belgians emerged as key players in terrorist attacks in France and Brussels in 2015 and 2016, policymakers felt new urgency to take action.
Belgian King Baudouin signed over the mosque for 99 years, rent-free, to Saudi King Faisal in 1969 as a goodwill gesture, which also secured cheaper oil for the European nation.
A parliamentary commission set up to make Belgium safer after the March 22, 2016, Brussels attacks recommended in October that the lease be broken.
The Belgian government said in a statement Friday that it is seeking "to put an end to foreign interference in the way Islam is taught in Belgium."
"With this, we end Salafist, violent extremist influences," Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon wrote on Twitter.
Leaders of the Mecca-based World Muslim League, which runs the Grand Mosque, deny that they espouse the ultraconservative Wahhabi version of Islam that was long embraced by the Saudi royal family and instead say they preach an inclusive vision to their flock. The league is largely but not exclusively supported by the Saudi government. According to the announcement, the group will have to vacate the mosque within a year.
The decison puts the Belgian government in the position of picking ideological winners and losers among strains of Islam, and national authorities will likely have to offer financial backing to whomever next takes over the mosque, as they do for churches, synagogues and other mosques in the country.
Belgian security officials acknowledge they have never heard anything illegal preached at the mosque. And there is no any evidence that anyone connected to the attacks worshiped at the mosque. But authorities say they believe imams there preach a vision of religion that leads members of the community to close themselves off from mainstream Belgian society.
Lawmakers want the mosque "to be managed by Belgian Muslims, in a transparent manner, not by a foreign power," said Gilles Vanden Burre, a member of the commission that recommended breaking the lease.
"From now on, the mosque should establish a sustainable relationship with Belgian authorities, while respecting the law and the traditions of our country, which convey a tolerant vision of Islam," said Justice Minister Koen Geens in a statement.
In practical terms, the mosque's leaders have not always been able to connect to Belgian society. The main imam, Abdelhadi Sewif, an Egyptian citizen with ties to Cairo's conservative powerhouse Al-Azhar University, does not speak French or Dutch, Belgium's two main languages.
Still, when Belgian authorities tried last year to test some of their concerns about the mosque in the courts by trying to deport Sewif, a judge struck the effort down, saying there was no evidence the imam threatened Belgian society. He was allowed to remain in the country, where he has lived 13 years.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who will meet Tuesday with President Donald Trump on a two-and-a-half-week visit to the United States, has said he wanted to fight extremist interpretations of Islam and to scale back the Saudi government's backing for conservative mosques around the world.
The Belgian government's decision to terminate the lease came after months of negotiation with the Saudi government. The Belgians did not say whether they were paying a settlement to the Saudis, and a spokesman did not reply to a request for comment. The Saudi Embassy in Brussels also did not reply to a request for comment.
Ahead of the announcement, a Belgian official said the Saudi government was not fighting the effort to sever its ties to the mosque. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the ongoing talks.
Belgian leaders plan to hand management of the mosque over to the Muslim Executive, the official government-backed umbrella group for Belgium's Muslims, many of whose families emigrated in the 1960s from Morocco and Turkey. The group will have a year to come up with a new structure for the mosque.
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The EPA Gets Much-Needed
Transparency Reform
by Jordan Candler
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Rand Paul – Deep State Is Real,
Out of Control And Attacking Trump
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Senator Rand Paul is asked to weigh in on Wednesday as to where he thinks the Mueller inquisition is going... He’s read a tweet from President Trump in which he quotes Alan Dershowitz saying that there should never have been a special counsel appointed because there was no probable cause to believe there was a crime. Senator Paul says, “I agree with the President, quoting Alan Dershowitz, that really these special prosecutors run far afield of what they’re impaneled for and that in the end we end up getting sort of a wild goose chase down all kinds of nooks and crannies. And so I think special prosecutors have too much power and that we really shouldn’t have them.” He says, “I would not have appointed Mueller. Now that it’s going it’s a little more difficult to end. But there really is no reason why Mueller should be investigating things other than Russian collusion. If there is no Russian collusion he should wind up, close his investigation, let’s move on.”... https://rickwells.us/paul-deep-state-trump/.
Rick Perry Stops Uranium Sales
After Lawmakers Hold Up DOE Nominee
by TIM PEARCE
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Energy Secretary Rick Perry is placing the Department of Energy’s (DOE) uranium sales on hold for the rest of the year... after a lawmaker held up a DOE nominee over the practice. During a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing Tuesday on the DOE’s 2019 budget, Perry told GOP Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming the DOE would stop selling uranium for the rest of the year and possibly longer, The Washington Examiner reported. Barrasso has blocked the Senate from confirming Anne White as the DOE assistant secretary for environmental management since January. The Wyoming senator held up White’s nomination to protest the DOE’s process of selling excess government-owned uranium, which has suppressed the domestic uranium industry, especially in Wyoming... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/21/rick-perry-stops-uranium-sales/?utm_medium=email.
Here Is What Is In The Massive $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill
by ROBERT DONACHIE
{ dailycaller.com } ~ House Republicans released the text of a $1.3 trillion spending bill that must pass both chambers of Congress... in order to avert a government shutdown Friday evening at midnight. The legislation will keep the government funded through Sept. 30, if House and Senate lawmakers pass the bill and President Donald Trump signs it. The 2,232 page text of the bill, released late Wednesday evening, comes after months of negotiation in Congress over contentions policy issues. Many of those policy standoffs, like liar-nObamacare subsidy funding, were not included in the final text. House lawmakers aren’t expected to vote on the bill until Thursday at the earliest, but multiple House aides told The Daily Caller News Foundation a vote could very well likely happen Friday. That would leave the Senate under 24 hours to read, agree upon, and vote on the House legislation before the government shuts down at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Key Features of the House Bill: 1) Defense Spending 2) Infrastructure Spending 3) School Safety 4) Opioid Crisis Funding 5) Border Wall Funding (only 33 miles) 6) Gun Background Checks... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/21/spending-bill-text/?utm_medium=email .
Democrats Reject the Best DACA Offer They’re Going to Get
by Andrew
{ conservativefreepress.com } ~ Democrats proved this week again that they are not serious about securing protection for the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants... enrolled in President liar-nObama’s DACA program. According to Politico, Democrats negotiating with the White House about an acceptable path forward rejected the best offers they’re likely to get: A trade of three more years of DACA amnesty in exchange for $25 billion in border wall funding. Trump was generous enough to take all legal immigration cuts off the table, leave chain migration alone for now, and offer them this simple extension that would protect some 700,000 Dreamers from deportation. Furthermore, the deal would have allowed DACA recipients to keep their work permits for the time period outlined in the agreement, a huge win for the children of illegal migrants and their families. But Democrats said no... http://www.conservativefreepress.com/congress/democrats-reject-best-daca-offer-theyre-going-get/ .
Developing: NYT Caught Deleting
Damaging Reference to Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg
by Randy DeSoto
{ westernjournal.com } ~ The New York Times was caught editing a story to remove an unfavorable reference to Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg... On Tuesday night, The Times ran a story about the pending departure of Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos. The original version of the story read, “Mr. Stamos had been a strong advocate inside the company for investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook, often to the consternation of other top executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, the social network’s chief operative officer, according to the current and former employees, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters.” The reference to Sandberg was taken out later in the evening to read, Stamos “was met with resistance by colleagues…”....
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The EPA Gets Much-Needed Transparency Reform
by Jordan Candler: A looming policy change means the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will no longer have the luxury of hiding behind surreptitious studies that form the sometimes-rocky foundation for rules and regulations.
by Jordan Candler: A looming policy change means the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will no longer have the luxury of hiding behind surreptitious studies that form the sometimes-rocky foundation for rules and regulations. Under existing protocol, the EPA is not required to make public the literature from which regulations are fabricated. But Administrator Scott Pruitt has told The Daily Caller that a policy shift will ban “secret science” and make future regulations contingent on the evidence that backs them being viewable by the public.
According to Pruitt, “We need to make sure [the] data and methodology are published as part of the record. Otherwise, it’s not transparent. It’s not objectively measured, and that’s important.” He also noted, “When we do contract that science out, sometimes the findings are published; we make that part of our rule-making processes, but then we don’t publish the methodology and data that went into those findings because the third party who did the study won’t give it to us.”
Pruitt’s right: “You and every American citizen across the country deserve to know what’s the data, what’s the methodology that was used to reach that conclusion that was the underpinning of … rules that were adopted by this agency.” Frankly, it’s a shame this measure hasn’t been a mainstay from the beginning.
Without accountability and transparency, career officials at the EPA have extreme leeway in deciding what is and is not a legitimate scientific finding. It creates the perfect environment for regulatory abuse. A devious person is basically free to contrive anything he or she desires.
Like polling, science can be engineered to reflect grievances or bias. It’s natural and healthy to assume that people or agencies that want to hide their methodologies when such massive economic tolls are at stake have far more than just privacy concerns in mind. It’s far likelier they are protecting an agenda.
We’ll never know how many billions of dollars have been wasted through years of faux scientific justification, but kudos to Pruitt for rectifying the problem. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54853-the-epa-gets-much-needed-transparency-reform
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Another Fatal FBI Fumble in Florida
by Michelle Malkin .
Trump threatens to veto
$1.3 trillion spending bill over border wall, DACA
by Anna Giaritelli
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump surprised Congress on Friday by threatening to veto the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill... that passed the Senate early in the morning because lawmakers refused to fund his border wall, and did nothing to deal with the expired Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats not even mentioned in Bill and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded," Trump tweeted Friday morning. The $1.3 trillion spending bill passed after midnight and if signed into law by Trump would avert another federal government shutdown... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-threatens-to-veto-13-trillion-spending-bill-over-border-wall-daca UPDATE:
Trump signs $1.3 trillion
spending bill, despite earlier threat to veto
by Adam Shaw
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill Friday despite... an earlier threat to veto the legislation due to the lack of border wall funding and a fix for DACA. Trump signed the mammoth legislation reluctantly, saying in a press availability with other members of the administration that, in order to secure a necessary increase in military spending, he had to give money to Democratic projects that he derided as a "wasted sum of money." "It's not right and it's very bad for our country," he said...You disappointed our country but also to the America people. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/23/trump-signs-1-3-trillion-spending-bill-despite-earlier-threat-to-veto.html
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President Trump Demands
Line-Item Veto Authority While Signing Omnibus
by Jim E
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Minutes after Trump issued his veto threat, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis immediately called him up to warn him that putting military funding at risk wasn’t a good idea... It looks like Trump got the message, and has signed the law into effect. But not before making a huge demand of Congress: the power of the line-item veto. The line-item veto is an authority many governors have, and it allows them to strike items from budgets they deem to be unnecessary, superfluous, and unconstitutional. For instance, a Republican president could veto spending on Planned Parenthood in a budget passed by Congress if he or she deemed it fit. There’s just one problem with the line-item veto, and it’s a constitutional doozy. The power vested in the line-item veto actually amounts to an executive – the president – being able to legislate by virtue of choosing what actually gets funded in a government budget. That’s not how the executive branch of our federal government was designed, however. The president enforces the law – he does not make them... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/line-item-veto-trump-omnibus/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_breaking_newsletter3_3_23_2018&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI .
Justice Kennedy Calls Out Sotomayor
for Breaking Very Basic Rule All Judges Know
by BEN MARQUIS
{ conservativetribune.com } ~ The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in NIFLA v. Becerra, a case out of California centered around abortion... that has big ramifications regarding the issue of free speech versus state-compelled speech, according to Fox News. At issue is a 2015 statute passed by the state of California which requires all pregnancy-related facilities to conspicuously post a disclosure informing women of the state-provided “free or low-cost access” to various forms of prenatal care, such as abortion. The law also requires unlicensed, non-medical facilities to prominently inform their clients that they are not licensed medical providers. However, the law was written with so many carveouts and exemptions that it ended up solely targeting a number of explicitly pro-life, nonprofit “crisis pregnancy centers,” which counsel women on options other than abortion, such as adoption. However, the law compelled these centers to inform the women of their abortion options. David French of National Review noted that during arguments in front of the Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed to step outside the traditional norms of evidence submitted in the case and earned a rebuke for it from her colleague, Justice Anthony Kennedy... https://conservativetribune.com/kennedy-calls-out-sotomayor/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune .
The Nuclear Option: Limitless
Investigation of Trump Was Always the Plan
by CHARLES HUR{ breitbart.com } ~ So this is the new standard for electing a president here in America, the greatest living experiment in self-governance... A man can run the gauntlet against more than 20 professional politicians and come out victorious. He can win more than 40 Republican primary contests and beat every professional political campaigner out there, earning the votes of more than 14 million Republicans. He can then turn his attention to beating the most powerful, entrenched political machine America has seen in nearly a half-century. That corrupt machine had just pulled off its most devious and dishonest scam ever — rigging a presidential primary to snatch the party’s preferred Socialist candidate away from Democrat voters...
.Mitch McConnell Has Strong Ties To
The Communist Chinese And His Corruption Runs Very Deep
by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
{ noisyroom.net } ~ I have written on the corruption of Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao a number of times... I was very disheartened when Chao became the Secretary of Transportation for the Trump administration. The dynamic duo are fully in bed with the communist Chinese and have been for many years. Peter Schweizer has a new book called Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends that digs into the background of the McConnells and their family wealth and where it came from. It’s not a pretty picture and it should not only tick you off, it should alarm every American out there. To be fair, it’s not just McConnell. This is happening on both sides of the political aisle. From Denise Simon – she has several pertinent points on hanoi-Kerry and loose lips-Biden and their Chinese corruption to keep in mind for 2020. The bottom line is that the Chinese are buying off our politicians. Enriching them and their families in exchange for military and economic concessions for China. Schweizer cites the family of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a particularly troubling example... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2018/03/22/mitch-mcconnell-has-strong-ties-to-the-communist-chinese-and-his-corruption-runs-very-deep/.
Another Fatal FBI Fumble in Florida
by Michelle Malkin
{ townhall.com } ~ A sickening act of youth violence in Florida glinted across the news headlines last week, and then disappeared from view.
There will be no CNN town halls or student walkouts over the lost life and preventable tragedy, because there are no guns to blame. Only dropped balls.
As the exploiters of crisis know full well, bureaucratic screw-ups don't make good fodder for partisan fundraisers and hipster T-shirts.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Palm Beach County police, 17-year-old Corey Johnson bought a knife last Sunday and brought it with him to a sleepover at longtime friend Kyle Bancroft's house. At 4 a.m., he decided to kill Kyle's mother, Elaine, his brother, Dane, and Dane's friend, Jovanni Sierra Brand.
Johnson repeatedly stabbed Jovanni in his bed and slit his throat. Then he attempted to murder Elaine as she approached the boys' bedrooms in response to Jio's last gasps. Dane rescued his mom and sustained 32 stab wounds. Both were hospitalized and survived. Jio was buried last Friday -- less than a week after celebrating his 13th birthday at a pizza party attended by Johnson.
The accused killer told police he "stabbed the victims because of his Muslim faith," watched videos of "Muslim jihadists" on his cellphone, and "was reading the Quran from his phone just prior to the attack to give him courage to carry out his intentions."
Perhaps he read the Sword Verses for inspiration? Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan quoted from them in his presentation to classmates and superiors at Walter Reed Medical Center: "I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah."
Or maybe it was Surah 9:5: "Fight and slay the idolaters wherever ye find them and seize them, confine them, and lie in wait for them in every place of ambush."
Johnson's brutal attack was no bolt out of the blue, no unexpected incidence of sudden jihad syndrome. Local school officials and police in Palm Beach County, along with federal and international law enforcement authorities, had encountered more red flags in their years of dealing with Johnson than at a Communist May Day parade in Havana.
In middle school, Johnson had reportedly stalked a student and sexually harassed her. She told school police. Nothing happened. He dabbled in white supremacy, anti-Semitism and gay-bashing, and then immersed himself in radical Islam -- rising at 5 a.m. daily to pray and revere the Syrian flag. Johnson's online jihad agitation, physical abuse and addiction to ISIS beheading videos prompted his sister in 2016 to confide in a school therapist, who contacted the local sheriff's office.
Johnson's mom, the sister told school officials, was in denial. The sister so feared for her life she slept with a knife under her bed.
Law enforcement officers at the Jupiter Police Department and Palm Beach County Sheriff's office convened at Johnson's high school last January to investigate the self-radicalized teen's contact with ISIS as he sought to join the terror group. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force became involved after European intelligence counterparts told them Johnson had used Instagram to issue security threats to a Catholic high school in England. The threats "were so severe in nature," local officials discovered, "that up to 100 students were removed from the school fearing some kind of attack."
One of the messages threatened: "By Allah, we will kill every single Infidel student at this school." Johnson told FBI agents he "was supportive of known terrorist Anwar al Awlaki" -- the spiritual patron of lone-wolf jihadists.
The FBI's plan of action? Inaction. The agency watched and waited and wanly admonished Johnson to knock it off because authorities "believed a redirection approach would be the most beneficial regarding his conduct."
"Redirection" is akin to the alternative social justice strategies school officials and police used in Parkland, Florida, before 17 innocent students and teachers died at the hands of teen shooter who was a walking neon sign for a mental health catastrophe.
No referrals, no charges, no records, no problems.
Except for the fact that Johnson ignored the FBI and continued his Islamic instigation online. After nearly a year of foot-dragging, the FBI gathered enough evidence to bring federal charges against Johnson for his social media terror threats. According to records released by the Jupiter Police Department, local officials were told the charges would be brought in the summer of 2017. But on the early morning of the jihad stabbings at Palm Beach Gardens last week, the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office had yet to take action on a known radicalized threat who had menaced his family, his schoolmates and innocents abroad.
It's a familiar narrative for the FBI -- from the Boston Marathon bombers to the Orlando nightclub shooter to the Fort Lauderdale airport jihadist to the San Bernardino terrorists. Family members, teachers, neighbors and co-workers saw something and said something. Investigators investigated. But nobody did nuttin' till it was too bloody late.
Nothing to see here; move along.
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America Must Act Now
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Policy: Restoring free inquiry on campus (National Affairs) ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54942-friday-top-headlines
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Austin bomber recorded 25-minute
'confession' to his deadly crimes, police say
by foxnews.com
{ foxnews.com } ~ Mark Anthony Conditt, the man linked to the deadly bombings that rocked Austin, Texas... and surrounding areas over the past month, recorded a 25-minute-long "confession" to his crimes, police said late Wednesday. Officers located the recording, in which Conditt, 23, described creating seven devices, including one he blew up to kill himself, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said at a news conference. The recording was made on a phone, which was found in the suspect's possession following the confrontation with police. Conditt described the bombs "with a level of specificity," including their differences, Manley said. In the recording, the suspect did not mention "anything about terrorism, nor does he mention anything about hate," the police chief said. The message is rather "the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life."... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/21/austin-bomber-recorded-25-minute-confession-to-his-deadly-crimes-police-say.html.
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McCabe and Rosenstein Ran SECRET
DEM PROBE To Find DIRT on AG SESSIONS
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ It seems that forcing AG Jeff Sessions to recuse himself wasn’t enough for dirty cops and some Democrat Senators... they wanted to find dirt on him to either have him removed from office or use it to control him. It only stands to reason, that scumbags attempting to do that to the President would abuse their power to negate every threat. How were they to know Sessions would be such a do-nothing on his own – or is he? It is possible that they found something and that part of the story just hasn’t leaked out yet. A year ago McCabe was running a secret investigation into whether AG Sessions had been truthful when testifying before Congress regarding contacts with Russians. Of course, once an investigation is opened it can quickly morph into anything a dirty cop wants to look at. Mueller, Rosenstein and McCabe have already proven that. Democrats, most prominently the disgraced former Senator from Minnesota, groper Al Franken, along with mush-mouth Patrick “is he drunk” Leahy (D-VT), repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional hearings, including his confirmation hearings. They called for an investigation in a March 2017 letter to the FBI asking that they investigate “all contacts” Sessions may have had with Russians, and “whether any laws were broken in the course of those contacts or in any subsequent discussion of whether they occurred.” Dirty cop McCabe was all too willing to give them one....
Nearly 200 Busted in $3.7-Million Food-Stamp Fraud Operation
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Trump Will Not Get Any Funding for the Wall
by Keith Koffle
{ whitehousedossier.com } ~ President Trump will not achieve his most high-profile promise, a wall on the Mexican border... because Congress is finalizing a $1.3 trillion spending package that includes no money for it. The president should keep his promise and veto the bill. It’s an insult not just to him, but to the millions of people who voted for him. I don’t know whether an actual wall is the best solution to the problem. But it is what was promised. Unless it was just for laughs. And votes. Trump sought $25 billion for the wall and is getting $1.6 billion instead to put something on the border. But it won’t be a wall. Maybe some “Do Not Trespass” or “Beware of the Dog” signs... http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2018/03/21/trump-funding-wall/?awt_l=PF._r&awt_m=3fOtHEy7ODTM1Od
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Sociopath Austin Bomber a Self-Solver
by Nate Jackson: In what explosive investigators typically call a “self-solver,” the man believed to be responsible for the recent string of bombings in Austin, Texas, blew himself up early this morning as police closed in on his vehicle. As with all mass killers seeking fame, we won’t name the 24-year-old white male perpetrator. Since March 2, he’s responsible for killing two people and injuring four with four bombs, including one triggered by a trip wire. A fifth bomb exploded Tuesday without incident at a FedEx facility near Austin, and an unexploded sixth device was discovered at another FedEx distribution center. As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted, “More work needs to be done to ensure no more bombs had been sent before he died.” Part of the terror of the whole thing was that the killer attacked homes through the modern convenience of package delivery, even if the first three packages were left on doorsteps overnight and not delivered by a service.
by Nate Jackson: In what explosive investigators typically call a “self-solver,” the man believed to be responsible for the recent string of bombings in Austin, Texas, blew himself up early this morning as police closed in on his vehicle. As with all mass killers seeking fame, we won’t name the 24-year-old white male perpetrator. Since March 2, he’s responsible for killing two people and injuring four with four bombs, including one triggered by a trip wire. A fifth bomb exploded Tuesday without incident at a FedEx facility near Austin, and an unexploded sixth device was discovered at another FedEx distribution center. As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted, “More work needs to be done to ensure no more bombs had been sent before he died.” Part of the terror of the whole thing was that the killer attacked homes through the modern convenience of package delivery, even if the first three packages were left on doorsteps overnight and not delivered by a service. It’s natural to want to know what motivated this murderer, and there’s speculation over a ideological or political rationale — especially since the two dead men were black. Yet other packages were rigged to detonate at random. Investigators may uncover some underlying motive. But the bottom line is that he was a sociopath, and, over the last 50 years, there has been a drastic increase in the number of these individuals. A huge reason for that is the disintegration of the family, often caused by statist welfare policies. Until we fix our culture, these sorts of things will continue to be a horrific part of American life. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54874-sociopath-austin-bomber-a-self-solver
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Why Syria Doesn’t Have Nukes (Thank Israel).
How Officials Tracked Down The Texas Bomber.
Peter Schweizer Book Explains How liar-nObama Used Regulations To Enrich Friends.
Kurtz: What Are Trump’s High Crimes And Misdemeanors? (Nowhere).
Rep. Biggs (R-AZ): Time To Put Boundaries On Mueller Investigation.
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America Must Act Now to Thwart Putin's Aggression
by Louis DeBroux: On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin was “re-elected” in a landslide victory that was a forgone conclusion. As of Monday afternoon, Putin had collected 76% of votes cast, securing six more years ruling Russia. He’s already the second-longest “serving” leader in Russian history, behind only Joseph Stalin. But at least Putin was democratically elected, right? Only by farce. To be sure, the election was rigged from top to bottom — even if the Trump administration won’t quite admit it. Reports abound of stuffed ballot boxes, forced voting, bribes and obstruction of poll watchers. Putin also jailed the only opposition candidate with a chance of defeating him, leaving him to run against a motley assortment of clowns and radicals that only accentuated the image of Putin as a strong, stable leader.
Yet the reality is that Putin is immensely popular with the Russian people; even his critics often see no better alternative. Criticism of Putin’s dictatorial methods are often rebutted by his supporters by asking, “If not Vladimir, then who?”
Putin’s popularity among the Russian people is psychological. They crave a strong leader who will defy the world and restore Russian greatness. President Ronald Reagan declared the Russian-led Soviet Union to be an “Evil Empire,” and then methodically bankrupted the USSR by engaging in a military build-up that their communist economy could not match. Russia had been thoroughly defeated and humiliated by the American-led West.
After the fall of the USSR, Boris Yeltsin rose to power in 1991 as president of the Russian Federation, and by the time he left in 1999, the Russian economy was in shambles, plagued by rampant inflation and corruption. The Russian “capitalists” (high-ranking political and military leaders — oligarchs — who seized state assets for themselves) became fabulously wealthy even as the average Russian struggled just to eat.
On New Year’s Eve 1999, Putin took power as president of Russia, and began consolidating power in an attempt to restore Russian glory. Putin famously claimed that the fall of the Soviet Union was the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century. The Russian people agreed, and Putin cemented his power every time he defied the West.
Putin began maneuvering to restore Russian prestige. That effort became immensely easier when Barack liar-nObama became president. One of liar-nObama’s very first acts was to betray U.S. allies Poland and the Czech Republic by canceling an agreement to provide anti-missile defense systems to both as a conciliatory move in the face of Russian aggression. He followed that with virtual silence as Russia invaded Crimea and armed and supported insurgents in pro-Western Ukraine.
liar-nObama mocked 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for declaring Russia to be America’s greatest geopolitical threat, taunting, “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.” Then liar-nObama was caught on an open mic with Putin puppet Dmitry Medvedev, pleading for Medvedev to convince Putin to “give [ liar-nObama] space,” promising that after the election, when liar-nObama would no longer have to answer to voters, he would have “more flexibility.”
It’s predictable that, with President Donald Trump now in the White House, Democrats suddenly see Russia as the enemy again. Democrats have become a gaggle of conspiracy theorists, searching high and low for evidence of Trump/Russia collusion, only discovering their own Democrat/ Russia collusion in the process. Never mind that liar-nObama gave Russia free rein for eight years, allowing it to gain power.
Regardless, the U.S. must act now to undermine Putin and keep him in check. Putin has become brazen is his threats and his aggression. Though Putin of course denies it, it’s all but certain that the Kremlin was behind the recent attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal — a former Russia spy under asylum in Great Britain — and his daughter, Yulia, using the banned nerve agent Novichok. Putin also recently announced Russia’s development of advanced nuclear weapons capable of penetrating U.S. missile defenses.
Putin’s willingness to authorize assassinations on foreign soil shows he believes the world will not stop him; a logical assumption, considering his aggression against sovereign nations, and murders and imprisonment of Russian dissidents, have been met with little more than weak chiding by the West.
Some argue Russia has become too powerful for America and Europe to take more forceful actions in reprisal. Over a third of Europe’s energy supplies come from Russia, but that’s a two-edged sword. More than half of Russia’s government revenue comes from its export of oil and gas. That makes it particularly vulnerable to fluctuations in global energy prices.
Just like Reagan did with the U.S. military build-up, President Trump can significantly weaken Russia, which has an economy already struggling to provide for the basic needs of its people, by further expanding U.S. energy exploration and increasing energy exports on the global market, driving down oil prices and starving Russia of revenue.
The U.S. can also increase sanctions, and provide greater economic and military support to Ukraine, enhancing its ability to defend itself and be a thorn in Russia’s side. We can freeze the nearly $1 trillion in assets placed in U.S. and Western banks by Putin-supporting Russian oligarchs, and limit their travel in the West.
Trump called Putin Tuesday to acknowledge his “election,” later saying it was a “very good call” and, “We’ll probably be meeting in the not-too-distant future.” Leftmedia talkingheads are, predictably, claiming the call was the latest evidence of their Trump/Putin collusion charade, which is now on life support. But the call was typical of Trump’s “art of the deal” strategy with Putin — all part of the negotiations game.
Whatever course is taken, it is imperative that the U.S. and its allies act decisively now to rein in Putin before his power grows any more. Otherwise the Russian menace grows ever stronger, until one day we realize the truth of Sir Winston Churchill’s axiom: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54856-america-must-act-now-to-thwart-putins-aggression
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This Just In: Facebook Collects
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Gingrich – Mueller Define Charges As
Condition Of Questioning Trump, scum-Holder Shut His Mouth
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Newt Gingrich is asked to comment on the comments of liar-nObama’s first subversive at Attorney General, scum-Eric Holder... in which he suggested that AG Jeff Sessions needs “to have the guts to look at the President every now and again and say ‘No.'” Gingrich finds those comments coming from that lowlife to be laughable. Gingrich says, “I think the idea of an liar-nObama Attorney General, given their terrible track record with the liar-Clinton investigation, the degree to which they essentially colluded with the liar-Clintons to avoid learning things that would have knocked her out of the race, I think for scum-Holder to say anything shows a level of chutzpah that’s remarkable.” “And remember,” says Gingrich, “Jeff Sessions didn’t go out of his way to fire McCabe. McCabe was found guilty by the Inspector General of the FBI, who said that McCabe had failed to tell the truth and that under FBI rules, which have been applied very consistently to a number of people over the last year, if you fail to tell the truth as an FBI agent you’re fired.”... https://rickwells.us/gingrich-mueller-trump-holder/.
Fed raises rates as it weighs tighter money over the next few years
by Joseph Lawler
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Federal Reserve announced an increase in its target interest rate Wednesday afternoon... continuing its careful efforts to withdraw its crisis-era stimulus measures, while also hinting at faster rate hikes over the next two years. The central bank raised its target for short term interest rates by a quarter percentage point to between 1.5 percent and 1.75, the sixth such hike of the recovery. "The economic outlook has strengthened in recent months," members of the monetary policy committee said in a statement wrapping up their two-day meeting, the first of Chairman Jerome Powell's tenure. Officials at the central bank also have been weighing whether to accelerate their campaign to “normalize” monetary policy in response to the Trump administration’s tax cuts and spending increases and an improving global economy... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/federal-reserve-raises-rates-as-it-weighs-tighter-money-over-the-next-few-years.
Anti-Trump dossier author Christopher
Steele to be deposed in libel lawsuit
by Rowan Scarborough
{ washingtontimes.com } ~ A London court on Wednesday ordered Christopher Steele, author of the anti-Trump dossier... to submit to questions from American attorneys suing him for libel on behalf of a Russian entrepreneur. A senior master in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench, rejected Mr. Steele’s argument that British law prohibited an ex-spy such as himself from testifying. “On Mr. Steele’s behalf it was said that the examination would be prohibited by English law which is untrue,” said the 39-page order obtained by the Washington Times. The senior master said he had “come to the conclusion that Mr. Steele does have relevant evidence to give for trial in the U.S. proceeding.” At issue is the final December 2016 memo in the dossier which, in total, accuses President Trump and aides of a list of felonies in supposedly colluding with the Kremlin during the 2016 election. None of the charges has been substantiated publicly....
Attorney General Sessions Now
Needs to Appoint a Special Counsel
by FRED GEDRICH
{ amilysecuritymatters.org } ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced that he has tasked the Department of Justice's Inspector General (DOJ IG) to investigate alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)... by some DOJ and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials. His action was prompted by allegations that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) orders - which allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to surveil and/or served as the impetus for others to publicly unmask through leaks some American citizens associated with the Trump campaign, transition, and presidency - was obtained under false pretenses and may have served as a basis for Robert Mueller's special counsel appointment. The probe of these allegations should be done by a special counsel, not the DOJ IG, and here is why. If DOJ seeks to determine whether FISA may have been improperly and/or illegally used by U.S. government officials, it will need to expand the scope of the investigation far beyond the DOJ and FBI boundary established by the attorney general. For example, the person assigned to lead this investigation should be tasked with interviewing and obtaining and analyzing information from certain officials who worked or work at the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, liar-Clinton Campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC), Perkins-Coie law firm, British ex-spy Christopher Steele and his Russian sources and others believed to have played varying roles in paying for, developing, and disseminating questionable information used by DOJ and FBI to obtain FISC orders. The IG Act of 1978, as amended, does not give the DOJ IG the authority to perform such an expansive investigation. It mostly allows that office only to investigate matters concerning DOJ and FBI persons including contractors and grantees and programs. For example, the DOJ IG can't: convene a grand jury to compel witness testimony from inside and outside government, prosecute crimes, interview people who have left DOJ and FBI, and independently investigate matters deemed by the attorney general or deputy attorney general as preserving national security interests or protecting ongoing criminal investigations... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/attorney-general-sessions-now-needs-to-appoint-a-special-counsel?f=must_reads
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Jonathan Turley: Comey May Have Lied To Congress About Not Leaking, McCabe Firing Hurts Case
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Rep. Trey Gowdy on FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's Firing: He "Undercut His Credibility All by Himself"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Bp0MGY6Rs
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NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell yelled at State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert on Thursdayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpTlYHL4zBk
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TUCKER: Left-Wing Politicians Protest Guns ... While Being Protected by Armed Bodyguardshttp://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5752435435001
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Former Director of National Intelligence Clapper: Trump's Pick for CIA Director "Is a Tremendous Intelligence Officer"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABhSrMESu4
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Devin Nunes: No Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion, But 'Clear Links' Between liar-Clinton Campaign & Russians.
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This Just In: Facebook Collects Data About Users
by Lewis Morris: The latest data privacy scandal brewing at Facebook should remind everyone who uses that or any social media site of one simple truth: If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product.
What you like, who your friends are, what you buy, your political views, religious affiliation and much more is all commerce to the social media giants. Facebook has made a fortune selling the data it collects from its users to third parties. Now, the dust-up between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica is calling into question what happens with that data and whether the tech giant is acting inappropriately with its users’ information.
In 2014, a company called Global Science Research (GSR) distributed a personality quiz on Facebook that it claimed was for academic research purposes. The quiz was downloaded by 270,000 users and, with their permission, collected data on them and their Facebook friends — expanding the total to some 50 million people. GSR sold the data it collected to consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which then used the information for one of its clients, Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
One item of note that will probably not be widely reported is that the Trump team only used the Cambridge Analytica data during the primaries. During the general election, the campaign found that data provided by the Republican National Committee was much more reliable.
Former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie went public with the details about how the data-mining took place. Initially, he wanted to work with Facebook to go over what happened, but Facebook had other plans. “We were going to work on this in a cooperative manner. There’s obviously a lot of issues that need to be discussed. But, you know, I didn’t set out to crusade against Facebook. Suddenly they issue this press release and ban me.”
Facebook also suspended Cambridge Analytica last week. Lawmakers and privacy experts, however, are looking for answers from Facebook about its privacy policies. Facebook “goes into this endless hairsplitting that people should have known,” said Marc Rotenberg, president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit advocacy group. “No one could have known that their friends were disclosing their personal data on their behalf. It’s entirely illogical, and it breaks the consent law.”
Facebook claims that its policies are clear and that the company takes its users’ privacy very seriously. Or at least it takes privacy seriously depending on who is using the data.
In 2012, Barack liar=-Obama’s campaign used Facebook to gather data on voters. Over one million people downloaded an liar-nObama 2012 Facebook app that gave the campaign access to users and their friends, totaling upwards of 190 million people — nearly four times the Cambridge Analytica haul. Facebook, which was billing itself at the time as a resource for political candidates looking to reach voters, had no problem with this use of its users’ data. liar-nObama was “the man,” after all. And theliar-nObama campaign’s use of the social media giant was considered a game-changer and lauded for its ingenuity. But the Trump campaign’s use is being called conspiratorial and exploitative.
The double standard is too obvious to ignore. Facebook is no friend to Republican or conservative causes. Its supposed campaign against fake news has amounted to little more than a campaign to scrub users’ feeds of information that Facebook’s thought police deem inappropriate. Its competitors do the same thing. Twitter, YouTube and Google all routinely game their algorithms so that you see only the content they want you to see. And they sometimes will ban “offenders” outright, a large majority of whom happen to share conservative viewpoints. Not only conservatives but other “undesirables,” too — YouTube just updated its terms to ban huge swaths of videos on gun-making.
How to get real news that can be trusted is not an easy question to answer (other than subscribing to The Patriot Post, of course). But what can be done in the short term is for people who use these social media sites to do their best to protect themselves and their privacy and stay away from third-party apps that will collect and sell your information. Again, however, if you’re using a free product like Facebook, you are the product. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54869-this-just-in-facebook-collects-data-about-users
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What happens the day after
Trump pulls out of the Iran deal
by Josh Rogin
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John Bolton to replace H.R. McMaster
as White House national security adviser, Trump says
by Brooke Singman
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump announced Thursday that Ambassador John Bolton will replace Gen. H.R. McMaster... as his National Security Adviser effective April 9. “I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend. There will be an official contact handover on 4/9,” Trump tweeted. The president’s announcement comes after months of speculation over whether McMaster would resign, or be fired from his post. But on Thursday evening, a White House official said that the president and McMaster “mutually agreed” that he would resign from his post. The two have been discussing this for some time, the official said, noting that the timeline was expedited as they both felt it was important to have a new team in place, instead of constant speculation....
Rep Gohmert – MUELLER SHOULD
BE FIRED, Establishment RINOs Stand In The Way
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ During Wednesdays’ monthly “Conversation with Conservatives,” Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said... something that too few in positions of power are honest or not compromised enough to say, that Robert Mueller needs to be fired. Gohmert said, “I think Mueller should be fired, he should be. He should never have been appointed and he should never have accepted. He should be fired. And the only reason that, I think, that he should not be in actuality fired is because we have some establishment Republicans in the House and Senate that say, ‘Oh gee, if he were to fire Mueller we might need to impeach the President.'” Gohmert continues, “Even one Senator rino-Lindsey Graham saying that may be an impeachable offense. No, it’s not. But, because we have so many people that not bothered to do their homework on who Robert Mueller is and the damage he’s done, especially to the FBI as director, the thousands of years of experience he ran off that might could have helped guide some of these wayward FBI agents away from the path they took.”... https://rickwells.us/gohmert-mueller-fired-rinos/.Leaker Suspected From Within White House
by Matt
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Red flags shot up yesterday at the White House following a leak revealing that President Trump decided against the advice of his aides... and gave a congratulatory phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin following his election win. His aides urged Trump not to congratulate Putin. It’s particularly concerning that this information was leaked because it means there’s a leaker close to Trump. Only a small circle of staff members would have had access to such sensitive briefing documents, meaning the leak may have come from somebody close to the president. While it’s unclear whether the White House has launched a formal investigation into the incident yet, according to the Washington Examiner, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., a conservative leader and foreign policy expert, expressed outrage at the leak and suggested that it and others thought to come from the national security council are crimes. Whoever did leak this classified information should be fired immediately... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/white-house-leaks/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_3_22_2018&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
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Former FBI Asst Director Suggests
liar-nObama, Brennan Committed Felonies, Not Flynn
by RYAN SAAVEDRA
{ dailywire.com } ~ At the start of this week, former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom suggested to Fox News' Maria Bartiromo... that former President Barack liar-nObama and former CIA Director John Brennan committed felonies and not Gen. Michael Flynn. Kallstrom said that "high-ranking people throughout the government ... had a plot to not have liar-Hillary Clinton indicted so that she could remain the flawed candidate that she was," RCP reported. Kallstrom cited text messages from anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok as evidence that the administration "had a backup plan to frame Donald Trump."... https://www.dailywire.com/news/28538/bombshell-former-fbi-asst-director-says-obama-ryan-saavedra.The REAL Russia Collaborators: McCabe,
Comey, liar-nObama & Corrupt FBI Leadership
by Warner Todd Huston
{ lidblog.com } ~ It is becoming clear to anyone who cares about the truth that Trump is the least of America’s worries... when it comes to government corruption and collusion with the Russians. Sadly, it is also clear that the national media is in cahoots with the left, and their pals the Russians, apparently. Because instead of telling the truth about corrupt FBI agent Andrew McCabe, the media is telling the nation lies and pretending that this is all Trump’s fault. There has been no better summation about this situation than what nationally syndicated conservative radio host Mark Levin gave in a recent visit to the Sean Hannity show on Fox News...Is scum-Eric Holder really qualified to scold Jeff Sessions?
by Greg Pisarevsky
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Former attorney general scum-Eric Holder scolded Jeff Sessions for the "rushed" firing of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe under pressure from the White House... scum-Holder said Sessions needs "to have the guts" to stand up to President Donald Trump. This is the same scum-Eric Holder who on June 28, 2012 became the first U.S. attorney general in history to be held in both criminal and civil contempt by the House of Representatives in a 255-67 vote, with 17 Democrats voting for the measure the rest of the Democrats walked out of the House, refusing to vote. Peculiarly enough, in the first part of his claim, Mr. scum-Holder may be not too far from the truth. Jeff Sessions really does "need to have the guts"...to consider starting a DOJ investigation of scum-Holder's activity in 2009-2015, when he "served" our country as the U.S. attorney general. And Sessions knows it as well as anyone. It was Republican Senator Jeff Sessions who gave a well deserved objurgation to Mr. scum-Holder on June 17, 2009, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Back at that time, Sessions was of the opinion that after spending only five months on the job, scum-Holder put into question the integrity and independence of the Department of Justice....
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What happens the day after
Trump pulls out of the Iran deal
by Josh Rogin
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ While the public debate rages over President Donald Trump's threat to pull the United States out of the Iran deal, actors both inside and outside the U.S. government are planning for what happens the day after the United States exits - a scenario that looks increasingly likely.
Officials and lawmakers are nearly unanimous in their prediction that, if the United States and European partners are unable to agree on changes to the Iran nuclear deal, Trump will make good on his promise to scuttle U.S. participation in the deal. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said so Sunday. The president's next opportunity will come on May 12. If he declines to waive sanctions, the United States will be in breach of the agreement. Trump would likely announce America's exit then, prompting a series of responses and counter-responses around the world.
State Department policy planning director Brian Hook traveled to Europe last week and met with British, French and German officials to find a "fix" that meets Trump's standards. Expectations for success are low. If Trump does cancel the deal, experts say, the United States needs to be prepared in order to minimize the negative effects and optimize the U.S. negotiating position for the months and years ahead.
"It's possible that we will sign a supplemental agreement with Britain, France and Germany, but we need to plan for the possibility that we won't reach an agreement, and that's the purpose of contingency planning," a senior administration official told me.
The State Department and the National Security Council have begun developing a diplomatic, economic and strategic communications strategy for pulling out of the deal, reimposing sanctions and dealing with potential responses from Europe, China, Russia and Iran. The work is not meant to influence Trump's decision, officials said, but to give the president the options he requested with responsible planning to back up each course of action.
The Trump administration laid out its terms for a supplemental agreement on Jan. 12. The list includes new restrictions on Iran's ballistic missile program, more intrusive inspections of its nuclear program and elimination of sunsets on restrictions on Iranian activities. Officials are making progress on the first two; Europeans are less amenable to extending the length of the deal.
The working assumption is that if the negotiations with Europe succeed, Iran will reluctantly accept the new constraints. "Iran has enormous economic incentives to stay in the deal and our assessment is they will stay in the deal if the E3 and the United States come to agreement on a supplement," the official said.
But if there's no agreement between the United States and Europe - and if Trump does not waive sanctions under the deal - things get very complicated, very quickly. The Treasury Department is working on the logistics of "snapping back" various sanctions, including restoring liar-nObama-era executive orders that the deal rescinded. A treasury official told me the department will be prepared to implement any decision made by the president.
After that, there's no certainty how other powers will react. The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a think tank that enjoys unique influence with the Trump administration, recently convened a group of about 20 senior Iran and non-proliferation experts to game out scenarios, the results of which were compiled in a memo. Half the experts favored a "fix" for the deal; half the experts favored a "nix."
Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of the FDD, told me he favors fixing the deal, but having a real plan to nix it shows the Europeans that Trump is serious, making it more likely that he can persuade them to consider a supplemental agreement.
"Contingency planning on fall-back options is essential for increasing U.S. negotiating leverage to get a real fix to the Iran nuclear deal," he said.
The memo the FDD prepared, which has been shared with State, NSC and Treasury, argues that, regardless of the outcome, the Trump administration must begin preparing now in case the president pulls out of the deal.
"Without a plan in place, the administration and our key allies will be playing catch-up, which provides an advantage to Iran and Russia and greatly increases risks to U.S. national security," the memo states.
Assuming Trump does declare America's exit, the FDD memo identifies "most likely" and "worst case" scenarios on a range of issues. It argues that Iran is most likely to stay in the deal, encourage other countries not to comply with U.S. sanctions, gradually increase its nuclear and missile activity, escalate activity of its regional proxy forces and pressure American to return to the deal. The worst-case scenario is Iran drastically ramps up its uranium enrichment and regional aggression, raising tensions and increasing the risk of a crisis.
The memo also maps out probable responses from the Europeans, Russians and Chinese. The Europeans are likely to go along with new sanctions out of economic pragmatism, the memo argues, but they could opt to join with Iran to resist the sanctions and diplomatically condemn the United States. The memo calls for regional preparation with Gulf allies and Israel, to provide alternatives for Iranian oil and to prepare for increased Iranian mischief around the Middle East.
The Defense Department must prepare to respond to any Iranian responses that may target U.S. or allied forces in the region. There should also be a plan to de-escalate if Iran decides it wants to negotiate after the United States withdraws from the deal.
FDD senior adviser Rich Goldberg, a longtime critic of the Iran deal, worked with Dubowitz to compile the memo. He said that preparing for the day after the United States exits the deal is the best way to prevent what deal supporters warn will happen: war with Iran.
"There is a viable and responsible path to nixing the Iran deal that uses a whole-of-government approach to increase leverage over Iran while containing the most likely negative responses," he said. "To be effective, planning for a potential nix strategy needs to be a high priority now."
Of course, Trump could avoid all of this by simply waiving the sanctions, as he has already done thrice, giving negotiators more time. But Trump is signaling that won't happen. So whether you like the Iran deal or not - whether you want to fix it or nix it - it's time to confront the reality that the United States might soon back out. In that case, all concerned would be well-advised to focus on preventing the worst-case outcomes.
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ While the public debate rages over President Donald Trump's threat to pull the United States out of the Iran deal, actors both inside and outside the U.S. government are planning for what happens the day after the United States exits - a scenario that looks increasingly likely.
Officials and lawmakers are nearly unanimous in their prediction that, if the United States and European partners are unable to agree on changes to the Iran nuclear deal, Trump will make good on his promise to scuttle U.S. participation in the deal. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said so Sunday. The president's next opportunity will come on May 12. If he declines to waive sanctions, the United States will be in breach of the agreement. Trump would likely announce America's exit then, prompting a series of responses and counter-responses around the world.
State Department policy planning director Brian Hook traveled to Europe last week and met with British, French and German officials to find a "fix" that meets Trump's standards. Expectations for success are low. If Trump does cancel the deal, experts say, the United States needs to be prepared in order to minimize the negative effects and optimize the U.S. negotiating position for the months and years ahead.
"It's possible that we will sign a supplemental agreement with Britain, France and Germany, but we need to plan for the possibility that we won't reach an agreement, and that's the purpose of contingency planning," a senior administration official told me.
The State Department and the National Security Council have begun developing a diplomatic, economic and strategic communications strategy for pulling out of the deal, reimposing sanctions and dealing with potential responses from Europe, China, Russia and Iran. The work is not meant to influence Trump's decision, officials said, but to give the president the options he requested with responsible planning to back up each course of action.
The Trump administration laid out its terms for a supplemental agreement on Jan. 12. The list includes new restrictions on Iran's ballistic missile program, more intrusive inspections of its nuclear program and elimination of sunsets on restrictions on Iranian activities. Officials are making progress on the first two; Europeans are less amenable to extending the length of the deal.
The working assumption is that if the negotiations with Europe succeed, Iran will reluctantly accept the new constraints. "Iran has enormous economic incentives to stay in the deal and our assessment is they will stay in the deal if the E3 and the United States come to agreement on a supplement," the official said.
But if there's no agreement between the United States and Europe - and if Trump does not waive sanctions under the deal - things get very complicated, very quickly. The Treasury Department is working on the logistics of "snapping back" various sanctions, including restoring liar-nObama-era executive orders that the deal rescinded. A treasury official told me the department will be prepared to implement any decision made by the president.
After that, there's no certainty how other powers will react. The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a think tank that enjoys unique influence with the Trump administration, recently convened a group of about 20 senior Iran and non-proliferation experts to game out scenarios, the results of which were compiled in a memo. Half the experts favored a "fix" for the deal; half the experts favored a "nix."
Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of the FDD, told me he favors fixing the deal, but having a real plan to nix it shows the Europeans that Trump is serious, making it more likely that he can persuade them to consider a supplemental agreement.
"Contingency planning on fall-back options is essential for increasing U.S. negotiating leverage to get a real fix to the Iran nuclear deal," he said.
The memo the FDD prepared, which has been shared with State, NSC and Treasury, argues that, regardless of the outcome, the Trump administration must begin preparing now in case the president pulls out of the deal.
"Without a plan in place, the administration and our key allies will be playing catch-up, which provides an advantage to Iran and Russia and greatly increases risks to U.S. national security," the memo states.
Assuming Trump does declare America's exit, the FDD memo identifies "most likely" and "worst case" scenarios on a range of issues. It argues that Iran is most likely to stay in the deal, encourage other countries not to comply with U.S. sanctions, gradually increase its nuclear and missile activity, escalate activity of its regional proxy forces and pressure American to return to the deal. The worst-case scenario is Iran drastically ramps up its uranium enrichment and regional aggression, raising tensions and increasing the risk of a crisis.
The memo also maps out probable responses from the Europeans, Russians and Chinese. The Europeans are likely to go along with new sanctions out of economic pragmatism, the memo argues, but they could opt to join with Iran to resist the sanctions and diplomatically condemn the United States. The memo calls for regional preparation with Gulf allies and Israel, to provide alternatives for Iranian oil and to prepare for increased Iranian mischief around the Middle East.
The Defense Department must prepare to respond to any Iranian responses that may target U.S. or allied forces in the region. There should also be a plan to de-escalate if Iran decides it wants to negotiate after the United States withdraws from the deal.
FDD senior adviser Rich Goldberg, a longtime critic of the Iran deal, worked with Dubowitz to compile the memo. He said that preparing for the day after the United States exits the deal is the best way to prevent what deal supporters warn will happen: war with Iran.
"There is a viable and responsible path to nixing the Iran deal that uses a whole-of-government approach to increase leverage over Iran while containing the most likely negative responses," he said. "To be effective, planning for a potential nix strategy needs to be a high priority now."
Of course, Trump could avoid all of this by simply waiving the sanctions, as he has already done thrice, giving negotiators more time. But Trump is signaling that won't happen. So whether you like the Iran deal or not - whether you want to fix it or nix it - it's time to confront the reality that the United States might soon back out. In that case, all concerned would be well-advised to focus on preventing the worst-case outcomes.
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Can't We Just Be Friends?
by Jonathan Rosenblum .
Dobbs, DeSantis – PAUL RYAN Would
SELLOUT His Own Mother for Big Money Lobbyists
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Now that Reps Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Steve Scalise (R-LA), the number two and three in House leadership... have joined in the calls for a second special counsel, Lou Dobbs asks one of those who long ago voiced his recognition of that need, Rep Ron DeSantis (R-FL) how important having them onboard is to having one appointed. DeSantis says, “I applaud them for doing it,” noting they are joining a number of people in the house and a number of “very significant US Senators, including Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and rino-Lindsey Graham (R-SC). He says, “I would call on our Speaker, Paul Ryan, to follow their lead and publicly call for the appointment of a special counsel.” He notes, “Speaker Ryan was supportive of the appointment of Robert Mueller, I was not supportive of that, I didn’t think there was a basis for a special counsel. But if you took the position that Mueller was the way to go, just to make sure that there was nothing wrong or to investigate, well by golly gee you’ve got to support a special counsel now because we have evidence that statutes were actually violated.”... https://rickwells.us/dobbs-desantis-ryan-sellout/The left at work: Let's hope Trump survives
by Patricia McCarthy
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The country is at present enduring the dire consequences of the depth and breadth of the liar-nObama administration's many illegal activities... Former CIA chief John Brennan surveilled American citizens, some of them senators, as liar-nObama was pushing the horrific Iran deal, and he's never been charged with that crime. In collusion with the liar-Clinton campaign and the DNC, these liar-nObama operatives used a fictional dossier to obtain FISA warrants to spy on Trump campaign officials. They seriously meant to prevent him from getting close to a victory. They conspired to clear liar-Hillary Clinton of her many crimes so she could continue her bid for the presidency. Who are the culprits? All upper-echelon bureaucrats who considered themselves above the law: Comey, scum-Holder, Lynch, Clapper, Brennan, McCabe, Rice, and Power are well known names, the public faces of liar-nObama's administration. Now we know there was a host of lesser known operatives working behind the scenes, as Lois Lerner did, to manipulate facts and events in order to ensure liar-Clinton's win... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/03/the_left_at_work_lets_hope_trump_survives.html.
Southern Libya: Terrorists' Next Frontier
by Hany Ghoraba
{ investigativeproject.org } ~ ISIS's recent battleground defeats and its loss of most of the areas in Syria and Iraq it once controlled have forced group leaders to find an alternative operating base to regroup... Libya, without a unified government or secure border, as well as vast expansive desert, remains the most alluring country for the remnants of ISIS and al-Qaida. It was in that sparsely populated Libyan desert that ISIS set up a new "army" last fall after the group was driven out of Sirte and liberation by the Libyan army, supported by U.S. airstrikes. Libya's southern desert is a lawless region known for major smuggling operations and human trafficking. ISIS treats Libya as its next frontier, creating alarm among North African security agencies. ISIS is aggressively targeting more Libyan army outposts and checkpoints. It used suicide bombings to attack the army in southern Libya... https://www.investigativeproject.org/7379/southern-libya-terrorists-next-frontier .
Joining the Jokers
by Noah Pollak
{ freebeacon.com } ~ On foreign policy, the isolationist right and the progressive left always manage to arrive at the same destination... withdrawal and isolation, ceding the world to its worst actors, ignoring small problems until they become large crises. Caroline Glick summed it up several years ago: "The far Left argues the U.S. should withdraw from world leadership because the US is evil. And the far Right argues the U.S. should withdraw from world leadership because the world is evil." As Adam Kredo reported Tuesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) has joined a Senate coalition of the isolationist right and the progressive left to oppose the Trump administration's policy of providing limited support to the Saudi-UAE campaign to defeat Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. Yemen sits on the southern border of Saudi Arabia and overlooks two of the world's most important shipping lanes, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Iran is trying to embed a Hezbollah-style militia there that would turn Yemen, like Lebanon, into an Iranian satrapy. Already, the Houthi rebels–Tehran's proxies–have fired Iranian-supplied missiles at ships in international waters and at strategic targets inside Saudi Arabia. Let the Houthis take Yemen, and Iran gains yet another forward operating base from which to sow chaos and violence in the region. We and our allies will regret it for decades. This shouldn't be a hard call... http://freebeacon.com/blog/joining-the-jokers/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=a1b1493bc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-a1b1493bc7-45611665 .
Congressional leaders 'finalizing' $1.2 trillion spending deal
by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A deal has been largely negotiated on a $1.2 trillion fiscal 2018 spending package that would include President Trump's request for border security funding... exclude liar-nObamacare funding, and does not address so-called "Dreamers" who are living in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "We are finalizing it and we hope to post soon," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said after a leadership meeting early Wednesday. "We're in a good place." Democrats say there are some provisions to go over with their rank and file, but said they are pleased with the results of the negotiations... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/congressional-leaders-finalizing-12-trillion-spending-deal.
Democrats Want liar-Clinton to Go Her Own Way
by Publius: “Democrats across the party are ready to turn the chapter on the liar-Clinton family, and they hope liar-Hillary Clinton goes her own way,” reports The Washington Free Beacon. Their supercut video of Democrats down the line rebuking liar-Hillary Clinton for her disparaging remarks about voters — followed by her refusal to apologize — is definitely worth viewing. ~The Patriot Post .
by Publius: “Democrats across the party are ready to turn the chapter on the liar-Clinton family, and they hope liar-Hillary Clinton goes her own way,” reports The Washington Free Beacon. Their supercut video of Democrats down the line rebuking liar-Hillary Clinton for her disparaging remarks about voters — followed by her refusal to apologize — is definitely worth viewing. ~The Patriot Post .
Can't We Just Be Friends?
by Jonathan Rosenblum
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ Recently I stumbled across a eulogy in Mother Jones, a reliably left-wing magazine, of a Tea Party activist whom the author had gotten to know while covering the rise of that movement. Later, the two had bonded further when both were diagnosed with cancer within a short period of time.
In addition to the sadness occasioned by anyone's passing from the world, the piece left me further saddened that tales of friendship across political lines are at present in the class of "man bites dog" stories.
Why so much bitterness? It was not always so.
Today, postmodernism denies the validity of dialogue of any kind. Professor Jordan Peterson of the University of Toronto explains how that happened in a recent book, 12 Rules for Living; An Antidote to Chaos.Peterson himself has run afoul of the guardians of political correctness for his refusal to employ newly minted gender pronouns. As a happy consequence, this major thinker has been brought to the attention of hundreds of thousands of new readers and listeners.
The original postmodernists, led by the French intellectual Jacques Derrida, were Marxists. But by the 1970s, even French intellectuals had to acknowledge that all Marxist regimes were "evil empires." So instead of dividing humanity according to economic classes, the postmodernists divided humanity into identity groups, and interpreted all social phenomenon in terms of power relations between different identity groups --- i.e., between oppressed and oppressors.
Starting with the observation that there are a variety of ways to interpret a text -- or the world for that matter -- the postmodernists concluded that all ideas and interpretations are chosen as means of acquiring power.
Based on the assumption that all social phenomenon are "constructed" to gain power, there is no point in engaging in dialogue. Once human beings are reduced to "identities," the possibility of discovering a common humanity is denied, since all relationships across "identity" lines involve some inequality of power. To even engage in dialogue with the "oppressors" is to validate their power and privilege. The perennials of Western philosophy -- What is the good life? How should one live it? -- are no longer topics of discussion.
Professor Jonathan Haidt, founder of the Heterodox Academy, an organization devoted to promoting intellectual diversity in university faculties, describes in his 2017 Wriston Lecture, "The Age of Outrage," delivered at the Manhattan Institute, how, as a Yale undergraduate in the '80s, he was provided with multiple lenses for viewing the world. Today there is only one: power relations. Good people versus wicked oppressors.
The American founders were particularly concerned with how to avoid the ruinous religious wars of Europe and escape the human tendency to revert to tribal warfare. By contrast, the radical professorate today seeks to maximize suspicion between groups. They speak not of reconciliation and the search for points of agreement, but of warfare.
This jargon has filtered from the elite campuses to the hinterlands. Professor Scott Yenor detailed in the Weekly Standard recently some of the hijinks committed by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Boise State University. That office exists not primarily to find students from underrepresented groups and assist them on campus, but rather to instruct them and their "privileged" peers in the former's victimhood. Students are encouraged to stroll through a "Tunnel of Oppression."
The message of too many professors today, says Haidt, is that all of America is one giant instrument of oppression. And all the oppressed must gather to fight the white male, cisgendered, able-bodied oppressors. Like the anarchists of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, the postmodernists' primary goal is destruction. First, according to Peterson, they wish to destroy the substrate of Western society: the religious, ethical underpinnings built up over millennia. Then, the achievements of the Enlightenment: empiricism, the idea of the individual, rational discourse.
Admittedly few Americans consciously think of themselves as postmodernists. But even among those who have never heard of Derrida, the value of free speech and open debate is no longer a given. Students speak instead of the spurious "right not to be offended," at least if one is the member of a favored minority group. Jews, by the way, do not qualify, and may be freely insulted.
THE RELUCTANCE TO ASSUME the basic humanity and decency of those of different political viewpoints, however, goes far beyond campus radicals. In today's intensely polarized America, it is increasingly common to have a circle of friends limited to only those who share one's political views. That is tragic on many levels. First, echo chambers are a poor environment for refining and developing one's own views. Only those who have defended their views in the marketplace of ideas are generally worth paying attention to.
Second, it destroys all social cohesion and turns us into truncated human beings. Conservatives are somewhat more protected from this tendency. For one thing, if they have attended elite institutions, they know that not all intelligent people think like them. Liberals on elite campuses may never have to confront that possibility. Second, conservatives place a higher value on the private, non-state side of life, and as such are less focused on politics.
But partisanship and self-selection for only like-minded friends cross the political spectrum. How can we get beyond this state of affairs that impoverishes all of us?
George Will's invaluable distinction between values and virtues -- values are easily proclaimed, virtues with difficulty attained -- strikes me as a good place to start. To paraphrase Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., try to judge others by their character, not their professed political views.
If we keep our eyes open, we should have noticed long ago that political views and character have little to do with one another. For me, the eureka moment came while I still inhabited the left-end of the political spectrum. On a long drive from Chicago to the East Coast, I observed that those sporting the liberal bumper sticker proclaiming "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts," meaning, for those too young to remember, "I'm from the only state to have voted for McGovern over Nixon" were no less likely to cut you off in traffic or exhibit other forms of boorish driving. Many women have discovered to their dismay that just because a man wears all the requisite feminist pins does not mean that he will treat them in a respectful fashion.
In choosing with whom to associate, virtues such as trustworthiness, humility, discretion, faithfulness, diligence, and unselfishness should trump political opinions. Different virtues may take on greater and lesser importance depending on the nature of the relationship. Those that you look for in the guy next to you in the foxhole are not necessarily the same as those one searches out in a business partner. Nor are values irrelevant. No matter how much we respect another's many virtues, no Torah Jew would marry someone who did not share his or her religious commitments. In the context of building a family, shared values are crucial.
Common experiences are crucial to the ability to recognize the virtues in those unlike ourselves. And in contemporary America, such experiences are increasingly rare. People on the coasts and a handful of urban enclaves may not know anyone living in flyover country and vice versa. Military service is perhaps the most effective way of bringing people from diverse backgrounds together. A Yale Law School mailing recently featured two members of the YLS Veterans Association, not a big group. One, Tian Tian Xin, was born in China and raised in Texas; the other, Aaron Haviland, traveled around the world growing up in the various countries to which his diplomat father was posted.
They inhabit opposite ends of the political spectrum: He is active in the Federalist Society and she, I gather, far to the left. But the common experience of having attended the service academies and having seen combat close up makes it easier to ignore those differences and to appreciate one another's virtues. Interestingly, one of the qualities that both appreciate in the other is the ability to make friends with those who do not share their politics. I wonder if the far greater national unity I remember from my childhood doesn't owe in part to the fact that so many of our fathers had seen service together in World War II or the Korean conflict.
Sometimes shared pain brings people together from divergent backgrounds. A close friend of mine once spent an intensive month with others suffering from chronic, debilitating pain. At the outset, she wondered what she, an Emmy-award winning documentary maker and Orthodox Jew, could have in common with the others in the group. By the end, the group had bonded closely.
Emily Esfahani Smith describes in The Power of Meaning an organization called the Dinner Club, which brings together those who have suffered the early and sudden loss of a parent. Over dinners together, they work through their pain. I doubt that politics plays a large role in those conversations. All this is not to say that politics is irrelevant or to deny that we are drawn to others who share our political or religious views. But even political and religious discussions across lines of affiliation need not be bitter. The key is to avoid the assumption that anyone who disagrees must either be a cretin or evil. Avoid eye-rolls.
Instead, listen to opposing arguments and try to understand where the other person is coming from. Be prepared to fulfill writer Conor Cruise O'Brien's definition of an intellectual as one who can admit when another has made a point in a debate.
The Heterodox Academy has put together liberal and conservative academics to work together fruitfully on papers analyzing means to alleviate poverty. In Israel, scientists and talmidei chachamim have addressed together various ethical dilemmas from their respective perspectives. I have witnessed personally how much more powerful meetings with nonobservant Jews are when we start with the assumption that they too possess something about them from which we can learn.
Perhaps then we can take to heart Lincoln's invocation of the cherished Union in his first Inaugural: "We are friends, not enemies. We must not be enemies." If we follow that advice, our horizons will be widened and our lives enriched.
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Austin serial bombing suspect may have other devices
'out there,' cops uncover 'treasure trove of information'
by Travis Fedschun
{ foxnews.com } ~ Mark Anthony Conditt was named Wednesday as the serial bomber behind the string of blasts that terrorized Texas... for three weeks and left two people dead, as officials warned residents that other explosive devices may still be out there. The first photo of Conditt, from 2013, emerged Wednesday morning and was authenticated by the Austin-American Statesman. The picture came from the Facebook page of his mom, Danene Conditt, who appeared to be celebrating Mark's high school graduation. Meanwhile, authorities boasted of uncovering a "treasure trove of information" about the dead 24-year-old -- but officials warned other explosives may still be out there, and other collaborators may be on the loose... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/21/austin-serial-bombing-suspect-may-have-other-devices-out-there-cops-uncover-treasure-trove-information.html.An Inside Look As Los Alamitos Votes To
Return To Constitution, Defy Calif Sanctuary Law
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ The City of Los Alamitos, California held hearings on Tuesday to decide whether or not to opt-out of the California sanctuary state law... which conflicts with federal law and the US Constitution and in fact mandates insurrection against the United States government and lawlessness. The Grindall 61 patriots recorded the events, starting off with a greeting to Omar Navarro, who is challenging mad-Maxine Waters for her House seat in the upcoming midterm elections. As is obvious, liberals of every stripe came out to protect their anti-American legislation, attack president Trump and the Constitution, and promote the homosexual assault on American values, including a guitar playing fake preacher. Mayor Pro Tem Warren Kusumoto identifies the action being considered as the compliance with the US Constitution, the supreme law of the land, noting the untenable position that business owners are place in under the state mandated violation of our founding document... https://rickwells.us/alamitos-constitution-defy-calif/.Ending a decade of silence, Israel
confirms it blew up Assad’s nuclear reactor
by JUDAH ARI GROSS
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ The State of Israel on Wednesday formally acknowledged that its air force blew up a Syrian nuclear reactor in the area of Deir Ezzor... in the pre-dawn hours of September 6, 2007, in a mission known to much of the world as Operation Orchard. The official confirmation ends a 10-and-a-half-year policy of referring to the event with a smirk and a wry “according to foreign reports.” The strike constituted Israel’s second application of the Begin Doctrine, which calls on the Jewish state to destroy any enemy country’s nuclear capabilities. The doctrine was named for prime minister Menachem Begin, who set its precedent by ordering the bombing of Iraq’s nascent nuclear reactor in 1981. In that instance, Israel took responsibility for the attack almost immediately, to much international reprobation... https://www.timesofisrael.com/ending-a-decade-of-silence-israel-reveals-it-blew-up-assads-nuclear-reactor/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=4b534b0891-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-4b534b0891-54638825What the Saudi Prince's Visit Really Means
by Ahmed Charai
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Saudi Arabia, with the visit of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the United States this week... opens a new front in its war with Iran. The visit is a collection of firsts. It is the first trip by Prince Mohammed bin Salman — known universally as "MBS" — to the U.S. since becoming the heir to the oil kingdom's throne in June 2017. President Trump's first presidential trip to the Middle East began with a stop in Saudi Arabia. More importantly, it is the first time a senior Saudi official, let alone a ruling royal, will venture outside the U.S. capital to make official visits to Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Never before has a crown prince — especially one who runs Saudi Arabia's government on a daily basis — come to America's financial and cultural capitals to do business. Indeed, MBS is hoping to drum up support for his plan to offer five percent of ARAMCO, the Saudi oil producer, to Western investors as well as to make investments in software upstarts and media empires. This is a Saudi royal who sees no division between commerce and statecraft, between diplomacy and investment... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12073/mohammed-bin-salman-visit.
commie-Bernie Sides with Iran's Mullahs
by Kenneth R. Timmerman
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The Senate debated on Tuesday a resolution introduced by Vermont Socialist commie-Bernie Sanders that would require the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Yemen... The surprising support the resolution won from 44 U.S. Senators handed a big win to Iran, which is engaged in a hot war with Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Peninsula. And it was a huge slap in the face to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who was meeting with President Trump in the White House as the Senate debated the motion on the floor. It also showed the extreme damage recent scandals involving NSA snooping and political bias at the FBI have done to the credibility of the United States government, which lobbied heavily against the resolution. Let there be no doubt: the only reason the United States has any interest in the civil war that has been raging in Yemen since 2012 is because of the Iranian regime support for the Houthi rebels... This show use what side these senators are on. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269658/bernie-sides-irans-mullahs-kenneth-r-timmerman .
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Dems Defend Rather Than Denounce Farrakhan
by Nate Jackson: Louis Farrakhan, leader of the famously anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, is a repulsive figure on the fringes of American politics. But he’s not as much on the fringes as he should be. Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) introduced a resolution in the House formally condemning Farrakhan for “promoting ideas that create animosity and anger” aimed at Jewish Americans and Judaism, and condemning “all manifestations of expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and ethnic or religious intolerance.” It was a politically shrewd move, because so many Democrats just can’t bring themselves to denounce Farrakhan. Indeed, as our Arnold Ahlert wrote last week, the entire Democrat Party is slouching towards anti-Semitism.
by Nate Jackson: Louis Farrakhan, leader of the famously anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, is a repulsive figure on the fringes of American politics. But he’s not as much on the fringes as he should be. Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) introduced a resolution in the House formally condemning Farrakhan for “promoting ideas that create animosity and anger” aimed at Jewish Americans and Judaism, and condemning “all manifestations of expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and ethnic or religious intolerance.” It was a politically shrewd move, because so many Democrats just can’t bring themselves to denounce Farrakhan. Indeed, as our Arnold Ahlert wrote last week, the entire Democrat Party is slouching towards anti-Semitism. That became even more clear Monday when Black Lives Matter, the New Black Panther Party and Al Sharpton’s National Action Network led a lobbying effort on Capitol Hill not about denouncing Farrakhan’s racism but to block Rokita’s resolution condemning it. Instead, these rabble rousers want a resolution condemning President Donald Trump for his perceived racism.
Gary Bauer noted the sad truth in the form of some questions: “Did they lobby for criminal justice reform? Better school safety measures in the inner cities? Expanding enterprise zones to boost economic opportunity in black communities? Sadly, their presence on Capitol Hill had nothing to do with any of those causes.” Instead, they’re defending a reprehensible man.
Several Democrats have met with Farrakhan, including perhaps most prominently DNC Deputy Chair Rep. scum-Keith Ellison, but also Representatives mad-Maxine Waters (CA), Barbara Lee (CA), Danny Davis (IL), Andre Carson (IN), Gregory Meeks (NY) and and Al Green (TX). scum-Ellison in particular has sought to dismiss those connections, but he’s been caught in the lie. Even The Washington Post gave him “Four Pinocchios.” In a blog post this past Sunday, scum-Ellison continued to protest too much, and Davis recently defended Farrakhan as “an outstanding human being.”
Also recently, a 2005 photo surfaced of an up-and-coming Barack liar-nObama smiling next to Farrakhan. If only he had been vetted sooner.
To sum it up, the fundamental problem is that elected Democrats are either unconvincingly distancing themselves from a racist reprobate or they’re utterly embracing him and calling him good. And they want us to trust them with governing. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54843-dems-defend-rather-than-denounce-farrakhan
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No Fourth Amendment Rights at the Border?
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Dear Nancy Pulosi, Tax Foundation reports top 10% paid 71% of federal income taxes, bottom 50% paid 2.8% (CNS News)
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Mississippi has its first female senator, but is Cindy Hyde-Smith conservative enough for state Republicans? (The Clarion-Ledger)
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House approves ‘right-to-try’ bill giving seriously ill patients access to experimental drugs (USA Today)
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Germany selling Iran chemical weapons tech, boosting anti-Israel efforts as U.S. Dems block Trump ambassador (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Humor: Nation begins to wonder if allowing huge tech companies to surveil them 24/7 might be a bad idea (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Guns, youth and misguided marches (The Washington Times) ~The Patriot Post
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rino-McCain Blasts Trump For Call To Putin,
Was Silent When liar-nObama and Putin Exchanged Calls
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ RINO John McCain did what he always does, criticizing President Trump... this time for a customary congratulatory phone call to Vladimir Putin on Tuesday following his election victory. It was the typical diplomatic courtesy, an act of respect that one world leader extends to another that he’s going to be working with for the remainder of their terms but that doesn’t matter. rino-McCain hates Russia almost as he hates Donald Trump, so he came out with his incisors slashing. He said in a statement that the phone call was an insult to “every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country’s future.” In taking his pot shots at President Trump, the undercover Democrat declared, “An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. And by doing so with Vladimir Putin, President Trump insulted every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country’s future, including the countless Russian patriots who have risked so much to protest and resist Putin’s regime.”...He should resign. https://rickwells.us/mccain-trump-putin-obama/Benghazi Hero Drops Jaws, Reveals
What Comey and McCabe’s FBI Did to Him
by BEN MARQUIS
{ conservativetribune.com } ~ When it was announced Friday evening that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had been fired... on the recommendation of both the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General and the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, there were plenty of “hot takes” from politicians and media figures on both the right and left. However, according to BizPac Review, the hottest take of all in regard to McCabe’s termination may have come from one of the heroes who emerged from the deadly 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, Kris “Tanto” Paronto. Paronto, a former U.S. Army Ranger who was a security contractor in Benghazi at the time of the attack and helped fend off repeated waves of assaults by terrorists at the U.S. consulate and nearby CIA annex, took to Twitter to make his feelings known in regard to McCabe, as well as former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan... https://conservativetribune.com/benghazi-hero-comey-mccabes-fbi/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune.liar-nObama Used Executive Powers
To Benefit Close Friends' Private Investment Firms
by RYAN SAAVEDRA
{ dailywire.com } ~ A new book released on Tuesday by Peter Schweizer, the author of "liar-Clinton Cash," claims that former President Barack liar-nObama... used his executive powers to financially benefit his close friends. Schweizer's new book, "Secret Empires: How Our Politicians Hide Corruption and Enrich Their Families and Friends," claims that liar-nObama would attack certain industries, which decimated the value of certain companies that his friends would then swoop in and buy. The Washington Examiner reports: ... liar-nObama and his administration would deem industries either destructive to the environment or exploitative for the financial and professional gain of his friends, including industries such as coal mining, offshore drilling, cash advance companies, and for-profit colleges... https://www.dailywire.com/news/28458/report-obama-used-executive-powers-benefit-close-ryan-saavedra .
The U.S. Government’s Spending Problem
by Craig Eyermann
{ mygovcost.org } ~ The U.S. government’s total public debt outstanding now exceeds $21 trillion... having crossed that milestone just one week after MyGovCost marked the occasion of $1 trillion having been added to the national debt under President Trump. What might surprise you however is that this has happened even as the U.S. government has collected more in taxes than it ever has before. The following chart shows the federal government’s cumulative monthly revenue totals for each of its fiscal years from 2015 through 2018, as calculated from data provided by the U.S. Treasury’s monthly statements, where the data for its current 2018 fiscal year is only available through February 2018 at this time... http://www.mygovcost.org/2018/03/19/the-u-s-governments-spending-problem/.
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Speaking Truth To Power At The Pro-Terrorism UN.
Supreme Court’s First Trump Era Abortion Case Is Really 1st Amendment Case.
Suspected Serial Bomber In Texas Compared To Unabomber.
Peter Schweizer On Exposing liar-nObama-Era Corruption In New Book, ‘Secret Empires’.
Dana Loesch: Media Take Issue with Defending Children.
Extreme Left-Wing Democrats Scaring Pulosi, clown-Schumer.
Ex-French Pres. Sarkozy Taken Arrested (Did He Take Money From Qaddafi?).
ACU’s Matt Schlapp Vs The Liberal Media.
Ryan: The White House Promised They Aren’t Thinking Of Firing Mueller.
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No Fourth Amendment Rights at the Border?
by Political Editors: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in United States v. Vergara that American citizens’ Fourth Amendment rights end at the border. Speaking for the majority, Judge William H. Pryor stated that, since “the forensic searches of [Hernando] Vergara’s cell phones occurred at the border, not as searches incident to arrest,” the Fourth Amendment protections didn’t apply. He added, “Border searches never require a warrant or probable cause.” Yet the issue here was not the physical search of Vergara’s person and belongings as he entered the U.S., but of the search of his cell phone contents. When Vergara, a U.S. citizen, re-entered the U.S., Customs and Border Protection officials searched his luggage, including three phones, because of his prior conviction for child pornography. Vergara’s phone contents were checked, and officials found child pornography for which Vergara was subsequently arrested. In her dissenting opinion, Judge Jill Pryor (no relation) agreed that the government has an interest in protecting the nation’s borders, but she argued that significant privacy protections were raised by the ruling. Pryor wrote, “The privacy interests implicated in forensic searches are even greater than those involved in the manual searches at issue in Riley [v. California].” Furthermore, “a forensic search of a cell phone at the border [should require] a warrant supported by probable cause.”
This ruling will clearly not be the end of the story as it sets up a collision course with the Supreme Court’s 2014 ruling that specifically extended Fourth Amendment protections to include cell phones. Indeed, Vergara’s challenge relied on that case. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote at the time, “The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought.” Roberts concluded, “Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple — get a warrant.”
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/54825-no-fourth-amendment-rights-at-the-border
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How is conducting an investigation
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Why did DOJ hide Strzok’s link to FISA court judge?
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ March 16, 2018 – 8:43 – JW President Tom Fitton appeared on “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel to discuss newly released texts showing a relationship between FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and a FISA court judge. https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/doj-hide-strzoks-link-fisa-court-judge-video/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=on+the+air&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180320202355
.Texas bomber is 'very sick,' 'we will
get to the bottom of it,' Trump says
by Travis Fedschun
{ foxnews.com } ~ The person responsible for a string of bombings in Texas this month is "very sick," President Trump said... from the White House on Tuesday as he vowed to "get to the bottom of it." Trump's comments come on the heels of a package exploding at a FedEx plant in Schertz, Texas earlier in the morning and authorities probing a second Texas FedEx facility, in Austin, due to a report of a suspicious package. There have been five blasts in March – four in Austin – that have killed two people and injured several others. Authorities said the parcel bombs appear to be linked to the Austin explosions. In San Antonio, Police Chief Bill McManus said at a news conference another package that was "also loaded with an explosive device" was found at the facility outside San Antonio, bringing the number of devices since the start of the month to a total of six... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/trump-texas-bomber-is-very-sick-says-will-get-to-bottom-it.htmlLondon Police: Hate Crimes Include “Offensive Language”
by Andrew
{ conservativefreepress.com } ~ The days of freedom in Western Europe are quickly coming to an end... ushering in a new era of restrictive laws aimed at protecting minorities of every color, creed, gender, and stripe. And while no one will stand taller or scream more loudly for the rights of people to be treated equally regardless of their race, religion, or appearance, we cannot sit idly by and watch one of the West’s most prized freedoms vanish into thin air without sounding the alarms. Make no mistake about it, freedom of speech is the freedom upon which all the rest of our various Western democracies rests. Without it, we no longer HAVE freedom of any kind. We merely have the illusion of freedom. When there are certain viewpoints that are not only marginalized but actually criminalized, the people are no longer in control of their own destiny. You have entered the realm of the all-powerful State, where government officials determine – without question – the path of acceptable discourse. And once they’ve determined that, they’ve determined everything else... http://www.conservativefreepress.com/politics/london-police-hate-crimes-include-offensive-language/.
Former Marine charged in shooting,
hit-and-run of controversial Seth Rich investigator
by Chuck Ross
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ A former Marine, who claims to have worked as a special agent with the Department of Energy... has been charged with shooting and running over Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman, who conducted a controversial investigation of former DNC staffer Seth Rich’s murder. Kevin Doherty, 46, was charged Monday with Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Felony and two counts of Malicious Wounding, according to a press release from the Arlington, Va, Co. police department. The Washington Post provided more details about the attack, which was the second to befall Burkman over the past several months. An unidentified assailant attacked Burkman with pepper spray at his home in January. Burkman was shot and run over March 13 at a Rosslyn Marriott hotel’s parking garage. Burkman was there to retrieve what he thought were documents from an FBI whistleblower... http://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/03/20/former-marine-charged-in-shooting-hit-and-run-of-controversial-seth-rich-investigator-615557?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS# .
President Trump Hosts Law Enforcement
Roundtable To Discuss Lawless Sanctuary Cities
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ SANCTUARY CITIES ARE UNDERMINING LAW ENFORCEMENT: Sanctuary jurisdictions obstruct Federal immigration enforcement efforts and put law enforcement at greater risk... A “sanctuary city” generally refers to a State or local jurisdiction that refuses to cooperate with Federal immigration enforcement, often by rejecting “detainer” requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and refusing to share information relating to potentially removable aliens. This can lead to ICE having to enter dangerous environments to arrest criminal aliens. Some sanctuary city officials have gone as far as warning illegal aliens about upcoming immigration enforcement actions, allowing criminal aliens to prepare themselves and putting law enforcement, the public, and the aliens at even greater risk... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/20/president-trump-hosts-law-enforcement-roundtable-to-discuss-lawless-sanctuary-cities/..
How is conducting an investigation
based upon fake evidence legal?
by Sher Zieve
{ renewamerica.com } ~ With regards to the Mueller 'investigation' of President Trump, I have been asking the title's question from many for quite awhile: "How is conducting an investigation based upon fake evidence legal?" Thus far, I haven't received even a mediocre reply or one that resembles a modicum of logic. Others merely try to change the subject. As a Special Counsel was assigned to the Trump case although there doesn't seem to be a factual let alone truthful case against him, in checking the requirements for the USAG assigning a Special Counsel – § 600.1 Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel – states: "The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted and – (a) That investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney's Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances; and (b) That under the circumstances, it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside Special Counsel to assume responsibility for the matter."
Hmmm. Weren't we told at the beginning of this whole process that it wasn't a criminal investigation but, it was a counterintelligence investigation? It seemed to switch very quickly from a faux 'counterintelligence' mode to criminal...didn't it? I strongly suspect – as do many other US citizens – that the original investigation was a huge ruse, as a counterintelligence investigation does not require nor even investigate a crime. It also appears to neither require nor allow the appointment of any "Special Counsel"...a counsel who is only to address criminal investigations. Furthermore – and despite this sleight of hand delivered by Deputy USAG Rosenstein to switch from counterintelligence to criminal – even if Special Counsel Mueller is now addressing a criminal investigation, under the law a crime must be identified before the investigation may proceed. To date, no original crime to begin a criminal investigation has ever been identified. Quiz question: How many apparent illegalities can you count that have been engaged in by Deputy AG Rosenstein and Special Counsel and former FBI head Robert Mueller...thus far?
Then, on top of these "irregularities," Mr. Mueller and his crew of at least one of whom is as unsavory character as may exist attorneys are now on a full-fledged leaping and diving fishing expedition in search of a crime against Trump and everyone who works for him. Of note is that on 29 April 2015, the US Supreme Court adopted proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that new text to 26(b)(1) "Removes two prior loopholes that allowed for vast fishing expeditions": Obtaining discovery about "the existence, description, nature, custody, condition, and location of any documents or other tangible things and the identify and location of any persons who know of any discoverable matter" has been taken away. The removal of this language aims to eliminate gamesmanship in "discovery about discovery. In addition, removal of the following sentences aims to focus discovery on the evidence that is central and requests that are proportional to the case: "For good cause, the court may order discovery of any matter relevant to the subject matter involved in the action. Relevant information need not be admissible at trial if the discovery appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence."
So...now we have the ruse of an investigation that began as counterintelligence to avoid having to name a crime and almost immediately switched to a criminal investigation... which requires the identification of a crime. Gee...did Rosenstein and Mueller just forget? Very doubtful. Were we-the-people not supposed to notice the man behind the curtain and all of his tricks, machinations and misdirections? I think we were! Oh...and what about Mueller using the fake created-out-of-whole-cloth 'dossier' to both help the DNC and liar-Hillary Clinton win the US presidency and...as the central product to obtain a FISA warrant to surveil candidate and now President Trump and his team? We still don't know whether or not FISC Judge Contreras knew the dossier was false or not. However, we do know that he was courted by FBI employees Peter Strzok and his paramour Lisa Page; both of whom – along with their other 7th floor colleagues – hold a deep-seated hated for candidate and now President Trump.
So...we have a Special Counsel who was appointed to investigate 'counterintelligence' – which is not an SC's purview – so that a crime would not be identified, we have the SC along with the Deputy US AG changing the investigation to criminal – but never identifying the crime – and basing the counterintelligence-turned-criminal on a "fishing expedition' to find a crime – which SCOTUS has said is a "no-no" – and the FBI, DOJ and liar-Hillary Clinton campaign conspiring together to have liar-Hillary elected and to destroy Donald J. Trump. Oh! And one additional item – and there are many...many more with new ones cropping up almost daily. We even have a former FBI Director Andrew McCabe demoted then fired for lying under oath having put together an "insurance policy" with Strzok and Page to destroy Trump should he win the US presidency! Wow! These are your tax $Dollars at work.
This saga seems to have no end and there seem to be almost too many felonies and misdemeanors than one can track. But, maybe one of you can help. My question is still: "How is Conducting an Investigation Based upon Fake Evidence Legal?" I don't think it is. And if it isn't, it's a crime to have begun an investigation at all. Fake "evidence" to "get" someone you hate is 3rd world "justice." In my humble opinion, Mueller has been working illegally on this since its inception and appears to be dragging it out to influence the 2018 election in the DNC's favor. Therefore, none of his findings are – legally – likely admissible in any court in the USA. So, "How is Conducting an Investigation Based upon Fake Evidence Legal?" If you have the answer, please let me know. Thanks!
"They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved" – 2 Peter 2:19
"For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life" – Galatians 6:8
Russian election meddling probe now a criminal investigation:https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/18/robert-mueller-takes-russia-case-as-criminal-inves/
28 CFR 600.1 – Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.1
New Federal Rules Aim to Promote Proportionality in Discovery: https://www.hunton.com/images/content/2/6/v2/2645/new-federal-rules-aim-to-promote-proportionality-in-discovery.pdf
Trump lawyer says Mueller obtained transition emails illegally: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365278-trump-lawyer-says-mueller-obtained-transition-emails-illegally
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Trump transition lawyer: Mueller improperly obtained documents in Russia probe: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/16/trump-lawyer-mueller-improperly-obtained-transition-documents-in-russia-probe.html
Memo: FBI Used Tainted Steele Dossier, Paid For By liar-Hillary Clinton, As Reason To Spy On Trump: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/memo-fbi-used-tainted-steele-dossier-paid-for-by-hillary-clinton-as-reason-to-spy-on-trump/
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The Unbalanced California FACT Act
by Cal Thomas .
Nunes: 'McCabe Still Owes Us Answers'
by Susan Jones
{ cnsnews.com } ~ Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, said... former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe may have been fired, but he still needs to tell the committee what he knows: "Well, as you know, we've had the FBI under investigation by our committee for a long time -- FISA abuse and other matters. So it doesn't surprise me that Mr. McCabe went. However, our investigation still is ongoing," Nunes told Fox News's Sean Hannity Monday night. "Mr. McCabe still owes us answers no matter where he's working, and eventually he's going to have to come forward and provide those answers."....
Former FBI agent: If Mueller is
to preserve his integrity, he must step aside
by KENNETH STRANGE
{ thehill.com } ~ It was painful to witness. One of our own — a deputy FBI director no less — was fired barely a day or two away from retirement and a certain pension... And now Andrew McCabe faces possible federal charges for lying to other federal agents, charges that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller knows all too well and is wielding with great effect in the Russian collusion case. Still, I wonder about Mueller. McCabe, Peter Strzok and James Comey all are public servants who former FBI Director Mueller mentored, supervised or knew well. It has got to be hugely disappointing for Mueller to stand by and watch the people who he managed, who worked for and were loyal to him, and who he was fond of become a part of this train wreck. As a former supervisor, Mueller is accountable for those people he supervised — for the good and the bad. How does he feel about it? We don’t know. He remains mute. We all know about Mueller’s stellar career in the military, in the Department of Justice and with the FBI. Mueller played a key role in enhancing the FBI’s image at a seminal moment in bureau history. And he should be and has been lauded for his courage and tireless service to the country. Everyone I know at the bureau and at the DOJ has had good things to say about Mueller. More importantly, the consensus among law enforcement and beyond is that Bob Mueller is a man of unquestionable integrity... http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/378954-former-fbi-agent-if-mueller-is-to-preserve-his-integrity-he-must-step-aside.
Republicans Set To Keep Funding Sanctuary Cities
by Matthew Vadum
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Congressional Republicans appear poised to betray conservatives and hand Democrats a spectacular victory over President Trump... by funding left-wing priorities such as illegal alien-shielding sanctuary cities in the must-pass omnibus spending bill this week, media reports suggest. The sanctuary movement gave illegal aliens permission to rob, rape, and murder Americans by, among other things, stigmatizing immigration enforcement. Some left-wingers call sanctuary jurisdictions "civil liberties safe zones" to blur the distinction between citizens and non-citizens by implying illegal aliens somehow possess a civil right to be present in the U.S. Leftists also like to refer to all migrants, including illegal aliens, simply as “immigrants” in order to further muddy the waters. Sanctuary cities should be called traitor cities because they are in open rebellion against the United States just as much as the Confederate Army was when it opened fire on Fort Sumter. Their modern-day campaign of massive resistance against federal immigration authorities can only end in civil strife... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269644/republicans-set-keep-funding-sanctuary-cities-matthew-vadum .
Trump confirms Republicans' worst fears
by David M. Drucker
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump is confirming House Republicans' worst fears about the depth of their midterm woes... after spending a weekend lashing out at special counsel Robert Mueller and the Russia investigation. House Republicans were relying heavily on the $1.4 trillion tax overhaul to counteract concerns about the president and revive their 2018 fortunes, burdened with traditional midterm headwinds made exponentially worse by dissatisfaction with Trump’s polarizing leadership. But they need Trump’s cooperation to pull it off, and the president appears uninterested. He has sidelined the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in favor of tariffs, while unleashing a tweet storm of attacks on Mueller and the Russia probe that amplify personal traits that make him such a liability for Republicans in November... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/trump-confirming-gops-worst-fears-for-midterms-by-fighting-with-robert-mueller .
The worm overturns the immigration debate
by Wesley Pruden
{ washingtontimes.com } ~ The worm doesn’t turn often, but when it does nothing is more satisfying that watching it blush. Nobody likes know-it-all worms... Americans, including presidents, have warned for years that out-of-control immigration threatens to overwhelm national security, welfare agencies, schools and the fundamental culture of the nation, and for their trouble were denounced as bigots, racists, nativists and worse just as soon as someone could figure out something worse. The attempted shaming and smearing was 190-proof moonshine, of course, but it was often effective, and the noise shut up a lot of people who knew better, usually including the politicians who have made both science and art of weakness and softness of spine. It’s true that we’re a nation of immigrants, and it’s further true that welcoming immigrants, if welcomed in a fair, orderly and measured way, has been a source of the nation’s strength. It continues to be that way. The United States stands alone as a nation of immigrants. Ronald Reagan often remarked the fact that a newly minted American, having taken the oath of citizenship, is as American as the American whose family has been here unto the 20th generation... Thats if they are here legally. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/8/the-worm-overturns-the-immigration-debate/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=pruden&utm_content=pruden.
The Unbalanced California FACT Act
{ townhall.com } ~ On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether pro-life pregnancy help centers in California should be required to post notices informing women of the availability of abortions elsewhere. The pregnancy help centers are contesting the law, disingenuously named the California Reproductive FACT Act, claiming it violates their free speech rights, as well as undercuts the reason for their existence.
Some might ask in the interest of fairness and equality two buzzwords the left likes to use in other situations whether abortion clinics are required to post notices with information about alternatives to the procedure.
According to Ingrid Duran, state legislation director for National Right to Life, the nation's oldest and largest pro-life organization, "There is no provision in the California so-called Fact Act that would require abortion facilities to inform women about the resources available from pregnancy resource centers." She adds, "It is not surprising that the pro-abortion lobby would threaten pregnancy resource centers that offer life-affirming alternatives, since this is in contradiction to their mission of the unfettered right to abort innocent unborn children."
In defending the law, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, says, "Everyone is entitled to accurate information about their health care, and that's simply what the FACT Act says. There is nothing coercive, nothing intrusive in the requirements of the law that infringe upon someone's First Amendment rights. It's about making sure women have accurate information about their health care."
I have some personal experience with this issue, having spoken over several decades for fundraising events at nonprofit pregnancy help centers. I have listened to the stories of hundreds of women, some of whom wanted an abortion until they received alternative information, then chose to give birth. I have heard from other women who had abortions and later regretted their decision. These women told me they would have chosen to give birth had they received information about alternatives and seen a sonogram of their unborn child.
It is the abortion industry, which makes money off these vulnerable women, that fears information, otherwise they would be posting signs in their facilities about alternatives and the kind of help available during pregnancy and after birth. The pregnancy help centers, unlike the abortionists, do not charge for their services, raising the question of who cares more about women?
There are federal laws requiring that certain information be placed on packaged foods. It's called truth in labeling. Women and men are required to have detailed information when applying for a bank loan or buying a house or car.
I once debated a liberal feminist about this. She said I was implying women aren't smart enough to know what their choices are. I replied, "Fine, then let's remove the labels from packaged products because women should be smart enough to figure out whether they contain corn or green beans."
If information is power, then we who are pro-life should favor more information, not less, so that the choices women make will be fully informed. This would include, in addition to information about pregnancy help centers, sonograms so that a woman seeking an abortion could see what she is about to terminate.
I have heard stories of women who have viewed sonograms of their babies deciding against abortion. Many more view the sonograms and go through with the procedure. But if a sonogram will save even one life, shouldn't we make them mandatory before abortions can be performed?
That is a law that should be passed. By providing a full spectrum of information, such a law would empower women to make fully informed choices. It would be far better than the California FACT Act, which undermines the compassionate and free work of that state's pregnancy help centers.
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Did Putin Order U,K. Poison Attack?
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
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Sen Warner Warns Trump Against Action
To End Democrat COUP Attempt
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ CNN Propagandist Wolf Blitzer asked the Senate equivalent of scum-Adam Schiff, Mark Warner (D-VA)... ”How concerned are you that President Trump has gone from calling it the Russia investigation to now calling it the Mueller Probe?” Of course that’s a much more accurate description of what is going on, since Russia was and remains just a phony pretext for setting the “get Trump” operation into motion. In his typical overly dramatic, Harry dinky-Reid voice, the equally despicable Democrat says, “I’m very concerned. I raised these issues back before the beginning of the year, calling on all of my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans RINOs alike to stand up for the independence of the Mueller investigation.” The hypocrite calls the Mueller inquisition independent because he wants to smear President Trump as somehow “impeding justice” for defending himself from a totally unfounded rogue investigation that has already exceeded the minimal semblance of legitimacy it once had. It is a globalist Democrat-DC establishment effort to overthrow the President because he’s a threat to them. Warner’s a propagandist and a traitor to this nation... https://rickwells.us/warner-trump-democrat-coup/.‘I Want To Keep You Focused On The Facts’ —
Jim Jordan Slams Katy Tur In Fiery Interview
by JUSTIN CARUSO
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan clashed with MSNBC’s Katy Tur Monday. “I want to keep you focused on the facts,” Jordan told Tur... “If the president feels so confidently that he’s innocent and feels so confidently it will end well in his favor, and if he really wants the Mueller investigation to go on unimpeded, why is he tweeting what he’s tweeting?” Tur asked. “Why did he tweet what he tweeted over the weekend? Why is his lawyer coming out–and saying this investigation needs to end? Why is he, why is he saying as much as he’s saying?” “Think about what the FBI did,” Jordan responded. “The top people, the people I just talked about, many of them have been fired, a bunch of them have been demoted, they took a campaign opposition research document, dressed it all up, made it sound like it was legitimate intelligence, took it to a FISA court to get a warrant to spy on a fellow American citizen, when they went to the court, they didn’t tell them the whole truth, they didn’t tell them who paid for the document…” http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/19/jim-jordan-katy-tur-msnbc/?utm_medium=emailVIDEO at the site.
.Before He was FBI Director, Chris Wray Supervised an
Investigation that Found Erik Prince Likey Broke U.S. Law
by Jeremy Scahill and Matthew Cole
{ theintercept.com } ~ AS A PRIVATE attorney in 2016, FBI Director Chris Wray supervised a team of lawyers that informed the Justice Department... that Blackwater founder Erik Prince had likely violated U.S. law while trying to sell secretly modified paramilitary attack aircraft to Azerbaijan’s military. Wray and Robert Hur, now a senior Justice Department official, were both partners at the powerhouse law firm King & Spalding in 2015 when officials at Prince’s Hong Kong-based logistics company, Frontier Services Group, discovered suspicious activity by Prince over the proposed sale of the planes. Hur is currently the top lieutenant to Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. deputy attorney general. At King & Spalding, he was one of the lead lawyers on the Prince investigation. FSG retained King & Spalding to conduct a review of the company’s legal exposure to violations of U.S. law on weapons sales and the export of defense services to foreign governments and militaries. The attorneys concluded that Prince could potentially be charged with brokering defense articles without a license, according to a copy of the review obtained by The Intercept. The FSG-hired lawyers briefed the liar-nObama Justice Department’s National Security Division in February 2016 on Prince’s activities and, a month later, FSG’s CEO notified the State Department that FSG intended to voluntarily report its possible violations of U.S. defense export laws....
Jersey’s U-Haul Budget
by STEVEN MALANGA
{ city-journal.org } ~You can say one thing about New Jersey’s new governor Phil Murphy: he promised the state’s voters a progressive agenda of higher taxes and more spending... and that’s what he delivered in his budget proposal last week. Despite warnings from some of his fellow Democrats that he should tread carefully—New Jersey is already among the nation’s most highly taxed states, and some residents will shoulder a heavier burden from limits on state and local deductions in the new federal tax law—Murphy proposed $1.5 billion in new taxes on the wealthy, on everyone who purchases goods in Jersey, on marijuana which is still illegal, and on hedge-fund managers. Some Democrats are pushing instead a plan to raise corporate taxes, preferring that to higher taxes on millionaires. Though his state already collects taxes on a greater percentage of income than most others only New York and Connecticut scoop up more, Murphy said that he needed the new revenue “to get things right,” adding, “we cannot afford to remain stuck, uncompetitive and unfair.” Echoing Gilbert & Sullivan’s pompous Major General Stanley, the Newark Star-Ledger, the state’s largest newspaper, called the plan “the very model of a modern progressive budget.”...Trump’s Mueller ‘Witch Hunt’ ‘Is
‘A Page Out Of The liar-Bill Clinton Handbook’
by CHRISTIAN DATOC
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Fox News contributor Byron York told host Bill Hemmer Monday morning that President Trump’s weekend tweets on Robert Mueller... show he’s apparently taken a page out of liar-Bill Clinton’s “handbook” on dealing with special counsels. “As we know, the independent counsel or the special counsel has charged a bunch of people high in the Trump campaign who might have been expected to be involved in collusion, if collusion were actually going on, but he hasn’t charged them with anything resulting in that,” York opened. “I think there is an important point here about the president. He is not threatening to fire Mueller, but he is clearly trying to discredit Mueller.” “I think in doing that, he is taking a page out of the liar-Bill Clinton handbook,” he continued. “Back in 1998 during the Lewinsky scandal, the liar-Clinton White House went on a full-force offensive against the independent counsel.”... http:///2018/03/19/trump-bill-clinton-handbook-mueller-witch-hunt/VIDEO at the site.
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Did Putin Order U,K. Poison Attack?
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit.
“We think it overwhelmingly likely that it was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the U.K.”
“Unforgivable,” says Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov of the charge, which also defies “common sense.” On Sunday, Putin echoed Peskov: “It is just sheer nonsense, complete rubbish, to think that anyone in Russia could do anything like that in the run-up to the presidential election and the World Cup. … It’s simply unthinkable.”
Putin repeated Russia’s offer to assist in the investigation.
But Johnson is not backing down; he is doubling down.
“We gave the Russians every opportunity to come up with an alternative hypothesis … and they haven’t,” said Johnson. “We actually have evidence … that Russia has not only been investigating the delivery of nerve agents for the purposes of assassination but has also been creating and stockpiling Novichok,” the poison used in Salisbury.
Why Russia is the prime suspect is understandable. Novichok was created by Russia’s military decades ago, and Skripal, a former Russian intel officer, betrayed Russian spies to MI6.
But what is missing here is the Kremlin’s motive for the crime.
Skripal was convicted of betraying Russian spies in 2006. He spent four years in prison and was exchanged in 2010 for Russian spies in the U.S. If Putin wanted Skripal dead as an example to all potential traitors, why didn’t he execute him while he was in Kremlin custody?
Why wait until eight years after Skripal had been sent to England? And how would this murder on British soil advance any Russian interest?
Putin is no fool. A veteran intelligence agent, he knows that no rival intel agency such as the CIA or MI6 would trade spies with Russia if the Kremlin were to go about killing them after they have been traded.
“Cui bono?” runs the always relevant Ciceronian question. “Who benefits” from this criminal atrocity?
Certainly, in this case, not Russia, not the Kremlin, not Putin.
All have taken a ceaseless beating in world opinion and Western media since the Skripals were found comatose, near death, on that bench outside a mall in Salisbury.
Predictably, Britain’s reaction has been rage, revulsion and retaliation. Twenty-three Russian diplomats, intelligence agents in their London embassy, have been expelled. The Brits have been treating Putin as a pariah and depicting Russia as outside the circle of civilized nations.
Russia is “ripping up the international rulebook,” roared Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson. Asked how Moscow might respond to the expulsions, Williamson retorted: Russia should “go away and shut up.”
Putin sympathizers, including Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, have been silenced or savaged as appeasers for resisting the rush to judgment.
The Americans naturally came down on the side of their oldest ally, with President Donald Trump imposing new sanctions.
We are daily admonished that Putin tried to tip the 2016 election to Trump. But if so, why would Putin order a public assassination that would almost compel Trump to postpone his efforts at a rapprochement?
Who, then, are the beneficiaries of this atrocity?
Is it not the coalition – principally in our own capital city – that bears an endemic hostility to Russia and envisions America’s future role as a continuance of its Cold War role of containing and corralling Russia until we can achieve regime change in Moscow?
What should Trump’s posture be? Stand by our British ally but insist privately on a full investigation and convincing proof before taking any irreversible action.
Was this act really ordered by Putin and the Kremlin, who have not only denied it but condemned it?
Or was it the work of rogue agents who desired the consequences that they knew the murder of Skripal would produce – a deeper and more permanent split between Russia and the West?
Only a moron could not have known what the political ramifications of such an atrocity as this would be on U.S.-British-Russian relations.
And before we act on Boris Johnson’s verdict – that Putin ordered it – let us recall:
The Spanish, we learned, did not actually blow up the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, which ignited the Spanish-American War.
The story of North Vietnamese gunboats attacking U.S. destroyers, which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and 58,000 dead Americans in Vietnam, proved not to be entirely accurate.
We went to war in Iraq in 2003 to disarm it of weapons of mass destruction we later discovered Saddam Hussein did not really have.
Some 4,500 U.S. dead and tens of thousands of wounded paid for that rush to judgment. And some of those clamoring for war then are visible in the vanguard of those clamoring for confronting Russia.
Before we set off on Cold War II with Russia – leading perhaps to the shooting war we avoided in Cold War I – let’s try to get this one right.
